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Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know

24 reviews
Jennifer Van Sijll

Michael Wiese Productions, 2005

Spectacular
To call me a newbie screenwriter would be to insult newbie screenwriters. I'm a fledgling, nascent, inchoate, and very bad screenwriter. And if you would read the mere one-page script I wrote yesterday, you'd call me some choice names but I daresay 'screenwriter' will not be one of the myriad. That said, this is such a great book, the highest quality through and through, from the binding to ...

Jesus, the Gospels, and Cinematic Imagination: A Handbook to Jesus on DVD

1 review
Jeffrey L. Staley, Richard Walsh

Westminster John Knox Press, 2007

A unique assemblage of Jesus films summarized and described
This book consists of twenty chapters, eighteen of which are devoted to Jesus films available on DVD, beginning chronologically with Zecca and Nonquet's 1905 "The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ" and ending with Gibson's 2004 "The Passion of the Christ." Each chapter devoted to a film follows the same format: Plot summary, memorable characters, memorable visuals, key Scriptures, cultural ...

The Cinematic (Documents of Contemporary Art)

The MIT Press, 2007

The cinematic has been a springboard for the work of many influential artists, including Victor Burgin, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Stan Douglas, Nan Goldin, Douglas Gordon, Cindy Sherman, and Jeff Wall, among others. Much recent cinema, meanwhile, is rich with references to contemporary photography. Video art has taken a photographic turn into pensive slowness; photography now has at its disposal the budgets and scale of cinema. This addition to ...

Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging

1 review
David Bordwell

University of California Press, 2005

A Highly Challenging Work
David Bordwell is one of America's most challenging film scholars. He continually offers precisely-argued alternatives taking issue with dominant academic versions of the "institutional mode of representation" of how we should look at film. This book represents a good contribution to a key debate he wishes to continue in film education, namely the importance of an analytic cognitivist based ...

Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool

1 review
George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar

Zanja Press, 1997

The Kuchar Brothers - Truly Independent American Filmmakers
This book became a filmmaking Bible for me. The Kuchar Brothers make movies for very little money using a whole lot of their souls in lieu of pecuniary advancements. Their movies are intensely personal, funny and brilliant and they've been making 'em since they were preteens using their aunt's 8mm (well before Super 8) camera inspired by the melodramas of Douglas Sirk as well as any piece of ...

The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive
Mary Ann Doane

Harvard University Press, 2002

Hailed as the permanent record of fleeting moments, the cinema emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century as an unprecedented means of capturing time--and this at a moment when disciplines from physics to philosophy, and historical trends from industrialization to the expansion of capitalism, were transforming the very idea of time. In a work that itself captures and reconfigures the passing moments of art, history, and philosophy, Mary Ann ...

Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film
Irving Singer

The MIT Press, 2008

Film is the supreme medium for mythmaking. The gods and heroes of mythology are both larger than life and deeply human; they teach us about the world, and they tell us a good story. Similarly, our experience of film is both distant and intimate. Cinematic techniques?panning, tracking, zooming, and the other tools in the filmmaker's toolbox?create a world that is unlike reality and yet realistic at the same time. We are passive spectators, but we ...

Welcome to Oz: A Cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography with Photoshop (VOICES)

54 reviews
Vincent Versace

New Riders Press, 2006

Inspiring
Stunning photography and continuing inspiration from a master of photography. I highly recommend Vincent's book.

Film Directing: Cinematic Motion, Second Edition

8 reviews
Steven D. Katz

Michael Wiese Productions, 2004

Including interactive online 3D storyboards
Now in an updated second edition, Film Directing Cinematic Motion is an extensive how-to manual especially for aspiring and practicing directors to fine-tuning the art of creating a personal camera style, piecing together extended sequence shots, make the most of digital technology for visualization and script breakdown, and much more. Including interactive online 3D storyboards for hands-on ...

Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy

4 reviews
Mark A. Vieira

Harry N. Abrams, 2005

Absolutely fantastic
This is yet another book for the ultimate Garbo fan. The pictures are absolutely radiant and clear, and even more photos of Garbo that have never been seen before. Vieira's take is an extremely interesting one - taking a close look at each and every film through Garbo's growth of her own true art while intertwining more of the studio politics involved from documentation during the time of every ...

Cinematic Geopolitics (Global Horizons)
Michael Shapiro

Routledge, 2008

Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on His Creativity
Irving Singer

The MIT Press, 2007

Shortlisted for the 2008 Kraszna-Krausz Award for the Best Moving Image Book. Known for their repeating motifs and signature tropes, the films of Ingmar Bergman also contain extensive variation and development. In these reflections on Bergman's artistry and thought, Irving Singer discerns distinctive themes in Bergman's filmmaking, from first intimations in the early work to consummate resolutions in the later movies. Singer demonstrates ...

Complete Cinematic Works: Scripts, Stills, Documents

1 review
Guy Debord

AK Press, 2005

Important Document Well Translated
I have found Knabb's translations very readable and surprisingly articulate. But since I don't know french, I can't say. Comparing this collection with the other I have of the cinematic works, the improvement is noticable. Recomended translation of a highly recommended body of film scripts. Some of the most interesting films I have ever come across! In these days of the Integrated Spectacle, ...

The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle (Interfaces: Studies in ...
Jonathan Beller

Dartmouth, 2006

"Cinema brings the industrial revolution to the eye," writes Jonathan Beller, "and engages spectators in increasingly dematerialized processes of social production." In his groundbreaking critical study, cinema is the paradigmatic example of how the act of looking has been construed by capital as "productive labor." Through an examination of cinema over the course of the twentieth century, Beller establishes on both theoretical and historical ...

The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense (Perverse Modernities)

1 review
Kara Keeling

Duke University Press, 2007

Two Eyerolls, Not Two Snaps
If someone said to me, "There's an academic book examining 'Set It Off', 'Sankofa', Pam Grier, and more.", then I would say, "Wow! I gotta peep that!" Well, this book has hot topics, but it's written in an unfriendly, obscurantist style. I did not enjoy this rough ride of a text at all. I feel fine saying that because the author writes in that inaccessible style that tenure boards just love, ...

Our Movie Houses: A History of Film & Cinematic Innovation in Central New York (Television and Popular ...

2 reviews
Norman O. Keim

Syracuse University Press, 2008

Must have!
This is a must have for film buffs,film and theater historians and just about anyone interested in these often revered and beautiful buildings that offered dreams, hopes and escape to thousands of people for just some of the change in your pocket.

Job Descriptions for Film, Video & Cgi (Computer Generated Imagery): Responsibilities and Duties for the ...

3 reviews
William E. Hines

Ed Venture Books, 1999

Book Review
This book is wonderful and is the best resource book for Cinematic job information that I've seen yet. It is a must have!!

Fritz Lang's Metropolis: Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear (Studies in German Literature Linguistics ...

Camden House, 2002

Fritz Lang's classic 1927 film Metropolis has justifiably become an icon for the complexities of Weimar culture. Among the important general issues it also raises are the relation between ideology and art, the status and authorship of the film text in the entertainment market, the city, the construction of gender, the relation between the human body and the machine in modernity, and the relation between mass and high culture. This volume ...

Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China's Moral Voice

1 review
Jerome Silbergeld

University of Washington Press, 2004

Timely study of leading Chinese art films
Silbergeld takes the three Chinese films Suzhou River, The Day the Sun Turned Cold, and Good Men to examine how Western film techniques have been brought into Chinese cinema. The films also evidence that Western literary and cultural influences are a part of Chinese cinema. The influence of Freud, Faulkner, and Dostoevsky can be seen in one or more of the films; and, not surprisingly, the ...

Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern from Reel to Real

1 review
Nezar Alsayyad

Routledge, 2006

Amazing book
This is simply an amazing book, very nicely written about a interesting subject. It shows how in the 21st century, we will probably experience the city more through the Virtual media than through the conventional "real" one. It demands of us to adjust to this major change in life and culture.

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