Film Appreciation Through Genres

Author : Michael Patrick Gillespie
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476635507

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Film Appreciation through Genres by Michael Patrick Gillespie Pdf

Our love of films often leads us to discuss them in enthusiastic, if not necessarily sophisticated, conversations. Many moviegoers want a better understanding so that they might better articulate their experiences. This midpoint between theorizing and plot summary is not difficult to achieve. Since their introduction just before the turn of the 20th century, the vast majority of narrative films have followed the same structure—now known as Classic Hollywood Cinema. This book examines what “classic” means, particularly in Westerns, gangster films, film noir, horror, science fiction, slapstick comedy and screwball comedy/romance. The reader is introduced to concepts of film theory, which leads to a better and deeper appreciation of the movies. A 20-page comprehensive industry glossary of film terms is included for easy reference.

Author : Jim Piper
Publisher : Allworth
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1621534359

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The Film Appreciation Book by Jim Piper Pdf

This is a book for cinephiles, pure and simple. Author and filmmaker, Jim Piper, shares his vast knowledge of film and analyzes the most striking components of the best movies ever made. From directing to cinematography, from editing and music to symbolism and plot development, The Film Appreciation Book covers hundreds of the greatest works in cinema, combining history, technical knowledge, and the art of enjoyment to explain why some movies have become the most treasured and entertaining works ever available to the public, and why these movies continue to amaze viewers after decades of notoriety. Read about such classic cinematic masterpieces as Citizen Kane, Gandhi, Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, True Grit, Gone With the Wind, and The Wizard of Oz, as well as more recent accomplishments in feature films, such as Requiem for a Dream, Munich, The King’s Speech, and The Hurt Locker. Piper breaks down his analysis for you and points out aspects of production that movie-lovers (even the devoted ones) would never recognize on their own. This book will endlessly fascinate, and by the time you get to the last chapter, you’re ready to start all over again. In-depth analysis and thoughtful and wide-ranging film choices from every period of cinema history will ensure that you never tire of this reading companion to film. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Author : John Reich
Publisher : Open SUNY Textbooks
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942341474

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Exploring Movie Construction and Production by John Reich Pdf

Exploring Movie Construction & Production contains eight chapters of the major areas of film construction and production. The discussion covers theme, genre, narrative structure, character portrayal, story, plot, directing style, cinematography, and editing. Important terminology is defined and types of analysis are discussed and demonstrated. An extended example of how a movie description reflects the setting, narrative structure, or directing style is used throughout the book to illustrate building blocks of each theme. This approach to film instruction and analysis has proved beneficial to increasing students¿ learning, while enhancing the creativity and critical thinking of the student.

Author : Mark A. Graves,Frederick Bruce Engle
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Film genres
ISBN : 0313330948

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Blockbusters by Mark A. Graves,Frederick Bruce Engle Pdf

Examines twelve major film genres, their identifying characteristics, history and development, and representative films, for film students and fans alike.

Author : Barry Langford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015064691648

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Film Genre by Barry Langford Pdf

This book provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked.

Author : Jim Piper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781621534471

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The Film Appreciation Book by Jim Piper Pdf

This is a book for cinephiles, pure and simple. Author and filmmaker, Jim Piper, shares his vast knowledge of film and analyzes the most striking components of the best movies ever made. From directing to cinematography, from editing and music to symbolism and plot development, The Film Appreciation Book covers hundreds of the greatest works in cinema, combining history, technical knowledge, and the art of enjoyment to explain why some movies have become the most treasured and entertaining works ever available to the public, and why these movies continue to amaze viewers after decades of notoriety. Read about such classic cinematic masterpieces as Citizen Kane, Gandhi, Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, True Grit, Gone With the Wind, and The Wizard of Oz, as well as more recent accomplishments in feature films, such as Requiem for a Dream, Munich, The King’s Speech, and The Hurt Locker. Piper breaks down his analysis for you and points out aspects of production that movie-lovers (even the devoted ones) would never recognize on their own. This book will endlessly fascinate, and by the time you get to the last chapter, you’re ready to start all over again. In-depth analysis and thoughtful and wide-ranging film choices from every period of cinema history will ensure that you never tire of this reading companion to film. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Author : Douglas Garrett Winston
Publisher : Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015066089353

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The Screenplay as Literature by Douglas Garrett Winston Pdf

Author : Allan Casebier
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39076000957717

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Film Appreciation by Allan Casebier Pdf

Author : Joseph Turrin
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1516514548

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Music in Film (Preliminary Edition) by Joseph Turrin Pdf

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292745742

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Film Genre Reader IV by Barry Keith Grant Pdf

From reviews of the third edition: “Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology’s consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as its inclusion of various film genres and methodological approaches, presents a pedagogically useful overview.” —Scope Since 1986, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This fourth edition adds new essays on genre definition and cycles, action movies, science fiction, and heritage films, along with a comprehensive and updated bibliography. The volume includes more than thirty essays by some of film’s most distinguished critics and scholars of popular cinema, including Charles Ramírez Berg, John G. Cawelti, Celestino Deleyto, David Desser, Thomas Elsaesser, Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz, Paul Schrader, Vivian Sobchack, Janet Staiger, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.

Author : Randall D. Larson
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015009623664

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Musique Fantastique by Randall D. Larson Pdf

This book discusses the use of scores in horror, science fiction and fantasy films, covering the 1930's to the 1980's, with chapters on Herrmann, Goldsmith, Rózsa, Japanese monster movies, Hammer horror movies, John Williams, electronic music and how classical music has been integrated into these film genres.

Author : Richard McKenzie
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783656003595

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GDR’s national Identity in “National Foundation” films: "Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt" and "Ich war neunzehn" by Richard McKenzie Pdf

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2010 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: "Merit", University of Reading (German Studies), course: MA (Res), language: English, abstract: This dissertation examines two DEFA films produced in the 1960’s by Joachim Kunert and Konrad Wolf,who became part of East Germany’s 2nd generation of filmmakers and who explored the causes of National Socialism and the remedies for the dreadful catastrophe that overcame Germany between 1933 and 1945. The collapse of the Reich in 1945 saw the end of the 12 year National Socialist reign of terror over Germany. The Nazi’s had ensured that they had control of cultural life in Germany and had invested heavily in a film industry that created a national myth in order to support Nazi Party aims and which manipulated the public. The defeat of Germany saw the discrediting and failure of fascist, national identity, myth making, artistic stereotypes and the foundational films produced in Germany during the period 1933-45. By the 1960’s DEFA, the GDR’s state film production company had been exploring the origins of National Socialism for twenty years, starting with Wolfgang Staudte’s Die Mörder sind unter uns, 1946, DEFA. The GDR’s state film company, DEFA, was given the task of” [...]restor[ing] democracy in Germany and remove all traces of fascist and militaristic ideology from the minds of every German[...] (Allen, 1999,3). These films were produced to enable the Germans to have an “honest confrontation with the military and moral catastrophe that [...]the Germans had brought on themselves[...]” (Barnouw,2008,48) and sought to “develop a cinematic language[...]to confront the recent German past (Pinkert,2008,20). The “grammar” of DEFA anti- fascist films was established by such films as Staudte, Die Mörder Sind Unter Uns orIrgendwo in Berlin, 1946, Gerhard Lamprecht, DEFA and Die Buntkarierten,1949, Kurt Maetzig, DEFA or Rotation,1949, Wolfgang Staudte,DEFA. These films were made by a generation that had grown up in the Weimar period and who had experienced the slide from Weimar chaos to National Socialist Dictatorship at first hand. The film makers were born in the late 19th or early 20th Centuries, Staudte in 1906, Lamprecht in 1897 and Maetzig in 1911. Their early films are an almost emotional expression of the moment of defeat containing heartfelt investigations of the causes of the catastrophe from within the Soviet Occupation Zone and later in the GDR. The 1950’s saw DEFA turn its attention to films which explored the everyday concerns of GDR citizens struggling to build a new state centring on the Berlin films of the middle of that decade.

Author : Jorge Pérez
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781487509118

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Fashioning Spanish Cinema by Jorge Pérez Pdf

Fashioning Spanish Cinema provides a critical examination of the intersections between fashion, costume design, and Spanish cinema.

Author : Lester D. Friedman,David Desser,Sarah Kozloff,Martha Nochimson,Stephen Prince
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 039393019X

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An Introduction to Film Genres by Lester D. Friedman,David Desser,Sarah Kozloff,Martha Nochimson,Stephen Prince Pdf

An Introduction to Film Genres, written by leading film scholars specifically for undergraduates who are new to the study of film, provides an introduction that helps students see thirteen film genres in a new light---to help them identify the themes, iconography, and distinctive stylistic traits of each genre.

Author : Bruce Kawin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520076966

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How Movies Work by Bruce Kawin Pdf

How Movies Work, offers the filmgoer an engaging and informative guide to the appreciation and evaluation of films. It provides a comprehensive consideration of movies from idea to script, casting, financing, shooting and distribution. Bruce Kawin addresses the book not just to students of film but to any filmgoer curious to know more about the process of the conception and creation of our favorite entertainment and art form.