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Six Turkish Filmmakers by Laurence Raw 9780299315405
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $105.87Examining the vanguard of New Turkish Cinema, Laurence Raw shows how these films reveal the effects of profound socio economic change on ordinary people in contemporary Turkey.In analysis of and... -
Merchant-Ivory: Interviews Laurence Raw 9781496853707
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Merchant-Ivory: Interviews gathers together, for the first time, interviews made over a span of fifty years with director James Ivory (b. 1928), producer Ismail Merchant (1936-2005), and screenwriter... -
Translation, Adaptation and Transformation by Laurence Raw 9781472531292
Booksplease Price: $79.54In recent years adaptation studies has established itself as a discipline in its own right, separate from translation studies. The bulk of its activity to date has been restricted to literature and... -
The Ridley Scott Encyclopedia by Laurence Raw 9780810869516
Booksplease Price: $252.04From his first feature film, The Duellists, to his international successes Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, and American Gangster, Ridley Scott has directed some of... -
Merchant-Ivory: Interviews by Laurence Raw 9781617032370
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $55.09Merchant-Ivory: Interviews gathers together for the first time interviews made over the past five decades with director James Ivory (b. 1928), producer Ismail Merchant (1936-2005), and screenwriter... -
Adaptation Studies and Learning: New Frontiers by Laurence Raw 9780810887930
Booksplease Price: $135.54Adaptation Studies is a fast-emerging discipline which has expanded into other areas of media scholarship. With its roots in literature and film, this discipline can be applied to much broader uses,... -
The Adaptation of History: Essays on Ways of Telling the Past by Laurence Raw 9780786472543
Booksplease Price: $60.88This collection of essays asks the question "What is history?" and considers how history is shaped in different socioeconomic contexts. The writers take a transdisciplinary approach, in the belief... -
Adapting Nathaniel Hawthorne to the Screen: Forging New Worlds by Laurence Raw 9780810860490
Booksplease Price: $149.18Considered one of the greatest of American authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) created a memorable body of literature, which included the novels The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables,... -
Adapting Henry James to the Screen: Gender, Fiction, and Film by Laurence Raw 9780810857070
Booksplease Price: $147.81One of Henry James's main achievements as a novelist was his ability to demonstrate how the notions of "masculinity" and "femininity" are socially constructed, depending on a variety of contradictory... -
Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960 by Laurence Raw 9780786444748
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $49.12This work profiles a stellar lineup of talented, versatile character actors who regularly appeared in horror and science fiction films during Hollywood's golden age. Many are well known by genre... -
Theatre of the People: Donald Wolfit's Shakespearean Productions 1937-1953 by Laurence Raw 9781442257344
Booksplease Price: $178.21Throughout World War II, audiences in the United Kingdom craved entertainment, even during the country's darkest days. During this period, actor-manager Donald Wolfit and his theatre troupe toured... -
Global Jane Austen: Pleasure, Passion, and Possessiveness in the Jane Austen Community by Laurence Raw 9781349441808
Booksplease Price: $90.25Despite dying in relative obscurity, Jane Austen has become a global force as different readers across time, space and media have responded to her work. This volume examines the ways in which her... -
Global Jane Austen: Pleasure, Passion, and Possessiveness in the Jane Austen Community by Laurence Raw 9781137034434
Booksplease Price: $90.25Despite dying in relative obscurity, Jane Austen has become a global force as different readers across time, space and media have responded to her work. This volume examines the ways in which her... -
Adapted from the Original: Essays on the Value and Values of Works Remade for a New Medium by Laurence Raw 9780786478729
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $60.02Critics and audiences often judge films, books and other media as "great" -but what does that really mean? This collection of new essays examines the various criteria by which degrees of greatness... -
Cinema and Radio in Britain and America, 1920-60 by Jeffrey Richards 9781784991104
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $57.21Cinema and radio in Britain and America, 1920-60 charts the evolving relationship between the two principal mass media of the period. It explores, for the first time in print, the creative symbiosis... -
Redefining Adaptation Studies by Dennis Cutchins 9780810872981
Booksplease Price: $135.54Since films were first produced, adapted works have predominantly borrowed primarily from traditional texts, such as novels and plays. Likewise, the study of film adaptations has also been fairly... -
Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union: Leadership Style from Polk to Lincoln by Fred I. Greenstein 9780691151991
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $61.62The United States witnessed an unprecedented failure of its political system in the mid-nineteenth century, resulting in a disastrous civil war that claimed the lives of an estimated 750,000... -
Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union: Leadership Style from Polk to Lincoln by Fred I. Greenstein 9780691166612
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.25The United States witnessed an unprecedented failure of its political system in the mid-nineteenth century, resulting in a disastrous civil war that claimed the lives of an estimated 750,000... -
The Pedagogy of Adaptation by Dennis Cutchins 9780810872967
Booksplease Price: $124.51From All Quiet on the Western Front and Gone with the Wind to No Country for Old Men and Slumdog Millionaire, many of the most memorable films have been adapted from other sources. And while courses... -
Cinema in Turkey: A New Critical History by Savas Arslan 9780195370058
Booksplease Price: $156.21With over six thousand films, Turkey has produced more films than any other country in the Middle East or the Balkans. Despite its prolific and popular nature, this national film industry has often... -
Analyzing Literature-to-Film Adaptations: A Novelist's Exploration and Guide by Mary H. Snyder 9781441168184
Booksplease Price: $76.30This is an introduction of an academic means for critical analysis of film adaptations. Critical questions specific to film adaptations need to be not only developed but established. And, these... -
Aesthetics of Displacement: Turkey and its Minorities on Screen by Ozlem Koksal 9781501320187
Booksplease Price: $82.33This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Displacement does not only have an effect on groups' and individuals' ways of relating... -
Those Who Made It: Speaking with the Legends of Hollywood by John C. Tibbetts 9781137541901
Booksplease Price: $215.63What was it like to work behind the scenes, away from the spotlight's glare, in Hollywood's so-called Golden Age? The interviews in this book provide eye-witness accounts from the likes of Steven... -
Those Who Made It: Speaking with the Legends of Hollywood by John C. Tibbetts 9781137541895
Booksplease Price: $191.22What was it like to work behind the scenes, away from the spotlight's glare, in Hollywood's so-called Golden Age? The interviews in this book provide eye-witness accounts from the likes of Steven... -
The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott by Adam Barkman
Booksplease Price: $104.42The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott, edited by Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, and Nancy Kang, brings together eighteen critical essays that illuminate a nearly comprehensive selection of the...