wyszukanych pozycji: 58
Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance
ISBN: 9780813564951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments when, for a brief scene or even just a single shot, an actor's performance triggers a visceral response in the viewer? Moment of Action delves into the mysteries of screen performance, revealing both the acting techniques and the technical apparatuses that coalesce in an instant of cinematic alchemy to create movie gold. Considering a range of acting styles while examining films as varied as Bringing Up Baby, Psycho, The...
There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments ...
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165,64 zł |
American Cinema of the 1950s
ISBN: 9781845204372 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. America in the 1950s was a place of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear fears and conformist politics. Cold war hysteria and anti-communist witch hunts influenced a culture already falling under the spell of suburbia, television and a brave new world of luxury goods.Throughout the decade Hollywood was under siege: from the Justice Department pressing for big film companies to divest themselves of their theatre holdings; from the middle classes, whose retreat to family entertainment inside the home drastically decreased the film-going audience; and from the House...
America in the 1950s was a place of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear fears and conformist politics. Cold war hysteria and ...
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136,36 zł |
A Silence from Hitchcock
ISBN: 9781438491875 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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399,15 zł |
The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect
ISBN: 9780813560588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, illusory and definitive. Beginning with a penetrating study of five cornfield sequences--including The Wizard of Oz, Arizona Dream, and Signs--Murray Pomerance journeys through a vast array of cinematic moments, technical methods, and laborious collaborations from the 1930s to the 2000s to show how the viewer's experience of "reality" is put in context, challenged, and willfully engaged. Four...
The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artific...
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173,15 zł |
A Family Affair: Cinema Calls Home
ISBN: 9781905674565 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The family unit has been a central theme in movies since the earliest days of the medium- whether as a locus of domestic bliss, a dysfunctional source of drama, a collection of comic personalities or an inferno of repressed feelings. This new anthology brings the subject into sharp focus, collecting a range of multidisciplinary perspectives that attempt to directly penetrate the questions raised by the role of the family onscreen. Discussing a wide range of contemporary and classic films, from House of Strangers (1949) and Mary Poppins (1964) to Superstar (1987), The...
The family unit has been a central theme in movies since the earliest days of the medium- whether as a locus of domestic bliss, a dysfunctional source...
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463,93 zł |
The Film Cheat: Screen Artifice and Viewing Pleasure
ISBN: 9781501364983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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146,86 zł |
A Dream of Hitchcock
ISBN: 9781438472089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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140,89 zł |
Cinema and Modernity
ISBN: 9780813538167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The modern impulse gave us captivating technology and dark anxiety, rampant mobility and a world filled with strangers, the futuristic city and a fragmentation of experience. Motion pictures--the quintessence of modernism--entered into this cultural, technical, and philosophical richness with a vast public appeal and a jarring new vision of what life could be.In Cinema and Modernity, Murray Pomerance brings together new essays by seventeen leading scholars to explore the complexity of the essential connection between film and modernity. Among the many films considered are...
The modern impulse gave us captivating technology and dark anxiety, rampant mobility and a world filled with strangers, the futuristic city and a frag...
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183,65 zł |
The Man Who Knew Too Much
ISBN: 9781844579556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Eminent Hitchcock specialist Murray Pomerance offers an illuminating account of one of Hitchcock's most successful films, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), starring James Stewart and Doris Day. Through a close reading of the film alongside analysis of its complex production history, Pomerance underlines its significance within Hitchcock's oeuvre. Eminent Hitchcock specialist Murray Pomerance offers an illuminating account of one of Hitchcock's most successful films, The Man Who Knew Too Much... |
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68,16 zł |
George Cukor: Hollywood Master
ISBN: 9780748693566 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. George Cukor is one of the studio era's most famous and admired directors, with many of the American cinema's most beloved classics to his credit, including The Women, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, A Star is Born, and My Fair Lady to his credit. Not himself a scriptwriter, he was particularly adept at choosing which properties to adapt and then managing the adaptation process with verve and effectiveness. What makes for a good adapter, for a talented master of ceremonies who knows where to put everything and everybody (including the camera)? Who knows how to make a property his own even while...
George Cukor is one of the studio era's most famous and admired directors, with many of the American cinema's most beloved classics to his credit, inc...
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472,22 zł |
The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory
ISBN: 9780813543284 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What is most important about cinema is that we are alive with it. For all its dramatic, literary, political, sociological, and philosophical weight, film is ultimately an art that provokes, touches, and riddles the viewer through an image that transcends narrative and theory. In The Horse Who Drank the Sky, Murray Pomerance brings attention to the visceral dimension of movies and presents a new and unanticipated way of thinking about what happens when we watch them.
What is most important about cinema is that we are alive with it. For all its dramatic, literary, political, sociological, and philosophical weight, f...
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178,40 zł |
Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen
ISBN: 9780791459409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Violence and corruption sell big, especially since the birth of action cinema, but even from cinema's earliest days, the public has been delighted to be stunned by screen representations of negativity in all its forms--evil, monstrosity, corruption, ugliness, villainy, and darkness. Bad examines the long line of thieves, rapists, varmints, codgers, dodgers, manipulators, exploiters, conmen, killers, vamps, liars, demons, cold-blooded megalomaniacs, and warmhearted flakes that populate cinematic narrative. From Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley, the contributors consider a wide range of...
Violence and corruption sell big, especially since the birth of action cinema, but even from cinema's earliest days, the public has been delighted to ...
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148,95 zł |
Shining in Shadows: Movie Stars of the 2000s
ISBN: 9780813551487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the 2000s, new technologies transformed the experiences of movie-going and movie-making, giving us the first generation of stars to be just as famous on the computer screen as on the silver screen. Shining in Shadows examines a wide range of Hollywood icons from a turbulent decade for the film industry and for America itself. Perhaps reflecting our own cultural fragmentation and uncertainty, Hollywood's star personas sent mixed messages about Americans' identities and ideals. Disheveled men-children like Will Ferrell and Jack Black shared the multiplex with debonair... In the 2000s, new technologies transformed the experiences of movie-going and movie-making, giving us the first generation of stars to be just as f... |
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167,90 zł |
Color It True: Impressions of Cinema
ISBN: 9781501383083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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152,10 zł |
The Last Laugh: Strange Humors of Cinema
ISBN: 9780814335130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For critics, fans, and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has traditionally been tied to comedy, indicating and expressing mirth, witty relief, joyous celebration, or arch and sarcastic parody. But strange, dark laughter that illuminates non-comedic, unfunny situations gets much less attention. In The Last Laugh: Strange Humors of Cinema, editor Murray Pomerance has assembled contributions from thirteen estimable scholars that address the strange laughter of cinema from varying intellectual perspectives and a wide range of sources. Contributors consider unusual humors in... For critics, fans, and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has traditionally been tied to comedy, indicating and expressing mirth, witty relief, ... |
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209,16 zł |
Color It True: Impressions of Cinema
ISBN: 9781501383113 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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524,69 zł |
Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American Film
ISBN: 9780814767061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at best a riddle, not one of us. Lewis is someone we take profound pleasure in excluding, if not ridiculing. Enfant Terrible Jerry Lewis in American Film is the first comprehensive collection devoted to one of the most controversial and accomplished figures in twentieth-century American cinema. A veteran of virtually every form of show business, Lewis's performances... The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. Th... |
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131,12 zł |
Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic
ISBN: 9781501350672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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152,10 zł |
American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations
ISBN: 9780813536736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From cold war hysteria and rampant anticommunist witch hunts to the lure of suburbia, television, and the new consumerism, the 1950s was a decade of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear fears and conformist politics. Amid this amalgamation of social, political, and cultural conditions, Hollywood was under siege: from the Justice Department, which pressed for big film companies to divest themselves of their theater holdings; from the middleclass, whose retreat to family entertainment inside the home drastically decreased the filmgoing audience; and from the House... From cold war hysteria and rampant anticommunist witch hunts to the lure of suburbia, television, and the new consumerism, the 1950s was a decade o... |
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162,66 zł |
Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance
ISBN: 9780813564968 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments when, for a brief scene or even just a single shot, an actor's performance triggers a visceral response in the viewer? Moment of Action delves into the mysteries of screen performance, revealing both the acting techniques and the technical apparatuses that coalesce in an instant of cinematic alchemy to create movie gold. Considering a range of acting styles while examining films as varied as Bringing Up Baby, Psycho, The...
There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments ...
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684,85 zł |