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Sci-Fi Film Fiesta: The Big Fat Book Of Sci-Fi Films Of The 1950s
by Chris Christopoulos , 2023
The book is intended as a salute to the pioneering work of science fiction film makers. It features classics from the 1950s and consists of 12 volumes, each featuring particular films consisting of a different theme, genre or aspect of that decade.
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Documentary Making for Digital Humanists
by Darren R. Reid, Brett Sanders - Open Book Publishers , 2021
Documentary Making for Digital Humanists sets out the fundamentals of filmmaking, explores academic discourse on digital documentaries and online distribution, and considers the place of this discourse in the evolving academic landscape.
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Fairy Tale Films
by Pauline Greenhill, Sidney Eve Matrix - Utah State University Press , 2010
Here, scholars from film, folklore, and cultural studies move discussion beyond the well-known Disney movies to the many other filmic adaptations of fairy tales and to the widespread use of fairy tale tropes, themes, and motifs in cinema.
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European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood
by Thomas Elsaesser - Amsterdam University Press , 2005
In the face of renewed competition from Hollywood since the early 1980s, independent filmmaking in Europe has begun to re-invent itself. This book presents a broader framework for understanding the forces at work since the 1960s.
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Memory and Popular Film
by Paul Grainge (ed.) - Manchester University Press , 2003
'Memory and popular film' uses memory as a specific framework for the cultural study of film. Taking Hollywood as its focus, this timely book provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present.
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The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s
by Thomas Elsaesser et al. - Amsterdam University Press , 2004
Identified with directors such as Sam Peckinpah, Arthur Penn, Hal Ashby or Robert Altman, American cinema of the 1970s is long overdue for this re-evaluation. Many of the films have not only come back from oblivion, they have also become cult films.
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Hitchcock's Motifs
by Michael Walker - Amsterdam University Press , 2005
Starting from recurring objects, settings, character-types and events, Michael Walker tracks some forty motifs, themes and clusters across the whole of Hitchcock's oeuvre, including not only all his films but also episodes from his TV series.
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The Beatles on Film
by Roland Reiter - Transcript-Verlag , 2015
This book provides the production history and a contextual interpretation of The Beatles' movies (A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be) and describes their ability to project the group's image at different stages in their career.
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True Films
by Kevin Kelly - KK.org , 2007
In this book the author offers rave reviews of 150 great true films. He define these non-fiction films as true films -- documentaries, educational films, instructional how-to's, and what the British call factuals -- a non-fiction visual account.
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Movie Making Manual
- Wikibooks , 2010
Filmmaking is the process of making a film. The nature of the film determines the size and type of crew required during filmmaking. This manual is intended as a complete guide to filmmaking, the emphasis is on the practical.
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