The expert contributors together trace how the arts of editingand effects have evolved in tandem, starting with the 'trick films'of the early silent era, which astounded audiences by splicingin or editing out key frames, all the way to today's cutting-edgeeffects technologies.
A sequel to Thrills Untapped: Neglected Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1936, this volume provides coverage of over 150 feature films that contain genre elements but have been overlooked by most sources covering the history of horror, science fiction and fantasy movies.
Cinematically Rendering Confucius marks the first book-length enquiry into China's first two big screen treatments of arguably the best-known and most influential thinker in world history: Confucius.
This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and into the post-war period.
Released in 1969, 'Easy Rider 'broke the mold of Hollywood studio production, making stars of Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson and launching a new wave of radical and experimental American cinema.
Born Alfred Reginald John Truscott-Jones, Welsh American actor Ray Milland (1907-1986) appeared in more than 135 theatrical releases between 1929 and 1985 and on radio, television, and the stage, while also becoming a film director; Milland's extensive canon across such a period is remarkable, especially considering his lack of formal training, his belated start in show business in his late twenties, and the fact he only lived to age seventy-nine.
Widespread law enforcement or formal policing outside of cities appeared in the early 20th century around the same time the early film industry was developing--the two evolved in tandem, intersecting in meaningful ways.
This appreciative account of the 'Three Colours' trilogy communicates the power and imagery of the films, and demonstrates how Kieslowski's art is brought to bear in their moving renditions of the lives of its characters.
Widespread law enforcement or formal policing outside of cities appeared in the early 20th century around the same time the early film industry was developing--the two evolved in tandem, intersecting in meaningful ways.
Analyzing how masculinity is portrayed in Brazilian crime film, connecting movie messages to twenty-first-century issuesAn incisive analysis of contemporary crime film in Brazil, this book focuses on how movies in this genre represent masculinity and how their messages connect to twenty-first-century sociopolitical issues.
Frank Capra has long had a reputation as being the quintessential American director - the man who perfectly captured the identity and core values of the United States with a string of classic films in the 1930s and '40s, including It Happened One Night, Mr.
The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning builds an innovative framework for analyzing one of the most prominent genres in twenty-first-century Hollywood.
The growth in popularity and complexity of video games has spurred new interest in how games are developed and in the research and technology behind them.
David Lean's extraordinary films work philosophically through the modern reproductive and transportive technologies of sight and sound: through trains, planes, ships, and automobiles, from one perspective, and through the modern technology of the radio and gramophone, from another.
This reference identifies and explains the cultural, historical, and topical allusions in the filmMonty Python's Meaning of Life, the Pythons' third and final original feature as a complete group.
Diese erste deutsche Einführung in das Werk des berühmten französischen Regisseurs konzentriert sich auf seine sechzehn Filme mit erotischen Themen und schildert sowohl die Natur des Rohmerschen Realismus als auch seine Philosophie des Eros.
