Wesleyan University Press, 2012. — 332 p. What do Franklin Roosevelt, Dr. Seuss, the U.S. Navy, and Mr. Magoo have in common? They are all part of the surprising story of the pioneering cartoon studio UPA (United Productions of America). Throughout the 1950s, a group of artists ran a business that broke all the rules, pushing animated films beyond the fluffy fantasy of the Walt...
Duke University Press, 2020. — 401 p. — ISBN 9781478012160. Ben Hur (1959), Jaws (1975), Avatar (2009), Wonder Woman (2017): the blockbuster movie has held a dominant position in American popular culture for decades. In American Blockbuster Charles R. Acland charts the origins, impact, and dynamics of this most visible, entertaining, and disparaged cultural form. Acland...
Routledge, 2021. — 188 p. This book draws on a multi-method study of film and television narratives of global criminal networks to explore the links between audiovisual media, criminal networks and global audiences in the age of digital content distribution. Mapping out media representations of the ongoing war on drugs in Mexico and the United States, the author delves into the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 248 p. Michael Allen's insightful study explores the long and diverse career of the actor and director Robert Redford, from his early work in theatre and TV to his contemporary status as an iconic and enduring star. Allen assesses Redford's importance to the American film industry during a period of great transformation: as an influential industry...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012. — 267 p.: ill. Since coming to an end at the pinnacle of its popularity, Seinfeld's story continues. The show's enduring appeal has helped earn its creators billions of dollars and counting. Many of the most popular and acclaimed comedy series of the twenty-first century are direct descendants of Seinfeld's style, and the show's ideas are...
Revised and updated edition. — Harpenden: Pocket Essentials, 2005. — 158 p. — ISBN: 1-904048-37-4. Why another book on the Oscars? There are certainly enough of them around. Some of them are fine works of history; others are little more than annotated lists. Both kinds have their function.What the Pocket Essential guide to the Oscars attempts to do is a bit of both and to offer...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 499 p. — (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors ).
A Companion to Martin Scorsese is a comprehensive collection of original essays assessing the career of one of America’s most prominent contemporary filmmakers.
Contains contributions from prominent scholars in North America and Europe that use a variety of analytic approachesOffers fresh...
Oakland: University of California Press, 2012. — 344 p.
This comprehensive study of the Western covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as "No Country for Old Men", "There Will Be Blood", "True Grit", and "Cowboys & Aliens". While providing fresh perspectives on landmarks such as "Stagecoach", "Red River", "The Searchers", "The...
The University of Georgia Press, 2011. — 384 p. — ISBN 978-0-8203-3380-9. Employing innovations in media studies, southern cultural studies, and approaches to the global South, this collection of essays examines aspects of the southern imaginary in American cinema and offers fresh insight into the evolving field of southern film studies.In their introduction, Deborah Barker and...
Lexington Books, 2017. — 278 p. Unlike anything currently available, A Critical Companion to Tim Burton is a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all the works of one of the world's most renowned directors and artists. Written by some of the top scholars working in fields as diverse as philosophy, film and media studies, and literature, all chapters of this book illuminate for...
Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 202 p. This fascinating book examines badfilms; a subcategory of ‘bad cinema’ marked by incompetence, and typically exacerbated by material poverty and restrictive production conditions. It develops a framework through which the formal characteristics of failure are identified and analysed, and identifies intentionality as central to how...
University Press of Kentucky. — 424 p. — ISBN: 9780813167114. Each chapter begins with a biographical sketch followed by an interview. There are photographs with scenes from the films discussed. The actors and actresses include Kirk Douglas, Cary Grant and Gloria Swanson among others.
University of Toronto Press, 2008. — 112 p. — (Canadian Cinema) Arguably the most famous and critically acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, David Cronenberg is celebrated equally for his early genre films, like Scanners (1981) and The Fly (1986), and his dark artistic vision in films such as Dead Ringers (1988) and Crash (1996). The 2005 film A History of Violence was a mainstream...
Simon & Schuster, 2018. — 512 p. — ISBN: 978-1501163937. Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film’s release, this is the definitive story of the making of "2001: A Space Odyssey", acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, including the inside account of how director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke created this cinematic masterpiece. Regarded as...
Chicago: Producers Service Company, 1916. — 200 p. A Technical Treatise on Make-up, Costumes and Expression Containing Full Directions for the Use of Cosmetics before The Camera, The Costume Requirements and Color Schemes necessary to get the Proper Effect, togethe with 191 poser photographs of motion Picture Stars, Showing 499 Different Expressions and Emotions. The present...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2012. — 565 p. As early as 1909, African Americans were utilizing the new medium of cinema to catalogue the world around them, using the film camera as a device to capture their lives and their history. The daunting subject of race and ethnicity permeated life in America at the turn of the twentieth century and due to the effect of certain...
Rutgers University Press, 2021. — 334 p. The 2010s might be remembered as a time of increased polarization in American life. The decade contained both the Obama era and the Trump era, and as the nation’s political fissures widened, so did the gap between the haves and have-nots. Hollywood reflected these divisions, choosing to concentrate on big franchise blockbusters at the...
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2010. — 362 p. — ISBN13: 978-0813125596. During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. They often portrayed the combatants in very simple terms: Americans and their allies were heroes, and everyone else was a villain. Norway, France, Czechoslovakia,...
University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 354 p. Standing at the intersection of Native history, labor, and representation, Picturing Indians presents a vivid portrait of the complicated experiences of Native actors on the sets of midcentury Hollywood Westerns. This behind-the-scenes look at costuming, makeup, contract negotiations, and union disparities uncovers an...
Praeger Publishers Inc., 2007. — xx, 213 p. — ISBN: 0-275-99900-9, 978-0-275-99900-1. Postmodernism is essential to American culture today. We can see its manifestations on billboards and on television; we can hear its tone on the radio and in everyday conversation; and we can even sense its outlook in how we live our lives. This volume presents an accessible and brief summary...
Praeger Publishers Inc., 2007. — 233 p. — ISBN: 0-275-99900-9, 978-0-275-99900-1. Postmodernism is essential to American culture today. We can see its manifestations on billboards and on television; we can hear its tone on the radio and in everyday conversation; and we can even sense its outlook in how we live our lives. This volume presents an accessible and brief summary of...
University Of Chicago Press, 2016. — 183 p.
Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America’s most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the 1960s and beyond were deeply influenced by four earlier critics: Otis Ferguson, James...
Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011. — 300 p.
Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today's bloated blockbusters. American filmmakers have created a durable...
University of California Press, 2007. — 300 p. Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today's bloated blockbusters. American filmmakers have created a durable...
University of California Press, 1994 - 337 p.
Eileen Bowser chronicles the history of the American film business from the days of storefront nickelodeons to the premiere of D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation. The effect of the surroundings-the size of the hall whether the film was shown alone or along with vaudeville entertainment and the size, quality, and relevance of the...
University of Texas Press, 2006. — 282 p. Alfred Hitchcock is arguably the most famous director to have ever made a film. Almost single-handedly he turned the suspense thriller into one of the most popular film genres of all time, while his Psycho updated the horror film and inspired two generations of directors to imitate and adapt this most Hitchcockian of movies. Yet while...
Skyhorse, 2020. — 239 p. Spy-Fi Culture with a License to Kill. From Sean Connery to Daniel Craig, James Bond is the highest-grossing movie franchise of all time. Out-grossing Star Wars, Harry Potter, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the world’s most iconic and international secret agent has a shelf life of almost six decades, from Dr. No to Spectre. As nuclear missile...
Schiffer, 2013. — 48 p. Freddy, Jason, Frankenstein, and Dracula are just a few of the thrilling movie monsters in this illustrated, collectible reference guide... A recognized international authority on the horror genre, vampires, and Monster Theory, John Edgar Browning (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo) has appeared as an expert guest on documentary TV and radio programs like National...
Intellect Ltd, 2007. — 206 p. For more than 30 years, David Cronenberg has produced films, mostly outside the Studio system, which continue to disturb, surprise and challenge audiences. He has also been repeatedly drawn to literary fiction for inspiration, adapting works by figures like William Burroughs, J.G. Ballard and Patrick McGrath. This book is only the second...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 257 p. What is the nature of the relationship between the Hollywood Western and American frontier mythology? How have Western films helped develop cultural and historical perceptions, attitudes and beliefs towards the frontier? Is there still a place for the genre in light of revisionist histories of the American West? Myth of the Western...
Brill Academic, 2014. — 228 p. — (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 69). In 1936, director John Ford claimed to be making movies for “a new kind of public” that wanted more honest pictures. Graham Cassano’s A New Kind of Public: Community, solidarity, and political economy in New Deal cinema, 1935-1948 argues that this new kind of public was forged in the fires of class...
University of Illinois Press, 2011. - 219 pp. Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers explores the different ways in which Italian American directors from the 1920s to the present have responded to their ethnicity. While some directors have used film to declare their ethnic roots and create an Italian American "imagined community," others have ignored or even denied their...
McFarland and Company, 2019. — 242 p. From his first appearance as Mork from Ork on the 1970s sitcom Happy Days, Robin Williams was heralded as a singular talent. In the pre-cable television era, he was one of the few performers to successfully transition from TV to film. An Oscar-winning actor and preternaturally quick-witted comedian, Williams became a cultural icon, leaving...
2nd Edition. — Pocket Essentials, Great Britain, 2004. — 160 pages. — (Pocket Essential Series.) This guide examines every Spielberg film since Duel and includes a complete overview of the work of this singular director.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 270 p. This book contends that Hollywood films help illuminate the incongruities of various periods in American diplomacy. From the war film Bataan to the Revisionist Western The Wild Bunch, cinema has long reflected US foreign policy’s divisiveness both directly and allegorically. Beginning with the 1990s presidential drama The American President...
McFarland & Company, 1997. —238 p. — e-ISBN: 978-1-4766-0725-2 Tweety Bird was colored yellow because censors felt the original pink made the bird look nude. Betty Boop’s dress was lengthened so that her garter didn’t show. And in recent years, a segment of Mighty Mouse was dropped after protest groups claimed the mouse was actually sniffing cocaine, not flower petals. These...
Routledge, 2018. — 356 p. The twentieth century generated tens of thousands of hours of American newsfilm but not the scholarly apparatus necessary to analyze and contextualize them. Assembling new approaches to the study of U.S. newsfilm in cinema and television, this book makes a long overdue critical intervention in the field of film and media studies by addressing the...
Duke University Press Books, 2011. — 236 p. In his bestselling book The Grapevine: A Report on the Secret World of the Lesbian (1965), Jess Stearn announced that, contrary to the assumptions of many Americans, most lesbians appeared indistinguishable from other women. They could mingle “congenially in conventional society.” Some were popular sex symbols; some were married to...
Rutgers University Press , 2012. — 289 p.
The decade from 2000 to 2009 is framed, at one end, by the traumatic catastrophe of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and, at the other, by the election of the first African American president of the United States. In between, the United States and the world witnessed the rapid expansion of new media and the Internet, such...
University of California Press, 2017. — 284 p. Motion pictures are made, not mass produced, requiring a remarkable collection of skills, self-discipline, and sociality—all of which are sources of enormous pride among Hollywood’s craft and creative workers. The interviews collected here showcase the ingenuity, enthusiasm, and aesthetic pleasures that attract people to careers in...
Continuum, 2012. — 272 p. This provocative and unique anthology analyzes Quentin Tarantino's controversial Inglourious Basterds in the contexts of cinema, cultural, gender, and historical studies. The film and its ideology is dissected by a range of scholars and writers who take on the director's manipulation of metacinema, Nazisploitation, ethnic stereotyping, gender roles,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 255 p. Following the release of Ridley Scott's Gladiator in 2000 the ancient world epic has experienced a revival in studio and audience interest. Building on existing scholarship on the Cold War epics of the 1950s-1960s, including Ben-Hur, Spartacus and The Robe, this original study explores the current cycle of ancient world epics in cinema within...
Rutgers University Press, 2012. — 275 p. The emergence of the double-bill in the 1930s created a divide between A-pictures and B-pictures as theaters typically screened packages featuring one of each. With the former considered more prestigious because of their larger budgets and more popular actors, the lower-budgeted Bs served largely as a support mechanism to A-films of the...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 152 p. In this engaging and readable book, Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires. He recounts how the studio system rose out of the ashes of Thomas Edison's trust to create the handful of companies that have dominated global screens and imaginations for more...
McFarland and Company, 2013. — 416 p. Beginning in 1948 with Paramount's Saigon and Universal's Rogue's Regiment, Hollywood has produced hundreds of features and made-for-television films about Vietnam and the ensuing conflict. With the exception of The Green Berets (1968), few were designed to rally Americans to the cause as earlier war movies had done. Many were not even...
Routledge, 1993. — 336 p. This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American filmmakers have played a remarkable role in the development of the American film, both independent and mainstream. In this volume, the work of early Black...
Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988. — 275 p. — (Media and Popular Culture). — ISBN: 0-04-445140-7. Teenagers and Teenpics fills a gap in American cultural history by telling the story of two signature developments of the 1950s: the decline of the classical Hollywood cinema, and the ascendence of that strange new creature, the American teenager. As Thomas Doherty demonstrates, the...
Columbia University Press, 2007. — 440 p. From 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office tasked with censoring the American screen. Though little known outside the ranks of the studio system, this former journalist and public relations agent was one of the most powerful men in the motion...
2nd edition. — New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. — 400 p. — ISBN13: 978-0231110952. Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a series of wildly unconventional films―a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made...
University of Texas Press, 2003. — 375 p. — ISBN: 9780292701786. Hollywood film directors are some of the world's most powerful storytellers, shaping the fantasies and aspirations of people around the globe. Since the 1960s, African Americans have increasingly joined their ranks, bringing fresh insights to movie characterizations, plots, and themes and depicting areas of...
Open Road E-riginal, 2012. — 242 p. From Kirk Douglas, Hollywood royalty and bestselling author of The Ragman’s Son and My Stroke of Luck, comes the candid story of the making of Spartacus, the blockbuster film that broke the blacklist. One of the world’s most iconic movie stars, Kirk Douglas has distinguished himself as a producer, philanthropist, and author of ten works of...
Amsterdam University Press, 2004. — 391 p. The French Connection , The Last Picture Show , M.A.S.H. , Harold and Maude — these are only a few of the iconic films made in the United States during the 1970s. Originally considered a "lost generation", the 1970s are increasingly recognized as a crucial turning point in American filmmaking, and many films from the era have resurfaced...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — viii, 196 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4744-0939-1, 978-1-4744-0941-4, 978-1-4744-0940-7. The first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthetic to key movements in twentieth-century art and architecture, this book reveals how the exaggerated artifice of Sirk's formal style emerged from his detailed understanding of...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 205 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4744-0939-1, 978-1-4744-0941-4, 978-1-4744-0940-7. The first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthetic to key movements in twentieth-century art and architecture, this book reveals how the exaggerated artifice of Sirk's formal style emerged from his detailed understanding of the...
Running Press, 2021. — 120 р. From New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman, this is the story one of the most influential studios in film history, from its glory days under the leadership of legendary movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck up to its 2019 buyout by Disney. March 20, 2019 marked the end of an era -- Disney took ownership of the movie empire that was Fox. For almost a...
Running Press, 2021. — 120 р. From New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman, this is the story one of the most influential studios in film history, from its glory days under the leadership of legendary movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck up to its 2019 buyout by Disney. March 20, 2019 marked the end of an era -- Disney took ownership of the movie empire that was Fox. For almost a...
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. — 225 p. — ISBN: 978–0–313–35692–6.
While the greatness of the classic Hollywood film is, for many of us, settled business, there are also a great number who have difficulty understanding why these films—which can often seem dated and unrealistic compared to modern fare—are taken as seriously as they are. Although we tend to accord our...
Rutgers University Press , 2009. — 310 p.
During the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture industry and cinema continued as one of the most significant and popular forms of mass entertainment in the world. Film studios were transformed into major corporations, hiring a host of craftsmen and technicians including cinematographers, editors, screenwriters, and set...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. — 348 p. — ISBN10: 0271033444; ISBN13: 978-0271033440. In the past two decades, African American filmmakers like Spike Lee have made significant contributions to the dialogue about race in the United States by adapting techniques from classic film noir to black American cinema. This book is the first to examine these artistic...
Rutgers, The State University, 2007. — 301 р. — (Screen decades).
Each volume in the Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series is an anthology of original essays exploring the impact of cultural issues on film and the impact of film on American society. Because every chapter presents a discussion of particularly significant motion pictures and the broad range of...
McFarland & Co., 2019. — 288 p. Images from movies and film have had a powerful influence in how Native Americans are seen. In many cases, they have been represented as violent, uncivilized, and an impediment to progress and civilization. This book analyzes the representation of Native Americans in cinematic images from the 1890s to the present day, deconstructing key films in...
Rutgers University Press, 2009. — 268 p. — ISBN: 9780813544427. At the turn of the twentieth century, cinema was quickly establishing itself as a legitimate form of popular entertainment. The essays in American Cinema 1890-1909 explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central entertainment institution of the...
Berghahn Books, 2008. — 193 pp. With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute’s list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other director, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy...
Routledge, 2013. — xii, 14 p. — (Philosophers on Film). — ISBN 978-0-415-82465-1, 978-0-415-82466-8, 978-0-203-37035-3. Beloved by film and art aficionados and fans of neo-noir cinema, Mulholland Drive is one of the most important and enigmatic films of recent years. It occupies a central and controversial position in the work of its director, David Lynch, who won the best...
2nd ed. - Cambridge University Press, 2002. - 200 pp. The Films of Woody Allen is the first full-length work to examine the director as a serious filmmaker and artist. Sam Girgus argues that Allen has consistently been on the cutting edge of contemporary critical and cultural consciousness, challenging our notions of authorship, narrative, perspective, character, theme, ideology,...
University of California Press, 2011. — 341 p. — ISBN: 978-0-520-26723-7, ISBN: 978-0-520-26724-4 This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom’s earliest days through the twentieth century. Written by a who’s who of animation authorities, Funny Pictures offers a stimulating range of views on why animation became...
University of Texas Press, 2013. — 335 p. — (Texas Film and Media Studies Series ).
The Hollywood blacklist, which began in the late 1940s and ran well into the 1960s, ended or curtailed the careers of hundreds of people accused of having ties to the Communist Party. Bernard Gordon was one of them. In this highly readable memoir, he tells a engrossing insider's story of what it...
Indiana University Press, 2020. — 474 p. In 1919, Florence Deshon--tall, radical, and charismatic--was well on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Embroiled in a clandestine affair with Charlie Chaplin, she continued to remain romantically involved with the well-known writer and socialist Max Eastman. By 1922, she was found dead in a New York apartment,...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 243 pp. Stagecoach is one of the classics of Hollywood cinema. Made in 1939, it revitalized the Western genre, served as a milestone of John Ford’s career, and made John Wayne a star. This volume offers a rich overview of the film in essays by six leading film critics. Approaching Stagecoach from a variety of critical perspectives, they place...
Rutgers University Press, 2008. — 275 p. — ISBN: 9780813542188. The profound cultural and political changes of the 1960s brought the United States closer to social revolution than at any other time in the twentieth century. The country fragmented as various challenges to state power were met with increasing and violent resistance. The Cold War heated up and the Vietnam War...
University Press of Mississippi, 2011. — 320 p. The boxer stands alongside the cowboy, the gangster, and the detective as a character that shaped America's ideas of manhood. Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema is the first book-length study of the Hollywood boxing film, a popular movie entertainment since the 1930s, that includes such classics as Million Dollar...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. — 212 pp. Billy Wilder, hailed by most as a great filmmaker, often considered himself primarily as a writer. Yet to this day no publisher had thought fit to release literary interpretations of his work. Such an endeavor was clearly missing. The idea of this book is to offer academic but non hermetic readings of nine of his most significant...
The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. — 279 p. Introduction: Cinema Naïveté. The Web of Control. The Miracle and Bosley Crowther. Baby Doll and Commonweal Criticism. Amos Vogel and Confrontational Cinema. The “Flaming” Freedom of Jonas Mekas. The End of New York Movie Culture. Did Bonnie and Clyde Kill Bosley Crowther? The Failure of Porno Chic. The Irrelevance of...
Cambridge, Massachussets: Harvard University Press, 1991. — 377 р. Переиздание монографии 1949 г. Книга Мириам Хансен - этапный труд в изучении восприятия немого кинематографа американской киноаудиторией. Разбор повествовательной организации и структуры фильма Гриффита "Нетерпимость". Культ киноактера Рудольфа Валентино. Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a...
University Press of Mississippi, 2010. - 253 pp. Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the American horror film is a mere ghost of its former self - or so goes the old saw from fans and scholars alike. Taking on this undeserved reputation, the contributors to this collection provide a comprehensive look at a decade of cinematic production, covering a wide variety of...
Columbia University Press, 2015. — 112 p. — (Devil's Advocates). — ISBN: 978-1-906733-85-8, 978-0-9930717-0-6. Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives where thrilled with the box office returns: The Curse of Frankenstein was big business. The 1957 film is the first to bring together in a horror movie the ‘unholy two’, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing,...
Penguin Press, 2014. — 528 p.
In Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris turned the story of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967 into a landmark work of cultural history, a book about the transformation of an art form and the larger social shift it signified. In Five Came Back, he achieves something larger and even more remarkable, giving us the untold story of how...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. — 734 p. Reading Romantic Comedy is like going to the movies. It re-creates for us movies we’ve come to love: movies the way they were when, in 1934, four in particular — It Happened One Night , Twentieth Century , The Thin Man , and The Gay Divorcee — heralded the arrival of the golden age of the Hollywood romantic (“screwball”) comedy. Over...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 164 pp. Raging Bull has been called the greatest film of the 1980s, the greatest boxing film ever made, and one of the greatest films of all time. This volume provides a timely critical appreciation of this work. In his introduction, Kevin J. Hayes recounts how the story of Jake La Motta, the protagonist in Raging Bull , came to be made into...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015. — 464 p. Since the early days of the silent era, Native Americans have been captured on film, often in unflattering ways. Over the decades, some filmmakers have tried to portray the Native American on screen with more balanced interpretations — to varying degrees of success. More recent films such as "The New World, Flags of Our Fathers", and...
McFarland, 2011. — 291 p. This biographical dictionary is devoted to the actors who provided voices for all the Disney animated theatrical shorts and features from the 1928 Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie to the 2010 feature film Tangled. More than 900 men, women, and child actors from more than 300 films are covered, with biographical information, individual career...
Rutgers University Press, 2007. — 288 p. — ISBN: 9780813543659. With the U.S. economy booming under President Bill Clinton and the cold war finally over, many Americans experienced peace and prosperity in the nineties. Digital technologies gained popularity, with nearly one billion people online by the end of the decade. The film industry wondered what the effect on cinema...
Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — 400 p. From Snow White to Moana , from Pinocchio to Frozen , the animated films of Walt Disney Studios have moved and entertained millions. But few fans know that behind these groundbreaking features was an incredibly influential group of women who fought for respect in an often ruthless male-dominated industry and who have slipped under the...
Michigan State University Press, 2013. — 180 p. At once informative, comic, and plaintive, Seeing Red - Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins is an anthology of critical reviews that reexamines the ways in which American Indians have traditionally been portrayed in film. From George B. Seitz’s 1925 The Vanishing American to Rick Schroder’s 2004 Black Cloud , these 36 reviews by prominent...
New York: Starlog Press, 1981. — 98 p. — ISBN: 0-931064-39-2 This third volume of STARLOG’s Photo Guidebook to Special Effects could not have been assembled without the generous assistance of the science-fiction/fantasy collectors and the special-effects artists themselves, many of whom took the time to lend photographs from their collections and take the time to tell the...
Open Court Publishing, 2000. — 329 p. Designed for philosophers as well as readers with no particular philosophical background, the essays in this lively book are grouped into four amusing acts. Act One looks at the four Seinfeld characters through a philosophical lens and includes Jerry and Socrates: The Examined Life? Act Two examines historical philosophers from a...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. — 310 p. How did the American western feature film genre rebrand itself in the late seventies and respond to the fury of global and domestic political affairs? In Hold It Real Still, Lawrence Jackson examines Clint Eastwood's influence on the western film while also exploring how that genre continues to operate into the twenty-first century...
Life Magazine, 2020. — 102 p. Fifty years (and five billion dollars in ticket sales) ago, the dashing Scottish actor Sean Connery declared suavely that he was "Bond, James Bond." Thus began a cinematic series unlike any other. LIFE was on the scene in the swinging '60s when James Bond became a cultural icon (in fact, when we put the gold-painted actress Shirley Eaton on the...
University of Minnesota, 2006. – 483 p. – ISBN: 9780542951695. In the first section, "Concepts and Constitutions," Chapter One explores how recent cultural, critical, and philosophical trends have framed violence as a concept in ways both concordant and discordant with the violent imaginary and its historio-cultural foundations, while Chapter Two situates the cinematic...
Routledge, 1994. — 438 p. Classical Hollywood Comedy applies the recent return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy, as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in the field. This anthology combines detailed case studies of specific films and filmmakers, with overviews of general theoretical and questions. The book as...
Rutgers University Press, 2009. — 256 pages. It was during the teens that filmmaking truly came into its own. Studios migrated to the West Coast, establishing a connection between moviemaking and the exoticism of Hollywood. The essays in American Cinema of the 1910s explore the rapid developments of the decade that began with D. W. Griffith s unrivaled one-reelers. By...
Rutgers University Press, 2016. — 212 p. From the perspective of cultural conservatives, Hollywood movies are cesspools of vice, exposing impressionable viewers to pernicious sexually-permissive messages. Offering a groundbreaking study of Hollywood films produced since 2000, Abstinence Cinema comes to a very different conclusion, finding echoes of the evangelical movement’s...
Routledge, 2023. — 253 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138-50352-6 This book provides the first detailed and comprehensive examination of all the materials making up the Star Wars franchise relating to the portrayal and representation of real-world history and politics. Drawing on a variety of sources, including films, published interviews with directors and actors, novels, comics, and...
University of Nebraska Press, 1999. — 261 p. Native American characters have been the most malleable of metaphors for filmmakers. The likeable Doc of Stagecoach (1939) had audiences on the edge of their seats with dire warnings about “that old butcher, Geronimo.” Old Lodgeskins of Little Big Man (1970) had viewers crying out against the demise of the noble, wise chief and his kind...
University of Nebraska Press, 1999. — 261 p. Native American characters have been the most malleable of metaphors for filmmakers. The likeable Doc of Stagecoach (1939) had audiences on the edge of their seats with dire warnings about “that old butcher, Geronimo.” Old Lodgeskins of Little Big Man (1970) had viewers crying out against the demise of the noble, wise chief and his kind...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 544 p. Indie films have carved a striking niche in the American cinematic landscape in recent decades, but what exactly is an "indie" film? How can it be understood both as a distinct phenomenon and as part of broader American cultural trends? A Companion to American Indie Film presents a comprehensive collection of original essays offering a...
Routledge, 2012. — 272 p. The American independent sector has attracted much attention in recent years, an upsurge of academic work on the subject being accompanied by wider public debate. But many questions remain about how exactly independence should be defined and how its relationship might be understood with other parts of the cinematic landscape, most notably the Hollywood...
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006. — 216 p. The essays in this collection, commissioned from a wide variety of scholars, examine in detail various possible readings of the film and its historical context. They also examine the film as a genre piece — as the summa of science fiction that simultaneously looks back on the science fiction conventions of the past (Kubrick began...
Rutgers University Press, 2021. — 232 p. The long 1950s, which extend back to the early postwar period and forward into the early 1960s, were a period of “containment culture” in America, as the media worked to reinforce traditional family values and suspected communist sympathizers were blacklisted from the entertainment industry. Yet some brave filmmakers and actors still...
Theme Park Press, 2018. — 216 p. — ISBN10: 1683901622, ISBN13: 978-1683901624 In this one-of-a-kind «biography,» Disney historian Jim Korkis chronicles the animated life of Mickey Mouse, from his birth on a train to proud parents Walt and Lillian Disney, to his upcoming 90th birthday bash. It’s the full and complete story of Disney’s forever-young mouse. Most Disney fans...
Theme Park Press, 2013. — 296 p. — ISBN10: 0984341501, ISBN13: 978-0984341504 In his 85 years of animated existence, ever-youthful Mickey Mouse has lived a memorable life. Now Disney historian Jim Korkis chronicles that life in mesmerizing detail. From Mickey's humble beginnings on Walt's Disney sketch pad through his dozens of films to his embodiment of the Disney dream and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 272 p. Hyperreality is an Alice-in-Wonderland dimension where copies have no originals, simulation is more real than reality, and living dreams undermine the barriers between imagination and objective experience. The most prominent philosopher of the hyperreal, Jean Baudrillard, formulated his concept of hyperreality throughout the 1980s, but it was...
ABC-CLIO, 2020. — 182 p. The Civil War on Film will inform high school and college readers interested in Civil War film history on issues that arise when film viewers confuse entertainment with historical accuracy. The nation's years of civil war were painful, destructive, and unpleasant. Yet war films tend to embrace mythologies that erase that historical reality,...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. — 152 p. From the introduction of animated film in the early 1900s to the 1950s, ethnic humor was a staple of American-made cartoons. Yet as Christopher Lehman shows in this revealing study, the depiction of African Americans in particular became so inextricably linked to the cartoon medium as to influence its evolution through those five...
Wayne State University Press, 2005. — 139 p.: ill. — (TV Milestones Series). Perry Mason was one of the most successful television programs from the 1950s and remains one of the most influential crime melodramas from any period. The show's influence goes far beyond its nine-year tenure (1957-66), the millions of dollars it generated for its creators and for CBS, and the...
University of Texas Press, 2000. — 238 pp.
While the anti-establishment rebels of 1969's Easy Rider were morphing into the nostalgic yuppies of 1983's The Big Chill , Seventies movies brought us everything from killer sharks, blaxploitation, and disco musicals to a loving look at General George S. Patton. Indeed, as Peter Lev persuasively argues in this book, the films of...
New York University Press, 2000. — 377 pp.
In 1972, The Godfather and Deep Throat were the two most popular films in the country. One, a major Hollywood studio production, the other an independently made "skin flick." At that moment, Jon Lewis asserts, the fate of the American film industry hung in the balance.
Spanning the 20th century, Hollywood v. Hard Core weaves a...
New York University Press, 2001. — 288 p. Thirty-four essays that take a serious look at the state of modern cinema. Almost half a century ago, Jean-Luc Godard famously remarked, "I await the end of cinema with optimism." Lots of us have been waiting forand wondering about this prophecy ever since. The way films are made and exhibited has changed significantly. Films, some of...
Duke University Press Books, 2007. — 424 p. Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a social, political, and cultural phenomenon extending far beyond the screen. Presenting a model of film studies in which films themselves...
Praeger Publishers, 2008.- 460 p.- ISBN: 978-0275987053. A detailed biography and a critical study of one of the greatest directors of the 20th Century cinema.
University Press of Kentucky, 2019. — 280 p. — ISBN: 0813177081. With celebrated works such as Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, and Gladiator, Ridley Scott has secured his place in Hollywood. This legendary director and filmmaker has had an undeniable influence on art and the culture of filmmaking, but is also a respected media businessman. In Ridley Scott: A Biography,...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 245 p. A fascinating year-by-year history of American film in the seventies, a decade filled with innovations that reinvented the medium and showed that movies can be more than entertainment. In The Seventies: The Decade That Changed American Film Forever, Vincent LoBrutto tracks the changing of the guard in the 1970s from the classic...
New York: The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Inc, 1943. — 78 p. Though the immediate and specific purpose of this book is to tell people in general about films that will help them understand the war we are fighting, and how, as individuals and groups, they can put that understanding to work in the all-out effort for victory, there is good ground for hoping that it...
Routledge, 2014. — 634 p. An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930 is an A-to-Z reference guide (illustrated with over 150 hard-to-find photographs!) that dispels the myth that men dominated the film industry during its formative years. Denise Lowe, author of Women and American Television: An Encyclopedia, presents a rich collection that profiles...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — XVI, 549 p. — ISBN 978-1-118-47513-3. This authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the rich and innovative history of this period in American cinema. Spanning an essential range of subjects from the early 1900s Nickelodeon to the decline of the studio system in the 1960s, it combines a broad historical context with...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — XV, 497 p. — ISBN 1118475127, ISBN 9781118475126. From the American underground film to the blockbuster superhero, this authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the core issues and developments in American cinematic history during the second half of the twentieth-century through the present day. Considers essential...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 162 pp. Fargo is the most commercially and critically successful film of Ethan and Joel Coen. Immediately recognized as an important work, it was nominated for five Academy Awards and received two, an exceptional achievement for a low-budget, independently produced film without major stars. Fargo is also a film that explores middle-American...
McFarland and Company, 2015. — 228 p. "Women stars in Hollywood were invariably in two categories," said director Otto Preminger. "One group was of women who were exploited by men, and the other, much smaller group was of women who survived by acting like men." Beginning with silent film vamp Theda Bara and continuing with icons like Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe and Raquel...
University Press of Kentucky, 2009. — 298 p. Killing the Indian Maiden examines the fascinating and often disturbing portrayal of Native American women in film. Through discussion of thirty-four Hollywood films from the silent period to the present, M. Elise Marubbio examines the sacrificial role of what she terms the "Celluloid Maiden"―a young Native woman who allies herself with...
The University Press of Kentucky, 2013. — 398 p.
The film industry and mainstream popular culture are notorious for promoting stereotypical images of Native Americans: the noble and ignoble savage, the pronoun-challenged sidekick, the ruthless warrior, the female drudge, the princess, the sexualized maiden, the drunk, and others. Over the years, Indigenous filmmakers have both...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 203 p. Much analysis of gangster movies has been based upon a study of the gangster as a malign figuration of the American Dream, originally set in the era of the Depression. This text extends previous analysis of the genre by examining the evolution of gangster movies from the 1930s to the contemporary period and by placing them in the context of...
Columbia University Press, 2018. — 576 p. Orson Welles called Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947) “a giant” whose “talent and originality are stupefying.” Jean Renoir said, “He invented the modern Hollywood.” Celebrated for his distinct style and credited with inventing the classic genre of the Hollywood romantic comedy and helping to create the musical, Lubitsch won the admiration of...
NY: Bonanza Books, 1981. — 216 p. — ISBN13: 978-0517349229. "B" movies began to proliferate in the mid-thirties when distributors felt that "double features" might be just the ticket to lure increasingly frugal Depression audiences back into theaters. It became expedient to produce quickly made, cheap, and simple "co-features" for the big-drawing Clark Gable or Fred...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 248 p. A critical exploration of one of the most exciting, original and influential figures to emerge in contemporary film, Guillermo del Toro: Film as Alchemic Art is a major contribution to the analysis of Guillermo del Toro's cinematic output. It offers an in-depth discussion of del Toro's oeuvre and investigates key ideas, recurrent motifs and...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 168 p. Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange brings together new and critically informed essays about one of the most powerful, important, and controversial films ever made. Following an introduction that provides an overview of the film and its production history, a suite of essays examine the literary origins of the work, the nature of...
Columbia University Press, 2007. — 265 p. Todd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch's groundbreaking oeuvre. He studies Lynch's talent for blending the bizarre and the normal to emphasize the odd nature of normality itself. Hollywood is often criticized for distorting reality and providing escapist fantasies, but in Lynch's movies,...
HarperCollins, 2005. — 620 pp.
A rollicking, funny, raunchy, and moving oral history of the adult film industry – from Deep Throat through today.
As a recent New York Times Magazine cover story pointed out to average Americans, the adult film industry is a $10 billion–per–year business. It has infiltrated the American mainstream, with its stars showing up as mainstream TV...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 257 p. This compelling, theoretically informed and up-to-date exploration of contemporary American cinema charts the evolution of the impact of 9/11 on Hollywood film from Black Hawk Down (2001), through Batman Begins (2005), United 93 (2006) to Olympus Has Fallen (2013). Through a vibrant analysis of a range of genres and films – which in...
Dey Street Books, 2022. — 310 p. — ISBN 10 0063026295, 13 978-0063026292. Funny, charming, and reliably crowd-pleasing, rom-coms were the essential backbone of the Hollywood landscape, launching the careers of many of Hollywood’s most talented actors and filmmakers, such as Julia Roberts and Matthew McConaughey, and providing many of the yet limited creative opportunities women...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 242 p. Stanley Kubrick revolutionized Hollywood with movies like Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, and electrified audiences with The Shining and Full Metal Jacket. David Mikics takes listeners on a deep dive into Kubrick's life and work, illustrating his intense commitment to each of his films. Kubrick grew up in the...
The Scarecrow Press, 2010. - 368 pages.
A History of American Movies provides a survey of the narrative feature film from the 1920s to the present. The book focuses on 170 of the most highly regarded and recognized feature films selected by the Hollywood establishment: each Oscar winner for Best Picture, as well as those voted the greatest by members of the American Film...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0520271882; ISBN13: 978-0520271883. Andy Warhol, one of the twentieth century’s major visual artists, was a prolific filmmaker who made hundreds of films, many of them — Sleep, Empire, Blow Job, The Chelsea Girls, and Blue Movie — seminal but misunderstood contributions to the history of American cinema. In the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. — 264 p. By the end of the 1960s, the Hollywood West of Tom Mix, Randolph Scott, and even John Wayne was passé—or so the story goes. Many film historians and critics have argued that movies portraying a mythic American West gave way to revisionist films that influential filmmakers such as Sam Peckinpah and Robert Altman made as violent...
American Chemical Society, USA, 2013. – 312 p. – ISBN: 0841228248. Hollywood and science have found each other, and seem to have formed the strongest bond to date. The increasing use of science consultants in science fiction and science-themed productions, from comedies like The Big Bang Theory to dramas like Breaking Bad, as well as the creation of the Science and...
Applause, 2015. — 476 p.:ill. Is it a show about nothing or one of the greatest TV series of all time? It's both, of course! Seinfeld's impact on popular culture was so profound that it continues to this day-years after it left prime time-thanks to its inimitable characters (Newman! Bubble Boy!), its wacky, memorable plots (who can forget “The Contest” or “The Puffy Shirt”?),...
Indiana University Press, 2013. — 380 p. Beginning in the 1950s, "Euro Horror" movies materialized in astonishing numbers from Italy, Spain, and France and popped up in the US at rural drive-ins and urban grindhouse theaters such as those that once dotted New York's Times Square. Gorier, sexier, and stranger than most American horror films of the time, they were embraced by...
Baylor University Press, 2006. — 202 p.
Winner of the silver medal in popular culture for the 2006 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards. This volume connects American social and religious views with the classic American movie genre of the zombie horror film. For nearly forty years, the films of George A. Romero have presented viewers with hellish visions of our world overrun by...
Paik K., Iwerks L., Catmull E., Jobs S., Lasseter J. — Chronicle Books, 2007. — 320 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-8118-5012-4, ISBN13: 978-1-4521-4765-9 In 1986, gifted animator John Lasseter, technology guru Ed Catmull, and visionary Steve Jobs founded Pixar Animation Studios. Their goal: create a computer animated feature, despite predictions that it could never be done. An...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. - 175 pp. The Films of Joseph Losey examines the career of the expatriate director through a close analysis of five of his most important and challenging films. When his leftist politics made him a target of the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951, the blacklisted Losey left the United States and continued his film career in...
Rutgers University Press, 2010. — 272 p. The constellation of Hollywood stars burned brightly in the 1950s, even as the industry fell on hard economic times. Major artists of the 1940s--James Stewart, Jerry Lewis, and Gregory Peck--continued to exert a magical appeal but the younger generation of moviegoers was soon enthralled by an emerging cast, led by James Dean and Marlon...
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006. 368 pages. Language: English.
A longtime industry insider and acclaimed Hollywood historian goes behind the scenes to tell the stories of 15 of the most spectacular movie megaflops of the past 50 years, such as Cleopatra, The Cotton Club, and Waterworld. He recounts, in every gory detail, how enormous hubris, unbridled ambition, artistic...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 277 p. From A New Hope to The Rise of Skywalker and beyond, this book offers the first complete assessment and philosophical exploration of the Star Wars universe. Lucasfilm examines the ways in which these iconic films were shaped by global cultural mythologies and world cinema, as well as philosophical ideas from the fields of aesthetics and...
Columbia University Press, 1983. — 367 p. The book analyzes the style and social themes of the comic films made in Hollywood by the famous director Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947). In a pathbreaking study, William Paul places Lubitsch's work in its time and relates it to the incomparable era of the thirties and forties, when most of his great films appeared. "The Lubitsch touch"...
Praeger Publishers 2007. 231 pages. This book has examined nudity and sex in American cinema and the interaction between the social and cultural contours of American society at various periods and the sexual content of film. For decades, the Production Code explicitly enforced and privileged a conservative Christian morality that shaped the representation of sex in hundreds of...
McFarland & Company, 2014. — 424 p. — ISBN13: 978-0786476503 Animation has been part of television since the start of the medium but it has rarely received unbiased recognition from media scholars. More often, it has been ridiculed for supposedly poor technical quality, accused of trafficking in violence aimed at children, and neglected for indulging in vulgar behavior. These...
McFarland & Company, 2014. — 424 p. Animation has been part of television since the start of the medium but it has rarely received unbiased recognition from media scholars. More often, it has been ridiculed for supposedly poor technical quality, accused of trafficking in violence aimed at children, and neglected for indulging in vulgar behavior. These accusations are often made...
British Film Institute, 2021. — 264 p. The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood traces the evolving relationship between the American comic book industry and Hollywood from the launch of X-Men, Spider-Man, and Smallville in the early 2000s through the ascent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Arrowverse, and the Walking Dead Universe in the 2010s. Perren and Steirer...
DK Publishing, 2009. — 360 p. Disney/PIXAR, 2009. From before Toy Story to beyond Up!, this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia captures all the films, shorts, characters, history, and information of Pixar Studios. Thousands of photographs and illustrations combine with behind-thescenes information to form the ultimate Pixarpedia.
McFarland & Company, 2017. — 320 p. — e-ISBN: 978-1-4766-2741-0 The history of animated cartoons has for decades been dominated by the accomplishments of Walt Disney, giving the impression that he invented the medium. In reality, it was the work of several pioneers. Max Fleischer--inventor of the Rotoscope technique of tracing animation frame by frame over live-action...
Routledge, 2015. — 255 p. Sex and Violence examines the history and social dynamics of film censorship in the United States. It examines censorship controversies throughout film history, from the beginning of cinema in the 1890s to the present. The book focuses both on formal censorship systems, including state and local censorship boards and industry self-regulation efforts,...
Routledge, 1996. — 319 p. American motion pictures still dominate the world market with an impact that is difficult to measure. Their role in American culture has been a powerful one since the 1930s and is a hallmark of our culture today. Though much has been written about the film industry, there has been very little systematic attention paid to the ideology of its creative...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 228 p. Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch is one of the most influential films in American cinema. The intensity of its violence was unprecedented, while the director's use of multiple cameras, montage editing, and slow motion quickly became the normative style for rendering screen violence. Demonstrating to filmmakers the power of irony as a...
Rutgers University Press, 2007. — 260 p. — ISBN: 9780813540337. During the 1980s, American cinema underwent enormous transformations. Blockbusters like Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and The Empire Strikes Back grabbed huge revenues for the studios. At the same time, the growth of home video led to new and creative opportunities for independent film production, resulting in...
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, UK & USA, 2003. 342 pages. Language: English. Stephen Prince has written the first book to examine the interplay between the aesthetics and the censorship of violence in classic Hollywood films from 1930 to 1968, the era of the Production Code, when filmmakers were required to have their scripts approved before they could start production....
Columbia University Press, 2009. — 400 p. It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed. While the production of these films did ebb, the full impact of the attacks on Hollywood's creative output is still taking shape. Did 9/11...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. — 416 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5011-7538-1. From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of 1999—arguably the most groundbreaking year in American cinematic history. In 1999, Hollywood as we know it exploded: Fight Club . The Matrix . Office Space . Election . The Blair Witch Project . The Sixth Sense...
Indiana University Press, 2013. — 278 p. Cinematic Flashes challenges popular notions of a uniform Hollywood style by disclosing uncanny networks of incongruities, coincidences, and contingencies at the margins of the cinematic frame. In an agile demonstration of "cinephiliac" historiography, Rashna Wadia Richards extracts intriguing film fragments from their seemingly ordinary...
University of Texas Press, 2010. — 308 pages. — Language: English.
In the 1930s as the capitalist system faltered, many in the United States turned to the political Left. Hollywood, so deeply embedded in capitalism, was not immune to this shift. Left of Hollywood offers the first book-length study of Depression-era Left film theory and criticism in the United States. Robé...
Northeastern University Press; published by University Press of New England, 2007. — x + 314 p. This book is the first look at the colorful yet largely unknown story of Russian emigres who worked in the American film industry, and the representation of Russians and Soviets in Hollywood movies. Among the artists who gravitated towards Hollywood in the 1920s and '30s were the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 179 p. — ISBN 978-0-7486-9361-0. Anna Backman Rogers argues that American independent cinema is a cinema not merely in crisis, but also of crisis. As a cinema which often explores the rite of passage by explicitly drawing on American cinematic heritage, from the teen movie to the western, American independent films deal in images of crisis,...
The University Press of Kentucky, 2005. — 392 p. Hollywood’s West examines popular perceptions of the frontier as a defining feature of American identity and history. Seventeen essays by prominent film scholars illuminate the allure of life on the edge of civilization and analyze how this region has been represented on big and small screens. Differing characterizations of the...
Expanded edition — University Press of Kentucky, 2003. — 264 p. Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterizations of the depiction of the Native Americans in film. This updated edition includes a new chapter on Smoke Signals , the groundbreaking independent film written by Sherman...
Columbia University Press, 2006. — 695 p. American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans'sense of the past likely comes more from Hollywood than from the works of historians. In important films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Roots (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), and Saving Private Ryan...
NY: Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1941. — XI, 436 p. This book is primarily concerned with putting Hollywood under the microscopes of social science. For Hollywood is an index of our society and our culture. To quote from the first chapter in this study: «The aberrations of our culture are more vivid, more conspicuous, and more dramatic in Hollywood than in New Bedford or Palo...
London: Spring Books, 1960. — 820 p. Review of cinema's beginnings with concentration on the few great film-making nations, America, Britain, France, Germany and Russia. Discussions also include new nations in the film like Japan and India
Reprinted First edition. — London; Toronto; New York: Jonatan Cape, 1931. — 362 p.; ill. The development of the film may be regarded from three different points of view: the Scientific, the Commercial, and the Esthetic. The first is concerned with the mechanical advance of the instrument and its technicalities, dealing with the workings of the projector, the intricate mechanism...
Albany, NY.: SUNY Press, 2022. — 296 p. — ISBN 1438490275. Nietzsche in Hollywood offers a compelling and startling history of Hollywood film in which the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his idea of the Übermensch looms large. Though Nietzsche's philosophy was attacked as egoistic and a sociopathic version of Darwinism in films from the 1910s, it undergoes a series...
State University of New York Press, 2017. — 284 p. Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen. Gestures of Love considers the viewer's enchantment with charismatic actors in film as the starting point for closely analyzing the performance of love in movies. Written with a thoughtful adoration for the actors who move us, Steven...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. — 250 p. — ISBN 9781538127667. In this book, San Juan guides readers through the crooks, the mobsters, the loners, the moguls, and the nobodies of Scorsese's 26-movie filmography. The Films of Martin Scorsese examines the techniques that have made him one of the most innovative directors in history: needle-drop soundtracks, outbursts of violence,...
Publisher: University of California Press, 1999. 582 Pages. Language: English.
Boom and Bust traces the movie industry through the momentous decade of the 1940s. It discusses changes in the structure of the studio system — including the shift to independent production — and the dominant stars, genres, and production trends through the period.
University of Minnesota Press, 2009. — 368 p. Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinema’s tall buildings have been variously represented as unbridled aspiration, dens of iniquity and eroticism, beacons of democracy, and well-oiled corporate machines. Considering their intriguing...
Harper/Collins, 2023. — 1286 р. — ISBN 978-0-06-285901-3. America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading men, and producers with gold in their eyes have chased the elusive Oscar. What began as an industry banquet in 1929 has now exploded into a hallowed ceremony, complete with red carpets, envelopes, and...
Liverpool University Press, 2011. — 288 p. The phrase 'cinematic fiction' has now been generally accepted into critical discourse, but is usually applied to post-war novels. This book asks a simple question: given their fascination with the new medium of film, did American novelists attempt to apply cinematic methods in their own writings? From its very beginnings the cinema...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2010. — 336 с.
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In his follow-up to the acclaimed Hellraisers, Sellers traces the intertwining lives and careers of four outrageous Hollywood movie mavericks.
I don’t know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I’m going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass. —Marlon Brando
I should have been...
McFarland & Company, 2013. — 248 p. Revered by his cinematic peers, William Wyler (1902-1981) was one of the most honored and successful directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, with such classics as Dead End , Wuthering Heights , The Little Foxes , Roman Holiday and Ben-Hur . He won three directing Oscars and elicited over a dozen Oscar-winning performances from his actors. Such...
3rd edition. — Oxford University Press, USA, 2002. — 480 pages.
Language: English
Critics hailed previous editions of Visionary Film as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling, and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. This book has remained the standard text on American avant-garde film since the publication of its first edition in...
University Press of Kentucky, 2006. — 440 p. Some of the most beloved characters in film and television inhabit two-dimensional worlds that spring from the fertile imaginations of talented animators. The movements, characterizations, and settings in the best animated films are as vivid as any live action film, and sometimes seem more alive than life itself. In this case,...
Scarecrow Press, 2001. — 308 p. From author Anthony Slide, Hollywood's most celebrated and prolific scholar, cames a wonderfully comprehensive dictionary of American producing and releasing companies, technical innovations, industry terms, studios, genres, and organizations. The book excels in detailing obscure production and releasing companies of the silent era; one would be...
Routledge, 2001. — 320 p. The influence of various forms of media on American culture for good or ill has traditionally prompted debate. The issues are often complex, requiring a broad study of cultural perspectives as a whole as well as of historical events, psychological and sociological factors, and creative processes. In Media Messages, Holtzman (communication, Webster...
The University Press of Kentucky; Reprint edition, 2009. — 464 p. In Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane, J. E. Smyth dramatically departs from the traditional understanding of the relationship between film and history. By looking at production records, scripts, and contemporary reviews, Smyth argues that certain classical Hollywood...
Lexington Books, 2017. — 216 р. — ISBN-10: 1498-566944 Throughout its limited run beginning in 2014, the HBO series True Detective has presented viewers with unique takes on the American crime drama on television, marked by literary and cinematic influences, heavyweight performances, and an experimental approach to the genre. At times celebrated and opposed, the series has...
Indiana University Press, 2001. - 312 pp. Fresh perspectives on some of the most influential films of John Ford. The Western is arguably the most popular and enduring form in cinematic history, and the acknowledged master of that genre was John Ford. His Westerns, including The Searchers , Stagecoach , and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance , have had an enormous influence on...
University Press of Kentucky, 2015. — 370 p. Even for those who have never read Jules Verne (1828--1905), the author's very name conjures visions of the submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the epic race in Around the World in Eighty Days, the spacecraft in From the Earth to the Moon, and the daring descent in Journey to the Center of the Earth. One of the most...
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005. — 156 p.; il. — ISBN 90 5356 709 7, 90 5356 708 9. The first study by an acclaimed American scholar of the artistic interdependencies between the German and the Hollywood cinema in the 1920s. Acknowledgements Introduction Lubitsch: The Filmmakers’ Filmmaker Lubitsch’s Place in Two National Cinemas The Standard Story: Germany Escapes...
Rutgers University Press, 2006. — 320 p. "A substantial and insightful examination of the infrastructure of independent American cinema...A true advance on previous studies."-Warren Buckland, editor of The New Review of Film and Television Studies From the prestige films of Cagney Productions to recent, ultra-low budget cult hits, such as Clerks and The Blair Witch Project,...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 289 p. — (The A to Z Guide Series). When the earliest filmgoers watched The Great Train Robbery in 1903, many of them shrieked in terror at the very last clip when one of the outlaws turns directly toward the camera and fires a gun, seemingly, directly at the audience. The puff of smoke was sudden and it was hand colored so that it looked real. Today, we...
Running Press, 2016. — 432 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7624-5806-6. The cinematic art of film noir—the dark, fascinating American movie genre that started 75 years ago, was rediscovered in the ’70s, and has a worldwide cult following today—is showcased in Into the Dark. You know film noir when you see it: the shadowed setting; the world-weary detective; the damsel in distress; and the...
WB Worldwide Publishing, Newmarket Press New York, 2000. — 488 p. Искусство Матрицы — это книга, демонстрирующая первоначальные концепции, чертежи, эскизы и раскадровки во время производства матрицы. Оригинальный проект сценария также представлен вместе с концептуальными работами Джеффа Дарроу.
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 216 p. In its focus on the taboo-breaking and transgressive elements of 1970s exploitation cinema, it is set to be as important a publication in this area as Eric Schaefer's Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! A recognition to the importance of further study into the wonderful world of American trash cinema. What is an exploitation film? The...
Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-1-52672-925-5, 978-1-52672-926 2. John Wade grew up in the 1950s, a decade that has since been dubbed the ‘golden age of science fiction’. It was a wonderful decade for science fiction, but not so great for young fans. With early television broadcasts being advertised for the first time as ‘unsuitable for children’ and the...
Routledge, 2019. — 298 p. This book explores the ways in which Hollywood film cycles from the 1930s to the 1960s were shaped by their surrounding industrial contexts and market environments, to build an inclusive conception of the form, operation, and function of film cycles. By foregrounding patterns of distribution, spaces of exhibition, and modes of consumption as key...
New York: Flatiron Books, 2020. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 1250301823; ISBN13: 978-1250301826 Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the defining story of the most...
McFarland, 2012. — 219 p. The concepts and theories surrounding the aesthetic category of the grotesque are explored in this book by pursuing their employment in the films of American auteurs Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Coen Brothers and David Lynch. The author argues that interpreting these directors’ films through the lens of the grotesque allows to situate both the...
Routledge, 2009. — 280 p. Fifty Key American Films explores and contextualises some of the most important films ever made in the United States. With case studies from the early years of cinema to the present day, this comprehensive Key Guide provides accessible analyses from a range of theoretical perspectives. This chronologically ordered volume includes coverage of: Citizen...
Wallflower Press, 2003. - 214 pp.
In this comprehensive portrait of horror's definitive director, Tony Williams ties George A. Romero's films to the development of literary naturalism and American culture, expanding the artist's creative footprint beyond his mastery of the "splatter movie" genre. Williams locates Romero's influences in the work of Emile Zola, the Entertainment...
ABC-CLIO, 2021. — 217 p. Films create both an impression of and ― at times for younger audiences ― a primary definition of events, people, and issues of an era. The 1960s on Film examines the 1960s as the decade was presented in ten films that focused on that decade. Discussion will focus on both what the films have to say about the era and how close they come to accurately...
Brill, 2015. — 284 p. — (Metaforms 5). Return to Troy presents essays by American and European classical scholars on the Director’s Cut of Troy, a Hollywood film inspired by Homer’s Iliad. The book addresses major topics that are important for any twenty-first century representation of ancient Greek myth and literature in the visual media, not only in regard to Troy: the...
Revised and Expanded Edition. — Columbia University Press, 2003. — 363 pp. This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a problematic period in film history, is now substantially updated and revised by the author to include chapters beyond the Reagan era and into the twenty-first century. For the new edition, Robin Wood has written a...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. - 151 pp. The Films of Paul Morrissey is the first appraisal of one of the major figures of American independent cinema. An innovator in the narrative cinema that emerged from Andy Warhol's Factory, Morrissey, as established in this study, was also the force who shaped the most important films that have heretofore been attributed to Warhol. The...
СПб.: Изд. СПбГУКиТ, 2009. — 118 с. Сборник статей петербургского киноведа Артюх А.А. можно объединить под грифом «Тексты о Голливуде». Здесь есть рецензии на ряд знаменитых голливудеских фильмов, дискуссия, осмысляющая современные процессы в американском кинематографе, историко-теоретические статьи. Собранные вместе материалы являются своего рода попыткой ответить на вопрос:...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2015. — 286 с. — (Историческая книга). — ISBN: 978-5-9905769-7-1. Новый Голливуд - феномен, неисследованный в России. Книга представляет собой комплексный анализ истории и эволюции Нового Голливуда, а также той масштабной перестройки, которую он осуществил в американской киноиндустрии, начиная с конца 60-х г. В работе проанализированы экономические, политические,...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2015. — 286 с. — (Историческая книга). — ISBN: 978-5-9905769-7-1. Новый Голливуд - феномен, неисследованный в России. Книга представляет собой комплексный анализ истории и эволюции Нового Голливуда, а также той масштабной перестройки, которую он осуществил в американской киноиндустрии, начиная с конца 60-х г. В работе проанализированы экономические, политические,...
М.: Искусство, 1980. — 224 с., 15 л. ил. — (Мастера зарубежного киноискусства). Сборник содержит статьи и свидетельства советских и зарубежных режиссеров, историков кино и кинокритиков. Эти материалы дают глубокий и всесторонний анализ творчества Роберта Флаэрти, показывают, как много значили для развития мирового киноискусства творения выдающегося кинорежиссера. В сборнике есть...
М.: АСТ, 2007. — 638 с.
В 1969 году малобюджетный байкерский фильм «Беспечный ездок» потряс Голливуд невероятным прокатным успехом и возвестил о начале новый эры. Это было время, когда молодые и талантливые режиссёры Мартин Скорсезе, Френсис Форд Коппола и Стивен Спилберг вместе с новым поколением актёров, среди которых Роберт Де Ниро, Аль Пачино и Джек Николсон, стали...
М.: АСТ, 2007. — 638 с. В 1969 году малобюджетный байкерский фильм «Беспечный ездок» потряс Голливуд невероятным прокатным успехом и возвестил о начале новый эры. Это было время, когда молодые и талантливые режиссёры Мартин Скорсезе, Френсис Форд Коппола и Стивен Спилберг вместе с новым поколением актёров, среди которых Роберт Де Ниро, Аль Пачино и Джек Николсон, стали...
М., Л.: Кинопечать, 1927. — 80 с., с объявл. Перевод под редакцией и со вступительной статьёй А. Гарри. Виллар Кинг Брадлей (Уиллард Кинг Брэдли, 1897—после 1954) — нью-йоркский сценарист, автор статей, драматург эпохи немого кино. Настоящая брошюра составлена из статей автора, помещенных в журналах «Автор и журналист», «Ежемесячник писателя», «Редактор» и брошюры «Сокровенные...
Пер. с англ.: Эйдельман Тамара. — М.: Индивидуум паблишинг, 2015. — 368 с. — (Кино. Сериалы). — ISBN 978-5-9907227-2-9. Касин Гейнс провёл огромную работу,чтобы рассказать нам историю НБ. Он побеседовал с большим количеством людей,имеющих прямое отношение к процессу съёмок. В книге множество цитат режиссеров, актёров, продюсеров и т.д. Выдержки из интервью, фото со съёмок...
СПб.: Амфора, 2008. — 598 с. — ISBN 978-5-367-00905-7. Как попасть на «Оскар»? Кому и за что дают золотую статуэтку? Чем обусловлен успех номинантов? А «киносудьи» – кто? На эти и множество других вопросов, которые возникают у большинства зрителей после каждой церемонии «Оскара», ответит новая книга Алексея Дунаевского. Это не только самый полный и удобный справочник, посвященный...
М.: Искусство, 1987. — 319 с., [24] л. ил. — В надзаг.: ВНИИ киноискусства Госкино СССР. Около шестидесяти фильмов разных тенденций, направлений и жанров, рассмотренных в этой книге, отражают сложнейшие общественные процессы США 70-х годов. «Апокалипсис сегодня», «Французский связной», «Звездные войны», «Тутси» — все они оказываются «полем боя» демократических и реакционных...
М.: Искусство, 1964. — 167 с. Массовая продукция американского кино - ежедневный рацион тысяч и миллионов зрителей как в США, так и за рубежом. В 50-е годы в США появился ряд статей и книг, названия которых ( "50 лет упадка и крах Голливуда", "Голливуд мертв" и т. д.) дают представление об их содержании. Почти в каждой из этих работ говорится о серьезном кризисе Голливуда,...
М.: Искусство, 1964. — 167 с. Массовая продукция американского кино - ежедневный рацион тысяч и миллионов зрителей как в США, так и за рубежом. В 50-е годы в США появился ряд статей и книг, названия которых ( "50 лет упадка и крах Голливуда", "Голливуд мертв" и т. д.) дают представление об их содержании. Почти в каждой из этих работ говорится о серьезном кризисе Голливуда,...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 226 с. Монстры жанра ужасов никогда не остаются мертвыми - они неизменно возвращаются в новых и ужасающих формах для очередной части. В этом исследовании Кристиан Кнёпплер изучает феномен ремейков фильмов ужасов. Он утверждает, что, несмотря на то, что эти производные фильмы обычно не...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 226 с. Монстры жанра ужасов никогда не остаются мертвыми - они неизменно возвращаются в новых и ужасающих формах для очередной части. В этом исследовании Кристиан Кнёпплер изучает феномен ремейков фильмов ужасов. Он утверждает, что, несмотря на то, что эти производные фильмы обычно не...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 226 с. Монстры жанра ужасов никогда не остаются мертвыми - они неизменно возвращаются в новых и ужасающих формах для очередной части. В этом исследовании Кристиан Кнёпплер изучает феномен ремейков фильмов ужасов. Он утверждает, что, несмотря на то, что эти производные фильмы обычно не...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 226 с. Монстры жанра ужасов никогда не остаются мертвыми - они неизменно возвращаются в новых и ужасающих формах для очередной части. В этом исследовании Кристиан Кнёпплер изучает феномен ремейков фильмов ужасов. Он утверждает, что, несмотря на то, что эти производные фильмы обычно не...
Москва: Человек, 2010. — 478 с. — ISBN: 978-5-904885-14-4. Более трех тысяч голливудских фильмов вошли в этот уникальный энциклопедический справочник – от «Большого ограбления поезда» (1903) до хитов 2008 года. Вы узнаете все, что нужно знать о них: информацию о студиях-производителях, продюсерах, режиссерах, сценаристах, актерах с указанием даты выпуска, хронометража, жанра,...
Москва: Человек, 2010. — 478 с. — ISBN: 978-5-904885-14-4. Более трех тысяч голливудских фильмов вошли в этот уникальный энциклопедический справочник – от «Большого ограбления поезда» (1903) до хитов 2008 года. Вы узнаете все, что нужно знать о них: информацию о студиях-производителях, продюсерах, режиссерах, сценаристах, актерах с указанием даты выпуска, хронометража, жанра,...
Москва: Человек, 2010. — 478 с. — ISBN: 978-5-904885-14-5. Более трех тысяч голливудских фильмов вошли в этот уникальный энциклопедический справочник – от «Большого ограбления поезда» (1903) до хитов 2008 года. Вы узнаете все, что нужно знать о них: информацию о студиях-производителях, продюсерах, режиссерах, сценаристах, актерах с указанием даты выпуска, хронометража, жанра,...
Москва: Человек, 2010. — 478 с. — ISBN: 978-5-904885-14-5. Более трех тысяч голливудских фильмов вошли в этот уникальный энциклопедический справочник – от «Большого ограбления поезда» (1903) до хитов 2008 года. Вы узнаете все, что нужно знать о них: информацию о студиях-производителях, продюсерах, режиссерах, сценаристах, актерах с указанием даты выпуска, хронометража, жанра,...
Пер. с фр. Р. И. Линцер. — М.: Издательство Иностранной литературы, 1956. — 306 с. Книга французского экономиста Анри Мерсийона посвящена исследованию экономики американского кино. Автор показывает концентрацию капитала и господство монополий в американской кинопромышленности, тесную связь крупнейших американских кинокомпаний с основными финансовыми группами США. В книге...
Перевод с английского Ф.С. Хитрука. — М.: Издательство Дединского, 2018. — 639 с. Американский киновед воссоздает историю блистательной эпохи американской рисованной анимации 20 века.
Пер. с англ. Е. Микериной. — М. : Rosebud publ., 2012. — 406 с. Исследование Джеймса Нэрмора - это уникальная по энциклопедичности и глубине книга об одном из величайших кинорежиссеров 20 века. Стэнли Кубрик - мегаломан, драматург, изобретатель, знаток литературы, философии и истории - предстает в этой книге художником, которого по праву можно назвать создателем особого и...
Пер. с англ. Е. Микериной. — М. : Rosebud publ., 2012. — 400 с. Исследование Джеймса Нэрмора - это уникальная по энциклопедичности и глубине книга об одном из величайших кинорежиссеров 20 века. Автор книги полагает, что Кубрик в некоторых аспектах был одним из последних модернистов кинематографа: его вкус и восприимчивость сформировались художественной культурой Нью-Йорка...
Пер. с франц. Рахманова В.В. — Москва; Ленинград : Государственное издательство, 1926. — 89 с. Ферри Пизани был кинематографическим артистом, работником студий Лос-Анджелеса и это его собственные воспоминания как участника и живого свидетеля описываемых им событий - в этом необыкновенная уникальность книги. В девятнадцати очерках Пизани - течение одного года создания фильма в...
М.: АСТ, 2007. — 638 с. В 1969 году малобюджетный байкерский фильм «Беспечный ездок» потряс Голливуд невероятным прокатным успехом и возвестил о начале новый эры. Это было время, когда молодые и талантливые режиссёры Мартин Скорсезе, Френсис Форд Коппола и Стивен Спилберг вместе с новым поколением актёров, среди которых Роберт Де Ниро, Аль Пачино и Джек Николсон, стали...
Москва: Эксмо, 2013. — 320 с. — (Альфред Хичкок. Кинопремьера мирового масштаба). — ISBN: 978-5-699-62661-8. Перевод с англ. Юлии Рыбаковой (Ориг.: Alfred Hitchcock and the making of psycho). Один из самых знаменитых англичан-американцев XX века, человек, которого королева Елизавета II возвела в рыцари, родоначальник целого направления в кинематографе — жанра «психологический...
Москва: Эксмо, 2013. — 320 с. — (Альфред Хичкок. Кинопремьера мирового масштаба). — ISBN: 978-5-699-62661-8. Перевод с англ. Юлии Рыбаковой (Ориг.: Alfred Hitchcock and the making of psycho). Один из самых знаменитых англичан-американцев XX века, человек, которого королева Елизавета II возвела в рыцари, родоначальник целого направления в кинематографе — жанра «психологический...
М.: Эксмо, 2001. — 416 с.
Голливуд давно стал частью мировой культуры. Он не только опоясал мир миллионами километров кинопленки, но и пленил его чарующим светом своих немеркнущих звезд. Главной легендой, созданной Голливудом, стала легенда о нем самом — о том, как из подающего надежды подмастерья он превратился в великого мастера иллюзий. Уникальность этой книги заключается в...
М.: Искусство, 1975. — 275 с.
Книга Р. Соболева — широкая панорама американского кино 60-х годов, знакомящая читателей с борьбой прогрессивных и реакционных течений, с различными жанрами американского кинематографа (вестерн, мюзикл, детектив, постановочный боевик и др.), с его новыми творческими явлениями. Автор рассматривает явления кинематографа в непосредственной зависимости...
М.: Искусство, 1983. - 201 с.
В книге рассказывается о возникновении и развитии одного из самых популярных жанров раннего периода истории кино - "кинокомической", комедии с постоянными персонажами-масками. Автор рассматривает "кинокомическую" США 1910 - 1930-х годов. Он показывает связь поэтики "кинокомической" с поэтикой народного творчества, исследует социальные истоки...
СПб.: Мастерская «Сеанс», 2019. — 454 с. — ISBN 978-5-9500453-7-0. Документальный роман «Красный нуар Голливуда» рассказывает о политической борьбе, которая велась на «фабрике грез» в 1920–1960‐х годах. Несколько десятилетий Америка жила в страхе перед коммунистическим заговором. Итогом «красной паники» стали «охота на ведьм» и крах Старого Голливуда. Первая часть тетралогии...
СПб.: Мастерская «Сеанс», 2019. — 454 с. — ISBN 978-5-9500453-7-0. Документальный роман «Красный нуар Голливуда» рассказывает о политической борьбе, которая велась на «фабрике грез» в 1920–1960‐х годах. Несколько десятилетий Америка жила в страхе перед коммунистическим заговором. Итогом «красной паники» стали «охота на ведьм» и крах Старого Голливуда. Первая часть тетралогии...
СПб.: Мастерская «Сеанс», 2019. — 454 с. — ISBN 978-5-9500453-7-0. Документальный роман «Красный нуар Голливуда» рассказывает о политической борьбе, которая велась на «фабрике грез» в 1920–1960‐х годах. Несколько десятилетий Америка жила в страхе перед коммунистическим заговором. Итогом «красной паники» стали «охота на ведьм» и крах Старого Голливуда. Первая часть тетралогии...
СПб.: Мастерская «Сеанс», 2019. — 441 с. — ISBN 978-5-9500453-8-7. Документальный роман «Красный нуар Голливуда» рассказывает о политической борьбе, которая велась на «фабрике грез» в 1920–1960‐х годах. Несколько десятилетий Америка жила в страхе перед коммунистическим заговором. Итогом «красной паники» стали «охота на ведьм» и крах Старого Голливуда. Вторая часть тетралогии...
СПб.: Мастерская «Сеанс», 2019. — 441 с. — ISBN 978-5-9500453-8-7. Документальный роман «Красный нуар Голливуда» рассказывает о политической борьбе, которая велась на «фабрике грез» в 1920–1960‐х годах. Несколько десятилетий Америка жила в страхе перед коммунистическим заговором. Итогом «красной паники» стали «охота на ведьм» и крах Старого Голливуда. Вторая часть тетралогии...
СПб.: Мастерская «Сеанс», 2019. — 441 с. — ISBN 978-5-9500453-8-7. Документальный роман «Красный нуар Голливуда» рассказывает о политической борьбе, которая велась на «фабрике грез» в 1920–1960‐х годах. Несколько десятилетий Америка жила в страхе перед коммунистическим заговором. Итогом «красной паники» стали «охота на ведьм» и крах Старого Голливуда. Вторая часть тетралогии...
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М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2023. — (Кинотексты). — ISBN 978-5-4448-2339-6. С момента своего возникновения кинематограф формировался как новая публичная сфера, отражающая важные социальные сдвиги рубежа веков, которые проявлялись не только в экранных произведениях, но и в зрительских практиках. Книга профессора университета Чикаго Мириам Хансен (1949–2011) исследует...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2023. — (Кинотексты). — ISBN 978-5-4448-2339-6. С момента своего возникновения кинематограф формировался как новая публичная сфера, отражающая важные социальные сдвиги рубежа веков, которые проявлялись не только в экранных произведениях, но и в зрительских практиках. Книга профессора университета Чикаго Мириам Хансен (1949–2011) исследует...
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