Film & movie: styles & genres books

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The Major Realist Film Theorists: A Critical Anthology

The Major Realist Film Theorists: A Critical Anthology...

Author: Ian Aitken
ISBN: 9781474425964
Format: Paperback
$62.07

The first collection to address the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, André Bazin and Georg Lukács...  Read More >>

Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks: Gender, Genre and Film Sound in American Cinema

Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks: Gender, Genre...

Author: Heidi Wilkins
ISBN: 9781474425902
Format: Paperback
$62.07

This book explores a range of popular film genres throughout American history and uncovers the ways that sound is...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Bakhtin, and Film: A Dialogic Lens

Shakespeare, Bakhtin, and Film: A Dialogic Lens

Author: Keith Harrison
ISBN: 9783319597423
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book explores how Bakhtin’s ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema....  Read More >>

The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History

The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History

Author: Stephen Jones ,  John Landis
ISBN: 9781495064845
Format: Hardback
$77.63

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Hamlet Lives in Hollywood: John Barrymore and the Acting Tradition Onscreen

Hamlet Lives in Hollywood: John Barrymore and the Acting...

Author: Murray Pomerance ,  Steven Rybin
ISBN: 9781474411394
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book, a collection of fifteen original essays on the film performances and stardom of John Barrymore, redresses...  Read More >>

Improving Passions: Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film

Improving Passions: Sentimental Aesthetics and American...

Author: Charles Burnetts
ISBN: 9780748698196
Format: Hardback
$181.13

Examining eighteenth century `moral sense philosophy as a neglected but important intellectual area for film theory,...  Read More >>

Coming-Of-Age Cinema in New Zealand: Genre, Gender and Adaptation

Coming-Of-Age Cinema in New Zealand: Genre, Gender and...

Author: Alistair Fox
ISBN: 9781474429443
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This is the first book to investigate the coming-of-age genre as a significant phenomenon in New Zealand s national...  Read More >>

American Independent Cinema: Second Edition

American Independent Cinema: Second Edition

Author: Yannis Tzioumakis ,  Vito Adriaensens
ISBN: 9781474416825
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This introduction to American Independent Cinema offers both a comprehensive industrial and economic history of...  Read More >>

Cinematic Nihilism: Encounters, Confrontations, Overcomings

Cinematic Nihilism: Encounters, Confrontations, Overcomings...

Author: John Marmysz
ISBN: 9781474424561
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Through case studies of popular films, including Prometheus, The Dark Knight Rises, Dawn of the Dead and The Human...  Read More >>

Film Noir

Film Noir

Author: Alain Silver ,  James Ursini
ISBN: 9783836561693
Format: Hardback
$44.99

Explore the dark and brooding elegance of Film Noir with this essential handbook to the genre, exploring key noir...  Read More >>

Animation – Process, Cognition and Actuality

Animation – Process, Cognition and Actuality

Author: Dr Dan Torre (RMIT University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781501308147
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Applies the principles of process philosophy and Deleuzian film aesthetics to animation as a genre and medium.  Read More >>

Anatomy of the Superhero Film

Anatomy of the Superhero Film

Author: Larrie Dudenhoeffer
ISBN: 9783319579214
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book addresses what a superhero body can do by developing several “x-rays” of the superbody’s sensoria, anatomic...  Read More >>

American Independent Cinema: Second Edition

American Independent Cinema: Second Edition

Author: Yannis Tzioumakis
ISBN: 9781474416849
Format: Undefined
$75.01

This introduction to American Independent Cinema offers both a comprehensive industrial and economic history of...  Read More >>

Female Stars of British Cinema: The Women in Question

Female Stars of British Cinema: The Women in Question...

Author: Melanie Williams
ISBN: 9781474405645
Format: Undefined
$62.07

Female Stars of British Cinema uses case studies of seven female stars whose careers span the 1940s to the present...  Read More >>

A Kiss Goodnight

A Kiss Goodnight

Author: Floyd M. Norman ,  Adrienne Brown
ISBN: 9781484782286
Format: Hardback
$52.77

A beautifully illustrated storybook tells the story of Walt Disney's love of fireworks and features the lyrics to...  Read More >>

A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen

A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen

Author: Arthur J. Pomeroy (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781118741351
Format: Hardback
$353.95

A comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome...  Read More >>

I Lost It At The Video Store

I Lost It At The Video Store

Author: Tom Roston ,  John Sayles
ISBN: 9781941629383
Format: Paperback
$39.47

An oral history of the video store era as told by the filmmakers who were there.  Read More >>

Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema: The Musical Poetry of Motion Pictures Revisited

Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema: The Musical...

Author: Daniel Barnett (San Francisco Art Institute, USA)
ISBN: 9781501329845
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers...  Read More >>

Espionage in British Fiction and Film since 1900: The Changing Enemy

Espionage in British Fiction and Film since 1900: The...

Author: Oliver Buckton
ISBN: 9781498504836
Format: Paperback
$113.00

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Queer European Cinema: Queering Cinematic Time and Space

Queer European Cinema: Queering Cinematic Time and Space...

Author: Leanne Dawson
ISBN: 9781138037564
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This book provides an overview of LGBTQ representation and trends throughout cinematic history. It examines specific...  Read More >>

Theatre Of Blood

Theatre Of Blood

Author: John Llewellyn Probert
ISBN: 9781999795801
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Passionate, intelligent and accessible. Midnight Movie monographs go where other critical series fear to tread....  Read More >>

The Making and Unmaking of Francoist Kitsch Cinema: From Raza to Pan's Labyrinth

The Making and Unmaking of Francoist Kitsch Cinema:...

Author: Alejandro Yarza
ISBN: 9780748699247
Format: Paperback
$245.81

This book examines five highly influential Francoist films produced from 1938 until 1964 and three later films by...  Read More >>

Doctor Who and History: Critical Essays on Imagining the Past

Doctor Who and History: Critical Essays on Imagining...

Author: Dene October ,  Carey Fleiner
ISBN: 9781476666563
Format: Paperback
$50.60

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