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Women & Film by E. Ann Kaplan
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99"Written with unequivocal enthusiasm for film, feminism and theory, "Women and Film" is a welcome and useful guide to a complex area."--"The Arts" Book InformationISBN 9780415027649Author E. Ann... -
Psychoanalysis and Cinema by E. Ann Kaplan
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £40.57These fifteen carefully chosen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the crucial role feminist theory has played in its... -
Feminism and Film by E. Ann Kaplan 9780198782346
Booksplease Price: £63.32This book brings together carefully selected essays on feminism and film with a view to tracing major developments in theory, criticism, and practices of women and cinema from 1973 to the present day... -
Women in Film Noir by E. Ann Kaplan 9780851706665
Booksplease Price: £35.83The first edition of "Women in Film Noir" (1978) assembled a group of scholars and critics committed to understanding the cinema in terms of gender, sexuality, politics, psychoanalysis and semiotics... -
Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama by E. Ann Kaplan
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99From novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation, E. Ann Kaplan considers how the... -
Postmodernism and Its Discontents: Theories, Practices by E. Ann Kaplan 9780860919254
Booksplease Price: £28.01On the current battlefield of cultural criticism and production, no term has been more vigorously contested than 'postmodernism'. Defying clear definition, yet persisting as an indispensable... -
Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze E. Ann Kaplan 9780415910170
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £38.79What happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned? Looking for the Other responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s... -
Rocking Around the Clock: Music Television, Postmodernism, and Consumer Culture by E. Ann Kaplan
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.44The first non-stop rock video channel was launched in the US in 1981. As a unique popular culture form, MTV warrants attention, and in this, the first study of the medium, originally published in... -
Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature by E. Ann Kaplan 9780813535913
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.12It may be said that every trauma is two traumas or ten thousand - depending on the number of people involved. How one experiences and reacts to an event is unique and depends largely on one's direct... -
Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction by E. Ann Kaplan 9780813563992
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.32Each month brings new scientific findings that demonstrate the ways in which human activities, from resource extraction to carbon emissions, are doing unprecedented, perhaps irreparable damage to our... -
Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism by Robert C. Allen 9780807843741
Booksplease Price: £48.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807843741Author Robert C. AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint -
Female Detectives on Post-Network Television: Mother, Maiden, Cop Alison Wielgus 9781666919301
Booksplease Price: £90.57In this book, Alison Wielgus analyzes post-network female detective television through the lenses of genre, industry, and discourses of police abolition to argue for a radicalization of crime... -
Analysing Performance: A Critical Reader by Patrick Campbell 9780719042508
Booksplease Price: £23.54Each chapter in this important critical reader tackles the theory and practice of modern performance work, and enables students and teachers to see what is at stake in analysing dance, drama, music... -
Women Filmmakers: Refocusing by Jacqueline Levitin 9780415967822
Booksplease Price: £28.09This wide-ranging volume of new work brings together women filmmakers and critics who speak about what has changed over the past twenty years. Including such filmmakers as Margarethe von Trotta,... -
Women Filmmakers: Refocusing by Jacqueline Levitin 9781138139305
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £90.98This wide-ranging volume of new work brings together women filmmakers and critics who speak about what has changed over the past twenty years. Including such filmmakers as Margarethe von Trotta,... -
Critics at Work: Interviews 1993-2003 by Jeffrey J. Williams
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Featuring interviews with nineteen leading U.S. literary and cultural critics, Critics at Work offers a unique picture of recent developments in literary studies, critical theory, American studies,... -
American Cinema and Hollywood: Critical Approaches by John Hill 9780198742814
Booksplease Price: £68.96'The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches' Sight and Sound May 1998 Top international contributors Emphasis throughout on critical concepts, methods and... -
Reinterpreting Menopause: Cultural and Philosophical Issues Paul Komesaroff 9780415915656
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Reinterpreting Menopause brings together a number of reflections from a broad range of areas including feminism, cultural studies, clinical medicine, sociology, philosophy and political science and... -
Whiteness: A Critical Reader by Michael Hill 9780814735442
Booksplease Price: £90.87For centuries, Whiteness has been the invisible norm in the West, a transparent, yet ubiquitous frame of reference so pervasive that most Whites consider themselves absolved from race matters. In... -
Issues in Feminist Film Criticism by Patricia Erens
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.56"This anthology makes it abundantly clear that feminist film criticism is flourishing and has developed dramatically since its inception in the early 1970s." -Journal of Aesthetics and Art... -
The Politics of Research by George Levine 9780813524191
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.15Eloquent, provocative, and timely, these essays provide a thoughtful, undoctrinaire defense of the centrality of the humanities to higher education--and society--at the millennium.--Cora Kaplan,... -
Film Studies: Critical Approaches by John Hill 9780198742807
Booksplease Price: £57.48'The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches' Sight and Sound, May 1998 covers all the significant theories, debates and approaches to the subject chapter... -
World Cinema: Critical Approaches by John Hill 9780198742821
Booksplease Price: £66.24'The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches' Sight and Sound May 1998 international coverage ranges from pre-1930s Europe to contemporary 'Bollywood' musicals ... -
Screening Genders: The American Science Fiction Film Robert Eberwein 9780813543406
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.60Gender roles have been tested, challenged, and redefined everywhere during the past thirty years, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in film. Screening Genders is a lively and engaging... -
Another Tale to Tell: Politics and Narrative in Postmodern Culture by Fred Pfeil 9780860919926
Booksplease Price: £25.31Through his work as a fiction writer, critic and activist, Fred Pfeil has sought to extend the progressive possibilities within contemporary American culture. Idiosyncratic and provocative, Another... -
Critics at Work: Interviews 1993-2003 by Jeffrey J. Williams 9780814793893
Booksplease Price: £90.87Featuring interviews with nineteen leading U.S. literary and cultural critics, Critics at Work offers a unique picture of recent developments in literary studies, critical theory, American studies,... -
Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice by Marianne DeKoven 9780813529233
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.34Contemporary feminist scholarship has done much to challenge the many binary constructions at the heart of Western culture: white/nonwhite, theory/practice, and, most notably, masculine/feminine... -
Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency by Evelyn Nakano Glenn
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £60.94This volume presents a variety of unique perspectives on mothering as a socially constructed relationship, assessing many of the political, legal and cultural debates surrounding the issue.About the... -
Representations of Motherhood by Donna Bassin 9780300068634
Booksplease Price: £33.01For many years mothers have been viewed in terms of their impact on children rather than as people with needs, feelings, and interests-subjects in their own right. This book explores the maternal... -
Gender Meets Genre in Postwar Cinemas by Christine Gledhill
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14This remarkable collection uses genre as a fresh way to analyze the issues of gender representation in film theory, film production, spectatorship, and the contexts of reception. With a uniquely... -
Genre, Gender, Race and World Cinema: An Anthology Julie F. Codell (Arizona State University) 9781405132336
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £38.76Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema is an innovative anthology that introduces the study of film theory using the four topics of genre, gender, race, and world cinema, to encourage critical... -
Genre, Gender, Race and World Cinema: An Anthology by Professor Julie F. Codell 9781405132329
RRP: £100.95Booksplease Price: £92.66Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema is an innovative anthology that introduces the study of film theory using the four topics of genre, gender, race, and world cinema, to encourage critical... -
Generations: Academic Feminists In Dialogue by Devoney Looser 9780816628995
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Explores the conflicts and challenges facing older and younger feminist scholars.In universities and colleges across the country, feminists are debating their histories and future legacies, often... -
Late Imperial Culture by Michael Sprinker
Booksplease Price: £18.42Spanning time and space from late Victorian Britain and Ireland to postwar America and Latin America, Late Imperial Culture maps crucial regions in the terrain of imperial cultural practices... -
Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction Kristin Lene Hole (Portland State University, USA) 9781138667907
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £38.29Film Feminisms offers a global and updated overview of the history, present-day concerns, and future of feminist film and theory. It introduces frameworks from phenomenology, affect theory, and... -
The Scandal of Susan Sontag by Barbara Ching 9780231149174
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature--the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty... -
The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender Kristin Hole (Portland State University, USA) 9781138391840
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender comprises forty-three innovative essays that offer both an overview of and an intervention into the field of cinema and gender. The contributions in this... -
Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.22The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically... -
Radioactive Ghosts by Gabriele Schwab 9781517907839
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate Amid resurgent calls for widespread nuclear energy and "limited nuclear war,"... -
Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility by Rey Chow 9780231133333
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining...