Volume 2This reference provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to film and film studies, covering such aspects as production, national traditions, studios, genres, critical theory and film history. Approximately 200 entries cover specific topics, including acting, censorship, editing, lighting and others. Also included are more than 230 career profiles, placing individual achievements in the context of specific topics (for example, Robert Altman is featured in the article on "Sound"). Additional features include a comprehensive index; a list of further reading sources; 350 black-and-white and 150 full color photographs; and more.

Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film

Humor & Entertainment

Grant, Barry Keith

Movies

Schirmer Reference

Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman (Nonfictions)

Frederick Wiseman is America's foremost chronicler of public institutions. His films have focused on city, state, and local governments; hospitals; asylums; creative organizations and museums; schools; libraries; and more. In recent years, Wiseman's work has reached a new level of popularity, with films such as In Jackson Heights (2015), Monrovia, Indiana (2018), and City Hall (2020) all earning widespread acclaim. Voyages of Discovery is the definitive account of Wiseman's career, offering a comprehensive analysis of the work of the leading documentary filmmaker in the United States. In this updated edition, Barry Keith Grant adds new material exploring the documentarian's works since the 1990s, discussing every film in Wiseman's remarkable sixty-year career. He examines the core concerns running across Wiseman's work from the early films, which focus on documenting institutional failure, through an expanding interest in cultural institutions and ideology, to a blossoming embrace of democracy in later films. He pays particular attention to Wiseman's strategies for involving and implicating the spectator in the institutional processes the films document. Grant also places Wiseman within the history of the documentary and other traditions of American art and considers the relationship between documentary film and authorship. Voyages of Discovery is an important book for anyone interested in Wiseman's work or how documentary film can reveal the fabric of our shared civic life.

Wallflower Press

Frederick Wiseman is America’s foremost chronicler of public institutions. His films have focused on city, state, and local governments; hospitals; asylums; creative organizations and museums; schools; libraries; and more. In recent years, Wiseman’s work has reached a new level of popularity, with films such as In Jackson Heights (2015), Monrovia, Indiana (2018), and City Hall (2020) all earning widespread acclaim.\nVoyages of Discovery is the definitive account of Wiseman’s career, offering a comprehensive analysis of the work of the leading documentary filmmaker in the United States. In this updated edition, Barry Keith Grant adds new material exploring the documentarian’s works since the 1990s, discussing every film in Wiseman’s remarkable sixty-year career. He examines the core concerns running across Wiseman’s work from the early films, which focus on documenting institutional failure, through an expanding interest in cultural institutions and ideology, to a blossoming embrace of democracy in later films. He pays particular attention to Wiseman’s strategies for involving and implicating the spectator in the institutional processes the films document. Grant also places Wiseman within the history of the documentary and other traditions of American art and considers the relationship between documentary film and authorship. Voyages of Discovery is an important book for anyone interested in Wiseman’s work or how documentary film can reveal the fabric of our shared civic life.

This unique reference work is designed to bridge the gap between guides and dictionaries that are primarily academic and theoretical and those that deal mainly in technical jargon. Above all, it is aimed at students of film and media who are likely to encounter a wide range of specialist language in a variety of places--in film reviews, critical essays, interviews with filmmakers and stars, and academic and Internet publications. The Film Studies Dictionary contains around 1,000 entries ranging from terms that have always puzzled audiences such as "best boy" and "gaffer" to those required by specialist students of film such as "post-colonial theory" and "third cinema." It uses a system of careful cross-referencing and concise and up-to-date references to further reading for exploration.

The Film Studies Dictionary (Arnold Student Reference)

Hillier, Jim

Blandford, Steve

Hodder Education Publishers

Frederick Wiseman is among America’s foremost documentary filmmakers. The recipient of many awards, including three Emmys, Wiseman has made more than thirty feature-length documentaries during a career that has spanned five decades. Together, these films provide a fascinating chronicle of American social and institutional life. This book makes available for the first time transcriptions of five of Wiseman’s most important films― Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing―providing all of the dialogue as well as annotations about other aspects of the soundtracks such as music and ambient noise, and notes about editing and camera movement. These scene-by-scene transcripts enable readers to scrutinize the films’ complex structural patterns, recurring motifs, editing regimes, and the unscripted dialogue that makes Wiseman’s cinema a rich repository of American speech. Editor Barry Keith Grant’s critical introduction discusses the importance of sound in Wiseman’s documentaries. Liberally illustrated with images from the films, these meticulous transcriptions are accompanied by a bibliography and filmography.

Five Films by Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing

Wiseman, Frederick

University of California Press

Film Genre: Theory and Criticism

Scarecrow Pr

This is a comprehensive anthology of criticism on the horror film from a variety of approaches. Part One explores both the nature of horror and distinctive elements of the genre, while Part Two focuses on individual horror films, spanning the history of the genre from Nosferatu to Halloween. Contributors include Robin Wood, Noel Carroll, Morris Dickstein, Bruce Kawin, J.P. Telotte, Bonnie Zimmerman, and others. With a detailed bibliography.

Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film

Christopher Sharrett

Scarecrow Press

This is a comprehensive anthology of criticism on the horror film from a variety of approaches. Part One explores both the nature of horror and distinctive elements of the genre, while Part Two focuses on individual horror films, spanning the history of the genre from Nosferatu to Halloween. Contributors include Robin Wood, Noel Carroll, Morris Dickstein, Bruce Kawin, J.P. Telotte, Bonnie Zimmerman, and others. With a detailed bibliography.

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Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film

Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film

Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman (Nonfictions)

Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman (Nonfictions)

The Film Studies Dictionary (Arnold Student Reference)

The Film Studies Dictionary (Arnold Student Reference)

Five Films by Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing

Film Genre: Theory and Criticism

Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film

Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film