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  • The Films of Samuel Fuller

    If You Die, I'll Kill You

    Edited by Lisa Dombrowski ...
    First comprehensive study of this American originalA cigar-chomping storyteller who signaled "Action!" by shooting a gun, Samuel Fuller has been lionized as one of the most distinctive writer/directors ever to emerge from Hollywood. In such films as The Steel Helmet, Pickup on South Street, Shock Corridor, and The Big Red One, Fuller gleefully challenged classical and generic norms—and often ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kazan Revisited

    Edited by Lisa Dombrowski ...
    Top critics and scholars reconsider the cinematic legacy of Elia KazanA groundbreaking filmmaker dogged by controversy in both his personal life and career, Elia Kazan was one of the most important directors of postwar American cinema. In landmark motion pictures such as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, East of Eden, and Splendor in the Grass, Kazan crafted an emotionally raw form of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cinematography

    by Patrick Keating, Chris Cagle, Lisa Dombrowski, Bradley Schauer, Paul Ramaeker, Christopher Lucas ...
    Series series Behind the Silver Screen Series
    How does a film come to look the way it does? And what influence does the look of a film have on our reaction to it? The role of cinematography, as both a science and an art, is often forgotten in the chatter about acting, directing, and budgets. The successful cinematographer must have a keen creative eye, as well as expert knowledge about the constantly expanding array of new camera, film, and ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Films of Samuel Fuller

    If You Die, I’ll Kill You

    by Lisa Dombrowski ...
    Series series Wesleyan Film
    A cigar-chomping storyteller who signaled "Action!" by shooting a gun, Samuel Fuller has been lionized as one of the most distinctive writer/directors ever to emerge from Hollywood. In such films as The Steel Helmet, Pickup on South Street, Shock Corridor, and The Big Red One, Fuller gleefully challenged classical and generic norms—and often standards of good taste—in an effort to shock and arouse ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Kazan Revisited

    Edited by Lisa Dombrowski ...
    Series series Wesleyan Film
    A groundbreaking filmmaker dogged by controversy in both his personal life and career, Elia Kazan was one of the most important directors of postwar American cinema. In landmark motion pictures such as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, East of Eden, and Splendor in the Grass, Kazan crafted an emotionally raw form of psychological realism. His reputation has rested on his Academy award ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • Cinematography

    Third Edition

    by Kris Malkiewicz, M. David Mullen ASC ...
    The Essential Guide to the Cameraman's CraftSince its initial publication in 1973, Cinematography has become the guidebook for filmmakers. Based on their combined fifty years in the film and television industry, authors Kris Malkiewicz and M. David Mullen lay clear and concise groundwork for basic film techniques, focusing squarely on the cameraman's craft. Readers will then learn step-by-step how ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Warning Shadows

    Home Alone with Classic Cinema

    by Gary Giddins ...
    A brilliantly insightful and witty examination of beloved and little-known films, directors, and stars by one of America’s most esteemed critics.In his illuminating new work, Gary Giddins explores the evolution of film, from the first moving pictures and peepshows to the digital era of DVDs and online video-streaming. New technologies have changed our experience of cinema forever; we have peeled ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • American Comics

    A History

    by Jeremy Dauber ...
    The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination.Comics have conquered America. From our multiplexes, where Marvel and DC movies reign supreme, to our television screens, where comics-based shows like The Walking Dead have become among the most popular in cable history, to convention halls, best-seller lists, Pulitzer Prize–winning titles, ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

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  • Movies That Mattered

    More Reviews from a Transformative Decade

    by Dave Kehr ...
    This new collection of essays and reviews from "one of the most gifted film critics in America" offers rare insight into the cinema of the 1970s and 80s (Roger Ebert).Following the first collection of Dave Kehr's criticism, When Movies Mattered, this volume features fifty more reviews and essays drawn from the archives of both the Chicago Reader and Chicago magazine from 1974 to 1986. This ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Projections

    Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling

    by Jared Gardner ...
    Series series Post*45
    When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by major presses and more comics-based films arriving on the screen each year.Projections argues that the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • A History of American Movies

    A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft, and Business of Cinema

    by Paul Monaco ...
    In A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft and Business of Cinema, Paul Monaco provides a survey of the narrative feature film from the 1920s to the present. The book focuses on 170 of the most highly regarded and recognized feature films selected by the Hollywood establishment: each Oscar winner for Best Picture, as well as those voted the greatest by members of the ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • A Cinema of Loneliness

    by Robert Kolker ...
    An updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film the new edition of A Cinema of Loneliness reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade incorporating discussions of directors like Judd Apatow and David Fincher while offering assessments of the recent and in some cases final work from the filmmakers--Penn Scorsese Stone Altman Kubrick--at the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD