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| 1. |  | Title: Laughing out loud: writing the comedy-centered screenplay Author: Horton, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Writing Publisher's Description: Whoever wrote "Make 'em laugh!" knew that it's easier said than done. But people love to laugh, and good comedy will always sell. With the help of this complete and entertaining guide, writers and would-be writers for film and television can look forward to writing comedy that goes far beyond stereo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | 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 |
| 3. |  | 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 |
| 4. |  | Title: Dignity and vulnerability: strength and quality of character Author: Harris, George W Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy Publisher's Description: In this significant new addition to moral theory, George Harris challenges a view of the dignity and worth of persons that goes back through Kant and Christianity to the Stoics. He argues that we do not, in fact, believe this view, which traces any breakdowns of character to failures of strength. Wh . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | 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 |
| 6. |  | Title: Playing with power in movies, television, and video games: from Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Author: Kinder, Marsha Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Television and Radio | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: How do children today learn to understand stories? Why do they respond so enthusiastically to home video games and to a myth like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? And how are such fads related to multinational media mergers and the "new world order"? In assessing these questions, Marsha Kinder provides . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | 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 |
| 8. |  | 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 |
| 9. |  | 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 |
| 10. |  | 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 |
| 11. |  | 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 |
| 12. |  | 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 |
| 13. |  | Title: Endless night: cinema and psychoanalysis, parallel histories Author: Bergstrom, Janet 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Art Theory | Psychology Publisher's Description: The "endless night" that film theory and psychoanalysis share is the darkness that these two disciplines face in their quest for the logics of intelligibility. This collection emphasizes the history of theory to demonstrate that film theory must be written with a strong sense of historical conscious . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Backstory 3: interviews with screenwriters of the 1960s Author: McGilligan, Patrick Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Writing Publisher's Description: The Backstory series of unique "oral histories" chronicles the lives and careers of notable Hollywood screenwriters - in their own words. Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age focused on the early sound era and the 1930s. Backstory 2 featured Interviews with Screenwriter . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | 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 |
| 16. |  | 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 |
| 17. |  | 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 |
| 18. |  | Title: Backstory 2: interviews with screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s Author: McGilligan, Patrick Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Theatre Publisher's Description: "Backstory" is the screenwriter's term for what happens in a plot before the screen story begins. In this companion volume to McGilligan's widely praised Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age , fourteen studio scribes active in later decades rail and reminisce about thei . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: The vanishing vision: the inside story of public television Author: Day, James 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies | American Studies | Sociology | Television and Radio | History Publisher's Description: This spirited, first-ever history of public television offers an insider's account of its topsy-turvy, forty-year odyssey. James Day, a founder of San Francisco's KQED and a past president of New York's WNET, chronicles public television's fascinating evolution from its inauspicious roots in the 195 . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Hollywood quarterly: film culture in postwar America, 1945-1957 Author: Smoodin, Eric Loren Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: The first issue of Hollywood Quarterly, in October 1945, marked the appearance of the most significant, successful, and regularly published journal of its kind in the United States. For its entire life, the Quarterly held to the leftist utopianism of its founders, several of whom would later be blac . . . [more] Similar Items |