AB Svensk Filmindustri har i mer än etthundra år varit Sveriges ledande filmbolag. Här är berättelsen om SF:s filmer, skådespelare, regissörer, fotografer, biografer och om Sveriges eget Hollywood, Filmstaden i Råsunda. Boken är rikt illustrerad med...

Berättelsen om paret Harkers kamp mot Dracula är en av litteraturhistoriens mest omarbetade. Historien berättas som ett lapptäcke av röster och medier: dagböcker, brev, telegram, fonograminspelningar, loggbok. Mellan dessa olika berättelser, som också...

Allan Ekelund (1918-2009) inledde sin bana som teaterskådespelare, men slumpen förde honom på 1940-talet in i filmens värld. Som regiassistent och med tiden legendarisk produktionsledare för närmare hundra filmer, kom han att arbeta nära sin tids...

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. From ghosts, vampires, and zombies to serial killers, cannibalistic hillbillies, and haunted Japanese videocassettes, How to Survive a Horror Movie shows how to defeat every obstacle found in scary films. Readers will...

Genom att undersöka en gren inom animationen som framstår som en alltmer betydelsefull del av vår tids bildkultur bidrar ”Filmdockan” till den pågående, både livliga och spännande, processen inom forskningen kring animerade bilder. Bokens huvudämne är...

Boken “Filmens Göteborg” är ett resultat av ett forskningsprojekt där forskare från GPS400: Centrum för samverkande visuell forskning vid Göteborgs universitet samverkat med kulturarvsinstitutionerna Göteborgs stadsmuseum, Riksarkivet i Göteborg,...

This official behind-the-scenes companion to the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian features exclusive concept art, character and costume sketches, and vehicle and creature designs. The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian takes fans behind the...

Den mäktigaste essäsamlingen om enskilda filmer som skrivits i vårt land.<br>Carl-Johan Malmberg, Svenska Dagbladet<br><br>På snart sagt varje sida uppenbaras filmens magi och storhet, både när det är som bäst och när den slirar till.<br>- Josefine...

Makten i varje samhälle ligger hos dem som kan bestämma över fantasin. I Camera Futura skildras framtidsvisioner på film, från 1950-talets sovjetiska utopier till våra dagars kommersiella klimatdystopier. Hynek Pallas är kulturkritiker, författare och...

<font size=-1><B>Författare:</B> <A HREF=https://bibliomani.nu/sok/Heather+Greene>Heather Greene,</A> <BR><B>Förlag:</B> <A HREF=https://bibliomani.nu/sok/Llewellyn>Llewellyn</A> <BR><B>Genre:</B> <A...

Blurring the Colonial Binary assesses the development of cinema<br>in colonial Southeast Asia, and how it disrupted notions of racial<br>hierarchies. The book charts the development of cinema, and its<br>distribution and exhibition, from a...

Bridging the gulf between aesthetics and politics, artist and film-maker Petra Bauer reflects on her own experience of making political films and launches a theoretical argument that uncovers the aesthetic mechanisms underlying contemporary strategies...

This guide book addresses itself to those ardent admirers of Fawlty Towers who have long since left the innocent stage behind when Manuel seemed merely funny, Polly only benevolent, Sybil just acrimonious and Basil plain crazy. It proposes to probe...

From the Introduction:There are certainly enough ingredients to fire imagination: a director [Mauritz Stiller] who had just finished a masterpiece [Gösta Berlings Saga]; a leading lady, the directors protégée, becoming known through his film [Greta...

The work of the Women and the Silent Screen Conferences [...] is to collectively create a new realm of cinema history, neither 'the' history, nor 'a' history, but a strange double world. These words are from Jane Gaines in her keynote address for the...

The cover picture represents the Swede Julius Jaenzon shooting a<br>nature short for A/S Norsk Kinematograf in Vestvågøy in Lofoten<br>on March 10, 1910. It brings together several threads discussed in<br>this thesis: geneaologies of ‘national cinema’;...

There is a current wave of interest in pornography as a vehicle for queer, feminist and lesbian activism. Examples include Dirty Diaries: Twelve Shorts of Feminist Porn (Engberg, Sweden, 2009), the Pornfilmfestival Berlin (2006-) and the members-only...

This dissertation addresses the breakthrough of the multi-reel feature film in the United States, and the significance of this process within the wider context of the American film industry and culture in the 1910s. The purpose is to provide a new, and...

This dissertation examines the coming of sound film in Sweden during the years 1928-1932, and the reception of mechanically recorded sounds both in the trade press and among audiences. The novelty of sound film opened up for a negotiation of the...

This dissertation is a historical and theoretical study of a number of discourses examining colour and cinema during the period 1909 to 1935 (trade press, film reviews, publications on film technology, manuals, catalogues and theoretical texts from the...

This is a book about movies and moviequotes. It contains 700 of the most well known quotes from different and ground breaking movies made throughout time. Movies, that at one point, everybody was talking about. Movies that became Cult. Read it from...

This study creates and develops a concept called the untimely-image including two sub-concepts called contours of the new and the untimely-site. The untimely-image concerns the clearing for and the expression of figures of potential in thought in the...

This study offers historical and theoretical approaches to film versions, speech/voice and translation in early French, German and Swedish sound film. Media, translation and speech are discussed in terms of universal language vs. linguistic diversity,...

This thesis examines how the first 10 seasons of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS, 2000-) engage with discourses on science. Investigating CSI's representation of scientific practices and knowledge, it explicitly attempts to look beyond the generic...