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  • Defining Cinema

    Rouben Mamoulian and Hollywood Film Style, 1929-1957

    by Michael Slowik ...
    Series series Oxford Music / Media
    Arriving in cinema when synchronized sound had just been adopted, director Rouben Mamoulian demonstrated key early methods for making sound aid storytelling, for giving films a crisper sense of rhythm, for creating musicals set in backstage, fairy-tale, and folk environments, for providing intricate and arresting colour palettes, and for rendering sexual content more palpable under industry ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • After the Silents

    Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934

    by Michael Slowik ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Many believe Max Steiner's score for King Kong (1933) was the first important attempt at integrating background music into sound film, but a closer look at the industry's early sound era (1926–1934) reveals a more extended and fascinating story. Viewing more than two hundred films from the period, Michael Slowik launches the first comprehensive study of a long-neglected phase in Hollywood's ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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  • Silent Movies

    The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture

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  • Film Fourth Edition

    A Critical Introduction

    by Tom Wallis, Maria Prammaggiore ...
    Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies. Packed full of visual examples from all periods of film history up to the present, Film:A Critical Introduction illustrates film concepts in context and in depth, addressing techniques and terminology used in film production and criticism, and emphasising thinking and writing critically and ... Read more

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  • The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock

    An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense

    by Edward White ...
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  • Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out

    Five Keys to the Art of Making Inspired Movies and Television

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  • Spellbound by Beauty

    Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies

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    “The trouble today is that we don’t torture women enough.”—Alfred HitchcockIt is remarkable how infrequently, over a period of more than fifty years, Alfred Hitchcock spoke about the beautiful, legendary and talented actresses he directed. And when he did, his remarks were mostly indifferent and often hostile. But his leading ladies greatly enriched his films, even as many of them achieved ... Read more

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  • Sick and Dirty

    Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

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  • Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week

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