The Film, Form, and Culture CD-ROM serves as a multimedia glossary or dictionary to ANY film text. It is available separately, and it can be packaged at a discount with any McGraw-Hill film title. The CD-ROM illustrates film elements and concepts with QuickTime clips from a wide variety of classic films: Citizen Kane, Battleship Potemkin, Rear Window, The Plow That Broke the Plains, Vertigo, and many more. This new version adds modules on Sound and Genre to provide an even stronger tool for film study.

Film, Form, and Culture CD-ROM 1.03

Humor & Entertainment

Kolker, Robert

Kolker, Robert Phillip

Movies

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

From screen kisses to gender roles, Film, Form, and Culture explores the interaction between the movies and the society of which they are a part. Students are introduced to the elements of film - the shot, the cut, the soundtrack - and they are encouraged to think seriously about the means by which these elements shape an audience's understanding of the narrative. On a larger scale, students are asked to consider how a film can influence its viewer even after the last reel has run out - and the way that societal changes radically alter the course of film history.

Film, Form, & Culture with CD-ROM 1.03

From screen kisses to gender roles, Film, Form, and Culture explores the interaction between the movies and the society of which they are a part. Students are introduced to the elements of film - the shot, the cut, the soundtrack - and they are encouraged to think seriously about the means by which these elements shape an audience's understanding of the narrative. On a larger scale, students are asked to consider how a film can influence its viewer even after the last reel has run out - and the way that societal changes radically alter the course of film history.

Film, Form, and Culture

Computers & Technology

Mcgraw-Hill College

The "New Wave" style of American film of the 1960s and 70s--characterized by exciting, narrative innovation and sometimes adventurous reworkings of older film genres, as well as images of solitude and explosive violence--has come to an end. Erasing virtually all traces of 60s and 70s experimentation, American film in the 1980s has returned with a vengeance to a more linear, conventional style. In this newly revised edition of The Cinema of Loneliness, Robert Phillip Kolker continues and expands his inquiry into the phenomenon of cinematic representations of culture by updating the chapters on the directors discussed in the first edition--Arthur Penn, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, and Robert Altman--to include their latest work, and by substituting for the chapter on Francis Ford Coppola a chapter on the cultural, political, and ideological formations of eighties films and the work of Steven Spielberg. He incorporates new discussions to include the more recent films, such as Arthur Penn's Four Friends (1983) and Target (1985); Stanley Kubrick's direction of The Shining (1980) and Full Metal Jacket (1987); Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1983), After Hours (1985), and The Color of Money (1986); and Robert Altman's A Perfect Couple (1979), Popeye (1980), Streamers (1983), A Fool for Love (1985), and Beyond Therapy (1987). Placing the films of Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, and Altman in an ideological perspective, Kolker both illuminates their relationship to one another and to larger currents in our culture, and emphasizes the statements their films make about American society.

A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, Altman

Oxford University Press

Analyzes a variety of motion pictures which use innovative techniques, challenge the audience's opinions, and explore social and political issues

The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema

Analyzes a variety of motion pictures which use innovative techniques, challenge the audience's opinions, and explore social and political issues

A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman

The "New Wave" style of American film of the 1960s and 70s--characterized by exciting, narrative innovation and sometimes adventurous reworkings of older film genres, as well as images of solitude and explosive violence--has come to an end. Erasing virtually all traces of 60s and 70s experimentation, American film in the 1980s has returned with a vengeance to a more linear, conventional style. In this newly revised edition of The Cinema of Loneliness, Robert Phillip Kolker continues and expands his inquiry into the phenomenon of cinematic representations of culture by updating the chapters on the directors discussed in the first edition--Arthur Penn, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, and Robert Altman--to include their latest work, and by substituting for the chapter on Francis Ford Coppola a chapter on the cultural, political, and ideological formations of eighties films and the work of Steven Spielberg. He incorporates new discussions to include the more recent films, such as Arthur Penn's Four Friends (1983) and Target (1985); Stanley Kubrick's direction of The Shining (1980) and Full Metal Jacket (1987); Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1983), After Hours (1985), and The Color of Money (1986); and Robert Altman's A Perfect Couple (1979), Popeye (1980), Streamers (1983), A Fool for Love (1985), and Beyond Therapy (1987). Placing the films of Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, and Altman in an ideological perspective, Kolker both illuminates their relationship to one another and to larger currents in our culture, and emphasizes the statements their films make about American society.

With such films as Last tango in Paris and 1900, Bernardo Bertolucci emerged in the 1970s as one of the most eminent--and controversial--directors of contemporary international cinema. Now Robert Phillip Kolker gives us the first full length study of this major filmmaker. Although Bertolucci has made only nine feature films to date, these works testify to the complexity of his cinematic imagination. Kolker examines the films from a number of perspectives: historical, formal, and aesthetic. He analyzes Bertolucci's work in relation to that of his mentor, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and looks at his on-going aesthetic struggle with the key figure of modern cinema, Jean-Luc Godard. Closely scrutinizing the form and content of each film, Kolker emphasizes Bertolucci's experiments with narrative as well as his political, psychological, domestic, and sexual themes. Bertolucci's complex use of operatic, painterly, and literary references--especially to Verdi, Bacon, Magritte, and Borges--reveive special notice. More than a study of a single filmmaker, Bertolucci examines cinema as a synthesizing art, able to draw upon influences from many disciplines in its effort to explore history and the unconscious. The book also serves as a study of modern cinema's movement and direction over the past twenty years. About the Author: Robert Phillip Kolker is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Maryland. His previous books are A Cinema of Loneliness and The Altering Eye.

Bernardo Bertolucci

The authors trace the development of one of the most well-known directors of the New German Cinema that flourished in the 1970s and early 1980s. Examining Wim Wenders' career from his early film school productions through his mature works of the 1970s, this book also analyses the most recent works, as well as the themes and preoccupations that unite his oeuvre. As the authors note, Wenders' works have been profoundly influenced by American films, especially the 'road movie' genre. His own work often features characters who are always on the move, in an attempt to capture a glimpse of their identity and place in the world. They also represent a generation of postwar Germans seeking to redeem themselves and the history of their country by turning to American popular culture, particularly its music and movies.

The Films of Wim Wenders: Cinema as Vision and Desire (Cambridge Film Classics)

BEICKEN, PETER

Cambridge University Press

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Film, Form, and Culture CD-ROM 1.03

Film, Form, & Culture with CD-ROM 1.03

Film, Form, and Culture

A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, Altman

The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema

The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema

A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman

A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman

Bernardo Bertolucci

The Films of Wim Wenders: Cinema as Vision and Desire (Cambridge Film Classics)