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Apocalypse Cinema by Stephen Prince
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.34Vivid images of the apocalypse proliferate throughout contemporary cinema, which pictures the death of civilization in wildly different ways. Some films imagine a future where humanity is wiped out... -
Digital Cinema by Stephen Prince
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Digital Cinema considers how new technologies have revolutionized the medium, while investigating the continuities that might remain from filmmaking's analog era. In the process, it raises... -
Screening Violence by Stephen Prince 9780485300956
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Apocalypse Cinema by Stephen Prince 9781978819856
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.94Vivid images of the apocalypse proliferate throughout contemporary cinema, which pictures the death of civilization in wildly different ways. Some films imagine a future where humanity is wiped out... -
Digital Cinema by Stephen Prince 9780813596273
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £52.67Digital Cinema considers how new technologies have revolutionized the medium, while investigating the continuities that might remain from filmmaking's analog era. In the process, it raises... -
The Shildam Hall Tapes by Stephen Prince 9781916095229
Booksplease Price: £7.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916095229Author Stephen PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint -
Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch by Stephen Prince 9780521586061
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £16.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism by Stephen Prince 9780231148702
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £111.58It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed... -
A Dream of Resistance: The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki by Stephen Prince 9780813592350
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.48Celebrated as one of Japan's greatest filmmakers, Kobayashi Masaki's scorching depictions of war and militarism marked him as a uniquely defiant voice in post-war Japanese cinema. A pacifist drafted... -
Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism by Stephen Prince 9780231148719
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.79It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed... -
Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality by Stephen Prince 9780813551869
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.25Avatar. Inception. Jurassic Park. Lord of the Rings. Ratatouille. Not only are these some of the highest-grossing films of all time, they are also prime examples of how digital visual effects have... -
Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies by Stephen Prince 9780292765825
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36More than any other filmmaker, Sam Peckinpah opened the door for graphic violence in movies. In this book, Stephen Prince explains the rise of explicit violence in the American cinema, its social... -
The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa - Revised and Expanded Edition by Stephen Prince
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £42.45The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema. Rashomon, which won both the Venice Film Festival's grand prize... -
Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film by Stephen Prince 9780275936624
Booksplease Price: £39.13Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Stories of the South: Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915 by K. Stephen Prince 9781469627281
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The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900 by K. Stephen Prince 9781469661827
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £10.36For a brief moment in the summer of 1900, Robert Charles was arguably the most infamous black man in the United States. After an altercation with police on a New Orleans street, Charles killed two... -
A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989 Stephen Prince 9780520232662
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £34.52Facing an economic crisis in the 1980s, the Hollywood industry moved boldly to control the ancillary markets of videotape, video disk, pay-cable and pay-per-view, and the major studios found... -
The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900 by K. Stephen Prince 9781469661810
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £63.53For a brief moment in the summer of 1900, Robert Charles was arguably the most infamous black man in the United States. After an altercation with police on a New Orleans street, Charles killed two... -
A Year In The Country: Lost Transmissions: Dystopic Visions, Alternate Realities, Paranormal Quests and Exploratory Electronica by Stephen Prince 9781916095274
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916095274Author Stephen PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint -
A Year In The Country: Threshold Tales: Crossing the Boundaries of Woodland Wraiths, the Uncanny City, Edgeland Expeditions and Frontier Dreamscapes by Stephen Prince 9781916940000
Booksplease Price: £8.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916940000Author Stephen PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint -
Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon and their legacies by Blair Davis
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £47.72Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in 1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life's work as a whole... -
The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film by Barry Keith Grant
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.22"The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. It's rarely on the shelf at my university library, so continuously does it circulate. Now... -
Alternative Realities by Carl Plantinga
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £50.35From their very inception, movies have served two seemingly contradictory purposes. On one hand, they transport us to fantastical worlds and display mind-boggling special effects. On the other, they... -
Alternative Realities by Carl Plantinga 9780813599816
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47From their very inception, movies have served two seemingly contradictory purposes. On one hand, they transport us to fantastical worlds and display mind-boggling special effects. On the other, they... -
Storytelling, History, and the Postmodern South by Jason Phillips 9780807150344
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £32.86On November 5, 1968, Ralph Ellison stood up at the Southern Historical Association meeting in New Orleans and called the members gathered there ""respectable liars,"" thus exposing the link between... -
The Frodo Franchise: <i>The Lord of the Rings</i> and Modern Hollywood by Kristin Thompson 9780520258136
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.04"Once in a lifetime." The phrase comes up over and over from the people who worked on Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings". The film's seventeen Oscars, record-setting earnings, huge fan base, and... -
The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film by David Blakesley 9780809328291
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film examines the importance of rhetoric in the study of film and film theory. Rhetorical approaches to film studies have been widely practiced, but... -
Notions of Genre: Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory by Barry Keith Grant
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Much of the writing in film studies published today can be understood as genre criticism, broadly speaking. And even before film studies emerged as an academic discipline in the 1970s, cultural... -
Notions of Genre: Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory by Barry Keith Grant 9781477303757
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64Much of the writing in film studies published today can be understood as genre criticism, broadly speaking. And even before film studies emerged as an academic discipline in the 1970s, cultural... -
Film Dialogue Jeff Jaeckle 9780231165631
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £27.92Film Dialogue is the first anthology in film studies devoted to the topic of language in cinema, bringing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss the aesthetic, narrative, and ideological... -
Film Dialogue by Jeff Jaeckle 9780231165624
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £73.75Film Dialogue is the first anthology in film studies devoted to the topic of language in cinema, bringing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss the aesthetic, narrative, and ideological... -
Zombie Cinema by Ian Olney 9780813589466
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £47.71It's official: the zombie apocalypse is here. The living dead have been lurking in popular culture since the 1930s, but they have never been as ubiquitous or as widely-embraced as they are today. ... -
Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South by Amy Louise Wood 9780252042409
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White southerners relied on them to assert and maintain racial power, which led to... -
Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema by Lisa Bode 9780813579986
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £103.97In the past twenty years, we have seen the rise of digital effects cinema in which the human performer is entangled with animation, collaged with other performers, or inserted into perilous or... -
Embodied Visions: Evolution, Emotion, Culture, and Film by Torben Grodal 9780195371321
Booksplease Price: £52.80Embodied Visions presents a groundbreaking analysis of film through the lens of bioculturalism, revealing how human biology as well as human culture determine how films are made and experienced... -
Phantom Ladies: Hollywood Horror and the Home Front by Tim Snelson 9780813570426
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.32Defying industry logic and gender expectations, women started flocking to see horror films in the early 1940s. The departure of the young male audience and the surprise success of the film Cat People... -
Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema by Lisa Bode 9780813579979
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82In the past twenty years, we have seen the rise of digital effects cinema in which the human performer is entangled with animation, collaged with other performers, or inserted into perilous or... -
Hidden in Plain Sight: An Archaeology of Magic and the Cinema by Colin Williamson 9780813572536
Booksplease Price: £42.23What does it mean to describe cinematic effects as "movie magic," to compare filmmakers to magicians, or to say that the cinema is all a "trick"? The heyday of stage illusionism was over a century... -
Embodied Visions: Evolution, Emotion, Culture, and Film by Torben Grodal 9780195371314
Booksplease Price: £90.87Embodied Visions presents a groundbreaking analysis of film through the lens of bioculturalism, revealing how human biology as well as human culture determine how films are made and experienced... -
Hidden in Plain Sight: An Archaeology of Magic and the Cinema by Colin Williamson
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £100.68What does it mean to describe cinematic effects as "movie magic," to compare filmmakers to magicians, or to say that the cinema is all a "trick"? The heyday of stage illusionism was over a century...