Filter By
Books (7)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Sunset Boulevard by Steven Cohan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.69Billy 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... -
Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical by Steven Cohan 9780822335573 [USED COPY]
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £11.33With their lavish costumes and sets, ebullient song and dance numbers, and iconic movie stars, the musicals that mgm produced in the 1940s seem today to epitomize camp. Yet they were originally made... -
Duck Soup by J. Hoberman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06The Marx Brothers are universally considered to be classic Hollywood's preeminent comedy team and Duck Soup is generally regarded as their quintessential film. A topical satire of dictatorship and... -
The Movie Musical by Desiree J. Garcia
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Putting Asian and European musicals into conversation with Hollywood classics like Singin' in the Rain and La La Land, this study demonstrates the flexibility and durability of the genre. It explores... -
The Stardom Film: Creating the Hollywood Fairy Tale by Karen McNally
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.37Since the earliest days of the movie industry, Hollywood has mythologized itself through stories of stardom. A female protagonist escapes the confines of rural America in search of freedom in a... -
Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom: James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves by Michael DeAngelis 9780822327288 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £4.42Why and how does the appeal of certain male Hollywood stars cross over from straight to gay audiences? Do stars lose their cachet with straight audiences when they cross over? In Gay Fandom and... -
Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture by Diane Negra
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the "girling" of...