History of Film

Reducere. This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing no...

With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema, an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new ...

A historical-conceptual perspective on the concept of "the political"

Reducere. All Shapes and Sizes is a real blockbuster of a book, taking the reader on an action-packed and wonderfully meandering journey through the history ...

DescriptionHistory and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines addresses the representation of history in cinema, a much-argued debate on the need to under...

Reducere. In Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a represen...

Reducere. DescriptionSiegfried Kracauer's classic study, originally published in 1960, explores the distinctive qualities of the cinematic medium. The book t...

DescriptionA lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film's unique ability to move usCinema is commonly hailed a...

Reducere. A pioneer in the field, Christian Metz applies insights of structural linguistics to the language of film. "The semiology of film . . . can be held...

Reducere. For a tour of noir cinema this handbook is the perfect companion and Barry Gifford is an ideal guide. His choice selection of films exposes the men...

Now brought completely up to date, the new edition of this classic work on documentary films and filmmaking surveys the history of the genre from 1...

Appalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections of race and class in a very particular way, in the tension between deep histori...

Reducere. Naval Ordnance and Gunnery is the most definitive book to emerge from WWII on the subject of naval ordnance and fire control. Encyclopedic in conte...

DescriptionCinema is quite simply a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema. Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks ...

Addresses the creative and often unexpected trajectory of French cinema, which continues to be one of the most provocative and engaging cinemas in ...

Description Through his influential work on cultural capital and social mobility, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has provided critical insi...

Reducere. A revised and updated edition of the definitive study of film noir--the most original genre of American cinema--with a new afterword by the authorS...

Reducere. A nine-and-a-half-hour documentary on the Nazi extermination camps, Shoah (the Hebrew word for "Holocaust") was internationally hailed as a masterp...

Asa cum o arata si titlul, lucrarea de fata isi propune sa prezinte succint evolutia cinematografiei in Romania, incepand cu prima proiectie cinema...

Reducere. Developed by Bell in the early 1950s, the UH-1 Iroquois was the first turbine-powered helicopter to enter production for the U.S. military. Origina...

Reducere. Developed to replace the UH-1 Iroquis, Sikorsky's UH-60 Black Hawk first entered service in 1979. A four-blade, twin-engine, medium-lift utility he...

DescriptionThe golden days of the film poster are often remembered in print and at the auction house but the newsprint adverts for film are a vanis...

Reducere. DescriptionForbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film offers the first thorough examination of the exploitation cinema while capturin...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Uplift Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like th...

Reducere. The quirky world of nudist films is revealed. Cinema au Naturel brings to life many long-forgotten films such as Elysia: Valley of the Nude, The Mo...

Reducere. Robert Mitchum once commented to Arthur Lyons about his movies of the 1940s and 1950s: "Hell, we didn't know what film noir was in those days. We w...

Reducere. The Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Co. began producing motorcycles in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1901 and quickly became the world's largest man...

Description'The authors draw on an impressive array of contemporary literature and critical studies to provide original and illuminating analyses o...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat's your impression of the CIA? A bumbling agency that can't protect its own spies? A rogue organization prone to covert operations a...

Reducere. The M3 was an American .45-caliber submachine gun adopted for U.S. Army service in December of 1942, as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal. .45,...

DescriptionIn From Grain to Pixel, Giovanna Fossati analyzes the transition from analog to digital film and its profound effects on filmmaking and ...

Provides the first academic monograph dedicated to developing a cultural understanding of the werewolf film.Illustrations: 25 B/W illustrations

Reducere. Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them--The Shape of Water--won. Since 1990, the productio...

DescriptionDrawing on a wide range of archival sources, Andrew Shail traces the emergence of film stardom in Europe and North America in the early ...

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The most comprehensive, readable history of German cinema now appears in an expanded, up-to-date new edition that is particularly useful for studen...

Reducere. Originally written in the late 1900's and then periodically revised, A History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works chronicles the origins and growth of...

Examining the special relationship between footwear and film, Shoe Reels explores images of shoes in cinema. It questions what shoes mean in the co...

Reducere. This book is a representation of every visual image I have been able to acquire that has been claimed as evidence of the sasquatch at one time or a...

First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age ...

Reducere. Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German Expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interw...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Mattias FreyIllustration(s): 2 b-w photographs, 13 b-w charts, 2 tablesNumber of pages: 282Publ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Dana PolanIllustration(s): 25 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimens...

DescriptionFrom the silent era to the present, film productions have shaped the way the public views campus life. Collaborations between universiti...

Representations of Antiquity in Film offers an introduction to how the ancient world is represented in film and especially Hollywood cinema.Publish...

Chronicles representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer sexualities over one hundred years of American film. This book explores the ever-ch...

A paperback edition of Oscar-nominated Alan Tomkins' film memoirs and photographs

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A comprehensive history of ethnographic film since cinema began in 1895. It shows how the genre evolved out of reportage, exotic melodrama and trav...

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In The Art of Film, legendary Art Director Terry Ackland-Snow lifts the lid on his extraordinary career in cinemaPublisher: The History Press LtdAu...

A History of the American Musical narrates the evolution of the film musical genre, discussing its influences and how it has come to be defined; th...

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Reducere. DescriptionCommonly known as the "Deuce-and-a-half", the M135 was a soft top 2 1/2 ton, 6x6 truck made by General Motors Corporation for the U.S. A...

DescriptionThe Caped Crusader. The Dark Knight. The World's Greatest Detective. Bats. Since his 1939 debut in the pages of Detective Comics, Batman...

DescriptionSurely America's greatest storyteller, no single author has been adapted more regularly than Stephen King. With 65 existing movies and 3...

Polaroid Then and Now celebrates the history and evolution of the first and foremost instant imaging camera system. Featuring both vintage and curr...