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For too long melodrama has been associated with outdated and morally simplistic stereotypes of the Victorian stage; for too long film studies has construed it as a singular domestic genre of familial and emotional crises, either subversively excessive or...

This book is an essential guide to making traditional 16mm and 8mm films, from production to post, using both analog and digital tools. Focusing on low-budget equipment and innovative techniques, this text will provide you with the steps to begin your...

No-one who has ever seen the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is ever likely to forget the experience. An intense fever dream (or nightmare), it is remarkable for its sense of sustained threat and depiction of an insane but nonetheless...

Peter Hutchings's Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism. This new, illustrated edition brings the book back into print for the first time in two decades. Featuring Hutchings's socially charged analyses of genre classics from...

The Godfather and Philosophy is comprised of twenty-eight chapters by philosophers, who reflect upon the ethical and metaphysical issues raised in The Godfather novels and movies, beginning with the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo and the 1972 movie by Francis...

This is a collection of 19 new essays by 21 different authors from the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia and India. It focuses on contemporary film and television (1989 to the present) from those countries as well as from China, Korea, Thailand...

An Introduction to Film Analysis is designed to introduce students to filmmaking techniques while also providing an invaluable guide to film interpretation. It takes readers step by step through: -the basic technical terms -shot-by-shot analyses of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647221553Author Denis VilleneuveFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 1905gDimensions(mm) 264mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681889191Author Weldon OwenFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Weldon OwenPublisher Weldon Owen

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008994577Author Chris WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 122g

From 1973 to 1987, Fright Night was a fixture of the late Saturday evening schedule on independent New York television station WOR-TV. A genre fan's nightmare come true, the modestly produced showcase featured horror films both classic and obscure, from...

David Hedison, who plays a tiny human-headed insect menaced by a spider at the climax of The Fly (1958), says the moviemakers spoiled the scene by giving him a squeaky voice. "Imagine if, as the camera moved in closer, you actually heard me screeeeaming...

Popular American films are replete with story lines which involve the father-son relationship, often as the pivotal conflict or dragon which a hero must overcome to achieve success. Sometimes these conflicts are straightforward; other times they are...

Graveyard Gothic is the first sustained consideration of the graveyard as a key Gothic locale. This volume examines various iterations of the Gothic graveyard (and other burial sites) from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, as expressed in...

This book depicts the life of Conrad Veidt (1893-1943), the defining German actor of Expressionist cinema in the 1920s. His legendary performance in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1919/20) earned him the epithet "Demon of the Screen" and made Veidt an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662918933Author Diane Holloway CheneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Gatekeeper PressPublisher Gatekeeper PressWeight(grams) 594g

German Popular Cinema and the Rialto Krimi Phenomenon: Dark Eyes of London examines the Kriminalfilme-or Krimis-based on the novels of English author Edgar Wallace, released by Rialto Film between 1959 and 1972 as part of the post-World War II era of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480969162Author David Cameron DunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint Rosedog BooksPublisher Rosedog BooksWeight(grams) 1266gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

For millennia people have held folk beliefs about the existence of the doppelganger--"double walker" in German--a look-alike second self that is often the antithesis of one's identity and is usually considered an omen of misfortune or death. The theme...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793613431Author Andrea VirginasFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g

This is a critical history of spy fiction, film and television in the United States, with a particular focus on the American fictional spies that rivaled (and were often influenced by) Ian Fleming's James Bond. James Fenimore Cooper's Harvey Birch, based...

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Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the monsters out-until it isn't.This collection of new essays focuses on genre horror movies in which the home is central to the narrative, whether as refuge, prison, menace or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354424526Author Smita BanerjeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue amongst scholars and filmmakers from the Global...

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue amongst scholars and filmmakers from the Global...

Migration, Mobility and Sojourning in Cross-cultural Films: Interculturing Cinema draws on existing scholarship on global movements and intercultural communication in cinema to analyze six cross-cultural films. Ishani Mukherjee and Maggie Griffith...

Lisa Maurice examines screen portrayals of gods - covering Greco-Roman mythology, the Judeo-Christian God and Jesus - from the beginning of cinema to the present day. Focussing on the golden age of the Hollywood epic in the fifties and the twenty-first...

Examines the representation of the body in French New Wave films through discussion of a series of films by Jean-Luc Godard.Explores the interrelation between bodies, books, and bathrooms that they facilitate.Aims to destabalise the French New Wave's...

This book investigates the portrayal of nationalities and sexualities in British post-Second World War crime film and melodrama. By focussing on these genres, and looking at the concept of melodrama as an analytical tool apt for the analysis of both...

This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics. It offers detailed analysis of contemporary films and TV series as well as novel approaches to key works...

- Accessibly and expertly written for undergraduate students by the leading scholar on film genre, Barry Keith Grant, who has written and edited over forty books on film. - The book introduces students to genre conventions and iconography, incorporates...

- Accessibly and expertly written for undergraduate students by the leading scholar on film genre, Barry Keith Grant, who has written and edited over forty books on film. - The book introduces students to genre conventions and iconography, incorporates...

Despite a career spanning over forty years, filmmaker Alan Rudolph has flown largely under the radar of independent film scholars and enthusiasts, often remembered as Robert Altman’s protege. Through a reading of his 1985 film Trouble in Mind, Caryl...

Contains thirteen original essays and an expansive introduction, including contributions by some of the foremost scholars in the field Goes beyond the US-centrism of post-9/11 discourse and covers a broad geographical scope, including India, Sri Lanka,...

It is a well-known fact, perhaps legend now, that Peyton Place, the controversial, scandalous best-seller was filmed in Camden, Maine and the surrounding towns in 1957. But how did the movie come to be filmed in Maine, who was involved in getting it...

For too long melodrama has been associated with outdated and morally simplistic stereotypes of the Victorian stage; for too long film studies has construed it as a singular domestic genre of familial and emotional crises, either subversively excessive or...

This book examines film and media representations of the social, political, and economic issue of human trafficking, one of the most dramatic challenges of today's globalized world. Hashamova productively combines fieldwork in NGOs in southeastern...

This book investigates the portrayal of nationalities and sexualities in British post-Second World War crime film and melodrama. By focussing on these genres, and looking at the concept of melodrama as an analytical tool apt for the analysis of both...

In a universe full of superheroes, Lois Lane has fought for truth and justice for over 75 years on page and screen without a cape or tights. From her creation by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938 to her forthcoming appearance in Batman v Superman:...