Films, cinema

The movie that inspired filmmakers to direct is like the atomic bomb that went off before their eyes.

A practical, hands-on guide to lighting for video, this book explores how LEDs are changing the aesthetics of lighting and provides students with an indispensable guide to the everyday techniques required to produce professional-quality lighting in the age of LEDs and wireless control options.

The Marx Brothers' films are packed with slapstick and obvious jokes, gags, puns, pratfalls, and mimicry.

Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive practice often suggestively attributed to eastern powers and opposed to western liberalism.

This book examines the convergent paths of the Internet and the American military, interweaving a history of the militarized Internet with analysis of a number of popular Hollywood movies in order to track how the introduction of the Internet into the war film has changed the genre, and how the movies often function as one part of the larger Military-Industrial- Media-Entertainment Network and the Total War Machine.

Sexualities and Society adopts a fresh, sociological perspective to explore the development of sexualities across both public and private spheres, giving thoughtful consideration to heterosexualities, cis, bi and trans identities.

This Handbook offers new and previously unexplored  comparative approaches to the field of New Cinema History.

Nel presente volume vengono presentati studi linguistici, filologici, letterari e culturali concernenti la lingua sarda e le sue varietà.

Udo Rauchfleisch plädiert seit vielen Jahren für eine Entpathologisierung von Transsexualität beziehungsweise Transidentität, die für ihn keine psychische Krankheit ist.

Roberto Benigni, the Italian comedian, actor, director, and writer, gained international fame when his film La vita e bella/ Life Is Beautiful (1997) won three Oscars in 1999, including Best Foreign Film and Best Actor.

This book takes a unique look at visual character development in motion pictures and television by using famous works of art combined with modern works of film and television to demonstrate how to weave a visual tale.

This book examines post-war surrealist cinema in relation to surrealism's change in direction towards myth and magic following World War II.

Acclaimed in an international critics poll as one of the ten best films ever made, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has nonetheless baffled critics and filmgoers alike.

This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber's ground-breaking article, "e;Popular Arts in Africa"e;, which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories.

Albert Maysles has created some of the most influential documentaries of the postwar period.

Contributions by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth, Marc DiPaolo, Emine Akkulah Dogan, Caroline Eades, Noelle Hedgcock, Tina Olsin Lent, Rashmila Maiti, Allen H.

A companion to the study of the gangster film s international appeal spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia A Companion to the Gangster Film presents a comprehensive overview of the newest scholarship on the contemporary gangster film genre as a global phenomenon.

Featuring interviews with 27 award-winning and emerging filmmakers, this book is the first comprehensive look at independent filmmaking careers in South East Asia with never-before published insights into the lives and careers of some of the most influential filmmakers in one of the world's most exciting screen production regions.

Anhand paradigmatischer sowjetischer, ost- und westdeutscher Kriegsfilme über den Zweiten Weltkrieg, die die kollektive Gewalterfahrung und vor allem die zentralen Ereignisse der Erinnerungs- und somit Identitätspolitik jeweiliger Staaten verarbeiten, erfasst die Studie genuin filmische Strategien, mit welchen Geschichte und Erinnerung gestaltet wird.

This book reveals how Spielberg utilises stylistic strategies that are both unique and innovative when considered within the context of the classical Hollywood system.

This book explores the question of realism in motion pictures.

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title Flourishing in the United States during the 1940s and 50s, the bleak, violent genre of filmmaking known as film noir reflected the attitudes of writers and auteur directors influenced by the events of the turbulent mid-twentieth century.

Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive practice often suggestively attributed to eastern powers and opposed to western liberalism.

High end digital cinematography can truly challenge the film camera in many of the technical, artistic and emotional aspects of what we think of as 'cinematography'.

Gender, especially masculinity, is a perspective rarely applied in discourses on cinema of Eastern/Central Europe.

Among Golden Age Hollywood film stars of European heritage known for playing characters from the East--Chinese, Southeast Asians, Indians and Middle Easterners--Anglo-Indian actor Boris Karloff had deep roots there.

Headline: A peak behind the Hollywood mask by one of its foremost makeup artistsIn Hollywood's heyday, almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the makeup department.

This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and 'remembered' the Sixties.

Scham und Schuld sind gesellschaftliche Regulative, die auch die filmische Dramaturgie vorstrukturieren.

Dieses Buch leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Filmgeschichtsschreibung der frühen alliierten KZ-Befreiungsfilme.

This book explains how to comply with the federal and states securities regulations when seeking to raise money from private investors for the development, production and/or distribution of a feature or documentary film.

A pioneering exploration of form, meaning, theme and function in African American slang, illustrated with thousands of contextual examples.

“The definitive work on the gifted, haunted actor” (Los Angeles Times) and “the best film star biography in years” (Newsweek).

Maverick Slovenian cultural theorist, philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek has made his name elaborating the complexities of psychoanalytic and Marxist theory through the exotic use of examples from film and popular culture.

Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen.

Thanks to writers like Mario Puzo, filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, and actors like Al Pacino and James Gandolfini, American and Sicilian Mafia characters are well-known figures in contemporary popular culture.

In the New Yorker, Stephen Schiff has described Fred Schepisi (b.

Featuring over forty interviews with America's leading showrunners, this book provides unique perspectives and insights into the TV industry, and demystifies the craft, backbone, skill, strategies, challenges, and persistence it takes to succeed in Hollywood and internationally.

Covering significant historical and cultural moments, public figures and celebrities, art and entertainment, and technology that influenced life during the decade, this book documents the 1950s through the lens of popular culture.

Best known for directing the Impressionist classic The Smiling Madame Beudet and the first Surrealist film The Seashell and the Clergyman, Germaine Dulac, feminist and pioneer of 1920s French avant-garde cinema, made close to thirty fiction films as well as numerous documentaries and newsreels.

Are meaning and purpose still possible in life?

What might the cinema tell us about how and why the prospect of cloning disturbs our most profound ideas about gender, sexuality, difference, and the body?

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Ridgeway (Reggie) Callow began his film career in the early 1930s and for four decades worked as an assistant director on some of the most memorable films in Hollywood history.