Noted film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon offers a behind-the-scenes look into the lives of both major and marginalized figures who have dynamically tr ...
'The indispensable work on one of the most extraordinary artistic and social adventures of our time.'—Edward W. SaidAbbas Kiraostami planted Iran firm ...
King Arthur, probably the most popular of British kings and one whose name is synonymous with courage, chivalry and romanticism. Arthur, King of the B ...
A study of three classical filmmakers and the films they made at the cusp of the modernist movement in cinema.
Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in ancient Greece and Rome and to f ...
During the post-World War II period, the Western, like America’s other great film genres, appeared to collapse as a result of revisionism and the emer ...
In "The Flesh of Images," Mauro Carbone begins with the point that Merleau-Ponty s often misunderstood notion of flesh was another way to signify what ...
This is one of the best books I've read about movies in a few years. Prince looks at the PCA papers for movies from the early talkies to the start of ...
Iranian cinema is today widely recognized not merely as a distinctive national cinema, but as one of the most innovative in the world. This internatio ...
This is one of the best books I've read about movies in a few years. Prince looks at the PCA papers for movies from the early talkies to the start of ...
Withnail and Us charts the journey of cult in culture through an exploration of British cult films and their fans. It is about our bizarre and endurin ...
Section One 1. Modernity and the City Film: Berlin 2. The Dark City: Film Noir: Los Angeles 3. The City of Love: Paris Section Two: 4. City Film Indus ...
Each essay in Cinematic Thinking is organized around an interpretation of a postwar filmmaker and the philosophical issues his or her work raises. The ...
Cinema: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates, and texts of the most important approaches to the study ...
What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin's famous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweeping look back at the near centu ...
The increasingly popular idea that cinematic fictions can "do" philosophy raises some difficult questions. Who is actually doing the philosophizing? I ...
