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Collecting Visible Evidence by Jane Gaines 9780816631360
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98A redefinition of the nature of documentary film.In documentary studies, the old distinctions between fiction and nonfiction no longer apply, as contemporary film and video artists produce works that... -
Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? by Jane Gaines
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66Women 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,... -
Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? by Jane Gaines 9780252041815
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.82Women 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,... -
Jane Again: Poems by Wayne Clifford 9781897231555
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64In his sixties, Yeats published the half-dozen poems that drew Crazy Jane out from his imagination to act as a profane voice against the strictures of the Church and the mores of his age. Wayne... -
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Amelia Jane Again by Enid Blyton 9780749746681 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £2.50A classic children's story from the world's best-loved children's author, Enid Blyton. Amelia Jane is big, bad and the terror of the toy cupboard! In this book, she gives the toys some terrible... -
Jane Against the World: Roe V. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights by Karen Blumenthal
Booksplease Price: £12.87Here is a journalistic look at the history of abortion perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin and Deborah Heiligman. Tracing the path to the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade and the continuing battle... -
Pyrennees and Shetland Knit Shawl and Scarf Book (1847) by Jane Gaugain 9781498179034
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £20.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498179034Author Jane GaugainFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint -
A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film Alexandra Juhasz (Pitzer College, USA) 9781119685661
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £38.76A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film presents a collection of original essays that explore major issues surrounding the state of current documentary films and their capacity to inspire and... -
Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars by Jane M. Gaines 9780822312994
Booksplease Price: £32.74Since the 1970s film studies has been dominated by a basic paradigm-the concept of classical Hollywood cinema-that is, the protagonist-driven narrative, valued for the way it achieves closure by... -
Fire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era by Jane M. Gaines
Booksplease Price: £32.30In the silent era, American cinema was defined by two separate and parallel industries, with white and black companies producing films for their respective, segregated audiences. Jane Gaines's highly... -
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... -
Feminist Film Theory: A Reader by Sue Thornham 9780814782446
Booksplease Price: £31.08For 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... -
Utopias in Nonfiction Film by Simon Spiegel 9783030798253
Booksplease Price: £112.12'Comprehensive and thorough, Utopias in Nonfiction Film takes a new direction in its surprise application to documentary that has the potential to shake up the field.'- Jane Gaines, Columbia... -
Directing by Virginia Wright Wexman 9780813564296
Booksplease Price: £33.05When a film is acclaimed, the director usually gets the lion's share of the credit. Yet the movie director's job-especially the collaborations and compromises it involves-remains little understood. ... -
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... -
Identities, Politics, and Rights by Austin Sarat 9780472084739
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £34.06The subject of rights occupies a central place in liberal political thought. This tradition posits that rights are entitlements of individuals by virtue of their personhood and that rights stand... -
Seeing Through the Eighties: Television and Reaganism by Jane Feuer
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89The 1980s saw the rise of Ronald Reagan and the New Right in American politics, the popularity of programs such as thirtysomething and Dynasty on network television, and the increasingly widespread... -
The Sounds of Early Cinema by Richard Abel
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent,... -
Bette Davis Black and White by Professor Julia A Stern 9780226813691
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £80.12Bette Davis was not only one of Hollywood's brightest stars, but also one of its most outspoken advocates on matters of race. In Bette Davis Black and White, Julia A. Stern explores this largely... -
Black American Cinema Manthia Diawara 9780415903974
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.94This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American... -
Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era by Charles Musser
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.48Oscar Micheaux-the most prolific African American filmmaker to date and a filmmaking giant of the silent period-has finally found his rightful place in film history. Both artist and showman, Micheaux... -
Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series by John Berger
Booksplease Price: £13.49"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the... -
Circling Dixie: Contemporary Southern Culture Through a Transatlantic Lens by Helen Taylor 9780813528625
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.15For Europeans looking across the Atlantic, American culture is often the site of desire, fascination, and envy. In Britain, the rich culture of the American South has made a particularly strong... -
A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema by Jennifer M. Bean 9780822329992
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.97A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates... -
Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity: Film, Fame, and Personal Worth by Mandy Merck 9781839024573
Booksplease Price: £35.67Challenging the study of both celebrity and the cinema, Mandy Merck argues that modern fame and film melodrama are part of the same worldview, one that cannot resolve the relation of personal worth... -
Revisiting Women's Cinema: Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China by Lingzhen Wang
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02In Revisiting Women's Cinema, Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women... -
Screening Sex by Linda Williams
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema "grew up" in response to the sexual revolution, and movie... -
Screening Sex by Linda Williams 9780822342632
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.95For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema "grew up" in response to the sexual revolution, and movie...