| Author | : Stephen Herbert |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780415211529 |
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A Short History of Film, Third Edition
| Author | : Wheeler Winston Dixon |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 525 |
| Release | : 2018-03-30 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0813595169 |
With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema—especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers—an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.
Contemporary Film History
| Author | : William Rod Foster |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Motion pictures |
| ISBN | : 9781524968854 |
Fiction and Imagination in Early Cinema
| Author | : Mario Slugan |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 2019-11-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 135011569X |
Shortlisted for the BAFTSS 'Best Monograph' Award 2021 When watching the latest instalment of Batman, it is perfectly normal to say that we see Batman fighting Bane or that we see Bruce Wayne making love to Miranda Tate. We would not say that we see Christian Bale dressed up as Batman going through the motions of punching Tom Hardy dressed up us Bane. Nor do we say that we see Christian Bale pretending to be Bruce Wayne making love with Marion Cotillard, who is playacting the role Miranda Tate. But if we look at the history of cinema and consider contemporary reviews from the early days of the medium, we see that people thought precisely in this way about early film. They spoke of film as no more than documentary recordings of actors performing on set. In an innovative combination of philosophical aesthetics and new cinema history, Mario Slugan investigates how our default imaginative engagement with film changed over the first two decades of cinema. It addresses not only the importance of imagination for the understanding of early cinema but also contributes to our understanding of what it means for a representational medium to produce fictions. Specifically, Slugan argues that cinema provides a better model for understanding fiction than literature.
On the History of Film Style
| Author | : David Bordwell |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780674634299 |
Bordwell scrutinizes the theories of style launched by various film historians and celebrates a century of cinema. The author examines the contributions of many directors and shows how film scholars have explained stylistic continuity and change.
A History of Film Music
| Author | : Mervyn Cooke |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 627 |
| Release | : 2008-09-25 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1316264866 |
This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing not only on dominant Hollywood practices but also offering an international perspective by including case studies of the national cinemas of the UK, France, India, Italy, Japan and the early Soviet Union. The book balances wide-ranging overviews of film genres, modes of production and critical reception with detailed non-technical descriptions of the interaction between image track and soundtrack in representative individual films. In addition to the central focus on narrative cinema, separate sections are also devoted to music in documentary and animated films, film musicals and the uses of popular and classical music in the cinema. The author analyses the varying technological and aesthetic issues that have shaped the history of film music, and concludes with an account of the modern film composer's working practices.
A History of Experimental Film and Video
| Author | : A.L. Rees |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2019-07-25 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1838714197 |
Avant-garde film is almost indefinable. It is in a constant state of change and redefinition. In his highly-acclaimed history of experimental film, A.L. Rees tracks the movement of the film avant-garde between the cinema and modern art (with its postmodern coda). But he also reconstitutes the film avant-garde as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discourse. In this revised and updated edition, Rees introduces experimental film and video to new readers interested in the wider cinema, as well as offering a guide to enthusiasts of avant-garde film and new media arts. Ranging from Cézanne and Dada, via Cocteau, Brakhage and Le Grice, to the new wave of British film and video artists from the 1990s to the present day, this expansive study situates avant-garde film between the cinema and the gallery, with many links to sonic as well as visual arts. The new edition includes a review of current scholarship in avant-garde film history and includes updated reading and viewing lists. It also features a new introduction and concluding chapter, which assess the rise of video projection in the gallery since the millennium, and describe new work by the latest generation of experimental film-makers. The new edition is richly illustrated with images of the art works discussed.
History on Film/film on History
| Author | : Robert A. Rosenstone |
| Publisher | : Pearson Education |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780582505841 |
Fictional films tell true historical stories... Film and History is a compelling and unique overview of the cinema and its relationship with history, ranging from the ancient world to the modern day. This is the first book of its kind to offer such a broad historical and theoretical portrayal of the rapidly-growing sub field of history and film. Rosenstone introduces the varieties, types and traditions of historical films made worldwide and sets this against the changing ways in which historians and other public critics debate the portrayal of history in modern film.
