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100 American Independent Films
ISBN: 9781844572892 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This revised and updated new editionprovides aguide to100 of the most interesting and influential American independent films, from Bonnie and Clyde to Junebug by way of Reservoir Dogs and The Blair With Projectwith an introduction to the genre and a rich selection of images from the films discussed, plus key credits."
This revised and updated new editionprovides aguide to100 of the most interesting and influential American independent films, from Bonnie and Clyd...
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100 Silent Films
ISBN: 9781844573080 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 100 Silent Films provides an authoritative and accessible history of silent cinema through one hundred of its most interesting and significant films. As Bryony Dixon contends, silent cinema is not a genre; it is the first 35 years of film history, a complex negotiation between art and commerce and a union of creativity and technology. At its most grand on the big screen with a full orchestral accompaniment it is magnificent, permitting a depth of emotional engagement rarely found in other fields of cinema. Silent film was hugely popular in its day, and its success enabled the...
100 Silent Films provides an authoritative and accessible history of silent cinema through one hundred of its most interesting and significant ...
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Godard
ISBN: 9781844573547 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Roud's seminal study of the director Jean-Luc Godard places the director in the context of modern European cinema, on which Godard's work has been hugely influential, and considers Godard's 'political' cinema, including the ferocious masterpiece 'Weekend'. This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Temple. "Richard Roud's seminal study of the director Jean-Luc Godard places the director in the context of modern European cinema, on which Godard's work h... |
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A Long Hard Look at 'psycho'
ISBN: 9781844573585 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his illuminating study of Psycho, Raymond Durgnat provided a minute analysis of its unfolding narrative, enabling us to consider what happens to the viewer as he or she watches the film, and to think afresh about questions of spectatorship, Hollywood narrative codes, psycho-analysis, editing and shot composition. In his introduction to this edition, Henry K. Miller presents A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho' as the culmination of Durgnat's decades-long campaign to correct what he called film studies 'Grand Error'.
In his illuminating study of Psycho, Raymond Durgnat provided a minute analysis of its unfolding narrative, enabling us to consider what happ...
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Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
ISBN: 9781844573608 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informed, Peter Wollen's higly influential and groundbreaking work remains a brilliant and accessible theorization of film as an art form and as a sign system. This fifth edition brings together material from the four previous editions, inviting the reader to trace the development of Wollen's thinking, and the unfolding of the discourse of cinema.
First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informe...
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Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
ISBN: 9781844573615 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informed, Peter Wollen's higly influential and groundbreaking work remains a brilliant and accessible theorization of film as an art form and as a sign system. This fifth edition brings together material from the four previous editions, inviting the reader to trace the development of Wollen's thinking, and the unfolding of the discourse of cinema.
First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informe...
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100 Film Musicals
ISBN: 9781844573783 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A selection of 100 films from one of the best-loved genres of Hollywood and world cinema, with entries ranging from 'Gold Diggers of 1933' to 'High School Musical' of 2006, and from the Reggae classic 'The Harder They Come' to Guru Dutt's 'Pyaasa' (1957). The authors' introduction outlines the history and key features of the film musical.
A selection of 100 films from one of the best-loved genres of Hollywood and world cinema, with entries ranging from 'Gold Diggers of 1933' to 'High Sc...
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Written on the Wind
ISBN: 9781844574209 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first single study of Douglas Sirk's 1956 film Written on the Wind, a melodrama about an alcoholic playboy who marries the woman his best friend secretly loves. Peter Evans incorporates original archival research to examine the production, promotion and reception of this masterpiece of Hollywood melodrama.
This is the first single study of Douglas Sirk's 1956 film Written on the Wind, a melodrama about an alcoholic playboy who marries the woman ...
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New Vampire Cinema
ISBN: 9781844574407 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, charting the evolution of the genre. Ken Gelder's study begins by looking at Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and Fran Rubel Kuzui's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and then examines what happened afterwards, across a range of reiterations and settings: the suburbs of Sweden (Let the Right One In), the forests of North America (the Twilight films), Mexico (Cronos, From Dusk Till Dawn), Japan (Blood: The Last Vampire, Vampire Hunter D:...
New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, charting the evolution of the genre. Ken Gelder's study begins b...
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The Tales of Hoffmann
ISBN: 9781844574469 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) is a unique and important film, both in the history of British cinema and in the history of interdisciplinary art-making. It is the first full-throttle presentation of an opera on screen: a Technicolor exploration of romance, fantasy, and failure, more danced than sung.
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) is a unique and important film, both in the history of British cinema and in the history of interdisciplinary art-making....
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100 Science Fiction Films
ISBN: 9781844574575 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 100 Science Fiction Films provides a lively and illuminating guide to the genre from the beginning of film history to the present, taking the reader on a comprehensive tour through the rich and varied alternate universe of sci-fi cinema. From Georges Melies's Le Voyage dans la lune (1902), to the blockbusters of the 1970s that dramatically changed Hollywood, to the major releases of the past few years, the films featured in this book represent a range of periods, countries and types (including alien invasion, space travel, time travel, apocalypse, monsters and anime), and...
100 Science Fiction Films provides a lively and illuminating guide to the genre from the beginning of film history to the present, taking the...
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Olympia
ISBN: 9781844574704 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this new edition Taylor Downing provides an indispensible guide to one of the most controversial films ever made, Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia. Incorporating discussion of new material and new archival information about its development, Downing also gives a film-maker's insights into the logistical and technical problems faced by the production.
In this new edition Taylor Downing provides an indispensible guide to one of the most controversial films ever made, Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia.
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Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns
ISBN: 9781845115715 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The true story of the American West on film, through its shooting stars and the directors who shot them
Howard Hughes explores the Western, running from John Ford's 'Stagecoach' to the revisionary 'Tombstone'. Writing with panache and fresh insight, he explores 27 key films, and draws on production notes, cast and crew biographies, and the films' box-office success, to reveal their place in western history. He shows how through reinvention and resurrection, this genre continually postpones the big adios and avoids ending up in Boot Hill permanently. Major films covered include the... The true story of the American West on film, through its shooting stars and the directors who shot them
Howard Hughes explores the Western, runni... |
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Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult
ISBN: 9781848856080 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Italian filmmakers have created some of the most magical and moving, violent and controversial films in world cinema. During its twentieth-century heyday, Italy's film industry was second only to Hollywood as a popular film factory, exporting cinematic dreams with multinational casts to the world, ranging across multiple genres. Cinema Italiano is the first book to discuss comprehensively and in depth this Italian cinema, both popular and arthouse. It is illustrated throughout with rare stills and international posters from this revered era in European cinema and reviews more than 350...
Italian filmmakers have created some of the most magical and moving, violent and controversial films in world cinema. During its twentieth-century hey...
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Mirror: The Film Companion
ISBN: 9781860645211 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mirror --Andrei Tarkovsky's most complex autobiographical film--is the subject of this critical companion. The film reconstructs and records ironic memories and emotional impressions in the life of an individual, nation, and era. The critical acclaim was overwhelming, and Mirror is still the favorite Tarkovsky film of most Russians. This book provides a production history, critical analysis, and overview of the film's initial reception.
Mirror --Andrei Tarkovsky's most complex autobiographical film--is the subject of this critical companion. The film reconstructs and records ir...
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"The Private Life of Henry VIII"
ISBN: 9781860649097 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Directed by Alexander Korda, The Private Life of Henry VIII was the most important British film to be made before World War II. This book looks in depth at this classic film, its makers and its place in the cinematic and cultural history of the period. The story of this film's creation is a fascinating one, presented with energy and originality by Greg Walker, involving negotiations with popular conceptions of King Henry, Charles Laughton's extraordinary performance in the central role and intriguing portrayals of Henry's eight wives.
Directed by Alexander Korda, The Private Life of Henry VIII was the most important British film to be made before World War II. This book looks...
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Get Carter
ISBN: 9781860649103 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mike Hodges' bleak gangster film was released in 1971 to controversy and mixed reviews. Three decades later in the British Film Institute's millennial poll, the film was voted one of the 20 best British films of all time. Steve Chibnall's enjoyable and fresh account relates the film to others in its genre like Point Blank and Dirty Harry, profiles the people involved in its making and presents a fascinating analysis of the film text itself. He completes the story-so-far, looking at the critical reception, and cultural context and the two remakes: the 1972 blaxploitation film...
Mike Hodges' bleak gangster film was released in 1971 to controversy and mixed reviews. Three decades later in the British Film Institute's millennial...
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Cinema Sewer Volume One: The Adults Only Guide to History's Sickest and Sexiest Movies!
ISBN: 9781903254455 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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International Film Guide 2010: The Definitive Annual Review of World Cinema
ISBN: 9781906660383 / Angielski / Miękka / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1963, the International Film Guide enjoys an unrivaled reputation as the industry's most authoritative and trusted resource on contemporary world cinema. Its world survey section alone covers the international film output of more than 120 countries. The 2010 edition tracks the most significant trends and advances in global cinema over the past year. With the Berlin Film Festival celebrating its sixtieth anniversary, the guide reviews the success and widespread influence of the festival on international filmmaking; and with the monumental popularity of James...
First published in 1963, the International Film Guide enjoys an unrivaled reputation as the industry's most authoritative and trusted resource ...
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Carrie
ISBN: 9781906733728 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's debut novel, Carrie (1976), is one of the defining films of 1970s "New Hollywood" style and a horror classic. The story of a teenage social outcast who discovers she possesses latent psychic powers that allow her to deliver retribution to her peers, teachers, and abusive mother, Carrie was an enormous commercial and critical success and is still one of the finest screen adaptations of a King novel. This contribution to the Devil's Advocates series not only breaks the film down into its formal componenets--its themes, stylistic tropes,...
Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's debut novel, Carrie (1976), is one of the defining films of 1970s "New Hollywood" style and a hor...
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