Film 8

Hollywood, the 1970s. Jason Williams, a former college athlete from very conservative Orange County, hopes to become a film actor in a town where everyone's looking for a break. He jumps at the chan……続きを見る

Robert S. McNamara is one of modern America's most controversial figures. His opinions, policies, and actions have led to a firestorm of debate, ignited most recently by Errol Morris's Academy Award……続きを見る

The 1980s was the decade when the action film as it's now known came into being. Nonstop, big-budget excitement became the standard as epic adventures like Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Road Warri……続きを見る

**"Impressive, exhaustive, labyrinthine, and obsessiveーThe Anime Encyclopedia is an astonishing piece of work." ーNeil Gaiman With over 10,000 entries nothing comes close . . . from classics to hid……続きを見る

The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book celebrates, examines, details, analyzes, lists, critiques, and occasionally pokes gentle fun at Brain's most famous secret agent. Discussions of everything from the……続きを見る

從蔡明亮、雅斯敏、阿牛、陳翠梅、劉城達、黃明志到廖克發 探索華語電影在後馬來西亞的崛起 以及處於離散與反離散間距中的不即不離 電影研究一直比較偏重以從敘事、影像或美學等幾個層面進行文本和理論分析，華語……続きを見る

Civilization seems to move ever more toward the power of words over weapons. But many people, especially Americans, still believe wrongs in life can be righted with a fist or a gun or a bomb. Cultur……続きを見る

This biographical dictionary shines the spotlight on several hundred unheralded stunt performers who created some of the cinema's greatest action scenes without credit or recognition. The time perio……続きを見る

Jo Collins is one of the most popular women to ever pose for Playboy Magazine. The editors of the publication discovered her while she was working as a page for a television show. The daughter of a ……続きを見る

Spaghetti Westerns--mostly produced in Italy or by Italians but made throughout Europe--were bleaker, rougher, grittier imitations of Hollywood Westerns, focusing on heroes only slightly less evil t……続きを見る

In the mid-1950s, to combat declining theater attendance, film distributors began releasing pre-packaged genre double-bills--including many horror and science fiction double features. Though many of……続きを見る

This innovative new work suggests that The Wire reflects, not simply a cultural take on contemporary America, but a structural critique of the conditions of late-modernity and global capitalism. As ……続きを見る

The indispensable, illustrated pocket guide to the films of Wes Anderson, from Bottle Rocket to Isle of Dogs. ALSO AVAILABLE: Close-Ups: Vampire Movies Close-Ups: New York Movies Wes Anderson is a d……続きを見る

Produced in Italy from the turn of the 20th century, "sword and sandal" or peplum films were well received in the silent era and attained great popularity in the 1960s following the release of Hercu……続きを見る

This is a concise and accessible introduction into the concept of objectification, one of the most frequently recurring terms in both academic and media debates on the gendered politics of contempor……続きを見る

İngilizcede (ve Fransızcada) aşkı tarif ederken "düşmek" fiilini kullanırız: to fall in love (aşka düşmek). Alain Badiou bu konuda kaleme aldığı o harika Aşka Övgü kitabında, "aşka düşmek" ile ilgil……続きを見る

Deforming American Political Thought offers an alternative to the dominant American historical imagination, treating issues that range from the nature of Thomas Jefferson's vision of an egalitarian ……続きを見る

鍾孟宏的第一本文字影像書 【鍾導＆中島合體之作】 私藏的人生往事˙珍藏近40年的攝影創作 看過他的電影，這一次讀他的文字、看他的照片 金馬獎導演第一手回望 幽默訴說人生路上跌跌撞撞的鳥事 那些比電影更真實，……続きを見る

The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Document……続きを見る

In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and cinematic texts, emphasizing how to achieve an effe……続きを見る

Master Shots gives filmmakers the techniques they need to execute complex, original shots on any budget. 続きを見る

'Destined to be a classic' Sunday Independent 'Gabriel Byrne tells his story brilliantly' - Edna O'Brien 'Dazzles with unflinching honesty' Washington Post 'An absolutely marvellous book' - Colm Tói……続きを見る

'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian 'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The Times The entire world knows Michael J. ……続きを見る

'Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.' Addressed to Frodo as he prepared to travel from Lothlórien to Mordor to destroy the One Ring, the prophetic words of Galadriel in the……続きを見る

Revised for this second edition, Now You See It, Richard Dyer’s groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, now includes an outline of developments in queer cinema since 1990. P……続きを見る

A new kind of film emerged from Hollywood in the early 1940s, thrillers that derived their plots from the hard-boiled school of crime fiction but with a style all their own. Appearing in 1944, 'Doub……続きを見る

With an Introduction by P.J. O'Rourke THE WORLD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME ONCE YOU'VE SEEN IT THROUGH THE EYES OF FORREST GUMP America's most lovable new hero is winning smiles and hearts everywhere th……続きを見る

An accessible introduction to the study of popular music, this book takes a schematic approach to a range of popular music genres, and examines them in terms of their antecedents, histories, visual ……続きを見る

The 2012 film The Hunger Games and its three sequels, appearing quickly over the following three years, represent one of the most successful examples of the contemporary popularity of youth-oriented……続きを見る

The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema draws readers into the first 13 feature films and 5 of the documentaries of award-winning Japanese film director Kore-eda Hirokazu. With his recen……続きを見る