Film & Television
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The Golem, How He Came into the World [Paperback]
Maya Barzilai(Author)
$19.95ISBN: 9781640140301
Published by : Camden House
Series: Camden House German Film Classics
Volume: Volume 6
Actor and director Paul Wegener released his 1920 silent film The Golem, How He Came into the World in the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I. The film's innovative cinematography, lighting effects, modernist architectural design,... .... Learn More -
Aaron Copland's Hollywood Film Scores [Hardback]
Paula Musegades(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781580469913
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: Volume 169
One of the most influential and beloved American composers, Aaron Copland played a critical role in shaping what is often recognized as the "American sound." He is best known for achieving this through his works for the concert hall and ... .... Learn More -
Cheer Up!: British Musical Films, 1929-1945 [Hardback]
Adrian Wright(Author)
$39.95ISBN: 9781783274994
Published by : Boydell Press
Cheer Up! is the first book to deal exclusively with the British musical film from the very beginning of talking pictures in the late 1920s through the Depression of the 1930s up to the end of World War II. The upsurge in production at Brit... .... Learn More -
Reel Resistance - The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno [Hardback]
Melissa Thackway(Author); Jean-Marie Teno(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012425
Published by : James Currey
Both a monograph and a critical dialogue between academic Melissa Thackway, author of Africa Shoots Back, and the Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno, this collaborative work takes the reader on a journey through Teno's multifaceted on-go... .... Learn More -
A Critical History of German Film, Second Edition [Paperback]
Stephen Brockmann(Author)
$60.00ISBN: 9781571133267
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 207
From early masterpieces such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Metropolis (1927) to the post-1945 films of Fassbinder, Herzog, and Wenders, German film constitutes a crucial part of the history of world cinema. It helped to s... .... Learn More -
The Films of Konrad Wolf: Archive of the Revolution [Hardback]
Larson Powell(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140721
Published by : Camden House
Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
Konrad Wolf (1925-1982) was East Germany's greatest filmmaker and also an influential public figure in his country's political and cultural life. As artist and representative of the GDR, he had to perform a complex balancing act between aesthetic ... .... Learn More -
The Long Shadow of the Past: Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture [Paperback]
Katya Krylova(Author)
$29.95ISBN: 9781640140738
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
The process of coming to terms with its National Socialist past has been a long and difficult one in Austria. It is only over the past thirty years that the country's view of its role during the Thir... .... Learn More -
The Bad Maestro: Tinto Brass and the Eroticization of (Film ) History [Paperback]
Alberto Zambenedetti(Author)
$12.00ISBN: 9788869770845
Published by : Mimesis International
Often referred to as a master of erotica, Venetian director Tinto Brass is a deeply political man who has made no mystery of his anarchic inclinations. His long career has often been divided into two periods: the first twenty years (1958-1976), du... .... Learn More -
Cinemas of the Mozambican Revolution: Anti-Colonialism, Independence and Internationalism in Filmmaking, 1968-1991 [Hardback]
Ros Gray(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012371
Published by : James Currey
Series: African Articulations
Volume: Volume 8
In one of the first cultural acts to follow independence in 1975, Frelimo's new socialist government of Mozambique set up a National Institute of Cinema (the INC). In a country where many people had little previous experience of cinema, the INC wa... .... Learn More -
Nation, Culture and Class in Argentine Cinema: Crisis and Representation (1998-2005) [Hardback]
Santiago Oyarzabal(Author)
$95.00ISBN: 9781855663053
Published by : Tamesis Books
Series: Monografías A
Volume: Volume 389
This book engages with representations of social crisis in Argentine fictional cinema between 1998 and 2005, a period when Argentina experienced a deep economic crisis that brought about significant changes in politics, culture, society and the ar... .... Learn More
