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Cyrus Ghani. My Favorite Films

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Cyrus Ghani. My Favorite Films

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Year:2004
Pages:728
ISBN:0934211868

Book DescriptionIn this panoramic guide by one of the world?s most knowledgeable movie enthusiasts, Cyrus Ghani reviews more than six hundred and fifty of the big screen?s finest offerings. An international lawyer and eminent historian, Ghani has lived on three continents and is fluent in several languages, affording him a uniquely broad perspective on cinema. His love affair with movies began, he says, at the age of eight and has lasted a lifetime. My Favorite Films is the result?the workof an avid fan, keenly insightful, highly informative, and happily free of the arcane terminology and analysis of academic film criticism. In these pages, Ghani moves from early silent classics like Buster Keaton?s The General and Charlie Chaplin?s City Lights to the films of Billy Wilder and John ...

Stephen Prince. Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1968

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Stephen Prince. Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1968

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Year:2003
Pages:331
ISBN:0813532817

Book DescriptionStephen Prince has written the first book to examine the interplay between the aesthetics and the censorship of violence in classic Hollywood films from 1930 to 1968, the era of the Production Code, when filmmakers were required to have their scripts approved before they could start production. He explains how Hollywood?s filmmakers designed violence in response to the regulations of the Production Code and regional censors. Graphic violence in today?s movies actually has its roots in these early films. Hollywood?s filmmakers were drawn to violent scenes and "pushed the envelope" of what they could depict by manipulating the Production Code Administration (PCA). Prince shows that many choices about camera position, editing, and blocking of the action and sound were ...

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

Movies, part 1

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

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

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 ...

Nadoolman Landis, Deborah. Hollywood Costume

Nadoolman Landis, Deborah. Hollywood Costume

This landmark book celebrates, for the very first time, the costume designer's contribution to the telling of the cinematic story in 100 years of Hollywood. Rocking the conventions of what is considered 'costume', Hollywood Costume reveals what is hidden in plain sight: that films are about ...

Movies, part 2

James R. Persse. Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success (PRO-best Practices) (Best Practices (Microsoft))

James R. Persse. Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success (PRO-best Practices) (Best Practices (Microsoft))

Learn best practices for managing software development projects from an unexpected but surprisingly relevant source: the producers of major motion pictures. What can Hollywood s hundred years of filmmaking experience teach the software industry? Like movies, software projects can be complex, ...

Stu Maschwitz. The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap

Stu Maschwitz. The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap

Written by Stu Maschwitz, co-founder of the Orphanage (the legendary guerrilla visual effects studio responsible for amazing and award-winning effects in such movies as Sin City, The Day After Tomorrow, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), this book s a must-have for all those budding ...

Movies, part 3

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

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

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 ...

Charles P. Mitchell. Filmography of Social Issues : A Reference Guide

Charles P. Mitchell. Filmography of Social Issues : A Reference Guide

Book DescriptionSince the early days of silent film, some of the most memorable movies made have been those that have confronted and explored such challenging social issues as poverty or racism. Librarians and educators--as well as cultural historians, students and cinemaphiles-- will find ...

Movies, part 4

Bollyworld : Popular Indian Cinema Through A Transnational Lens

Bollyworld : Popular Indian Cinema Through A Transnational Lens

Book DescriptionThis volume brings together a group of international scholars to analyze the globalized networks of Indian cinema. It provides a critique of a common scholarly tendency in the field of popular cinema of defining Indian films in terms of their modernity and desire for nationhood. ...

Robert Buchar. Czech New Wave Filmmakers in Interviews

Robert Buchar. Czech New Wave Filmmakers in Interviews

Book DescriptionIn Czechoslovakia, in the 1960s, artists began to realize that the aesthetics of social realism contrasted with the realities of daily life; a movement of film arose in response to the politics and history of the nation. This work collects candid interviews with the creators ...

Movies, part 5

Hollywood Abroad: Audiences And Cultural Exchange

Hollywood Abroad: Audiences And Cultural Exchange

Book DescriptionHollywood Abroad is the first book to examine the reception of Hollywood movies by non-American audiences. Although numerous books on film history have analyzed the ways in which American films came to dominate world markets, there has sofar been very little published work on ...

Christine Geraghty. My Beautiful Laundrette : The British Film Guide 9 (Turner Classic Movies British Film Guides)

Christine Geraghty. My Beautiful Laundrette : The British Film Guide 9 (Turner Classic Movies British Film Guides)

Book Description Described by Stuart Hall as "one of the most riveting and important films produced by a black writer in recent years," My Beautiful Laundrette was a significant production for its director Stephen Frears and its writer Hanif Kureshi. Christine Geraghty considers it a crossover ...

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