BFI PUBLISHING (BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE)

HOLLYWOOD (P/B)

(P/B) PURITY AND PROVOCATION (0851709524)

(P/B) ATOM EGOYAN
Films such as The Adjuster, Calendar and Speaking Parts established Canadian Armenian director Atom Egoyan as leading contender for being the worlds most alluringly postmodern filmmaker. In these and other films the distortions and perversions of the self are mirrored through an omnipresent (and sexualised) visual media culture. Through the filter of a compassionate detachment his work is an unparalleled probing of identity and alienation, sexuality and dysfunction, psychology and subjectivity. Leading critic Jonathan Romney traces Egoyan'...
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(P/B) ALFRED HITCHCOCK

(P/B) JANE CAMPION

(P/B) YASH CHOPRA

(P/B) EMIR KUSTURICA (WORLD DIRECTORS / SERIES)

(P/B) UNDERSTANDING AUDIENCES AND THE FILM INDUSTRY

TEACHING SHORT FILMS

(P/B) CINEMA ANIME

(H/B) VOL.2 S.M. EISENSTEIN: WRITINGS 1934-47 (0851705308)

(P/B) HOWARD HAWKS (0851705936)

(P/B) FETISHISM AND CURIOSITY (0851705472)

(P/B) SIGNS AND MEANING IN THE CINEMA (0851706479)

(CD-ROM) AN INTRODUCTION TO FILM LANGUAGE
This CD-ROM provides an introduction to film language, or screen grammar. It focuses on the dense and complex, but apparently simple 'continuity system' of camera, editing and sound, through which most screen stories are told. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) FORMS OF BEING (1844570169)

(P/B) SILENT CINEMA
A ground-breaking event in the rediscovery of silent cinema, Burning Passions (1991) has become a classic in film studies, a reference tool of enduring value for all cinema lovers, and the ideal beginners guide to the early years of the moving image and the art and science of its restoration. Ten years after the first edition of the book, Cherchi Usai has prepared a thoroughly revised and expanded version, including new chapters on colour technology and the ethics of film preservation, rare historical documents, an expanded plates section,...
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(P/B) TEACHING AUTEUR STUDY

(P/B) TEACHING MUSIC VIDEO

FASHIONING FILM STARS (P/B)
''Fashioning Film Stars'' brings together work by established and emerging scholars in the field of film costume and star studies, to address the significance of the relationships between fashion, dress and star image. While studies of individual stars have often commented on the importance of style to the construction of their persona, such work has until now remained largely focused upon the female Hollywood, or occasionally European, star. This scholarly and readable volume redresses that balance, offering close analyses of the detail ...
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