Film & movie: styles & genres books

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The Werewolf Filmography: 300  Movies

The Werewolf Filmography: 300 Movies

Author: Bryan Senn
ISBN: 9780786479108
Format: Hardback
$76.00

From the horrific to the heroic, cinematic werewolves are metaphors for our savage nature, symbolizing the secret,...  Read More >>

Vampire Films of the 1970s: Dracula to Blacula and Every Fang Between

Vampire Films of the 1970s: Dracula to Blacula and Every...

Author: Gary A. Smith
ISBN: 9780786497799
Format: Paperback
$43.95

The 1970s were turbulent times and the films made then reflected the fact. Vampire movies - always a cinema staple...  Read More >>

La memoria cinematografica de la guerrilla antifranquista

La memoria cinematografica de la guerrilla antifranquista...

Author: Pere Joan Tous ,  Cornelia Ruhe
ISBN: 9789004331907
Format: Hardback
$343.20

The essays analyze the most emblematic films about the guerrilla movement against Francoism, emphasizing how this...  Read More >>

Modern Ghost Melodramas: 'What Lies Beneath'

Modern Ghost Melodramas: 'What Lies Beneath'

Author: Michael Walker
ISBN: 9789462980167
Format: Hardback
$512.16

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Vampira and Her Daughters: Women Horror Movie Hosts from the 1950s into the Internet Era

Vampira and Her Daughters: Women Horror Movie Hosts...

Author: Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter
ISBN: 9781476664347
Format: Paperback
$79.07

From Vampira to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, female horror movie hosts have long been a staple of late-night television....  Read More >>

The N*O*VO Nostalgia Movie Quiz and Information Book

The N*O*VO Nostalgia Movie Quiz and Information Book...

Author: David Cameron Dunn, PH D
ISBN: 9781480969162
Format: Paperback
$129.36

"The N*O*VO Nostalgia Movie Quiz and Information Book was written as a labor of love by a cinephile. Its intended...  Read More >>

Class Divisions in Serial Television

Class Divisions in Serial Television

Author: Sieglinde Lemke ,  Wibke Schniedermann
ISBN: 9781137594488
Format: Hardback
$192.95

This book brings the emergent interest in social class and inequality to the field of television studies. The case...  Read More >>

Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page

Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page

Author: Blair Davis
ISBN: 9780813572253
Format: Paperback
$102.83

Adaptations of comics have been an integral part of American cinema from its very inception. Movie Comics is the...  Read More >>

Superheroes on World Screens

Superheroes on World Screens

Author: Rayna Denison ,  Rachel Mizsei-Ward
ISBN: 9781496809698
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Superheroes such as Superman and Spider-Man have spread all over the world. As this edited volume shows, many national...  Read More >>

Escape Velocity: American Science Fiction Film, 1950–1982

Escape Velocity: American Science Fiction Film, 1950–1982...

Author: Bradley Schauer
ISBN: 9780819576590
Format: Paperback
$71.15

A cultural and economic history of science fiction cinema, from B-movies to blockbusters  Read More >>

Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page

Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page

Author: Blair Davis
ISBN: 9780813572260
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Adaptations of comics have been an integral part of American cinema from its very inception. Movie Comics is the...  Read More >>

Hitchcock's Moral Gaze

Hitchcock's Moral Gaze

Author: R. Barton Palmer ,  Homer B. Pettey
ISBN: 9781438463858
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Offers new and compelling perspectives on the deeply moral nature of Hitchcock’s films.  Read More >>

John Huston as Adaptor

John Huston as Adaptor

Author: Douglas McFarland ,  Wesley King
ISBN: 9781438463735
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Argues that understanding Huston’s film adaptations of literary works is essential to understanding his oeuvre as...  Read More >>

Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film

Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in...

Author: Dawn Keetley ,  Angela Tenga
ISBN: 9781137570628
Format: Hardback
$294.95

This collection explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life, voicing anxieties about...  Read More >>

Hong Kong Neo-Noir

Hong Kong Neo-Noir

Author: Esther Yau ,  Tony Williams
ISBN: 9781474412667
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong...  Read More >>

The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East...

Author: Ian Aitken ,  Camille Deprez
ISBN: 9781474407205
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official...  Read More >>

A Companion to the Horror Film

A Companion to the Horror Film

Author: Harry M. Benshoff (University of North Texas, USA)
ISBN: 9781119335016
Format: Paperback
$100.95

This cutting-edge collection features original essays by eminent scholars on one of cinema's most dynamic and enduringly...  Read More >>

The Godfather Notebook

The Godfather Notebook

Author: Francis Ford Coppola ,  Joe Mantegna
ISBN: 9781536668674
Format: Audio
$26.37

'The Godfather' by Mario Puzo reprinted by arrangement with New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Publishing...  Read More >>

Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics

Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics

Author: John Edgar Browning ,  David Castillo
ISBN: 9781349887415
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Zombie Talk offers a concise, interdisciplinary introduction and deep analytical set of theoretical approaches to...  Read More >>

Sociology on Film: Postwar Hollywood's Prestige Commodity

Sociology on Film: Postwar Hollywood's Prestige Commodity...

Author: Chris Cagle
ISBN: 9780813576930
Format: Paperback
$100.19

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The Cinema of Hal Hartley: Flirting with Formalism

The Cinema of Hal Hartley: Flirting with Formalism

Author: Steven Rybin
ISBN: 9780231176170
Format: Paperback
$42.95

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Sociology on Film: Postwar Hollywood's Prestige Commodity

Sociology on Film: Postwar Hollywood's Prestige Commodity...

Author: Chris Cagle
ISBN: 9780813576947
Format: Hardback
$396.00

After World War II, Hollywood’s “social problem films”—tackling topical issues that included racism, crime, mental...  Read More >>

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