The Bfi Companion to Horror

Humor & Entertainment

British Film Institute. African & Caribbean Unit

Movies

Continuum Intl Pub Group

Realism and the Cinema: A Reader (British Film Institute Readers in Film Studies)

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Theories of authorship: A reader (British Film Institute readers in film studies)

The film director or `auteur' has been central in film theory and criticism over the past thirty years. Theories of Authorship documents the major stages in the debate about film authorship, and introduces recent writing on film to suggest important ways in which the debate might be reconsidered.

Theories of Authorship: A Reader (British Film Institute Readers in Film Studies)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

<p>From one of the world's most acclaimed directors comes an absorbing and informative look at the evolution of American film and how the medium both shaped Scorsese's own artistic vision and influenced the whole of American culture. Hundreds of film stills, many in color, plus dialogue, quotations, and other sources add to and illustrate each chapter's overriding theme.</p>

A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

Scorsese, Martin

Wilson, Michael Henry

Hyperion Books

Mediating Two Worlds: Cinematic Encounters in the Americas

This text examines how Latin America continues to be viewed and recreated by North American and European film-makers, from Raoul Walsh and John Sturges, to Sergei Eisenstein, Luis Bunuel and Werner Herzog. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the rich and complex development of Latin American cinema and television. It brings together specially commissioned essays from scholars in Latin America, North America and Europe to open up and explore the cultures of the Americas.

British Film Inst

In Front of the Children: Screen Entertainment and Young Audiences

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The National Film and Television Archive collects, preserves, and makes accessible its holdings of cinema and television from around the world. The results are recorded in this work of reference, the bulk of which is a list of British fiction and non-fiction films for which the NFTVA now holds viewable copies. Also included is information about scripts and press-books for British films, and a list of other publications about British cinema held by BFI library and Information Services.

British Cinema Source Book: Bfi Archive Viewing Copies and Library Materials

National Film and Television Archive (Great Britain)

Television and the Household: Reports from the Bfi's Audience Tracking Study (Bfi Working Papers)

Cinema arrived in 1895 and had reached almost every corner of the globe by 1896. This reference records the lives of the people who made it happen. From Thomas Edison, inventor, to Eugene Pirou, pornographer, and from Alice Guy, director, to James Corbett, boxer, this book documents over 250 key figures worldwide. It features 21 contributors from around the world.

Who's Who of Victorian Cinema: A Worldwide Survey (Centenary of Cinema)

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Talking Pictures is a vibrant collection of interviews with the cream of new talent emerging in the British film industry today. It's a vivid snapshot and informal handbook of the trials and tribulations--and joys--of independent filmmaking: from the scriptwriting and financing to shooting, editing, marketing, and distribution.  Interviewees include Eric Fellner, executive producer of Four Weddings and a Funeral; Andrew Macdonald, producer of Trainspotting and The Beach; Gary Sinyor, co-director of Leon the Pig Farmer; Brianne Perkins of the Children's Film Unit; Ray Brady, director of the highly controversial Boy Meets Girl; and A. Hans Scheirl, director, producer, and actor of seven parts in the 'low to no budget' Dandy Dust.

Talking Pictures: Interviews With Contemporary British Film-Makers

JONES, GRAHAM

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