Film & Media
The Essential HBO Reader Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 372
ISBN: 9780813192482
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2010
Series: Essential Readers in Contemporary Media and Culture
Illustrations: 53 photos
Description:
A comprehensive and compelling examination of one of cable television's most innovative and popular networks, The Essential HBO Reader looks at every aspect of HBO's development as a corporation, a creative voice, and a brand. The authors explore the network's diverse repertoire of programming, from drama to comedy to documentaries and sports -- including such acclaimed shows as The Sopranos, Sex in the City, Angels in America, America Undercover, and Def Comedy Jam -- as they detail HBO's nearly forty-year history and its profound influence on the entertainment industry.

The New Entrepreneurs

Format: Hardback
Pages: 236
ISBN: 9780819569462
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2010
Illustrations: 22 illus.
Description:
According to the sociologist C. Wright Mills in his 1951 book, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, the "new entrepreneur" was a lone wolf able to succeed in post-World War II corporate America by elusively meandering through various institutions. During this time, anthology writers such as Rod Serling, Reginald Rose, and Paddy Chayefsky achieved a level of creativity that has rarely been equaled on television since.
Von Sternberg Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780813126012
Pub Date: 29 Oct 2010
Series: Screen Classics
Illustrations: 42 b&w photos
Description:
Belligerent and evasive, Josef von Sternberg chose to ignore his illegitimate birth in Austria, deprived New York childhood, abusive father, and lack of education. The director who strutted onto the set in a turban, riding breeches, or a silk robe embraced his new persona as a world traveller, collected modern art, drove a Rolls Royce, and earned three times as much as the president. Von Sternberg traces the choices that carried the unique director from poverty in Vienna to power in Hollywood, including his eventual ostracism in Japan.
We'll Always Have the Movies Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9780813130057
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2010
Illustrations: 17 b&w photos
Description:
During the highly charged years of World War II, movies perhaps best communicated to Americans who they were and why they were fighting. These films were more than just an explanation of historical events: they asked audiences to consider the Nazi threat, they put a face on both our enemies and allies, and they explored changing wartime gender roles.We'll Always Have the Movies shows how film after film repeated the narratives, character types, and rhetoric that made the war and each American's role in it comprehensible.
Swedish Film Cover Swedish Film Cover
Format: 
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9789185509362
Pub Date: 16 Aug 2010
Pages: 367
ISBN: 9789187351419
Pub Date: 19 Oct 2014
Description:
The Editors give a wide and yet concise presentation of the history of Swedish film through carefully selected articles by Swedish and international film scholars. The book draws upon a rich tradition of research on Swedish cinema, and it offers a varied and inspiring introduction to the history from the very first film screenings to contemporary works. The anthology is organized in thematic sections on, for instance, the Swedish cinema institutions; silent films; genre cinema; authors and art cinema, and a reflection on the film industry before and after the new millennium.
Hedy Lamarr Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9780813126043
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2010
Series: Screen Classics
Illustrations: 30 b&w photos, 1 chart
Description:
Hedy Lamarr's life was punctuated by salacious rumors and public scandal, but it was her stunning looks and classic Hollywood glamour that continuously captivated audiences. Born Hedwig Kiesler, she escaped an unhappy marriage with arms dealer Fritz Mandl in Austria to try her luck in Hollywood, where her striking appearance made her a screen legend. Her notorious nude role in the erotic Czech film Ecstasy (1933), as well as her work with Cecil B.
Animating Space Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780813125862
Pub Date: 04 Jun 2010
Illustrations: 55 b&w photos
Description:
Animators work within a strictly defined, limited space that requires difficult artistic decisions. The blank frame presents a dilemma for all animators, and the decision of what to include and leave out raises important questions about artistry, authorship, and cultural influence. In Animating Space: From Mickey to WALL-E, renowned scholar J.
Warren Oates Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9780813193465
Pub Date: 02 Apr 2010
Series: Screen Classics
Illustrations: 34
Description:
Though he never quite reached the lead actor status he worked so relentlessly to achieve, Warren Oates (1928-1982) is known today as one of the most memorable and skilled character actors of the 1960s and 1970s. With his rugged looks and measured demeanor, Oates crafted complex characters that were at once brazen and thoughtful, wild and subdued. Warren Oates: A Wild Life is the first book-length look at the actor whom friends remember as a hard-living, hard-drinking man who was kind and caring, but also as mean as a blue-eyed devil.
The South Korean Film Renaissance Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780819569400
Pub Date: 01 Mar 2010
Illustrations: 31 b & w illus.
Description:
For the past decade, the Korean film industry has enjoyed a renaissance. With innovative storytelling and visceral effects, Korean films not only have been commercially viable in the domestic and regional markets but also have appealed to cinephiles everywhere on the international festival circuit. This book provides both an industrial and an aesthetic account of how the Korean film industry managed to turn an economic crisis-triggered in part by globalizing processes in the world film industry-into a fiscal and cultural boom.
Claude Rains Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780813192611
Pub Date: 05 Feb 2010
Series: Screen Classics
Illustrations: 63 photographs
Description:
Late in Claude Rains's distinguished career, a reverent film journalist wrote that Rains "was as much a cinematic institution as the medium itself." In Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice, noted Hollywood historian David J. Skal draws on more than thirty hours of newly-released Rains interviews to create the first full-length biography of the actor nominated multiple times for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780813192604
Pub Date: 05 Feb 2010
Series: The Philosophy of Popular Culture
Illustrations: none
Description:
The science fiction genre maintains a remarkable hold on the imagination and enthusiasm of the filmgoing public, captivating large audiences worldwide and garnering ever-larger profits. The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film explores the storylines, conflicts, and themes of fifteen science fiction film classics, from Metropolis to The Matrix. Editor Steven M.
Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 290
ISBN: 9780813125596
Pub Date: 08 Jan 2010
Illustrations: 15-20
Description:
During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. They often portrayed the combatants in very simple terms: Americans and their allies were heroes, and everyone else was a villain. Norway, France, Czechoslovakia, and England were all good because they had been invaded or victimized by Nazi Germany.
Consuming Pleasures Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9780813192826
Pub Date: 04 Nov 2009
Illustrations: illus
Description:
"To be continued..
A Splurch in the Kisser Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 370
ISBN: 9780819569158
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2009
Illustrations: 35 illus.
Description:
With one of the longest and most controversial careers in Hollywood history, Blake Edwards is a phoenix of movie directors, full of hubris, ambition, and raving comic chutzpah. His rambunctious filmography remains an artistic force on par with Hollywood's greatest comic directors: Lubitsch, Sturges, Wilder. Like Wilder, Edwards's propensity for hilarity is double-helixed with pain, and in films like Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and Roses, and even The Pink Panther, we can hear him off-screen, laughing in the dark.
The Oprah Phenomenon Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780813192369
Pub Date: 25 Sep 2009
Description:
Her image is iconic: Oprah Winfrey has built an empire on her ability to connect with and inspire her audience. No longer just a name, "Oprah" has become a brand representing the talk show host's unique style of self-actualizing individualism. The cultural and economic power wielded by Winfrey merits critical evaluation.
Killing the Indian Maiden Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9780813192383
Pub Date: 28 Aug 2009
Illustrations: 12 b&w photos
Description:
Killing the Indian Maiden examines the fascinating and often disturbing portrayal of Native American women in film. M. Elise Marubbio examines the sacrificial role in which a young Native woman allies herself with a white male hero and dies as a result of that choice.