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Teaching Film(Updated)
by Patrice Petro, Mark Langer, Michael Renov, Anne Rutherford, Tasha Oren, Lucy Fischer, Dudley Andrew, Garrett Stewart, Raphael Raphael, Mark Lynn Anderson, Pat Brereton Dr, Professor Timothy Corrigan, Professor Adam Lowenstein, Professor Paula J. Massood, Professor Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Professor Hamid Naficy, Professor Maureen Turim, Professor Patricia White, Professor Michael Aronson, Professor David Desser, E. Ann Kaplan, Nataša Ďurovičová, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Michael Aronson, Pat Brereton, Timothy Corrigan, David Desser, Adam Lowenstein, Maureen Turim, Hamid Naficy, Patricia White, Reviewer David Desser, Lucy Rose Fischer
Paperback, 424 Pages, Published 2012 by The Modern Language Association Of America
ISBN-13: 978-1-60329-115-6, ISBN: 1-60329-115-6

"Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of film is dispersed across a range of academic departments, programs, and scholarly organizations, film studies has come to be recognized as a field in its own right. In an era when teaching and scholarship are increasingly interdisciplinary, film studies continues to expand and thrive, attracti ..."






Idols of Modernity
Movie Stars of the 1920s (Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema)
by Patrice Petro, Contributor-Krin Gabbard, Contributor-Charles Wolfe, Professor Lea Jacobs, Professor Gerd Gemunden, Professor Amy Lawrence, Professor Mary Desjardins, Professor Yiman Wang, Contributor-Lucy Fischer, Paula J. Massood, Professor Scott Curtis, Professor Joanna E. Rapf, Scott Curtis, Mary R. Desjardins, Rutgers University Press
Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2010 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4732-9, ISBN: 0-8135-4732-6

"With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920s, ""Idols of Modernity"" reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and performance that can be traced both backward and forward, across Europe, Asia, and the United States, from the silent era into the emergence of sound. Bringing together the best new work on cinema and stardom in the 1920s, this illustrated collection showcases the range of complex social, ins ..."






Documenting the Documentary(98th Edition)
Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video
by Jim Leach, Bill Nichols, Lucy Fischer, Linda Williams, Joan Nicks, Bart Testa, Jeanne Hall, Carl Plantinga, Sheila Petty, Julia Lesage, Caryl Flinn, Jeannette Sloniowski, Diane Scheinman, Barry Keith Grant, Frank P. Tomasulo, Professor Robert Stam, Professor William Rothman, Professor Thomas Waugh, Professor Charlie Keil, Seth Feldman, Vivian Sobchack, Joanne Hershfield, William Guynn, Jeffrey K. Ruoff, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, William Rothman, Charlie Keil, Thomas Waugh, Robert Stam, Matthew Bernstein, Virginia Bonner, Leshu Torchin, Paula J. Massood, David T. Johnson, John R. Cook, Reviewer Charlie Keil, Reviewer Thomas Waugh
Paperback, 488 Pages, Published 1998 by Wayne State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-2639-8, ISBN: 0-8143-2639-0

"Documenting the Documentary features essays by twenty-seven film scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives. Each essay focuses on one or two important documentaries, engaging in questions surrounding ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender, and representation -- but always in terms of how they arise out of or are involved in the reading of specific documentaries as particular textual constructions. By c ..."






Documenting the Documentary(Updated)
Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video, New and Expanded Edition (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)
by Jim Leach, Bill Nichols, Jeannette Sloniowski, Barry Keith Grant, Seth Feldman, Joanne Hershfield, Vivian Sobchack, William Guynn, William Rothman, Charlie Keil, Thomas Waugh, Jeanne Hall, Robert Stam, Bart Testa, Joan Nicks, Carl Plantinga, Lucy Fischer, Linda Williams, Sheila Petty, Caryl Flinn, Julia Lesage, Virginia Bonner, Leshu Torchin, Diane Scheinman, Frank P. Tomasulo, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Jeffrey K. Ruoff, Paula J. Massood, David T. Johnson, John R. Cook, Matthew Bernstein
Paperback, 600 Pages, Published 2013 by Wayne State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-3971-8, ISBN: 0-8143-3971-9

"Originally released in 1998, Documenting the Documentary responded to a scholarly landscape in which documentary film was largely understudied and undervalued aesthetically, and analysed instead through issues of ethics, politics, and film technology. Editors Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski addressed this gap by presenting a useful survey of the artistic and persuasive aspects of documentary film from a range of critical view ..."






Idols of Modernity(None)
Movie Stars of the 1920s (Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema)
by Patrice Petro, Contributor-Krin Gabbard, Contributor-Lucy Fischer, Contributor-Charles Wolfe, Scott Curtis, Professor Gerd Gemunden, Professor Lea Jacobs, Professor Amy Lawrence, Paula J. Massood, Lucy Rose Fischer, Professor Mary Desjardins, Professor Joanna E. Rapf, Professor Yiman Wang, Contributor-Prof. P., Mary R. Desjardins, Rutgers University Press
Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2010 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4731-2, ISBN: 0-8135-4731-8






Art Direction and Production Design
(Behind the Silver Screen Series)
by Lucy Fischer, Professor Mark Shiel, Merrill Schleier, Charles Tashiro, Professor Stephen Prince, J.D. Connor, Lucy Rose Fischer
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2015 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-6435-7, ISBN: 0-8135-6435-2

"How is the look of a film achieved? In Art Direction and Production Design, six outstanding scholars survey the careers of notable art directors, the influence of specific design styles, the key roles played by particular studios and films in shaping the field, the effect of technological changes on production design, and the shifts in industrial modes of organization. The craft's purpose is to produce an overall pictorial -vision- for ..."






Art Direction and Production Design
(Behind the Silver Screen Series)
by Professor Mark Shiel, Merrill Schleier, Charles Tashiro, J. D. Connor, Professor Stephen Prince, Lucy Fischer
Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2015 by Rutgers Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-6436-4, ISBN: 0-8135-6436-0

"How is the look of a film achieved? In "Art Direction and Production Design," six outstanding scholars survey the careers of notable art directors, the influence of specific design styles, the key roles played by particular studios and films in shaping the field, the effect of technological changes on production design, and the shifts in industrial modes of organization. The craft's purpose is to produce an overall pictorial "vision" fo ..."






Documenting the Documentary
Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video, New and Expanded Edition (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)
by Barry Keith Grant, Jeannette Sloniowski, William Rothman, Seth Feldman, Joanne Hershfield, Vivian Sobchack, William Guynn, Frank P. Tomasulo, Charlie Keil, Thomas Waugh, Jim Leach, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Jeanne Hall, Robert Stam, Bart Testa, Jeffrey K. Ruoff, Joan Nicks, Carl Plantinga, Lucy Fischer, Linda Williams
Digital, 550 Pages, Published 2013 by Wayne State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-3972-5, ISBN: 0-8143-3972-7

"Originally released in 1998, Documenting the Documentary responded to a scholarly landscape in which documentary film was largely understudied and undervalued aesthetically, and analyzed instead through issues of ethics, politics, and film technology. Editors Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski addressed this gap by presenting a useful survey of the artistic and persuasive aspects of documentary film from a range of critical view ..."






Teaching Film
by Lucy Fischer, Patrice Petro
413 Pages, Published 2012 by Modern Language Association
ISBN-13: 978-1-60329-133-0, ISBN: 1-60329-133-4

"Practical Pedagogy: Everything You Wanted to Know about Teaching Media but Were Afraid to Ask This volume is decidedly not meant to be a one-shot how-to manual for becoming an instant instructor of film studies. ... Yet even those well versed in film or media history, theory, and criticism can be woefully unprepared for entering the actual classroom. ... Unfortunately, there is no single database that provides this information, but ..."






Recollecting Collecting
A Film and Media Perspective (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)
by Lucy Fischer
Paperback, Published 2023 by Wayne State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-4855-0, ISBN: 0-8143-4855-6






Sunrise
by Lucy Fischer
80 Pages, Published 2020 by British Film Institute
ISBN-13: 978-1-83902-198-5, ISBN: 1-83902-198-5

"In her foreword to this new edition, Lucy Fischer considers the film as an abiding classic of world cinema."






Shot/Countershot
Film Tradition and Women's Cinema
by Lucy Fischer
360 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-0-608-06294-5, ISBN: 0-608-06294-4






Cinemagritte
René Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)
by Lucy Fischer
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2019 by Wayne State Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-4636-5, ISBN: 0-8143-4636-7

"Cinemagritte: René Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice investigates the dynamic relationship between the Surrealist modernist artist René Magritte (1898–1967) and the cinema—a topic largely ignored in the annals of film and art criticism. Magritte once said that he used cinema as "a trampoline for the imagination," but here author Lucy Fischer reverses that process by using Magritte’s work as a stimulus for a ..."






Cinemagritte
René Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice
by Lucy Fischer
304 Pages, Published 2019 by Wayne State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-4638-9, ISBN: 0-8143-4638-3

"MichelAnge (Patrice Moullet) takes a seat in a darkened theater and looks at the screen. The initial film that he sees is a modern rendition of the Lumière brothers' The Arrival of a Train (1895), and like the mythical credulous spectator, he hides  ..."






Cinema by Design
Art Nouveau, Modernism, and Film History (Film and Culture Series)
by Lucy Fischer
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-17502-9, ISBN: 0-231-17502-7

"Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playful and macabre visions and had a deep impact on cinematic art direction, costuming, gender representation, genre, and theme. Though historians have long dismissed Art Nouveau as a decadent cultural mode, its tremendous afterlife in cinema proves otherwise. In Cinema by Design, Lucy Fischer tra ..."






Cinema by Design
Art Nouveau, Modernism, and Film History (Film and Culture Series)
by Lucy Fischer
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-17503-6, ISBN: 0-231-17503-5

"Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playful and macabre visions and had a deep impact on cinematic art direction, costuming, gender representation, genre, and theme. Though historians have long dismissed Art Nouveau as a decadent cultural mode, its tremendous afterlife in cinema proves otherwise. In Cinema by Design, Lucy Fischer tra ..."






Film and Culture Ser.
Cinema by Design : Art Nouveau, Modernism, and Film History
by Lucy Fischer
256 Pages, Published 2017 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54422-1, ISBN: 0-231-54422-7

"... of Identity (London: Thames and Hudson, 1995). IMDb lists no art director or production designer, just a list of individuals in the Art Department. Simon Abrams, review of The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears, ... by Olivier Goinard, which is included on Summer Hours, directed by Olivier Assayas (New York: Criterion Collection, 2008), DVD. 4 O'Brien, “Secret Life,” 185. 5 Quoted in Kristi McKim, Love in the Time of Cinema (Ba ..."






Shot/Countershot
Film Tradition and Women's Cinema (Princeton Legacy Library)
by Lucy Fischer
Hardcover, 362 Pages, Published 2016 by Princeton University Press, United States
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-63753-2, ISBN: 0-691-63753-9

"In rich detail this book relates the idea of a counter-cinema to theories of intertextuality and locates it in the broad context of recent feminist film, literary, and art criticism."






Behind the Silver Screen Ser.
Art Direction and Production Design
by Lucy Fischer
232 Pages, Published 2015 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-6437-1, ISBN: 0-8135-6437-9

"Carol Titelman, ed., The Art of “Star Wars” (New York: Ballantine, 1979); David Michael Petrou, The Making of “Superman, the Movie” (New York: Warner Books, 1978); Carl Macek, The Art of “Heavy Metal,” the Movie: Animation for the Eighties (New York: Zoetrope, 1981); Brian Froud, The World of “The Dark Crystal ” (New York: Knopf, 1982); Michael Bonifer, The Art of “Tron” (New York: Little Simon, 1982). (The last is a children's book ..."






Behind the Silver Screen Ser.
Art Direction and Production Design
by Lucy Fischer
232 Pages, Published 2015 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-7280-2, ISBN: 0-8135-7280-0

"to augment the movie's sense of whimsy. As the Souvenir Program Booklet asserts: “A roseate glow [was used] for the romantic moments; a garish green where the terrifying monsters appear; a soft uranium sepia where the beautiful golden haze glows about the dream city of Bagdad and throughout all the fantasy a rich Maxfield Parrish blue” (color plate 3). As for the reference to Parrish, his style has been claimed by aficionados of bo ..."



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