Superhero Films 2020 (Subgenres of Terror 2020, #11)
by Steve Hutchison
A compulsively readable journey into the area of film-making where all writers, girectors and stars fear to tread: Development Hell. the place where scripts are written, actors hired and sets designed...but the films rarely actually get made!
300 Horror Science Fiction Films Reviewed (Realms of Terror 2020, #2)
by Steve Hutchison
In this stimulating collection of theoretical writings on film, photography, and art, Timothy Murray examines relations between artistic practice, sexual and racial politics, theory and cultural studies. Like a Film investigates how the cinematic apparatus has invaded the theory of culture, suggesting that the many destabilising traumas of our culture remain accessible to us because they are structured so much like film. The book analyses the impact of cinematic perceptions and productions on a...
The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies Vol. 1 (The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies, #1)
by John Lemay
The Great Science Fiction Pictures
by Michael R. Pitts and James Robert Parish
Blackmail was the first major British sound film. Tom Ryall examines its unusual production history, and places it in the context of Hitchcock's other British films of the period. Each volume in the "BFI Film Classics" series contains a personal commentary on the film and a filmography.
Have you ever watched Gladiator and seen the gas cylinder in the back of one of the Roman chariots? Or the stagehand caught on set during the Tin Man's dance in The Wizard of Oz? Or the person escaping from the sinking Titanic wearing a digital watch - in 1912? Everyone loves a good movie, but there's nothing we like more than finding a continuity error, a historical inaccuracy or a technical blunder in them. Movie Mistakes invites you into the world of the movie and shows you how no director or...
A comic novel on a fight between a radio preacher and homosexuals in Texas. When the preacher, Brother Earl, launches a campaign of gay-bashing, the homosexuals dispatch one of their number to steal a set of compromising photos of Brother Earl with which to shut him up.