Author : Mick Martin
Publisher :
Page : 1598 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780345407931
Reviews thousands of movies and rates each film according to a five-star rating system, and features cross-indexing by title, director, and cast.
Author : Leonard Maltin
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 1650 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780452279148
With more than 300 new entries, 1,000 more videocassette and laser-disc listings, and an enlarged index of leading performers and directors, the 1998 edition of this perennial bestseller continues to be a "must" for every movie buff's bookshelf. "Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide" has long been acclaimed because of its factual authority and sheer depth of information.
Author : Daniel Herbert
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520958020
Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans socialized around movies and collectively made movies meaningful. When films became tangible as magnetic tapes and plastic discs, movie culture flowed out from the theater and the living room, entered the public retail space, and became conflated with shopping and salesmanship. In this process, video stores served as a crucial embodiment of movie culture’s historical move toward increased flexibility, adaptability, and customization. In addition to charting the historical rise and fall of the rental industry, Herbert explores the architectural design of video stores, the social dynamics of retail encounters, the video distribution industry, the proliferation of video recommendation guides, and the often surprising persistence of the video store as an adaptable social space of consumer culture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, cultural geography, and archival research, Videoland provides a wide-ranging exploration of the pivotal role video stores played in the history of motion pictures, and is a must-read for students and scholars of media history.
Author : Mick Martin
Publisher :
Page : 1602 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780345420992
Presents brief reviews of more than nineteen thousand films and other videos that are available at rental stores and through mail order, arranged alphabetically by title; also includes actor and director indexes.
Author : Mick Martin
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 1604 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780345420961
Always entertaining, witty, and packed with information, the "Video Movie Guide" has been a perennial bestseller for 17 years. Includes a special section on titles available on DVD.
Author : Thomas Condon
Publisher :
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Enneagram
ISBN : 9781884305856
Explains a popular system of psychology that groups people into nine personality types and lists hundreds of film characters that fall into these groups.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 3054 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2001
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351517201
The religious imagination is alive and well in the movies. Contrary to those who criticize Hollywood, popular movies very often have metaphorically represented God on the screen. From Clint Eastwood as an avenging angel in Pale Rider and Nicolas Cage as a lovesick angel in City of Angels to Jessica Lange as an angel of death in All That Jazz, and from George Burns as God in Oh, God! to Audrey Hepburn in Always to pure white light in Fearless and Flatliners, God is very much present in the movies.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
Author : Adam Rockoff
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 31,84 MB
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786491922
John Carpenter's Halloween, released on October 25, 1978, marked the beginning of the horror film's most colorful, controversial, and successful offshoot--the slasher film. Loved by fans and reviled by critics for its iconic psychopaths, gory special effects, brainless teenagers in peril, and more than a bit of soft-core sex, the slasher film secured its legacy as a cultural phenomenon and continues to be popular today. This work traces the evolution of the slasher film from 1978 when it was a fledgling genre, through the early 1980s when it was one of the most profitable and prolific genres in Hollywood, on to its decline in popularity around 1986. An introduction provides a brief history of the Grand Guignol, the pre-cinema forerunner of the slasher film, films such as Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and cinematic trends that gave rise to the slasher film. Also explained are the slasher film's characteristics, conventions, and cinematic devices, such as the "final girl," the omnipotent killer, the relationship between sex and death, the significant date or setting, and the point-of-view of the killer. The chapters that follow are devoted to the years 1978 through 1986 and analyze significant films from each year. The Toolbox Murders, When a Stranger Calls, the Friday the 13th movies, My Bloody Valentine, The Slumber Party Massacre, Psycho II, and April Fool's Day are among those analyzed. The late 90s resurrection of slasher films, as seen in Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, is also explored, as well as the future direction of slasher films.
