Authors:Kathleen Stock, Katherine Thomson-jones,
Publisher: British Film Institute
Keywords: new, waves, philosophy, aesthetics
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0230220460
ISBN-13: 9780230220461

Leading young scholars present a collection of wide-ranging essays covering central problems in meta-aesthetics and aesthetic issues in the philosophy of mind, as well as offering analyses of key aesthetic concepts, new perspectives on the history of aesthetics, and specialized treatment of individual art forms.

Author: Jim Kitse
Publisher: British Film Institute
Keywords: classics, film, bfi, crazy, gun
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1996-06-26
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0851705790
ISBN-13: 9780851705798

25 b&w photos Gun Crazy is the very essence of film noir, a low-budget, high-octane thriller whose reputation has grown with every passing year since its first appearance in 1950. While its story of two doomed lovers, crashing through the small towns of the mid-West, running the gauntlet of hold-ups and shoot-outs to a bloody nemesis, owes much to the true-life tale of Bonnie and Clyde, the film achieves an intense poetry eloquently expressive of the dark side of the American Dream. The film’s origins in the skid-row operation of the King Brothers are expertly described by Jim Kitses. He

Author: Daniel Rosenthal
Publisher: British Film Institute
Keywords: guides, screen, bfi, films, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-06-13
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 184457170X
ISBN-13: 9781844571703

From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to Bollywood thrillers, Shakespeare has inspired an almost infinite variety of films. Spanning a century of cinema, from a silent short of The Tempest (1907) to Kenneth Branagh’s As You Like It (2006), this work includes a selection Shakespeare films.

Author: Yuri Tsivian
Publisher: British Film Institute
Keywords: classics, film, bfi, terrible, ivan
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2001-03-29
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 085170834X
ISBN-13: 9780851708348

Illustrated Sergei Eisenstein envisaged Ivan the Terrible (1944/46)-his highly stylised life of the sixteenth-century Russian Tsar-as a trilogy, but he died in 1948 before he could even really begin the third part. Whereas Part One had been a resounding success, winning a Stalin prize, Part Two met with the Kremlin’s disfavour, which was communicated to Eisenstein by Zhdanov, Molotov and Stalin himself, and was banned until 1958. Ivan the Terrible is a ruin, but a glorious one, with its director at the height of his powers. Yuri Tsivian has conducted extensive research in the Soviet ar

Author: Simon Callow
Publisher: British Film Institute
Keywords: classics, film, bfi, hunter, night
Number of Pages: 79
Published: 2001-01-26
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0851708226
ISBN-13: 9780851708225

Illustrated The Night of the Hunter was Charles Laughton’s only film as director. Adapted from a bestselling novel by Davis Grubb, it is part expressionist horror movie, part luminous fairytale, and contains some of the most haunting images in cinema: Willa (Shelley Winters), her throat cut and hair streaming out like seaweed, sitting in a submerged Model T Ford; her children, framed by looming animals, in a downriver flight from Preacher (Robert Mitchum), a silhouetted threat on the horizon. The Night of the Hunter is revered today, but it failed on its first release, and Laughton ne

Author: Noah Isenberg
Publisher: British Film Institute
Keywords: classics, film, bfi, detour
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-08-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1844572390
ISBN-13: 9781844572397

Long considered an unpolished gem of film noir, the private treasure of film buffs, cinephiles and critics, Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour (1945) has recently earned a new wave of recognition. In the words of film Critic David Thomson, it is simply “beyond remarkable.”  The only B-picture to make it into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, Detour has outrun its fate as the bastard child of one of Hollywood’s lowliest studios.  Ulmer’s film follows, in flashback, the journey of Al Roberts (Tom Neal), a pianist hitching from New York to California to join his girlfriend Su

Author: Richard Dyer
Publisher: British Film Institute
Keywords: classics, modern, bfi, seven
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 1999-05-27
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0851707238
ISBN-13: 9780851707235