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Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century by Stacey Abbott 9780748694907
$238.81Twenty-first century film and television is overwhelmed with images of the undead. Vampires and zombies have often been seen as oppositional: one alluring, the other repellant; one seductive, the other infectious. With case studies of films like I Am... -
Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film by Miriam Hansen 9780674058316
RRP: $86.00$72.91Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a decade more before the concept of a "film spectator" emerged. As the cinema began to separate itself from the commercial entertainments in whose context films initially had been shown-vaudeville,... -
Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno by Miriam Hansen 9780520265592
RRP: $132.30$108.82Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno - affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument - developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores in... -
Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925 by Aaron Gerow 9780520254565
RRP: $63.00$51.35Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor was it simply adopted into an ages-old culture. Aaron Gerow... -
George Gallup in Hollywood by Susan Ohmer 9780231121323
$231.82George Gallup in Hollywood is a fascinating look at the film industry's use of opinion polling in the 1930s and '40s. George Gallup's polling techniques first achieved fame when he accurately predicted that Franklin D. Roosevelt would be reelected... -
Screen Memories: Hollywood Cinema on the Psychoanalytic Couch by Harvey Roy Greenberg 9780231072878
$80.43Screen Memories delves into the psychological features of mainstream movies from Casablanca to Working Girl. While most psychoanalytic film criticism is highly theoretical, Dr. Greenberg, a practicing clinician, writes in an entertaining, informative... -
The Films of Carol Reed by Robert F. Moss 9780231059848
$95.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Once enthroned as a major international filmmaker, Carol Reed has long since been banished to a musty corner of movie history. To dust off his work, however, is to discover a... -
Hollywood Androgyny by Rebecca Bell-Metereau 9780231058346
$251.45A renowned film scholar reveals the surprisingly frequent instances of cross-dressing, transvestism, and every kind of gender-bending in more than 250 films from Sylvia Scarlett to The Crying Game.A renowned film scholar reveals the surprisingly frequent... -
Beyond Bias: Conservative Media, Documentary Form, and the Politics of Hysteria by Scott Krzych 9780197551219
RRP: $231.00$197.88Beyond Bias offers the first scholarly study of contemporary right-wing documentary film and video. Drawing from contemporary work in political theory and psychoanalytic theory, the book identifies what author Scott Krzych describes as the hysterical... -
American Avant-Garde Cinema's Philosophy of the In-Between by Rebecca A. Sheehan 9780190949709
RRP: $257.25$219.51Can films philosophize rather than simply represent philosophical ideas developed outside of the cinematic medium? Taking up this crucial question for the emergent field of film philosophy, American Avant-Garde Cinema's Philosophy of the In-Between... -
HBO's The Leftovers: Mourning and Melancholy on Premium Cable by Eliot Borenstein 9781666947571
RRP: $153.30$139.48This book unpacks and analyzes the central themes of sacrifice, melancholy, apocalypticism, and the nature of family and home in HBO's The Leftovers to demonstrate the key role it played in the development of early twenty-first-century television. Eliot... -
Untimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics: Temporality, Relationality, and Intimacy in the Cinema of the Berlin School by Simone Pfleger 9780228018841
RRP: $178.50$150.26While heteronormativity continues to permeate nearly all threads of the socio-cultural fabric, several early twenty-first-century German films offer insight into how we might challenge that dominance and disrupt its linear construction of time.Examining... -
Film Essays and a Lecture by Sergei Eisenstein 9780691642000
$219.93Sergei Eisenstein's greatness lies not only in his films, such as Potemkin or Ivan the Terrible, or his contributions to the technique and art of the cinema but also in his contributions as a theoretician and philosopher of the art. This edition includes... -
Spots in Shots by Melanie Van Der Hoorn 9789462084568
RRP: $94.50$63.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462084568Author Melanie van der HoornFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi... -
Independent Filmmaking Around the Globe by Doris Baltruschat 9781442626836
RRP: $73.50$68.38Independent Filmmaking around the Globe calls attention to the significant changes taking place in independent cinema today, as new production and distribution technology and shifting social dynamics make it more and more possible for independent... -
The Millennial Woman in Bollywood: A New 'Brand'? by Ms Maithili Rao 9780190130473
RRP: $157.50$148.58With the turn of the century, slowly a change began to come over the women in mainstream Bollywood films. The female lead shed-off her cardboard role of the beloved and gained complexity that reconciled career, ambition, and personal fulfillment, along... -
Meeting Movies by Norman N. Holland 9781611473766
$166.28This book combines subtle readings of eight classic films (Casablanca, Vertigo, The Seventh Seal, Freud, Persona, Children of Paradise, Shakespeare in Love, and 8 1/2) with memories and associations that make it possible for both the author and his... -
A Critical Companion to Mel Gibson by Adam Barkman 9781666937732
RRP: $178.50$162.20The twelve essays in A Critical Companion to Mel Gibson offer various interpretations of Mel Gibson's work, treating this prolific but controversial figure not only as a filmmaker but as a historian, religious thinker, and social philosopher. From The... -
Fade in by Simon Castets 9780999505922
$51.70Where does the fake art in movies and on TV come from? Stemming from this question, Fade In explores the intersection of art and on-screen entertainment through works by such artists as Darja Bajagic, GALA Committee, Amie Siegel, William Leavitt,... -
Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It! by Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette 9781793627032
RRP: $170.10$154.62Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It! examines depictions of African-descended women and girls in twentieth and twenty-first century speculative filmmaking. Topics include a discursive analysis of stereotypes;... -
Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film by Ana Hedberg Olenina 9780190051259
RRP: $257.25$220.61In the late 19th century, modern psychology emerged as a discipline, shaking off metaphysical notions of the soul in favor of a more scientific, neurophysiological concept of the mind. Laboratories began to introduce instruments and procedures which... -
Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Updated Edition: The Complete Filmmaking Journey by Bob McCabe 9780062878908
RRP: $168.00$102.82Harry Potter Page to Screen: Revised and Expanded now has more pages devoted to the legacy of the Harry Potter films. In addition to the complete history of all eight Harry Potter films, the book now explores the theme parks in Florida, California and... -
What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic by Henry Jenkins 9780231078559
RRP: $58.80$48.11Lively and highly readable, What Made Pistachio Nuts? examines what Henry Jenkins calls the anarchistic tradition of American film comedy. Anarchistic comedies of the 1930s mock the social order and celebrate the creativity and impulsiveness of their... -
Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography by Sarah Brophy 9781442616097
RRP: $71.40$67.47From reality television to film, performance, and video art, autobiography is everywhere in today's image-obsessed age. With contributions by both artists and scholars, Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography is a unique examination of visual... -
Catholics in the Movies by Colleen McDannell 9780195306569
RRP: $220.50$203.30The common admission that 'everything I know about religion I learned from the movies' is true for believers as much as for unbelievers. And at the movies, Catholicism is the American religion. As an intensely visual faith with a well-defined ritual and... -
The Library Screen Scene: Film and Media Literacy in Schools, Colleges, and Communities by Renee Hobbs 9780190854317
RRP: $236.25$175.18In the past two decades, several U.S. states have explored ways to mainstream media literacy in school curriculum. However one of the best and most accessible places to learn this necessary skill has not been the traditional classroom but rather the... -
Len Lye - Motion Composer by Museum Tinguely 9783868289619
RRP: $109.20$78.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868289619Author Museum TinguelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag -
Latin American Film Industries by Tamara L. Falicov 9781844573110
$215.69Film production in Latin America is as old as cinema itself, but local film industries have always been in a triangulated relationship with Hollywood and European cinema. This book situates Latin American film industries within the global circulation of... -
The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea by Andrew Jackson 9781399514200
RRP: $178.50$150.89Examines the 1990s growth of art film exhibition, consumption, and cinephilia within South Korean cinema This book is a narrative history of art film exhibition and cinephilia in post-dictatorship South Korea It is the first study to consider the... -
Directing and Producing for Television: A Format Approach by Ivan Cury 9781138125001
RRP: $273.00$237.53Directing and Producing for Television provides essential tools required to direct and produce effectively in a variety of settings. Ideal for students in television production courses, Directing and Producing for Television addresses critical production... -
Young Carey: Incorporated by Steven Bode 9780953863464
RRP: $20.90$14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953863464Author Steven BodeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Film & Video UmbrellaPublisher Film & Video Umbrella -
Anne Katrine Dolven: It Could Happen to You by Ele Carpenter 9780953863457
RRP: $25.10$17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953863457Author Ele CarpenterFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Film & Video UmbrellaPublisher Film & Video UmbrellaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 163mm * 12mm -
Cinematic Storytelling: A Comprehensive Guide for Directors and Cinematographers by Thomas Robotham 9780367531423
RRP: $283.50$248.54* Provides a new approach to cinematic storytelling in a comprehensive manner by foregrounding the techniques that can be used in the script to screen process. * This book fills a gap by taking a unique approach to visual storytelling, considering... -
Beverly Garland: Her Life and Career by Deborah Del Vecchio 9780786465019
RRP: $52.48$43.89Aptly named ""Television's First Lady"" by Walter Ames of the Los Angeles Times, actress Beverly Garland (1926-2008) is also regarded as a Western and science-fiction film icon. Beverly was TV's first ""police woman"" in the landmark series Decoy, and... -
Temporality and Film Analysis by Matilda Mroz 9780748685912
RRP: $60.88$60.04This book places the concept of duration at the centre of an understanding of cinema and spectatorship. The process of aesthetic imaging in time is a unique and fascinating characteristic of cinema. Why, then, has temporality, and specifically duration,... -
The British Musical Film by John Mundy 9780719063206
RRP: $168.00$124.24"This book is to be recommended as a good, informative, broad-based survey, useful for students of film, media, drama and cultural studies who are looking for an entry into this broad genre and to use this text as a general resource."Christine... -
A Critical Cinema 4: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers by Scott MacDonald 9780520242715
RRP: $65.10$61.89A Critical Cinema 4 is the fourth volume in Scott MacDonald's Critical Cinema series, the most extensive, in-depth exploration of independent cinema available in English. In this new set of interviews, MacDonald once again engages filmmakers in detailed... -
Dark Fear, Eerie Cities: New Hindi Cinema in Neoliberal India by Sarunas Paunksnis 9780199493180
RRP: $46.18$43.83Dark Fear, Eerie Cities analyzes a film form that began to emerge in Hindi cinema in early 21st century - a form that is marked by realism, by focusing on urban life and culture of the new middle class, as well as pessimism, violence, fear and the... -
The Melancholy Lens: Loss and Mourning in American Avant-Garde Cinema by Tony Pipolo 9780197551165
RRP: $210.00$196.79The prevalence of loss and mourning, and of charged relationships with parents or parental figures has had a surprising influence on several American avant-garde filmmakers' work . To date, however, little attention has been given to these themes. In The... -
Visions of Empire and Other Imaginings: Cinema, Ireland and India 1910-1962 by Jeannine Woods 9783039119745
RRP: $85.89$75.58This book was shortlisted for the ESSE Junior Scholars book award for Cultural Studies in English, 2012 Since its inception cinema has served as a powerful medium that both articulates and intervenes in visions of identity. The experiences of British...