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Ideal for Introduction to American Cinema courses, American Film History courses, and Introductory Film Appreciation... more

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  American Cinema/American Culture

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  • Posted:Feb-18-2008

  • Those decent reviews must be by the text's author...
  • Halfway through my third year of college, this is the worst textbook I have ever had for any class. It's the first time that the choice of text actually makes me wish I hadn't taken the class....
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  • Posted:Mar-24-2007

  • Excellent as a Historical Text Book
  • So, I expected this book to be a bit more fun. Unfortunately, the fun element is missing. However, in fairness, the book serves as a thorough textbook for the history of American Cinema and its...
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  • Posted:Jan-07-2003

  • A very useful beginners guide to American film.
  • Years ago I took an intro-level film class at a community college. This was the text for the class. It was accompanied (at least in my class) by a PBS video series that combined film clips with...
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Written by two of the leading scholars in film studies, Film History: An Introduction is a comprehensive, global... more

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When the low-budget biker movie Easy Rider shocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was born.... more

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  Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

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  • Sun, Drugs and the last Hollywood Golden Age!
  • There are bad books about Hollywood. Good books about Hollywood and books that transport you to the place, the people and (and this is rare) give you the vibe of what was going on.
    
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  • Not Recieved, No Refund
  • They say they sent it to my address, but i never recieved it. I called them. they told me they sent it, and did not offer further help.
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  • A 60's and 70's National Enquirer but keeps you hooked....
  • The most disappointing aspect of this book is that a quarter of the book is dedicated to filmmaking (which is what I wanted) and the other three-fourths is a celebrity gossip fest. The author may...
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In this historical survey of the role of music in film, Roger Hickman explores a century of artistic techniques and... more

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  Reel Music: Exploring 100 Years of Film Music

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  • great book!
  • I was fortunate enough to have had Mr. Hickman as my instructor. This book is great and helped me understand film music even though I don't have a music background. Definitely recommend it!
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The Conversations is a treasure, essential for any lover or student of film, and a rare, intimate glimpse into the... more

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  The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

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  • Excellent conversation between award winning professionals in two creative fields: the novel & film
  • If you want to sit in and hear to brilliant creative artists reveal how they go about making "choices" which is the heart of each of their works--novel and film--then this book is for you. I have...
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  • walter murch
  • i think walter murch books are overrated. who cares about what michael ondaatje thinks. he sure does.
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, this "wonderful history of the golden age of the movie... more

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  An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

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  • an empire of their own
  • This was a fascinating history of the film industry, the people who shaped it, their personal histories and outlooks and how that influenced the american ideals as depicted on screen.
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  • Hollywood Jews
  • Not that it was bad but I was disappointed in this book. The subjects that interested me the most, the majority of movies made then portraying characters that represented how the Jews viewed...
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  • plays like a hollywood script
  • I had to see the movie for some odd reason. I agree with the last review on many points. The film makes it sound like the Jewish people were the sole inventors of film. It is horribly cliched, and...
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Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen's Film Theory and Criticism has been... more

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  Film Theory and Criticism

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  • Posted:Dec-23-2008

  • Wading in the Quicksand
  • First of all, if you are purchasing this book here is a great probability that someone required you to read it. Just as a warning, THIS BOOK IS VERY HARD TO READ!!!
    
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  • Worth the effort
  • Despite some jargon that it difficult to penetrate, finallys this book is an intelligent and original approach to film theory; his views on Eisenstein are fresh and valid, and he roams through film...
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  • Reads More Like A Rocket Manual
  • This is a very difficult text to get through. Although it brings up a lot of interesting theorems, the language used makes this inaccessible to most readers.
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From the film critics of The New York Times come these uncut, original reviews of the most popular and influential... more

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  The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, Updated & Revised (Film Critics of...

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  • Posted:Dec-08-2008

  • A pre-Internet book
  • If you want lists of the best films, I would suggest you do a search on google. You will find many good lists, including this list from New York Times's reviews. The NYT list is biased towards US...
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  • Posted:Aug-22-2008

  • Always Entertaining
  • Reading the reviews of Canby and Maslin never gets old. Crowther is another story, but even then, he consistently points out something that makes you think about a particular film in a new way. For...
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  • The Gray Eminence Speaks
  • There have been stretches of time in which I was almost oblivious to movies and recently I decided to repair my cultural lacunas. I signed up with Netflix, moved a recliner to the living room and...
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The New York Times bestseller that follows the making of five films at a pivotal time in Hollywood history In the... more

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  Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood

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  • CD Review
  • This is a very impressive book. Great concept, great research, all very well woven together to create an engrossing picture of an industry and a period which are sometimes unfathomable to the...
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  • Painstakingly researched, not painstakingly written
  • Mark Harris did an amazing amount of work to prepare for this book. He interviewed names big and small, read books, journals, and magazines. However, this does not translate into a book that was...
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  • Entertainment, Weakly
  • Fully expecting to enjoy this book, I was surprised at how quickly my interest waned. Harris offers relentless, oft-footnoted reams of detail, but fails to bring his subject to vibrant life. It's a...
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Documentary Storytelling offers a unique in-depth look at story and structure as applied not to Hollywood fiction,... more

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  Documentary Storytelling, Second Edition: Making Stronger and More Dramatic Nonfiction Films

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  • great text
  • I am thoroughly impressed with Ms. Bernard's book and I intend to use it to teach my Documentary Filmmaking course this fall. It is rare to find a book so full of wisdom and so well-written. The...
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  • documentary story telling
  • I have just started going through this book; so far i find it comprehensive and very informative.
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Two entertainment attorneys and Hollywood insiders explain all the ins and outs of negotiating in the movie industry,... more

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  Hollywood Dealmaking : Negotiating Talent Agreements

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  • Make your agent read this...but you should read
  • This is a great resource for dealmaking, but most actors and writers that I know aren't negotiating their own deals. The trick is to get your agent to work harder at creating opportunities, so...
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The essential handbook for directors and aspiring filmmakers who want to get the best visuals for their films while... more

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The most comprehensive and accessible text of its kind, Film: An Introduction combines the universal appeal of movies... more

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  Film: An Introduction

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  • Acceptable
  • I bought this book for a film course at school. Contains many helpful images demonstrating film technique and cinematography. I do feel, however, that better books on the subject exist which can...
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  • Fantastic book. Blown away.
  • This is an older edition of one of the greatest film books ever written. This book is massive and helpful. Gives insight to hundreds of different film concepts, acknowledges countless incredible...
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  • Not very informative
  • I've taken a couple film classes in college so far and I have to say that this book is not very enlightening. For the most part, this book discusses film concepts and assigns them terms. It...
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Doubling an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces students to film... more

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  A Short Guide to Writing about Film (Short Guides Series)

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  • Pricey but Diffusive Writing Guide
  • Corrigan's Short Guide has been around for some time, and I've noticed that students have decidedly mixed responses to it. My responses are mixed as well.
    
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  • Fast, Good, Easy, Helpful
  • I received the book I had ordered in less than a week. It was in great condition. I was very pleased. It was an easy read and was very helpful to me for the film class I was taking on American...
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  • TWO THUMBS DOWN
  • I am currently a film major who is being forced to read this book. Let me say that so far I am only to chapter three and have suffered through every page of it. It is filled with basic, common...
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  Film Form: Essays in Film Theory

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  • Brilliant
  • Film Form is a fascinating examination of conflict in film (ie, the Soviet dogma of Dialectic applied artistically). Despite his detestable doctrinal foundations, which at times lead him to...
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  • THIS BOOK WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR FILMMAKING
  • This book will not improve your skills as a filmmaker (I doubt that any book would). If you can actually figure out what Eisenstein is trying to say, you will only find very vague and obscure...
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From one of our most distinguished film scholars, comes a rich, penetrating, amusing book about the golden age of... more

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  The Star Machine (Vintage)

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  • Movie history for the movie lover
  • How the stars got there and where the talent was hidden - an eye-opener for those of us too young and too far away to be involved.
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  • Repetitive--and hung up on people's heights!
  • As a previous reviewer said, Basinger makes her point in the introductory section (the movies weren't the product, the performers were!) and repeats it again and again--often within a single...
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  • THE STAR MACHINE NEEDS SOME FUEL
  • I was extremely disappointed in this lengthy book which makes its point very quickly and then makes it again and again. Ms. Basinger doesn't offer any insight worth reading or writing about. The...
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Film: A Critical Introduction, 2nd edition,provides a comprehensive framework for studying films, with an emphasis on... more

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  Film: A Critical Introduction (2nd Edition)

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  • book
  • I am going to give this person five stars. Even though i did not receive my book i did recieve a full refund right, away and customer service service was excellent!
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A leading figure in the debate over the literary canon, Jane Tompkins was one of the first to point to the ongoing... more

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  West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns

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  • Yee- Ha!
  • An interesting look at Westerns from personal and literary perspectives. Focuses attention on a rich genre that has not been looked at enough by the fields of literary criticism and literature.
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  • essential but NOT good -- see Cowboy Metaphysics instead
  • Tompkins made her name as a professional literary critic, principally (but not only) for her book on Reader-response criticism, which somewhat counter-intuitively holds that texts' meanings are...
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  The Oxford History of World Cinema

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  • Indispensable guide!
  • This is recommendable guide for all those who assumed the commitment to know about the Cinema considered as an artistic discipline. Plenty of abundant information about the well different...
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  • Very heady discussion of film
  • This book includes a large collection of writings on various film movements and styles throughout history. It touches on cinema from all continents and includes sidebars focusing on important...
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  A History of Narrative Film, Fourth Edition

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  • great
  • This book is great for those who want to study the history of film, or are interested in film making at all.
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  • Oi!! Could you go in a straight line just once?
  • This book has a ton of information; but I challenge you to extract that information without pulling your hair out first. It was a required text for class and I dreaded every assignment from it....
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  • More like a boring textbook than a "novel".
  • I'm not quite sure why someone else reported that this book is like a novel. It is, quite in fact, the opposite. The author, David A. Cook, presents the information in a very historical fashion,...
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