Secondhand Film Studies & Cinema Bargain Book Box SP2964

Secondhand Film Studies & Cinema Bargain Book Box SP2964

Twenty-one books on film theory, production, history, and criticism — from Eisenstein and Arnheim to Marshall McLuhan, Halliwell's Companion, and a shelf of essential Pelican titles on directors and film aesthetics. A serious collection for students of cinema.

1. Creative Film-Making — Kirk Smallman — A practical introduction to film production covering cameras, lenses, lighting, editing, sound, and special effects. With a sample script and budget guide.
2. The American Film Heritage — American Film Institute — Impressions from the AFI Archives: oral histories, documents, and photographs tracing the history of American cinema. Foreword by Gregory Peck.
3. Film Form / The Film Sense — Sergei Eisenstein — Two complete works by the master theorist of montage in a single Meridian Books volume: the theoretical foundations of Soviet cinema.
4. Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (Ninth Edition) — The definitive one-volume film encyclopedia: comprehensive, opinionated, and irreplaceable. Ninth edition, incorporating the Filmgoer's Book of Quotes and Halliwell's Movie Quiz.
5. The Art of the Film — Ernest Lindgren — Lindgren's classic introduction to film aesthetics, long used as a standard teaching text.
6. Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies and the American Dream — Marjorie Rosen — A pioneering feminist study of the image of women in Hollywood cinema, from the silents to the early 1970s.
7. Understanding Media — Marshall McLuhan — McLuhan's influential 1964 analysis of television, film, radio, and other electronic media as extensions of human faculties. "The medium is the message."
8. The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood — Edward Jay Epstein — How Hollywood really works: the financing, the studios, the agencies, and the economics of the modern blockbuster. Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year.
9. Film as Art — Rudolf Arnheim — Arnheim's foundational text on the aesthetics of film: why the technical limitations of the medium are also its artistic resources. Faber paper covered edition.
10. Reel Facts — Cobbett Steinberg — The essential compendium of film statistics: Academy Award winners, box-office records, ten-best lists, and festival prize winners. Penguin edition.
11. The American Cinema — Voice of America Forum Series — A survey of American cinema for the Voice of America series: directors, genres, and the development of Hollywood as a cultural institution.
12. The Movie Moguls: An Informal History of the Hollywood Tycoons — Philip French — The lives and methods of the founding studio chiefs: Mayer, Goldwyn, Zukor, Warner, Cohn, and the others who built Hollywood.
13. How to Edit — A Focal Cinebook guide to the principles and practice of film editing.
14. Guide to Filmmaking — Edward Pincus — A comprehensive practical manual covering every aspect of independent film production, from scripting through to distribution.
15. Film Makers on Film Making — ed. Harry M. Geduld (Pelican) — Directors, producers, and writers on their own craft: a wide-ranging anthology of filmmakers talking about what they do and why.
16. Hollywood: The Haunted House — Paul Mayersberg — An analysis of the Hollywood studio system: its mythology, its corporate reality, and the gap between the two.
17. The Making of Feature Films: A Guide — Ivan Butler (Pelican) — Butler's guide to every stage of feature film production, illustrated with examples from British and American cinema.
18. Six European Directors — Peter Harcourt (Pelican) — Extended essays on Eisenstein, Renoir, Buñuel, Bergman, Fellini, and Godard: the six directors who defined European art cinema.
19. The Cinema as Art — Ralph Stephenson & J.R. Debrix (Pelican) — A theoretical and practical study of film as an art form, covering image, sound, editing, and narrative.
20. The Liveliest Art: A Panoramic History of the Movies — Arthur Knight (Mentor Book) — Knight's accessible history of cinema from its beginnings to the 1970s, with 31 photographs.
21. Sex in the Movies — Alexander Walker (Pelican) — Walker's study of the treatment of sexuality in Hollywood film: the censorship battles, the star system, and the gradual liberalisation of the Production Code.