General

Babel and Babylon: Miriam Hansen; Miriam Hansen offers an original perspective on American film by tying the emergence of spectatorship to the historical transformation of the public sphere. Focusing on exemplary moments in the American silent era, she explains how the concept of the spectator evolved as a crucial part of the classical Hollywood paradigm--as one of the new industry's strategies to integrate ethnically, socially, and sexually differentiated audiences in a modern culture of consumption.; Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Cahiers du Cinéma: The 1950s: Jim Hillier, Editor; Hardcover 1985 / Paperback

Cahiers du Cinéma: 1960-1968: Jim Hillier, Editor; Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1992

Cahiers du Cinéma: 1969-1972: Nick Browne, Editor; Edited by Jim Hillier; Hardcover 1989

Child of Paradise: Edward Turk; Marcel Carné symbolizes the period, approximately 1930-1945, when French cinema recaptured the creative vitality and prestige it had relinquished almost completely to the American film industry. The first critical biography of this director of classic films, including the epic historical romance Les Enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise), relates the saga of Carné’s meteoric rise in the 1930s and his decline from critical grace after the war.; Paperback / Hardcover

Planet Hong Kong: David Bordwell; In Planet Hong Kong David Bordwell trains virtually every critical weapon in the cinema studies arsenal on a film industry that has, ironically, been marginalized by its own popular success. Film scholars will be grateful for its theoretical breadth and acuity; film fans will be happy with the graceful way Bordwell weaves into his chapters an extraordinary amount of telling anecdote; and filmmakers will be thrilled with his wonderfully revealing frame-by-frame analyses of Hong Kong cinema's most exemplary moments.; Paperback 2000 / Hardcover 2000

Pursuits of Happiness: Stanley Cavell; During the 30's and 40's, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after divorce or separation. And the female protagonists were strong, independent, and sophisticated. Here, Stanley Cavell examines seven of those classic movies for their cinematic techniques, and for such varies themes as feminism, liberty and interdependence. Included are Adam's Rib, Bringing Up Baby, and The Philadelphia Story.; Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

Reel Nature: Gregg Mitman; Like the museum and the zoo, nature films seek to recreate the experience of unspoiled nature while appealing to a popular audience, through a blend of scientific research and commercial promotion, education and entertainment, authenticity and artifice. In the first major analysis of American nature films in the twentieth century, Gregg Mitman shows how our cultural values, scientific needs, and new technologies produced the images that have shaped our contemporary view of wildlife.; Hardcover 1999

Republic of Images: Alan Williams; Republic of Images traces the evolution of French filmmaking from 1895--the year of the debut of the Cinematographe in Paris--to the present day. Williams offers a unique synthesis of history, biography, aesthetics and film theory. He captures the formal and stylistic developments of film in France over nearly one hundred years.; Paperback 1992 / Hardcover 1992

Screening History: Gore Vidal; Gore Vidal intertwines fond recollections of films savored in the movie palaces of his Washington, D.C., boyhood with strands of autobiography and trenchant observations about American politics.; Paperback / Hardcover

Storytelling in Film and Television: Kristin Thompson; Derided as simple, dismissed as inferior to film, famously characterized as a vast wasteland, television nonetheless exerts an undeniable, apparently inescapable power in our culture. The secret of television's success may well lie in the remarkable narrative complexities underlying its seeming simplicity, complexities Kristin Thompson unmasks in this engaging analysis of the narrative workings of television and film.; Paperback 2003 / Hardcover 2003

Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Kristin Thompson; Drawing on a wide range of films from the 1920s to the 1990s--from Keaton's Our Hospitality to Casablanca to Terminator 2, Kristin Thompson offers the first in-depth analysis of Hollywood's storytelling techniques and how they are used to make complex, easily comprehensible, entertaining films. Thompson then demonstrates in detail how classical narrative techniques work in ten box-office and critical successes made since the New Hollywood began in the 1970s including Tootsie, The Silence of the Lambs, Parenthood, Alien, and Hannah and Her Sisters.; Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999

Walking with the Wind: Abbas Kiarostami; Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Translator; Michael C. Beard, Translator; This bilingual edition of verse by the celebrated Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami includes English translations of more than two hundred crystalline, haiku-like poems, together with their Persian originals. The translators contribute an illuminating introduction to Kiarostami's poetic enterprise, examining its relationship to his unique cinematic corpus and to the traditions of classic and contemporary Persian poetry.; Paperback 2002

The World Viewed: Stanley Cavell; Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars, directors, and most famous films--as well as his fresh look at Goddard, Bergman, and other great European directors--will be of lasting interest to movie-viewers and intelligent people everywhere.; Paperback 1979 / Hardcover 1980

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