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Media Reception Studies by Janet Staiger
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79A broad survey on how audiences make meaning out of mass media Media Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audiences make meaning out of mass media... -
Political Emotions by Janet Staiger 9780415880558
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $93.21Political Emotions explores the contributions that the study of discourses, rhetoric, and framing of emotion make to understanding the public sphere, civil society and the political realm. Tackling... -
Media Reception Studies by Janet Staiger 9780814781340
Booksplease Price: $176.61A broad survey on how audiences make meaning out of mass media Media Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audiences make meaning out of mass media... -
Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception by Janet Staiger
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $50.35Film and television have never been more prevalent or watched than they are now, yet we still have little understanding of how people process and make use of what they see. And though we acknowledge... -
Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception by Janet Staiger 9780814781388
Booksplease Price: $176.61Film and television have never been more prevalent or watched than they are now, yet we still have little understanding of how people process and make use of what they see. And though we acknowledge... -
Blockbuster TV: Must-See Sitcoms in the Network Era by Janet Staiger 9780814797563
Booksplease Price: $176.61Archie Bunker. Jed. Laverne and Shirley. Cliff Huxtable. Throughout the entire history of American prime-time television only four sitcoms have been true blockbusters, with Nielsen ratings far above... -
Blockbuster TV: Must-See Sitcoms in the Network Era by Janet Staiger 9780814797570
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Archie Bunker. Jed. Laverne and Shirley. Cliff Huxtable. Throughout the entire history of American prime-time television only four sitcoms have been true blockbusters, with Nielsen ratings far above... -
Bad Women: Regulating Sexuality in Early American Cinema by Janet Staiger 9780816626250
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.74Charts the cultural tensions played out on-screen in early American cinema.It was a new age, and on movie screens the American middle class presented its visions of sexual morality, with definitions... -
Convergence Media History Janet Staiger (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 9780415996624
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.16Convergence Media History explores the ways that digital convergence has radically changed the field of media history. Writing media history is no longer a matter of charting the historical... -
Birth of a Nation: D.W. Griffith, Director Robert Lang 9780813520278
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $49.88The Birth of a Nation (1915) remains the most controversial American film ever made, and its director, D. W. Griffith, one of the most extraordinary figures in film history. It was the first true... -
Authorship and Film David A. Gerstner 9780415939942
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $72.17Authorship in film has been a persistent theme in the field of cinema studies. This volume of new work revitalizes the question of authorship by connecting it to larger issues of identity--in film,... -
The Cinema of Eisenstein by David Bordwell
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.75The Cinema of Eisenstein is David Bordwell's comprehensive analysis of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, arguably the key figure in the entire history of film. The director of such classics as... -
Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio by Michele Hilmes
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $89.76While cultural historians and media scholars have been looking at television for decades, they have only recently turned their eyes (and ears) to radio. Studies of television rarely acknowledge that... -
Feminist Film Theory: A Reader by Sue Thornham 9780814782446
Booksplease Price: $60.61For the past twenty-five years, cinema has been a vital terrain on which feminist debates about culture, representation, and identity have been fought. This anthology charts the history of those... -
Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home by Barbara Klinger 9780520245860
Booksplease Price: $67.00Since the mid-eighties, more audiences have been watching Hollywood movies at home than at movie theaters, yet little is known about just how viewers experience film outside of the multiplex. This is... -
Cinema Genre Raphaelle Moine (Universite Paris X, Nanterre) 9781405156516
Booksplease Price: $65.15Genre - or 'type' - is a core concept in both film production and the history of film. Genres play a key role in how moviegoers perceive and rate films, and is likely to determine a film's production... -
New Directions in American Reception Study by Philip Goldstein 9780195320879
Booksplease Price: $222.28Contemporary reception study has developed a diversity of approaches and methods, including the institutional, textual, historical, authorial, and reader-response, which, to a greater or lesser... -
New Directions in American Reception Study by Philip Goldstein 9780195320886
Booksplease Price: $69.28Contemporary reception study has developed a diversity of approaches and methods, including the institutional, textual, historical, authorial, and reader-response, which, to a greater or lesser... -
Media Authorship Cynthia Chris 9780415699433
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.36Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates... -
Black Lenses, Black Voices: African American Film Now by Mark A. Reid 9780742526426
Booksplease Price: $80.32Black Lenses, Black Voices is a provocative look at films directed and written_and sometimes produced_by African Americans, as well as black-oriented films whose directors or screenwriters are not... -
Voicing the Cinema: Film Music and the Integrated Soundtrack by James Buhler 9780252043000
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $165.73Theorists of the soundtrack have helped us understand how the voice and music in the cinema impact a spectator's experience. James Buhler and Hannah Lewis edit in-depth essays from many of film... -
Film Genre Reader IV by Barry Keith Grant 9780292742062
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $41.26From reviews of the third edition:"Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The... -
The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture by Henry Jenkins 9780814742839
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $50.35A spirited collection of essays that get to the heart of what gives popular culture its emotional impact Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their... -
Christophe Honore: A Critical Introduction David A. Gerstner 9780814338636
Booksplease Price: $58.23French filmmaker Christophe Honore challenges audiences with complex cinematic form, intricate narrative structures, and aesthetically dynamic filmmaking. But the limited release of his films outside... -
Voicing the Cinema: Film Music and the Integrated Soundtrack by James Buhler
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23Theorists of the soundtrack have helped us understand how the voice and music in the cinema impact a spectator's experience. James Buhler and Hannah Lewis edit in-depth essays from many of film... -
The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture by Henry Jenkins 9780814742822
RRP: $132.60Booksplease Price: $71.08A spirited collection of essays that get to the heart of what gives popular culture its emotional impact Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their... -
The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 by David Bordwell
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $82.27'A dense, challenging and important book.' Philip French Observer'At the very least, this blockbuster is probably the best single volume history of Hollywood we're likely to get for a very long time... -
Flaming Creatures by Constantine Verevis
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $22.82Banned soon after its first midnight screenings, the prints seized and the organizers arrested, Jack Smith's incendiary Flaming Creatures (1963) quickly became a cause celebre of the New York... -
Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema Hilary Radner 9780415895880
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $93.05Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today's changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of... -
Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film by Wickham Clayton 9781349573455
Booksplease Price: $84.34Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film fills a broad scholastic gap by analysing the elements of narrative and stylistic construction of films in the slasher subgenre of horror that have been... -
Dreaming of Fred and Ginger: Cinema and Cultural Memory by Annette Kuhn 9780814747711
Booksplease Price: $186.77In the 1930s, Britain had the highest annual per capita cinema attendance in the world, far surpassing ballroom dancing as the nation's favorite pastime. It was, as historian A.J.P. Taylor said, the... -
Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film by Wickham Clayton 9781137496461
Booksplease Price: $186.77Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film fills a broad scholastic gap by analysing the elements of narrative and stylistic construction of films in the slasher subgenre of horror that have been... -
Dreaming of Fred and Ginger: Cinema and Cultural Memory by Annette Kuhn 9780814747728
Booksplease Price: $63.24In the 1930s, Britain had the highest annual per capita cinema attendance in the world, far surpassing ballroom dancing as the nation's favorite pastime. It was, as historian A.J.P. Taylor said, the... -
American Independent Cinema: indie, indiewood and beyond by Geoff King
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $89.58The American independent sector has attracted much attention in recent years, an upsurge of academic work on the subject being accompanied by wider public debate. But many questions remain about how... -
Stories: Screen Narrative in the Digital Era by Annie van den Oever 9789462985841
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $87.34Stories are perceived as central to modern life. Not only in narrative entertainment media, such as television, cinema, theater, but also in social media. Telling/having "a story" is widely deemed... -
Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema by Debbie C. Olson 9780739190746
Booksplease Price: $100.82Children have been a part of the cinematic landscape since the silent film era, yet children are rarely a part of the theoretical landscape of film analysis. Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary... -
Dark Shadows by Harry M. Benshoff 9780814334393
Booksplease Price: $40.37While supernatural events have become fairly commonplace on daytime television in recent decades, Dark Shadows, which aired on ABC between 1966 and 1971, pioneered this format when it blended the... -
Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror Cinema by Richard Nowell 9781623564209
Booksplease Price: $76.30Even though horror has been a key component of media output for almost a century, the genre's industrial character remains under explored and poorly understood. Merchants of Menace: The Business of... -
Another Steven Soderbergh Experience: Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood by Mark Gallagher
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.74How do we determine authorship in film, and what happens when we look in-depth at the creative activity of living filmmakers rather than approach their work through the abstract prism of auteur... -
Indie: An American Film Culture by Michael Z. Newman 9780231144643
RRP: $212.55Booksplease Price: $179.71America's independent films often seem to defy classification. Their strategies of storytelling and representation range from raw, no-budget projects to more polished releases of Hollywood's...