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Modernity and Mass Culture by James Naremore
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.51"The twelve essays in Modernity and Mass Culture provide a broad and captivating overview of what has come to be known as culture studies." -Texas JournalThis is a wide-ranging analysis of the... -
Sweet Smell of Success by James Naremore 9781844572885
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.56The highest artistic achievement of Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, an innovative production company that emerged in Hollywood at the end of the classic studio system, Sweet Smell of Success (1957) portended... -
The Films of Vincente Minnelli by James Naremore 9780521383660
Booksplease Price: $66.29The Films of Vincente Minnelli, first published in 1993, examines the career of MGM's leading director of musicals, melodramas and comedies in the 1940s and 1950s. Widely admired for his flamboyant... -
Letter From An Unknown Woman by James Naremore
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.56James Naremore's study of Max Ophuls' classic 1948 melodrama, Letter from an Unknown Woman, not only pays tribute to Ophuls but also discusses the backgrounds and typical styles of the film's many... -
The Films of Vincente Minnelli by James Naremore 9780521387705
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Film Noir: A Very Short Introduction by James Naremore
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.51Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Hollywood thrillers from the 1940s and 50s - shadowy,... -
Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge by James Naremore 9780520285521
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $97.64Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts by James Naremore 9780520254022
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.24"Film Noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s - melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James... -
Double Indemnity Richard Schickel 9781805750215
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.56Richard Schickel's study of Billy Wilder's 1944 noir classic Double Indemnity traces in fascinating detail the genesis and realisation of the film: its literary origins in James M. Cain's hard-boiled... -
How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies by Robert B. Ray
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural StudiesRobert B. RayForeword by James NaremoreChallenges accepted ideas about film and cultural studies.In the 1920s, when film criticism... -
Roman Polanski by James Morrison
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50A new take on an eclectic and controversial directorJames Morrison's critical study offers a comprehensive and critically engaged treatment on Roman Polanski's immense body of work. Tracing the... -
Sunset Boulevard by Steven Cohan
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.08Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood. Both its... -
Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies by Kate Hext 9780198875376
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $32.79Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. This is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within the rich evolving context of how the American... -
George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director Joseph McBride 9780231210829
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $39.72The director of classic films such as Sylvia Scarlett, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady, George Cukor is widely admired but often misunderstood... -
Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780801889714
Booksplease Price: $43.43In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal...