Author: Cory Hamblin
Publisher: RoseDog Books
Keywords: movies, trivia, commentary, serket
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2009-12-14
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1434996050
ISBN-13: 9781434996053
I love watching movies in a variety of genres, including new, old, popular, independent, and foreign. The diverse genres allow you to enjoy a film during any mood and about any subject. Compared to other books that review movies, my approach is more casual and my rating based on the overall feel of the video. The trivia touches on several topics such as film production, revenue records, locations, and historical background. Sometimes movies portray a message about politics or our culture. I comment on the approach and share my views on the matter.
Author: Christopher Ames
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: movies, reflected, hollywood
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1997-12-18
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0813109388
ISBN-13: 9780813109381
" Hundreds of Hollywood-on-Hollywood movies can be found throughout the history of American cinema, from the days of silents to the present. They include films from genres as far ranging as musical, film noir, melodrama, comedy, and action-adventure. Such movies seduce us with the promise of revealing the reality behind the camera. But, as part of the very industry they supposedly critique, they cannot take us behind the scenes in any true sense. Through close analysis of fifteen critically acclaimed films, Christopher Ames reveals how the idea of Hollywood is constructed and constructs itself
Author: James Agee
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: movies, modern, library, comment, film, criticism, agee
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2000-03-07
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0375755292
ISBN-13: 9780375755293
"In my opinion, [Agee’s] column is the most remarkable regular event in American journalism today."--W. H. AudenJames Agee was passionately involved with the movies throughout his life. A master of both fiction and nonfiction, he wrote about film in clean, smart prose as the reviewer for Time magazine and as a columnist for The Nation. Agee was particularly perceptive about the work of his friend John Huston and recognized the artistic merit of certain B films such as The Curse of the Cat People and other movies produced by Val Lewton.
Author: Bill Nichol
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: movies, methods, vol
Number of Pages: 700
Published: 1976-11-09
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0520031512
ISBN-13: 9780520031517
Film teachers and students will welcome this new anthology, which makes available in one source a comprehensive selection of recent theoretical work on film, including many articles difficult to locate in the scattered literature. The contents are drawn almost entirely from the publications of the past fifteen years, and include work by the most original film thinkers--some well known to a wide public, some widely known among readers of film journals. Several important filmmakers are also represented. The materials have been grouped in critical categories reflecting recent approaches to the me
Author: J. W. Williamson
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: mountains, movies, hillbillyland
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 1995-06-30
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0807845035
ISBN-13: 9780807845035
The stereotypical hillbilly figure in popular culture provokes a range of responses, from bemused affection for Ma and Pa Kettle to outright fear of the mountain men in Deliverance. In Hillbillyland, J. W. Williamson investigates why hillbilly images are so pervasive in our culture and what purposes they serve. He has mined more than 800 movies, from early nickelodeon one-reelers to contemporary films such as Thelma and Louise and Raising Arizona, for representations of hillbillies in their recurring roles as symbolic ’cultural others.’ Williamson’s hillbillies live not
Author: Diane Wakoski
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
Keywords: books, movies, archaeology, vol, sailor, jason
Number of Pages: 197
Published: 1993-04-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0876859023
ISBN-13: 9780876859025
From "His Bedroom Voice":He leaves a message on our answering machine,a simple one, plain, expedient, he needs aletter of recommendation, but as I listen withoutmuch thought/I realize I don’t mind anything he asks of me
Author: McNulty
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Keywords: movies, praying
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0664501559
ISBN-13: 9780664501556
