'Love in the Post' is an original screenplay inspired by Derrida's 'The Post Card', together with new critical commentary by the filmmakers and interviews with leading Derrida scholars.
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This is the first-ever critical work on Jack Rosenthal, the award-winning British television dramatist. His career began with Coronation Street in the 1960s and he became famous for his popular sitcoms, including The Lovers and The Dustbinmen. During what is often known as the '…
Founded by Bertolt Brecht and his wife Helene Weigel in 1949, the Berliner Ensemble's productions and philosophy have been hugely influential on the work of theatre-makers around the world. David Barnett's book provides a study of the company. Based on extensive archival researc…
Storyboarding: a critical history
by Price, Steven, Pallant, Chris
fromPalgrave Studies in Screenwriting
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Type: Book
"This study provides the first book-length critical history of storyboarding. With roots in pre-cinematic experiments in the moving image, the form rapidly developed alongside animation, culminating in Disney's feature-length Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. William Cameron Menz…
In Screen Jesus: Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film, Peter Malone takes a close look at films in which Jesus is depicted. From silent renditions of The Passion Play to 21st-century blockbusters like The Passion of the Christ, Malone examines how the history of Jesus fil…
'Film Theory' addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists and filmmakers. The book takes the position that film theory is a form of writing that produces a unique cinematic grammer, and like all grammars, it forms part of the s…
André Bazin’s writings on cinema are among the most influential reflections on the medium ever written. Even so, his critical interests ranged widely and encompassed the “new media” of the 1950s, including television, 3D film, Cinerama, and CinemaScope. Fifty-seven of his review…
"This study provides an analysis of a range of anime titles wherein different aspects of this cultural phenomenon are articulated. It explores films and series which exemplify the distinctive signatures placed by particular directors or studios on the treatment of memory, while …
Ecocinema theory and practice
by Cubitt, Sean, Monani, Salma, Rust, Stephen
fromAFI film readers
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Type: Book
This is an anthology that offers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of eco-film criticism, a branch of critical scholarship that investigates cinema's intersections with environmental understandings.
The widely acclaimed films of Wong Kar-wai are characterized by their sumptuous yet complex visual and sonic style. This study of Wong's filmmaking techniques uses a poetics approach to examine how form, music, narration, characterization, genre and other artistic elements work …
The seemingly effortless integration of sound, movement, and editing in films of the late 1930s stands in vivid contrast to the awkwardness of the first talkies. This book analyses this evolution via close examination of important prototypes of early sound filmmaking, as well as…
Far from helping people to escape harsh realities to a realm of pure fantasy, fairy tales and the films that rooted themselves in their tropes and traditions played an integral role in formulating and expressing the anxieties of modernism as well as its potential for radical, ma…
Miriam Bratu Hansen brings to life an impressive archive of known less well-known materials and reveals surprising perspectives on canonical texts. Her analysis provides the contours of a theory of cinema and experience that speaks to questions being posed anew as moving-image c…
Artaud and his doubles
by ebrary, Inc, Jannarone, Kimberly
fromTheater--theory/text/performance
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Type: Book
Artaud and his doubles
by ProQuest (Firm), Jannarone, Kimberly
fromTheater--theory/text/performance
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Type: Book
Artaud and His Doubles is a radical re-thinking of one of the most well-known and influential theater artists and theorists of the twentieth century. Placing Artaud's works and rhetoric within the specific context of European political, theatrical, and intellectual history of th…