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
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

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
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
25 books — 2 voters

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
280 books — 21 voters
The Art of Tangled by Jeff KurttiTale as Old as Time by Charles SolomonTreasure Planet by Jeff KurttiThe Art of Frozen by Charles SolomonThe Art of the Little Mermaid by Jeff Kurtti
Books About Disney Movies
119 books — 8 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

A number of Chinese filmmakers, including Chen Kaige and Li Shaohong, imitated Zhang's visual style in the early 1990s by multiplying various erotic images of the oriental Other for global consumption. Consequently, these films, usually sponsored by multinational corporations and catering to the tastes of global audiences, can be perceived as following the same model -- the Zhang Yimou model. To a great degree, this model also marks the end of formal experiment for the Fifth Generation directors ...more
Tonglin Lu, Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China

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