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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hollywood in Berlin: American cinema and Weimar Germany Author: Saunders, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| German Studies \| Film \| United States History \| European History Publisher's Description: The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the most important cultural developments of this century: global Americanization through the motion picture. . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Window shopping: cinema and the postmodern Author: Friedberg, Anne Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Popular Culture \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences - photography, urban st . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Echo and Narcissus: women's voices in classical Hollywood cinema Author: Lawrence, Amy Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Do women in classical Hollywood cinema ever truly speak for themselves? In Echo and Narcissus , Amy Lawrence examines eight classic films to show how women's speech is repeatedly constructed as a "problem," an affront to male authority. This book expands feminist studies of the representation of wom . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	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
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The red rooster scare: making cinema American, 1900-1910 Author: Abel, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Cultural Anthropology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Only once in cinema history have imported films dominated the American market: during the nickelodeon era in the early years of the twentieth century, when the Pathé company's "Red Rooster" films could be found "everywhere." Through extensive original research, Richard Abel demonstrates how crucial . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: The new German cinema: music, history, and the matter of style Author: Flinn, Caryl Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| German Studies \| Music Publisher's Description: When New German cinema directors like R. W. Fassbinder, Ulrike Ottinger, and Werner Schroeter explored issues of identity - national, political, personal, and sexual - music and film style played crucial roles. Most studies of the celebrated film movement, however, have sidestepped the role of music . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	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
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Romance and the "yellow peril": race, sex, and discursive strategies in Hollywood fiction Author: Marchetti, Gina Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Hollywood films about Asians and interracial sexuality are the focus of Gina Marchetti's provocative new work. While miscegenation might seem an unlikely theme for Hollywood, Marchetti shows how fantasy-dramas of interracial rape, lynching, tragic love, and model marriage are powerfully evident in A . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	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
10.	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
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Writing the character-centered screenplay Author: Horton, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Writing Publisher's Description: "We need good screenwriters who understand character." Everywhere Andrew Horton traveled in researching this book - from Hollywood to Hungary - he heard the same refrain. Yet most of the standard how-to books on screenwriting follow the film industry's earlier lead in focusing almost exclusively on . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	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
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hitchcock on Hitchcock: selected writings and interviews Author: Hitchcock, Alfred 1899- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: Gathered here for the first time are Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this ample selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock provides an enlivening commentary on a career that spanned decades and transformed the history of the ci . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Cinema and the invention of modern life Author: Charney, Leo Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Intellectual History \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Contributors, leading scholars in film and cultural studies, link the popul . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	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
16.	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
17.	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
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Six screenplays Author: Riskin, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: Screenwriter Robert Riskin (1897-1955) was a towering figure even among the giants of Hollywood's Golden Age. Known for his unique blend of humor and romance, wisecracking and idealism, Riskin teamed with director Frank Capra to produce some of his most memorable films. Pat McGilligan has collected . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Play it again, Sam: retakes on remakes Author: Horton, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: Play It Again, Sam is a timely investigation of a topic that until now has received almost no critical attention in film and cultural studies: the cinematic remake. As cinema enters its second century, more remakes are appearing than ever before, and these writers consider the full range: Hollywood . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	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