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Best Years
Rutgers University Press 2009; US$ 32.50Best Years shines light on a critical juncture in American history and the history of American cinemaùthe end of World War II (1945) and a year of unprecedented success in Hollywood's "Golden Age" (1946). This unique time provides a rich blend of cinema genres and typesùfrom the battlefront to the home front, the peace... more...
Filming on a Microbudget
Oldcastle Books 2012; US$ 8.74So you want to make a film? It's the only way to get into the film industry. No one's going to let you play with the kind of money it takes to make a feature film until you've already proven yourself by making a great short film. You can do that at film school - if you can afford to go to film school. If you can't, then you're going to have to make... more...
Deadline at Dawn
Marion Boyars 1993; US$ 17.49Judith Williamson takes herself to the movies, and this book contains the reviews she wrote as film critic for Time Out, City Limits, the radical alternative London weekly listings paper, and the New Statesman. This book contains her journalism, analysis of those times and her career as a journalist in a turbulent England with fierce labour relations... more...
American Cinema of the 1920s
Rutgers University Press 2009; US$ 26.95In ten original essays, American Cinema of the 1920s examines the film industry's continued growth and prosperity while focusing on important themes of the era that witnessed the birth of the star system that supported the meteoric rise and celebrity status of actors including Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, and Rudolph... more...
Eye of the Century
Columbia University Press 2008; US$ 29.99Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco Casetti situates the cinematic experience within discourses of twentieth-century modernity. He suggests that film defined a unique gaze, not only because it... more...
World Film Locations
Intellect 2011; US$ 24.95Sin and redemption. The ridiculous and the sublime. The carnivalesque excess of the Strip and the barrenness of the desert surrounding the city. more...
Iranian Cinema and Globalization
Intellect 2011; US$ 10.00Despite critical acclaim and a recent surge of popularity with Western audiences, Iranian cinema has been the subject of lamentably few academic studies and those have been limited to the genres most visible on the international film circuit. Iranian cinema and globalization seeks to broaden readers exposure to other dimensions of Iranian cinema,... more...
Cinematic Chinatown
Tectum Verlag 2012; US$ 22.03Hauptbeschreibung Jede Weltstadt hat ihre Chinatown, sei es New York, London, Paris oder Melbourne. In westlichen Ländern gelten die exotischen Stadtteile als touristische Attraktionen, im Film sind sie jedoch typische Schauplätze für Gewalt und Chaos, denkt man beispielsweise an den gleichnamigen Film von Roman PolaÅski oder an Big trouble in little... more...
Sorry about Colonialism
Tectum Verlag 2012; US$ 22.03Hauptbeschreibung Stefanie Hirsbrunner widmet sich in ihrer kritischen Analyse außerordentlich erfolgreichen Hollywoodfilmen. Im Zentrum stehen hierbei die männlichen Hauptfiguren, die in Filmen wie "Avatar - Aufbruch nach Pandora", "District 9"oder "Der mit dem Wolf tanzt" zu Helden werden. Als Weiße treffen sie im Verlauf der Handlung auf fremde... more...
World Film Locations: Melbourne
Intellect 2012; US$ 24.95An illuminating and visually led guide to a selection of the films set wholly or in part in Melbourne, World Film Locations: Melbourne covers the big screen representations of life in the city from the Victorian era to the present day. more...









