Mirzoeff N. An Introduction to Visual Culture

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

Новолуние: иллюстрированный путеводитель по фильму. Язык английский. Academy Award-nominated director Chris Weitz and his creative team have brought the second book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire romance saga to the big screen. Inside this deluxe visual companion, get an intimate look at the creation of the film. With lavish, never-before-seen full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews with the cast and crew, and answers to questions a...

Longman, 2003. - 216 Pages. Russian Cinema provides a lively and informative exploration of the film genres that developed during Russia's tumultuous history, with discussion of the work of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Mikhalkov, Paradzhanov, Sokurov and others. The background section assesses the contribution of visual art and music, especially the work of the composers Shostakovich and Prokofev, to Russian cinema. Subsequent chapters explore a va...

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...

Routledge Advances in Film Studies Series. Publisher: Routledge, New York & London, 2011. 370 pages. Language: English. In cinema studies today, rarely do we find a direct investigation into the culture of capitalism and how it has been refracted and fabricated in global cinema production under neoliberalism. However, the current economic crisis and the subsequent Wall Street bailout in 2008 have brought about a worldwide skepticism regardin...

Издательство Wallflower. Great Britain 2004. Феминистские исследования кинофильмов. Как Женщина пишется в кино. Язык: английский. 144 стр. - Introduction: Woman is not born but becomes a woman. - Structuring a language of theory - Textual negotiations: female spectatorship and cultural studies - Race, ethnicity and post-colonialism / modernism - Conceiving subjectivity, sexual difference and fantasy differently: Psychoanalysis revisited and qu...

Publisher: Intellect Ltd., UK & USA, 2010. 280 pages. Language: English. While postwar British cinema and the British new wave have received much scholarly attention, the misunderstood period of the 1970s has been comparatively ignored. Don’t Look Now uncovers forgotten but richly rewarding films, including Nicolas Roeg’s 'Don’t Look Now' and the films of Lindsay Anderson and Barney Platts-Mills. This volume offers insight into the careers...

DK Publishing, 1999. - 57 pages. No matter what you thought of Phantom Menace, you just have to love its visual effects and props. Episode I was absolutely radiant with special effects, making use of some 2,000 of them, dwarfing that of previous Star Wars installments and even the CGI-happy Titanic with its now-paltry 500. And the low-tech effects, the physical props of Star Wars, have always been unbelievably detailed, from Luke's scuffed-up s...

Watson-Guptill, 2000, ISBN: 0823077330, 312 pages Spanning the rich history of movie magic, from George Mlis's A Trip to the Moon to George Lucas's Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace, and the Wachowski Brothers' The Matrix, this completely up-to-date guide to visual trickery is unparalleled in scope, presenting a clearly written, lushly illustrated chronicle of special effects development over ten decades of filmmaking. Starting with the e...

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...