Performing Arts : Film

Illustrated throughout with movie stills, a diverse selection of films, genres, cities and historical periods are examined by leading names in the field to offer an innovative insight into the interconnection of city and screenscapes. more...

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This volume is, in part, a history of cinephilia, in part an attempt to recapture the spirit of cinephilia for the discipline of film studies, and, in part, an experiment in cinephilic writing. more...

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New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place for its tensions and promises, dazzling illumination and fearsome darkness. The glittering skyscrapers of such films as On the Town have shadowed the characteristic seedy streets in which desperate, passionate stories have played out—as in Scandal Sheet and The Pawnbroker. In other films, the city is a cauldron of bright lights, technology, empire, egotism, fear, hunger, and change—the scenic epitome of America in the modern age. From Street Scene and Breakfast at Tiffany’s to Rosemary’s Baby, The Warriors, and 25th Hour, the sixteen essays in this book explore the cinematic representation of New York as a city of experience, as a locus of ideographic characters and spaces, as a city of moves and traps, and as a site of allurement and danger. Contributors consider the work of Woody Allen, Blake Edwards, Alfred Hitchcock, Gregory La Cava, Spike Lee, Sidney Lumet, Vincente Minnelli, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Andy Warhol, and numerous others. more...

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Examining the use of language in the films of the Marx brothers, Frank Capra, Woody Allen and the Coen brothers, Beach traces the history of the Hollywood comedy from the 1930s to the present, while offering a new approach to the study of class and social relationships through linguistic analysis. more...

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Acclaimed for its breakthrough approach and its combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, this is the standard work on the classical Hollywood cinema style of film-making from the silent era to the 1960s. more...

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