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Stars by Richard Dyer 9780851706436
Booksplease Price: $69.87Through the intensive examination of films, magazines, advertising and critical texts, Dyer analyses the historical, ideological and aesthetic significance of stars, changing the way we understand... -
Brief Encounter by Richard Dyer
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.65Brief Encounter (1945), adapted from Noel Coward's play Still Life, is a classic of British cinema - a tale of impossible love between a married woman and a man she meets while waiting for a train... -
Seven by Richard Dyer 9781839027437
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.11David Fincher's Seven (1995) follows two detectives, David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), as they investigate a series of gruesome murders. One of the most acclaimed films... -
Pastiche Richard Dyer 9780415340106
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $73.89Writing with his customary wit and style, Richard Dyer argues that while pastiche can be used to describe works which contain montage or collage, it can also be used to describe works which are a... -
La dolce vita by Richard Dyer
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.49Fellini's La dolce vita has been a phenomenon since before it was made, a scandal in the making and on release in 1960 and a reference point ever since. Much of what made it notorious was its... -
The Culture of Queers by Richard Dyer 9780415223768
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.16For around a hundred years up to the Stonewall riots, the word used for gay men was 'queers'. In The Culture of Queers, Richard Dyer traces the contours of queer culture, examining the differences... -
Now You See It by Richard Dyer
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $77.04Now You See It, Richard Dyer's groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, has been revised for a second edition, and features an introduction by Juliane Pidduck outlining... -
Only Entertainment Richard Dyer 9780415254977
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $75.64Only Entertainment explores entertainment as entertainment, asking how and whether an emphasis on the primacy of pleasure sets it apart from other forms of art.Dyer focuses on the genres most... -
The Amazons and Other Stories by Richard Dyer 9781665744218
Booksplease Price: $30.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665744218Author Richard DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher... -
The Richard Dyer Reader by Glyn Davis 9781839023170
Booksplease Price: $209.74Richard Dyer is a foundational figure for the critical study of cinema and popular culture. Across a career spanning five decades, he has made path breaking contributions to our understanding of... -
The Amazons and Other Stories by Richard Dyer 9781665744201
Booksplease Price: $67.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665744201Author Richard DyerFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher... -
The Richard Dyer Reader by Glyn Davis 9781839023163
Booksplease Price: $69.73Richard Dyer is a foundational figure for the critical study of cinema and popular culture. Across a career spanning five decades, he has made path breaking contributions to our understanding of... -
The Silent Screen by Richard Dyer MacCann 9780810833920
Booksplease Price: $124.51There is a great deal of pleasure to be gained from the first thirty years of American movies_even without seeing the movies. The Silent Screen is dedicated to guiding readers through some of those... -
Hollywood in Transition Richard Dyer MacCann 9780837196169
Booksplease Price: $104.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorcCann /f Richard /i DyerBook InformationISBN 9780837196169Author Richard Dyer MacCannFormat HardbackPage... -
The Stars Appear by Richard Dyer MacCann 9780810825284
Booksplease Price: $114.47'A splendid anthology' -Kevin Brownlow, author of The Parade's Gone By and Hollywood: The Pioneers. This pathbreaking work will become our most valuable resource on the performers of the American... -
Popular European Cinema by Richard Dyer 9780415068031
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.16Popular European Cinema examines the reasons why films that are most popular with audiences in any one European countha are seldom successful eslewhere. Audiences themselves represent diverse class,... -
White: Twentieth Anniversary Edition Richard Dyer 9781138683044
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $71.49Now twenty years since its initial release, Richard Dyer's classic text White remains a groundbreaking and insightful study of the representation of whiteness in Western visual culture.White explores... -
Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society by Richard Dyer
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $75.64Richard Dyer's classic study of movie stars and stardom has been updated, with a new introduction by the author discussing the rise of celebrity culture and developments in the study of stars since... -
Anita Ekberg: International Blonde Richard Dyer 9781399532174
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $158.05Anita Ekberg was a major international star now chiefly remembered for her half-hour appearance in La dolce vita. She was a Swedish film star who worked extensively in the USA, Italy and elsewhere in... -
The Matter of Images: Essays on Representations by Richard Dyer 9780415254953
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $75.64Now published in a revised second edition, The Matter of Images searches through the resonances of the term 'representation', analysing images in terms of why they matter, what they are made of, and... -
The First Film Makers by Richard Dyer MacCann 9780810822306
Booksplease Price: $156.64Again Richard Dyer MacCann has brought his editorial skills to the task of presenting for the students and the general reader what movie making was like in the earliest days of America. This time he... -
Richard Dyer-Bennet: The Last Minstrel by Paul Jenkins 9781604733600
Booksplease Price: $80.67In the 1940s and '50s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most respected folk singers in America. Paul O. Jenkins tells, for the first time, the story of Dyer-Bennet, often... -
In The Space Of A Song: The Uses of Song in Film Richard Dyer 9780415223744
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $75.64Songs take up space and time in films. Richard Dyer's In the Space of a Song takes off from this perception, arguing that the way songs take up space indicates a great deal about the songs... -
Nino Rota: Music, Film and Feeling by Richard Dyer 9781844572106
Booksplease Price: $68.27Nino Rota is one of the most important composers in the history of cinema. Both popular and prolific, he wrote some of the most cherished and memorable of all film music - for The Godfather Parts I... -
Richard Dyer-Bennet: The Last Minstrel by Paul O. Jenkins 9781617032059
Booksplease Price: $48.03In the 1940s and '50s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most respected folk singers in America. Paul O. Jenkins tells, for the first time, the story of Dyer-Bennet, often... -
Lethal Repetition: Serial Killing in European Cinema by Richard Dyer 9781844573936
Booksplease Price: $64.80Serial killing is an extremely rare phenomenon in reality that is none-theless remarkably widespread in the cultural imagination. Moreover, despite its rarity, it is also taken to be an expression of... -
Leon Kirchner - Composer, Performer, and Teacher by Robert Riggs
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $178.76Biography of the late American composer Leon Kirchner (1919-2009), exploring his work and important personal associations. In this first biography of American composer, pianist, conductor, and... -
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race Farah Karim-Cooper 9780861545346
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $25.60SHAKESPEARE: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon? 'Powerful and illuminating' James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare,... -
Electronica, Dance and Club Music Mark J. Butler 9781032918624
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $64.70Discos, clubs and raves have been focal points for the development of new and distinctive musical and cultural practices over the past four decades. This volume presents the rich array of scholarship... -
Nonfiction Film: A Critical History Revised and Expanded by Richard Barsam
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $46.37"Richard Barsam has given us as comprehensive a study of the origins and development of the nonfiction mode in motion pictures as we are ever likely to have in one volume. He draws on all the major... -
Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader by Steven Cohan 9780415235600
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $89.58Articles examine the musical in relation to its generic form and conventions, the relationship between narrative and spectacle, gender and feminist analysis, camp production and reception, stardom,... -
Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America Jerónimo Arellano 9781684485840
Booksplease Price: $62.11Newly available in paperback, Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America is the first study of affect and emotion in magical realist literature. Against the grain of a vast body... -
Stars, The Film Reader Lucy Fischer 9780415278935
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $73.89From two distinguished academics, Stars: The Film Reader brings together key writings and new perspectives on stars and stardom in cinema including coverage of stars and star systems from Europe and... -
The Popular Arts by Stuart Hall 9780822349082
RRP: $249.60Booksplease Price: $198.51When it first appeared in 1964, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel's The Popular Arts opened up an almost unprecedented field of analysis and inquiry into contemporary popular culture. Counter to the... -
American Cinema and Hollywood: Critical Approaches by John Hill 9780198742814
Booksplease Price: $134.55'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... -
Visible and Invisible Whiteness: American White Supremacy through the Cinematic Lens by Alice Mikal Craven 9783030082857
Booksplease Price: $158.85Visible and Invisible Whiteness examines the complicity between Classical Hollywood narratives or genres and representations of white supremacy in the cinema. Close readings of D.W. Griffith's The... -
The Popular Arts by Stuart Hall
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89When it first appeared in 1964, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel's The Popular Arts opened up an almost unprecedented field of analysis and inquiry into contemporary popular culture. Counter to the... -
Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian and Queer Essays on Popular Culture by Corey K. Creekmur 9780822315414
Booksplease Price: $77.36Out in Culture charts some of the ways in which lesbians, gays, and queers have understood and negotiated the pleasures and affirmations, as well as the disappointments, of mass culture. The essays... -
Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film by Miriam Hansen 9780674058316
RRP: $79.85Booksplease Price: $70.30Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a decade more before the concept of a "film spectator" emerged. As the cinema began to separate itself from the commercial entertainments in... -
Popular Italian Cinema by L. Bayman 9781349335862
Booksplease Price: $94.38Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the sex comedy, missionary cinema and the musical. The book interrogates the very meaning...