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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901764Author William E. JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647221652Author Brooke VitaleFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Oscar-winning production designer Peter Lamont worked behind the scenes on 18 lames Bond films, beginning with the 1960s classics starring Sean Connery and George Lazenby. From the 1980s onwards he was the production designer of the films starring Roger...

In the context of a frantic world that celebrates instantaneity and speed, a number of cinemas steeped in contemplation, silence and duration have garnered significant critical attention in recent years, thus resonating with a larger sociocultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625478Author Andrew DickosFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764793Author Barry Keith GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 182gDimensions(mm) 199mm *...

You've got an idea for the next great screenplay. Maybe you're just getting started or perhaps you've spent time with other screenwriting books, and you have your hero's journey, plot twists, reversals, and cat-saving scenes all worked out. Either way,...

For much of the 20th century, the underground pornography industry - made up of amateurs and hobbyists who created hardcore, explicit "stag films" - went about its business hounded by reformers and law enforcement, from local police departments all the...

.Book InformationISBN 9780063087347Author Charles BandFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967483Author David CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394667Author Nick CatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538739297Author David M LubinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Experience all that is Oz from Munchkinland to dear old Shiz, before hopping a train to the vibrant Emerald City and beyond in this stunning pop-up book, lovingly crafted by Matthew Reinhart. Featuring key locations from Wicked and magical moments from...

From Avatar: The Way of Water to Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Dylan Cole has created spectacular concept art and matte paintings for some of Disney's most popular films. Explore exquisite concept art for the Mad Hatter's tea party and the...

This book offers analyses of the roles of race, gender, and sexuality in the post-apocalyptic visions of early twenty-first century film and television shows. Contributors examine the production, reproduction, and re-imagination of some of our most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765101506Author Simon R. TroonFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The official retrospective for the British cinematic masterpiece The Third Man, directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, and starring Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles, on its 75th anniversary. On its release in 1949, Carol Reed's atmospheric...

Teen TV is booming. Current youth series on streaming platforms are a clear indication of this, but have so far received little attention in German-language media studies. This anthology provides a fundamental introduction to serial teen TV and takes a...

In this book, Paul Lynch explores the genre of the British conspiracy thriller, a confrontational and dark response to what novelists and filmmakers perceived as an increasingly Orwellian secret state in the political landscape of the time. Through...

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...

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In 1978 the films Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master, both starring a young Jackie Chan, caused a stir in the Hong Kong cinema industry and changed the landscape of martial arts cinema. Mixing virtuoso displays of acrobatic kung fu with...

Dark Forces at Work examines the role of race, class, gender, religion, and the economy as they are portrayed in, and help construct, horror narratives across a range of films and eras. These larger social forces not only create the context for our...

Thelma & Louise, the 1991 film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, has been described as a road movie, a buddy movie, a feminist parable, and only incidentally as a Western. An Oscar winner for first-time screenwriter...

This work offers a critical and contextual examination of 130 commercially released film comedies of the 1970s. Arranged chronologically, it considers the socio-political circumstances of each year of the decade, then critiques each film released that...

The Last Word argues that the Hollywood novel opened up space for cultural critique of the film industry at a time when the industry lacked the capacity to critique itself. While the young studio system worked tirelessly to burnish its public image in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647229269Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

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...

Offering an accessible introduction to the study of film genres and genre films, this book examines the use of genre in cinema from its beginnings to the present day.This book explains the various elements of genre, the importance of genre in popular...

This collection departs from the observation that online forms of communication-the email, blog, text message, tweet-are actually haunted by old epistolary forms: the letter and the diary. By examining the omnipresence of writing across a variety of...

Sparked by a groundbreaking Amsterdam workshop titled "Disorderly Order: Colours in Silent Film," scholarly and archival interest in colour as a crucial aspect of film form, technology and aesthetics has enjoyed a resurgence in the past twenty years. In...

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...

The Last Word argues that the Hollywood novel opened up space for cultural critique of the film industry at a time when the industry lacked the capacity to critique itself. While the young studio system worked tirelessly to burnish its public image in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739247805Author Rick BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint EASTERN HEROES PUBLISHINGPublisher EASTERN HEROES PUBLISHINGWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913038977Author Sean HoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Black Shuck BooksPublisher Black Shuck Books

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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647228798Author Insight EditionsImprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 140mm * 41mm

All too often, the movies of Sofia Coppola have been dismissed as "all style, no substance." But such an easy caricature, as this engaging and accessible survey of Coppola's oeuvre demonstrates, fundamentally miscontrues what are rich,...

Celebrate the wonder of Disney in its 100th year in this platinum collection of vintage stickers. Capture and keep the magic with Disney characters from across ten decades of history, including icons Mickey and Minnie, Disney Princesses, Pixar characters...