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Teaching Film by Lucy Fischer 9781603291156
Booksplease Price: $45.03Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of film is dispersed across a range of academic... -
European Film Noir by Professor Andrew Spicer 9780719067914
Booksplease Price: $30.37European Film Noir is the first book to bring together specialist discussions of film noir in specific European national cinemas. Written by leading scholars, this groundbreaking study provides an... -
Film Societies in Germany and Austria 1910-1933: Tracing the Social Life of Cinema Michael Cowan 9781041179399
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57This study traces the evolution of early film societies in Germany and Austria, from the emergence of mass movie theaters in the 1910s to the turbulent years of the late Weimar Republic. Examining a... -
Finding Greyfriars Bobby: The amazing story of the Disney film star by Dave Hunter 9781806342570
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.65FINDING GREYFRIARS BOBBY is the heart-warming true story of the young stray dog from the Isle of Lewis that was selected to be the star of the 1961 film, Greyfriars Bobby. Written by a member of... -
Analyzing Film: A Student Casebook by James R Russo
Booksplease Price: $59.71Analyzing Film: A Student Casebook is a film textbook containing fifteen essays about sixteen historically and artistically significant films made between 1920 and 1990. This casebook is... -
Japanese Mythology in Film: A Semiotic Approach to Reading Japanese Film and Anime by Yoshiko Okuyama 9781498514330
Booksplease Price: $69.08A cyborg detective hunts for a malfunctioning sex doll that turns itself into a killing machine. A Heian-era Taoist slays evil spirits with magic spells from yin-yang philosophy. A young mortician... -
Screening Transcendence: Film under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope, 1933-1938 by Robert Dassanowsky
RRP: $68.37Booksplease Price: $56.90During the 1930s, Austrian film production companies developed a process to navigate the competing demands of audiences in Nazi Germany and those found in broader Western markets. In Screening... -
Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? by Jane Gaines 9780252041815
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $104.26Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier,... -
The Metamodern Slasher Film by Steve Jones 9781399520966
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.15It is commonly proposed that since the mid-2000s, the slasher subgenre has been dominated by unoriginal remakes of "classics". Consequently, most original slasher films have been ignored by academics... -
Discovering Short Films: The History and Style of Live-Action Fiction Shorts by Cynthia Felando 9781137488473
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $110.27As film history's oldest and one of today's most prominent forms, the live-action short film has both historical and contemporary significance. Felando discusses the historical significance of the... -
Film and History James Chapman (University of Leicester, Leicester) 9780230363878
Booksplease Price: $38.52Film is the pre-eminent mass medium of the modern age. It is a valuable source of evidence for the study of both the past and the contemporary world, and is a social practice that has affected the... -
Women and Film Animation: A Feminist Corpus at the National Film Board of Canada 1939-1989 by Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre 9781032685366
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $74.23The creations of female animation filmmakers are recognized all over the world while being, paradoxically, unknown to the general public. Women and Film Animation: A Feminist Corpus at the National... -
Film Genre for the Screenwriter Jule Selbo 9781138020832
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $67.31Film Genre for the Screenwriter is a practical study of how classic film genre components can be used in the construction of a screenplay. Based on Jule Selbo's popular course, this accessible guide... -
A Companion to the Horror Film Harry M. Benshoff (University of North Texas, USA) 9781119335016
RRP: $61.86Booksplease Price: $55.48This cutting-edge collection features original essays by eminent scholars on one of cinema's most dynamic and enduringly popular genres, covering everything from the history of horror movies to the... -
The Decline of Sentiment: American Film in the 1920s by Lea Jacobs 9780520254572
Booksplease Price: $39.33"The Decline of Sentiment" seeks to characterize the radical shifts in taste that transformed American film in the jazz age. Based upon extensive reading of trade papers and the popular press of the... -
Scoring Transcendence: Contemporary Film Music as Religious Experience by Kutter Callaway
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $24.03Films are the lingua franca of western culture; for decades they have provided viewers with a universal way of understanding the human experience. And film music, Kutter Callaway demonstrates, has... -
The Dark Interval: Film Noir, Iconography, and Affect by Padraic Killeen 9781501393037
Booksplease Price: $42.51Invoking key concepts from the philosophical writings of Gilles Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben, The Dark Interval examines a subtle but distinct iconography of passivity, stillness and profound... -
The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul by Gina Freitag 9781442650541
RRP: $65.79Booksplease Price: $56.39From the cheaply made "tax-shelter" films of the 1970s to the latest wave of contemporary "eco-horror," Canadian horror cinema has rarely received much critical attention. Gina Freitag and AndrE... -
Film Rhythm after Sound: Technology, Music, and Performance by Lea Jacobs 9780520279650
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $37.85The seemingly effortless integration of sound, movement, and editing in films of the late 1930s stands in vivid contrast to the awkwardness of the first talkies. Film Rhythm after Sound analyzes this... -
Film Remakes by Na Na 9781403974280
RRP: $116.09Booksplease Price: $106.36This is the first book to provide a comprehensive and systematic account of the phenomenon of cinematic remaking. Drawing upon recent theories of genre and intertextuality, Film Remakes describes... -
Film Rhythm after Sound: Technology, Music, and Performance by Lea Jacobs 9780520279643
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $96.98The seemingly effortless integration of sound, movement, and editing in films of the late 1930s stands in vivid contrast to the awkwardness of the first talkies. Film Rhythm after Sound analyzes this... -
Russian War Films: On the Cinema Front, 1914-2005 Denise Youngblood 9780700617616
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $31.94War movies have long been the most influential genre in Russian cinema, so much so that in the Soviet Union's militaristic society, ""cinema front"" was used to describe the film industry itself... -
The Films of Lindsay Anderson Will Kitchen 9781399537056
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $110.20Following the centenary of Lindsay Anderson's birth (1923-94), this edited collection of original essays re-examines the work of one of British cinema's most iconoclastic and challenging directors... -
Falling Liquid Films by Serafim Kalliadasis 9781848823662
Booksplease Price: $132.07Falling Liquid Films gives a detailed review of state-of-the-art theoretical, analytical and numerical methodologies, for the analysis of dissipative wave dynamics and pattern formation on the... -
Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films: Making Music for Silent Cinema by K. J. Donnelly 9781137466358
Booksplease Price: $148.27In recent years, there has been something of an explosion in the performance of live music to silent films. There is a wide range of films with live and new scores that run from the historically... -
Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History Allyson Nadia Field 9780520392922
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $81.64"This book doesn't just fill gaps in film history; it demands that we confront why those gaps existed in the first place. A fascinating read for lovers of film."-Ava DuVernay The rediscovery of the... -
Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History Allyson Nadia Field 9780520392939
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.61"This book doesn't just fill gaps in film history; it demands that we confront why those gaps existed in the first place. A fascinating read for lovers of film."-Ava DuVernay The rediscovery of the... -
The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry by Marina Nicoli
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86Italian cinema triumphed globally in the 1960, with directors such as Rossellini, Fellini, and Leone, and actors like Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni known to audiences around the world. But by... -
Overtones and Undertones: Reading Film Music by Royal S. Brown
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $41.18Since the days of silent films, music has been integral to the cinematic experience, serving, variously, to allay audiences' fears of the dark and to heighten a film's emotional impact. Yet viewers... -
Korean Film and History by Hyunseon Lee 9781032245034
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $53.50Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is made-a major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history. The re-enactments of historical events in film straddle reality and... -
The Griffith Project, Volume 10: Films Produced 1919-1946 by Paolo Cherchi Usai 9781844572199
Booksplease Price: $132.24No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films had been the subject of a systematic analysis. Now,... -
Film: The Essential Study Guide by Ruth Doughty
Booksplease Price: $41.98Providing a key resource to new students, Film: The Essential Study Guide introduces all the skills needed to succeed on a film studies course.This succinct, accessible guide covers key topics such... -
The Eloquent Screen: A Rhetoric of Film by Gilberto Perez
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film's unique ability to move usCinema is commonly hailed as "the universal language," but how does it communicate so... -
The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933 by Anton Kaes
RRP: $91.59Booksplease Price: $89.42Rich in implications for our present era of media change, the Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of "theory" not as a fixed body of canonical texts,... -
The Griffith Project, Volume 8: Films Produced in 1914 by Paolo Cherchi Usai
Booksplease Price: $144.85No other silent film director has been as extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films has been the subject of a systematic analysis, and the... -
Film as an Art of Society: Aesthetic Innovations and Social Relations Lutz Hieber 9783658460440
Booksplease Price: $103.63The volume deals with the concept of art in relation to film, covering both aesthetic theory and concrete works. The spectrum includes feature films and documentaries. The focus is on the aesthetic... -
Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre by Claire Henry 9781137414168
Booksplease Price: $62.44Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in recent years. This book analyzes the politics, ethics,... -
Film Appreciation Through Genres Michael Patrick Gillespie 9781476676395
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.50Many intelligent, enthusiastic individuals approach conversations about films as an extension of the pleasures derived while watching them. Love for movies and enthusiasm for discussion makes many... -
The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film by Tom Mes 9781880656891
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $39.85An eye-opening portrait of a vibrant film culture, The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film is the most comprehensive study of the Japanese filmmaking scene yet written. Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp... -
Deleuze and Film by David Martin-Jones
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $35.85A wide-ranging collection of essays on the film-philosophy of Gilles Deleuze Deleuze and Film explores how different films from around the world 'think' about a range of topics like history,...