During the past four decades, the accessibility of videotape, along with that of 8- and 16-millimetre film, has revolutionized artistic production, and moving-image technologies ranging from the filmic to the digital have attained mainstream status....

For half a century Alfred Hitchcock created films full of gripping and memorable music. Over his long career he presided over more musical styles than any director in history and ultimately changed how we think about film music. This book is the firs...

This is the first book in more than twenty-five years to examine the complex historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationship between theater and film, and the effect that each has had on the other's development. Robert Knopf here assembles essays fr...

This bountiful book is a comprehensive guide to the thousands of films, DVDs, and videocassettes featuring operas and opera singers from 1896 to the present. From ABC Television to Franco Zeffirelli, the encyclopedia is a storehouse of fascinating in...

This entertaining and useful book provides a comprehensive survey of films about the ancient world, from "The Last Days of Pompeii" to "Gladiator". Jon Solomon catalogues, describes, and evaluates films set in ancient Greece and Rome, films about Gre...

What happens to opera when it's presented on the screen? How does an opera change when it becomes a movie, a television presentation, or a video? This book is the first to explore opera and its treatment on the screen from a musicologist's perspectiv...

During World War I, the Catholic church blocked the distribution of government-sponsored V. D. prevention films, initiating an era of attempts by the church to censor the movie industry. This book is an entertaining and engrossing account of those ef...