Film & movie: styles & genres books

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The Modern Superhero in Film and Television: Popular Genre and American Culture

The Modern Superhero in Film and Television: Popular...

Author: Jeffrey A. Brown (Bowling Green State University, USA) ,  Randy Duncan
ISBN: 9781138897786
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Hollywood’s live-action superhero films currently dominate the worldwide box-office, with the characters enjoying...  Read More >>

Film Noir Production: The Whodunit of the Classic American Mystery Film

Film Noir Production: The Whodunit of the Classic American...

Author: David Landau
ISBN: 9781138201484
Format: Paperback
$77.99

David Landau’s Film Noir Production: The Whodunit of the Classic American Mystery Film is a book meant for those...  Read More >>

Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy: Gender as Genre

Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy: Gender...

Author: John Alberti
ISBN: 9781138243347
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular cinema...  Read More >>

Notions of Genre: Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory

Notions of Genre: Writings on Popular Film Before Genre...

Author: Barry Keith Grant ,  Malisa Kurtz
ISBN: 9781477311080
Format: Paperback
$53.95

With articles by such luminaries as Susan Sontag, Dwight Macdonald, Siegfried Kracauer, James Agee, André Bazin,...  Read More >>

The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia

The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia

Author: Elizabeth Papazian ,  Caroline Eades
ISBN: 9780231176958
Format: Paperback
$42.95

The essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction of the subject, its relationship to...  Read More >>

Film Noir Production: The Whodunit of the Classic American Mystery Film

Film Noir Production: The Whodunit of the Classic American...

Author: David Landau
ISBN: 9781138201477
Format: Hardback
$326.00

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The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia

The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia

Author: Elizabeth Papazian ,  Caroline Eades
ISBN: 9780231176941
Format: Hardback
$140.95

The essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction of the subject, its relationship to...  Read More >>

Notions of Genre: Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory

Notions of Genre: Writings on Popular Film Before Genre...

Author: Barry Keith Grant ,  Malisa Kurtz
ISBN: 9781477303757
Format: Hardback
$170.95

With articles by such luminaries as Susan Sontag, Dwight Macdonald, Siegfried Kracauer, James Agee, André Bazin,...  Read More >>

Musicals in Film: A Guide to the Genre

Musicals in Film: A Guide to the Genre

Author: Thomas S. Hischak
ISBN: 9781440844225
Format: Hardback
$148.00

This wide-ranging guide introduces (or reintroduces) readers to movie musicals past and present, enabling them to...  Read More >>

Agatha Christie on Screen

Agatha Christie on Screen

Author: Mark Aldridge
ISBN: 9781349676958
Format: Paperback
$63.95

This book is a comprehensive exploration of 90 years of film and television adaptations of the world’s best-selling...  Read More >>

Star Wars: The Best of Star Wars Insider: Volume 4

Star Wars: The Best of Star Wars Insider: Volume 4

Author: Titan Comics
ISBN: 9781785851902
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Featuring rare cast and crew interviewsfrom Star Wars Insider -the official magazine of the Star Wars saga!  Read More >>

The Man with the Golden Eye: Designing the James Bond Films

The Man with the Golden Eye: Designing the James Bond...

Author: Peter Lamont ,  Marcus Hearn
ISBN: 9780995519114
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Oscar-winning production designer Peter Lamont worked behind the scenes on 18 JamesBond films, beginning with the...  Read More >>

Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema

Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema

Author: Jonathan Rigby
ISBN: 9780957648159
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Jonathan Rigby brings his incisive scrutiny to bear on more than 100 Continental horror films, ranging from the...  Read More >>

Movie Comedians of the 1950s: Defining a New Era of Big Screen Comedy

Movie Comedians of the 1950s: Defining a New Era of...

Author: Wes D. Gehring
ISBN: 9780786499960
Format: Paperback
$60.50

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Mars in the Movies: A History

Mars in the Movies: A History

Author: Thomas Kent Miller
ISBN: 9780786499144
Format: Paperback
$92.40

There hasn't before been an entire book devoted to the sub-genre of Mars movies. Beginning with Thomas A. Edison's...  Read More >>

Mexican Melodrama: Film and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave

Mexican Melodrama: Film and Nation from the Golden Age...

Author: Elena Lahr-Vivaz
ISBN: 9780816532513
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Explores the compelling ways that new-wave Mexican directors use the tropes and themes of Golden Age films to denounce...  Read More >>

Celluloid Pueblo: Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest

Celluloid Pueblo: Western Ways Films and the Invention...

Author: Jennifer L. Jenkins
ISBN: 9780816502653
Format: Hardback
$118.80

In 1936 Charles and Lucile Herbert founded Western Ways Features to document the landscape, regional development,...  Read More >>

Beyond a Joke: Parody in English Film and Television Comedy

Beyond a Joke: Parody in English Film and Television...

Author: Neil Archer
ISBN: 9781784536633
Format: Hardback
$240.00

At the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, a global audience of nearly one billion viewers were treated...  Read More >>

Psychedelic Celluloid: British Pop Music in Film & TV 1965 - 1974

Psychedelic Celluloid: British Pop Music in Film & TV...

Author: Simon Matthews
ISBN: 9781843444572
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The definitive guide to the decade when swinging London was the film capital of the world. Illustrated throughout...  Read More >>

Eastern Westerns: Film and Genre Outside and Inside Hollywood

Eastern Westerns: Film and Genre Outside and Inside...

Author: Stephen Teo
ISBN: 9781138819429
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The western, one of Hollywood’s great film genres, has, surprisingly, enjoyed a revival recently in Asia and in...  Read More >>

The """Disguised"" Political Film in Contemporary Hollywood": A Genre's Construction

The """Disguised"" Political Film in Contemporary Hollywood":...

Author: Dr. Betty Kaklamanidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
ISBN: 9781501322303
Format: Hardback
$260.00

"With strict guidelines on methodology and time frame -- films produced after September 2001, and a socio-semiotic...  Read More >>

Gothic Kinship

Gothic Kinship

Author: Agnes Andeweg ,  Sue Zlosnik
ISBN: 9781526106919
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and theorization...  Read More >>

Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory

Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics...

Author: Oliver Gruner
ISBN: 9781137496324
Format: Hardback
$181.95

From late 1970s hippie musicals such as Hair and The Rose through to recent civil rights portrayals The Help and...  Read More >>

British Youth Television: Transnational Teens, Industry, Genre

British Youth Television: Transnational Teens, Industry,...

Author: Faye Woods
ISBN: 9781137445476
Format: Hardback
$181.95

In this book, Faye Woods explores the raucous, cheeky, intimate voice of British youth television.  Read More >>

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