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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 ..."






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 ..."






Headline Hollywood
A Century of Film Scandal (Communications, Media, and Culture Series)
by Adrienne L. Mclean, David A. Cook, Lee Grieveson, Sam Stoloff, Mary Desjardins, Professor Mark Anderson, James Castonguay, Professor Susan Mcleland, Professor Erik Hedling, Cynthia Baron, Professor Nancy Cook, Lucy Fischer, William Luhr, Peter Lehman
Hardcover, 313 Pages, Published 2001 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-2885-4, ISBN: 0-8135-2885-2

"Hollywood has long been associated with scandal--with covering it up, with managing its effects, and, in some cases, with creating and directing it. In putting together Headline Hollywood, Adrienne McLean and David Cook approach the relationship between Hollywood and scandal from a fresh perspective. The contributors consider some of the famous transgressions that shocked Hollywood and its audiences during the last century, and ex ..."






American Cinema of the 1920s
Themes and Variations (Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema)
by Lucy Fischer, Contributor-Sumiko Higashi, Contributor-Marcia Landy, Angela Dalle Vacche, Jennifer M. Bean, Reviewer Marcia Landy, Professor Michael Aronson, Professor Mark Anderson, Professor Sara Ross, Professor Gwenda Young, Professor Maureen Turim, Associate Professor Sumiko Higashi, Contributor-Lucy Fischer, Contributor-Jennifer Bean, Contributor-Michael Aronson, Contributor-Mark Anderson, Contributor-Sara Ross, Contributor-Gwenda Young, Contributor-Maureen Turim
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2009 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4484-7, ISBN: 0-8135-4484-X

"During the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture industry and cinema continued as one of the most significant and popular forms of mass entertainment in the world. Film studios were transformed into major corporations, hiring a host of craftsmen and technicians including cinematographers, editors, screenwriters, and set designers. The birth of the star system supported the meteoric rise and celebrity status of actors including ..."






American Cinema of the 1920s
Themes and Variations (Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema)
by Lucy Fischer, Professor Michael Aronson, Professor Mark Anderson, Professor Sara Ross, Sumiko Higashi, Professor Gwenda Young, Professor Maureen Turim, Marcia Landy, Angela Dalle Vacche, Jennifer M. Bean, Lester D. Friedman, Murray Pomerance
Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2009 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4485-4, ISBN: 0-8135-4485-8

"During the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture industry and cinema continued as one of the most significant and popular forms of mass entertainment in the world. Film studios were transformed into major corporations, hiring a host of craftsmen and technicians including cinematographers, editors, screenwriters, and set designers. The birth of the star system supported the meteoric rise and celebrity status of actors including ..."






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 ..."






Headline Hollywood
A Century of Film Scandal (Communications, Media, and Culture Series)
by Adrienne L. Mclean, David A. Cook, Sam Stoloff, Professor Mark Anderson, Lee Grieveson, Professor Susan Mcleland, Professor Erik Hedling, William Luhr, Peter Lehman, Lucy Fischer, Mary Desjardins, James Castonguay, Professor Nancy Cook, Cynthia Baron, Professor Mary Desjardins, Professor James Castonguay, Professor Nancy Cook Ph., Professor Cynthia Baron, Reviewer Cynthia Baron
Paperback, 313 Pages, Published 2001 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-2886-1, ISBN: 0-8135-2886-0

"Hollywood has long been associated with scandal--with covering it up, with managing its effects, and, in some cases, with creating and directing it. In putting together Headline Hollywood, Adrienne McLean and David Cook approach the relationship between Hollywood and scandal from a fresh perspective. The contributors consider some of the famous transgressions that shocked Hollywood and its audiences during the last century, and ex ..."






Screen Decades American Culture/American Cinema
American Cinema of The 1920s : Themes and Variations
by Lucy Fischer, Professor Jennifer Bean
Digital, 309 Pages, Published 2014 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4715-2, ISBN: 0-8135-4715-6

"In the fourth reel Adrienne marries Wallace and withdraws from her former theatrical life, taking on the role of dutiful, if extravagantly attired, wife. Unfortunately for Adrienne, she schooled Daisy a bit too well in the vampire's art, and she soon learns that her new husband is having an affair of his own, with the once innocent village maiden, now herself the reigning queen of Broadway. In the penultimate scene of the film, Adr ..."






Screening Genders
The American Science Fiction Film (Rutgers Depth of Field Series)
by Krin Gabbard, William Luhr, Robert Eberwein, Professor Chris Holmlund, Jerry Mosher, Patricia Mellencamp, Professor David Lugowski, Professor Jacqueline Reich, Professor Chris Straayer, Lucy Fischer, E. Ann Kaplan, Rutgers University Press
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2008 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4339-0, ISBN: 0-8135-4339-8

"Gender roles have been tested, challenged, and redefined everywhere during the past thirty years, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in film. Screening Genders is a lively and engaging introduction to the evolving representations of masculinity, femininity, and places once thought to be "in between."The book begins with a general introduction that traces the movement of gender theory from the margins of film studies to its cente ..."






Cinema and Modernity
by Murray Pomerance, Patrice Petro, Professor Joe Mcelhaney, Professor William Rothman, Professor Tom Conley, Walter Metz, Christopher Sharrrett, Professor Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Professor Steven Alan Carr, Professor Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Reviewer David Sterritt, Krin Gabbard, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Tom Gunning, Lucy Fischer, Peter Lehman
Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2006 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3815-0, ISBN: 0-8135-3815-7

"The modern impulse gave us captivating technology and dark anxiety, rampant mobility and a world filled with strangers, the futuristic city and a fragmentation of experience. Motion pictures the quintessence of modernism entered into this cultural, technical, and philosophical richness with a vast public appeal and a jarring new vision of what life could be.In "Cinema and Modernity," Murray Pomerance brings together new essays by sevent ..."






Cinematernity
Film, Motherhood, Genre (Princeton Legacy Library)
by Lucy Fischer, Professor Emma Wilson
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 1996 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-03774-5, ISBN: 0-691-03774-4

"Lucy Fischer undertakes the first investigation of how the topic of motherhood presents itself throughout a wide range of film genres."






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 ..."






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."






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 ..."






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
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  ..."






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 ..."






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 ..."



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