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An introduction 'behind-the-scenes' of film-making for the curious cinemagoer, with examples from D.W. Griffith, Robert Flaherty, Sergei Eisenstein, Georges Melies, ...
#29455 Book / Criticism/History
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British animation; craft and technology; John Halas and Joy Batchelor's animation studio 1940-1980; wartime propaganda; road safety films; instructional films ...
#44648 Book / Criticism/History
Manvell demonstrates how Chaplin's destitute childhood and early stage experience led to the creation of the archetypal little tramp and ...
#20842 Book / Biography
Manvell gets behind the image of Chaplin and reveals the man and those who surrounded him. Lending a sympathetic evaluation, ...
#36377 Book / Biography
Animation: Pictures in time (graphics, animation), Art and movement (from cave paintings to Disney), Contemporary styles (cartoon to computers), The ...
#15528 Book / Criticism/History
Avant-garde film production, Kenneth Anger, Lewis Jacobs, Sara Arledge, Hans Richter, Melville Webber, J.S. Watson, Joseph Vogel, Soviet documentary, German ...
#44774 Book / Criticism/History
A educational book on film as art. Topics include: principles of film art, realism, documentary films, fiction films, British audiences, ...
#44620 Book / Criticism/History
#15603 Book / Criticism/History
The 1946 revised edition of Roger Manvell's 'Film' bound together with Elmer Rice's novel 'A Voyage to Purilia' (1954). The ...
#20778 Book / Criticism/History
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#35079 Book / Criticism/History
Discusssion of: Why we go to the pictures and what we get for the money; Why films are like they ...
#35213 Book / Criticism/History
#17729 Programme / Films
War movies, WWII, Germany, Hitler, Nazis, Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will, propaganda, Rossellini, Fred Zinnemann
#15803 Book / Criticism/History
#26180 Periodical / Criticism/History
A study of cinemagoing, the effects of films on society, and viewers' responses to films. Film criticism, propaganda, documentary, film ...
#15833 Book / Criticism/History
An examination of genre through the ages: Adventure and Melodrama (early films and serials, westerns, crime and gangster, war films) ...
#15914 Book / Criticism/History
A study of the British film industry in the 1950s and 1960s. Topics: postwar feature production, Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, ...
#15844 Book / Criticism/History
A study of postwar European filmmaking. Includes chapters on realism in film, Italian film, French film, Ingmar Bergman, British film, ...
#44610 Book / Criticism/History
Topics include: the influence of television and theatre on film, genres (the Western, the crime film, musicals, the spectacular film); ...
#44611 Book / Criticism/History