Examines the origins and art of filmmaking from its earliest days to the digitized, computerized films of today.
Get the popcorn popping and keep the movies coming! From box office hits and cult classics to romcoms and thrillers, this is your go-to guide to movies, directors, genres, styles, and just about anything else cinema.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic assembles and introduces more than one hundred essays and articles about film, with entries by and about movie stars, famous directors, industry executives, and critics. Tour.
This work offers insights into how specific films influenced the Americanization of the Holocaust and how the medium per se helped seed that event into the public consciousness.
Now P. Adams Sitney has revised the book, adding a new chapter that brings his discussion of the principle genres and the major filmmakers up to the year 2000.
The Global Film Book is an accessible and entertaining exploration of the development of film as global industry and art form, written especially for students and introducing readers to the rich and varied cinematic landscape beyond ...
Three in particular emerged: Milos Forman, Vera Chytilová and Jirí Menzel. Forman's start in life was similar to Polanski's. They were the same age, Jewish, had parents killed by the Nazis and, like many other Eastern European directors ...
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Lost I%rld' s influence spread throughout film. Its journey to the unknown became ... When an original print was discovered in a Czech film archive, it became the basis of the current restoration by Serge Bromberg and David Shepard.
The text serves as a primer for all students, but is especially valuable to those students with limited background in the field of media production.
From Alien to When a Stranger Calls, many films are based on folklore or employ an urban legend element to propel the narrative. But once those traditional aspects have been...