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Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder

On the History of Film Style pdf online

Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling

Film Art: An Introduction

Christopher Nolan: A Labyrinth of Linkages pdf online

Pandora’s Digital Box: Films, Files, and the Future of Movies pdf online

Planet Hong Kong, second edition pdf online

The Way Hollywood Tells It pdf online

Poetics of Cinema pdf online

Figures Traced In Light

Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema pdf online

Exporting Entertainment: America in the World Film Market 1907–1934 pdf online

Hou Hsiao-hsien: A new video lecture!

CinemaScope: The Modern Miracle You See Without Glasses

How Motion Pictures Became the Movies

Constructive editing in Pickpocket: A video essay

Rex Stout: Logomachizing

Lessons with Bazin: Six Paths to a Poetics

A Celestial Cinémathèque? or, Film Archives and Me: A Semi-Personal History

Shklovsky and His “Monument to a Scientific Error”

Murder Culture: Adventures in 1940s Suspense

The Viewer’s Share: Models of Mind in Explaining Film

Common Sense + Film Theory = Common-Sense Film Theory?

Mad Detective: Doubling Down

The Classical Hollywood Cinema Twenty-Five Years Along

Nordisk and the Tableau Aesthetic

William Cameron Menzies: One Forceful, Impressive Idea

Another Shaw Production: Anamorphic Adventures in Hong Kong

Paolo Gioli’s Vertical Cinema

(Re)Discovering Charles Dekeukeleire

Doing Film History

The Hook: Scene Transitions in Classical Cinema

Anatomy of the Action Picture

Preface, Croatian edition, On the History of Film Style

Slavoj Žižek: Say Anything

Film and the Historical Return

Studying Cinema

Observations on film art

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Hollywood starts here, or hereabouts

Thursday | April 23, 2020 | 1910s cinema, Film comments, Film technique: Editing, Film technique: Staging, Hollywood: Artistic traditions, Silent film, Tableau staging | Comments Off on Hollywood starts here, or hereabouts

Who will match the Watchmen?

Sunday | April 12, 2020 | Comic strips and cartoons, Film and other media, Film comments, Film technique: Editing, Hollywood: Artistic traditions, Narrative strategies | Comments Off on Who will match the Watchmen?

Sometimes an actor’s back…

Thursday | July 18, 2019 | 1910s cinema, National cinemas: Italy, Silent film, Sometimes . . ., Tableau staging | Comments Off on Sometimes an actor’s back…

A hundred years ago, and less, at Cinema Ritrovato ’19

Saturday | June 29, 2019 | 1910s cinema, Directors: Varda, National cinemas: Germany, National cinemas: Sweden, Silent film, Tableau staging | Comments Off on A hundred years ago, and less, at Cinema Ritrovato ’19

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