Brecht On Film & Radio
This volume gathers together, for the first time in English translation, Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast technologies that revolutionised arts and communication in the early part of the twentieth century This book includes all ...
Brecht On Film & Radio
From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts and communication in the twentieth century. Bertol...
Film, TV, and Music
Containing over 40 activities specifically designed for teenagers, this is an ideal photocopiable resource for busy teachers. The activities cover three popular themes - Film, TV and Music - and they provide graded supplementary material for three...
Film After Film
One of the world's most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital-and post-9/11-age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film theorists/critics like André Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, inclu...
Film As Film
Here at last is an introduction to film theory and its history without the jargon. Noted film scholar V. F. Perkins presents criteria for expanding our understanding and enjoyment of movies. He employs common sense words like balance, coherence, s...
Film
Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly ...
Film
Film: The Key Concepts presents a coherent, clear and exciting overview of film theory for beginning readers. The book takes the reader through the often conflicting analyses that make up film theory, illustrating arguments with examples from main...
Teaching Film and TV Documentary
Teaching Film and TV Documentary
Lighting for TV and Film
Skilful lighting involves a subtle blend of systematic mechanics and a sensitive visual imagination. It requires anticipation, perceptiveness, patience and know-how. But learning through practice alone can take a great deal of time. This book is a...
Creating Compelling Characters for Film, TV, Theatre and Radio
Strong characters - characters we love and hate, those we despair for at their low moments and egg on to their triumphs - are the foundation of any successful script. Written by award-winning writer Rib Davis and now fully updated for its second e...
Creating Compelling Characters for Film, TV, Theatre and Radio
Strong characters ? characters we love and hate, those we despair for at their low moments and egg on to their triumphs ? are the foundation of any successful script. Written by award-winning writer Rib Davis and now fully updated for its second e...
Creating Compelling Characters for Film, TV, Theatre and Radio
Strong characters ? characters we love and hate, those we despair for at their low moments and egg on to their triumphs ? are the foundation of any successful script. Written by award-winning writer Rib Davis and now fully updated for its second e...
Sound Design for Low & No Budget Films
Don't let your indie film be sabotaged by bad sound! One of the weakest technical aspects of a low or no budget short or feature film is usually the sound, and in Sound Design for Low and No Budget Films, author Patrick Winters explains what filmm...
Sound Design for Low & No Budget Films
Don't let your indie film be sabotaged by bad sound! One of the weakest technical aspects of a low or no budget short or feature film is usually the sound, and in Sound Design for Low and No Budget Films, author Patrick Winters explains what filmm...
Radiochromic Film
This book provides a first authoritative text on radiochromic film, covering the basic principles, technology advances, practical methods, and applications. It focuses on practical uses of radiochromic film in radiation dosimetry for diagnostic x-...
American Film
American Film
Film Festivals
The last decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in film festivals, with the field growing to a position of prominence within the space of a few short years. Film Festivals: History, Theory, Method, Practice represents a major addition to the literature on this topic, offering an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the area. With a combination of chapters specifically examining history, theory, method and practice, it offers a clear structure and systematic approach for the study of film festivals. Offering a collection of essays written by an international range of established scholars, it discusses well-known film festivals in Europe, North America and Asia, but equally devotes attention to the diverse range of smaller and/or specialized events that take place around the globe. It provides essential knowledge on the origin and development of film festivals, discusses the use of theory to study festivals, explores the methods of ethnographic and archival research,
Film Editing
Film Editing: Great Cuts Every Filmmaker and Movie Lover Must Know makes the invisible art of editing visible by using nearly 600 colorful frames from popular, recent films. The frames, accompanied by brisk descriptions, make it perfectly suited f...
Vampire Film
The authors consider and analyse each picture in detail: its style and approach, plot, acting, cinematography, set design, special effects and finally its quality of achievement. Illustrated with over 200 photographs, many quite rare and never rep...
Film Theory
What is the relationship between cinema and spectator? This is the key question for film theory, and one that Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener put at the center of their insightful and engaging book, now revised from its popular first e...
Film Listography
Now fans of the smash-hit Listography journal series (over a quarter of a million copies sold!) can list all their favorite movie picks. Featuring the colorful illustrations of artist Jon Stich throughout, Film Listography boasts over 70 list topi...
Film England
In a film business increasingly transnational in its production arrangements and global in its scope, what space is there for culturally English filmmaking? In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Higson demonstrates how a variety of Englishnesses hav...
Film Theory
What is the relationship between cinema and spectator? That is the central question for film theory, and renowned film scholars Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener use this question to guide students through all of the major film theories-from the ...
Film Histories
The book is arranged chronologically, and each chapter contains an introduction by the editors on the key developments within the period, followed by a classic piece of historical research about that period. Various types of film history are under...
Heritage Film
This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical debates around the heritage film, from its controversial status in British cinema of the 1980s to its expansion into a versatile international genre in the 1990s and 2000s. This stu...
Film Theory
What is the relationship between cinema and spectator? This is the key question for film theory, and one that Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener put at the center of their insightful and engaging book, now revised from its popular first e...
Film Experience
The Film Experience offers a comprehensive introduction to the art, language, industry, culture, and experience of the movieswith new digital tools to bring that experience to life and help students master course material. The text highlights how ...
Film Programming
This study explores artistic choices in cinema exhibition, focusing on film theaters, film festivals, and film archives and situating film-curating issues within an international context. Artistic and commercial film availability has increased ove...
Film Buff
You may be able to list every one of Spielberg and Hitchcock’s movies, but what about those lesser-known directors? You might be a Meryl Street or Katherine Hepburn obsessive, but do you know what role they got their starts in? If you think you know everything about film, Movie Buff will put you to the test with over 1000 questions that will make even the most devoted cinephile sweat. Divided into six categories, this game will put your knowledge to the test about Quotes, Actors, Awards Winners and Losers, Directors and Film Makers, Behind the Scenes Facts, and Connections. Pop some corn, roll the dice to pick a category, and get your game night rolling.
Film Genre
Film Genre
Film Festivals
The last decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in film festivals, with the field growing to a position of prominence within the space of a few short years. Film Festivals: History, Theory, Method, Practice represents a major a...
Film Noir
Film Noir
Film Festivals
The last decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in film festivals, with the field growing to a position of prominence within the space of a few short years. Film Festivals: History, Theory, Method, Practice represents a major a...
Children's Film
Films for children and young people are a constant in the history of cinema, from its beginnings to the present day. This book serves as a comprehensive introduction to the children's film, examining its recurrent themes and ideologies, and common...
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miniQUIZ - Film