The A to Z of Polish Cinema
ISBN: 9780810876170 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1902, scientist and inventor Kazimierz Proszynski made the first Polish narrative film, The Return of a Merry Fellow (Powrot Birbanta). Since then, the Polish film industry has produced a diverse body of work, ranging from patriotic melodramas and epic adaptations of the national literary canon to Yiddish cinema and films portraying the corrupted side of communism. Poland has produced several internationally known films, including Andrzej Wajda's war trilogy, A Generation (1955), Kanal (1957), and Ashes and Diamonds (1958), Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water (1962), and Andrzej Munk's The...
In 1902, scientist and inventor Kazimierz Proszynski made the first Polish narrative film, The Return of a Merry Fellow (Powrot Birbanta). Since then,...
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The A to Z of Russian and Soviet Cinema
ISBN: 9780810876194 / Angielski / Miękka / 836 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The A to Z of Russian and Soviet Cinema is the first reference work of its kind in the English language devoted entirely to the cinema of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet period, including both the cinematic highlights and the mainstream. The cinemas of the former Soviet republics, including Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Lithuania, and Latvia, are also represented with their most influential artists. Through a chronology, an introduction essay, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on filmmakers, performers, cinematographers,...
The A to Z of Russian and Soviet Cinema is the first reference work of its kind in the English language devoted entirely to the cinema of the Russian ...
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The A to Z of Spanish Cinema
ISBN: 9780810876224 / Angielski / Miękka / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanish cinema is emerging as one of the most exciting, fascinating, and special cinemas in the world. Not only are others viewing Spanish films, but they are adopting Spanish producers and Spanish actors as their own. While Spanish cinema has been maturing for a long time and has been producing excellent directors, actors, and films for decades-including during the dark times of the Franco regime-only now is it winning numerous fans not only at home but also abroad. And with directors like Pedro Almodovar, actors and actresses like Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, and films such as Abre los...
Spanish cinema is emerging as one of the most exciting, fascinating, and special cinemas in the world. Not only are others viewing Spanish films, but ...
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Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories
ISBN: 9780195385625 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Art cinema" has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to the concept since the 1970s. And yet in the last thirty years art cinema has flourished worldwide. The emergence of East Asian and Latin American new waves, the reinvigoration of European film, the success of Iranian directors, and the rise of the film festival have transformed the landscape of world cinema. This book brings into focus art cinema's core internationalism, demonstrating its centrality to understanding film as a...
"Art cinema" has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly little scholarly attention ha...
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282,63 zł |
Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas
ISBN: 9780879103767 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Limelight). Don't waste another second of your valuable holiday time on another boring Christmas movie. Film critic Alonso Duralde highlights the best and worst movies of the Yuletide season with this fun and informative film guide. Whether you're looking for the classics, family favorites, holiday horror, Christmas-themed crime epics, or the most wonderfully awful cinematic lumps of coal, Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas will point you and your rental queue in the right direction. Whether your idea of a holiday classic is White Christmas, Bad Santa, Die Hard, Eyes Wide Shut, or...
(Limelight). Don't waste another second of your valuable holiday time on another boring Christmas movie. Film critic Alonso Duralde highlights the bes...
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Mamoulian
ISBN: 9781844573523 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tom Milne's classic study of the great Armenian-American Director provides a film-by-film analysis of Mamoulian's film-making career, from Applause (1929) to Silk Stockings (1957), by way of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931) and Queen Christina (1933). This new edition includes an introduction by Geoff Andrew. Tom Milne's classic study of the great Armenian-American Director provides a film-by-film analysis of Mamoulian's film-making career, from App... |
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153,47 zł |
Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads: Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation
ISBN: 9780748695454 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive study brings together leading international scholars in a variety of disciplines to both revisit the Spaghetti Western genre's cultural significance and consider its on-going influence on international film industries.
This comprehensive study brings together leading international scholars in a variety of disciplines to both revisit the Spaghetti Western genre's cult...
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383,79 zł |
Cinema and Colour: The Saturated Image
ISBN: 9781844573158 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the use of color in film, and of the ways in which color has been theorized, both as a concept and specifically in terms of cinema.Paul Coates unpacks the use of color in a diverse range of filmssuch asAll that Heaven Allows, The Wizard of Oz, Three Colours and The Lives of Others, and many more."
A study of the use of color in film, and of the ways in which color has been theorized, both as a concept and specifically in terms of cinema.Paul Coa...
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511,72 zł |
The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9780786463671 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume evaluates over 200 zombie movies from 16 countries over a 65 year period starting from the early 1930s. Entries point out interesting or innovative features of the zombie protrayal in each movie.
This volume evaluates over 200 zombie movies from 16 countries over a 65 year period starting from the early 1930s. Entries point out interesting or i...
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127,07 zł |
The Essential Guide to Warfare: Star Wars
ISBN: 9780345477620 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE ULTIMATE INTERGALACTIC BATTLEFIELD
Like many a great epic, Star Wars is rooted in a rich history of armed conflict. Now, for the first time, the facts, figures, and fascinating backstories of major clashes and combatants in the vast Star Wars universe have been documented in one fully illustrated volume. Extensively researched and inventively written, Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare combines action-filled narrative with encyclopedic knowledge that: explores notable military units and groups traces the development... THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE ULTIMATE INTERGALACTIC BATTLEFIELD
Like many a great epic, Star Wars is rooted in a rich history of arme... |
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The Whistler: Stepping Into the Shadows the Columbia Film Series
ISBN: 9781593934026 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Legendary film director Robert Wise called the Whistler features, "examples of budget filmmaking at its very best." Noted B movie historian Don Miller cited them as, "the best B pics of the period from Columbia." Famed film critic/historian Leonard Maltin referred to the series as "one of the most unusual- and one of the best mystery series of the 30's and 40's. . ." Based on J. Donald Wilson's hit radio suspense program featuring ironic tales of terror spun by a mysterious host, The Whistler film series consisted of eight motion pictures produced by Columbia Pictures between 1944 and 1948...
Legendary film director Robert Wise called the Whistler features, "examples of budget filmmaking at its very best." Noted B movie historian Don Miller...
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159,51 zł |
The Fountainheads: Wright, Rand, the FBI and Hollywood
ISBN: 9780786466146 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Speculation abounds about the relationship between Frank Lloyd Wright and Ayn Rand. Was Wright the inspiration for Howard Roark, the architect hero of Rand's The Fountainhead? What can be made of their collaboration on the book's failed 1944 movie adaptation, and what can be gleaned from the 1949 Hollywood production of The Fountainhead? Where does the FBI--Wright was dubbed a communist sympathizer, and Rand was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee--fit into the story?
Speculation abounds about the relationship between Frank Lloyd Wright and Ayn Rand. Was Wright the inspiration for Howard Roark, the architect hero of...
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The Good, the Bad and the Godawful: 21st-Century Movie Reviews
ISBN: 9780312641634 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The former Rolling Stone writer and MTV host takes off from classic Roger Ebert and sails boldly into the new millennium. The former Rolling Stone writer and MTV host takes off from classic Roger Ebert and sails boldly into the new millennium. |
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Music Composition for Film and Television
ISBN: 9780876391228 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Berklee Guide). Learn film-scoring techniques from one of the great film/television composers of our time. Lalo Schifrin shares his insights into the intimate relationship between music and drama. The book is illustrated with extended excerpts from his most iconic scores such as Mission: Impossible, Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt and many others and peppered with anecdotes from inside the Hollywood studios. Schifrin reveals the technical details of his own working approach, which has earned him six Oscar nominations, 21 Grammy nominations (with four awards), and credits on hundreds of major...
(Berklee Guide). Learn film-scoring techniques from one of the great film/television composers of our time. Lalo Schifrin shares his insights into the...
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172,58 zł |
The Medieval Motion Picture: The Politics of Adaptation
ISBN: 9780230112506 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experience breathes life into contemporary cinema. Engaging with the subject of time and temporality, the essays examine the politics of adaptation and our contemporary entanglement with the medieval.
Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experienc...
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Film Lighting: Talks with Hollywood's Cinematographers and Gaffers
ISBN: 9781439169063 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Newly revised and updated, Film Lighting is an indispensible sourcebook for the aspiring and practicing cinematographer, based on extensive interviews with leading cinematographers and gaffers in the film industry. Film lighting is a living, dynamic art influenced by new technologies and the changing styles of leading cinematographers. A combination of state-of-the-art technology and in-depth interviews with industry experts, Film Lighting provides an inside look at how cinematographers and film directors establish the visual concept of the film and use the lighting...
Newly revised and updated, Film Lighting is an indispensible sourcebook for the aspiring and practicing cinematographer, based on extensive ...
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112,20 zł |
Sherlock Holmes & the Fabulousfaces - The Universal Pictures Repertory Company
ISBN: 9781593936600 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Film historian Leonard Maltin has defined the character actors who appeared in films of the 30s and 40s as "Hollywoods Real Stars." Roy William Neill, who directed nearly all of the Sherlock Holmes mystery-adventures of the 1940s that starred Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, had, as was the case with directors John Ford and Preston Sturges, a repertory company of character actors and actresses whom he liked to use. This book is a tribute to those 68 men and women whose names appeared in small print below the stars, and who graced hundreds of films with their diversified performances. More...
Film historian Leonard Maltin has defined the character actors who appeared in films of the 30s and 40s as "Hollywoods Real Stars." Roy William Neill,...
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135,33 zł |
Hollywood and Catholic Women: Virgins, Whores, Mothers, and Other Images
ISBN: 9781469782188 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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120,61 zł |
Hollywood and Catholic Women: Virgins, Whores, Mothers, and Other Images
ISBN: 9781469782195 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Sense of Film Narration
ISBN: 9780748640720 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can a film engage a viewer's senses? How do directors combine images and sounds to create a sensuous quality in their films? What can the use of sensuous film aesthetics contribute to a film's story?
The Sense of Film Narration examines films that combine different types of images and sounds in a way that brings out their sensuous qualities in an especially vivid manner. It demonstrates that a film's sensuous qualities can be intimately connected to its storytelling processes. Through close textual analysis of films such as Amores Perros, Double Take, Toy Story 2, Palindromes and... How can a film engage a viewer's senses? How do directors combine images and sounds to create a sensuous quality in their films? What can the use of s...
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358,21 zł |