In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and sociocultural change.
The burgeoning film industry in the Weimar Republic was, among other things, a major site of German-Jewish experience, one that provided a sphere for Jewish outsiders to shape mainstream culture.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
The Costumes of Hollywood details the design, creation, and influence of over 100 ensembles from some of the most iconic designers, films, and roles in Hollywood history, spanning the 1920s through the early 21st century.
This book is about what it takes to be a producer, the person responsible for getting a project off the ground and seeing it through to a conclusion sometimes years after things got started.
Using examples and hard-earned experiences from the Author's courses and lectures at the esteemed MFA in Documentary Film Program at Stanford University, A Guide to (Short) Documentary Filmmaking: Creating Artful Short Documentary Films explores what is unique about the short-form documentary and guides the reader through the process - from ideation to completion and distribution.
Since the mid-eighties, more audiences have been watching Hollywood movies at home than at movie theaters, yet little is known about just how viewers experience film outside of the multiplex.
Both politically and aesthetically, the contemporary German and Austrian film landscape is a far cry from the early days of the medium, when critics like Siegfried Kracauer produced foundational works of film theory amid the tumult of the early twentieth century.
This in-depth look at Hollywood director King Vidor's complex career follows Vidor from his first attempts to rival Hollywood in his home state of Texas through his fifty-year-long struggle with the "e;classic"e; Hollywood studio system.
This in-depth look at Hollywood director King Vidor's complex career follows Vidor from his first attempts to rival Hollywood in his home state of Texas through his fifty-year-long struggle with the "e;classic"e; Hollywood studio system.
In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a film set in the Edo period to be called The Ocean Was Watching.
Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect, Sixth Edition, stands alone among screenwriting books by emphasizing that human connection, though often overlooked, is as essential to writing effective screenplays as conflict.
Key is one of the simplest building blocks of musicand is among the foundational properties of a work's musical identityso why isn't ita standard parameter in discussing film music?
'Supple, horrifying and mordantly droll' New York Times'Nothing short of brilliant' Wall Street Journal'A subtle, often darkly funny novel about the relationship between art and power' Sunday Times'A dazzling performance and a real page turner' Salman RushdieFrom 'one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today' (Jeffrey Eugenides), a visionary tale inspired by the life of the 20th century film director G.
Abjection and Representation is a theoretical investigation of the concept of abjection as expounded by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror (1982) and its application in various fields including the visual arts, film and literature.
Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity.
Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity.
Winner of the 2006 Bram Stoker Award, Gospel of the Living Dead connects American social and religious views with the classic American movie genre of the zombie horror film.
Film critic Mahmoud Qassem discusses political films that discussed many of the political and social phenomena that occurred during the time the film was released, including "Miramar," "Terrorism and Kebab," "The Terrorist," and others.
Based on extended field research and meetings with members of Morocco's film world, this book traces the development of Moroccan cinema over the past three decades.
Rudolf Harms entwickelt seine reich differenzierte Ästhetik des Films in Anlehnung an die Ästhetik seines Lehrers Johannes Volkelt und sucht deren auf Kant zurückgehende Polarität des Schönen und Erhabenen für das Verständnis des neuen Mediums fruchtbar zu machen.
