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American Independent Cinema
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

American Independent Cinema

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The Age of New Waves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

The Age of New Waves

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-09-19
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Age of New Waves is a global and comparative study of new wave cinemas, from the French nouvelle vague to films from Taiwan and mainland China in the late twentieth century, that focuses on the relationships among art cinema, youth, and cities during the era of globalization.

American Stranger
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

American Stranger

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Reconstructs how Ray became a "rebel auteur" in cinema culture.

Street with No Name
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Street with No Name

Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interwar years. Dickos describes the development of the film noir in America from 1941 through the 1970s and examines how this development expresses a modern cinema. He argues that, in its most satisfying form, the film noir exists as a series of conventions with an iconography and characters of distinctive significance. Featuring stylized lighting and urban settings, these films tell melodramatic narratives involving characters who commit crimes predicated on destructive passions, corruption, and a submission to human weakness and fate. Unlike other st...

The Power of Film Propaganda
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

The Power of Film Propaganda

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-01-01
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Explores five case studies in Britain, the USSR, Germany and Italy to determine whether or not propaganda films reached the audiences at which they were targeted, and where they did, whether the films made the impact on those audiences that the propagandists had expected.

Approaches to Popular Film
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Approaches to Popular Film

Introductory textbook for A-level and undergraduate courses.

Hollywood's Indies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Hollywood's Indies

For almost three decades the big Hollywood studios have operated classics divisions or specialty labels, subsidiaries that originally focused on the foreign art house film market, while more recently (and controversially) moving on to the American 'indie' film market. This is the first book to offer an in depth examination of the phenomenon of the classics divisions by tracing its history since the establishment the first specialty label in 1980, United Artists Classics, to more contemporary outfits like Focus Features, Warner Independent and Picturehouse.This detailed account of all classics divisions examines their business practices, their position within the often labyrinthine structure ...

Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema

This book brings to the surface the lines of experimentation and artistic renewal appearing after the exhaustion of Neorealism, mapping complex areas of interest such as the emergence of ethical concerns, the relationship between ideology and representati

Film Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 382

Film Theory

This major new collection identifies the critical and theoretical concepts which have been most significant in the study of film and presents a historical and intellectual context for the material examined.

Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film 3-Volume Set
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1663

Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film 3-Volume Set

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-18
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumière brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1885) to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004). This Encyclopedia provides a resource that critically analyzes that history in all its aspects. Not only does this Encyclopedia examine individual films and the careers of individual film makers, it also provides overview articles of national and regional documentary film history. It explains concepts and themes in the study of documentary film, the techniques used in making films, and the institutions that support their production, appreciation, and preservation.