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Rainer On Film: Thirty Years of Film Writing in a Turbulent and Transformative Era by Peter Rainer 9781595800770
£19.44From American Beauty (overrated) to The Night of the Hunter (masterpiece), this collection of Peter Rainer's film critiques spans the course of his illustrious 30-year career, which dates back to the early 1980s. Rainer covers films both well-known and... -
The Complete History Of American Film Criticism by Jerry Roberts 9781595800497
RRP: £27.95£20.24From the first published movie review in the late 1800s to the 21st-century era of the 'great movie critics' wake', this chronicle reviews the nature, scope and controversies in American film criticism. Moving through the Silent Era, the pre- and postwar... -
Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colonys Long Romance with the Left by Ronald Radosh 9781594031465
RRP: £17.95£13.15Until 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... -
Mental Hygiene: Better Living Through Classroom Films 1945-1970 by Ken Smith 9780922233212
£19.19Between 1945 and 1970, millions of public school students were subjected to hundreds of films designed to keep them on the straight and narrow. These cultural gems "enlightened" the nation's youth about proper dating, good table manners, the evils of... -
Indie 2.0: Change and Continuity in Contemporary American Indie Film by Geoff King 9780231167949
£108.55Following the American indie cinema boom of the 1990s and the creation of "specialty" divisions by several Hollywood studios, many predicted an end to both the indie sector's viability and the making of films with ambitions beyond the commercial... -
Indie 2.0: Change and Continuity in Contemporary American Indie Film by Geoff King 9780231167956
£35.55Following the American indie cinema boom of the 1990s and the creation of "specialty" divisions by several Hollywood studios, many predicted an end to both the indie sector's viability and the making of films with ambitions beyond the commercial... -
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu by Shiguéhiko Hasumi 9780520396715
RRP: £71.00£60.36First published in 1983, Shiguéhiko Hasumi's Directed by Yasujirō Ozu has become one of the most influential books on cinema written in Japanese. This pioneering translation brings Hasumi's landmark work to an English-speaking public for the first time,... -
Neoliberal Aesthetics of Resistance in the Disney Star Wars Films: Rescripting Rebellion by Abigail Reed 9781793647382
RRP: £73.00£64.18From 2015 to 2019, the Walt Disney Corporation has produced five theatrical films in the Star Wars galaxy. These films have been met with mixed reactions from audiences and critics alike and sparked seemingly endless public debate about representations... -
Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement by Carl Plantinga 9780190867133
RRP: £117.50£101.44The way we communicate with each other is vital to preserving the cultural ecology, or wellbeing, of a place and time. Do we listen to each other? Do we ask the right questions? Do we speak about each other with respect or disdain? The stories that we... -
Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene by Jennifer Fay 9780190696771
RRP: £117.50£100.93In recent years, environmental and human rights advocates have suggested that we have entered the first new geological epoch since the end of the ice age: the Anthropocene. In this new epoch, humans have come to reshape unwittingly both the climate and... -
How the Essay Film Thinks by Laura Rascaroli 9780190238247
RRP: £117.50£97.63This book offers a novel understanding of the epistemological strategies that are mobilized by the essay film, and of where and how such strategies operate. Against the backdrop of Theodor W. Adorno's discussion of the essay form's anachronistic,... -
Why Horror Seduces by Mathias Clasen 9780190666507
RRP: £117.50£100.93From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved on screens. But why do they captivate us so? What is... -
Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema by John Tulloch 9780190244606
RRP: £115.00£101.44Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk sociology, feminist film theory and critical feminist mapping... -
The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker by Timothy Corrigan 9780199781690
RRP: £100.00£82.13Even though essay films have been a key practice since the 1950s, there is scant analysis about this form in English. Part of this is likely due to the inherent difficulty of definition. The films, which foreground subjectivity and adopt an explicit,... -
Teaching Religion and Film by Gregory J. Watkins 9780195335989
£61.27In a culture increasingly focused on visual media, students have learned not only to embrace multimedia presentations in the classroom, but to expect them. Such expectations are perhaps more prevalent in a field as dynamic and cross-disciplinary as... -
Movies, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Pulps by J. P. Telotte 9780190949655
RRP: £96.00£82.90What impact did the new art of film have on the development of another new art, the emerging science fiction genre, during the pre- and early post-World War II era? Focusing on such popular pulp magazines as Amazing Stories, Astounding Stories, and... -
When the World Laughs: Film Comedy East and West by William V. Costanzo 9780190924997
RRP: £112.50£79.92When the World Laughs is a book about the intersection of humor, history, and culture. It explores how film comedy, one of the world's most popular movie genres, reflects the values and beliefs of those who enjoy its many forms, its most enduring... -
Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present by Gustavo Procopio Furtado 9780190867041
RRP: £98.00£82.90Winner of the 2020 Antonio Candido Prize for Best Book in the Humanities from the Brazil section of the Latin American Studies Association. This book examines the vibrant field of documentary filmmaking in Brazil from the transition to democracy in 1985... -
Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies by Steven Cohan 9780190865788
RRP: £98.00£73.63The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day. What gives backstudios their coherence as a distinctive genre, Steven Cohan argues in... -
True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity by Colin MacCabe 9780195374667
RRP: £69.00£57.67Adaptation persists as a major area of inquiry in both film and literary studies. Over the past two decades, scholars have extended the debate well beyond George Bluestone's influential Novels into Film (1957) by taking into account such concerns as... -
Candid Eyes: Essays on Canadian Documentaries by Jim Leach 9780802047328
£62.73Beginning in 1922, when Robert Flaherty filmed 'Nanook of the North' in Canada's Arctic, and encouraged by John Grierson and the federal government in 1939 when they created the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), documentaries have dominated Canada's... -
Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military by Alice Lovejoy 9780253014887
£26.50During the 1968 Prague Spring and the Soviet-led invasion and occupation that followed, Czechoslovakia's Army Film studio was responsible for some of the most politically subversive and aesthetically innovative films of the period. Although the studio is... -
Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema by Meaghan Morris 9781932643190
£96.01Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world's most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences worldwide, and they have seized the imaginations of... -
Rififi: French Film Guide by Alastair Phillips 9781848850552
£25.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film by Jeremy Hicks 9781845113766
£109.68Pioneer of political documentary and inventor of cinema verite, Dziga Vertov has exerted a decisive influence on directors from Eisenstein to Godard. Yet his reputation long rested upon a lone masterpiece, 'Man with a Movie Camera'. Recently, however... -
Spanish Erotic Cinema by Santiago Fouz-Hernandez 9781474400473
RRP: £120.00£110.82This book covers a significant part of the history of Spanish film, from the 1920s until the present day. Starting with a study of the kiss in silent films, the volume explores homoerotic narratives in the crusade films of the 1940s, the commodification... -
Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism by Eli Park Sorensen 9781474481847
£112.66Opening a debate about the political dimension of science fiction films, this book uses Carl Schmitt's thought to provide a new theoretical approach to American cinematic sci-fi since the late 1970s. Drawing on Schmitt's notion of the state of exception... -
Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation by David Church 9781474475884
RRP: £120.00£114.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474475884Author David ChurchFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in Philippine Cinema by Katrina Macapagal 9781474451895
RRP: £125.00£119.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474451895Author Katrina MacapagalFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Transatlantic Cinephilia: Film Culture between Latin America and France, 1945–1965 by Rielle Navitski 9780520391413
RRP: £71.00£63.37In the two decades after World War II, a vibrant cultural infrastructure of cineclubs, archives, festivals, and film schools took shape in Latin America through the labor of film enthusiasts who often worked in concert with French and France-based... -
Framed: Women in Law and Film by Orit Kamir 9780822336365
£99.01Some women attack and harm men who abuse them. Social norms, law, and films all participate in framing these occurrences, guiding us in understanding and judging them. How do social, legal, and cinematic conventions and mechanisms combine to lead us to... -
Italian Neorealist Cinema: An Aesthetic Approach by Christopher Wagstaff 9780802095206
£39.09The end of the Second World War saw the emergence of neorealist film in Italy. In Italian Neorealist Cinema, Christopher Wagstaff analyses three neorealist films that have had significant influence on filmmakers around the world. Wagstaff treats these... -
Television and Society by Nicholas Abercrombie 9780745614366
RRP: £17.99£16.04Television and Society is a textbook designed to introduce students to the role of television in contemporary society. It explores the structure of the television text, the way in which that text is produced and the way it is consumed. The first section... -
Genre and Performance: Film and Television by Christine Cornea 9780719079801
RRP: £90.00£63.91Looking at contemporary film and television, this book explores how popular genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance. It brings together ground-breaking and inspiring work on this topic from both renowned and newer academics in the field... -
Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition by Gregory A. Waller 9780631225928
RRP: £42.95£37.97Pairing significant research with primary documents, Moviegoing in America charts the evolution of film exhibition and reception as a function of changing patterns of American community, identity, consumption, and the fabric of everyday life. "Moviegoing... -
Wordless Secrets - Ingmar Bergman's Persona: Modernist Crisis and Canonical Status by Peter Ohlin 9781860571183
£76.50Ingmar Bergman's film Persona (1966) is considered both one of his greatest masterpieces and his most enigmatic and abstract film. The highly influential film achieved global critical acclaim and has been the subject of numerous studies and... -
Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema by M. K. Raghavendra 9780199456307
RRP: £16.99£15.62Hindi popular cinema has played a key role as a national cinema because it assisted in the imagining of a unified India by addressing a public across the nation-to-be even before 1947. Examining the diverse elements that constitute the "popular" in... -
Italian Film in the Present Tense by Millicent Marcus 9781487546182
£62.85For observers of the European film scene, Federico Fellini’s death in 1993 came to stand for the demise of Italian cinema as a whole. Exploring an eclectic sampling of works from the new millennium, Italian Film in the Present Tense confronts this... -
Film: Patterns Possible Filmworlds by Stefan Ripplinger 9783863354565
£36.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863354565Author Stefan RipplingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther... -
Minor Cinema: Experimental Film in Switzerland by Francois Bovier 9783037645505
RRP: £29.95£24.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037645505Author Francois BovierFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier