A New Guide to Italian Cinema, with co-author Carlo Celli, is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Ita ...
IDEO, the widely admired, award-winning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, Polaroid's I-Zone instant camera, the Palm ...
The author of Free Culture shows how we harm our children—and almost anyone who creates, enjoys, or sells any art form—with a restrictive copyright sy ...
In a fresh and invigorating look at British cinema John Orr examines the neglected relationship between romanticism and modernism from 1929 to the pre ...
In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, en ...
Japan's film industry has gone through dramatic changes in recent decades, as international consumer forces and transnational talent have brought unpr ...
Tracing the work of Luis Bu?±uel, Jacques Pr?©vert, Nelly Kaplan, Walerian Borowcyzk, Jan vankmajer, Raul Ruiz and Alejandro Jodorowsky, this book cha ...
Pierre Batcheff was a prominent cinema star of the 1920s, a French Valentino best-known to modern audiences as the protagonist of the avant-garde clas ...
The rise of Iranian cinema to world prominence over the last few decades is one of the most fascinating cultural stories of our time. There is scarcel ...
When The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man first appeared in 1956, the movies and the moviegoing experience were generally not regarded as worthy of seriou ...
With the U.S. economy booming under President Bill Clinton and the cold war finally over, many Americans experienced peace and prosperity in the ninet ...
It was during the teens that filmmaking truly came into its own. Notably, the migration of studios to the West Coast established a connection between ...
Do women in classical Hollywood cinema ever truly speak for themselves? In Echo and Narcissus, Amy Lawrence examines eight classic films to show how w ...
Cinema is not only a major industry in India, it is a powerful cultural force. But until now, no one has undertaken a major examination of the ways in ...
Yosef, Raz. "Beyond Flesh: Queer Masculinities and Nationalism in Israeli Cinema", Rutgers University Press, 2004. Marginalizing Queerness for Nationa ...
Infernal Affairs has received journalistic, popular and corporate notice but little vigorous critical attention. In this book, Gina Marchetti explores ...
This second title in the AlterImage series that investigates previously under-explored areas of popular and cult cinema ( Underground U.S.A. being the ...
This exciting collection addresses action and adventure from the silent to the contemporary period exploring diverse questions of aesthetics, industry ...
The Art of Drug Synthesis illustrates how chemistry, biology, pharmacokinetics, and a host of other disciplines come together to produce successful me ...
Richard Eldridge's compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of art draws on materials from classical and contemporary p ...
Never before published essays by the widely admired psychologist of art. Arnheim spiritedly asserts art's fundamental achievements. Rudolf Arnheim has ...
"When bebop was new," writes Thomas Owens, "many jazz musicians and most of the jazz audience heard it as radical, chaotic, bewildering music." For a ...
This collection of essays is driven by the question of how we know what we know, and in particular how we can be certain about something even when we ...
In the 1930s as the capitalist system faltered, many in the United States turned to the political Left. Hollywood, so deeply embedded in capitalism, w ...
Andr? Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold ...
