FILM STUDIES
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Theory and Practice From Concept to Screen
Reel to Real
Scriptwriting for the Screen
Donald L. Diefenbach
Race, Sex and Class at the Movies
Charlie Moritz, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Series: LEA’s Communication Series
’If I was setting out as a screenwriter, this is the book I would read first and keep by me.’ – Melanie Harris, Producer, Crosslab Productions ’An excellent resource for students and teachers alike.’ – In the Picture ’This is one of the best guides to help screenwriters think visually that I have ever read.’ – Creative Screenwriting This second edition has been updated to include new examples and an entirely new chapter on adaptation. There are examples of scripts from a wide range of films and television dramas such as Heroes, Brokeback Mountain, Coronation Street, The English Patient, Shooting the Past, Spaced, Our Friends in the North and American Beauty. Scriptwriting for the Screen includes:
2007: 254x178: 416pp Hb: 978-0-8058-3703-2: £39.99 US $70.00 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY
Series: Routledge Classics In this book, one of America’s most influential critics explores film and film culture through the relationship between the imaginative world on screen and the historical world onto which it is projected. Fifteen years on from its original publication, this remains a piercing and original analysis of film. First published: 1992. 2007: 198x129 Pb: 978-0-415-77161-0: £12.99 US $23.95
Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out v
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Slavoj Z iz ek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Series: Routledge Classics v
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Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from Charlie Chaplin to The Matrix and referencing along the way such figures as Lenin and Hegel, Michel Foucault and Jesus Christ.
• tips on how to determine the appropriate level of characterization for different types of drama • practical exercises and examples which help develop technique and style
September 2008: 234x156: 232pp Hb: 978-0-415-46518-2: £65.00 US $130.00 Pb: 978-0-415-46517-5: £16.99 US $33.95 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY
Enjoy Your Symptom! is a thrilling guide to cinema and psychoanalysis from a thinker who is perhaps the last standing giant of cultural theory in the twentyfirst century.
Projecting a Camera
2007: 198x129: 280pp Pb: 978-0-415-77259-4: £11.99 US $21.95
Language-Games in Film Theory
With its thorough grounding in the philosophy of spectatorship and narrative, Projecting a Camera takes the study of film to a new level. Edward Branigan maps the ways in which we must understand the role of the camera, the meaning of the frame, the role of the spectator, and other key components of film-viewing. By analyzing how we think, discuss, and marvel about the films we see, Projecting a Camera offers insights rich in implications for our understanding of film and film studies. 2006: 229x152: 456pp Hb: 978-0-415-94253-9: £60.00 US $100.00 Pb: 978-0-415-94254-6: £15.99 US $27.95 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY
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’hooks ... makes a compelling case to filmmakers for creating progressive images that transform the culture we live in.’ – Los Angeles Times
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• how to dramatize writing, use metaphor and deepen meaning
Edward Branigan, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Series: Routledge Classics
Signatures of the Visible
• advice on how to visualize action and translate this into energetic writing
• a section on how to trouble-shoot and sharpen dialogue.
bell hooks
2ND EDITION
The Women Who Knew Too Much Hitchcock and Feminist Theory
Movies matter – that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks’ classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues of race, sex and class. Here bell hooks – one of America’s most celebrated and thrilling cultural critics – talks back to films that have moved and provoked her, from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction to the work of Spike Lee. Including her conversations with master filmmakers such as Charles Burnett and Julie Dash, Reel to Real is a must read for anyone who believes that movies are worth arguing about. September 2008: 235x187: 320pp Pb: 978-0-415-96480-7: £11.99 US $23.95
Feminist Film Theorists Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis, Barbara Creed Shohini Chaudhuri Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers This book explores how, since it began in the 1970s, feminist film theory has revolutionized the way that films and their spectators can be understood. 2006: 198x129: 160pp Hb: 978-0-415-32432-8: £50.00 US $100.00 Pb: 978-0-415-32433-5: £12.99 US $25.95 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY
The Actress Hollywood Acting and the Female Star Karen Hollinger, Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA
Tania Modleski This classic work in film theory and criticism consists of a theoretical introduction and analysis of seven important films by Alfred Hitchcock, each of which provides a basis for an analysis of the female spectator as well as of the male spectator. This edition features a new chapter which considers the last fifteen years of Hitchcock criticism as it relates to the ideas in this landmark book.
This book investigates the contemporary film actress both as an artist and as an ideological construct. Divided into two sections, The Actress examines the major issues in studying film acting, stardom, and the Hollywood actress. 2006: 229x152: 272pp Hb: 978-0-415-97791-3: £60.00 US $100.00 Pb: 978-0-415-97792-0: £15.99 US $27.95
2005: 229x152: 200pp Pb: 978-0-415-97362-5: £13.99 US $24.95 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY
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