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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
£93.40A 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
£109.01Apologies 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 -
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£19.87Fascism 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... -
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: £19.99£15.04Income 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... -
Robert Frank: Frank Films: The Film and Video Work of Robert Frank by Brigitta Burger-Utzer
RRP: £45.00£30.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865218155Author Brigitta Burger-UtzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 680g -
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
RRP: £120.00£113.42Offers 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... -
The Movies as a World Force: American Silent Cinema and the Utopian Imagination by Ryan Jay Friedman
RRP: £34.00£32.13Throughout the silent-feature era, American artists and intellectuals routinely described cinema as a force of global communion, a universal language promoting mutual understanding and harmonious coexistence amongst disparate groups of people. In the... -
Soundies Jukebox Films and the Shift to Small-Screen Culture by Andrea J. Kelley
£29.89Soundies Jukebox Films and the Shift to Small-Screen Culture is the first and only book to position what are called "Soundies" within the broader cultural and technological milieu of the 1940s. From 1940 to 1946, these musical films circulated in... -
Torturous Etiquettes: Film Performance and Social Form by Daniel Varndell
£72.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438493510Author Daniel VarndellFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Hollywood's Hawaii: Race, Nation, and War by Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett
£30.74Whether presented as exotic fantasy, a strategic location during World War II, or a site combining postwar leisure with military culture, Hawaii and the South Pacific figure prominently in the U.S. national imagination. Hollywood's Hawaii is the first... -
Selling Science Fiction Cinema: Making and Marketing a Genre by J. P. Telotte
£42.53How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself. For Hollywood, the golden age of science fiction was also an age of anxiety. Amid rising competition, fluid audience habits, and increasing government... -
Main Melody Films: Hong Kong Film Directors in China by Stephen Yiu-Wai Chu
£113.72Main melody films are propaganda works that pay tribute to the Chinese nation, the party and the army. Since the turn of the century, they have gradually developed into the main genre of Chinese cinema, and its blockbusterization is arguably the most... -
Melies Boots: Footwear and Film Manufacturing in Second Industrial Revolution Paris by Matthew Solomon
£29.98Before he became the father of cinematic special effects, George Melies (1861-1938) was a maker of deluxe French footwear, an illusionist, and a caricaturist. Proceeding from these beginnings, Melies Boots traces how the full trajectory of Georges... -
Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz by DR. ENG Laleen Jayamanne
RRP: £96.00£91.61Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz explores the poetic thinking of these master filmmakers, expressed in several of their key films. It examines theoretical ideas, including Maori anthropology of... -
Tastemakers and Tastemaking: Mexico and Curated Screen Violence by Niamh Thornton
RRP: £72.27£63.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438481135Author Niamh ThorntonFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Ambiguous Cinema: From Simone de Beauvoir to Feminist Film-Phenomenology by Kelli Fuery
RRP: £90.00£75.97Utilises women's independent cinema to explore Simone de Beauvoir's notion of ambiguity in film experienceAbout the AuthorKelli Fuery, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Chapman University.Book InformationISBN 9781399504232Author Kelli FueryFormat... -
Undead Ends: Stories of Apocalypse by S. Trimble
RRP: £34.00£32.13Undead Ends is about how we imagine humanness and survival in the aftermath of disaster. This book frames modern British and American apocalypse films as sites of interpretive struggle. It asks what, exactly, is ending? Whose dreams of starting over take... -
Selected Film Criticism: 1921-1930 by Anthony Slide
RRP: £72.00£65.71Provides a cross-section of contemporary American film criticism from 1896-1960. The volumes reprint reviews in their entirety from periodicals such as Photoplay, Film Reports, The Moving Picture World, Variety, and The New York Times. Of immense value... -
Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society by Johnny Walker
RRP: £120.00£110.01Combining industry analysis, interviews and detailed textual readings, this book examines the post-millennial revival of British horror cinema. Drawing on key films such as The Descent (2005), Eden Lake (2008) and The Woman in Black (2012), as well as... -
Race and the Suburbs in American Film by Merrill Schleier
RRP: £72.27£63.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438484471Author Merrill SchleierFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Going for Broke: The Depiction of Compulsive Gambling in Film by Jeffrey W. Dement
RRP: £98.00£90.26Compulsive gambling is an addiction, a disease that affects millions of individuals and their families. In Going for Broke, the author closely analyzes over 20 films of the past five decades that either deal directly with compulsive gambling or contain... -
Documenting Fashion by Elena Caoduro
£117.90Offers the first edited collection with an explicit documentary focus on fashion icons, events, cultures and industries Investigates the bearings of the documentary image and its visual politics in relation to fashion Pushes forward new... -
Transnational Kaiju: Exploitation, Globalisation and Cult Monster Movies by Steven Rawle
£112.40From relatively humble beginnings in a King Kong-inspired Japanese studio picture, the kaij? eiga has developed into a global phenomenon. While the origins of giant kaij? the term often preferred to 'monster' remain firmly rooted in Japan, the figure... -
Return to Paradise: A Guide to South Sea Island Films by Larry Langman
£111.86Return to Paradise explores those films whose plots revolve chiefly around the South Seas and shows how American culture has influenced both the thematic portrayal and content of each film. Similarly, the author presents the ways in which these films... -
Driven to Darkness: Jewish Emigre Directors and the Rise of Film Noir by Vincent Brook
RRP: £38.00£35.87From its earliest days, the American film industry has attracted European artists. With the rise of Hitler, filmmakers of conscience in Germany and other countries, particularly those of Jewish origin, found it difficult to survive and fledufor their... -
Meta in Film and Television Series by David Roche
£117.90The first book-length study of meta-phenomena in film and television series.About the AuthorDavid Roche, Professor of Film Studies, Universite Paul Valery Montpellier 3.Book InformationISBN 9781399508032Author David RocheFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio by Andrew A. Erish
£35.04Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio is the first comprehensive examination of the company most responsible for defining and popularizing the American movie. Vitagraph was among the five production companies established at the dawn of... -
Selected Film Criticism: 1941-1950 by Anthony Slide
RRP: £72.00£65.71Provides a cross-section of contemporary American film criticism from 1896-1960. The volumes reprint reviews in their entirety from periodicals such as Photoplay, Film Reports, The Moving Picture World, Variety, and The New York Times. Of immense value... -
The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film by Domietta Torlasco
RRP: £70.00£67.98The Time of the Crime interrogates the relationship between time and vision as it emerges in five Italian films from the sixties and seventies: Antonioni's Blow-Up and The Passenger, Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem, Cavani's The Night Porter, and... -
Le Cine Negro Americano by Robert Porforio
£16.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788475845463Author Robert PorforioFormat PaperbackImprint LaertesPublisher Laertes -
Analyzing Film: A Student Casebook by James R Russo
RRP: £49.95£46.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680532784Author James R RussoFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Academica PressPublisher Academica PressWeight(grams) 152g