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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 9781629335308Author Mark Thomas McGeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629335315Author Mark Thomas McGeeFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 667g

This book develops the idea 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...

This volume examines contemporary reformulations of the 'Final Girl' in film, TV, literature and comic, expanding the discussion of the trope beyond the slasher subgenre. Focusing specifically on popular texts that emerged in the 21st century, the volume...

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 9798985212310Author Asc M David MullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 722Imprint American CinematographerPublisher American CinematographerWeight(grams) 948g

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...

This volume examines contemporary reformulations of the 'Final Girl' in film, TV, literature and comic, expanding the discussion of the trope beyond the slasher subgenre. Focusing specifically on popular texts that emerged in the 21st century, the volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629334882Author Kimberly PucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 708g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736538838Author Kansas BowlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Far West PressPublisher Far West PressWeight(grams) 102g

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...

Take 2: The Horror and Romantic Comedy Genres surveys the history, narrative content, and cinematic technique of two of Hollywood's most popular and enduring genres. Both genres traffic in foundational elements of the human experience: the nature of evil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887715032Author Sonny MaloneFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

New Perspectives on the War Film addresses the gap in the representation of many forgotten faces of war in mainstream movies and global mass media. The authors concentrate on the untold narratives of those who fought in combat and were affected by its...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 A bout de souffle, Une femme est une...

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...

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...

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 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...

Produced in Italy from 1908 the sword and sandal (or peplum) films are one of the screen's most neglected and marginalized film genres. The sword and sandal films were present in Italian cinema from the silent era, but attained their greatest popularity...

Although the preoccupation of Gothic storytelling with the family has often been observed, it invites a more systematic exploration. Gothic kinship brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and...

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...

It cannot have escaped anyone's attention that the horror genre has become one of the most popular genres of TV drama, with the global success and fandom surrounding The Walking Dead, Supernatural and Stranger Things. Horror has, of course, always had a...

In 1931 Universal Studios released Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. This box office success was followed by a string of films featuring macabre characters and chilling atmospherics, including Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Invisible Man. With each new...

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