Cinema and Spectatorship is the first book to focus entirely on the history and role of the spectator in contemporary film studies. While 1970s film t ...
This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads o ...
This classic history of scientific film was published in Italian in 1984, and is receiving its first English publication in a revised and updated edit ...
Cinema Beyond Film elaborates on the theoretical uses of two key terms—dispositif and episteme—in order to examine their relationship as well as their ...
Genre - or 'type' - is a core concept in both film production and the history of film. Genres play a key role in how moviegoers perceive and rate film ...
Cinema Houston celebrates a vibrant century of movie theatres and moviegoing in Texas's largest city. Illustrated with more than two hundred historica ...
Italian filmmakers have created some of the most magical and moving, violent and controversial films in world cinema. During its twentieth-century hey ...
Cinema Wars explores the intersection of film, politics, and US culture and society through a bold critical analysis of the films, TV shows, and docum ...
This book crosses the conventional border between the analysis of on-screen and off-screen intersections of law and cinema. It not only addresses the ...
The increasingly popular idea that cinematic fictions can "do" philosophy raises some difficult questions. Who is actually doing the philosophizing? I ...
Cinema: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates, and texts of the most important approaches to the study ...
Cinema is quite simply a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema. Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks back on a cent ...
Each essay in Cinematic Thinking is organized around an interpretation of a postwar filmmaker and the philosophical issues his or her work raises. The ...
Section One 1. Modernity and the City Film: Berlin 2. The Dark City: Film Noir: Los Angeles 3. The City of Love: Paris Section Two: 4. City Film Indus ...
This is one of the best books I've read about movies in a few years. Prince looks at the PCA papers for movies from the early talkies to the start of ...
This is one of the best books I've read about movies in a few years. Prince looks at the PCA papers for movies from the early talkies to the start of ...
Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in ancient Greece and Rome and to f ...
The indispensable work on one of the most extraordinary artistic and social adventures of our time.'—Edward W. SaidAbbas Kiraostami planted Iran firml ...
Noted film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon offers a behind-the-scenes look into the lives of both major and marginalized figures who have dynamically tr ...
