"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 ..."
"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 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 LucyFischer, 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 LucyFischer Paperback, Published 2023 by Wayne State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-4855-0, ISBN: 0-8143-4855-6
Sunrise by LucyFischer 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 LucyFischer 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 LucyFischer 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 LucyFischer 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 LucyFischer 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 LucyFischer 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 LucyFischer 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 LucyFischer 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 LucyFischer 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 LucyFischer 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 ..."