Davis, Yueh-Yu Yeh  | BFI

69,360원  | 20210101  | 9781844571819

East Asian Screen Industries provides a comprehensive introduction to the screen industries of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the PRC. Darrell William Davis and Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh argue that these nations' screen industries have dynamically responded to global trends, especially those affecting American media. A landslide of de-regulation in the region and China's accession to the World Trade Organization have been key factors.

Moseley, Rachel (EDT)  | BFI

76,050원  | 20210101  | 9781844570683

Fashioning Film Stars brings together work by established and emerging scholars in the field of film costume and star studies, to address the significance of the relationships between fashion, dress and star image. While studies of individual stars have often commented on the importance of style to the construction of their persona, such work has until now remained largely focused upon the female Hollywood, or occasionally European, star. This scholarly and readable volume redresses that balance, offering close analyses of the detail and significance of male and female star style in Hollywood. European, Asian and Latin American contexts. The book brings together a range of theoretical and methodological frameworks from textual analysis, archival research and audience study to offer, for the first time, a detailed consideration of the importance of the fashioning of film stars. Fashioning Film Stars asks: how does dress operate in relation to stardom to articulate particular identities - gendered, national, classed, ethnic, sexual? How, precisely, does film costume operate, and how is it understood, semiotically, socially, culturally? Does star dress 'disappear' against the body as 'clothes', or speak out performatively as 'costume' or 'spectacle'? It answers them in an engaging and accessible volume which will be of interest to film scholars and film fans alike. ---FROM THE PUBLISHER

Walters, Ben  | BFI

0원  | 20070627  | 9781844571734

Since its release nearly ten years ago, The Big Lebowski has become a cult classic with a worldwide following, having survived the baffled reaction of many mainstream critics. Its fans tend to be fanatical, congregating at 'Lebowski Conventions' in bowling alleys across American and Britain, and even dressing up as characters from the film. Among the funniest films of the last twenty-five years, and one of the high-water marks of 1990s genre recycling and pastiche, The Big Lebowski is also littered with playful and subversive references to film history, especially to Raymond Chandler's world of hardboiled detective classics and the world of film noir. The Big Lebowski is the rarest kind of film, a comedy whose jokes become funnier with repetition. The same goes for its multitudinous jukebox-like references to other films, many of which open up vistas for intertextual interpretation. Underneath the film's breakneck pacing and foul-mouthed characters, a farcical collection of flakes, losers, and phonies, is a surprisingly humane account of what fools we mortals be. It is one of the oddest buddy films ever made, with extraordinary performances by Jeff Bridges and John Goodman. In this study, The Big Lebowski is set into the context of 1990s Hollywood cinema, anatomised for its witty relationship with the classics which it satirises, and discussed in terms of its key theme: the hopeless flailing of ridiculously unmanly men in the world of discombobulated, mixed-up, or put-on identities that is Los Angeles.

Wood, Jason  | BFI

0원  | 20070331  | 9781844571598

From the earliest days of American cinema, the road movie has been synonymous with American culture. But the road movie is not uniquely American, and other national cinemas have offered their own take, adapting it to reflect their own sensibilities and geographies. Whatever its nationality, the road movie has presented a means by which to challenge and confront convention, remaining an ever-changing, fascinating metaphor for life. Beginning with an expansive essay tracing their historical development,100 Road Moviesis an entertaining but comprehensive guide to one of the most enduring and popular movie sub-genres. Film entries includeThe Grapes of Wrath, Easy Rider, Two-Lane Blacktop, Stranger Than Paradise,andThe Motorcycle Diaries.

Chion, Michel/ Selous, Trista (TRN)  | BFI

0원  | 20050101  | 9781844570447

'The Thin Red Line' is the third film to have been directed by Terence Malick. In this book, Michael Chion traces the connections to Malick's earlier work. He links 'The Thin Red Line' not only to James Jones's novel on which it is loosely based, but also to a tradition of American thought.

Barnes, Peter  | BFI

28,710원  | 20020901  | 9780851709192

In "To Be or Not to Be (1942) Ernest Lubitsch brought his legendary comic "touch" to the most unpromising situation: life in Nazi-occupied Poland. The film brought light and warmth to wartime calamity, but without trivializing reality.A group o...

 | BFI

0원  | 20000401  | 9780851707501

Elsaesser, Thomas  | BFI

0원  | 99991230  | 9780851707778

This volume explores the cultural phenomenon of "Metropolis," its different versions, its changing meanings, and its role as a database of the twentieth century.

Bruzzi, Stella  | BFI

0원  | 99991230  | 9781844571093

Offering a broad perspective on the Hollywood dad, looking at important Hollywood fathers and discussing films from many genres, this book adopts a multi-faceted theoretical approach, making use of psychoanalysis, sociology and masculinity studies and contextualising the father figure within both Hollywood and American history.

Bergfelder, Tim (Edt)/ Carter, Erica (Edt)/ Goktur  | BFI

51,840원  | 99991230  | 9780851709468

This comprehensive collection brings together film specialists from Europe and the US to explore German film history from the late 19th century to the early 21st century. It reevaluates Weimar cinema, Nazi propaganda and New German cinema, and takes a fresh look at more neglected areas.

 | BFI Publishing

69,210원  | 20151106  | 9781844574773

Since the earliest days of cinema the law has influenced the conditions in which Hollywood films are made, sold, circulated or presented ? from the talent contracts that enable a film to go into production, to the copyright laws that govern its distribution and the censorship laws that may block exhibition.

 | BFI Publishing

59,320원  | 20130726  | 9781844574094

This new study provides an introduction to TV aesthetics and viewership from the 1940s to the present day, at a time when television as a medium is 'converging' with the pc and laptop.

 | BFI Publishing

57,340원  | 20121102  | 9781844575107

During its heyday, Ealing produced a string of classic comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955), but there is much more to Ealing than these films, as this volume of new writing on the studio shows.

Taylor, Richard  | BFI Publishing

26,490원  | 20020426  | 9780851709161

"October (1927) was Sergei Eisenstein's third completed feature film. It is both a testament to Eisenstein's technical genius and one of the most remarkable works of propaganda cinema. In virtuoso and indelible sequences such as the storming of th...

Simons, Iain  | British Film Institute

48,630원  | 20070406  | 9781844571628

Videogames are one of the most culturally, socially and economically significant, not to mention pervasive, media forms. This guide provides a map of the most important games since the 1960s. It is aimed at both novices and acolytes alike as it journeys through the interesting, innovative and entertaining titles.