World of Movies - Movies, part 1

Movies, part 1

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The Film Book: A Complete Guide to the World of Cinema

Publisher:Дорлинг Киндерсли
Year:2011

Lights, camera, action... enter "The Film Book", stage left. Step into the world of cinema with "The Film Book" - the films, the directors, the genres and the styles. Profiling 100 of the world's most influential directors and 100 key cinematic works, the book will take you through the changing experience of cinema from the earliest silent movies to the modern 3D cinematic phenomenon. Covering every national school of film-making from Hollywood to Bollywood the book is a great browse bible with "Top 10" and "What to Watch" feature boxes. Test your knowledge with the essential trivia section - how much do you know about Oscar winners, biggest flops, banned films and more? From the birth of cinema right up until the present day, "The Film Book" is a cinematic masterpiece. Packaged in a metal tin just like a reel of film, "The Film Book" is full to bursting with interesting stats, facts and figures and is essential for any film buff. This title contains content that was previously...

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Nadoolman Landis, Deborah. Hollywood Costume

Publisher:V&A Publications
Year:2012

This landmark book celebrates, for the very first time, the costume designer's contribution to the telling of the cinematic story in 100 years of Hollywood. Rocking the conventions of what is considered 'costume', Hollywood Costume reveals what is hidden in plain sight: that films are about people and it is the art of the costume designer who helps create those characters. This book looks at this process of transformation by analyzing some of the finest and most eclectic costumes from the most beloved films of the last 100 years. As well as essays by a wide variety of leading scholars, archivists and private collectors, the book incorporates contributions by key costume designers, actors and directors working in Hollywood today. Fabulous golden age of Hollywood costumes are juxtaposed beside all the contemporary classics including The Tramp, Ben Hur, Cleopatra, The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ocean's Eleven, Sherlock Holmes and Avatar.

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Adam Smith. The Rough Guide to 21st Century Cinema: 101 Movies That Made the Millennium

Publisher:Rough Guides
Year:2012

From Hollywood blockbusters like The Departed and The Hangover, to indie gems like Donnie Darko and Shaun of the Dead, to children's favorites, such as "Toy Story 3" and "Wall-E", the twenty-first century has already provided us with a wealth of amazing films. Packed with numerous film stills as well as features covering the Top 21 key actors and actresses, genres and their mash-ups, and more, "The Rough Guide to 21st Century Cinema" is a must-have for any movie buff and film aficionado.

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James Bond: 50 Years of Movie Posters

Publisher:Дорлинг Киндерсли
Year:2012

Packaged with two exclusive prints! Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Bond movie franchise as well as the release of the new Bond film, Skyfall, featuring Daniel Craig, James Bond: 50 Years of Movie Posters is sure to be a must-have for every Bond fan. From 1962's Dr. No to 2012's Skyfall, this lavish film-by-film guide, written by Bond Production Designer Dennis Gassner, boasts the most impressive visual collection of James Bond movie posters to date. Featuring a gallery of rare and sought-after posters, as well as spectacular unused concept artwork, and unique teasers and lobby cards from virtually every country where Bond movies have screened, this is a gorgeous collection of the images that have defined cinema's most famous superspy.

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Catherine Jurca. Hollywood 1938: Motion Pictures' Greatest Year

Publisher:
Year:2012

In Hollywood 1938, Catherine Jurca brings to light a tumultuous year of crisis that has been neglected in histories of the studio era. With attendance in decline, negative publicity about stars that were "poison at the box office," and a spate of bad films, industry executives decided that the public was fed up with the movies. Jurca describes their desperate attempt to win back audiences by launching Motion Pictures' Greatest Year, a massive, and unsuccessful, public relations campaign conducted in theaters and newspapers across North America. Drawing on the records of studio personnel, independent exhibitors, moviegoers, and the motion pictures themselves, she analyzes what was wrong--and right--with Hollywood at the end of a heralded decade, and how the industry's troubles changed the making and marketing of films in 1938 and beyond.

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Digital Disruption: Cinema Moves On-line

Publisher:
Year:2012

'Nobody knows anything', said William Goldman of studio filmmaking. This statement is proving increasingly apt as we begin to survey the radical changes that digital distribution, together with the digitisation of production and exhibition, is wreaking on global film circulation. Will digital dissemination produce a massive disruption to the film industry, as it did to mail delivery services, bookselling and music distribution? Is cinema about to move on-line? Digital Disruption: Cinema Moves On-line helps to make sense of what has happened in the short but turbulent history of on-line distribution. It provides a realistic assessment of the disruptions that moving from 'analogue dollars' to 'digital cents' has provoked in the film industry. Looking closely at how the majors have dealt - often unsuccessfully - with these challenges it also pays equal attention to innovations and practices outside the mainstream. Throughout, it is alive to important entrepreneurial innovations,...

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Ronald Bergan. Film

Publisher:Дорлинг Киндерсли
Year:2006

Offering coverage from Woody Allen to Roberto Rossellini, from "Schindlers List" to "Goldfinger" everything you ever wanted to know about film but were afraid to ask, this is a comprehensive, fun to browse, and easy-to-use guide to everything you need to know about movies and the people behind them. It is for the cinema-literate enthusiast and the popcorn-popping film-goer. Join us behind the camera and find out about how films are made and who makes them from the greatest animators, to the most talented set designers. Explore different genre and movie styles from westerns, musicals and sci-fi, to cult movies and documentaries. Take a trip from Hollywood to Bollywood and we'll show you what makes different World cinema styles unique. We'll give you the low-down on the best films to watch and reveal the ones they've influenced. Plus, check out the 100 must-see movies of all time.

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Jeff Kinney. The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: How Greg Heffley Went Hollywood

Publisher:Puffin
Year:2012

Product Description Imagine all the Wimpy Kid laughs you've had from reading the diaries, all the best bits you talk about with your friends and all the cartoons of Greg Heffley you've had a go at drawing yourself... Now imagine it all - on screen! The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary goes behind the scenes to tell the story of Greg Heffley from the funniest cartoon character ever, to a real live person on the big screen. A full-colour diary complete with photographs, script pages, storyboard sketches, costume designs, and more hilarious Wimpy Kid drawings by Jeff Kinney. The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary is the perfect companion to the phenomenally bestselling series. About the Author The Diary of A Wimpy Kid series is an international bestseller and has now been made into two blockbuster films. The series has sold over 50 million copies worldwide and over 5 million copies in the UK. As well as being a bestselling author, Jeff is also an online developer and designer. He lives with his family in...

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Scott L. Baugh. Latino American Cinema: An Encyclopedia of Movies, Stars, Concepts, and Trends

Publisher:
Year:2012

Latino American Cinema: An Encyclopedia of Movies, Stars, Concepts, and Trends serves as an essential primary reference for students of the topic as well as an accessible resource for general readers. The alphabetized entries in the volume cover the key topics of this provocative and complex genrea??films, filmmakers, star performers, concepts, and historical and burgeoning trendsa??alongside frequently overlooked and crucially ignored items of interest in Latino cinema. This comprehensive treatment bridges gaps between traditional approaches to U.S.-Latino and Latin American cinemas, placing subjects of Chicana and Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and diasporic Cuban, and Mexican origin in perspective with related Central and South American and Caribbean elements. Many of the entries offer compact definitions, critical discussions, overviews, and analyses of star artists, media productions, and historical moments, while several foundational entries explicate concepts, making this single...

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Mick O'Shea. Beyond District 12: The Stars of The Hunger Games (Hunger Games Film Tie in)

Publisher:
Year:2012

Illustrated with 100 full-colour photosThe Hunger Games is set to be one of the most exciting films of 2012 and Beyond District 12: The Stars of The Hunger Games gives you an exclusive look at the up-and-coming young actors behind the three main roles of Katniss, Gale and Peeta. With detailed biographies outlining Liam, Jennifer, and Josha??s early lives, their first forays into acting and how they landed the most sought-after roles in Hollywood, this book gives you the chance to really get to know your new favourite screen idols.Beautifully illustrated with glossy photographs of each hot young sensation, Beyond District 12: The Stars of the Hunger Games also profiles the characters that they will be playing in the film franchise already being dubbed `the new Twilighta??. The Hunger Games film is sure to be one of the cinematic highlights of next year and Beyond District 12: The Stars of the Hunger Games gives you exclusive first access to the on- and off-screen lives of the...

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Bruce Worthington. Shah Rukh Khan: His Road to Success as The Greatest Indian Movie Star With Filmography and Television Work

Publisher:
Year:2012

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. As the name suggests, "Shah Rukh Khan: His Road to Success as The Greatest Indian Movie Star With Filmography and Television Work" is a book that talks about Shah Rukh Khan, the greatest Indian movie star of all time. It includes his elaborate filmography with individual movie and television work with his colleagues like Juhi Chawla, Aziz Mirza, Aishwarya Rai, Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Aditya Chopra, Karan Johar & many more. This also talks about his association with production companies like Yash Raj Films, Dharma Productions, Red Chillies Entertainment & others. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative...

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Europe and Love in Cinema

Publisher:
Year:2012

Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present. A critical look at the manner in which lovea??in its broadest sensea??is portrayed in cinema from across Europe and the United States, this volume exposes constructed notions of "Europeanness" that both set Europe apart and define some parts of it as more "European" than others. Through the international distribution process, these films in turn engage with ideas of Europe from both outside and within, while some, treated extensively in this volume, even offer alternative models of love. A bracing collection of essays from top film scholars, Europe and Love in Cinema demonstrates the centrality of desire to film narrative and explores multiple models of love within Europe's frontiers.

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Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2 (IB - Directory of World Cinema)

Publisher:
Year:2012

A Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first installment of Directory of World Cinema: Japan, this volume continues the exploration of the enduring classics, cult favorites, and contemporary blockbusters of Japanese cinema with new contributions from leading critics and film scholars. Among the additions to this volume are in-depth treatments of two previously unexplored genresa??youth cinema and films depicting lower-class settingsa??considered alongside discussions of popular narrative forms, including J-Horror, samurai cinema, anime, and the Japanese New Wave.A Accompanying the critical essays in this volume are more than 150 new film reviews, complemented by full-color film stills, and significantly expanded references for further study. From the Golden Age to the film festival favorites of today, Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2 completes this comprehensive treatment of a consistently fascinating national cinema.A

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Directory of World Cinema: Iran (IB - Directory of World Cinema)

Publisher:
Year:2012

Iranian cinema has an extraordinary history that has been marked by religion and ever-shifting political, economic, and social environments. This addition to Intellecta??s Directory of World Cinema series turns the spotlight on the award-winning cinema of that nation, with particular attention to the major movements, historical turning points, and prominent figures that have helped shape it. A wide range of genres are presented, including comedy, Film Farsi, new wave, childrena??s films, art house film, and womena??s cinema. For the film studies scholar, students working on alternative or national cinema, or for all those who love Persian cinema and wish to learn more, Directory of World Cinema: Iran will be an essential companion to this prolific and prominent film industry.

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Les Roberts. Film, Mobility and Urban Space: A Cinematic Geography of Liverpool

Publisher:
Year:2012

Reevaluating the significance of location in contemporary film practice and urban cultural theory, Film, Mobility and Urban Space explores the role of moving images in representations and perceptions of everyday urban landscapes. Les Roberts draws on over 1,700 films of Liverpool from 1897 to the present and combines critical spatial analysis, archival research, and qualitative methods to navigate the city’s cinematic geographies as mapped across a broad spectrum of film genres, including amateur film, travelogues, newsreels, promotional films, documentaries, and features.

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Vera Dika. The (Moving) Pictures Generation: The Cinematic Impulse in Downtown New York Art and Film

Publisher:
Year:2012

Beginning in the late 1970s, a number of visual artists in downtown New York City returned to an exploration of the cinematic. They engaged cinematic movement, time, and the body in their work, and they did so across mediums, utilizing not only film, but sculpture, drawing, photography, and performance. This cinematic impulse was evident in the high art of Jack Goldstein, Robert Longo, and Cindy Sherman, in the film practices of 'No Wave' filmmakers Amos Poe and Vivienne Dick, and in the feature films of Kathryn Bigelow. Vera Dika considers the work within a greater cultural context and probes for a deeper understanding of the practice.

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J.J. Murphy. The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol

Publisher:
Year:2012

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 first comprehensive study of Warhol's films, J.J. Murphy provides a detailed survey and analysis. He discusses Warhol's early films, sound portraits, involvement with multimedia (including The Velvet Underground), and sexploitation films, as well as the more commercial works he produced for Paul Morrissey in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Murphy's close readings of the films illuminate Warhol's brilliant collaborations with writers, performers, other artists, and filmmakers. The book further demonstrates how Warhol's use of the camera transformed the events being filmed and how his own unique brand of psychodrama created dramatic tension within the works.

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Jurgen Muller. Best Movies of the 90's

Publisher:Taschen
Year:2005

The must-have 90s movie book (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Hey, did you realize you were making history when you went to see The Blair Witch Project, one of the most profitable movies ever made? Do you know what it took to recreate the sinking of the Titanic, what a jump cut is, or who the leading box office stars of the 90s are? These are just a few of the countless things you'll learn in this new book dedicated to celluloid history of the 90s. This guide presents our selection of the best movies from the years 1990 to 1999, covering a wide range of genres, budgets, and cultures, and revealing details from behind the scenes. Packed full of photos and film stills, this opulent factbook pays homage to cinema around the world at the end of the 20th century.

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Robin Bougie. Cinema Sewer Volume 2: The Adults Only Guide to History's Sickest and Sexiest Movies!

Publisher:FAB Press
Year:2009

The celebrated underground smash that is Cinema Sewer the magazine has been transformed and mutated into CINEMA SEWER: THE BOOK - and following the runaway success of the first volume, we're delighted to be unleashing VOLUME TWO onto a now slightly-less-unsuspecting world! A mind-melting compilation of gonzo writing, illustration and comics about the most insane, sexy, awkward, cheesy, hilarious, upsetting and jaw-dropping movies in the history of film, Cinema Sewer joyously celebrates the sleaziest aspects of the moviegoing experience, whilst delving deep into bizarre cinematic history. Author and comic artist Robin Bougie takes a dive to the bottom of the cesspool of sexploitation, doing so in a distinctive manner that has made him famous amongst a loyal following of cult film fans. If anything, Cinema Sewer acts as Robin's handmade journal, preserving the DIY 'zine aesthetic and carrying it kicking and screaming into the future via articles packed with bizarre trivia and personal...

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George Perry, Richard Schickel. Bogie: A Celebration of the Life and Films of Humphrey Bogart

Publisher:
Year:2011

Two accomplished film writers pay tribute to one of cinema's most enduring symbols in this lavishly illustrated monograph complete with a foreword from Bogart's son, published in association with his estate Richard Schickel assesses Humphrey Bogart's career and enduring legacy while George Perry provides a detailed review of the films he made over three decades,with a particular focus on his key roles, in this highly illustrated survey of a much-loved star. From his emergence as a figure to be reckoned with in High Sierra and as private eye Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon in 1941, and his iconic performance in Casablanca two years later, to his Oscar-winning role in The African Queen in 1952, Humphrey Bogart ensured his place as a true Hollywood legend. Following the success of his Oscar-winning role in The African Queen, Bogart starred in several other notable movies, including Beat the Devil and The Caine Mutiny. While Bogart's personal charm is to this day unmatched onscreen, his...

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Peter Bondanella. A History of Italian Cinema

Publisher:Continuum International Publishing Group
Year:2009

"A History of Italian Cinema" is a major new study from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema - which has been published in three landmark editions and celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2008. Building upon his decades of research, Peter Bondanella has now written the definitive history of the subject, from the birth of cinema to the present day. He has rethought, reorganized, and completely rewritten his previous work, which focused on postwar cinema, and has broadened his coverage of the spaghetti western and comedy genres. Bondanella also now covers a huge range of work that was not previously considered, particularly both popular and "B" genres, including: the sword and sandal epic or "peplum" film of the 1950s; the Italian horror film, the so-called spaghetti nightmare films (including the subcategories of horror, the Italian zombie and cannibal films), that began in the 1950s and continue through the present; the giallo or Italian mystery thriller; and the...

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Stephen Thrower. Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents

Publisher:FAB Press
Year:2008

From Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill) to Eli Roth (Hostel), the young guns of modern Hollywood just can't get enough of that exploitation film high. That's because, between 1970 and 1985, American Exploitation movies went berserk. With censorship relaxed, and the gate to excess wide open, horror - the Exploitation genre par excellence - offered a vibrant alternative to the mainstream of American cinema. Luridly titled wonders like The Headless Eyes, Scream Bloody Murder and Hitch Hike to Hell were everywhere, from the drive-ins of Texas to the grindhouses of New York, touting a combination of mind-bruising violence, weird sex and drug-soaked delirium. Massively popular around the world, American exploitation movies added immensely to the richness of the nation's cinema, but they have remained persona non grata in most serious studies of American film. Until now... Built on five years of research, Nightmare USA explores the development of America's subterranean horror film industry,...

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Michael Britton, Gina Miller Britton. Lighting, Cinematography, And Directing

Publisher:
Year:2011

Part Of The New Digital Filmmaker Series! This Book Is Designed For The Undergraduate Film Studies Student Or As A Reference For Anyone Interested In Making Their Own Movies. As The Third Title In The Series, This Book Is An Entry Level, Guerrilla Style Text Exploring The Physical Aspects Of Filmmaking a?? Starting With Basic Lighting Concepts, Moving Onto Camera Movements, And Ending With The Fundamental Job Duties Of A Director. It Is Divided Into Three Parts, Each With Five Chapter Sections. Each Section Begins With A Survey Of The Professional Equipment Used On A Hollywood Set Then Quickly Moves Into The Basic Process Used To Create Low Budget Productions With Consumer Grade Gear. Each Chapter Includes Tips And Tricks For Filmmaking Magic And A Hands-On Exercise Utilizing Guerrilla Techniques. Basic Filmmaking Skills, Terminology And Jargon Will Be Explained Throughout The Text Along With Job Responsibilities Of The Film Crew And Director.

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Maurizio Viano. A Certain Realism: Making Use of Pasolini's Film Theory and Practice

Publisher:University of California Press
Year:1993

Pier Paolo Pasolini was arguably the most complex director of postwar Italian cinema. His films - Accattone, The Canterbury Tales, Medea, Salo - continue to challenge and entertain new generations of moviegoers. A leftist, a homosexual, and a distinguished writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism, Pasolini once claimed that "a certain realism" informed his filmmaking. Masterfully combining analyses of Pasolini's literary and theoretical writings and of all his films, Maurizio Viano offers the first thorough study of Pasolini's cinematic realism, in theory and in practice. He finds that Pasolini's cinematic career exemplifies an "expressionistic realism" that acknowledges its subjective foundation instead of striving for an impossible objectivity. Focusing on the personal and expressionistic dimensions of Pasolini's cinema, Viano also argues that homosexuality is present in the films in ways that critics have thus far failed to acknowledge. Sure to generate controversy...

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Matt Hurwitz, Christopher Knowles. The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths, and the Movies

Publisher:Insight Editions
Year:2009

The Complete X-Files is the only authorized debriefing on all nine seasons of the cult television series and films created by Chris Carter. The book takes readers into Carter's never-before-seen archives, with explanations of unsolved plots, discussion of the FBI's paranormal investigations bureau, breakdowns of popular episodes, and insider information on both X-Files films. In addition to exclusive interviews with the cast and crew, The Complete X-Files features previously unpublished photographs, giving fans a backstage view of the making of the television series and the two feature films. Readers learn the secretive processes by which the creators and crew of the series were able to make episodic television that looked and felt like big-budget Hollywood movies. Each book comes signed and numbered in an exclusive "black oil" limited edition clamshell and includes two prints of Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) from the show's set.

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Kurt Lancaster. DSLR Cinema: Crafting the Film Look with Video

Publisher:
Year:2010

Video-capable DSLR cameras give filmmakers a quality previously impossible without high-end cinema cameras. Exploring the cinematic quality and features offered by hybrid DSLRs, this book empowers the filmmaker to craft visually stunning images inexpensively. Learn to think more like a cinematographer than a videographer, whether shooting for a feature, short fiction, documentary, video journalism, or even a wedding. DSLR Cinema offers insight into different shooting styles, real-world tips and techniques, and advice on postproduction workflow as it guides you in crafting a film-like look. Case studies feature an international cast of cutting edge DSLR shooters today, including Philip Bloom (England), Bernardo Uzeda (Brazil), Rii Schroer (Germany), Jeremy Ian Thomas (United States), Shane Hurlbut, ASC (United States), and Po Chan (Hong Kong). Their films are examined in detail, exploring how each exemplifies great storytelling, exceptional visual character, and how you can push the...

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Leo Fuchs. Leo Fuchs: Special Photographer from the Golden Age of Hollywood

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Year:2010

Leo Fuchs is a Hollywood veteran who spent over 40 years shooting some of the most moving and memorable images ever made of 50s and 60s film icons. Fuchs’ introduction to moviemaking came as one of the world’s leading “special photographers” on movie sets in Europe and North America. Starting as a freelance magazine photographer, he was one of the rare outsiders invited onto movie sets, where he often befriended actors, actresses, and filmmakers and captured candid shots both during shooting and after hours while socializing with the stars. With the support of his dear friend Cary Grant, Fuchs gave up photography in 1964 and spent the next 20 years as a motion picture producer.Fuchs' photographs of Hollywood’s undisputed heyday are collected for the first time in Leo Fuchs: Special Photographer from the Golden Age of Hollywood, along with a rare essay by photography great, Bruce Weber. Film icons Rock Hudson, Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, Sean Connery, Shirley MacLaine,...

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Caroline Frick. Saving Cinema: The Politics of Preservation

Publisher:
Year:2011

The importance of media preservation has in recent years achieved much broader public recognition. From the vaults of Hollywood and the halls of Congress to the cash-strapped museums of developing nations, people are working to safeguard film from physical harm. But the forces at work aren't just physical. The endeavor is also inherently political. What gets saved and why? What remains ignored? Who makes these decisions, and what criteria do they use? Saving Cinema narrates the development of the preservation movement and lays bare the factors that have influenced its direction. Archivists do more than preserve movie history; they actively produce and codify cinematic heritage. At the same time, digital technologies have produced an entirely new reality, one that resists the material, artifact-driven approach that is the gold standard of preservation in the Western world. As it has become increasingly easy to capture and access moving images, increasing evidence of something many...

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Steven J. Ross. Movies and American Society

Publisher:
Year:2002

This outstanding collection of the best film history scholarship gathers recent essays and supporting documents to illustrate the power of movies to change, and be changed by, American society. The book follows movies from their beginnings in nickelodeons to the current state of Hollywood globalism. It illustrates that movies have played an important role in shaping and reflecting how millions of Americans see and think about their world. The essays show to a great extent exactly how and why movies have a unique influence on all aspects of American culture, including ideology, politics, and race relations. Editorial introductions place these readings in historical and ideological context, and lists of recommended readings and screenings give guidance for further research. This is the ideal collection for anyone interested in film history.

Price:763 rub.Buy

Paul Simpson. The Rough Guide to Cult Movies

Publisher:Rough Guides
Year:2010

"The Rough Guide to Cult Movies" offers a blend of essential trivia and informed opinion as it takes you on a tour of the most compellingly weird - and weirdly compelling - films in the world. Whether you're a paid-up member of The Big Lebowski fan club or just looking for a night in with an interesting DVD, "The Rough Guide to Cult Movies" is the ultimate guide to the world's most memorable films. "The Rough Guide to Cult Movies" selects cinema's most compelling triumphs: films that are brilliant, intriguing or just plain bizarre; from action flicks to zombie films, by way of nuns, yakuza, musicals and mutations. You'll find expert, pithy reviews of over 1500 movies, with forgotten legends like Charlie Chan and the Opera or contemporary classics like "There Will Be Blood", plus filmmakers' picks of their favourite cult movies, in their own words. There are good movies and there are bad movies and then there are cult movies.

Price:1396.5 rub.Buy

Bryan Michael Stoller. Filmmaking For Dummies

Publisher:For Dummies
Year:2008

Now updated-the step-by-step secrets to capturing great moments on film. With all the recent advancements in filmmaking technology, more people than ever are trying their hand at filmmaking. Keeping up with the newest information in this booming field, this updated edition of Filmmaking For Dummies features up-to-the-minute coverage of the latest and greatest hardware, software, accessories, and trends-including high-definition technology and new outlets for films such as YouTube and MySpace. It demystifies the nuts-and-bolts of filmmaking, from developing a project and securing financing to hiring a cast and crew, editing, and getting distribution. This new edition also provides new movie examples and updated contacts and resources. Whether people want to become professional filmmakers or simply shoot quality home movies, this practical guide has all the advice and tips needed to succeed.

Price:4906 rub.Buy

Vincent LoBrutto. Gus Van Sant: His Own Private Cinema (Modern Filmmakers)

Publisher:Praeger
Year:2010

Arranged chronologically, Gus Van Sant: His Own Private Cinema provides a comprehensive overview of the life and art of this talented director, covering his mainstream, commercial, and avant-garde projects. More than a biography, the book examines Van Sant's incredibly diverse body of work, exploring the influence of his open homosexuality; of fine art, literature, and music; and of the range of cinema styles to which he has been exposed. Stressing Van Sant's wide-ranging content, genre, style, and cinematic presentation, author Vincent LoBrutto details the filmmaker's autobiographical tendencies and how he uses the film craft, literature, popular music, and fine arts to create his movies. The book dissects ways in which each of his films reflects Van Sant's sexual orientation, whether the individual film has a gay theme or not. Because of its importance to Van Sant's films, the book also offers a history of gay culture, past and present, covering its influence on art, music,...

Price:512.4 rub.Buy

John Scalzi. The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies

Publisher:Rough Guides
Year:2005

The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies is a comprehensive guide to the "final frontier" of film. It explores our fascination with space exploration, time travel, fantastical worlds and alternative futures. This guide explains how everything from the philosophy of Plato to classic Victorian tales and cult comic books have helped to create one of cinema's most engaging genres. Discover the classics from Mexico, Russia and Japan, not forgetting the Anime science fiction tradition, along with everything else you need to know from Metropolis to Star Wars, via Blade Runner, 2001 and Alien. The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies is your essential guide to a galaxy of film unbounded by time or space.

Price:2725.1 rub.Buy

Bernard Mendiburu. 3D Movie Making: Stereoscopic Digital Cinema from Script to Screen (+ DVD-ROM)

Publisher:Рид Элсивер, Focal Press
Year:2010

Hollywood is going 3D! Join the revolution with this primer to all of the essential skills for live action 3D, from preproduction through distribution. 3D perception and science is presented in an accessible way that provides the principles of Stereoscopic vision you need to make the transition from the 2D world. Tools of the trade are enumerated with an eye on current constraints and what is coming down the pike to smooth the way. Step-by-step instructions detail how 3D processes affect every stage of the production including screenwriting, art direction, principle photography, editing, visual effects and distribution. The companion DVD includes an array of 2D and 3D images that demonstrate concepts and techniques, 3D movie shorts that showcase alternative techniques, after effects project files to explore and manipulate for effect, and a resource list of software tools and tutorials that demonstrate techniques.

Price:7182 rub.Buy

Rick Worland. The Horror Film

Publisher:
Year:2006

The Horror Film examines the ways in which horror movies have been produced, received, and interpreted by filmmakers, audiences, and critics throughout the medium’s history, from the 1920s to the present. This brief volume offers a broad, historical introduction to cinematic horror, outlining and investigating important issues in the production, consumption, and cultural interpretation of the genre. Combining historical narrative with close readings of several significant horror films – including Frankenstein, Cat People, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween, and Bram Stoker?s Dracula – The Horror Film will be the definitive read for any movie–goer who thrills to a great scare.

Price:6669 rub.Buy

Maria del Mar Azcona. The Multi–Protagonist Film

Publisher:
Year:2010

The Multi–Protagonist Film explores the origins and history of one of the most exciting new developments in contemporary film worldwide. This “new” genre isn’t really new at all; rather, its historical roots run deep in the Hollywood canon – think Grand Hotel – and re–emerge in contemporary iterations in movies such as Singles, American Pie, Short Cuts, and Syriana. This volume provides elegant analyses of a variety of films to help chart the genre’s evolution and to explore the complexity, mixed messaging, and signal changes that define the multi–protagonist film in the current age. From the impact of globalization on society to shifting morals and the aftershocks of the sexual revolution, The Multi–Protagonist Film helps us to understand the genre and the imponderables that define the political, cultural, public and private spheres.

Price:988 rub.Buy

Time Out Film Guide 2010

Publisher:Time Out
Year:2009

The 18th edition of this indispensable guide, comprising a whopping 1,400 pages, contains all the features readers have come to expect. Equally useful for trivia hounds, casual dippers, and hardcore cinephiles, "Time Out Film Guide 2010" shows a happy egalitarianism, with popular genre movies reviewed alongside art-house treasures. The series has been hailed for having more complete international coverage than any comparable film guide, and this edition proves it with 500 new reviews in every genre of world cinema. Dozens of appendices arrange movies by category — from dramas, thrillers, and comedies to Italian, Japanese, and Iranian films. Cast and director lists make it easy to locate a favorite star or auteur, including the year of each film cited. Extensive cross-indexes, one of the series’ trademarks, have been updated. Reviews of notable DVD releases and a list of the world’s 100 key film websites help make this the one must-have film guide.

Price:1847 rub.Buy

101 War Movies: You Must See Before You Die

Publisher:Cassell Illustrated
Year:2009

Whether you know every line from "The Great Escape" or could watch "The Bridge on the River Kwai" again and again, is the book for you. Take a war, any war, from the beginning of time to the present day, throw in some amazing heroes, antiheroes and a whole lot of action and you have a classic war film. From Billy Wilder's Stalag 77 to "The Deer Hunter" this is the perfect guide. War films transcend more than one genre. From the first "antiwar" film, "All Quiet on the Western Front", through Bogart and Hepburn in "The African Queen" to Clint Eastwood's powerful "Letters from two Jima", war films have spanned several worlds of film-making. Discover movies filled with jingoistic propaganda made during wartime, as well as those that look back and ask the huge, burning questions that governments still refuse to answer. With insight from critics, film historians and academics, offers a breadth of knowledge and passion for a celluloid century of tanks and trenches, guns and...

Price:1819 rub.Buy

Tom Ogden. Haunted Hollywood: Tinseltown Terrors, Filmdom Phantoms, and Movieland Mayhem

Publisher:
Year:2009

Haunted Hollywood brings together more than two dozen stories about historic landmarks, theaters, watering holes, hotels, and houses that are haunted by movie stars, television personalities, and other celebrities.

Price:3972 rub.Buy

Nicholas Meyer. The View From the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood

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Year:2009

The critically acclaimed director and writer shares his account of the making of the three classic Star Trek filmsThe View from the Bridge is Nicholas Meyer's enormously entertaining account of his involvement with the Star Trek films: STII: The Wrath of Khan, STIV: The Voyage Home, and STVI: The Undiscovered Country, as well as his illustrious career in the movie business. The man best known for bringing together Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud in The Seven Per-Cent Solution had ironically never been interested in Star Trek until he was brought on board to save the film series. Meyer shares how he created the script for The Wrath of Khan, the most revered Star Trek film of all, in twelve days-only to have William Shatner proclaim he hated it. He reveals the death threats he received when word got out that Spock would be killed, and finally answers the long-pondered question of whether Khan's chiseled chest is truly that of Ricardo Montalban. Meyer's reminiscences on everyone from...

Price:2819 rub.Buy

Gary Kent. Shadows & Light: Journeys With Outlaws in Revolutionary Hollywood

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Year:2009

Shadows and Light illuminates the “reel” revolution that started in 1960 with director John Cassavetes' work. It is written by writer/director, actor, stuntman, special effects guru, production manager Gary Kent. An officer in this revolution, Kent compiled credits on over one hundred motion pictures and won several major film awards. This book is Kent's homage to the artistic, talented makers of magic, who began on the bottom of the dog-pile making biker flicks and nudie cuties and today find themselves on top of the Hollywood heap. The book is filled with memories, reminiscences, inside information, heretofore unknown facts, anecdotes and photos accumulated over forty-some years in independent, outrageous and courageous cinema. Kent provides a glimpse into the mystery of preparing stunt, action and special effects sequences without resorting to computer graphics and offers an inside take at the making of some favorite motion pictures, from concept to release. The books...

Price:1858 rub.Buy

Matthew Howe. Film Is Hell: How I Sold My Soul to Make the Crappiest Movies in History

Publisher:
Year:2009

If you?ve ever stumbled across a painfully bad action movie while channel surfing and wondered, ?Who would create such unwatchable trash?? Film Is Hell has your answer. Film Is Hell: How I Sold My Soul to Make the Crappiest Movies in History chronicles the outrageous exploits of Sultan Film Productions, a small band of rebel filmmakers who risk death and arrest to produce movies so awful they set the international standard for bad. In their heydey, Sultan?s founders helped create a lucrative niche for low-budget action films during the 1980s home video boom. But when big-budget powerhouses flooded the market in the 1990s, Sultan found itself struggling to survive. Limited resources forced the company to pursue a new strategy?substituting grit, stamina and ingenuity for a reasonable budget. At the heart of Film Is Hell is the narrator?s tale of his personal journey, which is strangely tragic and utterly hilarious. In his literary debut, cinematographer Matthew Howe relates a...

Price:3446 rub.Buy

Professor Andre Loiselle. Cinema as History: Michele Brault and Modern Quebec

Publisher:
Year:2009

With a career spanning more than five decades, director and cinematographer Michel Brault is one of the most influential figures in Quebecois cinema. Brault's early works, including Les Raquetteurs and Pour la Suite du Monde, reflected a hitherto unacknowledged and unfulfilled need on the part of Quebecois society to see their own culture reflected onscreen and helped spark a cultural renaissance in Quebec. His 1974 fiction feature Les Ordres, which deals with the Quebec Liberation Front crisis and the invocation of the War Measures Act, has consistently been listed as one of the best Quebecois and Canadian films to date. Brault's work as cinematographer -- on groundbreaking films such as Claude Jutra's Mon Oncle Antoine (1971) and Francis Mankiewicz's Les Bons Debarras (1980) -- and his contributions to the development of the cinema-verite movement, have been equally significant.

Price:2059 rub.Buy

Marc Auge. Casablanca: Movies and Memory

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Year:2009

Marc Auge was eleven or twelve years old when he first saw Casablanca. Made in 1942 but not released in France until 1947, the film had a profound effect on him. Like cinephiles everywhere, Auge was instantly drawn to Rick Blaine's mysterious past, his friendship with Sam and Captain Renault, and Ilsa's stirring, seductive beauty. The film-with its recurring scenes of waiting, menace, and flight-occupies a significant place in Auge's own memory of his uprooted childhood and the wartime exploits of his family.Marc Auge's elegant and thoughtful essay on film and the nature of both personal and collective memory contends that some of our most haunting memories are deeply embedded in the cinema. His own recollections of the hurried, often chaotic embarkations of his childhood, he writes, are become intertwined with scenes from Casablanca that have become bigger in his memory through repeated viewings in the movie houses of Paris's Latin Quarter.Seamlessly weaving together film criticism...

Price:3837 rub.Buy

Pauline Small. Sophia Loren: Moulding the Star

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Year:2009

In films from Houseboat to The Millionairess to Two Women, Sophia Loren established herself as an actress whose stardom spanned Italy, Europe, and finally Hollywood. Hers was a highly original rise to fame for a European film actress, and in Sophia Loren, Pauline Small highlights a unique career which transcended Italian film culture. Sophia Loren is the first book to explore in detail the transfer of Loren’s stardom from Italy to Hollywood and the reasons for her American success, particularly during the 1960s. Looking individually at Loren’s major films and drawing on rare archival materials in Italy, Small provides a thorough exploration of the commercial and cultural forces that combined to ensure Loren’s enduring star status.Perfect for scholars and aficionados of 1960s Italian and American film, Sophia Loren is a fascinating look at one of the major personalities of modern cinema.

Price:1296.8 rub.Buy

Robert C. Reimer, Reinhard Zachau, Margit Sinka. German Culture Through Film: An Introduction to German Cinema

Publisher:Focus Publishing
Year:2005

"German Culture Through Film: An Introduction to German Cinema" and its companion, "Arbeitsbuch zu German Culture through Film", provide a flexible means of teaching undergraduate courses in German film. The primary book covers 31 German films in English, and a German language companion volume covers 14 films with an emphasis on German language skills, so a single course using the same films can serve multiple purposes. Формат: 18 см x 25 см.

Price:1159.9 rub.Buy

Lloyd Kaufman. Direct Your Own Damn Movie!

Publisher:Focal Press
Year:2009

The Independent Directing Bible that will fit in your back pocket! (If you have an extremely large pocket...) Have you always wanted to direct a movie, but don't know how to start? Want to know how to get your first directing job? What do directors even do, anyway? Legendary director Lloyd Kaufman, creator of The Toxic Avenger, reveals 40 years worth of maverick cinematic know-how! Direct Your Own Damn Movie! will be your step-by-step roadmap on the journey through: scriptwriting. pre-production. casting. managing your set. post-production. distribution. Master the art of directing the easy way! There is no better way to become a director than by following the instruction and wisdom of an actual successful film director, not someone who just talks about it. Featuring expert advice from: Eli Roth (Grindhouse, Hostel). Jenna Fischer (LolliLove). ...

Price:2330 rub.Buy

Tanya York. How to Make Money Making Movies: The Secrets of Becoming a Profitable Filmmaker

Publisher:
Year:2009

If you have ever made a YouTube video or played around with your home camera and have considered the production of a film, How to Make Money Making Movies is for you. All the ins and outs, benefits and terrors of making independent movies and the industry make for a humorous and sometimes outrageously opinionated book. Learn how the distribution of one of the world s most glamorous industries works and how best to succeed in it. Go through the film making process from story development to movie release and avoid the pit falls most film makers fall into. These are the realities of the business where the show must go on.

Price:3203.9 rub.Buy

Ephraim Katz, Ronald Dean Nolen. The Film Encyclopedia 6e: The Complete Guide to Film and the Film Industry

Publisher:Collins
Year:2008

Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive single-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed bible of the film industry. Completely revised and updated, this sixth edition features more than 7,500 A-Z entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of moviemaking, including: " Directors, producers, actors, screenwriters, and cinematographers " Styles, genres, and schools of filmmaking " Motion picture studios and film centers " Film-related organizations and events " Industry jargon and technical terms " Inventions, inventors, and equipment " And much more!

Price:3062 rub.Buy

China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema (Pop Culture and Politics Asia PA)

Publisher:
Year:2008

Started in Shanghai in the 1920s, the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio began to dominate the worldwide Chinese film market after moving its production facilities to Hong Kong in 1957. Drawing together scholars from such diverse disciplines as history, cultral geography, and film studies, China Forever addresses how the Shaw Brothers raised the production standards of Hong Kong cinema, created a pan-Chinese cinema culture and distribution network, helped globalize Chinese-language cinema, and appealed to th cultural nationalism of the Chinese who found themselves displaced and unsettled in many parts of the world during the twentieth century. Contributors are Timothy P. Barnard, Cheng Pei-pei, Ramona Curry, Poshek Fu, Lane J. Harris, Law Kar, Sundiata KeitaCha-Jua, Lilly Kong, Siu Leung Li, Paul G. Pickowicz, Fanon Che Wilkins, Wong Ain-ling, and Sai-shing Yung.

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