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Here at last is an introduction to film theory and its history without the jargon. Noted film scholar V. F. Perkins presents criteria for expanding our understanding and enjoyment of movies. He employ

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Acclaimed director Weston offers a deeply creative exploration on how to access and stimulate the filmmaker's most precious assets: instincts, imagination, and intuition.

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Sergei Eisenstein's greatness lies not only in his films, such as Potemkin or Ivan the Terrible, or his contributions to the technique and art of the cinema but also in his contributions as a theoretician and philosopher of the art. This edition includes a new translation of Eisenstein's essay on Orozco. Originally published in 1982. The Princeto

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Tracing the history of modern cinema, this book shows us how, between its images and its stories, the cinema tells its truth.

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This forward-looking exploration of contemporary American film across the last 40 years identifies and examines the specific movies that changed the film industry and shaped its present and future.

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This book analyzes Hungarian and Romanian cinema employs a film historical overview to merge the study of small national cinemas with film genre theory and cultural theory.

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This encyclopedic reference to the American movie musical identifies and describes the musicals and the artists who made them.

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A wide-ranging, informative, stimulating and inventive study of light - an essential element of cinema. -- .

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An original and provocative study. Theoretically lucid and engaging, it will be an essential text for any student of film. -- .

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An original and provocative study. Theoretically lucid and engaging, it will be an essential text for any student of film. -- .

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Explores the ways that music has been used in the cinemas of various understudied countries in Australasia, Africa, Latin America and Europe.

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Explores the ways that music has been used in the cinemas of various understudied countries in Australasia, Africa, Latin America and Europe

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Provides the student with a critical introduction to film noir, taking into account the complexity of the term and the difficulties of a straightforward definition.

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Propaganda witnessed a transformation during WWII, when film was fast becoming the most popular form of entertainment. This work compares how each country exploited their national cinema for political purposes. It looks at how both political propaganda films and escapist cinema were critical in maintaining the morale of civilians and the military.

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Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Hitler and Goebbels regarded cinema as their most important weapon for mass political propaganda. This book examines the ways in which cinema was used for political purposes by two of the most highly politicised societies in 20th-century European history.

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A collection of essays on the concept of film stardom, and the shifting definition of a 'star'. The collection ranges across contemporary stars such as Sandra Bullock, Jackie Chan and Jim Carrey, those from Hollywood's past like Clara Bow and Charlton Heston, and those from other arenas, such as Prince and Cynthia Rothrock. -- .

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This volume contains three new screenplays (Bedrock, Old World and New, and Falling Angels) by the writer-director of the prize-winning films Nothing But a Man, The Plot against Harry, Vengeance Is Mine, and Pilgrim, Farewell.

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A highly readable account of film theory and is an indispensable resource for students -- .

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Brings together key interviews with cinema's leading directors, who have been selected because of their cinematic vision, because they have a particular way of seeing the world and of filming it, and who have created a body of work which is both hugely popular and critically acclaimed.