Presents transcriptions of a series of interviews conducted by Francois Truffaut with celebrated filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock beginning in 1962; and includes photographs and a filmography.
The fourth edition - substantially updated and revised, of Leonard Maltin's classic account of Walt Disney's career and analysis of the huge library of Disney films.
Seeing German film during the Third Reich as a powerful and sinister tool for both indoctrination and escapist pacification, analyses the pictorial and spoken language to identify the psychological techniques used in the various genres, ...
King looks at the Hollywood "Renaissance" from the late 1960s to the late 1970s, industrial factors shaping the construction of the corporate blockbuster, the role of auteur directors, genre and stardom in New Hollywood, narrative and ...
"Arriving fifty years after Ebert published his first film review in 1967, this second edition of Awake in the Dark collects Ebert's essential writings.
Acclaimed for its breakthrough approach and its combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, this is the standard work on the classical Hollywood cinema style of film-making from the silent era to the 1960s.