This text combines discussion of contemporary and classic films with pedagogical features designed to stimulate interest and encourage discussion. Popular Hollywood films that are familiar to students are balanced with historically classic films from a variety of time periods and countries.

Thinking about Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

Humor & Entertainment

Lehman, Peter

Luhr, William

Movies

Harcourt College Pub.

Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

Guiding students and movie lovers through the building blocks required to watch movies critically and analytically, Thinking About Movies 2nd edition offers an intelligent and lively introduction to the ways movies are constructed, achieve their effect, and convey their powerful messages. 
<ul> <li>Provides a comprehensive guide for students and movie lovers to watching movies critically and analytically. 
</li> <li>Introduces the critical building blocks required to understand film as an important narrative and cultural form. 
</li> <li>Guides readers through basic approaches to film analysis such as authorship, genre, race, class, gender, film theory, audience, and reception. 
</li> <li>Includes discussion of a diverse selection of films, from Citizen Kane to The Sixth Sense. 
</li> <li>Extensively illustrated throughout. 
</li> <li>Material has been fully revised and re-designed for this second edition.</li> </ul>
 Thinking About Movies, 2nd edition is accompanied by a website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/lehman featuring resources for both academics and students.

Wiley/Blackwell

Guiding students and movie lovers through the building blocks required to watch movies critically and analytically, Thinking About Movies 2nd edition offers an intelligent and lively introduction to the ways movies are constructed, achieve their effect, and convey their powerful messages. 
<ul> <li>Provides a comprehensive guide for students and movie lovers to watching movies critically and analytically. 
</li> <li>Introduces the critical building blocks required to understand film as an important narrative and cultural form. 
</li> <li>Guides readers through basic approaches to film analysis such as authorship, genre, race, class, gender, film theory, audience, and reception. 
</li> <li>Includes discussion of a diverse selection of films, from Citizen Kane to The Sixth Sense. 
</li> <li>Extensively illustrated throughout. 
</li> <li>Material has been fully revised and re-designed for this second edition.</li> </ul>
 Thinking About Movies, 2nd edition is accompanied by a website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/lehman featuring resources for both academics and students.

Titanic. Two Moon Junction. A Night in Heaven. Sirens. Henry &amp; June. 9 Songs. Lady Chatterley. And more. A new "body guy" genre has emerged in film during the last twenty years-a working-class man of the earth or bohemian artist awakens and fulfills the sexuality of a beautiful, intelligent woman frequently married or engaged to a sexually incompetent, educated, upper-class man. This body guy exhibits a masterful athletic, penile-centered sexual performance that enlivens and transforms the previously discontented woman's life. Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt relate a host of wide-ranging films to a literary tradition dating back to D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and an emerging body culture of our time. Through an engaging and compelling narrative, they argue that the hero's body, lovemaking style, and penis-revealed through extensive male nudity-celebrate conformity to norms of masculinity and male sexuality. Simultaneously, these films denigrate the vital, creative, erotic world of the mind. Just when women began to successfully compete with men in the workplace, these movies, if you will, unzip the penis as the one thing women do not have but want and need for their fulfillment. But Lehman and Hunt also find signs of a yearning for alternative forms of sexual and erotic pleasure in film, embracing diverse bodies and vibrant minds. Lady Chatterley's Legacy in the Movies shows how filmmakers, spectators, and all of us can be empowered to dethrone the body guy, his privileged body, and preferred style of lovemaking, replacing it with a wide range of alternatives.

Lady Chatterley's Legacy in the Movies: Sex, Brains, and Body Guys

Hunt, Professor Susan

Rutgers University Press

Running Scared responds to the absence of critical attention to male sexuality in film by bringing representations of phallic masculinity into the spotlight. In his analysis of films, novels, paintings, photographs, popular music, jokes, and videos, Peter Lehman investigates the patriarchal culture that keeps the male body-and especially male genitals-out of sight. Lehman documents the pervasive anxiety underlying images of the male body, arguing that attempts to keep male sexuality hidden in the pursuit of "good taste" and an avoidance of perversion maintains the "male mystique" and preserves the power of the phallus.
Lehman examines representations of the male body and male sexuality in a variety of settings and through many different lenses. Among the films he analyzes are Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo and Rio Lobo; Scarlet Street; feral child films The Wild Child, Kaspar House, and Greystoke; and Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses. In these works, Lehman explores the symbolic enculturation of males, assumptions about power and the male body, and the ways that men's and women's bodies are marked differently with regard to scarring, wounding, and aging. In addition to film, Lehman also considers such varied material as Jim Thompson's noir novel The Nothing Man, sexology and medical representations of male sexuality, the video Dick Talk, penis jokes in Hollywood films of the 1970s and 1980s, and popular music by Roy Orbison. This edition of Running Scared also includes a new chapter on male nudity in the films of the 1990s, adding fresh analysis to this classic text. An updated preface situates the book within the current critical climate. 
Scholars of film studies, cultural studies, and gender studies and general readers interested in representations of gender and sexuality will appreciate this valuable text.

Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies)

Lehman, Peter R.

Wayne State University Press

Provides an analysis of Blake's S.O.B., Victor/Victoria, the Pink Panthers, Man who loved women, Micki and Maude, and Fine mess

Blake Edwards V 1

Biographies & Memoirs

Ohio University Press

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

A complete introduction to analyzing and enjoying a wide variety of movies, for film students and movie lovers alike Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying, Fourth Edition is a thorough overview of movie analysis designed to enlighten both students and enthusiasts, and heighten their enjoyment of films. Readers will delve into the process of thinking about movies critically and analytically, and find how doing so can greatly enhance the pleasure of watching movies. Divided roughly into two parts, the book addresses film studies within the context of the dynamics of cinema, before moving on to a broader analysis of the relationship of films to the larger social, cultural, and industrial issues informing them. This updated fourth edition includes an entirely new section devoted to a complete analysis of the film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, along with many in-depth discussions of important films such as Citizen Kane and Silence of the Lambs. The chapter on television integrates a major expansion distinguishing between television in the digital era of the convergence of the entertainment and technology industries in comparison to the era of broadcast analogue television. The final chapter places film within the current context of digital culture, globalization, and the powerful rise of China in film production and exhibition. The authors clearly present various methodologies for analyzing movies and illustrate them with detailed examples and images from a wide range of films from cult classics to big-budget, award-winning movies. This helps viewers see new things in movies and also better understand and explain why they like some better than others. Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying, Fourth Edition is ideal for film students immersed in the study of this important, contemporary medium and art form as well as students and readers who have never taken a class on cinema before.

BLAKE EDWARDS 
Blake Edwards: Film Director as Multitalented Auteur is the first critical analysis to focus on the dramatic works of Blake Edwards. Best known for successful comedies such as The Pink Panther series with Peter Sellers, Blake Edwards wrote, produced, and directed serious works in radio, television, film, and theater for seven decades. Although hit films such as Breakfast at Tiffany’s and ‘10’ remain popular, many of Edwards’s dramas have been forgotten or marginalized. 
In this unique book, William Luhr and Peter Lehman draw on original research from numerous set visits and personal interviews with Edwards and many of his creative and business collaborators to explore his dramas, radio and television work, theatrical productions, one-man art shows, and unproduced screenplays. In-depth chapters analyze non-comedic films including Experiment in Terror, Days of Wine and Roses, and The Tamarind Seed, the theatrical feature film Gunn and the made-for-television film Peter Gunn, the musical adaptation of Victor/Victoria, and lesser-known films written but not directed by Edwards, such as Drive a Crooked Road. 
Throughout the book, the authors apply contemporary film theory to auteur criticism of different works while sharing original insights into how Edwards worked creatively in disparate genres and media using composition, editing, sound, and visual motifs to shape his films and radio and television series. 
A one-of-a-kind examination of one of the most influential film directors of his generation, Blake Edwards: Film Director as Multitalented Auteur is an excellent supplementary text for university courses in American cinema, genres, auteurs, and film criticism, and a must-read for critics, scholars, and general readers interested in the works of Blake Edwards.

Blake Edwards: Film Director as Multitalented Auteur (Contemporary Film Directors in America)

Thinking About Movies, Third Edition is a comprehensiveguide for students and movie lovers who want to learn how to watchmovies critically and analytically. Intended for the beginner, thetext offers the critical building blocks required to understandfilm as an important narrative and cultural form. <ul>
<li>Guides readers through basic approaches to film analysis suchas authorship, genre, race, class, gender, film theory, audience,and reception 
</li>
<li>Updated to include discussion of a diverse selection of classicand recent films, from Citizen Kane and Murder, My Sweet to Crashand King Kong 
</li>
<li>Features new coverage of important current trends in theindustry, and recent developments in film theory andcriticism 
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<li>Accompanied by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/lehmanfeaturing resources for both academics and students</li>
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Thinking about Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

Lady Chatterley's Legacy in the Movies: Sex, Brains, and Body Guys

Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies)

Blake Edwards V 1

Blake Edwards V 1

Thinking about Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

Blake Edwards: Film Director as Multitalented Auteur (Contemporary Film Directors in America)

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