Sure, you've seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Maybe you've even sat all the way through Satan's Little Helper and The Wasp Woman. But as you'll find out in this shockingly tasteless collection of great awful mov…
Sure, everyone's seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. But as you'll learn in this shockingly tasteless collection of great awful movies, there's so much more to the world of truly bad film. You'll dive into the stea…
Sure, everyone's seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. But as you'll learn in this shockingly tasteless collection of great awful movies, there's so much more to the world of truly bad film. You'll dive into the stea…
Focusing on horror, disaster, blaxploitation and kung-fu films, this book concentrates on the 1970s. In a series of articles, leading critics and scholars consider the social and cinematic issues that shaped the films of the decade.
Focusing on horror, disaster, blaxploitation and kung-fu films, this book concentrates on the 1970s. In a series of articles, leading critics and scholars consider the social and cinematic issues that shaped the films of the decade.
Since its original publication in 1977, this book has become the definitive source on film and media. This edition features a new preface and several new sections, including an Essential Library: One Hundred Books About Film and Media You Should Read and One Hundred Films You Sh…
James Monaco discusses the elements necessary to understand how a film conveys its meaning, and, more importantly, how the audience can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate
James Monaco discusses the elements necessary to understand how a film conveys its meaning, and, more importantly, how the audience can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate.
This textbook is especially designed to introduce undergraduate students to the most important qualitative methodologies used to study film and television. The methodologies covered include ideological analysis, auteur theory, genre theory, semiotics and structuralism, psychoana…
A critic shares professional insights into how to derive more from a film experience, analyzing a range of iconic films to reveal metaphorical artistry techniques in the acting, filming, dialogue, and music.
