Overview :Part memoir, part critical inquiry, Cinema Then and Now is a wide-ranging conversation with distinguished film scholar and critic James Nare... Read More
Overview :The twelve essays in Modernity and Mass Culture provide a broad and captivating overview of what has come to be known as culture studies." -... Read More
Overview :One of the most daring films of the 1950s, the dark satire Sweet Smell of Success, took on McCarthyism at a time when film studios were crin... Read More
Overview :"Bird Skin Coat "is brimming with startling moments of beauty found within a rusty and decayed landscape. With wild lyrical images of ascent... Read More
Overview :Some of the earliest feature films were derived from classic literature. Even today, most of the movies we see are adaptations of one kind o... Read More
Overview :The Films of Vincente Minnelli examines the career of MGM's leading director of musicals, melodramas, and comedies in the 1940s and 1950s. W... Read More
Overview :In this richly detailed study, James Naremore focuses on the work of film acting, showing what players contribute to movies. Ranging from th... Read More
Overview :In 1895, Louis Lumi re supposedly said that cinema is "an invention without a future." James Naremore uses this legendary remark as a starti... Read More
Overview :Citizen Kane is arguably the most admired and significant film since the advent of talking pictures. No other film is quite so interesting f... Read More
Overview :Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seducti... Read More
Overview :In the first book devoted to Charles Burnett, a crucial figure in the history of American cinema often regarded as the most influential memb... Read More
Overview :Prodigy. Iconoclast. Genius. Exile. Orson Welles remains one of the most discussed figures in cinematic history. In the centenary year of We... Read More
Overview :"Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s-melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatale... Read More
Overview :"Bird Skin Coat "is brimming with startling moments of beauty found within a rusty and decayed landscape. With wild lyrical images of ascent... Read More
Overview :Though Portuguese director Pedro Costa is less commonly known to ordinary moviegoers, among cinephiles he is widely admired and for his unus... Read More