age ~54
from Summerville, SC
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 s...
Author
Frederick Wiseman
Binding
Paperback
Pages
444
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN #
0520244575
EAN Code
9780520244573
ISBN #
10
Originally released in 1998, Documenting the Documentary responded to a scholarly landscape in which documentary film was largely understudied and undervalued aesthetically, and analyzed instead through issues of ethics, politics, and film technology. Editors Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniows...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
600
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
ISBN #
0814339719
EAN Code
9780814339718
ISBN #
9
This revealing history of the American film musical synthesizes the critical literature on the genre and provides a series of close analytical readings of iconic musical films, focusing on their cultural relationship to other aspects of American popular music. Offers a depth of scholarship that wi...
Author
Barry Keith Grant
Binding
Paperback
Pages
192
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN #
1405182520
EAN Code
9781405182522
ISBN #
7
An undying procession of sons of Dracula and daughters of darkness has animated the horror film genre from the beginning. Indeed, in this pioneering exploration of the cinema of fear, Barry Keith Grant and twenty other film critics posit that horror is always rooted in gender, particularly in anxiet...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
476
Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN #
0292727941
EAN Code
9780292727946
ISBN #
4
The profound cultural and political changes of the 1960s brought the United States closer to social revolution than at any other time in the twentieth century. The country fragmented as various challenges to state power were met with increasing and violent resistance. The Cold War heated up and the ...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
296
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN #
0813542197
EAN Code
9780813542195
ISBN #
2
Upon its release in 1956, Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers was commonly perceived as another B-thriller in the cycle of science fiction and horror films that proliferated at the time.But in the 50 years since, its reputation has grown from cult status to become an acknowledged classic of ...
Author
Barry Keith Grant
Binding
Paperback
Pages
96
Publisher
British Film Institute
ISBN #
1844572781
EAN Code
9781844572786
ISBN #
1
"The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. It's rarely on the shelf at my university library, so continuously does it circulate. Now this new edition expands the already comprehensive coverage of gender in the horror film with new essay...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
560
Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN #
0292772459
EAN Code
9780292772458
ISBN #
8
Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader offers students an introductory and comprehensive view of perhaps the most central concept in film studies. This unique anthology addresses the aesthetic and historical debates surrounding auteurship while providing author criticism and analysis in practice. ...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
340
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN #
1405153342
EAN Code
9781405153348
ISBN #
6