History & Criticism

She would appear in more than thirty films and be named after a Road Atlas by Cecil B Demille. A football play would be named after her. She would appear on To Tell the Truth. She would be arrested six times in one day for indecency. She would be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813196503Author Burt KearnsFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint The University Press of KentuckyPublisher The University Press of KentuckyWeight(grams)...

Taking a fresh look at The Shining (1980), this book situates the film within the history of the horror genre and examines its rightful status as one of the greatest horror movies ever made. It explores how Stanley Kubrick's filmmaking style, use of dark...

Tonino Valerii is one of Italy's best genre directors. He started his career as Sergio Leone's assistant on For a Few Dollars More before moving on to directing. He specialized in Spaghetti Western, and his films stand out among the most accomplished and...

He is the Lizard King a well the King of the Monsters a he can do anything. Since he first romped onto the silver screen in 1954 no other character in all of international cinema has been as beloved by American audiences as Godzilla. Despite the modern...

From bleak Expressionist works to the edgy political cinema of the New German Cinema and the feel-good Heimat films of the postwar era, Directory of World Cinema: Germany aims to offer a wider film and cultural context for the films that have emerged...

Northern California Book Awards ShortlistThe comprehensive critical biography of silent-screen star Marion Davies, who fittingly referred to herself as "the captain of my soul." From Marion Davies's humble days in Brooklyn to her rise to fame alongside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595580061Author J. HobermanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint The New PressPublisher The New Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764694Author Geetha RamanthanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Victim (1961) was a landmark in the history both of the cinema and of British society. This modest black-and-white thriller, produced by Michael Relph and directed by Basil Dearden, tackled explicitly the existing law governing homosexual offences, and...

"Ewa Mazierska has set herself an ambitious task with this her new well researched book...[Her] study excels in the breadth of its comparison of Czech and Polish films...The volume also makes a valuable contribution to the study of how Socialist...

Religion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing, mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, and other production activities, film takes the world "out there" and refashions it...

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) and its various offshoots, such as Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic, have been making fun of movies for over thirty years. In the process, they captured the spirit of what had been a beloved pastime for generations of...

When Dr. No premiered at the London Pavilion on October 5, 1962, no one predicted that it would launch the longest-running series in cinema history. It introduced the James Bond formula that has been a box-office fixture ever since: sensational plots,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674251Author Hannah PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 378gDimensions(mm) 337mm *...

The films of the New French Extremity have been reviled by critics but adored by fans and filmmakers. Known for graphically brutal depictions of sex and violence, the sub-genre emerged from the French art-house scene in the late 1990s and became a cult...

The endangered and dangerous female figures of "Rebecca", of "Jagged Edge" and "What Lies Beneath" have a deserved and endures fascination. Helen Hanson re-examines these gothic heroines of Hollywood and their meanings, in two of Hollywood's key generic...

"'Black Narcissus", now heralded as a masterpiece, is a landmark film in the influential canon of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. With the centenary of Powell's birth in 2005 this timely book - the first dedicated exclusively to the film - draws...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692312087Author Laila NabulsiFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Monastrell BooksPublisher Monastrell BooksWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Offers a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, as well as bringing new material into the broader field of Television Studies. Surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing the unspoken assumptions and common...

Movie-Struck Girls examines women's films and filmgoing in the 1910s, a period when female patronage was energetically courted by the industry for the first time. By looking closely at how women were invited to participate in movie culture, the films...

THE RAMONES AND THE MAKING OF ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOLBook InformationISBN 9781493064496Author Stephen B. ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint BackbeatPublisher Globe Pequot PressWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 157mm * 16mm

South Korean cinema is a striking example of non-Western contemporary cinematic success. Thanks to the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world's major film markets. In 2001, the South Korean...

100 Years of Spanish Cinema provides an in-depth look at the most important movements, films, and directors of twentieth-century Spain from the silent era to the present day. A glossary of film terms provides definitions of essential technical,...

In "Death 24 x a Second", Laura Mulvey addresses some of the key questions of film theory, spectatorship and narrative. New media technologies, such as video and DVD, have transformed the way we experience film, and the viewers' relationship to film...

The old saying does often seem to hold true: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, creating a widening gap between those who have more and those who have less. The sociologist Robert K. Merton called this phenomenon the Matthew effect, named...

This book is the first study in English to examine some of the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, linking inter-war and post-war cinemas together with developments in the post-Communist period. It examines links between theme, genre,...

America's most popular film critic is hardly alone in singing the praises of ""Singin' in the Rain"". This quintessential American film - made in Hollywood's Golden Age, showcasing the genius of Gene Kelly, and featuring what Ebert calls 'the most joyous...

From Double Indemnity to The Godfather, the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale beside the story of the studio that made them. In the golden age of Hollywood, Paramount was one of the Big Five studios. Gulf + Western's 1966 takeover...

B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782906571389Author Raul RuizFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

The first collection to provide close readings of individual films, written specifically to support film screenings. The essays are clearly written offering students a great model for their own writing about film. This comprehensive collection covers...

From 1940 to 1944, the German-owned Continental Films dominated the French film landscape, producing thirty features throughout the Nazi occupation. Charged with producing entertaining and profitable films rather than propaganda, producer Alfred Greven...

Movie Movements: Films That Changed the World of Cinema is a one-stop guide to the major movements that have shaped our sense of what cinema is and can be. It introduces the reader to definitions of the founding concepts in Film Studies such as...

This book undertakes a unique, coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema. The films under discussion encompass all areas of naval operations in war, and highlight varying institutional and aesthetic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674312Author Andrew WebberFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

The fifteen groundbreaking essays contained in this book address the concept of adaptation in relation to horror cinema. Adaptation is not only a key cultural practice and strategy for filmmakers, but it is also a theme of major importance within horror...

Drawn into the circuit of men cruising for sex in and around a train station, restless adolescent Henri begins a frenzied pursuit of a dangerously charismatic older man, with sometimes violent and ultimately tragic consequences. Premiering at Cannes in...

The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are amongst the most respected in the movie industry. Their delightful films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new eagerly anticipated release a guaranteed box office...

The Italian Gothic horror genre underwent many changes in the 1980s, with masters such as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda either dying or retiring and young filmmakers such as Lamberto Bava (Macabro, Demons) and Michele Soavi (The Church) surfacing. Horror...