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The visual image is the common denominator of cinema and painting, and indeed many filmmakers have used the imagery of paintings to shape or enrich the meaning of their films. In this discerning new approach to cinema studies, Angela Dalle Vacche...

This newest edition will track the form's evolution from such 1970s reinventions as ECount Yorga VampireE and EBlaculaE EThe HungerE and EVampire's KissE in the Eighties EInterview with the VampireE EBram Stoker's DraculaE and the EBladeE series in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734347913Author Bob SaenzFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Bob SaenzPublisher Bob SaenzWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

The official companion for the new Man of Steel movie featuring Superman. Man of Steel: Inside the Legendary World of Superman offers an intimate look at the reinvention of the world's most iconic superhero through the eyes of acclaimed director Zack...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683964728Author Mark FertigFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

We're living in a time of unprecedented diversity in produced media content, with more characters appearing who are Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT), disabled, or from other religions or classes...

This is the first volume to provide a detailed introduction to some of the main areas of research and practice in the interdisciplinary field of art and neuroscience. With contributions from neuroscientists, theatre scholars and artists from seven...

The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the second film in the original Star Wars trilogy, is often cited as the 'best' and most popular Star Wars movie. In her compelling study, Rebecca Harrison draws on previously unpublished archival research to reveal a...

In 2004, the Academy Award-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Milles Collines during Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838528874Author IgloobooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Igloo BooksPublisher Igloo BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 248mm * 244mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739129408Author Darren AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Expressive EggPublisher Expressive Egg

From the critical and commercial fanfare his films generate, it is largely understood that Yorgos Lanthimos is one of the more interesting filmmakers to have emerged out of the new century. A markedly transnational filmmaker, between Dogtooth and The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932931Author Pamela DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364192Author Vicky LebeauFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A sweeping analysis of the lasting effects of neocolonial extractivism in Latin American aesthetic modernity from 1920 to the present Looking to the extractive frontier as a focal point of Latin American art, literature, music, and film, Jens Andermann...

A Radio 4 Book of the Week.'Fascinating . . . filled with lively historical digressions.' New York Times 'Best True Crime of 2022'In 1888 Louis Le Prince shot the world's first motion picture in Leeds, England. In 1890, weeks before the public unveiling...

In this authoritative volume, writer and historian Scott Tracy Griffin traces the development of the history-making Tarzan franchise, from the motion-picture industry's early silent and serials, through the high point of the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer era...

Gaming Film explores the growing influence of computer games on contemporary cinema. From the type of stories told to their complex structural patterns, from the changing modes of reception to innovative visual aesthetics, computer games are re-shaping...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939282460Author Scout TafoyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Miniver PressPublisher Miniver PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Chinese cinema continues to go from strength to strength. After art-house hits like Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth (1984) and Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000), the Oscar-winning success of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) disproved the...

Fritz Lang's 'M' (1931) is an undisputed classic of world cinema. Lang considered it his most lasting work. Peter Lorre's extraordinary performance as the childlike misfit Hans Beckert was one of the most striking of film debuts, and it made him an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506719023Author George A. RomeroFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909446328Author John ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Bristol Books CICPublisher Bristol Books CICWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

# 1 Best Seller in Movies, Video Guides & Reviews - The Life-Changing Power of AnimeA celebration of Anime: Many books on anime simply offer a list of "essential titles" and recommendations. Anime Impact goes deeper by showcasing the many...

Called the most beautiful woman in movie history, Gene Tierney starred in such 1940s classics as Laura, Leave Her to Heaven and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Her on- screen presence and ability to transform into a variety of characters made her a film legend...

This major artistic biography of Federico Fellini shows how his exuberant imagination has been shaped by popular culture, literature, and his encounter with the ideas of C. G. Jung, especially Jungian dream interpretation. Covering Fellini's entire...

The Silent Cinema Reader is a comprehensive resource of key writings on early cinema, addressing filmmaking practice, film form, style and content, and the ways in which silent films were exhibited and understood by their audiences, from the beginnings...

Charles Higham successfully presents the most plausible and convincing solution yet to the mystery of who killed William Desmond Taylor. In the process he paints a vivid portrait of Hollywood in the 1920s - from its major stars to its bisexual subculture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667202334Author Editors of Thunder Bay PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683835899Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 89mm *...

Was it an omen? Richard Nixon and the film industry arrived in Southern California in the same year, 1913. As Mark Feeney relates in this unusual and unusually absorbing book, Nixon and the movies have shared a long and complex history. Some of that...

Despite the powerful anti-political impulses that have pervaded Italian society in recent years, Italian cinema has sustained and renewed its longstanding engagement with questions of politics, both in the narrow definition of the term, and in a wider...

The wounds of nations: Horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in a...

VIDEOTAPES FROM HELLBook InformationISBN 9781493077953Author Stephen JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe Pequot PressWeight(grams) 1071gDimensions(mm) 260mm * 218mm * 22mm

Contemporary Italian poetry offers an extraordinary array of styles, voices, approaches, ways of looking at the world and ways of representing it. This anthology tries to capture the multiplicity of these voices with its selection of the most...

Charlie Chaplin was a skilled comedian, filmmaker and composer, and the mission of this book is to educate readers on the wide variety of Chaplin's artistry: the subtlety of his mimetic satire, the sophistication of his film direction, his prodigious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739773915Author Larry DuplechanFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Team Angelica PublishingPublisher Team Angelica Publishing

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During the second half of the 20th century, landmark works of the horror film genre were as much the product of enterprising regional filmmakers as of the major studios. From backwoods Utah to the Louisiana bayous to the outer boroughs of New York,...

John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952) is the most popular cinematic representation of Ireland, and one of Hollywood's classic romantic comedies. For some viewers and critics the film is a powerful evocation of romantic Ireland and the search for home. This...