Publisher:
Published: 2017-01-31
Type: BOOK
This book presents esoteric and arcane symbolisms and themes veiled in some of Hollywood's most popular films.
Making Meaning
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Type: BOOK
David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies.
Sculpting in Time
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1989-04
Type: BOOK
A director reveals the original inspirations for his films, their history, his methods of work, and the problems of visual creativity In Sculpting in Time, Andrey Tarkovsky has left his artistic testament, a remarkable revelation of both ...
Long Way Down
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-10-24
Type: BOOK
“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Newbery Honor ...
Movement as Meaning
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2008
Type: BOOK
This book offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language.
The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1997
Type: BOOK
... meanings . As far as symbols are concerned , the word is correctly used but its meaning is misinterpreted , since the purpose of film symbolism is to produce symbols — not merely to use them . " Symbols , " Francois Chevassu tells us ...
Symbols + Images + Codes
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Type: BOOK
Explanations from myth, history, and media give you a working knowledge of the secret symbolic language used in media.
Contemporary Russian Cinema
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016-04-12
Type: BOOK
Analysing films by established directors such as Sokurov and Zel'dovich, as well as lesser-known filmmakers like Balabanov and Kalatozishvili, this book explores the particular style of film presentation that has emerged in Russia since ...
Cinema and Colour
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-07-25
Type: BOOK
Using the dialectic of colour and monochrome as a starting point, Paul Coates explores the symbolic meanings that colour bears in different cultures, and engages with a range of critical approaches to filmic colour, building on the work of ...
Carceral Fantasies
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016-08-23
Type: BOOK
A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the prison emerged as a setting and narrative ...
