History & Criticism

A theoretical, interdisciplinary reading of French film and literary texts inspired by the 2008 global financial crisis.About the AuthorCalum Watt, European Project Officer, Universite Paris Nanterre.Book InformationISBN 9781474486453Author Calum...

Ride Lonesome, the fifth film in the "Ranown cycle," is both the best and most representative of the whole series, which has been called "the most remarkable convergence of artistic achievement in the history of low-budget moviemaking." Director Bud...

This book is at once a detailed study of a range of individual filmmakers and a study of the modernism in which they are situated. It consists of fifty categories arranged in alphabetical order, among which are allegory, bricolage, classicism,...

Although Indian popular cinema has a long history and is familiar to audiences around the world, it has rarely been systematically studied. This book offers the first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197566381Author James NaremoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879100872Author Stefan SharffFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 250g

Reveals a crucial dimension of the history of American independent cinemaReveals a crucial dimension of the history of American independent cinemaBook InformationISBN 9781592134250Author Scott MacdonaldFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Temple...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674176Author Brad PragerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 156mm...

This edited volume provides new readings of the life and career of iconic actress Vivien Leigh (1913-67). Written by experts in theatre and film studies and curators from the Victoria and Albert Museum, it uses newly accessible family archives to explore...

The first-ever complete study of the Aldwych farce films (1924-1954) and the plays they were based on. The thirteen Aldwych farces were phenomenally successful in the West End between 1922 and 1933. The stars - Ralph Lynn, Tom Walls and Robertson Hare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809775Author Godfrey CheshireFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674718Author James LeggottFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 262gDimensions(mm) 200mm *...

One is ravished by the density of insights into cinematic questions...Truffaut performed a tour de force of tact in getting this ordinarily guarded man to open up as he had never done before (and never would again)...If the 1967 Hitchcock/Truffaut can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984341542Author Jim KorkisFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Bob McLain MediaPublisher Bob McLain MediaWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Virtual Voyages illuminates the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema. The travelogue dominated the early cinema period from 1895 to 1905, was central to the consolidation of documentary in the 1910s and 1920s, proliferated in the...

Too often dismissed as 'trash cinema', exploitation films have nevertheless become sincerely appreciated cult objects on home video. In this new study, David Church explores how the history of drive-in theatres and urban grind houses has descended to...

The expert contributors together trace how the arts of editingand effects have evolved in tandem, starting with the 'trick films'of the early silent era, which astounded audiences by splicingin or editing out key frames, all the way to today's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781979459105Author James HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

One of the greatest collaborations of cinema history, L'Age d'Or(1930) united the geniuses of Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali in the making of a Surrealist masterpiece - a uniquely savage blend of visual poetry and social criticism. The film was banned and...

In 1969 a man walked upon the moon, the Woodstock music festival was held in upstate New York, Richard Nixon was sworn in as the president of the United States, the Beatles made their last public appearance, as did, after a fashion, Judy Garland, Dwight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470011796Author James HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674947Author Ian ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 604gDimensions(mm) 247mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394506Author Mark GoodallFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471661955Author Lois H. GreshFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394278Author Clive DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 1092Imprint HeadpressPublisher HeadpressWeight(grams) 1165g

In its heyday from the late 1950s until the early 1980s Italian horror cinema was characterised by an excess of gore, violence and often incoherent plot-lines. Films about zombies, cannibals and psychopathic killers ensured there was no shortage of...

Proposing a radical vision of cinema's queer globalism, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how queer filmmaking intersects with international sexual cultures, geopolitics, and aesthetics to disrupt dominant modes of world making. Whether in its...

A paragon of cinema criticism for decades, Roger Ebert-with his humor, sagacity, and no-nonsense thumb-achieved a renown unlikely ever to be equaled. His tireless commentary has been greatly missed since his death, but, thankfully, in addition to his...

Horror cinema is a hugely successful, but at the same time culturally illicit genre that spans the history of cinema. It continues to flourish with recent cycles of supernatural horror and torture porn that span the full range of horror styles and...

What began with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' landmark graphic novel, Watchmen (1987) is no longer a single story, but rather a cross-platform, multi-media franchise, including a role-playing game and video game, a motion comic, a Zack Snyder movie, and a...

Cinema was one of the Cold War's most powerful instruments of propaganda. Movies blended with literary, theatrical, musical and broadcast representations of the conflict to produce a richly textured Cold War culture. Now in paperback, this timely book...

How one company created the dominant aesthetic of digital realism. Just about every major film now comes to us with an assist from digital effects. The results are obvious in superhero fantasies, yet dramas like Roma also rely on computer-generated...

Marco Ferreri (1928-1997) was one of Italian cinema's most unique auteurs. A maverick personality, he worked with some of the most popular actors of the time (Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Ugo Tognazzi,...

Cinema scholars categorize city symphony films of the 1920s and early 1930s as a subgenre of the silent film. Defined in visual terms, the city symphony organizes the visible elements of urban experience according to musical principles such as rhythm and...

Interactive documentary emerged rapidly from a constellation of changing technologies and practices to much excitement, yet its history is short and its future uncertain. In the mid-2010s Canada was a world leader in the creation of i-docs. Less than a...

Interactive documentary emerged rapidly from a constellation of changing technologies and practices to much excitement, yet its history is short and its future uncertain. In the mid-2010s Canada was a world leader in the creation of i-docs. Less than a...

While sizable literature exists on the themes, issues and voices that constitute resistance in historical Indian documentary cinema, less is known about contemporary modes of resistance in Indian documentary. This volume identifies languages and...

Examines the affective response to rape-revenge films, and how this response can be harnessed to work through complex questions about rape

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474459006Author Anna PoupouFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, one of the twentieth century’s most famous filmmakers, is best known for his masterpiece, The Passion of Joan of Arc, and his midcentury classics, Day of Wrath and Ordet. Both viewers and scholars largely leave his...