Penguin Press, June 2022. Hardcover. A National Bestseller! The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War II In 1997, Werner Herzog was..... More
Northwestern University Press, March 2014. Trade Paperback. Charlie Chaplin was one of the cinema's consummate comic performers, yet he has long been criticized as a lackluster film director. In this groundbreaking work--the first to analyze Chaplin's directorial style--Donna Kornhaber radically recasts his status as a filmmaker. Spanning Chaplin's career, Kornhaber..... More
University Press of Mississippi, September 2013. Hardcover. A reclamation and interpretation of a once-dismissed aspect of American film history Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip Hop on Film reclaims and reexamines productions such..... More
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University of Illinois Press, September 2013. Trade Paperback. Cultural productions in the Third Reich often served explicit propaganda functions of legitimating racism and glorifying war and militarism. Likewise, the proliferation of domestic and romance films in Nazi Germany also represented an ideological stance. Rather than reinforcing traditional gender role divisions..... More
University of California Press, January 2014. Trade Paperback. Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the tangible phase of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s..... More
Columbia University Press, November 2013. Trade Paperback. Imagine watching an action film in a small-town cinema hall in Bangladesh, and in between the gun battles and fistfights a short pornographic clip appears. This is known as a cut-piece, a strip of locally made celluloid pornography surreptitiously spliced into the reels..... More
Rutgers University Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. Received the Distinction Honor for the 2016 C. Calvin Smith Book Award from the Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc. In Hollywood, we hear, it's all about the money. It's a ready explanation for why so few black films get made--no crossover..... More
University of Texas Press, March 2007. Trade Paperback. After the death of James Dean in 1955, the figure of the teen rebel permeated the globe, and its presence is still felt in the twenty-first century. Rebel iconography-which does not have to resemble James Dean himself, but merely incorporates his disaffected..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, October 2013. Trade Paperback. Unique and often startling encounters between music and the moving image in the films of Stanley Kubrick are trademarks of his style; witness the powerful effects of Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra in 2001: A Space Odyssey and of Beethoven's 9th Symphony in..... More
Univ Of Minnesota Press, March 2014. Trade Paperback. Shin Sang-ok (1926-2006) was arguably the most important Korean filmmaker of the postwar era. Over seven decades, he directed or produced nearly 200 films, including A Flower in Hell (1958) and Pulgasari (1985), and his career took him from late-colonial Korea to..... More
Oxford University Press, November 2013. Trade Paperback. Hollywood's conversion from silent to synchronized sound film production not only instigated the convergence of the film and music industries but also gave rise to an extraordinary period of songs in American cinema. Saying It With Songs considers how the increasing interdependence of..... More
Columbia University Press, November 2013. Trade Paperback. Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s, and the transition to digital 3D since 2005. Widescreen cinema promised..... More
University of Texas Press, December 2002. Trade Paperback. Astaire and Rogers, Tracy and Hepburn. Just the mention of their names evokes the powerful chemistry between these screen couples, which utterly transcended the often formulaic films in which they appeared together. Indeed, watching the synergistic flow of energy between charismatic screen..... More
University of Texas Press, September 2006. Trade Paperback. The "evil" Arab has become a stock character in American popular films, playing the villain opposite American "good guys" who fight for "the American way." It's not surprising that this stereotype has entered American popular culture, given the real-world conflicts between the..... More
University of Texas Press, July 2008. Trade Paperback. Authoring a film adaptation of a literary source not only requires a media conversion but also a transformation as a result of the differing dramatic demands of cinema. The most critical central step in this transformation of a literary source to the..... More
University of Texas Press, March 2015. Trade Paperback. Frederick Aldama's The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez (2014) was the first full-scale study of one of the most prolific and significant Latino directors making films today. In this companion volume, Aldama enlists a corps of experts to analyze a majority of Rodriguez's..... More
Johns Hopkins University Press, August 2004. Hardcover. William Faulkner occupied a unique position as a modern writer. Although famous for his modernist novels and their notorious difficulty, he also wrote extensively for the culture industry, and the works he produced for it--including short stories, adaptations, and screenplays--bore many of the..... More
Univ Of Minnesota Press, March 2014. Trade Paperback. East Asia largely functions as a single film and media market, but behind it exists a multifaceted world of coproduction crossing linguistic and national borders. In Coproducing Asia, Stephanie DeBoer guides readers through a rich genealogy of regional film and media coproduction..... More
BFI Publishing. Trade Paperback. As is. Light foxing on the edges of the print block. More
Princeton University Press, 1974. Reprint. Trade Paperback. A landmark, now classic, study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic, From Caligari to Hitler was first published by Princeton University Press in 1947. Siegfried Kracauer--a prominent German film critic and member of Walter Benjamin's and Theodor Adorno's intellectual circle--broke..... More
Harper Design, September 2016. Reprint. Paper Back. The screenwriter, innovative animator, highly acclaimed visionary film director, and only non-British member of Monty Python offers an intimate glimpse into his world in this fascinating memoir illustrated with hand-drawn sketches, notes, and memorabilia from his personal archive. From his no-frills childhood in..... More
Back Bay Books, June 2022. Paper Back. This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name. ?For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her..... More
Penguin Press, November 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. The instant #1 New York Times bestseller! "It's the best memoir I've ever read." --Oprah Winfrey "Will Smith isn't holding back in his bravely inspiring new memoir . . . An ultimately heartwarming read, Will provides a humane glimpse of the man behind..... More
William Morrow & Company, April 2022. Hardcover. A New York Times bestseller! Celebrated actor, personality, and all-around nerd, Wil Wheaton updates his memoir of collected blog posts with all new material and annotations as he reexamines one of the most interesting lives in Hollywood and fandom--and now for the first..... More
