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Alright guys? It's me, Arron. Or as some people call me, 'that guy with the phone, the skinny jeans and the really fat head on Facebook'.In a world that seems to be freefalling without a parachute towards utter chaos, I'm here to remind you that when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434441515Author Michael BetancourtFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This book traces the development of investigative cinema, whose main characteristic lies in reconstructing actual events, political crises, and conspiracies. These documentary-like films refrain from a simplistic reconstruction of historical events and...

This book examines television drama in the age of streaming-a time when television has been reshaped for national and international consumption via both linear 'flow' and on-demand user modes. It builds on an in-depth study of the Norwegian public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorHal Erickson has written several media-related books for McFarland, and was for many years a primary editor of the All-Movie Guide website. He lives and works in...

Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field and represent a major contribution to international film studies. Each...

People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopaedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays,most written expressly for this volume-flags the best of the best as chosen by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975730119Author Storry WaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Currency House IncPublisher Currency House IncDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994613042Author Andrew BovellFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Currency House IncPublisher Currency House Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868196596Author Andrew BovellFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868197685Author Melissa ReevesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty Ltd

Cupidity, corruption and conciliation are the themes of the three plays in this collection from one of South Africa's leading playwrights and novelists. The Mother of all Eating, a one-hander, with its central character a corrupt Lesotho official, is a...

In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. This term, coined by the production designer Yoshino Nobutaka, refers to the perception that shadows add depth and...

Now a two-time Academy Award winner for best director, twice winner of the Directors Guild of America Award for best director, and recipient of countless other critics prizes and nominations in multiple capacities, Clint Eastwood stands alongside Martin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980280203Author Richard HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty Ltd

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987211477Author Lauren Carroll HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty Ltd

Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in fi lm, either directly as practitioners or in other areas such as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307390318Author Geoff DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 253gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 131mm...

For over half a century, organizations and individuals promoting ex-gay, conversion and/ or reparative therapy have pushed the tenet that a person may be able to, and should, alter their sexual orientation. Their so-called treatments or therapies have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390327300Author Mukesh ManjunathFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins India

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Fred Zinnemann (1907-1997) was one of Hollywood's most honored directors. In a career that spanned fifty years, he won four Academy Awards and directed such classic movies as From Here to Eternity, A Man for All Seasons, The Day of the Jackal, and High...

Fargo is the most commercially and critically successful film of Ethan and Joel Coen. Immediately recognized as an important work, it was nominated for five Academy Awards and received two, an exceptional achievement for a low budget, independently...

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the evolving landscape of Bollywood cinema in response to recent socio-political changes in India, including a surge in sectarian violence and the ascent of Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism, under Prime...

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This examination of the history of vampires within the science fiction realm also analyses the role of science and pseudo-science from the 18th century to modern times. The vampire's connection with science fiction is traced to its literary origins...

A surge of immigration in the United States in the 1920s coincided with burgeoning developments in entertainment--including cinema. Movie houses sprang up in areas where Latin American populations were concentrated, and the advent of talkies propelled...

Continuing the exploration which began in Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties (McFarland, 2006), this companion volume analyzes the contributions of female supporting players in the films...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434982711Author James W KastnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams)...

Early in 1937, a young film editor went on-location to St. George, Utah, for the filming of Republic's The Painted Stallion. Rain and cast problems put the production hopelessly behind schedule. The studio summarily fired the director and replaced him...

Recounts the life of two-time Academy Award winner, Ralph E. Winters, whose career spanned two-thirds of the 20th century. Drawing from his own ascent through MGM studio system, Winters guides the reader through a history of American film editing,...

From the silent era into the early days of television, hundreds of small production companies turned out low-budget films that were played as second features in this country and abroad. As might be expected, a high percentage of these films were Westerns...

Framing Piracy is the first book to systematically examine film distribution-legal and illegal-in the largest and mostly untapped market in the world: Greater China. Tracing networks of optical disc (VCD, DVD) and online piracy, this book tackles issues...

Of all the pioneers of the cinema, the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein has exerted the most enduring hold on the popular imagination. This book offers a unique portrait of the director based on the personal recollections of those who knew him...

When this book was originally published in 1987, the American feature film had been colonising the world's imagination for over 75 years and the book studies that experience in Britain, where American films have always dominated cinema screens, both...

At a time when the expanded projection of US political, military, economic and cultural power draws intensified global concern, understanding how that country understands itself seems more important than ever. This collection of new critical essays...

Action Cinema Since 2000 addresses an increasingly lively and evolving field of scholarship, probing the definition and testing the potential of action cinema to reframe the mode for the 21st century. Contributors examine a broad range of content,...

Quentin Tarantino is one of the best-known living American filmmakers in the world, and the story of his career has been the subject of a number of books and articles. But what do his films mean? In this new study, Edward Gallafent does not look at...

The female character has historically existed in film largely as a spectacle, as a performer, as the object of a gaze. We have grown used to seeing female characters in 'performance roles' in movies, either singing or dancing on stages in nightclubs,...