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The Film Book: A Complete Guide to the World of Cinema

Publisher:Дорлинг Киндерсли
Year:2011
Pages:352
ISBN:978-1-4053-6316-7

Lights, camera, action... enter "The Film Book", stage left. Step into the world of cinema with "The Film Book" - the films, the directors, the genres and the styles. Profiling 100 of the world's most influential directors and 100 key cinematic works, the book will take you through the changing experience of cinema from the earliest silent movies to the modern 3D cinematic phenomenon. Covering every national school of film-making from Hollywood to Bollywood the book is a great browse bible with "Top 10" and "What to Watch" feature boxes. Test your knowledge with the essential trivia section - how much do you know about Oscar winners, biggest flops, banned films and more? From the birth of cinema right up until the present day, "The Film Book" is a cinematic masterpiece. Packaged in ...

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Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz. Bunuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema

Publisher:
Year:2003
Pages:202
ISBN:0520239520

Book DescriptionThough Luis Bunuel, 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 Bunuel's Mexican films, this book is the first to explore a significant but neglected area of this filmmaker's distinguished career and thus to fill a gap in our appreciation and understanding of both Bunuel's achievement andthe history of Mexican film. Ernesto Acevedo-Munoz considers Bunuel's Mexican films--made between 1947 and 1965--within the context of a national and nationalist film industry, comparing the filmmaker's employment of styles, genres, character types, themes, and techniques to those ...

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charles Timmerman. The Everything Movie Crosswords Book: 150 A-list Puzzles That Film Fanatics Will Love (The Everything)

Publisher:
Year:2007
Pages:192
ISBN:1598692534

If you're a film buff and a crossword enthusiast, you'll easily find something to love in The Everything Movie Crosswords Book . Full of 150 challenging and fun puzzles with an emphasis on movie trivia, celebrity names, and classic film lore, The Everything Movie Crosswords Book will keep you busy for hours with clues from all genres, including: Bond: "The Living _______" (DAYLIGHTS) Career advice in "The Graduate" (PLASTICS) ___ Detoo ("Star Wars" android) (ARTOO) Repeated word in "The Shining" (REDRUM) These entertaining movie-themed crosswords test your knowledge of the films and stars you love to watch.

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Robert C. Bulman. Hollywood Goes to High School: Cinema, Schools, and American Culture

Publisher:
Year:2004
Pages:191
ISBN:0716755416

Book Description Hollywood Goes to High School explores the high school film genre and American culture at large. In this brief supplemental book, Robert Bulman separates high school films into three analytical categories and explores how theyreflect America's preoccupation with individualism and its ambivalent feelings about wealth and inequality. By looking at this genre as more than just entertainment, Bulman shows how these films reflect American attitudes toward education, social class,and adolescence. Hollywood Goes to High School can be incorporated into a variety of courses in sociology, education, history, anthropology, American studies, and film studies.