Films, cinema

HOWARD HUGHES'S NEW FILMGOERS' GUIDE TO SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS DELVES DEEP INTO THE LANDMARK MOVIES OF THIS EVERPOPULAR GENRE, FROM METROPOLIS TO AVATAR AND BEYOND, AND COVERS OVER 250 MORE Outer Limits explores science-fiction cinema through 26 great films, from the silent classic Metropolis to today.

The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) is a unique and important film, both in the history of British cinema and in the history of interdisciplinary art-making.

The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas provides novel insight into the rapidly developing genre of science fiction.

Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV is a practical guide that provides you, the screenwriter, with a clear set of exercises, tools, and methods to raise your ability to hear and discern conversation at a more complex level, in turn allowing you to create better, more nuanced, complex and compelling dialogue.

In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of major works in Japanese literature and film through the interpretive lens of trauma and PTSD studies.

1968: Während der Vietnam-Krieg die USA außenpolitisch dominiert, kennzeichnet eine Reihe politischer Attentate die innenpolitische Lage.

'A multifaceted dissection of the infamous noir film .

Das Leben des legendären Filmproduzenten Artur »Atze« Brauner und seiner Frau Maria: Eine Geschichte vom Überleben im Krieg, von einer großen Liebe und dem Traum, Hollywood nach Berlin zu holen.

In the late 1950s, Mike Nichols (1931-2014) and Elaine May (b.

MacDonald explores the cinematic territory between the traditional categories of "e;documentary"e; and "e;avant-garde"e; film, through candid, in-depth conversations with filmmakers whose work has challenged these categories.

Create Stunning Renders using V-Ray in 3ds Max: Guiding the Next Generation of 3D Renderers is a step-by-step guide on how to create realistic renderings using V-Ray in 3ds Max.

This book analyses the role of women in the films of one of the leading filmmakers of the 'Third World' in the 1950s, Satyajit Ray, a national icon in filmmaking in India.

Detective McNulty applies bite marks to a deceased man's body with a set of dentures in The Wire, illustrating how officialdom deals in falsehood.

Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output.

Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II (1974) is a magisterial cinematic work, a gorgeous, stylized, auteur epic, and one of the few sequels judged by many to be greater than its predecessor.

In September 1941, a handful of isolationist senators set out to tarnish Hollywood for warmongering.

Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery has been described as "e;a kind of Rear Window for retirees.

Can comedy on television harbour elements of gender transgression or subversion?

A herald of desire, mortality, and the mission of poetry itself, Jane Millers Paper Banners catalogs the intimate experiences that create a life, hoping that what will survive of us is love.

The Metaverse: A Critical Introduction provides a clear, concise, and well-grounded introduction to the concept of the Metaverse, its history, the technology, the opportunities, the challenges, and how it is having an impact on almost every facet of society.

Hollywood film scores underwent a supersonic transformation from the 1950s through the 1970s.

This wide-ranging guide introduces (or reintroduces) readers to movie musicals past and present, enabling them to experience the development of this uniquely American art form-and discover films they'll love.

This brand new edition walks students through the full video production process, from inception of idea to final distribution.

This book is essentially a filmography interlaced with a complex biographical account of Marilyn Monroe's life and loves throughout her career.

Through their metaphorical and material qualities, textiles can be seductive, exciting, intimate and, at times, shocking and disquieting.

This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish Literature and the Irish cinema, with twelve chapters written by experts in the field that deal with principal films, authors, and directors.

This is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three best known Mexican born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Alfonso Cuaron.

A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship.

As late as 1976, George Roy Hill was the first and only director to have two all-time, top-ten, box-office hits: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting (both starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman).

From Here to Eternity (1953) is one of the most controversial films of its time.

This book explores how the next generation of teen and young adult heroines in popular culture are creating a new feminist ideal for the 21st century.

The story behind The Magnificent Seven could have been a movie in itself.

Basics Film-Making: Screenwriting is the second in the Basics Film-Making series and is aimed both at students on film production courses, as well as those wishing to write a short film.

The growth of scholarly podcasting engenders radical possibilities for how we conceive of knowledge creation and peer review.

Meilensteine des österreichischen FilmsChristian Reichhold präsentiert auf unterhaltsame Weise eine Reise durch die österreichische Filmgeschichte von den erfolgreichen Anfängen in der Stummfilm- und noch jungen Tonfilmära bis hin zu den Oscar®-Weihen des einundzwanzigsten Jahrhunderts.

Since the release in 1929 of a popular book series with bright yellow covers, the Italian word giallo (yellow) has come to define a whole spectrum of mystery and detective fiction and films.

Informed by the criticism of iconic filmmaker Pier Pasolini, The Cinema of Poetry offers spirited explorations of poetry's influence on classic films by Dimitri Kirsanoff, Ingmar Bergman, and Andrey Tarkovsky.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, started a phenomeon that has survived the years and permeated many aspects of popular culture.

Patrick McGilligan continues his celebrated interviews with exceptional screenwriters in Backstory 5, focusing on the 1990s.

Join Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Black Widow, and the Guardians of the Galaxy on a stunning journey through the Marvel Cinematic Universe!

This book serves as a fascinating guide to 100 war films from 1930 to the present.

We know a lot about the directors and stars of Italian cinema's heyday, from Roberto Rossellini to Sophia Loren.

Now that television shows can live forever as DVD sets, the stories they can tell have changed; television episodes are now crafted as chapters in a season-long novel instead of free-standing stories.

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Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema, an ambitious study of two of South Asia's most popular cultural forms cinema and dance historicizes and theorizes the material and cultural production of film dance, a staple attraction of popular Hindi cinema.

This book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives.

This volume explores how to engage audiences both beyond and within the academy more deeply in environmental research through arts-based forms.