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Law at the Movies: Turning Legal Doctrine into Art by Prof Stanley Fish 9780198898726
RRP: £25.00£21.19This book asks "How can legal doctrine be turned into filmic art?" By "legal doctrine" Stanley Fish does not mean the sonorous abstractions that usually accompany the self-presentation of law--Justice, Equity, Equality, Liberty, Autonomy, and the like... -
Jesus of Hollywood by Adele Reinhartz 9780195146967
RRP: £40.99£34.39Since the advent of cinema, Jesus has frequently been found in our movie houses and on our television screens. Biblical scholar Adele Reinhartz provides the first comprehensive study of the relationship of Jesus movies to the Gospels. Reinhartz focuses... -
The Proximity of Other Skins: Ethical Intimacy in Global Cinema by Celine Parrenas Shimizu 9780190865856
RRP: £96.00£79.92Transnational films that represent intimacy and inequality produce new experiences that result in the displacement of the universal spectator, in a redefinition of the power of cinema for today's global audiences. The Proximity of Other Skins examines... -
Real Deceptions: The Contemporary Reinvention of Realism by Jennifer Friedlander 9780190676124
RRP: £110.00£100.93Real Deceptions develops a new theory of realism through close consideration of myriad contemporary art, media, and cultural practices. Rather than focusing on transgressing deceptions which distort reality, the book argues that reality lies within the... -
Transatlantic Television Drama: Industries, Programs, and Fans by Michele Hilmes 9780190663124
RRP: £98.00£79.92In 2014, the UK science-fiction television series Black Mirror was released on Netflix worldwide, quickly becoming a hit with US audiences. Like other beloved British imports, this series piqued Americans' interest with hints of dark comedy, clever... -
Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen by Stephen Pimpare 9780190660727
RRP: £38.49£26.34Ghettoes, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down & Out on the Silver Screen explores how American movies have portrayed poor and homeless people from the silent era to today. It provides a novel kind of guide to social policy, exploring how ideas about poor... -
Through The Looking Glass: John Cage and Avant-Garde Film by Richard H. Brown 9780190628079
RRP: £98.00£82.90Through the Looking Glass examines John Cage's interactions and collaborations with avant-garde and experimental filmmakers, and in turn seeks out the implications of the audiovisual experience for the overall aesthetic surrounding Cage's career. As the... -
Who Makes the Franchise?: Essays on Fandom and Wilderness Texts in Popular Media by Rhonda Knight 9781476684154
RRP: £46.99£39.22Fans and the billion-dollar franchises in which they participate have together become powerful agents within popular culture. These franchises have launched avenues for fans to expand and influence the stories that they tell. This book examines those... -
Texas Hollywood: Filmmaking in San Antonio since 1910 by Frank Thompson 9781595347275
RRP: £16.95£12.06Since the first motion picture studio in Texas was set up in San Antonio in 1910, the city has hosted the filming of more than 250 movies, including the first Academy Award winner for Best Picture Wings in 1927. Film historian Frank Thompson includes... -
Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colonys Long Romance with the Left by Ronald Radosh 9781893554962
RRP: £25.95£18.58Until now, Hollywood's political history has been dominated by a steady stream of films and memoirs decrying the nightmare of the Red Scare. But Ronald and Allis Radosh show that the real drama of that era lay in the story of the movie stars, directors... -
Demons of the Mind: Psychiatry and Cinema in the Long 1960s by Tim Snelson 9781474486415
RRP: £85.00£69.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474486415Author Tim SnelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 503g -
Faces on Screen: New Approaches by Alice Maurice 9781474493796
RRP: £24.99£23.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474493796Author Alice MauriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler 9781639730766
RRP: £19.99£11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639730766Author Isaac ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
Crowd Scenes: Movies and Mass Politics by Michael Tratner 9780823229017
RRP: £100.00£92.09The movies and the masses erupted on the world stage together. In a few decades around the turn of the twentieth century, millions of persons who rarely could afford a night at the theater and had never voted in an election became regular paying... -
The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses by Laura U. Marks 9780822323587
£87.80Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit... -
Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American Film by Murray Pomerance 9780814767054
£89.88The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at best a riddle, not one of us. Lewis is someone we take... -
Zombie Cinema by Ian Olney 9780813589466
£65.61It's official: the zombie apocalypse is here! The living dead have been lurking in media and popular culture since the 1930s, but they have never been more popular or ubiquitous on screen than they are today. Zombies have colonized the movies,... -
Tough Ain't Enough: New Perspectives on the Films of Clint Eastwood by Lester D. Friedman 9780813586014
RRP: £35.00£31.73Throughout his lengthy career as both an actor and a director, Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this point in his career, has emerged as one of America's most popular, recognizable, and respected filmmakers. He also... -
Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page by Blair Davis 9780813572253
RRP: £35.00£31.73As Christopher Nolan's Batman films and releases from the Marvel Cinematic Universe have regularly topped the box office charts, fans and critics alike might assume that the comic book movie is a distinctly twenty-first-century form. Yet adaptations of... -
Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place by R. Barton Palmer 9780813564081
RRP: £37.00£34.79In the early days of filmmaking, before many of Hollywood's elaborate sets and soundstages had been built, it was common for movies to be shot on location. Decades later, Hollywood filmmakers rediscovered the practice of using real locations and... -
Crafting Truth: Documentary Form and Meaning by Louise Spence 9780813549033
£40.64Documentaries such as Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman's Born into Brothels, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, Jeffrey Blitz's Spellbound, along with March of the Penguins and An Inconvenient Truth have achieved critical as well as popular success. Although... -
Aesthetic Spaces: The Place of Art in Film by Brigitte Peucker 9780810139060
£41.39Films provide valuable spaces for aesthetic experimentation and analysis, for cinema's openness to other media has always allowed it to expand its own. In Aesthetic Spaces, Brigitte Peucker shows that when painterly or theatrical conventions are... -
The Feel-Bad Film by Nikolaj Lubecker 9780748697977
£118.78In recent years some of the best-known European and American art film directors have made films that place the spectator in a position of intense discomfort: Feel-Bad Films. These films systematically manipulate the spectator: sometimes by withholding... -
The Great War on the Small Screen: Representing the First World War in Contemporary Britain by Dr. Emma Hanna 9780748633890
RRP: £120.00£110.05In Britain since the 1960s television has been the most influential medium of popular culture. Television is also the site where the Western Front of popular culture clashes with the Western Front of history. This book examines the ways in which those... -
Virgin Film: Oliver Stone by Stephen Lavington 9780753509753
£3.38Three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone is one of the most controversial and well-known contemporary American directors. He began his professional life as a screen writer and was responsible for the scripts of Midnight Express and Scarface. As a director he... -
Film and the Dream Screen: A Sleep and a Forgetting by Robert Thomas Eberwein 9780691640235
RRP: £115.00£105.95Robert T. Eberwein uses a hypothesis from psychoanalytic theory to explore the frequently noticed similarity between dreaming and watching a film. His comprehensive study of the relationship between films and dreams explains the film screen as a psychic... -
Incorporating Images: Film and the Rival Arts by Brigitte Peucker 9780691630526
£91.64Film, a latecomer to the realm of artistic media, alludes to, absorbs, and undermines the discourses of the other arts--literature and painting especially--in order to carve out a position for itself among them. Exposing the anxiety in film's relation to... -
Blackout: Reinventing Women for Wartime British Cinema by Antonia Caroline Lant 9780691630465
RRP: £120.00£111.34The most universal civilian privation in World War II Britain, the blackout possessed many symbolic meanings. Among its complicated implications for filmmakers was a stigmatization of film spectacle--including the display of "Hollywood women,"... -
Reframing Culture: The Case of the Vitagraph Quality Films by William Uricchio 9780691630212
RRP: £115.00£105.95The works of Shakespeare and Dante or the figures of George Washington and Moses do not often enter into popular conceptions of the silent cinema, yet, between 1907 and 1910, the Vitagraph Company frequently used such material in producing... -
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema as Heresy by Naomi Greene 9780691629490
RRP: £120.00£110.50The major Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was also a poet, novelist, essayist, and iconoclastic political commentator. Naomi Greene reveals to English-speaking readers the diverse talents that made him one of the most controversial European... -
Henry Bumstead and the World of Hollywood Art Direction by Andrew Horton 9780292722286
£15.88From a hotel in Marrakech in The Man Who Knew Too Much, to small-town Alabama in To Kill a Mockingbird, to Mission Control in Space Cowboys, creating a fictional, yet wholly believable world in which to film a movie has been the passion and life's work... -
Hitchcock Annual: Volume 21 by Sidney Gottlieb 9780231171656
£27.46Hitchcock Annual: Volume 19 is forthcoming in the fall of 2014. It will include articles on Hitchcock's silent film work and an analysis of Hitchock's Rear Window (1954).Book InformationISBN 9780231171656Author Sidney GottliebFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia by Jonathan Walley 9780190938635
RRP: £127.50£91.99Expanded cinema: avant-garde moving image works that claim new territory for the cinematic, beyond the bounds of familiar filmmaking practices and the traditional theatrical exhibition space. First emerging in the 1960s amidst seismic shifts in the arts,... -
Shooting the Civil War: Cinema, History and American National Identity by Jenny Barrett 9781845117757
£119.46No fewer than seven hundred Civil War films have been made by Hollywood from early silent days to the present, from the epoch-making "Birth of a Nation", through "The Red Badge of Courage" and "Gone With the Wind" to the recent "Glory", "Ride with the... -
Animating Truth: Documentary and Visual Culture in the 21st Century by Nea Ehrlich 9781474463362
RRP: £120.00£113.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474463362Author Nea EhrlichFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films by Daniel Shaw 9781474455701
£106.84One of America's most important contemporary thinkers, Stanley Cavell's remarkable film philosophy proposed that the greatest Hollywood films reflect the struggle to become who we really are - a struggle that is foregrounded in the characteristically... -
The Major Realist Film Theorists: A Critical Anthology by Ian Aitken 9781474402217
£113.82From the 1910s to the emergence of structuralism and post-structuralism in the 1960s, the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, Andre Bazin and Georg Lukacs dominated realist film theory. In this critical anthology, the first collection to... -
The Intensive-Image in Deleuze's Film-Philosophy by Crist bal Escobar 9781399517539
RRP: £85.00£69.28Introduces the concept of the intensive-image" to develop a deeper understanding of the part played by intensity in the history of the cinematic image The book develops the original concept of the intensive-image in order to open up a new and important... -
Fictions of Youth: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Adolescence, Fascisms by Simona Bondavalli 9781442627079
RRP: £32.00£29.53Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini's prose, poetry, and cinema. Simona Bondavalli's book explores the multiple ways in which youth, real and... -
Describing Cinema by Timothy Corrigan 9780197625361
RRP: £19.99£18.21In Describing Cinema, award-winning film scholar Timothy Corrigan explores the art and poetics of writing about film. Part theory, part rhetoric, and part pedagogy, the text examines and demonstrates acts of describing scenes, shots, and sequences in...