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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... -
The Solaris Effect: Art and Artifice in Contemporary American Film by Steven Dillon 9780292713451
RRP: £23.99£20.18What do contemporary American movies and directors have to say about the relationship between nature and art? How do science fiction films like Steven Spielberg's A.I. and Darren Aronofsky's represent the apparent oppositions between nature and... -
Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military by Alice Lovejoy 9780253014887
RRP: £29.99£24.14During 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
RRP: £94.00£75.93Since 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
£108.61This 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
£113.51Apologies 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
£118.83Apologies 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
RRP: £97.00£77.62Some 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
RRP: £42.00£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
£24.35Apologies 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 -
The Monster Movies of Universal Studios by James L. Neibaur 9781538183892
RRP: £17.99£16.73In 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... -
Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power: Authorship, Transnationality, Historiography by Song Hwee Lim 9780197503379
RRP: £100.00£93.71Why has Taiwanese film been so appealing to film directors, critics, and audiences across the world? This book argues that because Taiwan is a nation without hard political and economic power, cinema becomes a form of soft power tool that Taiwan uses to... -
Some Versions of Cary Grant by James Naremore 9780197566374
RRP: £100.00£90.50Cary Grant famously said, "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant--even I want to be Cary Grant." His development of that star image required serious work, but he also played a variety of characters requiring special performing talents. He was equally skilled... -
Shakespeare and East Asia by Alexa Alice Joubin 9780198703563
RRP: £85.00£77.13Structured around modes in which one might encounter Asian-themed performances and adaptations, Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes that distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theatres from works in other parts of the world: Japanese... -
Cinema is the Strongest Weapon: Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy by Lorenzo Fabbri 9781517910839
RRP: £108.00£85.74A deep dive into Italian cinema under Mussolini’s regime and the filmmakers who used it as a means of antifascist resistance Looking at Italy’s national film industry under the rule of Benito Mussolini and in the era that followed, Cinema Is the... -
Contemporary Thai Horror Film: A Monstrous Hybrid by Mary Ainslie 9781474484459
RRP: £85.00£71.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474484459Author Mary AinslieFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide: Documentaries, Films, and Television News by Tommy Gustafsson 9781399517331
£108.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399517331Author Tommy GustafssonFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema by Genevieve Sellier 9780822341758
RRP: £92.00£76.82Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France's leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the filmmakers and their films, Genevieve Sellier focuses on the social... -
The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution by Frederik L. Schodt
RRP: £12.99£12.59The pioneering genius of Japan's "God of Comics," Osamu Tezuka (1928-89), is examined through his life's masterwork: Tetsuwan Atomu, also known as Mighty Atom or Astro Boy, a comic series featuring a cute little android who yearns to be more human. The... -
The Silvering Screen: Old Age and Disability in Cinema by Sally Chivers
RRP: £27.99£24.95Popular films have always included elderly characters, but until recently, old age only played a supporting role onscreen. Now, as the Baby Boomer population hits retirement, there has been an explosion of films, including Away From Her, The Straight... -
Italian Locations: Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema by Noa Steimatsky
RRP: £21.99£17.54Fascism and the Second World War left Italy indelibly changed, and cinema was arguably the art that most rigorously confronted the devastated nation. In this examination of four Italian filmmakers, Noa Steimatsky brilliantly maps their forceful... -
Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity by Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett
RRP: £134.00£107.44Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and its Productive tensions. This collection of essays asks to what degree can a... -
Equivocal Subjects: Between Italy and Africa -- Constructions of Racial and National Identity in the Italian Cinema by Shelleen Greene
£41.04Analysing the depiction of African Italian mixed-race subjects from the historical epics of the Italian silent "golden" era to the contemporary period, Equivocal Subjects engages the history of Italian nationalism and colonialism through theories of... -
Affectual Erasure: Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Argentine Cinema by Cynthia Tompkins
£72.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438470979Author Cynthia TompkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 398Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press -
Robin Hood FAQ: All That's Left to Know About England's Greatest Outlaw and His Band of Merry Men by Dave Thompson
RRP: £14.99£14.59Income inequality. Wealth disparity. Roving bands of rogue knights. (OK maybe not that last one.) Now more than ever we need an egalitarian outlaw who isn't afraid to stand firm against the hypocrisies and excesses of presumptuous economic elites... -
Roots of Film Noir: Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s by Kevin Grant
RRP: £28.99£24.05Individual reviews of 90+ films created and released before 1941 are included here in the first title-by-title reference guide to the forerunners of film noir. Silent Hitchcock thrillers and German expressionist masterpieces, French poetic realist dramas... -
Late-Colonial French Cinema: Filming the Algerian War of Independence by Mani Sharpe
£112.23Offers a sustained analysis of a cluster of French films made during, and in response to, the Algerian War of Independence Identifies and analyses a previously unidentified trend in modern French cinema Addresses a 'late-colonial' gap in scholarship...