This text combines discussion of contemporary and classic films with pedagogical features designed to stimulate interest and encourage discussion. Popular Hollywood films that are familiar to students are balanced with historically classic films from a variety of time periods and countries.

Thinking about Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

Humor & Entertainment

Lehman, Peter

Luhr, William

Movies

Harcourt College Pub.

Author/narr Cinema

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Adult HC/TR

Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

Guiding students and movie lovers through the building blocks required to watch movies critically and analytically, Thinking About Movies 2nd edition offers an intelligent and lively introduction to the ways movies are constructed, achieve their effect, and convey their powerful messages. 
<ul> <li>Provides a comprehensive guide for students and movie lovers to watching movies critically and analytically. 
</li> <li>Introduces the critical building blocks required to understand film as an important narrative and cultural form. 
</li> <li>Guides readers through basic approaches to film analysis such as authorship, genre, race, class, gender, film theory, audience, and reception. 
</li> <li>Includes discussion of a diverse selection of films, from Citizen Kane to The Sixth Sense. 
</li> <li>Extensively illustrated throughout. 
</li> <li>Material has been fully revised and re-designed for this second edition.</li> </ul>
 Thinking About Movies, 2nd edition is accompanied by a website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/lehman featuring resources for both academics and students.

Wiley/Blackwell

Guiding students and movie lovers through the building blocks required to watch movies critically and analytically, Thinking About Movies 2nd edition offers an intelligent and lively introduction to the ways movies are constructed, achieve their effect, and convey their powerful messages. 
<ul> <li>Provides a comprehensive guide for students and movie lovers to watching movies critically and analytically. 
</li> <li>Introduces the critical building blocks required to understand film as an important narrative and cultural form. 
</li> <li>Guides readers through basic approaches to film analysis such as authorship, genre, race, class, gender, film theory, audience, and reception. 
</li> <li>Includes discussion of a diverse selection of films, from Citizen Kane to The Sixth Sense. 
</li> <li>Extensively illustrated throughout. 
</li> <li>Material has been fully revised and re-designed for this second edition.</li> </ul>
 Thinking About Movies, 2nd edition is accompanied by a website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/lehman featuring resources for both academics and students.

When in 1943, Chandler first entered Bill Wilder's office to begin collaboration on the script for Double Indemnity (1944), he knew little about the film industry and less about screenwriting. His first draft was literally hurled back at him: \"This is s___, Mr. Chandler.\" He began again. The final script was nominated for an Academy Award. Success came quickly to chandler, Though during his turbulent years in Hollywood he was to receive screen credit for only five films - among them The Blue Dahlia (1946) and Strangers on a Train (1951). His screenplays, his fiction, and the films based on that fiction rapidly became associated with a style that French critics were to baptize film noir. Before the Forties were over, there were six films based upon his novels and they included such now recognized classics as Edward Dmytryk's Murder, My Sweet (1944), Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep (1946) - scripted in part by William Faulkner - and Robert Montgomery's Lady in the Lake (1947). In the years that followed, new filmmakers were drawn to Chandler's seven novels as source material. Now in the Eighties it seems likely that we will see new screen reinterpretations of Chandler's special and instantly recognizable world. Beginning with an overview of the period in which Chandler rose to prominence, this lively study goes on to chronicle his frequently his frequently stormy career as a screenwriter and then examines in detail the films based on his fiction. Important in themselves, they helped break the grip on the censors and led to a new type of movie that continues to bear Chandler's stamp more than twenty years after his death.

Raymond Chandler and Film

Frederick Ungar

Raymond Chandler and film (Ungar film library)

F. Ungar Pub. Co.

When in 1943, Chandler first entered Bill Wilder's office to begin collaboration on the script for Double Indemnity (1944), he knew little about the film industry and less about screenwriting. His first draft was literally hurled back at him: \"This is s___, Mr. Chandler.\" He began again. The final script was nominated for an Academy Award. Success came quickly to chandler, Though during his turbulent years in Hollywood he was to receive screen credit for only five films - among them The Blue Dahlia (1946) and Strangers on a Train (1951). His screenplays, his fiction, and the films based on that fiction rapidly became associated with a style that French critics were to baptize film noir. Before the Forties were over, there were six films based upon his novels and they included such now recognized classics as Edward Dmytryk's Murder, My Sweet (1944), Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep (1946) - scripted in part by William Faulkner - and Robert Montgomery's Lady in the Lake (1947). In the years that followed, new filmmakers were drawn to Chandler's seven novels as source material. Now in the Eighties it seems likely that we will see new screen reinterpretations of Chandler's special and instantly recognizable world. Beginning with an overview of the period in which Chandler rose to prominence, this lively study goes on to chronicle his frequently his frequently stormy career as a screenwriter and then examines in detail the films based on his fiction. Important in themselves, they helped break the grip on the censors and led to a new type of movie that continues to bear Chandler's stamp more than twenty years after his death.

University Press of Florida

Provides an analysis of Blake's S.O.B., Victor/Victoria, the Pink Panthers, Man who loved women, Micki and Maude, and Fine mess

Returning To Scene Blake Edwards V2

Ohio University Press

A complete introduction to analyzing and enjoying a wide variety of movies, for film students and movie lovers alike Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying, Fourth Edition is a thorough overview of movie analysis designed to enlighten both students and enthusiasts, and heighten their enjoyment of films. Readers will delve into the process of thinking about movies critically and analytically, and find how doing so can greatly enhance the pleasure of watching movies. Divided roughly into two parts, the book addresses film studies within the context of the dynamics of cinema, before moving on to a broader analysis of the relationship of films to the larger social, cultural, and industrial issues informing them. This updated fourth edition includes an entirely new section devoted to a complete analysis of the film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, along with many in-depth discussions of important films such as Citizen Kane and Silence of the Lambs. The chapter on television integrates a major expansion distinguishing between television in the digital era of the convergence of the entertainment and technology industries in comparison to the era of broadcast analogue television. The final chapter places film within the current context of digital culture, globalization, and the powerful rise of China in film production and exhibition. The authors clearly present various methodologies for analyzing movies and illustrate them with detailed examples and images from a wide range of films from cult classics to big-budget, award-winning movies. This helps viewers see new things in movies and also better understand and explain why they like some better than others. Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying, Fourth Edition is ideal for film students immersed in the study of this important, contemporary medium and art form as well as students and readers who have never taken a class on cinema before.

BLAKE EDWARDS 
Blake Edwards: Film Director as Multitalented Auteur is the first critical analysis to focus on the dramatic works of Blake Edwards. Best known for successful comedies such as The Pink Panther series with Peter Sellers, Blake Edwards wrote, produced, and directed serious works in radio, television, film, and theater for seven decades. Although hit films such as Breakfast at Tiffany’s and ‘10’ remain popular, many of Edwards’s dramas have been forgotten or marginalized. 
In this unique book, William Luhr and Peter Lehman draw on original research from numerous set visits and personal interviews with Edwards and many of his creative and business collaborators to explore his dramas, radio and television work, theatrical productions, one-man art shows, and unproduced screenplays. In-depth chapters analyze non-comedic films including Experiment in Terror, Days of Wine and Roses, and The Tamarind Seed, the theatrical feature film Gunn and the made-for-television film Peter Gunn, the musical adaptation of Victor/Victoria, and lesser-known films written but not directed by Edwards, such as Drive a Crooked Road. 
Throughout the book, the authors apply contemporary film theory to auteur criticism of different works while sharing original insights into how Edwards worked creatively in disparate genres and media using composition, editing, sound, and visual motifs to shape his films and radio and television series. 
A one-of-a-kind examination of one of the most influential film directors of his generation, Blake Edwards: Film Director as Multitalented Auteur is an excellent supplementary text for university courses in American cinema, genres, auteurs, and film criticism, and a must-read for critics, scholars, and general readers interested in the works of Blake Edwards.

Blake Edwards: Film Director as Multitalented Auteur (Contemporary Film Directors in America)

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Thinking about Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

Author/narr Cinema

Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

Raymond Chandler and Film

Raymond Chandler and film (Ungar film library)

Raymond Chandler and Film

Returning To Scene Blake Edwards V2

Thinking about Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

Blake Edwards: Film Director as Multitalented Auteur (Contemporary Film Directors in America)