From dimly lit streets and glamorous apartments to world-weary detectives and irresistible femmes fatales, The Rough Guide to Film Noir illuminates every corner of cinema’s darkest and most compelling genre. From early masterpieces like Double Indemnity and Kiss Me Deadly through to neo-noir classics such as Chinatown and LA Confidential, this book highlights all the groundbreaking noir movies. There are profiles of legendary performers such as Humphrey Bogart and Barbara Stanwyck, great directo...
The Griffith Project, Volume 2 (The Griffith Project Vols 1-12)
by Paolo Cherchi Usai
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.
Blueprint for Screenwriting demystifies the writing process by developing a "blueprint" for writers to follow for each new screenplay--from original concept to completed script. Author and international script consultant Dr. Rachel Ballon explores the writing craft and emphasizes creativity in the writing process. She blends her expertise in script analysis and writing coaching with her personal experience as a screenwriter to help writers construct their stories and characters. Starting with t...
Contents: Marathon Man * Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid * The Princess Bride * Misery.
Keeping Score: Interviews with Today's Top Film, Television, and Game Music Composers
by Tom Hoover
The movie, Jaws. The main character, a vicious shark coursing through the deep blue ocean taking victims along the way. Who among us can't hum the ominous musical accompaniment to this? Would Jaws be what it is today without its recognizable score? What about the theme to Star Wars? The Good, the Bad and the Ugly? Movies and music go hand in hand, neither can exist alone. Is the "shower scene" in Psycho made eerier with the musical score that plays hauntingly in the background? Absolutely! For s...
As the director of Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, and The New World, Terrence Malick has created a remarkable body of work that enables imaginative acts of philosophical interpretation. Steven Rybin's Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film looks closely at the dialogue between Malick's films and our powers of thinking, showing how his work casts the philosophy of thinkers such as Stanley Cavell, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Andre Bazin, Edgar Morin, and Immanuel Kant in new...
International Motion Picture Almanac (International Motion Picture Almanac)
Chinese Cinema (Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies)
Chinese cinema is the only non-English language cinema to have a significant global presence. From multiplex blockbusters like Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to festival hits such as Jia Zhangke's Still Life, Chinese cinema succeeds like no other foreign-language cinema. The interdisciplinary field of Chinese Cinema Studies has boomed alongside these developments and, today, no Asian Studies, Chinese Studies, or Film and Media Studies programme is complete without courses that cover Ch...
Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors (Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature)
by Peter S. Donaldson
Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and current film theory about gender and subjectivity, the author combines close readings of seven films with historical and biographical studies of the directors who made them. Offering substantial readings of Jean-Luc Godard's controversial deconstructed King Lear and of Liz White's independent African-Amer...
Final Cut: Art, Money and EGO in the Making of "Heaven's Gate", the Film That Sank United Artists
by Steven Bach
James Bond Encyclopedia: Updated Edition
by John Cork and Collin Stutz
Twenty-three Bond movies, six James Bonds and all the Bond villains, girls, vehicles and cool gadgets in one single volumeWritten by James Bond authorities John Cork and Collin Stutz, the updated James Bond Encyclopedia explores every aspect of the 007 story, including Skyfall, the most successful Bond film ever made. Created in full collaboration with EON Productions, producers of the Bond films, and illustrated with more than 1,000 amazing photographs, the books takes you right inside James Bo...
"A realist with a sense of humor, Chasse is both stringent and encouraging as she covers every aspect of creating a successful production." —Booklist starred review How to Make and Distribute a Documentary without Losing Your Mind or Going Broke Documentary filmmaking requires more than just a passion for the subject, whether it be one’s personal story or that of someone else, a historical event or a startling discovery, a political movement or a heinous crime. Making a documentary and gettin...
This is the screenplay for "Snatch", a heist story set against the backdrop of the Jewish diamond district in London, involving a diamond deal gone helter-skelter, the rough-and-tumble world of bare-knuckle boxing, a colourful Irish gypsy and a dog.
The Blue Book Directory 1997 (Hollywood Reporter Blu-Book Production Directory)
Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever 2022 (Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever)
Re-evaluates a critically neglected period in British film history Organised around four themes: stardom; film production, film style and the wider cultural contextActs as a companion volume to the monograph Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema This collection of exciting new research on British cinema of the 1960s reconsiders and reframes the film culture that emerged from that tumultuous decade. Challenging assumptions around Sixties stardom, the book focuses on creative collab...
Maltin Leonard : 1994:Maltin Movie/Video Guide (Signet)
by Leonard Maltin