Books about film

Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. This book provides an introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, followed by the chapters on Film Genres. Supported by a text-specific Tutorial CD-ROM with video clips, it is packaged with this student learning tool.

Part selection of seminal moments, part celebration of 100 years of cinema, this book features 1000 seminal moments in filmaking, each reviewed in its historic context with an overview of its impact on movie history, on movie making, and on movie viewing.

Reissue of the legendary underground classic of Hollywood's darkest and best kept secrets!

Based on hundreds of interviews with directors such as Coppola, Scorsese, Hopper and Spielberg, as well as producers, stars, studio executives, writers, spouses, ex-spouses, and girlfriends, this is the story of the crazy world that the directors ruled.

Since its original publication in 1977, this hugely popular book has become the definitive source on film and media. Now, Monaco offers a special anniversary edition of his classic work, featuring a new preface and several new sections.

Focuses on the trends in film technology and viewership, treating film studies as an extension of cultural studies. This work takes into account the attendant theoretical considerations.

An explosive expose of the men who changed independent cinema for ever in the 1990s

* The completely updated fourth edition of an indispensable reference book for filmgoers, with thirty brand new entries.

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From the writer of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , All the President's Men and Marathon Man , Oscar-winning screen writer William Goldman presents his memories and views of movie-making, and of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman and Hoffman.

The fourth edition of this text contains substantial revisions, with additional chapters and illustrations. It provides updated filmogrophies of nearly all living directors mentioned in the book, and there are sections on films and cinematic traditions that have received scholarly attention.

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival, Pulp Fiction exploded onto the screen in 1994 and transformed the direction of contemporary cinema. This triplet of interwoven crime stories displays Tarantino's visceral approach to character and plot.

A guide to thinking and writing about films. This text introduces students to film terms and the major film theories. It progresses from taking notes and writing first drafts to creating essays and comprehensive research projects. It demonstrates how an analysis of a film becomes subtle and rigorous as part of a compositional process.