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Immerse yourself in the world of Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two and discover the incredible creative journey that brought this new instalment to the big screen. The Art and Soul of Dune II captures the breathtaking behind-the-scenes journey behind...

This book is neither biography nor a conventional film critique. Rather, the text explores aspects of Hitchcock's work in relation to theories drawn from the social sciences and philosophy. The various chapters focus not on specific films, but on broader...

As a Star Wars fan, you've seen the movies, from A New Hope to The Last Jedi, and beyond. And of course you've probably had a faux lightsaber battle or two, pretending to be Luke Skywalker, Rey, or maybe Kylo Ren. But can you name the seven actors who...

Television is a massive industry in China, yet fewer people are watching television screens. This ground-breaking study explores how television content is changing, how the Chinese government is responding to the challenges presented by digital media,...

Since the 1990s, filmmakers in Turkey have increasingly explored notions of gender, genre, cultural memory, and national and transnational identity. Taking these themes as its starting point, this book - the first English-language directory of Turkish...

When political and civil unrest threatened France's social order in the 1950s, French cinema provided audiences a unique form of escapism from such troubled times: a nostalgic look back to the France of the nineteenth century, with costume dramas set in...

American independent cinema has been an important creative and cultural media entity for the past fifteen years. The approach of this sector is one of cultural construction that simultaneously provides a socio-political reference through which critics...

This book will be released as Open Access. Based on a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council, this book examines 40 years of post-war independent immigrant filmmaking in Sweden. John Sundholm and Lars Gustaf Andersson consider the...

The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films from 1960 to 2000. Christian B. Long offers a unique history of twentieth-century Hollywood narrative cinema, one that is...

The Beijing Film Academy (BFA) is one of the most revered film institutions in the world. Since 1984, the BFA's Department of Film Studies has been publishing the Journal of the Beijing Film Academy, the only journal of film theory that integrates film...

Founded by the Puritans in 1630 and the site of many of the American Revolution's major precursors and events (including the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere's midnight ride, among others), Boston has played - and continues to play -...

Havana is among the world's leading cinematic locales. In films made beyond the island as well as those created by local cineastes, Havana is depicted as a vibrant Caribbean city. The quantity and quality of the works representing this tropical cityscape...

A filmic guidebook of the Greek capital, World Film Locations: Athens takes readers to film locations in the central historical district with excursions to the periphery of Athens - popular neighbourhoods, poor suburbs and slums often represented in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571744586Author James M. RedfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing CoWeight(grams)...

One of our most thoughtful film critics here takes on eight of Hollywood's finest directors in conversation, reminiscing about their working lives which spanned the most intriguing decades of American filmmaking. The directors are Alfred Hitchcock, Frank...

Fans from around the world continue to be fascinated by classic-era Hollywood (1925-1960) and its larger-than-life stars. Nostalgia for this simpler, more glamorous time offers a safe and temporary escape from our complex lives. The authors capture this...

Links film history with church history over the past century, illuminating America's broader relationship with religious currents over time Moments of prayer have been represented in Hollywood movies since the silent era, appearing unexpectedly in...

Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture The first edition of Film as Religion was one of the first texts to develop a framework for the analysis of the religious function of films for audiences. Like more formal religious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474442206Author Jonathan DriskellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

From death defying stunts to the volcano's edge, Extreme Science will excite and inspire 8-11 year olds. High-interest topics grab the reader and introduce some key science concepts in an accessible way. The action-packed pages are designed to motivate...

This book provides a comprehensive cultural and historical account of the key film policies put into place by the Spanish state between 1980 and 2010 through a gendered lens, framing these policies within the wider context of European film and media...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954750114Author Barbara BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Aston House PressPublisher Aston House Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934211871Author Cyrus GhaniFormat HardbackPage Count 728Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 934g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934211864Author Cyrus GhaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 726Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 844g

The essays in North of Everything examine the state of Canadian film during a period of critical change. Their focus ranges from the conventional cinema to the avant garde, NFB documentaries to DIY videotapes. This comprehensive volume presents essays on...

Hollywood Collectibles: The Sequel features beautiful, full-color photographs of memorabilia from 29 of the greatest Hollywood stars, including Lucille Ball, Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Roy Rogers and Elizabeth Taylor. This book also pays...

All the excitement and enchantment of over ninety years' worth of wonderful Wizard of Oz memorabilia awaits you on every page of this deluxe, full-color tribute to the collectibles and merchandise inspired by America's foremost fairy tale and everyone's...

Hollywood Collectibles: The Sequel features beautiful, full-color photographs of memorabilia from 29 of the greatest Hollywood stars, including Lucille Ball, Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Roy Rogers and Elizabeth Taylor. This book also pays...

A provocative re-reading of Stanley Kubrick's work and its focus on masculine desire The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future. The persistent theme of his filmmaking is less violence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820457925Author Timothy O. LenzFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 290g

Do contemporary big-budget blockbuster films like Gravity move something in us that is fundamentally the same as what avant-garde and experimental films have done for more than a century? In a powerful challenge to mainstream film theory, Cinema's Bodily...

Musical spectacles are excessive and abstract, reconfiguring time and space and creating intense bodily responses. Amy Herzog's engaging work examines those instances where music and movement erupt from within more linear narrative frameworks. The...

A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film's unique ability to move usCinema is commonly hailed as "the universal language," but how does it communicate so effortlessly across cultural and linguistic borders? In The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816637539Author Mark Garrett CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota...

It was a surprise to everyone, including director Eric Rohmer, that My Night at Maud's was a success. The film violated almost all the rules of popular filmmaking. It had no crime, no explicit sex, no violence, and no action. As English Showalter points...

Film stocks are vanishing, but the iconic images of the silver screen remain -- albeit in new, sleeker formats. Today, viewers can instantly stream movies on televisions, computers, and smartphones. Gone are the days when films could only be seen in...

Although it is a somewhat underrepresented form of literature in popular sensibility, poetry finds relevance in the modern world through its appearance in cinema. Film adaptations of poems and depictions of poets on the screen date back to the silent era...

This is Ronnie Maasz's account of his more than fifty years in the film business as a cameraman. With candid humor, Maasz offers a light-hearted collage of the international locales, quirky people, exciting events, and special effects gone wrong that the...

Based on meticulous archival research and a repetorary of rare films, most of which were believed lost, this book is a pioneering critical study of the Chinese cinemas in Hong Kong and Shanghai and their complex interconnections. The years 1935-50 were...

Cinematic Howling presents a refreshingly unorthodoxframework for feminist film studies. Instead of criticizing mainstreammovies from feminist perspectives, Hoi Cheu focuses on women'sfilmmaking itself. Integrating systems theory and feminist...