History & Criticism

Why 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...

Cary 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...

Structured 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...

A 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...

Apologies 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)...

Apologies 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 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...

Popular 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...

Fascism 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...

Analysing 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...

Apologies 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

Income 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...

Apologies 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

Individual 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...

Offers 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...

Throughout 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 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...

Apologies 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...

Whether 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...

How 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 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...

Before 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 explores the poetic thinking of these master filmmakers, expressed in several of their key films. It examines theoretical ideas, including Maori anthropology of...

Apologies 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...

Utilises 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 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...

Provides 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...

Combining 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...

Apologies 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...

Compulsive 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...

Offers 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...

From 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 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...

From 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...

The 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 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...

Provides 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 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788475845463Author Robert PorforioFormat PaperbackImprint LaertesPublisher Laertes

Apologies 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