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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... -
Hollywood Musicals Steven Cohan 9781138497450
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £27.79Hollywood Musicals offers an insightful account of a genre that was once a mainstay of twentieth-century film production and continues to draw audiences today.What is a film musical? How do musicals... -
The Sound of Musicals by Steven Cohan 9781844573462
Booksplease Price: £37.92D?espite having had its obituary written many times, the movie musical remains a flourishing twenty-first century form, and as this volume demonstrates, one that exists far beyond the confines of... -
The Road Movie Book by Steven Cohan 9780415149372
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.54The Road Movie Book is the first comprehensive study of an enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre, its place in American culture, and its legacy to world cinema. The road and the cinema both... -
The Plays of James Boaden by Steven Cohan 9780367174026
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Originally compiled and published in 1980, this volume contains the plays of James Broaden. Although not many critics of eighteenth-century drama mention Broaden, he loved the theatre and its world,... -
Some Like It Hot Steven Cohan 9781839027314
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.69Billy Wilder's classic screwball comedy Some Like it Hot (1959), starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, tells the story of two struggling Jazz musicians who accidentally witness a mob... -
On Audrey Hepburn: An Opinionated Guide Steven Cohan 9780197668283
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.90Why should Audrey Hepburn matter today? This lively and engaging book revises the contemporary view of Hepburn that sees her primarily as a fashion icon and style guru, frozen in images from... -
Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader by Steven Cohan 9780415235600
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £47.72Articles 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,... -
Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction Steven Cohan 9780415013871
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Telling Stories overturns traditional definitions of narrative by arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a Jane Austen novel of a 'Cathy' comic, must be related to larger... -
Business Principles for Landscape Contracting Steven Cohan (University of Maryland, USA) 9780415788205
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.24Business Principles for Landscape Contracting, fully revised and updated in its third edition, is an introduction to the application of business principles of financial management involved in setting... -
Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies by Steven Cohan 9780190865771
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £36.39The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day. What gives backstudios their... -
Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies by Steven Cohan 9780190865788
Booksplease Price: £113.21The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day. What gives backstudios their... -
Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical by Steven Cohan 9780822335955
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61With 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... -
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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... -
Exhibition, The Film Reader Ina Rae Hark 9780415235181
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £40.57From the kinetoscope, used by one viewer at a time, to the lavish movie palaces of Hollywood's golden era, the experience of watching films has varied enormously across film. Exhibition, The Film... -
Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film by Ellis Hanson
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91This collection brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. While the "politics of representation" has been the... -
Male Trouble by Constance Penley 9780816621729
Booksplease Price: £28.77The contributors provide a thought-provoking, comprehensive study of masculinity in American culture today.Contributors: Parveen Adams, Ian Balfour, Ray Barrie, Sabrina Barton, Steven Cohan, Rey... -
Working Like a Homosexual: Camp, Capital, Cinema by Matthew Tinkcom 9780822328896
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89What does camp have to do with capitalism? How have queer men created a philosophy of commodity culture? Why is cinema central to camp? With chapters on the films of Vincente Minnelli, Andy Warhol,... -
The Last Word: The Hollywood Novel and the Studio System by Justin Gautreau
RRP: £37.49Booksplease Price: £36.78The Last Word argues that the Hollywood novel opened up space for cultural critique of the film industry at a time when the industry lacked the capacity to critique itself. While the young studio... -
Duck Soup by J. Hoberman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.88The 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... -
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... -
The Movie Musical by Desiree J. Garcia
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.52Putting 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 Movie Musical by Desiree J. Garcia 9781978803794
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £52.67Putting 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 Apartment Complex: Urban Living and Global Screen Cultures by Pamela Robertson Wojcik
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89From the bachelor pad that Jack Lemmon's C. C. Baxter loans out to his superiors in Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) to the crumbling tenement in a dystopian Taipei in Tsai Ming-liang's The Hole... -
The Apartment Complex: Urban Living and Global Screen Cultures by Pamela Robertson Wojcik 9781478001089
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £79.74From the bachelor pad that Jack Lemmon's C. C. Baxter loans out to his superiors in Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) to the crumbling tenement in a dystopian Taipei in Tsai Ming-liang's The Hole... -
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... -
The Dressing Room: Backstage Lives and American Film Desirée J. Garcia 9781978819252
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £76.70A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imaginations of filmmakers and audiences for over a century. In The Dressing Room: Backstage Lives and American... -
The Dressing Room: Backstage Lives and American Film Desirée J. Garcia 9781978819245
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imaginations of filmmakers and audiences for over a century. In The Dressing Room: Backstage Lives and American... -
Spectatorship: Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Media by Roxanne Samer
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Media platforms continually evolve, but the issues surrounding media representations of gender and sexuality have persisted across decades. Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of... -
Demographic Angst: Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s by Alan Nadel 9780813565507
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £98.40Prolific literature, both popular and scholarly, depicts America in the period of the High Cold War as being obsessed with normality, implicitly figuring the postwar period as a return to the way of... -
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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... -
Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom: James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves by Michael DeAngelis 9780822327387
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Why 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... -
In The Space Of A Song: The Uses of Song in Film Richard Dyer 9780415223744
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £40.57Songs 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... -
Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the American West and South by Susan Courtney
Booksplease Price: £36.57Split Screen Nation traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was unstable and dramatically shifting in the decades after WWII, and has marked popular ways of... -
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...