1000 Films to Change Your Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 1000 Films to Change Your Life write by Time Time Out. This book was released on 2006. 1000 Films to Change Your Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twenty-four frames a second, 100 heartbeats a minute, a dozen emotional highs an hour and shockwaves that last a lifetime: that s cinema. Films entertain us like nothing else can, but they also have the power to change our lives. A film can frighten or
Fictional Presidential Films
Fictional Presidential Films - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fictional Presidential Films write by Sarah Miles Bolam & Thomas J. Bolam. This book was released on 2011-07-01. Fictional Presidential Films available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fictional Presidential Films Hollywood’s manner of making films, its conventions, applies especially to fictional presidential films, allowing filmmakers to express their ideas that could not be done in traditional historical films. Fictional Presidential Films offers a complete filmography of these two-hundred-plus films decade by decade since 1930. The main body of the work provides a brief summary of each decade along with a summary on the overall nature of films in which a fictional President appeared. Each relevant film is then discussed with credits, plot summary, description of the presidential appearance, and, when possible, an assessment of the presidential portrayal included.
Cult Film as a Guide to Life
Cult Film as a Guide to Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cult Film as a Guide to Life write by I.Q. Hunter. This book was released on 2016-09-08. Cult Film as a Guide to Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of closely related essays on cult film, cult adaptations, and cultism as a way of life.
Witchfinder General
Witchfinder General - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Witchfinder General write by Ian Cooper. This book was released on 2011-12-06. Witchfinder General available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Witchfinder General (1968), known as The Conqueror Worm in America, was directed by Michael Reeves and occupies a unique place in British cinema. Equally praised and vilified, the film fictionalizes the exploits of Matthew Hopkins, a prolific, real-life "witch hunter," during the English Civil War. For critic Mark Kermode, the release proved to be "the single most significant horror film produced in the United Kingdom in the 1960s," while playwright Alan Bennett called the work "the most persistently sadistic and rotten film I've ever seen." Steadily gaining a cult reputation, unimpeded by the director's death just months after the film's release, the film is now treated as a landmark, though problematic, accomplishment, as it exists in a number of recut, retitled, and rescored versions. This in-depth study positions the film within the history of horror and discusses its importance as a British and heritage film. It also considers the inheritance of Hopkins, the script's relationship to the novel by Ronald Bassett, and the iconic persona of the film's star, Vincent Price. Ian Cooper conducts close textual readings of specific scenes and explores the film's various contexts, from the creation of the X certificate and the tradition of Hammer gothic, to the influence on Ken Russell's The Devils (1971) and the "torture porn" of twenty-first-century horror.
Screening the Undead
Screening the Undead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Screening the Undead write by Leon Hunt. This book was released on 2013-12-02. Screening the Undead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The vampire and the zombie, the two most popular incarnations of the undead, are brought together for a forensic critical investigation in Screening the Undead. Both have a long history in popular fiction, film, television, comics and games; the vampire also remains central to popular culture today, from literary 'paranormal romance' to cult TV and movie franchises - by turns romantic, tortured, grotesque, countercultural, a goth icon or lonely outsider. The zombie can shamble or, nowadays, sprint with alarming velocity, and even dance. It frequently lends itself to metaphor and can stand in for fascism or ecological disaster, but is perhaps most frequently a harbinger and instrument of the apocalypse. Leading writers on Horror and cult media consider the sexy vampire and the grotesque zombie, as well as hybrid figures who do not fit neatly into either category. These are examined across a range of contexts, from the Swedish vampire to the Afro-American Blacula, from the lesbian vampire to the gay zombie, from the Spanish Knights Templar riding skeletal horses to dancing Japanese zombies. Screening the Undead sheds new light on these two icons of terror - and desire - whose popular longevity has taken them 'Beyond Life'.
