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At rodeos in the 1940s, Gene Autry sang and jumped his horse, Champion, through a flaming hoop. In 1960s rodeo arenas, Lorne Greene and Dan Blocker acted out a skit from their hit television show Bonanza. In the same era familiar rodeo personalities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218430771Author Tom K ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Thomas ReynoldsPublisher Thomas ReynoldsWeight(grams) 431g

Treatments of religion found in Spanish cinema range from the pious to the anticlerical and atheistic, and every position in between. In a nation with a strong Catholic tradition, resistance to and rebellion against religious norms go back almost as far...

This original study examines the representation of the body in French New Wave films through discussion of a series of films by Jean-Luc Godard, perhaps the central figure of the French New Wave.Through analysis of À bout de souffle, Une femme est une...

How did beloved movie dogs become man-killers like Cujo and his cinematic pack-mates? For the first time, here is the fascinating history of canines in horror movies and why our best friends were (and are still) painted as malevolent canines. Stretching...

The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for...

The Art and Making of Mickey 17 chronicles the astounding development of Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho's film adaptation of Edward Ashton's groundbreaking sci-fi novel. Simon Ward, a veteran film author and publishing director, combines in-depth...

Hong Kong Crime Films is the first book detailing the post-war history of the genre before the release of John Woo's A Better Tomorrow (1986), the film that put Hong Kong action-crime on the global map. Focusing on what it calls the mode of 'criminal...

This book studies American science fiction films depicting invasions of the USA and Earth by extra- terrestrials within the context of imperialism from 1950–2020. It shows how such films imagine America and its allies as objects of colonial control. This...

Neo-Noir as Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema suggests the terms "noir" and "neo-noir" have been rendered almost meaningless by overuse. The book seeks to re-establish a purpose for neo-noir films and re-consider the organization of 60...

This book explores the use of discourse markers - lexical items where drawing a distinction between propositional and non-propositional, syntactically-semantically integrated and discourse-pragmatic uses is especially relevant. Using a combination of...

A Brief History of Comic Book Movies traces the meteoric rise of the hybrid art form of the comic book film. These films trace their origins back to the early 1940s, when the first Batman and Superman serials were made. The serials, and later television...

This book provides coverage of the diversity of Australian film and television production between 2000 and 2015. In this period, Australian film and television have been transformed by new international engagements, the emergence of major new talents and...

This book works to complicate and push against common arguments that the Western from its inception is an anti-feminist genre. By focusing on representations of women professionals in Westerns, it shows that women in cinematic and televisual Westerns...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938752995Author Theresa M MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint AntellusPublisher AntellusWeight(grams) 336g

This book examines the contrasting forms neo-noir has taken on screen, asking what prompts our continued interest in tales of criminality and moral uncertainty. Neo-noir plots are both familiar and diverse, found in a host of media formats today, and now...

This book explores the stupid as it manifests in media-the cinema, television and streamed content, and videogames. The stupid is theorized not as a pejorative term but to address media that "fails" to conform to established narrative...

A Brief History of Comic Book Movies traces the meteoric rise of the hybrid art form of the comic book film. These films trace their origins back to the early 1940s, when the first Batman and Superman serials were made. The serials, and later television...

This book is one of the first to apply the theoretical tools proposed by French philosopher Bruno Latour to film studies. Through the example of the Hollywood Teen Film and with a particular focus on Actor-Network Theory (ANT), the book delineates how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917285254Author G H JanusFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Bonefyre BooksPublisher Bonefyre BooksWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629334417Author Ben ZauzmerFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 549g

Neo-Noir as Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema suggests the terms "noir" and "neo-noir" have been rendered almost meaningless by overuse. The book seeks to re-establish a purpose for neo-noir films and re-consider the organization of 60...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887715025Author Sonny MaloneFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 249g

This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation. From Dracula and Carmilla, to True Blood and The Originals, the figure of the vampire embodies taboos and desires about...

This collection explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life, voicing anxieties about our relationship to other life forms with which we share the earth. From medieval manuscript illustrations to modern works of science...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629334622Author Dan Van NesteFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 966g

This book asserts the existence of the 'Eastern' as an analytically significant genre of film. Positioned in counterpoint to the western, the famed cowboy genre of the American frontier, the Eastern encompasses films that depict the eastern and southern...

This book explores the stupid as it manifests in media-the cinema, television and streamed content, and videogames. The stupid is theorized not as a pejorative term but to address media that "fails" to conform to established narrative...

This book examines how the fairy tale is currently being redeployed and revised on the contemporary teen screen. The author redeploys Victor Turner's work on liminality for a feminist agenda, providing a new and productive method for thinking about...

Gothic Cinema closes a gap in German-language film discourse: for the first time, the volume sheds light on a hitherto little-discussed film context. It considers Gothic Cinema as a form of unofficial historiography that allows a look not only at the...

This book examines the contrasting forms neo-noir has taken on screen, asking what prompts our continued interest in tales of criminality and moral uncertainty. Neo-noir plots are both familiar and diverse, found in a host of media formats today, and now...

This book explores the formal and thematic conventions of crime film, the contexts in which these have flourished and their links with the social issues of a globalized world. The crime film has traditionally been identified with suspense, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629334899Author Kimberly PucciFormat HardbackPage Count 410Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 925g

This book explores the idiosyncratic effects generated as fairytale and gothic horror join, clash or merge in cinema. Identifying long-held traditions that have inspired this topical phenomenon, the book features close analysis of classical through to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629334615Author Dan Van NesteFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 789g

This is a detailed examination of vigilantism in 1970s American film, from its humble niche beginnings as a response to relaxing censorship laws to its growth into a unique subgenre of its own. Cary Edwards explores the contextual factors leading to this...

This book broadens the frameworks by which horror is generally addressed. Rather than being constrained by psychoanalytical models of repression and castration, the volume embraces M.M. Bakhtin's theory of the grotesque body. For Bakhtin, the grotesque...

This book explores the use of discourse markers - lexical items where drawing a distinction between propositional and non-propositional, syntactically-semantically integrated and discourse-pragmatic uses is especially relevant. Using a combination of...

This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation. From Dracula and Carmilla, to True Blood and The Originals, the figure of the vampire embodies taboos and desires about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629335575Author Nat SegaloffFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 572g