Kategoria BISAC: Performing Arts >> Film - General

Featuring excerpts from interviews and frame-by-frame analysis of important scenes from films such as Terminator, Aliens, True Lies, and Titanic, Alexandra Keller provides the first critical study of James Cameron as an auteur.

Considering in particular his treatment of gender and preoccupation with capital, both in his films and his filmmaking practice, Keller offers an overview of Cameron's work and its significance within cinematic history.

Sections in the book include:

• Chronology
• Key Debates
• Key...

Talk to Her offers profound insights into the nature of love and friendship and raises important philosophical and moral questions in unsettling and often paradoxical ways. This is the first book to explore and address the philosophical aspects of Almodovar’s film.

This book examines popular culture in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, and the third largest democracy. It provides a full account of the key trends since the collapse of the authoritarian Suharto regime (1998), a time of great change in Indonesian society more generally. It explains how one of the most significant results of the deepening industrialization in Southeast Asia since the 1980s has been the expansion of consumption and new forms of media, and that Indonesia is a prime example of this development. It goes on to show that although the Asian economic crisis in...

So you think you're a whiz at movie trivia? Well, here is the perfect book to put your knowledge to the test. Created by noted movie and television actor Fred Willard, this unique book of trivia is guaranteed to provide hours of enjoyment for those who love to be quizzed on their "silver screen" expertise. With over 900 thoughtprovoking questions, Fred Willard's Magnificent Movie Trivia covers a wide range of topics--classic and contemporary movies, independent films, notable actors and actresses, award-winning motion pictures, and much, much more. It's all here in...

Although we tend to accord our highest praise to films with strong messages, Hollywood is resolutely unserious in its goals, and closer perhaps to music than to literature in this regard. Thus, in order to appreciate Hollywood's classic movies, we have to understand them as the result of a style of filmmaking that justifies itself through the grace and beauty of its form. This beauty, when seen, challenges our notion of film as the poorer cousin of the high arts, or as worthwhile only when it serves a social purpose. "The Hidden Art of Hollywood" draws from a huge fund of recorded...