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| 1. |  | 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 |
| 2. |  | Title: Before the nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company Author: Musser, Charles Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | United States History | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Musser takes us into the long-forgotten world of early cinema - unexpectedly sophisticated and yet radically different from current movie-making. Focusing on Edwin S. Porter, most often remembered as the producer of The Great Train Robbery , Musser situates Porter's achievements within the vibrant c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | 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 |
| 4. |  | Title: Blackface, white noise: Jewish immigrants in the Hollywood melting pot Author: Rogin, Michael 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies | Film | United States History | Jewish Studies | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: The tangled connections that have bound Jews to African Americans in popular culture and liberal politics are at the heart of Michael Rogin's arresting and unnerving book. Looking at films from Birth of a Nation to Forrest Gump , Rogin explores blackface in Hollywood films as an aperture to broader . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Cecil B. DeMille and American culture: the silent era Author: Higashi, Sumiko Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | History | Film | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era. In this innovative work, which integrates cultural history and cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi shows how DeMil . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | 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 |
| 7. |  | Title: Chuck Jones: a flurry of drawings Author: Kenner, Hugh Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: American Studies | Film | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Creator of the mono-maniacal Wile E. Coyote and his elusive prey, the Road Runner, Chuck Jones has won three Academy Awards and been responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd. Who better to do Chuck Jones than Hugh Kenner, master wordsmith . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | 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 |
| 9. |  | 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 |
| 10. |  | 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 |
| 11. |  | Title: The country of memory: remaking the past in late socialist Vietnam Author: Tai, Hue-Tam Ho 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Southeast Asia | Film | Gender Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Popular Culture | Asian History Publisher's Description: The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. The Country of Memory fills this gap in the literature by addressing the subject of history, memory, an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | 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 |
| 13. |  | 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 |
| 14. |  | 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 |
| 15. |  | 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 |
| 16. |  | Title: Eloquent gestures: the transformation of performance style in the Griffith Biograph films Author: Pearson, Roberta E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: Between 1908 and 1913, D. W. Griffith played a key role in the reformulating of film's narrative techniques, thus contributing to the creation of what we now think of as the classical Hollywood cinema. This book is the only extensive treatment of a critical period in the history of film acting: the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | 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. |  | 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 |
| 19. |  | 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. |  | Title: Flesh wounds: the culture of cosmetic surgery Author: Blum, Virginia L 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Gender Studies | Film | Psychology | Literary Theory and Criticism | Sociology | Anthropology | Television and Radio | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: When did cosmetic surgery become a common practice, the stuff of everyday conversation? In a work that combines a provocative ethnography of plastic surgery and a penetrating analysis of beauty and feminism, Virginia L. Blum searches out the social conditions and imperatives that have made ours a cu . . . [more] Similar Items |