Designed to help the film student with the complexities of 16mm film cutting, this handbook catalogs the mechanical procedures of both picture and sound cutting and supplies step-by-step explanations of these procedures. Because the handbook was organized so that it could be used while working at the cutting bench, common cutting problems and…

Presents a bibliography of works about filmic art and filmic artists that is highly selective in representing such eclectic approaches as rhetorical, literary, cross-media, formal, semiotic, economic, social, psychological, historical, political, philosophical, cultural, stylistic, auteurist, genre, mythic, and ideological. (JK)

Traces George Maciunas' interest in cinema beginning with his work for "Film Culture" magazine in 1955, his methods of producing/making films, his relationship to the main film avant-garde of the sixties and his ideas of cinema. (RS)

Six major topics relating to film distribution are discussed in this last of a series of three articles. The first topic deals with contracts, including matters such as the possession of the original material, the production of prints, granting of rights, advance payments and income percentages, legal advice, breach of contract and liability.…

Providing an introduction to anyone considering directing as a field of study or career, this book takes a broad look at the process of directing and encourages students and professionals alike to look outside of the movie industry for inspiration. Chapters in the book discuss selecting and acquiring material; budgeting and financing; casting and…

Analyzes the split between teaching film study and teaching film making. (CH)

A humanistic assessment of the "structured" films of the New American Cinema. (CH)

Suggestions about general organization and detailed planning for filmmaking are presented in this second in a series of three articles. Technical matters such as the capabilities of various camera systems and comparisons of film stocks are not discussed; mention is made, however, of the best available sources of information on these subjects.…

Profiles one of the first of the still small number of camerawomen in the feature-film business. Recounts how she became interested in camera work; the difficulty of breaking into a closed nepotistic union system; the first job; the responsibilities and pleasures of her work; and her present vocation of directing, writing, and producing. (PA)

Provides a genealogy of the "fichera" (cabaret dancer/prostitute) genre in Mexican cinema, moving from the figure of the female prostitute to that of the "queen" homosexual type. Discusses the ideological function of homosexual stereotyping and to the way the queen homosexual stereotype is deployed to very different ends in…

The Association of Cinema Laboratories, Inc., has compiled this handbook to acquaint the users of motion pictures laboratory services with terminology, pre-print preparation, and procedures which have become standard in the industry. The handbook offers detailed, non-technical explanations of how to prepare films for the laboratory. It also…

Examines Walt Disney's formula for reducing children's literature to mass entertainment, as well as the liberties he took in interpreting the literature on which he based his animated films. (HTH)

Examines the importance of "Fassbinder," the historical being, to understand "the Fassbinder film." Argues that the "Fassbinder legend" is the result of a number of competing and often contradictory discourses that evolved out of state-regulated capitalism and culture in West Germany, not exclusively the product of…

This paper describes how director Spike Lee changed Hollywood's representations of African Americans in a dramatic way. He returned to traditions of early African American filmakers like Oscar Michaux by casting all-black movies. In his first film, "She's Gotta Have It", he broke with the Hollywood tradition of using a classic beauty…