Film Studies


Film Art: An Introduction
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings
What is Cinema? Volume I
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image
Making Movies
Film Form: Essays In Film Theory
Sculpting in Time
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
Film History: An Introduction
The Time-Image
Without Empathy by Mk RaghavendraMondo Macabro  by Pete TombsI Was a Teenage Movie Maker by Donald F. GlutMen, Women, and Chain Saws by Carol J. CloverNightmare USA by Stephen Thrower
Film-Acres Delinquent Movie Ranch
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Dracula in Visual Media by John Edgar BrowningShattering Stereotypes by Alexandra BengtssonCountering Jihadi Cool by Caroline Joan S. PicartIn a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive by Clementine von RadicsTrans Liberation by Leslie Feinberg
I Saw the TV Glow primer
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Louise Brooks by Barry ParisLeaving La-La Land by Robert K. BosschaLouise Brooks by Peter CowieLulu in Hollywood by Louise BrooksDear Stinkpot by Jan Wahl
Books about Louise Brooks
16 books — 2 voters
Me by Katharine HepburnThe Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with ... by Katharine HepburnKate Remembered by A. Scott BergLIFE by LIFEI Know Where I'm Going by Charlotte Chandler
Katharine Hepburn
29 books — 9 voters

Though the actresses who played female boys were of all ages and performed in a vari- ety of acting styles, they were generally small, thin, white, and photogenic, and their performances combined boldness and vulnerability. Their femaleness al- lowed them to convey fragility and androgynous beauty. These performances demonstrate that cross-gender casting, which may seem like an inherently transgressive practice to twenty-first-century scholars, can also uphold conser- vative gender, class ...more
Laura Horak, Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934

Christopher Frayling
At this point, [Tuco and Pablo] start scrapping like children, while Blondie looks secretly on. 'Please forgive me, brother', says the thoroughly ashamed Padre Ramirez. Tuco walks out, without turning back, then boastfully tells Blondie: 'My brother, he's crazy about me... even a tramp like me. No matter what happens, there'll always be a bowl of soup'. Blondie replies: 'Well, after a meal, there's nothing like a good cigar'. Tuco wipes away his tears and proceeds to eat the cigar, a broad grin ...more
Christopher Frayling, Sergio Leone: Something to Do With Death

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