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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorChanging My Mind: Occasional Essays
Zadie Smith · 306 pages
A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith's nonfiction over the past decade.Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary.Split into four sections—"Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling"—Changing My Mind invites readers to witness th
Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
Geoff Dyer · 228 pages
An in-depth, discursive, obsessive analysis of/speculation about the film Stalker by the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky.
Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert · 512 pages
Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation
Tom Bissell · 301 pages
From the set of The Big Bang Theory to the first novel of Ernest Hemingway to the film documentaries of Werner Herzog, the author of Extra Lives explores the creative process in a series of essays. "In Magic Hours, award-winning essayist Tom Bissell plumbs the depths and scales the heights of the creative process. From the set of The Big Bang Theory to one of David Foster Wallace's last works; fr
Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay · 360 pages
A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. "Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink, all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once l
Masculinity in Fiction and Film
Brian Baker · 187 pages
This book looks at a wide range of fiction and film texts, from the 1950s to the present, in order to analyse the ways in which masculinity has been represented in popular culture in Britain and the United States. It covers numerous genres, including spy fiction, science fiction, the Western and police thrillers. Each chapter focuses on key forms of masculinity found in each genre, such as the 'do
Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood
Ellen F. Brown, John Wiley Jr. · 379 pages
Documents the cultural importance of Margaret Mitchell's famous novel, discussing the writing process, reception by the publishing industry, numerous authorized and unauthorized translations, and the iconic film adaptation.
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
Carol J. Clover · 265 pages
Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. According to that view, the power of films like Halloween and Texas Chain Saw Massacre lies in their ability to yoke us in the killer's perspective and to make us party to his atrocities. In this book Carol Clover argues that sadism is actually the lesser part of t
Frankly, My Dear: "Gone with the Wind" Revisited
Molly Haskell · 244 pages
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
Christopher Vogler · 315 pages
Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story
John Yorke · 336 pages
Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies: The Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story Ever Told
Blake Snyder · 300 pages
A Short Guide to Writing about Film
Timothy Corrigan · 193 pages
This best-selling text is a succinct guide to thinking critically and writing precisely about film. Both an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces students to major film theories as well as film terminology, enabling them to write more thoughtfully and critically. With numerous student and professional examples, this engaging and practical guide progre
Lulu in Hollywood
Louise Brooks · 109 pages
Eight autobiographical essays by Brooks, on topics ranging from her childhood in Kansas and her early days as a Denishawn and Ziegfeld Follies dancer to her friendships with Martha Graham, Charles Chaplin, W. C. Fields, Humphrey Bogart, and others are collected here.
Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation
Susan J. Napier
Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club
Anna Kornbluh · 195 pages
Anna Kornbluh provides an overview of Marxist approaches to film, with particular attention to three central concepts in Marxist theory in general that have special bearing on film: “the mode of production,” “ideology,” and “mediation.” In explaining how these concepts operate and how they have been used and misused in film studies, the volume employs a case study to exemplify the practice of Marx
Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
A.O. Scott · 282 pages
"The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than ever. Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight and warm humor, Sc
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies
Hadley Freeman · 345 pages
Dirty Dancing nos enseñó que, sí, las mujeres abortan. La princesa prometida nos enseñó que el amor verdadero no es un cuento de hadas. Cazafantasmas nos enseñó que la amistad masculina no tiene por qué ser inmadura. Todo en un día nos enseñó que siempre habrá clases sociales. No sabíamos que las películas que nos cambiaron la vida también nos estaban preparando para las luchas de hoy. Un ensayo r
CineActive 5
Jukka Halttunen · 300 pages
CineActive 5 on päiväkirjamainen kokoelma elävästi ja huumorilla kirjoitettuja elokuva-arvioita, joiden sisältö ja muoto poikkeaa monessa kohdin perinteisestä elokuvakritiikistä. Elokuvan itsensä ohella huomio kiinnittyy myös katsotun tallenteen tekniseen laatuun. Kirja jatkaa puhtaasti kotiteatterielämyksiin keskittyvien CineActive -elokuvapäiväkirjojen sarjaa. Tässä sen viidennessä teoksessa käs
Heroines
Kate Zambreno · 309 pages
"On the last day of December, 2009 Kate Zambreno began a blog called Frances Farmer Is My Sister, arising from her obsession with the female modernists and her recent transplantation to Akron, Ohio, where her husband held a university job. Widely reposted, Zambreno's blog became an outlet for her highly informed and passionate rants about the fates of the modernist "wives and mistresses." In her b