Film & movie: styles & genres books

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The Cinema of Hal Hartley: Flirting with Formalism

The Cinema of Hal Hartley: Flirting with Formalism

Author: Steven Rybin
ISBN: 9780231176163
Format: Hardback
$140.95

Featuring new essays on this important director and his films, this collection explores Hartley’s work from a variety...  Read More >>

Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock

Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock

Author: John Russell Taylor
ISBN: 9781448216642
Format: Paperback
$12.99

"One of the cinema's most successful directors, a virtuoso visual artist, and a genius of the supense genre, Alfred...  Read More >>

British Children's Cinema: From the Thief of Bagdad to Wallace and Gromit

British Children's Cinema: From the Thief of Bagdad...

Author: Noel Brown (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
ISBN: 9781784534004
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Noel Brown celebrates and explores popular children's films from the Harry Potter franchise to Paddington, revealing...  Read More >>

Utopian Visions and Revisions: Or the Uses of Ideal Worlds

Utopian Visions and Revisions: Or the Uses of Ideal...

Author: Artur Blaim
ISBN: 9783631675656
Format: Hardback
$160.43

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The Legal Thriller from Gardner to Grisham: See you in Court!

The Legal Thriller from Gardner to Grisham: See you...

Author: Lars Ole Sauerberg
ISBN: 9781137407290
Format: Hardback
$204.95

Overviewing the legal thriller, where most of the titles have been written by professionals such as lawyers and...  Read More >>

Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour

Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour

Author: Chiara Bucaria ,  Luca Barra
ISBN: 9781137593375
Format: Hardback
$192.95

The essays in this collection explore taboo and controversial humour in traditional scripted (sitcoms and other...  Read More >>

Emerging Genres in New Media Environments

Emerging Genres in New Media Environments

Author: Carolyn R. Miller ,  Ashley R. Kelly
ISBN: 9783319402949
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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Evil Children in the Popular Imagination

Evil Children in the Popular Imagination

Author: Karen J. Renner
ISBN: 9781137603210
Format: Hardback
$192.95

From novels to music videos, photography to video games, the evil child haunts a range of texts and comes in a variety...  Read More >>

The Hammer Vault: Treasures From the Archive of Hammer Films

The Hammer Vault: Treasures From the Archive of Hammer...

Author: Marcus Hearn
ISBN: 9781785654473
Format: Hardback
$75.00

This remarkable journey through the Hammer vault includes props, annotated script pages, unused poster artwork,...  Read More >>

The Red and the Black: American Film Noir in the 1950s

The Red and the Black: American Film Noir in the 1950s...

Author: Robert Miklitsch
ISBN: 9780252082191
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Critical wisdom has it that we said a long goodbye to film noir in the 1950s. Robert Miklitsch begs to differ. Pursuing...  Read More >>

The Red and the Black: American Film Noir in the 1950s

The Red and the Black: American Film Noir in the 1950s...

Author: Robert Miklitsch
ISBN: 9780252040689
Format: Hardback
$271.00

Critical wisdom has it that we said a long goodbye to film noir in the 1950s. Robert Miklitsch begs to differ. Pursuing...  Read More >>

The Marvel Vault: A Visual History

The Marvel Vault: A Visual History

Author: Roy Thomas ,  Peter Sanderson
ISBN: 9781785652875
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Ten years after its initial successful publication, The Marvel Vault  Read More >>

The Science of Star Wars: The Scientific Facts Behind the Force, Space Travel, and More!

The Science of Star Wars: The Scientific Facts Behind...

Author: Mark Brake ,  Jon Chase
ISBN: 9781944686284
Format: Paperback
$27.99

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Beyond Blaxploitation

Beyond Blaxploitation

Author: Novotny Lawrence ,  Gerald R. Butters
ISBN: 9780814340769
Format: Paperback
$92.37

A groundbreaking scholarly anthology devoted to examining canonical and lesser-known films of the blaxploitation...  Read More >>

Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States

Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity...

Author: Laura Lindenfeld ,  Fabio Parasecoli
ISBN: 9780231172516
Format: Paperback
$61.95

Feasting Our Eyes takes a second look at modern American food films to emphasize their conventional approaches to...  Read More >>

Gossip, Women, Film, and Chick Flicks

Gossip, Women, Film, and Chick Flicks

Author: Sarah-Mai Dang
ISBN: 9781137560179
Format: Hardback
$272.95

Presenting two case studies on the films Easy A (Will Gluck 2010) and Emma (Douglas McGrath 1996), Dang demonstrates...  Read More >>

Star Trek: Fifty Years of Star Trek

Star Trek: Fifty Years of Star Trek

Author: Titan
ISBN: 9781785855931
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The 50-year history of Star Trek, as told by the people who were there!  Read More >>

Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States

Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity...

Author: Laura Lindenfeld ,  Fabio Parasecoli
ISBN: 9780231172509
Format: Hardback
$198.95

Feasting Our Eyes takes a second look at modern American food films to emphasize their conventional approaches to...  Read More >>

Drone Age Cinema: Action Film and Sensory Assault

Drone Age Cinema: Action Film and Sensory Assault

Author: Steen Ledet Christiansen
ISBN: 9781784536404
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Action cinema is entering the drone age.  Read More >>

Celluloid War Memorials: The British Instructional Films Company and the Memory of the Great War

Celluloid War Memorials: The British Instructional Films...

Author: Mark Connelly
ISBN: 9780859899987
Format: Hardback
$194.06

British Instructional Films was at the centre of a number of issues important to Britain and the Empire in the 1920s: ...  Read More >>

Fatal Visions - The Golden Age: 1990-1998

Fatal Visions - The Golden Age: 1990-1998

Author: Michael Helms ,  Michael Helms
ISBN: 9780992302184
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Second compilation of articles, interviews and reviews from the legendary nineties zine devoted to trash film and...  Read More >>

A Righteously Awesome Eighties Christmas: Festive Cinema of the 1980s

A Righteously Awesome Eighties Christmas: Festive Cinema...

Author: Thomas A. Christie
ISBN: 9780993493232
Format: Paperback
$43.96

A survey of Christmas film-making throughout the 1980s, including a detailed synopsis and in-depth analysis of every...  Read More >>

Fatal Visions - The Golden Age: 1990-1998

Fatal Visions - The Golden Age: 1990-1998

Author: Michael Helms ,  Michael Helms
ISBN: 9780994411211
Format: Hardback
$64.69

Second compilation of articles, interviews and reviews from the legendary nineties zine devoted to trash film and...  Read More >>

Star Trek Beyond: The Collector's Edition Book

Star Trek Beyond: The Collector's Edition Book

Author: Titan
ISBN: 9781785860096
Format: Hardback
$39.99

This must-have book for Star Trek fans goes behind the scenes on the latest movie in the billion dollar franchise,...  Read More >>

The Carry On Films

The Carry On Films

Author: Steven Gerrard
ISBN: 9781137520043
Format: Hardback
$272.95

Saucy, rude and vulgar—the 31 Carry On films remain an important part of the history of British cinematic and low...  Read More >>

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