The Epic Film

Derek Elley

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• As Charlton Heston put it: 'There's a temptingly simple definition of the epic film: it's the easiest kind of picture to make badly.' This book goes b... Lees meer

Mass-Observation at the Movies

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• The Mass Observation social research organisation (1937 to early 1950s), a pioneering independent effort aimed at education, specialised in material a... Lees meer

Visions of Yesterday

Jeffrey Richards

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• Film is an important source of social history, as well as having been a popular art form from the early twentieth century. This study shows how a soci... Lees meer

Eisenstein

Norman Swallow

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• Of all the pioneers of the cinema, the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein has exerted the most enduring hold on the popular imagination. This book... Lees meer

Image and Influence

Andrew Tudor

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• This text outlines what sociologists need to know of the nature of communication and of mass culture, while also looking in some empirical detail at t... Lees meer

Film and the Working Class

Peter Stead

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concer... Lees meer

Film Propaganda and American Politics

James Combs, Sara T Combs

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• Originally published in 1994, this important book traces the rise of film propaganda in the 20th Century, discussing specifically how film can be used... Lees meer

Early Cinema in Russia and Its Cultural Reception

Yuri Tsivian

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to ... Lees meer

Flashbacks in Film

Maureen Turim

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• The flashback is a crucial moment in a film narrative, one that captures the cinematic expression of memory, and history. This author's wide-ranging a... Lees meer

Visions of Yesterday

Jeffrey Richards

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• Film is an important source of social history, as well as having been a popular art form from the early twentieth century. This study shows how a soci... Lees meer

Feature Films as History

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• Bringing together the work of leading film historians, originally published in 1981, this book illustrates the breadth of methodological approaches ad... Lees meer

Hollywood in the Age of Television

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• This collection of papers examines the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s onwards. The institutio... Lees meer

Off Screen

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• This feminist anthology from Italy offers an enriching perspective on cinema studies. Focusing on women's engagement with political theory and film-ma... Lees meer

The Hollywood Feature Film in Postwar Britain

Paul Swann

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• When this book was originally published in 1987, the American feature film had been colonising the world's imagination for over 75 years and the book ... Lees meer

Motion Picture Series and Sequels

Bernard a Drew

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• In 1989 alone, for example, there were some forty-five major motion pictures which were sequels or part of a series. The film series phenomenon crosse... Lees meer

The Decline of the Cinema

John Spraos

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• Between 1952 and 1962, when this book was originally published, the number of people visiting British cinemas had fallen by nearly two thirds and was ... Lees meer

Off Screen

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• This feminist anthology from Italy offers an enriching perspective on cinema studies. Focusing on women's engagement with political theory and film-ma... Lees meer

Film and Reform

Ian Aitken

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• Best known for his documentaries such as Drifters , North Sea , and Housing Problems , John Grierson was the most important figure in the British docu... Lees meer

The Cinema of Apartheid

Keyan Tomaselli

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• This study analyses the historical development of South African cinema up to he book's original publication in 1988. It describes the films and commen... Lees meer

Directors and Directions

John Russell Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• This is a study of nine key film-makers who came into prominence in the early '70s: Claude Chabrol, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lindsay Anderson, Stanley Kub... Lees meer

Film Semiotics, Metz, and Leone's Trilogy

Lane Roth

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• Semiotics offers a systematic approach to analysing the stylistic structure of film. When this study was originally published in 1983 this was a recen... Lees meer

American Political Movies

James Combs

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• Essays here explore the relationship between politics and explicitly political feature films from the beginning of the movie industry to World War I, ... Lees meer

Swordsmen of the Screen

Jeffrey Richards

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• This fascinating study of the genre of swashbuckling films received wide critical acclaim when it was first published in 1977. Jeffrey Richards assess... Lees meer

The Decline of the Cinema

John Spraos

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• Between 1952 and 1962, when this book was originally published, the number of people visiting British cinemas had fallen by nearly two thirds and was ... Lees meer