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Stars and Stardom in French Cinema
Paperback,
01/04/2005,
£14.99
£10.49
When people think of film stars, they think of Hollywood. Yet, second only to America, French cinema has produced the most substantial galaxy of stars to achieve world fame in their national films.
British Film Studios: An illustrated History
Paperback,
10/09/2001,
£17.99
£12.59
This is a comprehensive and systematic history of British film studios, arranged in alphabetical order and cross-referenced throughout. It also studies the roles of directors, producers and stars including Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor.
Bollywood: Sociology Goes to the Movies
Paperback,
07/03/2006,
£19.99
£13.99
Why are people fascinated with Bollywood? What is the cultural significance of the films produced there? In recent years Bollywood - the popular Hindi cinema - has received widespread international attention in the global media. Bollywood examines the reasons for this interest and provides an unrivalled guide to the phenomenon.
Passion for Films: Henri Langlois and the Cinematheque Francaise
Paperback,
29/07/1999,
£14.50
£10.15
Henri Langlois began collecting prints of films in the 1920s, and in 1935 he founded the Cinematheque Francaise, the legendary film library and screening room in Paris. This is an analysis of Henri Langlois, his passion for films, and his contribution to film history.
Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys and Sopranos
Hardback,
17/06/2004,
£35.00
£24.50
A celebration of images of Italians in American motion pictures, this title covers the careers of dozens of stars including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino as well as famous directors such as Frank Capra, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma and Martin Scorsese.
Bollywood's India: Hindi Cinema as a Guide to Contemporary India
Paperback,
01/05/2014,
£22.50
£15.00
Hardboiled Hollywood: The origins of the great crime films
Hardback,
03/01/2003,
£18.99
£13.29
Kiss Me Deadly, Bonnie & Clyde, Get Carter, Little Caesar, Goodfellas - behind each of these classic films there's a little-known story waiting to be told, and pulp novels, real-life bank robbers and twisted serial killers have all played a part in shaping the high-points of crime cinema. After Hollywood had cheerfully thrown these...
British War Films, 1939-1945: The Cinema and the Services
Paperback,
09/11/2006,
£37.99
£23.79
The cinema during the Second World War became an important medium for influencing mass opinion. This book focuses on how the army, navy and air force worked with the film industry, and other government departments, to try to shape what people thought about the struggle.
BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema
Paperback,
01/02/2000,
£31.99
£20.29
This work maps the rich, varied cinema of Eastern Europe, Russia and the former USSR. Over 200 entries cover a varitey of topics spanning a century of endeavour and turbulent history from Czech animation to Soviet montage. It includes entries on actors and directors and key figures like Eisenstein.
Irish Film: The Emergence of a Contemporary Cinema
Paperback,
01/10/2000,
£32.99
£20.99
Explores the dominant images of the Irish found in the cinemas of the United States and Britain and considers the ways in which Irish-made films might be said to offer a response to them. This book offers detailed readings of a wide range of key films including "The Butcher Boy" (1998), "Patriot Games" (1993), and "Angela's Ashes" (2000).
Reframing British Cinema, 1918-1928: Between Restraint and Passion
Paperback,
02/12/2003,
£33.99
£22.39
Between 1918-1928 British film was poised between a Victorian past and a future marked out as American. Examining a cinema inextricably intertwined with notions of theatricality, pictorialism and literariness, in which the high cultural, middlebrow and popular intersect, this book re-evaluates films of the 1920s.
German Cinema Book
Paperback,
05/12/2002,
£32.99
£20.99
This work brings together film specialists from Europe and the United States to explore German film history from the late 19th to the early 21st century. It re-evaluates traditional areas of interest in German cinema, and looks at neglected aspects, including early cinema.
European Film Industries
Paperback,
02/12/2003,
£31.99
£20.29
Anne Jackel evaluates how Europe's film industries operate, their working practices and the region's place within the global business of cinema. Exploring trends in production, distribution and exhibition, the book considers a range of national and pan-regional developments.
Spanish Popular Cinema
Paperback,
22/04/2004,
£16.99
£11.89
Spanish Popular Cinema is the first European language work to focus exclusively on this neglected aspect of Spain's film history. Moving from the 1930s to the present, the contributors to this book provide a diverse collection of essays that reassess some of the forgotten and critically overlooked works of Spanish popular cinema.
British Cinema of the 1950's:a Celebration
Paperback,
27/03/2003,
£15.99
£11.19
This re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film history covers a variety of genres, such as B-movies, war films, women's pictures and theatrical adaptations, as well as social issues which affect film-making, such as censorship.
Popular Cinema in Brazil
Paperback,
26/08/2004,
£16.99
£11.89
This ground-breaking study provides an entertaining insight into popular film in Brazil, situating major box-office successes such as 'Central Station' (Walter Salles, 1998), in their socio-historical context.
Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy
Paperback,
06/08/2010,
£24.99
£16.09
Shows that, despite its reputation as a stronghold of left-liberal ideals, Hollywood is in fact deeply complicit in serving US political interests.
Contemporary Irish Cinema
Paperback,
30/06/1999,
£22.95
£14.35
Movies from and about Ireland have attracted huge audiences, capturing top international prizes ("The Crying Game") and an Academy Award ("My Left Foot"). In this text, contributors take a variety of approaches to the treatment of films and film makers.
New American cinema
Paperback,
25/04/1998,
£25.99
£23.39
Offers a collection of essays that provides the comprehensive survey of Hollywood and independent films from the mid-60s the present. This title brings together thirteen leading film scholars who present a range of theoretical, critical, and historical perspectives on this rich and pivotal era in American cinema.
Reading a Japanese Film: Cinema in Context
Paperback,
31/01/2006,
£23.95
£16.45
In her introduction, Keiko McDonald presents a historical overview and outlines a unified approach to Japanese film analysis. "Readings" of films available on DVD with English subtitles put theory into practice as she considers a wide range of work, from familiar classics by Ozu and Kurosawa to the films of a younger generation of directors.
Contemporary Cinema of Latin America: Ten Key Films
Paperback,
01/04/2003,
£37.99
£24.49
Focusing on a selection of internationally known Latin American films, this title is organized around national categories, grounding the readings not only in the context of social and political conditions, but also in those of each national film industry.
German Essays on Film
Paperback,
01/06/2004,
£34.99
£23.09
"German Essays on Film" is divided into five parts: Late Wilhelmine Germany; Weimar Republic (1918-33); Inside the "Third Reich" (1933-45); Intellectuals in Exile; and Postwar Germany: since 1945.l
Native Features : Indigenous Films From Around the World
Paperback,
05/06/2008,
£29.99
£19.59
Written for students and the general viewing public, this book explores the varying contexts in which indigenous filmmaking takes place. It demonstrates how indigenous films challenge some of the basic assumptions of viewers who experience these films while using national cinemas as their models.
America's Film Legacy
Paperback,
26/01/2010,
£37.99
£34.19
A guide to various films made in the United States. It includes such films as "Citizen Kane", "The Jazz Singer", "All Quiet on the Western Front", "The Birth of a Nation", and "Boyz n the Hood", "Blacksmith Scene" (1893), "The Blue Bird" (1918), "The Docks of New York" (1928), "Star Theatre" (1902), and "A Bronx Morning" (1914).
Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema
Paperback,
24/09/2004,
£32.00
£22.40
Examines the different ways home is constructed in cinematic narrative.
John Mills and British Cinema: Masculinity, Identity and Nation
Paperback,
24/03/2006,
£23.99
£16.79
This book asks how was it possible for an actor to embody national identity and, by exploring the cultural contexts in which Mills and the nation became synonymous, the book offers a new perspective on 40 years of cinema and social change.
African Fimmaking: North and South of the Sahara
Paperback,
15/08/2006,
£24.99
£17.49
A study of African filmmaking
British Film Directors: A Critical Guide
Paperback,
01/01/2007,
£22.99
£16.09
A reference guide to British film directors covering both contemporary and historically important figures.
European Cinemas in the Television Age
Paperback,
01/02/2007,
£26.99
£18.89
This is a radical attempt to rethink the post-war history of European cinemas. The authors approach the subject from the perspective of television's impact on the culture of cinema's production, distribution, consumption and reception. Thus they indicate a new direction for the debate about the future of cinema in Europe.
Battle of Britain on Screen: 'The Few' in British Film and Television Drama
Paperback,
30/05/2007,
£28.99
£20.29
This book examines in depth for the first time the origins, development, and reception of the major dramatic screen representations of 'The Few' in the Battle of Britain produced over the past seventy years.
Hollywood's Cold War
Paperback,
01/05/2007,
£26.99
£24.29
This book introduces the relationship between the American government and the American film industry during the Cold War.
After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
Paperback,
05/06/2002,
£24.50
£16.10
Examines the Italian films of the last two decades of the 20th century which managed to transcend the decline of Italian cinema's prominence within the industry. The author interprets, in detail, a body of work which established an independent profile for the Italian cinema of the 80s and 90s.
Black in the British frame
Paperback,
01/05/2005,
£33.99
£23.09
Documents, from original research and interviews, the experiences and representations which have been ignored in previous media books about people of African descent. There are chapters about Paul Robeson, Newton I. Aduaka, and soap operas, as well as several useful appendices and suggestions for further reading.
Nazis and the Cinema
Paperback,
20/03/2008,
£29.99
£26.99
Provides a comprehensive account of the films made in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, including the notorious feature film "Jud Suss" and the compilation documentary "Der Ewige Jude". This title explores how the film makers were controlled and used by the regime. It also examines other less well- known films featuring Jewish characters.
Hollywood: From Vietnam To Reagan
Paperback,
19/06/2003,
£30.00
£27.00
This edition contains all chapters from the original 1986 edition plus critical analyses of the films of Martin Scorcese and Michael Cimino, a political assault on the films of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, and in in-depth meditation on Brian De Palma.
Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame
Paperback,
01/02/2006,
£28.99
£18.19
With chapters on Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and others, this book presents an assessment of contemporary Asian cinema. Each chapter describes the cultural aspects of popular film production, analyzing key films in the context of the national, the regional and the global.
Certain Tendency Of The Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980
Paperback,
01/05/1985,
£42.00
£37.80
An analysis of the ideologies and artistic conventions of American movies includes examinations of films such as Casablanca, Taxi Driver, and The Godfather.
Contemporary Australian Cinema: An Introduction
Paperback,
28/12/2000,
£17.99
£12.59
This text provides an introduction to the development of Australian film, in terms of prominent directors and stars, consistent themes and styles and evolving genres. This growth is traced through analysis of the most successful and best known feature films from the gothic to the camp.
Couch and the Silver Screen: Psychoanalytic Reflections on European Cinema
Paperback,
29/05/2003,
£36.99
£24.49
"The Couch and the Silver Screen" is a collection of original contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives. Both classic and contemporary films are presented and analysed by a variety of authors, including leading cinema historians and theorists and psychoanalysts.
Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium: Sites, Sounds, and Screens
Paperback,
01/09/2014,
£27.95
£25.16
In the last five years of the twentieth century, films by the second and third generation of the so-called German guest workers exploded onto the German film landscape. Self-confident, articulate, and dynamic, these films situate themselves in the global exchange of cinematic images...
Persistence Of Hollywood
Paperback,
15/11/2008,
£36.99
£33.29
Examines various paradigms for reading Hollywood and its cinema. This volume also explores a range of topics from cinephilia and auteurs - Nicholas Ray, Sam Fuller, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, among others - to melodrama, digital cinema, and even time-travel films.
Directory of World Cinema: Britain
Paperback,
11/09/2012,
£43.00
£38.70
With a focus on the most successful, cerebral and critically important films to have come out of Britain, this title explores the diversity of and genres found throughout British film, highlighting important regional variations that reflect the distinctive cultures of the countries involved.
History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain, 1897-2004
Paperback,
01/04/2006,
£39.99
£35.99
Presents the history of artists' film and video in Britain. Structured in two parts ('Institutions' and 'Artists and Movements'), this work considers the work of some 300 artists, including Kenneth Macpherson, Basil Wright, Len Lye, Humphrey Jennings, Margaret Tait, Jeff Keen, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono, Malcolm Le Grice, and Peter Gidal.
Romantics And Modernists
Paperback,
17/02/2012,
£20.99
£18.89
In a fresh and invigorating look at British cinema that considers film as an art form among other arts, John Orr takes a critical look at the intriguing relationship between romanticism and modernism in British cinema.
World Film Locations: Los Angeles
Paperback,
12/09/2011,
£16.50
£14.85
Offers a visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot on location in one of the birthplaces of cinema and the 'screen spectacle'. This title includes reviews of 50 carefully chosen film scenes that explore how motion pictures have shaped the role of Los Angeles in our collective consciousness.
American film and politics from Reagan to Bush Jr
Paperback,
27/06/2002,
£15.99
£14.39
This study covers two decades in American history, when the links between Hollywood and Washington were at their strongest, a period "book-ended" by the political and cinematic figures of Reagan and Clinton. During this period movies became targets of political rhetoric of "family values".
American Cinema of the 1940s
Paperback,
01/02/2006,
£24.99
£22.49
The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. At the start of the decade, Hollywood - shaking off the Depression - launched an unprecedented wave of production, generating some of its most memorable classics, including "Citizen Kane", "Rebecca", "The Lady Eve", "Sergeant York", and "How Green Was My Valley".
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