Film Art: An Introduction

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The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist touches the entirety of Syd’s career looking into his work on many futuristic productions like Star Trek, Blade Runner, TRON, and Aliens(among many others). Since 1979, David Bordwell's and Kristin Thompson's Film Arthas been the best-selling and widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema.

Ghostbusters: The Ultimate Visual History follows the film’s history along with it’s popularity as a cult classic(or just a classic? She holds a master's degree in film from the University of Iowa and a doctorate in film from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. You won’t find these interviews anywhere else and they offer some real insight into the filming process.I started reading about cinema in the late 1960s, the heyday of auteurism: the books that I read then formed my taste and have marked me as a certain kind of cinephile and, 40 years on, after the great adventure (or misadventure) of theory, that is still how I would define myself.

After three decades of use, it’s an old companion, rather taken for granted and occasionally irritatingly prejudiced (eg on Ford), as well as funny and endlessly suggestive about avenues to explore; but whatever reservations it inspires (and expresses) it’s a grand example of appreciative, impassioned, intelligent, encyclopaedic criticism that shaped a generation or two of film watchers. This selection, lovingly assembled by Positif comrades Michel Ciment and Louis Seguin, and containing classic essays on Bogart, Antonioni, Hawks and Marker, really just scratches the surface of Tailleur’s remarkable oeuvre – a true thinking-person’s cinephilia.Imperial octavo, soft cover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. It’s fairly sizable with 160 pages and a few chapters split into different segments of the film’s production.

Day of Wrath, a tale of witchcraft and murder set in seventeenth-century Denmark, offers a good test case.But the whole sweep of Russian cinema up to the years just after Stalin’s death are vividly chronicled by Leyda.