Films, cinema

If it's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die is a must-read book for all film students, film professionals, and others interested in filmmaking.

This book is a cultural history of the interplay between the Western genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms.

Despite changes in the media landscape, film remains a vital force in contemporary culture, as do our ideas of what "e;a movie"e; or "e;the cinematic"e; are.

Many critics have approached Terrence Malick's work from a philosophical perspective, arguing that his films express philosophy through cinema.

For three decades, no American filmmaker has been as prolific-or as paradoxical-as Woody Allen.

Hollywood films have presented audiences with stories of campus life for nearly a century, shaping popular perceptions of our colleges and universities and the students who attend them.

Prague - known as 'The City of Dreams', 'The Hundred-Spired City' and, most significantly for this study, 'Hollywood of the East' - has played an important role in the history of the seventh art.

A Beginner's Guide to Special Makeup Effects, Volume 2 builds on the foundations covered in A Beginner's Guide to Special Makeup Effects: Monsters, Maniacs and More, introducing more professional-level materials and techniques and preparing readers for the next steps in their career.

Marvel Studios has provided some of the biggest worldwide cinematic hits of the last eight years, from Iron Man (2008) to the record-breaking The Avengers (2012), and beyond.

Simone de Beauvoir s work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first feminist thinker to inaugurate the concept of the gendered othering gaze.

During a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and refugees across borders, Migrant Anxieties explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country's shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola offers the first comprehensive overview of the director's impressive oeuvre.

This new biography contains excerpts from interviews and articles by and about Curtis all the way from his teens in the Bronx to his death at 85 in 2010.

Self-restraint or self-mastery may appear to be the opposite of erotic desire.

While the historical influence of psychoanalysis on Hollywood cinema has received considerable attention, the same cannot be said for its influence on British cinema.

Winner of the Golden Lion in Venice in 1989, A City of Sadness introduced Western audiences to the richness of New Taiwanese Cinema.

This revealing history of the American film musical synthesizes the critical literature on the genre and provides a series of close analytical readings of iconic musical films, focusing on their cultural relationship to other aspects of American popular music.

This account of the global switch to digital television, from its origins to its emerging outcomes, provides an understanding of how digital television is converging with the Internet.

This comprehensive annotated bibliography reviews nearly 500 English-language studies published between 1915 and 2001 that examine the depiction of ethnic, racial, and national groups as portrayed in United States feature films from the inception of cinema through the present.

Telling the full story of the head Stooge, this work reveals the life-long career of a legendary funnyman.

Scholars have been studying the films of Stanley Kubrick for decades.

Screening Protest brings together a range of scholarly perspectives on the study of protest mediations on television and in film.

Indian cinema is the only body of world cinema that depicts courtesans as important characters.

The fairy tale has become one of the dominant cultural forms and genres internationally, thanks in large part to its many manifestations on screen.

South African National Cinema examines how cinema in South Africa represents national identities, particularly with regard to race.

Hitchcock was a masterful director, popular with audiences of all ages and critically acclaimed both during and after his unusually long career.

We'll Always Have the Movies explores how movies made in Hollywood during World War II were vehicles for helping Americans understand the war.

After Dracula tells of films set in London music halls and Yorkshire coal mines, South Sea Islands and Hungarian modernist houses of horror, with narrators that survey the outskirts of contemporary Paris and travel back in time to ancient Egypt.

The first book to deal exclusively with the British musical film from the very beginning of talking pictures in the late 1920s through the Depression of the 1930s up to the end of World War II.

The Science of Writing Characters is a comprehensive handbook to help writers create compelling and psychologically-credible characters that come to life on the page.

A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema - which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018.

Movies play a central role in shaping our understanding of crime and the world generally, helping us define what is good and bad, desirable and unworthy, lawful and illicit, strong and weak.

Arthur Penn: American Director is the comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential filmmakers.

Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires.

How to Work the Film & TV Markets takes independent filmmakers, television and digital content creators on a virtual tour of the entertainment industry's trade shows - the circulatory system of the entire global media landscape.

In this book, Charles Merzbacher offers a concise, definitive guide to the essential skills, techniques and logistics of producing short films, focusing on the practical knowledge needed for line producing and overseeing smaller-scale productions.

Thinking in Images addresses the current crisis in film theory by offering a new methodology for interrelating theory and film texts.

Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics is a comprehensive exploration into the art and craft of directing for film and television.

In his remarkable 50-year career, D-Day veteran, international film publicist and executive and production associate Charles "e;Jerry"e; Juroe met, knew or worked with almost "e;anyone who was anyone,"e; from Cecil B.

One of the most successful books ever published and the basis of one of the most popular and highly praised Hollywood films of all time, Gone With the Wind has entered world culture in a way that few other stories have.

Cinema is ideally suited to the world of psychic phenomena.

World Film Locations: Madrid is a trip through the urban space conceived as film location.

In the context of changing constructs of home and of childhood since the mid-twentieth century, this book examines discourses of home and homeland in Irish children's fiction from 1990 to 2012, a time of dramatic change in Ireland spanning the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger and of unprecedented growth in Irish children's literature.

If a story is going to fail, it will do so first at the premise level.

This enormous and exhaustive reference book has entries on every major and minor director of science fiction films from the inception of cinema (circa 1895) through 1998.