Screen Classics- Otto Preminger

Nothing about Otto Preminger was small or trivial -- from his privileged upbringing in Vienna as the son of an improbably successful Jewish lawyer to his work in film and theater in Europe and, later,...

The Classical Hollywood Cinema

How films are conceived,planned, and produced leaves a mark upon the films, directly and structurally. The relations between film style and mode of production are, according to the authors, reciprocal...

Divine Images

Het Nederlandse bioscoopjournaal 1940-1945

Ook met film probeerde de Duiters tijdens de Bezetting het Nederlandse ‘broedervolk’ te bekeren tot het nationaalisme. Elk bioscoopprogramma begon verplicht met twee weekjournaals: het ToBis Hollandsc...

Signatures of the Visible

In such celebrated works as Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson has established himself as one of America's most observant cultural commentators. In Signatures of the...

Screen Classics- John Gilbert

Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897-1936) was among the world's most recognisable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckling figure on screen and off, and accounts of...

When the Shooting Stops, the Cutting Begins

The story of one of the most important and least-understood jobs in moviemaking,film editing,is here told by one of the wizards, Ralph Rosenblum, whose credentials include six Woody Allen films, as we...

Hard Core

In this now-classic study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does--as a genre with a history, as a speci...

Incredibly Strange Films

Incredibly Strange Films is a functional guide to important territory neglected by the film-criticism establishment, spotlighting unhailed directors — Hershell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Larry Cohen, R...

Moving Images on the Margins – Experimental Film in Late Socialist East Germany

In the German Democratic Republic during the 1970s and 1980s, more than two hundred films and videos, many of them experimental, were made outside government-run institutions despite legal restriction...