Rewriting Indie Cinema

J J Murphy

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and Culture
• Most films rely on a script developed in pre-production. Yet beginning in the 1950s and continuing through the recent mumblecore movement, key indepen... Lees meer

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

Weimar Cinema

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and Culture
• Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished i... Lees meer

Laughing Hysterically

Ed Sikov

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• A tour de force through the landscape of American comedy in the 1950s. 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

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

Music in Cinema

Michel Chion

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and Culture
• Michel Chion is renowned for his explorations of the significance of frequently overlooked elements of cinema, particularly the role of sound. In this... Lees meer

Words on Screen

Michel Chion

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally over... 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

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

African Film and Literature

Lindiwe Dovey

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and Culture
• Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in... Lees meer

After Uniqueness

Erika Balsom

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digi... Lees meer

Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture

Michael Anderegg

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• From the earliest days of radio to the golden age of television and beyond, Orson Welles has occupied a unique place in American culture. In Orson Wel... Lees meer

Weimar Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished i... Lees meer

Melodrama and Modernity

Ben Singer

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• In this groundbreaking investigation into the nature and meanings of melodrama in American culture between 1880 and 1920, Ben Singer offers a challeng... Lees meer

Show Trial

Thomas Doherty

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• In 1947, the Cold War came to Hollywood. Over nine tumultuous days in October, the House Un-American Activities Committee held a notorious round of he... Lees meer

Anxious Cinephilia

Sarah Keller

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and Culture
• The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred a public debate over what it means to be a "cinephile... Lees meer

Shocking Representation

Adam Lowenstein

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts ... 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

Hideous Progeny

Angela Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrille... Lees meer

The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction

Nora M Alter

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and Culture
• Nora M. Alter reveals the essay film to be a hybrid genre that fuses the categories of feature, art, and documentary film. Like its literary predecess... 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

The Sounds of Commerce

Jeff Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• The Sounds of Commerce is the first book to present a detailed historical analysis of popular music in American film, from the era of sheet music sale... Lees meer