Film & movie: styles & genres books

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Age of the Geek: Depictions of Nerds and Geeks in Popular Media

Age of the Geek: Depictions of Nerds and Geeks in Popular...

Author: Kathryn E. Lane
ISBN: 9783319657431
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This collection examines the nerd and/or geek stereotype in popular culture today. Utilizing the media—film, TV,...  Read More >>

Dead Reckonings No. 22 (Fall 2017)

Dead Reckonings No. 22 (Fall 2017)

Author: Alex Houstoun ,  Abolafia J Michael
ISBN: 9781614982128
Format: Paperback
$19.41

The Hippocampus Press Review of Horror and the Weird in the Arts examines recent releases in print, film, and television....  Read More >>

Reassessing the Hitchcock Touch: Industry, Collaboration, and Filmmaking

Reassessing the Hitchcock Touch: Industry, Collaboration,...

Author: Wieland Schwanebeck
ISBN: 9783319600079
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This volume is dedicated to the elusive category of the Hitchcock Touch, the qualities and techniques which had...  Read More >>

The Ghost of One's Self: Doppelgangers in Mystery, Horror and Science Fiction Films

The Ghost of One's Self: Doppelgangers in Mystery, Horror...

Author: Paul Meehan
ISBN: 9781476665665
Format: Paperback
$105.47

The theme of the double has inspired works by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Poe, de Maupassant, Dostoevsky and others, and has...  Read More >>

Disney and the Dialectic of Desire: Fantasy as Social Practice

Disney and the Dialectic of Desire: Fantasy as Social...

Author: Joseph Zornado
ISBN: 9783319626765
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book analyzes Walt Disney’s impact on entertainment, new media, and consumer culture in terms of a materialist,...  Read More >>

Funny Thing About Murder: Modes of Humor in Crime Fiction and Films

Funny Thing About Murder: Modes of Humor in Crime Fiction...

Author: David Geherin
ISBN: 9781476669113
Format: Paperback
$62.70

Focusing on crime fiction, film and television that artfully combine comedy and misdeed, this comprehensive study...  Read More >>

Orbit: George Lucas: Rise of an Empire

Orbit: George Lucas: Rise of an Empire

Author: Brian Smith ,  Darren G Davis
ISBN: 9781948216357
Format: Paperback
$20.60

As featured on CNN, Time Magazine, People Magazine, LA Times, Forbes, and MSNBC! Orbit is a comic book biography...  Read More >>

Expressionism in the Cinema

Expressionism in the Cinema

Author: Olaf Brill ,  Gary D. Rhodes
ISBN: 9781474425872
Format: Hardback
$75.01

An innovative and wide-ranging collection, Expressionism in Cinema re-canonizes the classical Expressionist aesthetic,...  Read More >>

French and Spanish Queer Film: Audiences, Communities and Cultural Exchange

French and Spanish Queer Film: Audiences, Communities...

Author: Chris Perriam ,  Darren Waldron
ISBN: 9781474425995
Format: Hardback
$62.07

Advancing the current state of film audience research and of our knowledge of sexuality in transnational contexts,...  Read More >>

Orbit: George Lucas: Rise of an Empire

Orbit: George Lucas: Rise of an Empire

Author: Brian Smith ,  Darren G Davis
ISBN: 9781955712361
Format: Hardback
$36.64

"""A creative force whose pioneering efforts in the area of sound production and special affects forever changed...  Read More >>

It Came From the Video Aisle!: Inside Charles Band’s Full Moon Entertainment Studio

It Came From the Video Aisle!: Inside Charles Band’s...

Author: David Jay ,  William Wilson
ISBN: 9780764354106
Format: Paperback
$75.00

Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment was the most remarkable B-movie studio of the 1990s, responsible for a barrage...  Read More >>

Italian Motherhood on Screen

Italian Motherhood on Screen

Author: Giovanna Faleschini Lerner ,  Maria Elena D’Amelio
ISBN: 9783319566740
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The essays in this volume focus on the figures of working mothers, women who opt for a child-free adulthood, single...  Read More >>

Testing Coherence in Narrative Film

Testing Coherence in Narrative Film

Author: Katerina Virvidaki
ISBN: 9783319621951
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book examines the concept of coherence in film studies. The author then proceeds to a close analysis of stylistically...  Read More >>

Fairy Tales on the Teen Screen: Rituals of Girlhood

Fairy Tales on the Teen Screen: Rituals of Girlhood...

Author: Athena Bellas
ISBN: 9783319649726
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book examines how the fairy tale is currently being redeployed and revised on the contemporary teen screen....  Read More >>

Humour as Politics: The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy

Humour as Politics: The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary...

Author: Nicholas Holm
ISBN: 9783319509495
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Through an analysis of humour as a political and aesthetic category, Humour as Politics challenges older models...  Read More >>

Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty

Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty...

Author: Martine Beugnet ,  Allan Cameron
ISBN: 9781474407144
Format: Undefined
$69.84

With a range of approaches, from aesthetics to phenomenology to production studies, the authors in this volume investigate...  Read More >>

The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience

The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience...

Author: Julian Hanich
ISBN: 9781474414951
Format: Undefined
$245.81

In this innovative book, Julian Hanich explores the subjectively lived experience of watching films together, to...  Read More >>

The Late Films of Claude Chabrol: Genre, Visual Expressionism and Narrational Ambiguity

The Late Films of Claude Chabrol: Genre, Visual Expressionism...

Author: Jacob Leigh (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781501312496
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Studies the unique achievements of Chabrol's last fourteen years of filmmaking, during which he made nine remarkable...  Read More >>

Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show

Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak...

Author: Jessica L. Williams
ISBN: 9783319664613
Format: Hardback
$206.97

It explores the ways in which moving image media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets and appropriates, the...  Read More >>

Tribute: John Wayne

Tribute: John Wayne

Author: Vincenzo Sansone ,  Darren G Davis
ISBN: 9781948216050
Format: Paperback
$20.60

TidalWave is proud to present this graphic tribute to the man behind the legend.  Read More >>

Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone

Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone

Author: Matt Zoller ,  Simon Abrams
ISBN: 9781785657269
Format: Hardback
$103.50

Explore the creation of Guillermo del Toro's early masterpiece through this visually stunning and insightful look...  Read More >>

Not According to Plan: Filmmaking under Stalin

Not According to Plan: Filmmaking under Stalin

Author: Maria Belodubrovskaya
ISBN: 9781501709944
Format: Hardback
$116.44

In Not According to Plan, Maria Belodubrovskaya reveals the limits on the power of even the most repressive totalitarian...  Read More >>

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