UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


Your request for similar items found 20 book(s).		Modify Search	Displaying 1 - 20 of 20 book(s)

1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Moving places: a life at the movies Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Autobiography Publisher's Description: Moving Places is the brilliant account of a life steeped in and shaped by the movies - part autobiography, part film analysis, part social history. Jonathan Rosenbaum, one of America's most gifted film critics, began his moviegoing in the 1950s in small-town Alabama, where his family owned and manag . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: More than night: film noir in its contexts Author: Naremore, James Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Literature Publisher's Description: "Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and 1950s - melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. In More Than Night , James Naremore discusses these pictures, but he also shows that the central term is more compl . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: A critical cinema 3: interviews with independent filmmakers Author: MacDonald, Scott 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: A Critical Cinema 3 continues Scott MacDonald's compilation of personal interviews and public discussions with major contributors to independent filmmaking and film awareness. An informative exchange with Amos Vogel, whose Cinema 16 Society drew American filmgoers into a broader sense of film histor . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Redefining Black film Author: Reid, Mark (Mark A.) Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| African American Studies Publisher's Description: Can films about black characters, produced by white filmmakers, be considered "black films"? In answering this question, Mark Reid reassesses black film history, carefully distinguishing between films controlled by blacks and films that utilize black talent, but are controlled by whites. Previous bl . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: A certain realism: making use of Pasolini's film theory and practice Author: Viano, Maurizio Sanzio 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was arguably the most complex director of postwar Italian cinema. His films - Accattone , The Canterbury Tales , Medea , Saló - continue to challenge and entertain new generations of moviegoers. A leftist, a homosexual, and a distinguished writer of fiction, poetry, a . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Film quarterly: forty years--a selection Author: Henderson, Brian Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: During its forty years as a forum for scholars, filmmakers, critics, and film lovers, Film Quarterly has looked in depth at the most critical elements in the political, social, theoretical, and aesthetic history of the cinema. Once closely tied to Hollywood, the journal was investigated by the Tenne . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Movies as politics Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| American Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this new collection of reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene. Rosenbaum, widely regarded as the most gifted contemporary American commentator on the cinema, explores the many links between film and our ideological ident . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Overhearing film dialogue Author: Kozloff, Sarah Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Studies \| Film Publisher's Description: Since the birth of cinema, film has been lauded as a visual rather than a verbal medium; this sentiment was epitomized by John Ford's assertion in 1964 that, "When a motion picture is at its best, it is long on action and short on dialogue." Little serious work has been done on the subject of film d . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sundance to Sarajevo: film festivals and the world they made Author: Turan, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world--from sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Sundance to Sarajevo is a tour of the world's film festivals by an insider whose familiarity with the personalities, places, and culture surrounding the cinema ma . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: A critical cinema 2: interviews with independent filmmakers Author: MacDonald, Scott 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: This sequel to A Critical Cinema offers a new collection of interviews with independent filmmakers that is a feast for film fans and film historians. Scott MacDonald reveals the sophisticated thinking of these artists regarding film, politics, and contemporary gender issues.The interviews explore th . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Light moving in time: studies in the visual aesthetics of avant-garde film Author: Wees, William C. (William Charles) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: To view a film is to see another's seeing mediated by the technology and techniques of the camera. By manipulating the cinematic apparatus in unorthodox ways, avant-garde filmmakers challenge the standardized versions of seeing perpetuated by the dominant film industry and generate ways of seeing th . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Overtones and undertones: reading film music Author: Brown, Royal S Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Music Publisher's Description: Since the days of silent films, music has been integral to the cinematic experience, serving, variously, to allay audiences' fears of the dark and to heighten a film's emotional impact. Yet viewers are often unaware of its presence. In this bold, insightful book, film and music scholar and critic Ro . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Black African cinema Author: Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: From the proselytizing lantern slides of early Christian missionaries to contemporary films that look at Africa through an African lens, N. Frank Ukadike explores the development of black African cinema. He examines the impact of culture and history, and of technology and co-production, on filmmakin . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Comedy/cinema/theory Author: Horton, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: The nature of comedy has interested many thinkers, from Plato to Freud, but film comedy has not received much theoretical attention in recent years. The essays in Comedy/Cinema/Theory use a range of critical and theoretical approaches to explore this curious and fascinating subject. The result is a . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Buñuel and Mexico: the crisis of national cinema Author: Acevedo-Muñoz, Ernesto R 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Though Luis Buñuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period. The only English-language study of Buñuel's Mexican films, this boo . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The films of Oshima Nagisa: images of a Japanese iconoclast Author: Turim, Maureen Cheryn 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Japan Publisher's Description: This study of the films of Oshima Nagisa is both an essential introduction to the work of a major postwar director of Japanese cinema and a theoretical exploration of strategies of filmic style. For almost forty years, Oshima has produced provocative films that have received wide distribution and in . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Refiguring American film genres: history and theory Author: Browne, Nick Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies \| Film \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This collection of essays by leading American film scholars charts a whole new territory in genre film criticism. Rather than assuming that genres are self-evident categories, the contributors offer innovative ways to think about types of films, and patterns within films, in a historical context. Ch . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The ciné goes to town: French cinema, 1896-1914 Author: Abel, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| French Studies \| European History \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This updated edition of Richard Abel's magisterial history of French cinema between 1896 and 1914 is based on extensive investigation of rare archival films and documents. Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: First cut: conversations with film editors Author: Oldham, Gabriella Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Media Studies Publisher's Description: First Cut offers an opportunity to learn what film editing really is, and to learn from the source. Gabriella Oldham's interviews with twenty-three award-winning film editors give a full picture of the complex art and craft of editing a film. Filled with animated anecdotes and detailed examples, thi . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The dark mirror: German cinema between Hitler and Hollywood Author: Koepnick, Lutz P. (Lutz Peter) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| German Studies \| Music \| Film Publisher's Description: Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas - Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's - in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirror examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930s until the mid 1950s, showing how Nazi filmmakers appr . . . [more] Similar Items