Books

  • Various – BFI Film Classics Series: 154 Titles (1992 – 2015)

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    BFI Film Classics is a series of finely written, illustrated books that introduce, interpret and celebrate landmark films of world cinema. Each volume offers an argument for the film’s classic status, together with a discussion of its production and reception history, its place within a genre or national cinema, an account of it’s technical and aesthetic importance, and in many cases, the author’s personal response to the film. The BFI Film Classics series now includes titles previously published separately in the BFI Film Classics and the BFI Modern Classics Series.Read More »

  • Nathan Andersen – Shadow Philosophy: Plato’s Cave and Cinema (2014)

    2011-2020BooksNathan AndersenUSA

    Ebook: 172 pages
    Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (April 17, 2014)
    Language: English
    eISBN: 978-1-315-81490-2

    Shadow Philosophy: Plato’s Cave and Cinema is an accessible and exciting new contribution to film-philosophy, which shows that to take film seriously is also to engage with the fundamental questions of philosophy. Nathan Andersen brings Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange into philosophical conversation with Plato’s Republic, comparing their contributions to themes such as the nature of experience and meaning, the character of justice, the contrast between appearance and reality, the importance of art, and the impact of images.Read More »

  • David LaRocca – The Philosophy of War Films (2014)

    2011-2020BooksDavid LaRoccaUSA

    Series: Philosophy Of Popular Culture
    Ebook: 492 pages
    Publisher: University Press of Kentucky (December 4, 2014)
    Language: English
    eISBN: 978-0-8131-4512-9

    Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from Hollywood blockbusters to independent films, have sought to show the complexities and horrors of war on-screen.Read More »

  • Charles Bennett – Hitchcock’s Partner in Suspense: The Life of Screenwriter Charles Bennett (2014)

    2011-2020Alfred HitchcockBooksCharles BennettUSA

    Series: Screen Classics
    Ebook: 328 pages
    Publisher: University Press of Kentucky; 1st edition (March 26, 2014)
    Language: English
    eISBN: 978-0-8131-4480-1

    With a career that spanned from the silent era to the 1990s, British screenwriter Charles Bennett (1899–1995) lived an extraordinary life. His experiences as an actor, director, playwright, film and television writer, and novelist in both England and Hollywood left him with many amusing anecdotes, opinions about his craft, and impressions of the many famous people he knew. Among other things, Bennett was a decorated WWI hero, an eminent Shakespearean actor, and an Allied spy and propagandist during WWII, but he is best remembered for his commercially and critically acclaimed collaborations with directors Sir Alfred Hitchcock and Cecil B. DeMille.Read More »

  • Ruth Barton – Rex Ingram: Visionary Director of the Silent Screen (2014)

    2001-2010BooksRuth BartonUSA

    Series: Screen Classics
    Ebook: 328 pages
    Publisher: University Press of Kentucky (October 13, 2014)
    Language: English
    eISBN: 978-0-8131-4711-6

    Noted for his charisma, talent, and striking good looks, director Rex Ingram (1893−1950) is ranked alongside D. W. Griffith, Marshall Neilan, and Erich von Stroheim as one of the greatest artists of the silent cinema. Ingram briefly studied sculpture at the Yale University School of Art after emigrating from Ireland to the United States in 1911; but he was soon seduced by the new medium of moving pictures and abandoned his studies for a series of jobs in the film industry. Over the next decade, he became one of the most popular directors in Hollywood, directing smash hits such as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), and Scaramouche (1923).Read More »

  • Kristin Thompson & David Bordwell – Film Art – An Introduction (8th ed) (2006)

    2001-2010BooksKristin Thompson and David BordwellUSA

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    To quote Martin Scorsese, “Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.” David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson have turned Scorsese’s maxim into a career. The husband-wife team of film critics and scholars teach at the University of Wisconsin, publish books, maintain an indispensable and routinely astonishing blog, and lecture regularly at film festivals around the world. They’re strangers to the general public, but well known (if not always properly appreciated) by aficionados of film history and technique…Read More »

  • Sergei M. Eisenstein – Drawings (1961)

    1961-1970BooksSergei M. EisensteinUSSR

    Рисунки. Dessins. Drawings.
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

    Hardcover: 228 pages
    Publisher: Publishing House “Iskustvo” (Art) (May 30, 1961)
    Language: Russian, English, French
    Product Dimensions: 62 x 94.8

    Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958).

    Eisenstein’s book presents his drawings and sketches for his films of different years as well as trilingual texts: essays by Y. Pimenov (“The Drawings of Eisenstein”), Olga Aisenstat (“Eisenstein the Graphic Artist”), Gennady Myasnikov (“Director’s View of the Film”) and Eisenstein himself (“How I Learned to Draw” and “A Few Words about My Drawings”).Read More »

  • Jennifer M. Bean, Anupama Kapse, Laura Horak – Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space (2014)

    2011-2020BooksUSA

    In this cross-cultural history of narrative cinema and media from the 1910s to the 1930s, leading and emergent scholars explore the transnational crossings and exchanges that occurred in early cinema between the two world wars. Drawing on film archives from around the world, this volume advances the premise that silent cinema freely crossed national borders and linguistic thresholds in ways that became far less possible after the emergence of sound. These essays address important questions about the uneven forces–geographic, economic, political, psychological, textual, and experiential–that underscore a non-linear approach to film history. The “messiness” of film history, as demonstrated here, opens a new realm of inquiry into unexpected political, social, and aesthetic crossings of silent cinema.Read More »

  • The Criterion Collection – Criterion Designs (2014)

    2011-2020BooksThe Criterion CollectionUSA

    A lavishly illustrated coffee-table book celebrating thirty years of artwork from the Criterion Collection. The most exciting names in design and illustration today apply their talents to some of the most important and influential films of all time. This volume gathers highlights from designs commissioned by the Criterion Collection, featuring covers, supplemental art, and never-before-seen sketches and concept art plus a gallery of every Criterion cover since the collection’s first laserdisc in 1984. From avant-garde experiments to big-budget blockbusters, cult favorites to the towering classics of world cinema, the depth and breadth of what film can be is on display in these striking images. Whether painstakingly faithful re-creations or bold reimaginings, the diverse designs collected here offer new ways for cinephiles and design aficionados alike to engage with the world’s greatest filmmakers .Read More »

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