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Short Films
Oldcastle Books 2010; US$ 21.86This book is for anyone who has ever wanted to make a short film. Focusing on the practicalities of filmmaking. It will guide you through all the stages of the process, examining every available possibility along the way. From the development of your initial idea, to screening your finished film in front of an audience. It will enable you to make... more...
Screening the East
Berghahn Books 2011; US$ 90.00Screening the East considers German filmmakers? responses to unification. In particular, it traces the representation of the East German community in films made since 1989 and considers whether these narratives challenge or reinforce the notion of a separate East German identity. The book identifies and analyses a large number of films, from internationally... more...
Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain
Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 75.00Why and how film and video censorship has developed in Britain since the birth of the domestic video industry in 1979. more...
American Politics in Hollywood Film
Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 75.00In this second edition of American Politics in Hollywood Film, Ian Scott takes up his analysis of political content and ideology through movies and contends that American culture and the institutional process continues to be portrayed, debated and influenced by a whole series of films. more...
A Cinema of Loneliness
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 20.99An updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film, the new edition of A Cinema of Loneliness reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade, incorporating discussions of directors like Judd Apatow and David Fincher while offering assessments of the recent, and in some cases final, work from the filmmakers--Penn,... more...
Stephen King Goes to the Movies
Hodder & Stoughton 2009; US$ 20.83It came from the mind of Stephen King... You've seen the films, now read the original stories ? and get a unique insight into Stephen King's take on the productions. For Stephen King, the experience of seeing his works of short fiction adapted for major Hollywood films has created its own tales, and he shares them here: five of his celebrated short... more...
Rebels on the Backlot
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 13.99The 1990s saw a shock wave of dynamic new directing talent that took the Hollywood studio system by storm. At the forefront of that movement were six innovative and daring directors whose films pushed the boundaries of moviemaking and announced to the world that something exciting was happening in Hollywood. Sharon Waxman, editor and chief of The... more...
Scarface Nation
St. Martin's Press 2008; US$ 7.99?Don?t get high on your own supply.? Brian de Palma?s brash, bloody version of Scarface was trashed by critics when it came out twenty-five years ago and didn?t do well at the box office, but has become a spectacular fan favorite and enduring pop culture classic since. ?Never underestimate the greed of the other guy.? What makes millions... more...
Film Noir
Ebury Publishing 2011; US$ 13.34With the advent of the Second World War a new mood was discernible in film drama - an atmosphere of disillusion and a sense of foreboding, a dark quality that derived as much from the characters depicted as from the cinematographer's art. These films, among them such classics as Double Indemnity, The Woman in the Window, Touch of Evil and sunset Boulevard,... more...
Monsters in the Movies
Dorling Kindersley Ltd 2011; Not AvailableBe afraid, be very afraid...a century of cinema nightmare with John Landis, in ePub format for iPad From B-movie bogeymen and outer space-oddities to big-budget terrors, Monsters in the Movies by horror film maestro John Landis celebrates the greatest monsters ever to creep, fly, slither, stalk or rampage across the Silver Screen. Feast your... more...









