Attack of the Leading Ladies

Rhona Berenstein

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• From the earliest days of Hollywood sound productions, horror proved to be a popular and lucrative genre. At the center of the Industry's first cycle ... Lees meer

Film, a Sound Art

Michel Chion

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise--it enacts a process of audio-viewing . The au... Lees meer

Special Effects

Michele Pierson

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• Designed to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Compute... Lees meer

Laughing Screaming

William Paul

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and Culture
• William Paul's exploration of an extremely popular box office genre - the gross-out movie - is the first book to take this lowbrow product seriously. ... Lees meer

The Cinema of Max Ophuls

Susan White

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• Using film theory and current criticism, White traces the figure of woman in the work of Max Ophuls. Lees meer

Electric Sounds

Steve Wurtzler

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and Culture
• Electric Sounds brings to vivid life an era when innovations in the production, recording, and transmission of sound revolutionized a number of differ... Lees meer

Pre-Code Hollywood

Thomas Doherty

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code A... Lees meer

Picturing Japaneseness

Darrell William Davis

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• Explores the role of 1930s Japanese cinema in the construction of a national identity and in the larger context of Japan's encounter-and struggle-with... Lees meer

Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies

Chris Straayer

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• Engaging feminist and queer theory ranging from Nancy Chodorow to Judith Butler to Valerie Solanis's SCUM Manifesto, Straayer considers the wealth of ... Lees meer

Billy Wilder

Joseph McBride

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• The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films--including Double Indemnity , Sunset Blvd. , Some Like It Hot , and The Apartment -... Lees meer

Silent Film Sound

Rick Altman

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• Because silent cinema is widely perceived as having been exactly that-silent-no one has fully examined how sound was used to accompany the films of th... Lees meer

The Lumière Galaxy

Francesco Casetti

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• Francesco Casetti believes new media technologies are producing an exciting new era in cinema aesthetics. Whether we experience film in the theater, o... Lees meer

Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films

Rey Chow

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and Culture
• What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners... Lees meer

Film and Stereotype

Jörg Schweinitz

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• Since the early days of film, critics and theorists have contested the value of formula, cliché, conventional imagery, and recurring narrative pattern... Lees meer

Post-Fordist Cinema

Jeff Menne

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and Culture
• The New Hollywood boom of the late 1960s and 1970s is celebrated as a time when maverick directors bucked the system. Against the backdrop of counterc... Lees meer

The Jazz Cadence of American Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• A comprehensive collection of essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life, i... Lees meer

On the Screen

Ariel Rogers

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and Culture
• Today, in a world of smartphones, tablets, and computers, screens are a pervasive part of daily life. Yet a multiplicity of screens has been integral ... Lees meer

Dreaming of Cinema

Adam Lowenstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and Culture
• Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has acco... Lees meer

The Use and Abuse of Cinema

Eric Rentschler

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema , takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German ci... Lees meer

Cinema by Design

Lucy Fischer

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and Culture
• Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playful a... Lees meer

China on Screen

Christopher Berry, Mary Ann Farquhar

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and Culture
• In China on Screen , Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinem... Lees meer

Shivers Down Your Spine

Alison Griffiths

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of toda... Lees meer

Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir

Patrick Keating

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• Lighting performs essential functions in Hollywood films, enhancing the glamour, clarifying the action, and intensifying the mood. Examining every fac... Lees meer

Unspeakable Histories

William Guynn

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• In Unspeakable Histories , William Guynn focuses on the sensation of encountering past events through film. Film is capable, he argues, of triggering ... Lees meer