Films, cinema Books
Bloomsbury Academic Magic Rays of Light
Book SynopsisJohn Wyver is a writer and producer with Illuminations, and Professor of the Arts on Screen at the University of Westminster, UK. His numerous productions for television and event cinema have been honoured with a BAFTA, an International Emmy and a Peabody. His publications include The Royal Shakespeare Company on Screen: A Critical History (2019) and the collection co-edited with Amanda Wrigley, Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television (2022).
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Bloomsbury Academic Terence Davies Screenplays Volume 2
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Terence Davies Screenplays Volume 2
Book SynopsisTerence Davies was a British screenwriter, film director, poet, and novelist. The youngest child of a large working-class Catholic family, he was born in Kensington, Liverpool on 10th November 1945. After leaving school at 16, he worked as a clerk in a shipping office and a book-keeper in an accountancy firm for ten years. During this time he gained amateur acting experience, winning the LAMDA Gold Medal and first prize in the National Arts Awards. In 1973 Terence left Liverpool to go to drama school in Coventry, where he wrote the screen play for Children, which would become the first instalment of The Trilogy. He went on to write and direct nine feature films - Distant Voice Still Lives, The Long Day Closes, The Neon Bible, The House of Mirth, Of Time and the City, The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song, A Quiet Passion, and Benediction. His final script, an adaptation of Janette Jenkins' novel Firefly, which retells the last five days of the life of Noel Coward, is currently in development. He died on 7 October 2023.
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Creation Books Fractured Eye Volume One: A Journal of Subversive
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Oldcastle Books Ltd The Art Of Acting: And How to Master It
Book SynopsisProvides a basic introduction and general advice for people wishing to develop their skills as actors or actresses. It is aimed at both the amateur enthusiast and those wishing to pursue their interest further and undertake professional training. Advice is given on the basic skills which every actor needs to develop, such as breathing, voice control, the use of body language, timing and handling the audience. The importance of understanding a text and the interaction of the characters within it is also considered.
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John Blake Publishing Ltd Emma Watson - the Biography
Book SynopsisShe's Hollywood's highest-paid female star with millions of fans all over the world and she's barely out of her teens. Emma Watson's life has been an incredible story, one in which a girl whose parents divorced when she was very young ended up finding stability on a film set among the cast and crew of the Harry Potter movies. A film set that became her home for the next ten years. Like her fellow stars of the franchise, she has had to live her early years out in public. As a nine-year-old, she had never acted professionally before she was cast as Hermione Granger - the character that author JK Rowling based on herself. These days Emma Watson has grown up to be a sleek, international star dealing with being part of a global phenomenon that shows no sign of diminishing even as it reaches its story's end. As much at home at a fashion show as she is at a film premiere, Emma Watson's every utterance is news - even her hairstyle makes headlines around the world. She's already been the face of Burberry and her passion for fashion runs very deep.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Forms of Being Cinema Aesthetics Subjectivity
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Wong Kar-Wai: Auteur of Time
Book SynopsisThis study of Hong Kong cult director Wong Kar-wai provides an overview of his career and in-depth analysis of his seven feature films to date. Teo probes Wong's cinematic and literary influences - from Martin Scorsese to Haruki Murakami - yet shows how Wong transcends them all.Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: In Mainstream Gear Chapter Three: Wong's Heartbreak Tango Chapter Four: Space-Time Tango Chapter Five: Wong's Biographical Histories of Knights-errant Chapter Six: Pathos Angelical Chapter Seven: Wong's Buenos Aires Affair Chapter Eight: Betrayed by Maggie Cheung Chapter Nine: Minor Projects and Conclusion Bibliogrpahy Filmography
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) David Lynch
Book SynopsisMichel Chion is the author of many books on the cinema, among them Kubrick's Cinema Odyssey (BFI Publishing 2001) and a monograph on Eyes Wide Shut, published in the BFI Modern Classics series.
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British Film Institute 34If34 BFI Film Classics
Book SynopsisLindsay Anderson's film if...(1968), starring Malcolm McDowell as a schoolboy who leads a guerilla insurgence, imagines how repression, conformity, and fusty ritual at an English public school could lead to anarchy and bloody revolt. Its title is a sardonic nod to Rudyard Kipling's most famous poem, and its story a radical updating of Kipling's 1899 story 'Stalky and Co.,' in which prankish rebels are groomed to police the empire. Released at a time of unprecedented student uprisings in Europe and America, if...provided a peculiarly English perspective on the battle between generations - the perennial war of the romantically passionate against the corrupt, the ugly, the old, and the foolish. Though its emotional surface is authentically anti-authoritarian, its intellectual substance, as Mark Sinker argues, is rooted in a deep familiarity with the symbols of English ruling-class values. No longer a vehicle for shock or dissent, if...is today enjoyed comfortably, even nostalgically, but
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Griffith Project Volume 8
Book SynopsisPaolo Cherchi Usai is Senior Curator of the Motion Picture Department at George Eastman House and Director of the L. Jeffrey Seiznick School of Film Preservation. He is the author of Burning Passions (bfi, 1994) which was published in a revised edition by the bfi in 2000, entitled Silent Cinema: An Introduction.
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British Film Institute On the Waterfront
Book SynopsisLeo Braudy is University Professor and Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is the author of, among other books, From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity (2003).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Ultimate Film The UKs 100 Most Popular Films
Book SynopsisRyan Gilbey writes on film for the Independent, the Guardian, and Sight and Sound. He has written a volume on Groundhog Day (2004) for the BFI Film Classics series and is the author of It Don't Worry Me (2003).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) 100 Road Movies BFI Screen Guides
Book SynopsisIn '100 Road Movies', each entry will offer an insightful critique in terms of aesthetics, plot structure and defining formal and thematic features, whilst also considering the title in the wider context and understanding of by what criteria a film may be considered a road movie. Full credits, including year of production, principal cast and technical crew and country of origin will also be included at the foot of each entry. There will be a selection of illustrative stills, approximately twenty-five in total. The scope is broad, a consideration of the elements that gave rise to the road movie sub-genre, how this sub-genre corresponds to other traditional genres (the thriller, the western etc) and how various international countries have adopted the road movie to reflect their cultural, social, political and geographical identities.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) 100 Videogames BFI Screen Guides
Book SynopsisJames Newman is Senior Lecturer in Media Communications and Cultural Studies at Bath Spa University, UK. His previous books include Videogames (2004) and Teaching Videogames (2006). Iain Simons is a writer and Director of the GameCity Festival at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of Inside Game Design (2007) and co-editor of Difficult Questions About Videogames (2004) with James Newman.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Video and DVD Industries
Book SynopsisPAUL MCDONALD is Reader in Film Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures, Roehampton University
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Understanding Television Texts Understanding the
Book SynopsisPHIL WICKHAM is a TV Curator at the British Film Institute. He has written and lectured on British film and TV and is the author of the forthcoming BFI TV Classic on The Likely Lads.
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Bloomsbury Academic City Lights BFI Film Classics
Book SynopsisCHARLES MALAND is a Professor of Cinema Studies, American Studies and English at the University of Tennessee
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Edge of Darkness BFI TV Classics
Book SynopsisJOHN CAUGHIE is Professor of Film& Television Studies at the University of Glasgow.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Bigamist
Book SynopsisAMELIE HASTIEis Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.She is the author of Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection and Film History (2007).
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Porridge
Book Synopsis‘Norman Stanley Fletcher, you have pleaded guilty to the charges brought by this court and it is now my duty to pass sentence.’ Those words, spoken by a judge to the show’s hero in the title sequence of every Porridge episode, are among the most famous in British comedy and they remind viewers that this is no ordinary TV sitcom. The first situation comedy anywhere in the world to be set in a prison, Porridge is about men being punished for crimes committed against the same sort of people who are watching the show. Millions of hard working Britons were fans, many of them anxious about rising crime and worried that burglars would steal the TV set they were watching it on. Yet they still settled down at 8.30pm on Friday nights between 1974 and 1977 to watch a series that celebrates the sometimes pathetic, often ingenious, recidivism of a group of social misfits who by their own admission are failed citizens. How did such a comedy come to be seen as part of a ‘golden age of British sitcom’, without ever losing its edge to nostalgia? Crime, like sex, sells. But Porridge did not romanticise villainy. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it’s a satire of class-consciousness and power, warmed by a humanistic celebration of men on the margins of society. Its heroes are weak inadequate misfits, not tough, glamorous gangsters. Porridge was a success because the essence of situation comedy is confinement; characters in this format are people who feel trapped and thwarted by circumstances beyond their control. This, therefore, is the ultimate sitcom. Richard Weight's entertaining study of this much-loved classic places Porridge in the context of 1970s social upheavals, explores how the series satirises structures of class and authority through Fletch and Godber's battles to outwit the prison officers Mr Mackay and Mr Barrowclough, and traces its influences on TV comedy that followed.Trade ReviewWeight has written a fascinating account of one of Britain’s best loved sitcoms. * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. ‘New Faces, Old Hands’: The Making of Porridge 2. ‘Ways and Means’: Class and Power in Porridge3. ‘Men without Women’: sex and family in Porridge 4. ‘Ways and Means’: sexuality, race & nation in Porridge 5. On the Rocks: Porridge goes to America 6. ‘You can’t buck the system’: screening Porridge 7. Going Straight: freedom and restraint after Porridge 8. ‘I ain’t coming back’: the legacy of PorridgeAcknowledgements Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Mamoulian
Book SynopsisTOM MILNE was aleading British filmCritic,contributing toSight& Sound, the Monthly Film Bulletin, The Observer, The Financial Times and The Times during his career. During the 1960s he worked at the British Film Institute asAssociate Editor of Sight& Sound and Editor of the Monthly Film Bulletin.In addition to his study of Mamoulian, published in the BFI/Thames& HudsonCinema One series,Milne published a number of monographson Film Directors Joseph Losey (1967) - also in the Cinema One series - and ashort study on the Danish Director Carl Theodor Dreyer (1971) and edited and translated an anthology of interviews and writings on Jean-Luc Godard (1972).Tom Milne had a lifelong interest in the translation and subtitling of French films for television screenings and was the Founding Editor of the Time Out Film Guide, first published in 1989. Introduction by GEOFF ANDREW - Head of the Film Programme at BFI Southbank, UK, and was previously Film Editor of Time Out London.He
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Grey Gardens
Book SynopsisGrey Gardens (1975) is one of most important documentary films of the past thirty years, gaining the status of a cult classic. Matthew Tinkcom argues that the film reshaped documentary cinema by moving the non-fiction camera to the heart of the household, a private space into which film-makers had seldom previously ventured.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Reality Television and Class
Book SynopsisHELEN WOOD is Reader in Media and Communication at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She is the author of Talking With Television: Women, Talk Shows, and Modern Self-Reflexivity (2009).BEVERLEY SKEGGS is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her publications include Formations of Class and Gender: Becoming Respectable (1997) and Class, Self, Culture (2004), and she is the co-editor of the journal Sociological Review.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Shadow Economies of Cinema Cultural Histories of
Book SynopsisRAMON LOBATO Research Fellow at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) British Colour Cinema
Book SynopsisSIMON BROWN is Director of Studies for Film and Television at Kingston University. His work has been published in the journals Film History, Film Studies, Science Fiction Film and Television, Early Popular Visual Culture and Critical Studies in Television. He is co-editor of Color and the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive (2012) (with Sarah Street and Liz Watkins) and author of the Technical Appendix in Sarah Street's Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation 190055 (2012).SARAH STREET is Professor of Film at the University of Bristol. She is the author of a number of books on British cinema, including Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation 190055 (2012), and is co-editor of Color and the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive (2012) (with Simon Brown and Liz Watkins), publications which, in addition to this volume, resulted from a research project funded by the AHRC. Sarah Street is co-editor of Screen and the Journa
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Victim
Book SynopsisVictim (1961) was a landmark in the history both of the cinema and of British society. This modest black-and-white thriller, produced by Michael Relph and directed by Basil Dearden, tackled explicitly the existing law governing homosexual offences, and in doing so eased the path towards partial decriminalisation in 1967. It was also a key moment in the life of its star, Dirk Bogarde, who, despite the risk to his box-office appeal, seized upon the role of a compromised barrister. In doing so, he shed the mantle of matinée idol and soon afterwards embarked on a more fulfilling career in the intellectual cinema. John Coldstream's intimate study of Victim examines in detail the background to the production, focusing especially on the relationship between the film-makers, the screenwriters and the censor, John Trevelyan, whose participation at the script stage was crucial to its development. Half a century after its original release, one looks in vain to find Victim in the spasmodic surveys dedicated to identifying the greatest films of all time. However, as Coldstream argues, its recognition as a classic is more than justified by the vital contribution it made to gay cultural history and by its status as 'a movie that mattered'.Trade ReviewThis tidy little volume manages to capture the essence of a complex film and production. -- www.aclassicmovieblog.comTable of ContentsAcknowledgments.- Introduction.- The Backstory.- The Story.- Action.- Reaction.- Reverberation.- Notes and sources.- Select Bibliography.- Credits.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Mickey Rourke
Book SynopsisKeri Walsh is Assistant Professor of English at Fordham University in New York.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Julie Christie Film Stars
Book SynopsisMelanie Bell is Associate Professor in Film and Media at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of Femininity in the Frame: Women and 1950s British Popular Cinema (2009) and co-editor of British Women's Cinema (2009).
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Julie Christie
Book SynopsisJulie Christie's prickly relationship with stardom is legendary. This fascinating text provides a comprehensive account of Christie's career, from her emergence in the 1960s to present day. It moves from analysing her star persona, to exploring her performance and her politics, and in doing so raises important questions for the film industry.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments.- Introduction.- 1. Persona: Becoming 'Julie Christie'.- 2. Performance: The Poetic and the Ironic.- 3. Politics: Feminist Praxis amd Cultural Production.- Coda: Afterglow and Away from Her.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.- Filmography.- Index.
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British Film Institute 100 Science Fiction Films
Book SynopsisBarry Keith Grant is Professor of Popular Culture and Film at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. He is an Elected Fellow at the Royal Society of Canada and recipient of the annual Pedagogy Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. He is the author of the BFI Film Classic on Invasion of the Body Snatchers (2010), Film Genre: From Inconography to Ideology (2007), and co-author with Jim Hillier of 100 Documentary Films (2009).
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Olympia
Book SynopsisLeni Riefenstahl's Olympia (1938) is one of the most controversial films ever made. Capitalising on the success of Triumph of the Will (1935), her propaganda film for the Nazi Party, Riefenstahl secured Hitler's approval for her grandiose plans to film the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The result was a work as notorious for its politics as celebrated for its aesthetic power. This revised edition includes new material on Riefenstahl's film-making career before Olympia and her close relationship with Hitler. Taylor Downing also discusses newly-available evidence on the background to the film's production that conclusively proves that the film was directly commissioned by Hitler and funded through Goebbels's Ministry of Propaganda and not, as Riefenstahl later claimed, commissioned independently from the Nazi state by the Olympic authorities. In writing this edition, Taylor Downing has been given access to a magnificent new restoration of the original version of the film by the International Olympic Committee.Trade Review...it's hard to think of what more a reader would want without straying too far from the film in hand. This is as thorough and detailed an account of a classic as you could hope for. -- The Digital Fixthis is a timely updated edition of filmmaker Downing's excellent study of Leni Riefenstahl's controversial documentary about the 1936 Berlin Olympics. -- The Guardian * PD Smith *Taylor Downing's passion for history, his knowledge of film and its pedigree and his empathy for the Olympic Games are all apparent in this very clear, concise and very readable account of Leni Reifenstahl's classic film...I can't recommend this outstanding piece of historical analysis and thoughtful judgement of a film-maker enough. -- Archive Zone * Stewart Binns *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.- Introduction.- The Olympic on Film 1896-1932.- Riefenstahl Before 'Olympia'.- Production and Finance.- Setting Up.- The Prologue and Opening Ceremony.- Track and Field.- Festival of Beauty.- Aftermath.- Notes.- Credits.- Bibliography.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) An American in Paris
Book SynopsisSue Harris is Reader in French Cinema at Queen Mary University of London, UK. She is an Associate Editor of French Cultural Studies, the author of Bertrand Blier (2001) and co-editor of France in Focus: Film and National Identity (2000) and From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom of Catherine Deneuve (2007), among other titles.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Sound of Music BFI Film Classics
Book SynopsisFifty years after its release, The Sound of Music (1965) remains the most profitable and recognisable film musical ever made. Quickly consolidating its cultural authority, the Hollywood film soon eclipsed the German film and Broadway musical that preceded it to become one of the most popular cultural reference points of the twenty-first century.In this fresh exploration, Caryl Flinn foregrounds the film's iconic musical numbers, arguing for their central role in the film's longevity and mass appeal. Stressing the unique emotional bond audiences establish with The Sound of Music, Flinn traces the film's prehistories, its place amongst the tumultuous political, social and cultural events of the 1960s, and its spirited afterlife among fans around the world.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Elizabeth Taylor by Smith Susan Author ON
Book SynopsisSUSAN SMITH is Senior Lecturer inFilm Studies at the University ofSunderland, UK. She is the authorof Voices in Film (in Close-Up 2,2007), The Musical: Race, Genderand Performance (2005), whichwas selected as a CHOICEOutstanding Academic Title in2006, and of Hitchcock: Suspense,Humour and Tone (2000).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Star Studies
Book SynopsisMartin Shingler is Senior Lecturer in Radio& Film Studies at the University of Sunderland (UK). He has specialist expertise in Hollywood melodrama and the woman's film, screen acting, the star system, film sound, radio drama and comedy. He is the co-author of two books, On Air: Methods and Meanings of Radio, with Cindy Wieringa, (Arnold, 1998) and Melodrama: Genre, Style& Sensibility, with John Mercer (Wallflower Press, 2004). He has also published essays on the Hollywood film star Bette Davis in the books Hollywood Spectatorship, eds. Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby (BFI, 2001) and Screen Acting, eds. Alan Lovell and Peter Kramer, (Routledge 1999), and in the journals Screen, the Journal of American Studies, the Journal of Film& Video, Theatre Annual and Film History. He has edited a dossier on Bette Davis for the journal Screen (2008) and an edition of the Radio Journal (2008). In addition to his work as a writer and editor, Shingler has been involved in organising four major intern
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British Film Institute Citizen Kane BFI Film Classics
Book SynopsisCitizen Kane's reputation as one of the greatest films of all time is matched only by the accumulation of critical commentary that surrounds it. What more can there be to say about a masterpiece so universally acknowledged? Laura Mulvey, in a fresh and original reading, illuminates the richness of the film, both thematically and stylistically, relating it to Welles's political background and its historical context. In a lucid and perceptive critique she also investigates the psychoanalytic structure that underlies the film's presentation of Kane's biography, for once taking seriously what Orson Welles himself disparagingly referred to as 'dollar-book Freud.' In her foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Laura Mulvey focuses on the film's politics, highlighting the contemporary 'rhymes' in Kane's portrayal of a scandal-prone press baron in a time of economic crisis.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Singin' in the Rain
Book SynopsisSixty years after its release, Singin' in the Rain (1951) remains one of the best loved films ever made. Yet despite dazzling success with the public, it never received its fair share of critical analysis. Gene Kelly's genius as a performer is undeniable. Acknowledged less often is his innovatory contribution as director. Peter Wollen's illuminating study of Singin' in the Rain does justice to this complex film. In a brilliant shot-by-shot analysis of the famous title number, he shows how skilfully Kelly weaves the dance and musical elements into the narrative, successfully combining two distinctive traditions within American Dance: tap and ballet. At the time of the film's production, its scriptwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and indeed Kelly himself, were all under threat from McCarthyism. Wollen describes how the fallout from blacklisting curtailed the careers of many of those who worked on the film and argues convincingly that the film represents the high point in their careers. In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Geoff Andrew looks at the film's legacy and celebrates the passion, lucidity and originality of Wollen's analysis. Summing up its enduring appeal, Andrew writes: 'Singin' in the Rain isn't just a musical, it's a movie about the movies.'Table of ContentsForeword Geoff Andrew.- 'Singin' in the Rain'.- Notes.- Credits.- Bibliography.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Dont Look Now by Sanderson Mark Author ON
Book SynopsisMARK SANDERSONstarted his journalistic career reviewing films for TimeOut. He is now a literary critic for the London Evening Standard and the SundayTelegraph. He is the author of several books: Wrong Rooms (2002), a memoir, andthe novels Snow Hill (2010) and The Whispering Gallery (2011).
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Silent Cinema: A Guide to Study, Research and
Book SynopsisPaolo Cherchi Usai provides a comprehensive introduction to the study, research and preservation of silent cinema from its heyday in the early 20th century to its present day flourishing. He traces the history of the moving image in its formative years, from Edison’s and Lumière’s first experiments to the dawn of ‘talkies’; provides a clear guide to the basics of silent film technology; introduces the technical and creative roles involved in its production, and presents silent cinema as a performance event, rather than a passive viewing experience. This new, greatly expanded edition takes the reader on a new journey, exploring silent cinema in the broader context of technology, culture, and society, from the invention of celluloid film and its related machinery to film studios, laboratories, theatres and audiences. Among the people involved in the creation of a new art form were filmmakers, actors and writers, but also engineers, entrepreneurs, and projectionists. Their collective efforts, and the struggle to preserve their creative work by archives and museums, are interwoven in a compelling story covering three centuries of media history, from the magic lantern to the reinvention of silent cinema in digital form. The new edition also includes comprehensive resource information for the study, research, preservation and exhibition of silent cinema.Trade ReviewSilent Cinema is a must-have book for everyone interested in cinema of all eras … If you’re not a silent fan, this giddy ride can make you one. * Observations on Film Art *Paolo Cherchi Usai, renowned film curator, filmmaker, and programmer, has created an engaging saga of the diverse ways in which people have made films—and rescued them for others to enjoy. Silent Cinema is a rare feast of information, ideas, and insights. Using Méliès’ moon-shot as a recurring example, Cherchi Usai surveys everything from perforations and acting performances to musical accompaniment, each treated with clarity and wit. Particularly valuable are the nuanced accounts of how digital technology has transformed our attitudes toward silent films. The reader comes away with a deeper appreciation of the patient curators who have dedicated themselves to making ‘old cinema’ perpetually new. * David Bordwell, Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA *For decades, Paolo Cherchi Usai’s book had been a definitive and inspiring guide to silent cinema—and stays so today when this formerly out-of-the-way and obscure field of study has entered the realm of mainstream entertainment. It stays so because Cherchi Usai has kept it up to date—by way of questioning rather than going along with contemporary dogmas and illusions. Silent film was a performative rather than a technologically reproductive medium; digitization of the photochemical is a deadly remedy instead of a hoped-for panacea. No stone unturned. I fully endorse Paolo Cherchi Usai’s daringly cautionary guide. * Yuri Tsivian, William Colvin Emeritus Professor at the University of Chicago, USA *This third edition of an already classic introduction to cinema’s ‘silent’ era may be the best of all. Instead of merely updating his pioneering text, Paolo Cherchi Usai has re-thought what the early period means to us today, and addresses the ‘digital natives’ who will be its main readers. It’s hard to imagine a more enthusiastic or authoritative introduction. * Ian Christie , Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition Acknowledgements Note Introduction Chapter 1 – Pixels Chapter 2 – Celluloid Chapter 3 – Chroma Chapter 4 – Machines Chapter 5 – People Chapter 6 – Buildings Chapter 7 – Works Chapter 8 – Show Chapter 9 – Acoustics Chapter 10 – Collections Chapter 11 – Evidence Chapter 12 – Duplicates Chapter 13 – Lacunae Chapter 14 – Traces Chapter 15 – Curatorship Bibliographic resources and research tools Appendix 1 – Film Measurement Tables Appendix 2 – Eastman Kodak Edge Codes on Motion Picture Film Stock, 1913–1928 Appendix 3 – Identification of Pathé Films by Their Edge Inscriptions Credits of Illustrations Index About the author
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The German Cinema Book
Book SynopsisThis comprehensively revised, updated and significantly extended edition introduces German film history from its beginnings to the present day, covering key periods and movements including early and silent cinema, Weimar cinema, Nazi cinema, the New German Cinema, the Berlin School, the cinema of migration, and moving images in the digital era. Contributions by leading international scholars are grouped into sections that focus on genre; stars; authorship; film production, distribution and exhibition; theory and politics, including women’s and queer cinema; and transnational connections. Spotlight articles within each section offer key case studies, including of individual films that illuminate larger histories (Heimat, Downfall, The Lives of Others, The Edge of Heaven and many more); stars from Ossi Oswalda and Hans Albers, to Hanna Schygulla and Nina Hoss; directors including F.W. Murnau, Walter Ruttmann, Wim Wenders and Helke Sander; and film theorists including Siegfried Kracauer and Béla Balázs. The volume provides a methodological template for the study of a national cinema in a transnational horizon.Trade Review[T]his book will be a great help in deepening the history of German film and its present. * FILMBLATT (Bloomsbury Translation). *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments General Introduction - Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, Deniz Göktürk and Claudia Sandberg Part One: Genre Introduction - Tim Bergfelder 1. Evergreens: The Heimat Genre - Johannes von Moltke Spotlight: Gloria - Joseph Garncarz Heimat - Johannes von Moltke Irgendwo in Berlin - Horst Claus DEFA Indianerfilme - Jon Raundalen 2. German Film Comedy - Jan-Christopher Horak Spotlight: Reinhold Schünzel - Christian Rogowski Kurt Hoffmann - Chris Wahl Michael ‘Bully’ Herbig - Tim Bergfelder 3. Notes on the German Crime Film - Tim Bergfelder Spotlight: M - Todd Herzog 4. Why We fight (about war films) - Jennifer Kapczynski Spotlight: Downfall - Paul Cooke Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter - Jennifer Kapczynski The Lives of Others - Paul Cooke Part Two: Stars Introduction - Erica Carter 5. Asta Nielsen - Heide Schlüpmann Spotlight: Afgrunden - Claire Jesson Ossi Oswalda - Barbara Ottmann 6. Siegfried – A German Film Star - Anton Kaes 7. Exotic stars under Nazism - Antje Ascheid Spotlight: Hans Albers - Stephen Lowry 8. Transnational stars: Marlene Dietrich and Hildegard Knef - Erica Carter 9. Heinz Rühmann: The Archetypal German - Stephen Lowry 10. Armin Müller-Stahl - Claudia Fellmer and Jon Raundalen 11. German Stars since Reunification - Malte Hagener Spotlight: Hanna Schygulla - Ulrike Sieglohr Nina Hoss - Marco Abel Part Three: Authorship Introduction - Claudia Sandberg and Erica Carter 12. Transatlantic Careers: Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang - Sabine Hake Spotlight: Murnau - Nicholas Baer 13. Authorship under National Socialism - Eric Rentschler Spotlight: Walter Ruttmann - Michael Cowan 14. Looking for Fassbinder: Denationalizing Authorship - Paul Cooke Spotlight: Heiner Carow - Barton Byg 15. Two Women Filmmakers: Ulrike Ottinger and Angela Schanelec - Ulrike Sieglohr Spotlight: Helke Sander - Erica Carter 16. Constructing Authorship: Werner Herzog is his films - Brad Prager Spotlight: Wim Wenders - Gerd Gemünden 17. Fatih Akin: Global Auteur - Barbara Mennel 18. The Berlin School - Marco Abel Part Four: Film Production and Circulation: Institutions and Sites Introduction - Tim Bergfelder 19. The Origins of Film Exhibition - Joseph Garncarz 20. Early Cinema and its Audiences - Frank Kessler and Eva Warth 21. A History of Ufa - Hans-Michael Bock, Michael Töteberg 22. DEFA. Desires, Possibilities and Limitations - Claudia Sandberg Spotlight: Jürgen Böttcher and Jahrgang 45 - Horst Claus Helke Misselwitz - Martin Brady 23. Film Policy in the Third Reich - Julian Petley 24. State Legislation and Censorship - Martin Loiperdinger 25. German Film Festivals since 1945 - Caroline Moine 26. Das kleine Fernsehspiel – Model of a Fernseh-Avantgarde - Claudia Sandberg 27. Reinventing the Vault. German Film Heritage Institutions in the Digital Age - David Kleingers Part Five: Theory, Memory, Counter-Cinema Introduction - Tim Bergfelder and Erica Carter 28. German Film Theory: The First 100 Years - Tobias Nagl Spotlight: Siegfried Kracauer - Johannes von Moltke Béla Balázs - Erica Carter Frauen und Film - Annette Brauerhoch 29. Political Cinema as Oppositional Practice - Marc Silberman 30. Queer Cinema - Dagmar Brunow Spotlight: Rosa von Praunheim - Randall Halle 31. Feminism and Women’s Cinema - Erica Carter and Claudia Sandberg 32. New German Cinema and History - Thomas Elsaesser 33. DEFA in Transition: Untimely Film Modes for an Impossible Era - Annie Ring 34. Politics of Memory: DEFA as Archive - Barton Byg and Victoria Rizo-Lenshyn Part Six: Transnational Connections Introduction - Deniz Göktürk 35. The German Colonies on Screen - Wolfgang Fuhrmann 36. Franz Osten and Indo-German Film Relations - Eleanor Halsall 37. A Short History of Film Exile - Christian Cargnelli 38. Hollywood in Germany/Germany in Hollywood - Peter Krämer Spotlight: Roland Emmerich - Peter Krämer 39. Beyond Paternalism: Turkish-German Traffic in Cinema - Deniz Göktürk Spotlight: The Edge of Heaven - Barbara Mennel Spotlight: Sibel Kekilli - Deniz Göktürk 40. German Film: Transnational - Randall Halle Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC La Jetée
Book SynopsisChris Marker's La Jetée is 28 minutes long and almost entirely made up of black-and-white still images. Since its release in 1964, the film – which Marker described as a 'photo-novel' – has haunted generations of viewers and inspired writers, artists and film-makers. Its spiralling narrative of post-nuclear war time-travel narrative has influenced many other films, including the Terminator series and Terry Gilliam's Hollywood 'remake' Twelve Monkeys (1995). But as Marker rarely gave interviews, little is really known about the origins of La Jetée or the ideas behind it. In this groundbreaking study, Chris Darke draws on rare archival material, including previously unpublished correspondence and production documents, to examine the making of the film. He explores how Marker's only fiction film was influenced both by his early work as a writer and by Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), and considers how La Jetée's imagery can be seen to 'echo' throughout Marker's extraordinarily diverse oeuvre.Trade ReviewDarke was a good choice to write this. ... his work to the book and puts La Jetée in context, both in terms of Marker, but also French cinema and culture of the time. He also brings a wealth of new information and insights that make this book a revelation, even to those of us who thought we had become familiar with the film. ... is an amazing piece of work that has stood the test of time ... -- Jon Davies * The Media Education Journal, Issue 61 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments .- 1. La Jetée … Still.- 2. In the Beginning.- 3. Window Shopping in 1962.- 4. Chris Marker Takes the Stairs.- 5. This is the Story.- 6. The Life and Death of Images .- Notes .- Credits .- Select Bibliography.
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British Film Institute Cat People
Book SynopsisKim Newman is a novelist, film critic, broadcaster and journalist. He is editor of The BFI Companion to Horror (1997), Science Fiction/Horror: A Sight and Sound Reader (2002) and author of the BFI TV Classic on Doctor Who (2005).
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Vampyr
Book SynopsisDescribed by its maker as a 'poem of horror', Vampyr (1932) is one of the founding works of psychological horror cinema, adapted from a collection of gothic stories by Sheridan Le Fanu and directed by the revered Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. Despite the fact that there is no definitive print and many English versions are marred by poor quality subtitles, the film remains a vivid, extraordinary artwork in which the inner human state is made hauntingly visible. In a reading as passionate as it is analytic, David Rudkin reveals how this film systematically binds the spectator – spatially and morally – into its mysterious world of the undead. This second edition features a new foreword, discussion of the Martin Koerber and Cineteca di Bologna restoration of the film in 2008, and original cover artwork by Midge Naylor.Table of ContentsForeword.- 1. Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968).- 2. Locating Vampyr in Dreyer's Cinema and it its Sources.- 3. The 'Problem' of Vampyr.- 4. Vampyr: Towards a Reading.- 5. The Journey to Our Grave.- Notes.- Credits.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Hollywood Sequel
Book SynopsisStuart Henderson is Senior Marketing Manager at Studiocanal, UK. He has published articles in a number of scholarly journals and has a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Warwick, UK.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Marnie
Book SynopsisA thrilling tale of anxiety and moral extremity, Marnie (1964) cemented Alfred Hitchcock''s reputation as a master of suspense and the visual form. Murray Pomerance here ranges through the many tortuous and thrilling passages of Marnie, weaving critical discussion together with production history to reveal Marnie as a woman in flight from her self, her past, her love, and the eyes of surveilling others. Challenging many received opinions including claims of technical sloppiness and the proposal that Marnie''s marriage night is a ''rape scene'' Pomerance sheds new light on a film that can often be difficult to understand and accept on its own terms. Original and stimulating, this BFI Film Classic identifies Marnie as one of Hitchcock''s masterpieces, highlights the film''s philosophical and psychological sensitivity, and reveals its sharp-eyed understanding of American society and its mores.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Birth of a Nation
Book SynopsisPortraying the Ku Klux Klan as heroic underdogs, silent epic The Birth of a Nation (1915) is widely considered to be the most controversial film of all time. At once one of US culture's greatest artistic achievements and one of its most abhorrently racist artefacts, it becomes more shocking with every passing year. Comprising a decade of archival research and published on the 100th anniversary of the film's release, this richly detailed study considers both the film's afterlife and the artistic, industrial and moral surroundings in which it was created. Drawing on an unbroken century of production and reception history, Paul McEwan recounts the film's origins and development, Griffith's unique editing and cinematography and the construction of racial identity and fear in the film. Assessing its contribution as an art form, while directly grappling with the complexity of the art-or-racism debate, Paul McEwan shows how The Birth of a Nation has had a central role in the development of film and Film Studies worldwide.Trade ReviewPomerance's eloquent (and, yes, impassioned) study offers a welcome complement to the expanding body of work on Marnie, thoughtfully building on what went before and offering fresh insights and new lines of enquiry. -- University of Sunderland * Susan Smith *Paul McEwan's well-written book is a compendium of the film's creation, intentions, meaning, and effects. -- All Classical PortlandIndisputably a classic, but undoubtedly in need of context and interpretation, The Birth of a Nation is a prime candidate for the BFI Film Classics treatment. While it's a surprise that D.W. Griffith's 1915 landmark film hasn't already been featured in the series, Paul McEwan's monograph proves to be worth the wait. -- Sight & Sound * Pamela Hutchinson *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmets.- Introduction: 'True As That Blade'.- 1. The Film.- 2. The Legacy.- Notes.- Credits.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Toy Story: A Critical Reading
Book SynopsisThe first computer-generated animated feature film, Toy Story (1995) sustains a dynamic vitality that proved instantly appealing to audiences of all ages. Like the great Pop Artists, Pixar Studios affirmed the energy of modern commercial popular culture and, in doing so, created a distinctive alternative to the usual Disney formula. Tom Kemper traces the film's genesis, production history and reception to demonstrate how its postmodern mishmash of pop culture icons and references represented a fascinating departure from Disney's fine arts style and fairytale naturalism. By foregrounding the way in which Toy Story flipped the conventional relationship between films and their ancillary merchandising by taking consumer products as its very subject, Kemper provides an illuminating, revisionist exploration of this groundbreaking classic.Trade ReviewI've read plenty of the BFI's excellent Film Classic series, but Tom Kemper's take on Toy Story is up there among the very best. -- The CrackOne of the many praiseworthy things about the BFI's Film Classics series is that it has not shafted animation... Toy Story inspired so many [animated films] as to be genre-defining, so it is often easy to lose sight of what made the film stand out on its first release twenty years ago. With Toy Story: A Critical Reading, Kemper has given the film the in-depth analysis it deserves. -- Toronto Film ReviewTom Kemper's new critical monograph on Toy Story stands out from its fellows in the British Film Institute's Film Classics series not only in its choice of subject — a beloved and massively successful children's film, as opposed to the established classics or "cutting-edge" modern films typically featured in the series — but in the sophistication and persuasiveness of its argument. Kemper offers a wealth of insight on this foundational film in the Pixar canon, contextualizes it within the history of animated films and the pictorial arts, and highlights the film's surrealist touches. Most importantly, it accomplishes what any good single-film monograph should do: make you want to go out and watch (or re-watch) the film immediately. -- Toronto International Film Festival * David Davison *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments.- 1. Power Pop.- 2. 'The Rat's Nest'.- 3. 'A Rebel Group'.- 4. 'What Would Walt Say?'.- 5. 'Hip loveable, urban. Think Simpsons'.- 6. Playtime: The Film.- 7. Stories.- Notes.- Credits.- Bibliography.
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