What Is Cinema?

Reducere. Does Chinatown subvert the film noir genre? What is the effect of Pulp Fiction's episodic plot? How do multiple points of view undermine notions of...

Reducere. Andre Bazin's "What Is Cinema?" (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the ...

DescriptionAndr Bazin's writings on cinema are among the most influential reflections on the medium ever written. Even so, his critical interests r...

Reducere. The on-screen offerings of Hollywood and Europe have colored the popular perspective of cinema- What it is and what it should be- to such a great e...

Reducere. "Simply put, Harry Mathias has done it again. "The Death & Rebirth of Cinema" solidifies Mathias's standing as THE great translator of film-to-digi...

Reducere. Hollywood fantasy cinema is responsible for some of the most lucrative franchises produced over the past two decades, yet it remains difficult to f...

DescriptionWhat might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu's sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful world...

The politics of race in British screen culture over the last 30 years vis-a-vis the institutional, textual, cultural and political shifts that have...

We know a lot about the directors and stars of Italian cinema's heyday, from Roberto Rossellini to Sophia Loren. But what do we know about the Ital...

Reducere. Step into the world of cinema and discover everything there is to know about movies, directors, genres, and styles. Profiling more than 100 of the ...

Reducere. The Taste for Beauty is a collection of essays by the film-maker and critic Eric Rohmer which were originally written for the French Film review Ca...

Reducere. Nocturnal Fabulations is an essay in intercessing. This is not a book that is simply 'about' Apichatpong Weerasethakul, though it does engage his w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert WoolstonWhat can professional sports teach us about modern capitalist society? How does Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fic...

For decades after its invention, television was considered by many to be culturally deficient when compared to cinema, as analyses rooted in commun...

Film characters are not supposed to look at the camera, so what happens when they do acknowledge our presence as spectators? This book revaluates t...

Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce...

What is film criticism for? This book aims to answer this question It argues that art cinema's political effect is the result of indeterminacy and ...

Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Cod...

Examines a spectrum of narrative films that can be seen in new ways with methods derived and evolved from the techniques of The Cabinet of Dr Calig...

DescriptionSigns and images of Chinese martial arts increasingly circulate through global media cultures. As tropes of martial arts are not restric...

Reducere. Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrate...

Reducere. Because Timothee Chalamet's eyes gleam with the light of a thousand suns. Because you'd let Zo Kravitz get away with putting gum in your hair. And ...

Horror films divide opinion. It wasn't until 1973 that a horror film (The Exorcist) was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture and many respected ...

Reducere. What do you get when a down-on-his-heels puppeteer working as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a Manhattan office building discovers...

This is the hardback version. Carroll Borland is the legendary star of early cinema, who's portrayal of "Luna" opposite Bela Lugosi in the 1935 mot...

Master composer Ennio Morricone's scores go hand-in-hand with the idea of the Western film. Often considered the world's greatest living film compo...

Reducere. In five unique and bizarre tales Katy Michelle Quinn (Girl in the Walls), Charles Austin Muir (Slippery When Metastasized), Jo Quenell (The Mud Bal...

Jayden hasn't been having a good year. He's probably not going to keep his job long. His two oldest friends are getting way too judgy as they go ab...

Reducere. What is history? How do we represent it? How do our notions of history change over time? The essays in The Historical Film: History and Memory in M...

Reducere. In exquisitely crafted poems, Len Krisak's Say What You Will muses on a wide range of topics, in present-day and historic settings and relevance: a...

Reducere. Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag have claimed, really dead? Contrary to what we have been led to believe, films are bette...

Reducere. Back in print at last is Dr. Mabuse. This extremely rare English translation of the Norbert Jacques novel appeared only once in 1923 and then was l...

DescriptionTo consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be ...

A Toast to Hollywood Paramount Pictures, the oldest Hollywood studio in operation, has released countless award-winning and box office-busting movi...

Reducere. Over a decade's worth of M Kitchell's writing on film. The collection includes the novella Paul Garrior in Jacques Riverrun's "The Abyss is the Fou...

Reducere. Vinyl 1Side A: The Loveliest Night Of The Year (From "The Great Caruso")Where Do I Begin? (From "Love Story")Maria (From "West Side Story")The Cide...

Reducere. DescriptionAll too often, the movies of Sofia Coppola have been dismissed as "all style, no substance." But such an easy caricature, as this engagi...

Some of the earliest feature films were derived from classic literature. Even today, most of the movies we see are adaptations of one kind or anoth...

Reducere. "I'm worried. . . .This damned black-out. I'm afraid of what may happen in the dark."Artists' model Althea Greville was, in life, known as somethin...

Reducere. The Loveliest Night Of The Year (From 'The Great Caruso')Where Do I Begin? (From 'Love Story')Maria (From 'West Side Story')The Cider House Rules (...

DescriptionObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. "You are what you eat." Never...

Our gospel is eternal, our buildings just a means to an end. So why do we need to own buildings? Why not hire a cinema, or a school hall for Sunday...

Description2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Finalist for 2016 Richard Wall Memorial Award by the Theatre Library Long listed for the 2017 Kra...

DescriptionIs it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What might suc...

What happens when we set out to understand LEGO not just as a physical object but as an idea, an icon of modernity, an image--maybe even a moving i...

Reducere. There is drama everywhere around us. In fact, our whole life is a drama. A drama that has more complex turns and thrillers than the best thriller e...

Nine actresses, from Madame Sul-Te-Wan in Birth of a Nation (1915) to Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding (1952), are profiled in African America...

DescriptionEditing is what makes a movie a movie. Consulting with master film editors including Walter Murch, Juliette Welfling, Eddie Hamilton, an...

For three years during the 1920s, in an attic in Potsdam, a young woman crafted what is today the oldest surviving animated feature film. Equipped ...

Reducere. ""I read Hawks on Hawks with passion. I am very happy that this book exists.""-François Truffaut Howard Hawks (1896-1977) is often credited as bein...

Reducere. Contemporary art is a very different kind of art from anything that has ever been practiced in the past. It is an art that takes place after the ag...

Reducere. How is it that a patch of flickering light on a wall can produce experiences that engage our imaginations and can feel totally real? From the verti...

"As a father of two school age boys, I understand the fears every parent can face. Although highly unlikely, we have to understand and recognize th...

Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose...

Description"A story of madness, art, alcohol and creativity...elegantly translated...vivid." --New York Times An exasperated writer obsessed with A...

Reducere. DescriptionVastly entertaining and outright hilarious, Paul Murray's debut heralds the arrival of a major new Irish talent. His protagonist is ende...

Reducere. From this prodigiously talented writer comes a stunningly original fictional life of the German director F. W. Murnau (1888-1931). Murnau ranks as ...

Reducere. In American pop art, gangster rap, punk rock, and gay filmmaking, there is a Continental Divide between East Coast and West Coast culture typified ...

Blood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political conte...

From the Renaissance idea of the painting as an open window to the nested windows and multiple images on today's cinema, television, and computer s...

From one of our most distinguished film scholars, comes a rich, penetrating, amusing book about the golden age of movies and how the studios worked...

Reducere. Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In j...

Reducere. From award-winning British author Holly Bourne comes a clever, deconstructed rom-com that proves that in real life "girl meets boy" doesn't always ...

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

DescriptionFrom the creators of Smallville comes an action-packed debut thriller about a war veteran and CIA officer in the 1960s who are swept up ...

DescriptionInsight Guides: all you need to inspire every step of your journey.An in-depth book, now with free app and eBook.From deciding when to g...

Reducere. Mr. Midshipman Easy (1836) is a novel by Frederick Marryat. Inspired by the author's experience as a captain in the Royal Navy, Mr. Midshipman Easy...

Reducere. Celebrate the tender story The Little Gardener with a beautiful new cover in the updated 2018 edition There was once a little gardener and his gard...

Reducere. In a modest Manhattan walk-up, a group of survivors are on their last legs. As the end seems nigh, a teenage girl is spotted on the avenue, not onl...

Reducere. CD 1 1. Still Believe in Love - jacksoul 2. She Don't Have to Know - John Legend 3. By Your Side - Sade 4. I Won't (Crazy World) - Alicia Keys 5. J...