Unseen cinema. 7, Viva la dance. Episode 23, "Sergei Eisenstein" Mexican footage, 1930-1932

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The hero and the perennial journey home in American film by Mackey-Kallis, Susan

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The classical Mexican cinema : the poetics of the exceptional Golden Age films by Berg, Charles Ramírez, 1947-

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Trying to get over : African American directors after blaxploitation, 1977-1986 by Corson, Keith

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The Solaris effect : art & artifice in contemporary American film by Dillon, Steven, 1960-

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The Solaris effect : art & artifice in contemporary American film by Dillon, Steven, 1960-

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A companion to the gangster film

Table of Contents: “…Petty -- Making of a mobster : from myth to the crystallization of the mafia archetype in 1950s and 1960s Italian and Italian American film / Ryan Calabretta-Sajder -- Moral ambiguities : the Frenchness of new Hollywood gangster families / Isolde Vanhee -- The assassin's economics of killing : money, honour and the market of murder / Fran Mason -- The 90s Hollywood gangster : generic reflections and deflections / Karine Hildenbrand -- "Based on a true story" : public enemies and the biographical gangster film / Stephen Gaunson -- The gangster in Hispanic American cinema / Philip Swanson -- The Jamaican gangster film : badman, rude boys and dons / Imruh Bakari -- When criticism meets gangster films : the Spiv cycle as oppositional aesthetics in post-war Britain / Ana Rodriguez Granell -- The patriarchal figure in the 1950s French gangster film : legendary men from a recent past / Thomas Pillard -- Mafia, mobility, and capitalism in Italy circa 1960 / Luca Peretti -- Gangsters in Turkish cinema / Hülya Önal -- Sun-drenched corruption : organized crime, global capItalism and the Mediterranean coast in recent Spanish cinema / Vicente Rodríguez Ortega -- The Russia they have lost : Russian gangster as a nostalgic hero / Lioudmila Federova -- A hint of lavender : the gay gangster in British crime cinema / Paul Elliott -- The modern British gangster film / Tom Ryall -- Death and duty : the onscreen yakuza / Elayne Chaplin -- Yakuza no onnatachi : women in Japanese gangster cinema / Laura Treglia -- Impotent liberation : post-martial law Taiwanese gangster films / Dominique Liao -- Ruling the men's den : crime, outrage and Indian women gang leaders / Sony Jalarajan Raj, Rohini Sreekumar & Nithin Kalorth -- Tsui Hark's film workshop : political cues in the gangster film 1986-1989 / James Fenwick -- The Godfather legacy : homage and allusion in transnational cinema / George S. …”
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Sites of disquiet : the non-space in Spanish American short narratives and their cinematic transformations by Kressner, Ilka, 1975-

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Screening enlightenment : Hollywood and the cultural reconstruction of defeated Japan by Kitamura, Hiroshi, 1971-

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Sites of disquiet : the non-space in Spanish American short narratives and their cinematic transformations by Kressner, Ilka, 1975-

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Doing women's film history : reframing cinemas, past and future

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Picturing American modernity : traffic, technology, and the silent cinema by Whissel, Kristen, 1969-

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Epics, spectacles, and blockbusters : a Hollywood history by Hall, Sheldon

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Epics, spectacles, and blockbusters : a Hollywood history by Hall, Sheldon

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Audiovisual translation through a gender lens. by De Marco, Marcella

Table of Contents: “…2.2.2.1 Women's and men's language2.2.2.2 Feminine and masculine behavioural practices; 2.3 Gender stereotypes; 2.3.1 Gender stereotypes in society; 2.3.2 Gender stereotypes on the screen; 2.3.2.1 Female stereotypes in Western cinema; 2.3.2.2 Male stereotypes in Western cinema; 3 Multiple portrayals of gender in Anglo-American cinema; 3.1 Overview; 3.2 Visual representation; 3.2.1 Images on the screen; 3.2.2 The use of covers; 3.2.2.1 Titles; 3.2.3 The roles; 3.3 Acoustic representation; 4 Representation of gender in speech; 4.1 General considerations; 4.2 Topics in same-sex and mixed talk.…”
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When the levees broke a requiem in four acts

Blaxploitalian : 100 years of blackness in Italian cinema

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Cinemachismo : masculinities and sexuality in Mexican film by Mora, Sergio de la

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L.A. Rebellion : creating a new black cinema

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The cinema of Latin America

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Cinemachismo : masculinities and sexuality in Mexican film by Mora, Sergio de la

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You ain't heard nothin' yet : interviews with stars from Hollywood's golden era

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A new history of documentary film by McLane, Betsy A.

Table of Contents: “…Historical background ; Documentary series ; Special characteristics of television documentary ; Chapter related films ; Chapter related books -- British free cinema and new American cinema, 1953-1960. Critical background ; Free cinema films ; The United States ; Chapter related films ; Chapter related books -- Cinéma vérité, direct cinema, 1958-1970. …”

The fruit machine : twenty years of writings on queer cinema by Waugh, Thomas, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The Kiss of the Maricon, or Gay Imagery in Latin American Cinema (1986-87) -- Laws of Desire: Maurice, Law of Desire, and Vera (1987) -- Two Great Gay Filmmakers: Hello and Good-bye (1988) -- Beauty and the Beast, Take Two (1988) -- Whipping Up a Cinema (1989) -- Erotic Self-Images in the Gay Male AIDS Melodrama (1988, 1992) -- In Memoriam: Vito Russo, 1946-1990 (1991) -- We're Talking, Vulva, or, My Body Is Not a Metaphor (1995, 1999) -- Walking on Tippy Toes: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Documentary of the Post-Stonewall Period 1969-1984 (1995-97) -- Archeology and Censorship (1997).…”
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Jackpot

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A companion to film comedy

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Film genre reader IV by Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The Idea of Genre in the American Cinema (Edward Buscombe); 3. A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre (Rick altman); 4. …”
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Documenting the documentary : close readings of documentary film and video

Table of Contents: “…Cook -- "Don't you ever just watch?" : American cinema verité and Dont look back / Jeanne Hall -- "Ethnography in the first person" : Frederick Wiseman's Titicut follies / Barry Keith Grant -- The two avant-gardes : Solanas and Getino's The hour of the furnaces / Robert Stam -- Seeing with experimental eyes : Stan Brakhage's The act of seeing with one's own eyes / Bart Testa -- "A bastard union of several forms" : style and narrative in An American family / Jeffrey K. …”
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Film genre reader IV by Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The Idea of Genre in the American Cinema (Edward Buscombe); 3. A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre (Rick altman); 4. …”
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Documenting the documentary : close readings of documentary film and video

Table of Contents: “…Cook -- "Don't you ever just watch?" : American cinema verité and Dont look back / Jeanne Hall -- "Ethnography in the first person" : Frederick Wiseman's Titicut follies / Barry Keith Grant -- The two avant-gardes : Solanas and Getino's The hour of the furnaces / Robert Stam -- Seeing with experimental eyes : Stan Brakhage's The act of seeing with one's own eyes / Bart Testa -- "A bastard union of several forms" : style and narrative in An American family / Jeffrey K. …”
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Babel and Babylon : spectatorship in American silent film by Hansen, Miriam, 1949-2011

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Douglas Fairbanks and the American century by Tibbetts, John C., Welsh, James M., 1938-2013

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A Companion to Luis Buñuel by Stone, Rob

Table of Contents: “…The complicit eye: directorial and ocular paradigms in Luis Buñuel's Mexican films and interdisciplinary visuality (1940s and 1950s) / Erica Segre -- Out of place, out of synch: errant movement and rhythm in Buñuel's Mexican comedies / Tom Whittaker -- Susana, aka Demonio y carne: melodrama and the voluptuosity of destruction / Maria Pilar Rodriguez -- Young outlaws and marginal lives in Latin American cinema: the landmark of Los olvidados / Ana Morana -- Strange passions. …”
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Made In Dagenham

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A New History of Documentary Film. by McLane, Betsy A.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Related Films -- Chapter Related Books -- 9 Documentary for Television, The 'Golden Years,' 1951-1971 -- Historical Background -- Documentary Series -- Special Characteristics of Television Documentary -- Chapter Related Films -- Chapter Related Books -- 10 British Free Cinema and New American Cinema, 1953-1960 -- Critical Background -- Free Cinema Films -- The United States -- Chapter Related Films -- Chapter Related Books -- 11 Cinéma vérité, direct cinema, 1958-1970 -- Historical Background -- New Technology and First CV/Direct -- Direct cinema vs. cinéma vérité -- Effects on Documentary Subjects and Styles -- Frederick Wiseman -- Conclusion -- Chapter Related Films -- Chapter Related Books -- 12 The 1970s: Power to the People -- Some Established Filmmakers -- New Directions in CV/Direct -- Political Emphases and Vietnam -- Newsreel Collectives -- Feminist Resurgence -- Challenge for Change -- Public Access Television -- Other Emerging Organization -- Chapter Related Films -- Chapter Related Books -- 13 Video Arrives -- Cable and Satellite Technology -- Personal Essay Film -- Compilation -- Strictly Political -- Social and Ethnic Minorities -- Representing Gay and Lesbian Culture -- Chapter Related Films -- Chapter Related Books -- 14 Reality Bytes -- Business and Technology: The Bad and The Good -- American Public Television -- Archival Documentary -- The Ken Burns Phenomenon -- Canada Soldiers On -- Developments in the UK -- American Independents -- Chapter Related Films -- Chapter Related Books -- 15 Documentary Tradition in the Twenty-First Century -- Werner Herzog -- Steve James, Alex Gibney, Davis Guggenheim -- Erroll Morris, Sinofsky &amp -- Berlinger, Stanley Nelson -- Women Documentarians -- Experimental Documentary -- Theatres and Festivals -- Chapter Related Films -- Chapter Related Books -- 16 Now and When.…”
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Canyon Cinema : the Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor. by MacDonald, Scott, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Nelson's "Open Letter to Film-makers" [1967]; Bruce Baillie: Bruce Baillie's Prejudiced Guide to Film Festivals [1967]; Emory Menefee: Review of Sheldon Renan's "An Introduction to the American Underground Film" [1967]; Will Hindle: Letter [1967]; Robert Nelson: The Brussels Festival [1968]; Robert Nelson: The Swedish Proposal for New American Cinema, and Some Miscellaneous Notes [1968]; Will Hindle: Letter from San Francisco, April 1968.…”
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Canyon Cinema : the Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor. by MacDonald, Scott, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Nelson's "Open Letter to Film-makers" [1967]; Bruce Baillie: Bruce Baillie's Prejudiced Guide to Film Festivals [1967]; Emory Menefee: Review of Sheldon Renan's "An Introduction to the American Underground Film" [1967]; Will Hindle: Letter [1967]; Robert Nelson: The Brussels Festival [1968]; Robert Nelson: The Swedish Proposal for New American Cinema, and Some Miscellaneous Notes [1968]; Will Hindle: Letter from San Francisco, April 1968.…”
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Film manifestos and global cinema cultures : a critical anthology by MacKenzie, Scott, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…(France, 1952); The Lettristes Disavow the Insulters of Chaplin (France, 1952); The Only Dynamic Art (USA, 1953); A Statement of Principles (USA, 1961); The First Statement of the New American Cinema Group (USA, 1961); Foundation for the Invention and Creation of Absurd Movies (USA, 1962); From Metaphors on Vision (USA, 1963); Kuchar 8mm Film Manifesto (USA, 1964).…”
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Film manifestos and global cinema cultures : a critical anthology by MacKenzie, Scott, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…(France, 1952); The Lettristes Disavow the Insulters of Chaplin (France, 1952); The Only Dynamic Art (USA, 1953); A Statement of Principles (USA, 1961); The First Statement of the New American Cinema Group (USA, 1961); Foundation for the Invention and Creation of Absurd Movies (USA, 1962); From Metaphors on Vision (USA, 1963); Kuchar 8mm Film Manifesto (USA, 1964).…”
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Bicho de sete cabeças

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