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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
by Ethan De Seife, Steven Jay Schneider, Edward Buscombe, Linda Badley, Geoff Andrew, Tom Charity, Kathryn Bergeron, Joanna Berry, Garrett Chaffin-Quiray, Travis Crawford, Adrian Danks

ISBN 0764157019 (0-7641-5701-9)
Hardcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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"You played it for her, Sam. Now, play it for me." Everybody loves a good movie, and Casablanca is just one of the classics described in this, the ultimate book about movies! This volume's expert team of authors spans a full century of production, concisely describing 1001 of the best films from around the world. The listings are dramatically augmented with memorable photos, both in color and black and white. The book is a chrono-logical survey covering the best cinematic dramas, comedies, westerns, musicals, suspense and horror films, gangster classics, films noir, sci-fi epics, documentaries, and adaptations of novels and stage plays. Starting in 1902 with the French production, Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) and the famous 1903 American short, The Great Train Robbery, this immensely enjoyable read moves forward chronologically. Film fans review the 1920s silent classics of D. W. Griffith and the comedies of Chaplin and Keaton, then go on to the era of sound films, beginning in 1927 with Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer. Soon to follow were von Sternberg's 1931 classic with Marlene Dietrich, Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel), the Bela Lugosi portrayal of Dracula, and the inimitable King Kong. Other highlights from the 1930s include screwball comedies like It Happened One Night and Bringing Up Baby, the elegant song-and-dance fests that paired Astaire and Rogers, the crazy antics of the Marx Brothers, and the classic Warner Brothers gangster films where James Cagney, George Raft, and Edward G. Robinson were brought to justice in the final reel. In the 1940s, The Maltese Falconand Casablanca made Humphrey Bogart a household name--and spanning nearly a half-century, from the 1930s to the '80s, Alfred Hitchcock's suspense classics thrilled millions. Also well represented are the post-World War II European New Wave directors, including Pasolini, Fellini, and Antonioni from Italy, Resnais and Truffaut from France, and many others. Here too in words and photos are the classic westerns, from epics starring John Wayne and Gary Cooper to those in which Clint Eastwood shot it out with the bad and the ugly. --And certainly not to be overlooked are the great musicals, from Singin' in the Rain to Chicago.Readers who open this book to any page will find a major film described with a complete list of credits, an essay summarizing its story line and screen-history, and still shots of some of the film's memorable scenes. At the back of the book, both an alpha-betical index and a genre index will help readers find any film they're looking for in a hurry. Collectors of DVDs and video tapes will find this volume a must for their bookshelf, but even casual moviegoers will enjoy browsing through this big, entertaining reference book. For students of cinema, for discerning film buffs, for general moviegoers, and for readers who enjoy reminiscing over unforgettable lines of dialogue, here's the best place to start. [via]
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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
by Lucy Summers, Edward Buscombe, Linda Badley, Geoff Andrew, Kathryn Bergeron, Joanna Berry

ISBN 0764159070 (0-7641-5907-0)
Hardcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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Updated with brand-new entries to describe the most recent major motion pictures, this critically-acclaimed volume spans more than a century of moviemaking, concisely describing 1001 of the best films from around the world. New in this edition are entries to describe such film hits as Lord of the Rings, Mystic River, Farenheit 9/11, and Million Dollar Baby. But in fact, this volume's team of critics goes back to 1902, describing such films as The Great Train Robbery, and progressing chronologically across the decades to cover the best cinematic dramas, comedies, westerns, musicals, suspense and horror films, gangster classics, films noir, sci-fi epics, documentaries, and adaptations of novels and stage plays made by filmmakers around the world. Each entry includes a full list of cast and credits, awards won by the film, an essay summarizing the story line and screen-history, and still shots of the film's memorable scenes. At the back of the book, both an alphabetical index and a genre index will help readers find any film they're looking for. Movie fans will find descriptions of great musicals like Singing in the Rain, westerns like High Noon, science-fiction classics like Star Wars, dramas like Chinatown and Schindler's List, and international classics from master directors who include Fellini, Antonioni, Resnais, Truffaut, Eisenstein, Kurosawa, and many others. Here is a volume that belongs in the personal library of film buffs, movie reviewers, collectors of DVDs-and every reader who enjoys reminiscing over great movies of the past and present. Hundreds of movie still shots in color and black and white. "... a great motivating guide to cinema. After reading one of its engaging, often profound entries on a missed film, you want to ... rent it. Best of all, it includes international, silent, animated, and recent films."
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Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema
by Teresa De Lauretis

ISBN 0253203163 (0-253-20316-3)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr

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"There is hardly a page in this collection of hard-thought and brilliantly written essays that does not yield some new insight." Hayden White
"... de Lauretiss writing is brisk and refreshingly lucid." International Film Guide
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Anatomy of Film
by Bernard F. Dick

ISBN 0312415168 (0-312-41516-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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This long awaited third edition offers a clearly written introduction to the art of film. Retaining its emphasis on the fundamentals of critical analysis and evaluation, it includes a complete guide to the elements of film as well as substantial coverage of film criticism and analysis of film genres. It includes over 80 stills from film classics both past and present. [via]
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The Big Tomorrow
by May

ISBN 0226511634 (0-226-51163-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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In this daring reexamination of the connections between national politics and Hollywood movies, Lary May offers a fresh interpretation of American culture from the New Deal through the Cold Warone in which a populist, egalitarian ethos found itself eventually supplanted by a far different view of the nation.

"One of the best books ever written about the movies." Tom Ryan, The Age

"The most exhilarating work of revisionist film history since Pauline Kael's Citizen Kane. . . . May's take on what movies once were (energizing, as opposed to enervating), and hence can become again, is enough to get you believing in them again as one of the regenerative forces America so sorely needs."Jay Carr, Boston Globe

"A startling, revisionist history of Hollywood's impact on politics and American culture. . . . A convincing and important addition to American cultural criticism."Publishers Weekly

"A controversial overview of 30 years of American film history; must reading for any serious student of the subject."Choice

"A provocative social history of Hollywood's influence in American life from the 1930s to the 1950s. May argues persuasively that movies in the period offered a good deal of tough criticism of economic and social conditions in U.S. society. . . . May challenges us to engage in some serious rethinking about Hollywood's impact on American society in the middle of the twentieth century."Robert Brent Toplin, American Historical Review

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The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way
by Lary May

ISBN 0226511626 (0-226-51162-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
by Vito Russo

ISBN 0060961325 (0-06-096132-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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When Vito Russo published the first edition of The Celluloid Closet in 1981, there was little question that it was a groundbreaking book. Today it is still one of the most informative and provocative books written about gay people and popular culture. By examining the images of homosexuality and gender variance in Hollywood films from the 1920s to the present, Russo traced a history not only of how gay men and lesbians had been erased or demonized in movies but in all of American culture as well. Chronicling the depictions of gay people such as the "sissy" roles of Edward Everett Horton and Franklin Pangborn in 1930s comedies or predatory lesbians in 1950s dramas (see Lauren Bacall in Young Man with a Horn and Barbara Stanwyck in Walk on the Wild Side), Russo details how homophobic stereotypes have both reflected and perpetrated the oppression of gay people. In the revised edition, published a year before his death in 1990, Russo added information on the new wave of independent and gay-produced films--The Times of Harvey Milk, Desert Hearts, Buddies--that emerged during the 1980s. --Michael Bronski [via]
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Cinema 1: Movement-Image
by Gilles Deleuze

ISBN 0816614008 (0-8166-1400-8)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr

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Cinema 2: The Time-Image
by Gilles Deleuze

ISBN 0485120704 (0-485-12070-4)
Softcover, Continuum International Publishing Group, Limited

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This text continues the major reassessment of cinema begun in Deleuze's "Cinema I: The Movement Image." In this volume, Deleuze is concerned with the representation of time in film and with the cinematic treatment of memory, thought and speech. [via]
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Down And Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, And The Rise Of Independent Film
by Peter Biskind

ISBN 0684862581 (0-684-86258-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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It wasn't so long ago that the Sundance Film Festival was an inconsequential event somewhere in Utah, and Miramax was a tiny distributor of music documentaries and soft-core trash. Today, of course, Sundance is the most important film festival this side of Cannes, and Miramax has become an industry giant, part of the huge Disney empire. Likewise, the directors who emerged from the independent movement, such as Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, and David O. Russell -- who once had to max out their credit cards to realize their visions on the screen -- are now among the best-known directors in Hollywood. Not to mention the actors who emerged with them, like Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Ethan Hawke, and Uma Thurman.
"Down and Dirty Pictures" chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers and of the twin engines -- Sundance and Miramax -- that have powered them. As he did in his acclaimed "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls," Peter Biskind profiles the people who took the independent movement from obscurity to the Oscars, most notably Sundance founder Robert Redford and Harvey Weinstein, who with his brother, Bob, made Miramax an indie powerhouse. Biskind follows Sundance as it grew from a regional film festival to the premier showcase of independent film, succeeding almost despite the mercurial Redford, whose visionary plans were nearly thwarted by his own quixotic personality. He charts in fascinating detail the meteoric rise of the controversial Harvey Weinstein, often described as the last mogul, who created an Oscar factory that became the envy of the studios, while leaving a trail of carnage in his wake. As in "Easy Riders," Biskind's incisive account is loaded with vibrant anecdotes andoutrageous stories, all of it blended into a fast-moving narrative. Redford, the Weinsteins, and the directors, producers, and actors Biskind profiles are the people who reinvented Hollywood, making independent films mainstream. But success invariably means compromise, and it remains to be seen whether the indie spirit can survive its corporate embrace.
Candid, mesmerizing, and penetrating, "Down and Dirty Pictures" is a must-read for anyone interested in the film world and where it's headed.
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Film Art
by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson

ISBN 0072317256 (0-07-231725-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Education

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Film Art is often assigned to college students taking their first film class. Authors David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson do not follow the traditional method of teaching film art through a close analysis of individual films. Instead, they provide an overview of the major issues students confront when they watch movies. In clear, straightforward prose, the authors describe and dissect the complexities of filmmaking, film narrative, film form, and film technique. This book serves as a fine introduction not only to the field of film studies, but also to the theories and concerns of two of the most important scholars in that field. [via]
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Film Art: An Introduction
by Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell

ISBN 0071215921 (0-07-121592-1)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill

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Film Art is often assigned to college students taking their first film class. Authors David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson do not follow the traditional method of teaching film art through a close analysis of individual films. Instead, they provide an overview of the major issues students confront when they watch movies. In clear, straightforward prose, the authors describe and dissect the complexities of filmmaking, film narrative, film form, and film technique. This book serves as a fine introduction not only to the field of film studies, but also to the theories and concerns of two of the most important scholars in that field. [via]
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Film Art: An Introduction
by David Bordwell

ISBN 0071140735 (0-07-114073-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill

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Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, david bordwell's and kristin thompson's film art has been the most respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. While continuing to provide the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, the seventh edition has been extensively re-designed in full color greatly enhancing the text's visual appeal and overall accessibility to today's students. Throughout the text, all images presented are frame enlargements as opposed to production stills or advertising photos. Supported by a text-specific cd-rom with video clips, an instructor's manual, and text-specific website, film art can also be packaged with the award-winning film, form, and culture cd-rom [via]
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Film As Art
by Rudolf Arnheim

ISBN 0520248376 (0-520-24837-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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In the fall of 1957 the University of California Press expanded Arnheim's 1933 book Film by four essays and brought that landmark work back into print as Film as Art. Now nearly fifty years after that re-edition, the book continues to occupy an important place in the literature of film. Arnheim's method, provocative in this age of technological wizardry, was to focus on the way art in film was derived from that medium's early limitations: no sound, no color, no three-dimensional depth.
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Film History: An Introduction
by Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell

ISBN 0070384290 (0-07-038429-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social

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Written by two of the leading film scholars, Film History: An Introduction, is the long-awaited, comprehensive survey that not only acknowledges the contributions of Hollywood and films from other U.S. sources, but broadens its scope to examine filmmaking internationally. As with the authors' bestselling Film Art, Fifth Edition, concepts and events are illustrated with actual frame enlargements, giving students more realistic points of reference than competing books that use publicity stills. Any serious film scholar -- professor, undergraduate, or graduate student -- will want to see and keep Film History. [via]
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Film Noir Reader
by Alain Silver, James Ursini

ISBN 0879101970 (0-87910-197-0)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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The Film Sense
by Jay Leyda, Sergeii Mikhaiilovich Eisenstein

ISBN 0156309351 (0-15-630935-1)
Softcover, Harcourt

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Film Theory: An Introduction
by Robert Stam

ISBN 063120654X (0-631-20654-X)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings
by Marshall Cohen, Gerald Mast

ISBN 0195024982 (0-19-502498-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press

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Brought up to date with an expanded range of selections, extended historical coverage, and a dedicated pluralistic commitment, the third edition of this highly popular text on film aesthetics features major additions of contemporary topics in film theory--including psychoanalytic, feminist, and Marxist approaches--and new essays on television, horror films, and experimental movie making.
Of the 53 selections, 13 are new. The section "Kinds of Film" has been retitled "Film Genres" and concentrates exclusively on the distinctions within a single type of film: classical Hollywood narrative cinema. The final section, now called "Film: Psychology, Society, and Ideology" is substantially revised to take into account film's relationship to its consumers: how films shape or reflect cultural attitudes, reinforce or reject dominant modes of cultural thinking, and stimulate or frustrate people's needs and drives. Throughout the book chapter introductions have been rewritten to reflect today's concerns.
Current and comprehensive, the book that The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism called "the best collection available on the disparate comments in the fields of film theory and criticism" is now even better. [via]
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Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings
by Gerald Mast, Leo Braudy, Marshall Cohen

ISBN 0195063988 (0-19-506398-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The fourth edition of this classic resource is updated to illustrate the most recent approaches in film theory, including semiotic and structuralist imperatives, Marxist historical and Freudian psychoanalytic analysis, and feminist and deconstructionist views, and each section has been revised to show the impact of new thinking on matters such as film language, the film medium, and the film artist. More than half of the contents are new, providing a broad survey of thinking about film over the past eight decades. A comprehensive text for students of film, it is also an invaluable resource for courses in semiotics and modern culture and media. [via]
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Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings
by Leo Braudy, Marshall Cohen

ISBN 0195158172 (0-19-515817-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Film Theory and Criticism, previously edited by Gerald Mast, Marshall Cohen, and Leo Braudy, has been the most widely used and cited anthology of critical writings about film. Extensively revised and updated, this fifth edition is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in film theory and criticism. Featuring both classic texts and cutting-edge essays from almost a century of thought and writing about the movies, it includes 19 articles new to this edition and new introductions for the individual sections. The sections themselves have been reformulated to help lead readers into a richer understanding of what the movies have and can accomplish both as individual works and as contributions to what has been called "the art form of the twentieth century." Building upon the wide range of selections and the extensive historical coverage that marked previous editions, this collection stretches from the earliest attempts to define the cinema to the most recent efforts to place film in the context of psychology, sociology, and philosophy and to explore issues of gender and race. A newly conceived section on Film Narrative and the Other Arts has been added, the section on Film Genre has been reorganized to include a special focus on the horror film, and a new subsection of essays addresses the issue of film spectatorship. This volume also features new and more accurate translations of the important essays of Sergei Eisenstein and gives more space to such important theorists as André Bazin and Christian Metz. [via]
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Framer Framed
by Trinh Minh-Ha

ISBN 0415905621 (0-415-90562-1)
Softcover, Routledge

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From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies
by Molly Haskell

ISBN 0226318850 (0-226-31885-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible"
by Linda Williams

ISBN 0520219430 (0-520-21943-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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In this unprecedented and brilliant study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of anti-porn/anti-censorship position-taking to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does--as a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary discourse on sexuality. Working against tendencies to oversimplify hard core--either as pure abusive power or pure liberatory pleasure--Williams sees the form as inherently contradictory. Hard core claims to speak confessional and involuntary "truths" of sex. However, analysis of its forms (including its spectacular "money shots" and sexual "numbers" parallel to those in musicals) reveals that sex in the sense of a natural, visible "doing what comes naturally" is in fact the supreme and deeply contradictory fiction of the genre. Gender, the social construction of the relation between the sexes, is what determines this fiction.
For most of its history, pornography has been for men and about women. Yet in hard core's attempt to solve the riddles of sex with more, different, or better sex, the monolith of masculine pleasure breaks down and the possibility of women using pornography for their own purposes begins to emerge. To this end, Williams traces the roots of contemporary hard core's quest to see the "truth" of sex back to the origins of cinema itself--in motion studies of women's bodily movements. She then follows the generic development of hard core through its silent, primitive stag form and into feature-length narratives like Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door, up to its recent sadomasochistic and "couples market" permutations--showing how the form has begun to respond and react to changing gender relations. Neither a defense of what pornography has been nor a utopian dream of what it should be, this daring book refuses simply to scapegoat the form as the cause of all our ills. Instead, Williams utilizes the insights of recent studies of mass culture to show that hard core is a discourse, a genre, and a rhetoric that can only be understood through comparison with, rather than separation from, other forms.
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A History of Narrative Film
by David A. Cook

ISBN 0393978680 (0-393-97868-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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History of Film that has been narrated orally or in writing. [via]
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Hollywood's America: Reflections on the Silver Screen
by Randy Roberts

ISBN 188108910X (1-881089-10-X)
Softcover, Brandywine Pr

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Hong Kong's Heroic Bloodshed
by Martin Fitzgerald

ISBN 1903047072 (1-903047-07-2)
Softcover, Pocket Essentials

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How to Read a Film: The Art, Technology, Language, History and Theory of Film and Media
by James Monaco

ISBN 0195028066 (0-19-502806-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Sets movies in the contexts of their aesthetic and technological antecedents and reviews all important factors of and issues pertaining to contemporary film and television production and theory. [via]
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How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, and Multimedia Language, History, Theory
by James Monaco

ISBN 019503869X (0-19-503869-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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First published in 1977, this popular book has become the source on film and media. Now, James Monaco offers a revised and rewritten third edition incorporating every major aspect of this dynamic medium right up to the present.

Looking at film from many vantage points, How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia explores the medium as both art and craft, sensibility and science, tradition and technology. After examining film's close relation to such other narrative media as the novel, painting, photography, television, and even music, Monaco discusses those elements necessary to understand how films convey meaning and, more importantly, how we can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate.

In a key departure from the book's previous editions, the new and still-evolving digital context of film is now emphasized throughout How to Read a Film. A new chapter on multimedia brings media criticism into the twenty-first century with a thorough discussion of topics like virtual reality, cyberspace, and the proximity of both to film. Monaco has likewise doubled the size and scope of his "Film and Media: A Chronology" appendix. The book also features a new introduction, an expanded bibliography, and hundreds of illustrative black-and-white film stills and diagrams. It is a must for all film students, media buffs, and movie fans. [via]
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In the Blink of an Eye
by Walter Murch

ISBN 1879505622 (1-879505-62-2)
Softcover, Silman-James Pr

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Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies
by Robert Sklar

ISBN 0679755497 (0-679-75549-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Hailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big business, and shaper of American values. 80 black-and-white photos. [via]
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Movie-Made America: A Social History of American Movies
by Robert Sklar

ISBN 0394483278 (0-394-48327-8)
Hardcover, Random House

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Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies
by David Bordwell, Noel Carroll

ISBN 0299149447 (0-299-14944-7)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies
by Noel Carroll, David Bordwell

ISBN 0299149404 (0-299-14940-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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A Short Guide to Writing About Film
by Timothy Corrigan

ISBN 0321096657 (0-321-09665-7)
Softcover, Longman Publishing Group

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Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas
by Dale Pollock

ISBN 0306809044 (0-306-80904-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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Filled with revelations about the origins and making of American Graffiti, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi, this only full-length biography of filmmaker and cinematic visionary George Lucas has been updated with a substantial new chapter that discusses the revamped Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition, the Star Wars prequels, the filming of the first installment, and the controversial ways in which Lucas's approach and success continue to alter the landscape of the film industry.
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Understanding Movies
by Louis Giannetti

ISBN 0131890980 (0-13-189098-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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Helps readers understand how the many languages of film work together to create meaning. Louis Giannetti organizes Understanding Movies around the key elements of filmmaking, including cintematography, Mise en Scène, movement, editing, sound, acting, drama, casting, story, screenwriting, ideology, and theory. He synthesizes every element through a complete case study: Citizen Kane. This book's ideas are illuminated with hundreds of high-quality still photos, more than 70 in full color, taken from movies such as The Matrix, Almost Famous, jackass the movie, Chicago, Lord of the Rings, Mystic River, and Traffic. New in this edition: a full section on contemporary special effects and computer generated imagery (CGI); up-to-the-minute information on new developments in film technology; more coverage of recent films and filmmakers; more ethnic diversity (including new material on the Islamic cinema); and more lavish use of color and high-quality paper. An updated Companion Website contains animations, video clips from interviews with movie professionals, and Research Navigator access to New York Times film reviews. For everyone who wants to understand the artistry and meaning of the movies.
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Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability
by Patricia White

ISBN 0253213452 (0-253-21345-2)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr

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Vampires & Violets: Lesbians in Film
by Andrea Weiss

ISBN 0140231005 (0-14-023100-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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Godard Par Godard
by Jean Luc Godard, Alain Bergala

ISBN 2080815164 (2-08-081516-4)
Hardcover, Flammarion

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À travers des documents, souvent rares ou inédits, c'est 48 ans d'activité de Godard qui se déploient.
Découpé en années, le tome 1 s'étend des "années Cahiers" aux "années Quatre-vingt". D'abord, le critique Godard pose des questions essentielles (naissance de la politique des auteurs) et dès l'apparition de la Nouvelle Vague, il formule des réponses dans ses films. Autour de 68 se développe l'activisme politique. Puis il approfondit ses recherches avec l'apport des nouvelles technologies et de la vidéo. Ce que le cinéaste nomme sa "troisième vie" dans le cinéma marque la fin du volume. Chaque période est ponctuée d'un ou plusieurs entretiens dans lesquels Godard fait le point.
Des extraits de sa correspondance et une riche iconographie permettent de voir tout ce qui lie Godard aux autres arts.
Le tome 2 (couvrant la période 1984-1998) prolonge la réflexion sur l'oeuvre, et s'enrichit d'une filmographie et d'un index complets.
L'ensemble reflète comment la vie intime et sociale a influé sur les créations de l'un des plus importants cinéastes modernes. --Hector Fricotin [via]
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L'image-Mouvement
by Gilles Deleuze

ISBN 2707306592 (2-7073-0659-2)
Hardcover, Editions De Minuit

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L'image-Temps
by Gilles Deleuze

ISBN 2707310476 (2-7073-1047-6)
Hardcover, Editions De Minuit

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La Voix Au Cinema
by Michel Chion

ISBN 2866420047 (2-86642-004-7)
Hardcover, Editions de l'Etoile

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