I.B.Tauris, 2009. — 252 p.
Romantic comedy has long been a mainstay of the movies, from the classic screwballs of the 1930s, through Woody Allen's 'nervous comedies' of the 1970s, to the current great Hollywood revival, featuring such movies as Maid in Manhattan and Lost in Translation ; yet rom-coms have often struggled to be taken seriously.This original anthology from an...
Routledge, 2003. — 332 p. Long before Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Hollywood's version of the Middle Ages had sometimes been laughable. Who can resist chuckling at The Black Knight (1954), in which Arthurian warriors ride across a plain complete with telephone poles in the background? Or The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), in which Tony Curtis-in his best medieval Bronx...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023. — 262 p. An unparalleled exploration of films set in Ancient Rome, from the silent Cleopatra to the modern rendition of Ben-Hur . No sooner had the dazzling new technology of cinema been invented near the end of the 19th century than filmmakers immediately turned to ancient history for inspiration. Nero, Cleopatra, Caesar, and more all...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023. — 262 p. An unparalleled exploration of films set in Ancient Rome, from the silent Cleopatra to the modern rendition of Ben-Hur . No sooner had the dazzling new technology of cinema been invented near the end of the 19th century than filmmakers immediately turned to ancient history for inspiration. Nero, Cleopatra, Caesar, and more all...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023. — 262 p. An unparalleled exploration of films set in Ancient Rome, from the silent Cleopatra to the modern rendition of Ben-Hur . No sooner had the dazzling new technology of cinema been invented near the end of the 19th century than filmmakers immediately turned to ancient history for inspiration. Nero, Cleopatra, Caesar, and more all...
Harpenden: No Exit Press, 1997. — 289 p. — ISBN: I-874061-84-X. From Hollywood to Hong Kong, from the violence of film noir and the paranoia of Alfred Hitchcock, to the amoral world of Seven, broadcaster and critic John Ashbrook takes a serious look at trends in modern crime and action movies, and the men behind them. Packed with information, intrigue and insight The Crime Time...
Springer VS, 2020. — 228 p. James Bond 007 ‒ die erfolgreichste Kinofilmserie der Welt nimmt auf seine Fangemeinde seit über 50 Jahren Einfluss: Bond zeigt den Zuschauern das Gute und Schlechte auf der Welt, repräsentiert Länder, belegt Räume mit Assoziationen und erschafft Weltbilder. Er verkörpert Ideale, Identitäten sowie einen bestimmten Stil und lebt interkulturelle...
Reaktion Books, 2022. — 289 p. Preface: Medieval History on the Screen. Sex and Nationalism: Braveheart (1995). From the Page to the Screen: The Name of the Rose (1986). Now for Something Completely Different: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). The Artist and the State: Andrei Rublev (1966). Good and Bad Muslims: El Cid (1961). Playing Chess with Death: The Seventh Seal...
Routledge, 2011. — xii + 196 p. This book discusses the role of the trickster figure in contemporary film against the cultural imperatives and social issues of modernity and postmodernity, and argues that cinematic tricksters always reflect psychological, economic and social change in society. It covers a range of films, from Charlie Chaplin’s classics such as Modern Times...
ABC-CLIO, 2020. — 270 p. The American West on Film chronicles 12 Hollywood motion pictures that are set in the post-Civil War American West, including The Ox-Bow Incident, Red River, High Noon, The Searchers, The Magnificent Seven, Little Big Man, and Tombstone. Each film overview summarizes the movie's plot, details how the film came to be made, the critical and box-office...
Edinburgh University Press, 2019. — 208 p. The unprecedented increase in lesbian representation over the past two decades has, paradoxically, coincided with queer theory's radical transformation of the study of sexuality. In Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory, Clara Bradbury-Rance argues that this contradictory context has yielded new kinds of cinematic language through which to...
Praeger, 2006. — 232 p. Wes Britton's Spy Television (2004) was an overview of espionage on the small screen from 1951 to 2002. His Beyond Bond: Spies in Fiction and Film (2004) wove spy literature, movies, radio, comics, and other popular media together with what the public knew about actual espionage to show the interrelationships between genres and approaches in the past...
Scarecrow Press, 2014. — 320 p. Almost as long as cinema has existed, vampires have appeared on screen. Symbolizing an unholy union between sex and death, the vampire-male or female-has represented the libido, a "repressed force" that consumed its victims. Early iconic representations of male vampires were seen in Nosferatu (1922) and Dracula (1931), but not until Dracula's...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 664 p. Features contributions from leading scholars in the field Includes chapters on a wide range of topics, from the history of the film musical to analysis of the genre's representation of race, gender, and sexuality Synthesizes current scholarship for a new generation of students and viewers Since the release of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge!...
London: Macdonald and Jane, 1978. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0-354-04222-X. 'It has been a pleasure to read this volume: the right book published at the right time... John Brosnan has written the definitive history of the birth and growth of sf films.' So writes science fiction author Harry Harrison in his Foreword to this comprehensive and entertaining account of the cinema of science...
I.B. Tauris, 2015. — 288 p. With the huge global success of Hollywood 'family film' franchises, such as Harry Potter, it is unsurprising that there have been many attempts to emulate this success. In recent years, there has been an explosion in international production of films for both adults and children - resulting in an erosion of the dominance of The Disney Company and the...
Routledge, 1997. — 200 p. How far have we progressed from the days when showing a film such as Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures landed the cinema’s programmer, projectionist, and ticket taker in jail? What are some of the hidden clues modern audiences are overlooking in older films that suggest a character’s bisexuality? Which famous actors, actresses, directors, and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2006. — 233 p. This book sets out to investigate and theorise mediations of lesbian desire in a substantial corpus of films (spanning the period 1936-2002) by male and female directors working in France and also in French-speaking parts of Belgium, Canada, Switzerland and Africa. The corpus is unique in never before having been assembled, and...
Berghahn Books, 2014. — 161 p. Subjective Realist Cinema looks at the fragmented narratives and multiple realities of a wide range of films that depict subjective experience and employ “subjective realist” narration, including recent examples such as Mulholland Drive, Memento, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The author proposes that an understanding of the narrative...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. — 464 p. The biopic, often viewed as the most reviled of all film genres, traces its origins to the early silent era over a century ago. Receiving little critical attention, biopics are regularly dismissed as superficial, formulaic, and disrespectful of history. Film critics, literary scholars and historians tend to believe that biopics should be...
I.B. Tauris, 2015. — 255 p. Sportswomen in Cinema considers both documentary and fiction films from a variety of periods and cultures, by directors including Kathryn Bigelow, Gurinder Chadha, Im Soon-rye, George Kukor, Ida Lupino, and Leni Riefenstahl. Drawing from psychoanalytic and phenomenological theories, the book presents a series of landmark close readings of films...
Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. — 225 p. Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film examines the politics of representing Aboriginality, in the process bringing frequently marginalized voices and visions, issues and debates into the limelight. Corinn Columpar uses film theory, postcolonial theory, and Indigenous theory to frame her discussion of the cinematic...
McFarland, 2018. — 326 p. Women are now central to many science fiction films--but that has not always been the case. Female characters, from their token presence (or absence) in the silent pictures of the early 20th century to their roles as assistants, pulp princesses and sexy robots, and eventually as scientists, soldiers and academics, have often struggled to be seen and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 308 p. This major new study offers a broad historical and theoretical reassessment of the science fiction film genre. The book explores the development of science fiction in cinema from its beginnings in early film through to recent examples of the genre. Each chapter sets analyses of chosen films within a wider historical/cultural context,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 474 p. A Companion to the War Film contains 27 original essays that examine all aspects of the genre, from the traditional war film, to the new global nature of conflicts, and the diverse formats that war stories assume in today’s digital culture. Includes new works from experienced and emerging scholars that expand the scope of the genre by applying...
London: Reaktion Books, 2008. — (Locations). — 240 p. — ISBN 978-1-86189-389-5. Horror films revel in taking viewers into shadowy places where evil resides, whether it is a house, a graveyard or a dark forest. With Dark Places, Barry Curtis leads us deep inside these haunted spaces to explore them — and the monstrous antagonists who dwell there. In this wide-ranging and...
Continuum, 2000. — 257 p. This A-Z guide to lesbians and lesbianism in the movies contains reviews, gossip, facts and commentary on over 200 films, including specifically lesbian films such as "Go Fish" and "Desert Hearts" as well as films with a lesbian character or theme, like "The Children's Hour" and "The Hunger".
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 281 p. Since the early days of film, the representation of masculinity has changed considerably. In the beginning, men instinctively knew right from wrong. They rode to the rescue and saved the day in the nick of time to the admiration and gratitude of society. But over the decades, heroes have evolved from being larger than life and infallible to being...
Routledge, 2002. — 352 p. Now You See It, Richard Dyer's groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, has been revised for a second edition, and features an introduction by Juliane Pidduck outlining developments in lesbian and gay cinema since 1990. Now You See It examines familiar titles such as Girls in Uniform, Un Chant D'Amour, and Word Is Out, in their...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 241 p. With the success of Gladiator, both critics and scholars enthusiastically announced the return of a genre which had lain dormant for thirty years. However, this return raises important new questions which remain unanswered. Why did the epic come back, and why did it fall out of fashion? Are these the same kinds of epics as the 1950s...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 272 p. For much of the 20th century, the underground pornography industry - made up of amateurs and hobbyists who created hardcore, explicit "stag films" - went about its business hounded by reformers and law enforcement, from local police departments all the way up to the FBI. Rumors of this illicit activity circulated and became the stuff of urban...
Routledge, 2015. — 357 p. With the success of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011) and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist (2011) nothing seems more contemporary in recent film than the styles, forms, and histories of early and silent cinemas. This collection considers the latest return to silent film alongside the larger historical field of visual repetitions and affective currents that...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 339 p. The essays in this volume seek to analyze biographical films as representations of historical individuals and the times in which they lived. To do this, contributors examine the context in which certain biographical films were made, including the state of knowledge about their subjects at that moment, and what these films reveal about the...
Liverpool University Press, 2014. — 256 p. The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film offers critical insights into SF far beyond the more common Anglo-American narratives. Contributors take either a national or transnational approach, and stretch the geographic and conceptual boundaries of science fiction cinema. Recurrent themes include genre discussions,...
Pavilion Books, 2003. — 160 p. Implicit and explicit, Hollywood and European, these 100 films revolutionized the way cinema represented the pleasures of the flesh. Alluring photographs capture the physical heat, while a perceptive analysis examines every crucial aspect of cinematic eroticism. Some of the films, such as Double Indemnity, show sex as an irresistible, dangerous...
State University of New York Press, Albany, 2006. — 358p. List of Illustrations The Crime Lab—Theorizing Masculinity and the Detective Genre Introduction: The Case The Myths of Masculinity Investigating Masculinity—The 1940s and the 1980s Investigating National Heroes: British Sleuths and American Dicks Investigating Crisis: Neo-Noir Heroes and Femmes Fatales Investigating...
Routledge, 1993. — 431 p. Queer Looks is a collection of writing by video artists, filmmakers, and critics which explores the recent explosion of lesbian and gay independent media culture. A compelling compilation of artists' statements and critical theory, producer interviews and image-text works, this anthology demonstrates the vitality of queer artists under attack and...
Intellect Books, 2013. — 216 р. Discussion of Hollywood film has dominated much of the contemporary dialogue on ecocriticism and the cinema—until now. With Transnational Ecocinemas, the editors open up the critical debate to look at a larger variety of films from many different countries and cultures. By foregrounding these films with their economic and political contexts, the...
Routledge, 2010. — 314 p. Why can fear be pleasurable? Why do we sometimes enjoy an emotion we otherwise desperately wish to avoid? And why are the movies the predominant place for this paradoxical experience? These are the central questions of Julian Hanich’s path-breaking book, in which he takes a detailed look at the various aesthetic strategies of fear as well as the viewer’s...
Henschelverlag, 1986. — 440 S. Dieses Genre hat sich in der Zeit seines Bestehens viele Freunde bei jüngeren und älteren Zuschauern erworben. Spannung, abenteuerliches Geschehen und vor allem verwegene Helden waren bei richtigen Western garantiert. Western sind Filme von der Eroberung des amerikanischen Westens, der Urbarmachung wilden Landes und der Errichtung einer...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 257 p. Bringing together the latest developments in the study of serial formatting practices – remakes, sequels, series – Film Reboots is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the new millennial phenomenon of rebooting. Through a set of vibrant case studies, this collection investigates rebooting as a practice that seeks to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 594 p. This volume explores film and television for children and youth. While children’s film and television vary in form and content from country to country, their youth audience, ranging from infants to “screenagers”, is the defining feature of the genre and is written into the DNA of the medium itself. This collection offers a contemporary...
I.B.Tauris, 2012. — 320 p. When Eagles Dared: The Filmgoers’ History of World War II looks at the global conflict as depicted on cinema screens in the all-time great war movies. Illustrated with rare posters and stills, When Eagles Dared features war films from all over the world. It includes such movie classics as “The Longest Day”, "The Great Escape", “The Bridge on the River...
McFarland and Company, 2018. — 260 p. Much of 20th century science fiction foretold technological and social developments beyond the year 2000. Since then, a key theme has been: what happens when the future no one anticipated arrives faster than anyone expected? Focusing on 21st century independent science fiction films, the author describes a seismic shift in subject matter as...
London & Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2011. — 552 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7864-6366-4 More than 700 films from the classic period of film noir (1940 to 1959) are presented in this exhaustive reference book—such films as The Accused, Among the Living, The Asphalt Jungle, Baby Face Nelson, Bait, The Beat Generation, Crossfire, Dark Passage, I Walk Alone, The Las Vegas Story, The...
Oldcastle Books, 2012. — 244 p. From Last Tango in Paris to American Pie to Brokeback Mountain—a look at more than 100 erotic films, with in-depth analysis and fascinating behind-the-scenes anecdotes. The first book to look at truly contemporary erotic cinema, this publication gives in-depth analyses of sex scenes from more than 100 films, more than half of them released in the...
Indiana University Press, 2015. — 288 p. Despite claims about the end of history and the death of cinema, visual media continue to contribute to our understanding of history and history-making. In this book, Marcia Landy argues that rethinking history and memory must take into account shifting conceptions of visual and aural technologies. With the assistance of thinkers such as...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 400 p. List of Illustrations page The Problem of the Crime Film Historical and Cultural Overview The Romance of the Silent Criminal Tough Guys The Crisis in Hollywood Crime, Criminal Culture and Mass Culture, The Establishment on Trial, Criminal Anxieties, Criminal Jokes, Critical Overview Theories of Crime Fiction Hollywood Mythmaking, Genre...
Routledge, 2009. — 244 p. Music in Horror Film is a collection of essays that examine the effects of music and its ability to provoke or intensify fear in this particular genre of film. Frightening images and ideas can be made even more intense when accompanied with frightening musical sounds, and music in horror film frequently makes its audience feel threatened and uncomfortable...
Bloomsbury, 2018. — 320 p. The representation of gender and sexuality is well-explored territory in film studies. In Film Bodies , Katharina Lindner takes existing debates into a new direction and integrates queer and feminist theory with film phenomenology. Film Bodies explores the female body's presence in a range of genres including the dance film, the sports film and queer...
Scarecrow Press, 2012. — 514 p. The crime film genre consists of detective films, gangster films, suspense thrillers, film noir, and caper films and is produced throughout the world. Crime film was there at the birth of cinema, and it has accompanied cinema over more than a century of history, passing from silent films to talkies, from black-and-white to color. The genre includes...
Routledge, 2007. — 304 p. This impressive volume takes a broad critical look at Irish and Irish-related cinema through the lens of genre theory and criticism. Secondary and related objectives of the book are to cover key genres and sub-genres and account for their popularity. The result offers new ways of looking at Irish cinema.
Wallflower Press, 2020. — 176 p. Audiences around the globe continue to flock to see the latest releases from Marvel and DC studios, making it clear that superhero films resonate with the largest global audience that Hollywood has ever reached. Yet despite dominating theater screens like never before, the superhero genre remains critically marginalized―ignored at best and more...
Jefferson (North Carolina, USA): McFarland & Company, 2018. — 454 p. — e-ISBN: 978-1-4766-3374-9. From Faust (1926) to The Babadook (2014), books have been featured in horror films as warnings, gateways, prisons and manifestations of the monstrous. Ancient grimoires such as the Necronomicon serve as timeless vessels of knowledge beyond human comprehension, while runes,...
Translated from French by Alistair Fox and Hilary Radner. — Blackwell Publishing, 2008. — 272 p. Written in a clear, engaging, jargon-free style, this volume offers a cutting-edge theoretical overview of the topic of genre as practiced in British, American and French film criticism. Organized by a series of simple but fundamental questions, the book uses numerous examples from...
Coffee House Press, 2000. — 196 p. What do Susan Sarandon, Barbara Hershey, Meryl Streep, Bette Midler, and Cher have in common?All have portrayed lesbian characters on the silver screen. Although cinema and television in the last three decades of the twentieth century have been a wasteland for women in general and lesbians in particular looking for strong images of themselves,...
Lexington Books, 2018. — 514 p. This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege a Western ideal. Rather, this collection seeks...
2nd Edition. — TwoDot, 2024. — 256 p. The Greatest Westerns Ever Made and the People Who Made Them provides an eclectic review of the Western film and television genre, from John Ford’s classic, black and white films, to Deadwood and indie darlings. Screenwriter Henry C. Parke presents a nuanced look at Hollywood’s dramatization of historic events, the common themes and...
Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. — 231 p.
A Nightmare on Elm Street. Halloween. Night of the Living Dead. These films have been indelibly stamped on moviegoers’ psyches and are now considered seminal works of horror. Guiding readers along the twisted paths between audience, auteur, and cultural history, author Kendall R. Phillips reveals the macabre visions of these...
Rutgers University Press, 2004. — 280 p. In this volume, Stephen Prince has collected essays reviewing the history of the horror film and the psychological reasons for its persistent appeal, as well as discussions of the developmental responses of young adult viewers and children to the genre. The book focuses on recent postmodern examples such as The Blair Witch Project. In a...
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2000. 224 pages. Language: English.
Dealing with over 300 films ranging from gangster and cop to trial and prison movies, Shots in the Mirror concentrates on works in the Hollywood tradition but also identifies a darker strain of critical films that portray crime and punishment more bleakly.
Manchester University Press, 2007. — 286 p. This book undertakes a unique, coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema. The films under discussion encompass all areas of naval operations in war, and highlight varying institutional and aesthetic responses to navies and the sea in popular culture. The examination of these films centres...
Routledge, 2015. — 302 p. — (AFI Film Readers). — ISBN 978-1-138-79262-3, 978-1-138-79263-0, 978-1-315-76188-6. Endangering Science Fiction Film explores the ways in which science fiction film is a dangerous and endangering genre. The collection argues that science fiction's cinematic power rests in its ability to imagine ‘Other’ worlds that challenge and disturb the lived...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. — 336 p. Cinematic representations of unconventional warfare have received sporadic attention to date. However, this pattern has now begun to change with the rise of insurgency and counter-insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the growing importance of jihadist terrorism in the wake of 9/11. This ground-breaking study provides a much-needed...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 592 p. Broad in scope, this interdisciplinary collection of original scholarship on historical film features essays that explore the many facets of this expanding field and provide a platform for promising avenues of research. Offers a unique collection of cutting edge research that questions the intention behind and influence of historical film. Essays...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 319 p. — (Genres in American Cinema). — ISBN: 9781316262023. The thriller is perhaps the most popular and widespread movie genre--and the most difficult to define. Thrillers can contain gangsters or ghosts, space helmets or fedoras. They charge our familiar world with a spirit of exotic, old-fashioned adventure. They give us pleasure by...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 252 p. Soon after film came into existence, the term epic was used to describe productions that were lengthy, spectacular, live with action, and often filmed in exotic locales with large casts and staggering budgets. The effort and extravagance needed to mount an epic film paid off handsomely at the box office, for the genre became an...
Baltimore: Midnight Marquee Press, 1998. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1-887664-18-1. In the art of cinema, voodoo films possess their own unique flavor and attraction. Filled with bizarre rituals, tropical locales, frenzied sensual dancing, deadly hexes, powerful sorcerers, and the dreaded walking dead, voodoo movies appeal to the western audience's thrill of the exotic... the strange......
Routledge, 2018. — 322 p. This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective expectations and experiences of fantasy cinema, just as fantasy storytelling has often served as inspiration for our most popular animated film and television. Bringing together contributions...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 247 p. — ISBN: 9781403921789. This book breaks new ground in providing an in-depth critical assessment of cyborg cinema, arguing that it remains one of the most intriguing and provocative cycles to have emerged in contemporary screen culture. Tracing the cinematic cyborg's transition over the last two decades and evaluating the theoretical...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2009. — 208 p. Although precise definitions have not been agreed on, historical cinema tends to cut across existing genre categories and establishes an intimidatingly large group of films. In recent years, a lively body of work has developed around historical cinema, much of it proposing valuable new ways to consider the relationship between cinematic and...
I.B. Tauris, 2014. — 264 p. Gustavo Subero offers an assessment of the influence, importance and impact of a body of films from the mid 1970s to date that, he argues, constitute a Latin American Queer Cinema. Gustavo Subero addresses major issues surrounding homosexuality in different Latin American societies, starting with the notions of gender and sexuality that are paramount...
Routledge, 2004. — 414 p. — ISBN: 9780415235075. This exciting collection addresses action and adventure from the silent to the contemporary period exploring diverse questions of aesthetics, industry and ideology. Action has established itself as one of the leading commercial genres of the New Hollywood cinema, generating extensive debate in the process. Contributors consider...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 361 p. For the contemporary film audience, science fiction has become a key locus for displaying-and imaginatively addressing-its most pressing concerns. Those concerns increasingly surface not just as displaced subjects, injected into conventional sf narratives, but as inflections in the very nature of the genre. We might describe these issues...
Edinburgh University Press, 2009. — 230 p. — ISBN: 9780748632855. This is the first comprehensive, fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia (literal translation: martial chivalry) - a genre which audiences around the world became familiar with through the phenomenal...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 295 p. History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines addresses the representation of history in cinema, a much-argued debate on the need to understand cinematic history in its own terms and develop a certain vocabulary for discussing historical films, their relation to public history, and their impact on public historical consciousness. Eleftheria...
Routledge, 2016. — 528 p. The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics brings together forty essays by leading film scholars and filmmakers in order to discuss the complex relationship between cinema and politics. Organised into eight sections - Approaches to Film and Politics; Film, Activism and Opposition; Film, Propaganda, Ideology and the State; The Politics of Mobility;...
New York: The Feminist Press, 2022. — 400 p. — ISBN 978-1-95217-779-8. The relationship between horror films and the LGBTQ+ community? It’s complicated. Haunted houses, forbidden desires and the monstrous can have striking resonance for those who’ve been marginalised. But the genre’s murky history of an alarmingly heterosexual male gaze, queer-coded villains and sometimes...
Verso Books, 1989. — 95 p. From the synchronised camera/machine-guns on the biplanes of World War One to the laser satellites of Star Wars, the technologies of cinema and warfare have developed a fatal interdependence. Hiroshima marked one conclusion of this process in the nuclear ‘flash’ which penetrated the city’s darkest recesses, etching the images of its victims on the...
Jefferson (North Carolina, USA): McFarland & Company, 2022. — 274 p. — ISBN 978-1-4766-8742-1, 978-1-4766-4765-4. The horror genre mirrors the American queer experience, both positively and negatively, overtly and subtextually, from the lumbering, flower-picking monster of Frankenstein (1931) to the fearless intersectional protagonist of the Fear Street Trilogy (2021). This is...
Routledge, 2002. — 272 p. The "cowboys and Indians," sheriffs and outlaws, school marms and barkeeps of Western films have wholly transformed our ideas about the reality of the American frontier. Westerns is the first book to consider seriously the historical meanings and functions of the Western film genre. In Westerns , leading scholars unpack the ways in which the form has...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 287 p. This book argues for a durational cinema that is distinct from slow cinema, and outlines the history of its three main waves: the New York avant-garde of the 1960s, the European art cinema in the years after 1968, and the international cinema of gallery spaces as well as film festivals since the 1990s. Figures studied include Andy Warhol, Ken...
Cascade Books, 2021. — 144 p. — (Reel Spirituality Monograph). — ISBN 978-1-7252-8300-8, 978-1-7252-8299-5, 978-1-7252-8301-5. The Alien films are perceived to be a fractured franchise, each one loosely related to the others. They are nonlinear, complicated, convoluted: a collection of genre movies ranging from horror to war to farce. But on closer examination, the threads that...
Reaktion Books, 2022. — 336 p. In the spring and summer of 1973, a wave of martial arts movies from Hong Kong - epitomized by Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon - smashed box-office records for foreign-language films in America and ignited a “kung fu craze” that swept the world. Fighting without Fighting explores this dramatic phenomenon, and it argues that, more than just a...
University of Hawaii Press, 2020. — 254 p. In 1978 the films Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow and Drunken Master , both starring a young Jackie Chan, caused a stir in the Hong Kong cinema industry and changed the landscape of martial arts cinema. Mixing virtuoso displays of acrobatic kung fu with knockabout humor to huge box office success, they broke the mold of the tragic and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2005. — xiv, 466 p. — ISBN 0-7486-1149-5, 0-7486-1148-7. A bold and original study, this is the first book to examine in detail a new genre which evolved since the 1980s in tandem with shifts in the culture of sexuality and the rise of video - the erotic thriller. The book traces the erotic thriller's exploitation of pornography and noir, discusses...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 480 p. A Companion to Experimental Cinema is a collection of original essays organized around both theoretical and historical issues of concern to film scholars, programmers, filmmakers, and viewers. Newly-commissioned essays written by specialists in the field, along with dialogues conducted with a diverse range of practitioners, focus on core subjects...
San Diego, CA: ReferencePoint Press, 2011. — 80 p. — ISBN-13 978-1-60152-211-5 Vampires, those bloodthirsty creatures of the night, have been staples of horror movies since the dawn of filmmaking. Many of the older movies seem quaint to modern viewers—corny, with poor acting and crude special effects. But even the creakiest silent movie was an exciting and revolutionary new...
М.: Всероссийский государственный институт кинематографии имени С.А. Герасимова, 2020. — 58 с. — ISBN 978-5-87149-232-1. В учебном пособии представлены главы будущей книги о жанрах известного писателя и сценариста, заведующего кафедрой драматургии кино, руководителя мастерской, профессора Юрия Николаевича Арабова. Предназначено для обучения студентов сценаристов, а также для...
Учебное пособие. — СПб.: Изд. СПбГУКиТ, 2003. — 92 с. — ISBN: 5-94760-037-4 Учебное пособие посвящено мюзиклу — наиболее любимому зрителями жанру современного кино. В пособии освещены вершинные этапы эволюции мюзикла в авторском, жанровом, арт-хаузном кино в течение 30 лет. Особенности драматического действия в киномюзикле Мюзикл на сцене и на экране: сходство и различия...
Учебное пособие. — Владимир: Владимирский государственный университет им. А.Г. и Н.Г. Столетовых (ВлГУ), 2020. — 195 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9984-1207-3. Рассмотрено появление и формирование основных жанров мирового кине-матографа в период с 1895 по 1945 г. Предназначено для студентов вузов направлений подготовки 42.03.02 «Журналистика» и 42.03.04 «Телевидение», а также...
М.: Искусство, 1962. — 56 с. — (Библиотека кинолюбителя). Книге Михаила Заплатина «С кинокамерой вместо ружья» представляет собой пособие по киноохоте – своеобразный жанр кинематографии, когда вместо огнестрельного оружия кинооператор берет с собой «на охоту» кинокамеру или фотоаппарат, чтобы затем снимать животных и птиц в естественной среде. Киноохота – это гуманное занятие,...
СПб.: БХВ-Петербург, 2012. — 224 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9775-0656-4. Киновед Дмитрий Комм на протяжении многих лет читает курс, посвященный фильму ужасов, на факультете свободных искусств и наук Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета. В своей книге, основанной на материалах этого курса и цикле статей в журнале «Искусство кино», он знакомит читателя с традициями фильма...
СПб.: БХВ-Петербург, 2012. — 224 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9775-0656-4. Киновед Дмитрий Комм на протяжении многих лет читает курс, посвященный фильму ужасов, на факультете свободных искусств и наук Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета. В своей книге, основанной на материалах этого курса и цикле статей в журнале «Искусство кино», он знакомит читателя с традициями фильма...
СПб.: БХВ-Петербург, 2012. — 224 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9775-0656-4. Киновед Дмитрий Комм на протяжении многих лет читает курс, посвященный фильму ужасов, на факультете свободных искусств и наук Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета. В своей книге, основанной на материалах этого курса и цикле статей в журнале «Искусство кино», он знакомит читателя с традициями фильма...
СПб.: БХВ-Петербург, 2012. — 203 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9775-0656-4. Киновед Дмитрий Комм на протяжении многих лет читает курс, посвященный фильму ужасов, на факультете свободных искусств и наук Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета. В своей книге, основанной на материалах этого курса и цикле статей в журнале «Искусство кино», он знакомит читателя с традициями фильма...
М.: Искусство , 1962. — 180 с. Адресовано профессионалам и любителям кино, представляет интерес и для коллекционеров диафильмов. От авторов Из истории диапозитивного фильма Первые шаги советского диапозитивного фильма Некоторые особенности художественного диафильма Об экранизации литературных произведений Диафильмы по кинофильмам Общественно-политический и научно-популярный...
Великий Новгород: ИПЦ Новгородского государственного университета им. Ярослава Мудрого, 2014. — 327 с. — ISBN 978-5-89896-735-2. Монография представляет собой первую книгу из цикла исследований, посвященных представлению результатов выборочного философско-культурологического и психоаналитического исследования идеологических стратегий голливудского хоррор-кинематографа. На...
М.: Искусство, 1975. — 168 с. Книга известного советского искусствоведа посвящена популярному жанру кино - детективу. Содержание. От издательства. Введение. Детектив.Что это такое? Морфология жанра. Рождение кинодетектива. "Волнует зримое сильнее,чем рассказ.". Игра со зрителем. Искусство и кич. Асфальтовые джунгли. Убийства и коммерция. В контексте времени.
Ленинград: Искусство, 1978. — 191 с. Настоящая книга Я. К. Маркулан, так же как и предыдущая ее книга «Зарубежный кинодетектив», посвящена ведущий жанрам буржуазного кинематографа. Киномелодрама и фильм ужасов наряду с детективом и полицейско-шпионским фильмом являются важнейшим оплотом буржуазной массовой культуры. Они собирают наибольшее количество зрителей, в них...
СПБ.: Супер Издательство, 2022. — ISBN 978-5996522989. Первый русский фильм ужасов появился раньше так называемого «родоначальника» жанра - «Вия» с Л. Куравлевым и Н. Варлей. Настоящие истоки нашего кино-страха уходят в Российскую империю, и по хронологии почти равны возникновению Cinema в целом. Как известно, впервые напугать зрителей постарались еще братья Люмьер заурядным по...
Мн.: Навука i тэхніка, 1990. — 181 с. — ISBN 5-343-00459-8.
На основе концепций современной киноведческой науки, данных эстетики и психологии анализируется мастерство режиссера, актера, изобразительное решение фильма в связи с образной спецификой жанров кино.
Адресована специалистам в области кино, телевидения, журналистам, обществоведам, всем, кто интересуется киноискусством....
М.: Всесоюзное бюро пропаганды киноискусства, 1983. — 158 с.
О жанре детектива в советском кино.
"И" или "или"
Дело №1
Острее, еще острее!
Инвестигаторы
Преступление еще никому не приносило счастья!
Что может детектив
Ленинград: Искусство, 1968. — 226 с. Этот сборник критических статей посвящен антивоенной теме в современной кинематографии капиталистических стран: Франции, Италии, США, Японии, ФРГ. Здесь идет разговор о таких известных фильмах, как «Нюрнбергский процесс» Стенли Крамера, «Хиросима моя любовь» Алена Рене, «Генерал делла Ровере» Роберто Росселини, «Тяжелая расплата» («Мост»)...
М.: Искусство, 1971. — 241 с.
Окончились "безумные шестидесятые". С ними окончилась и эта книга. За десятилетие случилось множество событий - крупных, мелких, великих, ничтожных, несущественных, сенсационных, исторических. Но книга написана не о них: она прослеживает нарастающее форте духовного кризиса "общества потребления". Автор пытался запечатлеть на протяжении десятилетия...
М.: Искусство, 1971. — 240 с. Вступление. Герои "безгеройного времени". Мифология технической эры. И. о. героя - Джеймс Бонд. Мерилин Монро - культ и личность. Раскольников и "массовая цивилизация". Анатомия сенсации, или Продолжение следует. Постскриптум.
М.: Искусство, 1977. — 303 с.: илл.
Кинофантастика как летопись страхов и надежд человека буржуазного мира. Кинофантастика как способ социально дезориентировать зрителя, ввергнув его в бездны иррационального ужаса. Кинофантастика как попытка прогнозировать будущее, осмыслить огромные перемены, которые несет научно-техническая революция - предмет этой книги, написанной киноведом...
Сетевое издание, 2022. — 47 с. Это книга о том, как устроены выдуманные истории. И о том, чем они отличаются друг от друга. Почему нам нравятся одни истории и не нравятся другие? Если точнее, то это книга о драматургии в кино и сериалах, и предназначена она, в первую очередь, для тех, кто занимается ей профессионально, то есть для сценаристов, режиссёров, продюсеров и...
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