Kirby David A. Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema

Amsterdam Univercity Press.2005 Film Culture in transition. European cinema: Face to face with Hollywood. Thomas Alsaesser.

Publisher: Berg, New York, 2011. 192 pages. Language: English. Gilles Deleuze published two radical books on film: Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image. Deleuze and Cinema presents a step-by-step guide to the key concepts behind Deleuze's revolutionary theory of the cinema. Exploring ideas through key directors and genres, Deleuze's method is illustrated with examples drawn from American, British, continental European, Russ...

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 1996. 352 pages. Language: English. German cinema is best known for its art cinema and its long line of outstanding individual directors. The double spotlight on these two subject has only deepened the obscurity surrounding the popular cinema. German Cinema performs a kind of archaeology on a period largely overlooked: the first two decades of German cinema. This collection of essays by established authors...

270 pp. Public history, popular memory: A white man’s country: Yale’s Chronicles of America; Civic pageantry and public memory in the silent era commemorative ?lm: The Pony Express at the Diamond Jubilee; ‘Look behind you! ’: memories of cinema-going in the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood; Raiding the archive: ?lm festivals and the revival of Classic Hollywood; The politics of memory: The articulation of memory and desire: from Vietnam to the war in...

Publisher: Routledge, New York & London, 2003. 256 pages. Language: English. This important anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory, and the cinema practice of developing and postcolonial nations. The 'Third Cinema' movement called for a politicised film-making practice in Africa, Asia and Latin America, one which would take on board issues of race, class, religion, and national integrity. The films which resulted f...

The Scarecrow Press, 2010. - 368 pages. A History of American Movies 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 American Film Institute. This book is for the reader who wants to understand one of the...

855 pp. Silent Cinema (1895-1930): The Early Years; The Rise of Hollywood; The Silent Film; National Cinemas; The Silent Cinema Experience Sound Cinema (1930-1960): Sound; The Studio Years; Genre Cinema; Engaging withe Reality; National Cinemas; The Post-War World The Modern Cinema (1960-1995): Cinema in the Age of Television; American Movies; Extending the Boundaries; Cinemas of the World; Conclusion

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2005. 216 pages. Language: English. The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to Sound offers an alternative assessment of synchronous sound's impact on world cinema through a shift in critical focus: in contrast to film studies' traditional exclusive concern with the film...

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, UK & USA, 2003. 342 pages. Language: English. Stephen Prince has written the first book to examine the interplay between the aesthetics and the censorship of violence in classic Hollywood films from 1930 to 1968, the era of the Production Code, when filmmakers were required to have their scripts approved before they could start production. He explains how Hollywood’s filmmakers designed violence in respo...

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2010. 308 pages. Language: English. In the 1930s as the capitalist system faltered, many in the United States turned to the political Left. Hollywood, so deeply embedded in capitalism, was not immune to this shift. Left of Hollywood offers the first book-length study of Depression-era Left film theory and criticism in the United States. Rob? studies the development of this theory and criticism over the cours...