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

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

Regardless of how successful the Fifth Generation and New Taiwan cinemas have been in the international film milieu, this (limited) recognition usually is based on two aspects: the formal or the exotic. Their works are praised as highly formally innovative (in other words, how well the have mastered the new-wave visual language of the West -- thus, our modernist language) or exotic (as revealing the mystery of an inscrutable Other). This may explain why in the United States, mainland, Hong Kong, ...more
Tonglin Lu, Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China

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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