Dai Jinhua is one of contemporary China's most influential theoreticians and cultural critics. A feminist Marxist, her literary, film and TV commentary has, over the last decade, addressed an expanding audience in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.<P>Cinema and Desire presents Dai Jinhua's best work to date. In the book she examines the Orientalism that made Zhang Yimou the darling of international film festivals, establishes Huang Shuqin's ...

From a film critic who has set a standard for depth, poetry, and audacity comes a bravura collection of essays. David Thomson's subject is Hollywood's ghosts, and their tendency to rise from the grave -- or descend from the screen -- and intimately haunt American lives.<P>Thomson conjures up Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo, Jack Nicholson in Chinatown, and Cary Grant in any of the pictures where he makes every scene look like a lucky accident. ...

"The British Cinematographer "traces the development of the art and craft of the cinematographer in Britain from the first cameraman with their primitive hand-cranked box cameras to the electronic sophistication of the present. Contents include the coming of sound, the impact and subsequent use of colour and the widescreen revolution. ...

The scripts of award-winning film director Ingmar Bergman have been among the most important documents in film history. Though his vision in such films as Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal has shaped our thinking about the cinema, none of his most recent films have been shown in U.S. theaters. This book brings to English readers for the first time some of the finest creations of Bergman's mature years.<P>In these three scenarios of ...

In "Going Steady" Kael has deliberately kept her film reviews in chronological order so that the reader can follow what was evolving in film during a crucial period of social and aesthetic change' at the end of the sixties. From Godard's "Weekend" to Kubrick's "2001," via "Barbarella," "Bullitt" and "Yellow Submarine,"
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The Cinema of Tony Richardson examines for the first time the stage and screen achievements of Academy Award-winning director Tony Richardson, and includes recent interviews with his colleagues as well as a complete bibliography and filmography of his work.<P>An important cultural trend-setter both in Britain and America, Richardson is here given his due as an influential and inventive film director who specialized in literary adaptations ...

In a unique and perceptive look at the future of cinema, Wheeler Winston Dixon explores the possible effects of the digital age on the production and exhibition of films. Although Hollywood will seek to retain its dominance over the global presentation of entertainment, Dixon argues, a new vision of international access -- a democracy of images -- will finally inform the future structure of cinema in the twenty-first century. ...

Stars at War is the one saga of World War II that has never before been told. From the Jewish ghettos of Poland to the North African campaign, from the Normandy landings to the Baffle of the Bulge, from the day war broke out to the final victories over x Germany and Japan, this is the story of the actors and directors, the writers and camera-men from the film world who went to war.
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"Impossible Bodies investigates issues of ethnicity, gender and sexuality in contemporary Hollywood. Examining stars from Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwarzenegger to Whoopi Goldberg, Jennifer Lopez and Dolly Parton, Chris Holmlund focuses on actors whose physique or appearance puts them at the margins of Hollywood film, and yet who occupy shifting and key positions in contemporary mainstream cinema. Grouped into three sections, "gesturing towards ...

&lt;P&gt;The growing presence of popular music in film is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary research in film studies. The changing roles and functions that such music performs, the variety of ways in which it provides narrative, aesthetic and commercial opportunities, and the consequences of its increasing displacement of the traditional film score are among the most significant developments in recent cinema practice. ...