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  • Materialist Film

    by Peter Gidal ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    A polemical introduction to the avant-garde and experimental in film (including making and viewing), Materialist Film is a highly original, thought-provoking book.Thirty-seven short chapters work through a series of concepts which will enable the reader to deal imaginatively with the contradictory issues produced by experimental film. Each concept is explored in conjunction with specific films by ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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    by Rita Wolfe ...
    This book covers several topics including: Introduction The Basics of the Business Starting the Business Buying Equipment Advertising Setting your fees The Wedding Day Relationships with the bride Shooting Rules The Key Shots Post Wedding Day Editing Your Video Editing with your clients Breaking Copyright? Delivery of Product The Final Word Making a living in the Wedding Videography Business ... Read more

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  • Cinema and Ireland

    by Kevin Rockett, Luke Gibbons, John Hill ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    This was the first comprehensive study of film production in Ireland from the silent period to the present day, and of representations of Ireland and ‘Irishness’ in native, British, and American films. It remains an authority on the topic. The book focuses on Irish history and politics to examine the context and significance of such films as Irish Destiny, The Quiet Man, Ryan’s Daughter, Man of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception

    by Yuri Tsivian ...
    Translated by Alan Bodger ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years.The author traces the changing perceptions of cinema and its social transition from a modernist invention to a national art form. He explores reactions to the earliest films from actors, novelists, poets, writers ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Film and the Working Class

    The Feature Film in British and American Society

    by Peter Stead ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concerned with working-class conditions and struggle, and discusses them within the context of the debate on the social significance of the feature film. It concentrates on films which depict labour organizations and political activists, as well as life in ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Road to Romance and Ruin

    Teen Films and Youth Culture

    by Jon Lewis ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    This book analyses the teen film as the rare medium able to represent the otherwise chaotic and conflicting experience of youth. The author focuses on six major issues: alienation, deviance and delinquency, sex and gender, the politics of consumption, the apolitics of youth(ful) rebellion, and regression into nostalgia. Despite the many differences within the genre, this book sees all teen films ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Decline of the Cinema

    An Economist’s Report

    by John Spraos ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    Between 1952 and 1962, when this book was originally published, the number of people visiting British cinemas had fallen by nearly two thirds and was little more than half the pre-war total. Nearly 1500 of the 4500 cinemas functioning in 1955 had closed five years later, and the author here predicts a further substantial fall.The causes of this drastic decline are traced to the competition of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Image and Influence

    Studies in the Sociology of Film

    by Andrew Tudor ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    This text outlines what sociologists need to know of the nature of communication and of mass culture, while also looking in some empirical detail at the workings of the Hollywood community and the psychology of the star system. It explores trends such as attempts to adapt semiology and psycholinguistics to our understanding of film ‘language’, using them to develop a paradigm for film analysis. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Film and Reform

    John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement

    by Ian Aitken ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    Best known for his documentaries such as Drifters, North Sea, and Housing Problems, John Grierson was the most important figure in the British documentary film movement and one of the most influential of British film theorists.This major assessment of Grierson and the documentary film movement examines the intellectual and aesthetic influences on his work, focusing on the material he produced in ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Cinema, Literature & Society

    Elite and Mass Culture in Interwar Britain

    by Peter Miles, Malcolm Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    During the interwar period cinema and literature seemed to be at odds with each other, part of the continuing struggle between mass and elite culture which so worried writers such as Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot and the Leavises. And this cultural divide appeared to be sharp evidence of a deeper struggle for control of the nation’s consciousness, not only between dominant and oppositional elements ... Read more

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  • Hollywood in the Age of Television

    Edited by Tino Balio ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    This collection of papers examines the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s onwards. The institutional and technological histories of the film and TV industries are looked at, concluding that Hollywood and television had a symbiotic relationship from the start. Aspects covered include the movement of audiences, the rise of the independent producer ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Film Propaganda and American Politics

    An Analysis and Filmography

    by James Combs, Sara T. Combs ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    Originally published in 1994, this important book traces the rise of film propaganda in the 20th Century, discussing specifically how film can be used to manipulate public perception and opinions. Two distinct areas are covered: war propaganda, including feature and documentary films regarding warfare; and civilian propaganda, including films that address a variety of political subjects. Although ... Read more

    $63.99 USD