Screening Politics: The Politician in American Movies
ISBN: 9780810858824 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reference guide provides detailed discussions of over 50 movies about American politics and politicians, from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and All the King's Men (1949) to Air Force One (1997) and Thirteen Days (2001).
This reference guide provides detailed discussions of over 50 movies about American politics and politicians, from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)...
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The Journey of Luke Skywalker: An Analysis of Modern Myth and Symbol
ISBN: 9780812694321 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. So many years after Star Wars: A New Hope burst upon the world in 1977, why is The Force still with us? Why do the Star Wars movies continue to haunt the imaginations of young and old alike? In the Journey of Luke Skywalker, Steven Galipeau applied depth psychology to the Star Wars epic, uncovering a wealth of symbolic meaning embedded in this seemingly simple tale of adventure. Luke Skywalker's journey, from his early life on a desert farm to his act of redemption that helps transform an entire galactic civilization, captures many of the struggles of the modern psyche, and exercises a...
So many years after Star Wars: A New Hope burst upon the world in 1977, why is The Force still with us? Why do the Star Wars movies continue to haunt ...
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Autonomous Image
ISBN: 9780813114064 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blowup, says Armando Prats, is one of the necessary movies. It is a "living expression of the transition into the new narrative domains" in terms of man's "new vision of himself as a narrative creature in a world whose very essense is cinematic narration." Prats' work on the new humanism inherent in postwar filmmaking is a rewarding work with implications for the fields of esthetics and axiology as well as film criticism. In his analyses of four films by three directors -- Fellini's Director's Notebook and The Clowns, Wertmiller's Seven Beauties, Antonioni's... Blowup, says Armando Prats, is one of the necessary movies. It is a "living expression of the transition into the new narrative domains" in... |
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Flatlining on the Field of Dreams : Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan's America
ISBN: 9780813524405 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Flatlining on the Field of Dreams takes a apart some of the most commercially successful films of the epoch, demonstrating how they reflected, debated, and played with the dominant ideology of the time. . . . cleverly and wittily written . . . . The book will work extremely well in the classroom."-Film Quarterly "From Back to the Future to Forrest Gump, Nadel shows not only how notions of cinematic time re-script political change but how our very conceptualizations of change are thematized by our experiences of watching movies. This is not simply film history, or film as history, but film...
"Flatlining on the Field of Dreams takes a apart some of the most commercially successful films of the epoch, demonstrating how they reflected, debate...
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The New York Times Film Reviews 1997-1998
ISBN: 9780815333401 / Angielski / Twarda / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Oscar-winning blockbusters Titanic and Good Will Hunting, to Sundance oddities like Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane, to foreign films such as Life is Beautiful (La Vita Bella), this volume features a chronological collection of facsimiles of every film review and awards article published in the New York Times between January 1997 and December 1998. The book includes a full index of personal names, titles, and corporate names.
From the Oscar-winning blockbusters Titanic and Good Will Hunting, to Sundance oddities like Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane, to foreign films such as...
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Shakespeare on Film
ISBN: 9780819181572 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the overlapping, hotly disputed borderlands of literature, theater and film. Concerned with the creative possibilities of rendering Shakespeare on film, the book studies the rich interpretations of Shakespeare by such major directors as Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, Peter Brook, Franco Zeffirelli, the famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, and one of Russia's greatest filmmakers, Grigori Kozintsev. It provides a detailed analyses of sixteen major films, illuminating the relations between Renaissance visions and modern re-visions, the parallels of poetic and cinematic imagery, and...
Explores the overlapping, hotly disputed borderlands of literature, theater and film. Concerned with the creative possibilities of rendering Shakespea...
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Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement
ISBN: 9780822321064 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women s film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100% pure cultural historical odyssey, Chick Flicks with its definitive, the-way-it-was collection of essays captures the birth and growth of feminist film as no other book has done.
For over three decades Rich has been one of the most important voices in feminist film criticism. Her presence at film festivals (such as Sundance, where she is a member of the selection committee), her film... If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women s film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part j...
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Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement
ISBN: 9780822321217 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women s film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100% pure cultural historical odyssey, Chick Flicks with its definitive, the-way-it-was collection of essays captures the birth and growth of feminist film as no other book has done.
For over three decades Rich has been one of the most important voices in feminist film criticism. Her presence at film festivals (such as Sundance, where she is a member of the selection committee), her film... If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women s film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part j...
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Reading a Japanese Film: Cinema in Context
ISBN: 9780824829391 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading a Japanese Film, written by a pioneer of Japanese film studies in the United States, provides viewers new to Japanese cinema with the necessary tools to construct a deeper understanding of some of the most critically acclaimed and thoroughly entertaining films ever made. In her introduction, Keiko McDonald presents a historical overview and outlines a unified approach to film analysis. Sixteen "readings" of films currently 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...
Reading a Japanese Film, written by a pioneer of Japanese film studies in the United States, provides viewers new to Japanese cinema with the necessar...
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Offensive Films
ISBN: 9780826514912 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brottman offers up a study of movies so offensive, some are practically unwatchable. From the ever-popular Faces of Death movies to purported snuff films, from classic B-movies such as The Tingler, to more popular but no less controversial films such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Brottman takes a wide-eyed look at movies most folks watch only through parted fingers. While most critics have been quick to dismiss such films as mere shock-fests (if they even bother to talk about them at all), Brottman argues that these movies tell us quite a bit about who we are as a...
Brottman offers up a study of movies so offensive, some are practically unwatchable. From the ever-popular Faces of Death movies to purported s...
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The Griffith Project, Volume 1: Films Produced 1907-1908
ISBN: 9780851707471 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this study. Only a small group of his more than 500 films are subject to analysis. The creative output of Griffiths from "Professional Jealousy" (1907) to "The Struggle" (1931) is explored.
Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this study. Only a small group of his more than 500 films are subject to analysis. The creative o...
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Films Produced in January-June 1909
ISBN: 9780851707488 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this study. Only a small group of his more than 500 films are subject to analysis. The creative output of Griffiths from "Professional Jealousy" (1907) to "The Struggle" (1931) is explored.
Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this study. Only a small group of his more than 500 films are subject to analysis. The creative o...
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The Griffith Project, Volume 3: Films Produced in July - December 1909
ISBN: 9780851707495 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this study. Only a small group of his more than 500 films are subject to analysis. The creative output of Griffiths from "Professional Jealousy" (1907) to "The Struggle" (1931) is explored.
Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this study. Only a small group of his more than 500 films are subject to analysis. The creative o...
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50 Classic Motion Pictures: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of
ISBN: 9780879101626 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Limelight). "A fat, lavishly illustrated run through of...50 Hollywood movies from the 1930s up to a few years after World War II...valuable and entertaining today not only as a social record but as sheer entertainment... Zinman begins with Mae West's classic She Done Him Wrong and touches all the cinematic landmarks, including Casablanca, Citizen Kane, and Gone with the Wind ..." Publisher's Weekly
(Limelight). "A fat, lavishly illustrated run through of...50 Hollywood movies from the 1930s up to a few years after World War II...valuable and ente...
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The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to Bram Stoker's Dracula, Third Edition
ISBN: 9780879102661 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors consider and analyse each picture in detail: its style and approach, plot, acting, cinematography, set design, special effects and finally its quality of achievement. Illustrated with over 200 photographs, many quite rare and never reprinted elsewhere, the book also features an enlarged and updated filmography, which becomes the most complete, accurate and fact-filled listing of vampire films ever published.
The authors consider and analyse each picture in detail: its style and approach, plot, acting, cinematography, set design, special effects and finally...
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Film Noir Reader 2
ISBN: 9780879102807 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Limelight). Generously includes film stills and essays on crime films, The Postman Always Rings Twice, "Hitchcock's Noir Landscape," "Samuel Fuller's Tabloid Cinema," "Son of Noir," "Noir Science," "Girl Power: Female Centered Neo-Noir," and "Abstract Expressionism and Film Noir."
(Limelight). Generously includes film stills and essays on crime films, The Postman Always Rings Twice, "Hitchcock's Noir Landscape," "Samuel Fuller's...
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( Hal Leonard Pub)The Film Comedy Reader
ISBN: 9780879102951 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the early artistry of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, the madcap antics of the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers to the satire of the Graduate and the outrageous humour of the Farelly Brothers, the world of film comedy is explored by more than 30 screen critics.
From the early artistry of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, the madcap antics of the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers to the satire...
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Film Noir Reader: The Crucial Films and Themes
ISBN: 9780879103057 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Limelight). The earlier Film Noir Readers, which now boast a combined sale of well over 30,000 copies, have all quite deliberately conveyed a sweeping overview of the classic period, demonstrating how broad and inclusive noir movies are. Film Noir Reader 4 moves in a different direction. Its purpose is to identify the key films and motifs of noir and to analyze in depth the prototypical pictures that, while vivid examples of certain cinematic themes, bend and break their molds to find new ways to enthrall and frighten us. Like its predecessors, Film Noir Reader 4 is generously illustrated...
(Limelight). The earlier Film Noir Readers, which now boast a combined sale of well over 30,000 copies, have all quite deliberately conveyed a sweepin...
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The Spy Who Thrilled Us: A Guide to the Best of Cinematic James Bond
ISBN: 9780879109769 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) adds colour graphics, audio and video to today's messaging. This introduction to MMS architecture and standards contains eye-opening case studies of early MMS rollouts by content providers and mobile carriers. It features step-by-step examples of how to design and develop profitable multimedia messaging applications and includes working code that developers can use to jump-start their own projects.
MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) adds colour graphics, audio and video to today's messaging. This introduction to MMS architecture and standards con...
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The The Cineaste Interviews 2 : Filmmakers on the Art and Politics of the Cinema
ISBN: 9780941702508 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cineaste, America's leading magazine on the art and politics of the cinema, has been acclaimed worldwide for its interviews with filmmakers and film critics. In the early 1980s, a collection of some of the best of these was published as The Cineaste Interviews. Now, Cineaste Interviews 2 takes on the aesthetic and political issues that have dominated the film scene over the last twenty years. The focus of this particular collection of twenty-five interviews is on the role of the director.
Cineaste, America's leading magazine on the art and politics of the cinema, has been acclaimed worldwide for its interviews with filmmakers and film c...
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93,31 zł |