Rafter Nicole. Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society

ABC-Clio, 2011. - 1297 pp. Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia is a reference text focused on the relationship between American society and movies and filmmaking in the United States from the late 19th century through the present. Beyond discussing many important American films ranging from Birth of a Nation to Star Wars to the Harry Potter film series, the essays included in the volumes explore sensitive issues in cinema related to race,...

Rutgers University Press, USA, 2007. 285 pages. Language: English. American Cinema of the 1970s, however, looks beyond the strobe lights to reveal how profoundly the seventies have influenced American life and how the films of that decade represent a peak moment in cinema history. The director-driven movies of this era reflect this turmoil, experimenting with narrative structures, offering a gallery of scruffy antiheroes, and revising traditiona...

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, 2005. 264 pages. Language: English. Foreword by Ron Howard. Marcus Hearn analyzes Lucas's journey as a director over four decades whose groundbreaking technical achievements and creation of enduring modern mythologies have forever changed both film and science fiction, as well as his many other accomplishments in the film industry, including the formation of Industrial Light & Magic, Skywalker Sound...

Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., USA & England, 2009. Pages: vi, 232. Language: English. This book analyzes the depiction of paranormal powers in film, examining how movies like Star Wars, Independence Day, The Green Mile, and dozens of others both reflect and influence the way modern society thinks about psychic abilities. The theme is explored in nearly 100 films from a variety of genres including drama, comedy, horror, science fi...

Publisher: ABC-CLIO, USA & England, 2006. 501 pages. Language: English. It is the only reference guide that discuss the latest scholarship on history in film and on television and evaluates specific films and programs for quality, accuracy, and ideological biases. Coverage ranges from biopics (Gandhi), meticulous restagings (Apollo 13), and true crime (Bonnie and Clyde) to documentaries such as the World War II newsreels Why We Fight and Ke...

Fourth Edition, St. James Press, 2000. (in 4 volumes: Vol. One. FILMS, Vol.Two. DIRECTORS, Vol. Three. ACTORS AND ACTRESSES, Vol. Four.WRITERS AND PRODUCTION ARTISTS) Contents. Editors' Note. Board of Advisers. Contributors. List of Films. Films. Pictures Acknowledgements. Notes on Advisers and Contributors. List of Films by Director. Geographic Index. Name Index.

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, UK & USA, 2003. 342 pages. Language: English. Stephen Prince has written the first book to examine the interplay between the aesthetics and the censorship of violence in classic Hollywood films from 1930 to 1968, the era of the Production Code, when filmmakers were required to have their scripts approved before they could start production. He explains how Hollywood’s filmmakers designed violence in respo...

Publisher: I. B. Tauris, London & New York, 2006. 315 pages. Language: English. The book covers the broad spectrum of Iran's cinema, offering vivid descriptions of key films and recurring themes and tropes, such as the preponderance of images of childhood, and what these reveal about Iranian society.

Facts on File, 2005. - 448 pages. The only book that combines stars, films, genres, and history into one encyclopedic reference, The Encyclopedia of Hollywood, Second Edition provides an authoritative, unique insight into America's popular film industry. Since writing the first edition of this book more than a decade ago, the authors have become well-known film critics, and they bring their experience, insider knowledge, and detailed understandi...

Scarecrow Press, 2010. - 473 pp. Film noir literally "black cinema" is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959. Today there is considerable dispute about what are the shared features that classify a noir film, and therefore which films should be included in this category. These problems are partly caused because film noir is a retrospective label that was not use...