History & Criticism

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995029132Author Subashish BhattacharjeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Universitas PressPublisher Universitas PressWeight(grams) 298g

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

Analysing films by established directors such as Sokurov and Zel'dovich, as well as lesser-known filmmakers like Balabanov and Kalatozishvili, this book explores the particular style of film presentation that has emerged in Russia since 2000,...

One of the fastest growing and most internationally renowned cinemas in Southeast Asia is that of Thailand. In the first ever book devoted solely to this major centre of creative filmmaking, experts on contemporary and historic Thai film provide a timely...

In our current era of helicopter parenting and stranger danger, an unaccompanied child wandering through the city might commonly be viewed as a victim of abuse and neglect. However, from the early twentieth century to the present day, countless books and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568330297Author David HofstedeFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 159mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978814554Author Matt LosadaFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 365g

" The South continues to be the most distinctive region in American politics. Over the last half century, Democratic dominance in the South has given way to the emergence of a truly competitive two-party system that leans Republican in presidential...

In 1999, Elia Kazan (1909-2003) received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement; it was a controversial award, for in 1952 he had given testimony to the HUAC Committee, for which he was ostracized by many. That Oscar also acknowledged Kazan's...

A wide-ranging, eclectic collection of essays on philosophy and the moving image by a pre-eminent philosopher of art This volume presents a selection of philosopher Noel Carroll's essays-several of which appear in print here for the first time-at the...

Cognitive Film and Media Ethics provides a grounding in the use of cognitive science to address key questions in film, television and screen media ethics. This book extends past works in cognitive media studies to answer normative and ethically...

Jonas Mekas, one of the driving forces behind New York's alternative film culture from the 1950s through the 1980s, made for an unlikely counterculture hero: a Lithuanian emigr and fervent nationalist from an agrarian family, he had not grown up with...

India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexuality in Bombay cinema. She studies how film censorship...

Split Screen Nation traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was unstable and dramatically shifting in the decades after WWII, and has marked popular ways of imagining the U.S. ever since. If this dynamic became...

The Far Shore (1976), made under the direction of celebrated visual artist and experimental filmmaker Joyce Wieland, is one of Canada's most innovative contributions to cinema. The film borrows elements from the life of Canadian painter Tom Thomson, who...

The American World War II film depicted a united America, a mythic America in which the average guy, the girl next door, the 4-F patriot, and the grieving mother were suddenly transformed into heroes and heroines, warriors and goddesses. The...

The fourth volume of "The Griffith Project" looks at the films produced by D.W.Griffith at the Biograph Company in 1910. There were 86 films in all and they represent a period of creativity for the director, and they have been systematically...

African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and relied on support from the French film industry and the French state. Beginning in 1969 the biennial Festival panafricain du...

These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andr Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly...

A series of movies that share images, characters, settings, plots, or themes, film cycles have been an industrial strategy since the beginning of cinema. While some have viewed them as "subgenres," mini-genres, or nascent film genres, Amanda Ann Klein...

This is the first study to cover cinemas from Iran to Morocco. Nine essays present the region's major national cinemas, devoting special attention to the work of directors who have given image and voice to dissent from political regimes, from...

The monsters of the horror genre never remain dead - they invariably return in new and terrifying shapes for another installment. In this study Christian Knoeppler explores the phenomenon of horror film remakes. He argues that even though these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674756Author Mette HjortFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 276gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 150mm...

Drawing on interviews with leading film executives, politicians and industry stakeholders including all of the UKFC's chairs (Alan Parker, Stewart Till and Tim Bevan) and its CEO John Woodward, this book provides an empirically grounded analysis of the...

Who decides how, when, and where Americans fall in love and get married? Virginia Wexman's acute observations about movie stars and acting techniques show that Hollywood has often had the most powerful voice in demonstrating socially sanctioned ways of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674107Author Goenul Doenmez-colinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 682gDimensions(mm)...

This book traces the historical evolution of Indian cinema through a number of key decades. The book is made up of 14 chapters with each chapter focusing on one key film, the chosen films analysed in their wider social, political and historical context...

Cinema and Colour: The Saturated Image is a major new critical study of the use of colour in cinema. Using the dialectic of colour and monochrome as a starting point, Paul Coates explores the symbolic meanings that colour bears in different cultures, and...

Artists, writers, and filmmakers from Andy Warhol and J. G. Ballard to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Ousmane Sembene have repeatedly used representations of immobilized and crashed cars to wrestle with the conundrums of modernity. In Crash, Karen...

In this first major study of French colonial and postcolonial cinema, Dina Sherzer compiles essays by some of the foremost scholars on the subject who interrogate and analyze the realities behind the images of the nation's past and present. Through an...

Like the haggadah, the traditional "telling" of the story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt that is read at the Passover seder, cinema offers a valuable text from which to gain an understanding of the social, political, and cultural...