Film & movie: styles & genres books

4591 books were found.

International Horror Film Directors: Global Fear

International Horror Film Directors: Global Fear

Author: Danny Shipka ,  Ralph Beliveau
ISBN: 9781783206537
Format: Paperback
$70.95

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Fade to Gray: Aging in American Cinema

Fade to Gray: Aging in American Cinema

Author: Timothy Shary ,  Nancy McVittie
ISBN: 9780292717794
Format: Hardback
$170.95

Analyzing hundreds of films, including classics such as You Can’t Take It With You, Rosemary’s Baby, Grumpy Old...  Read More >>

Hollywood in Crisis or: The Collapse of the Real

Hollywood in Crisis or: The Collapse of the Real

Author: Wheeler Winston Dixon
ISBN: 9783319404806
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This book discusses the collapse and transformation of the Hollywood movie machine in the twenty-first century,...  Read More >>

Monsters, Demons and Psychopaths: Psychiatry and Horror Film

Monsters, Demons and Psychopaths: Psychiatry and Horror...

Author: Fernando Espi Forcen (Department of Psychiatry, Rush University Medical Center, IL, USA)
ISBN: 9781498717854
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book is written in an easy to read and at times humorous way with the hope of reaching an audience relatively...  Read More >>

Universal Monsters: Origins

Universal Monsters: Origins

Author: Christopher Ripley
ISBN: 9780995536210
Format: Paperback
$38.79

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Out of the Past: Lacan and Film Noir

Out of the Past: Lacan and Film Noir

Author: Ben Tyrer
ISBN: 9783319309415
Format: Hardback
$206.97

This book presents a new reading of film noir through psychoanalytic theory.  Read More >>

Women in War Films: From Helpless Heroine to G.I. Jane

Women in War Films: From Helpless Heroine to G.I. Jane...

Author: Ralph Donald ,  Karen MacDonald
ISBN: 9781442275638
Format: Paperback
$86.99

This companion volume to Reel Men at War takes a look at how women have been portrayed in war films, from silents...  Read More >>

The 50 Greatest Westerns

The 50 Greatest Westerns

Author: Barry Stone
ISBN: 9781785780981
Format: Paperback
$21.99

A Western movie enthusiast's personal top 50 including many well-known and many less known pictures.  Read More >>

Zombifying a Nation: Race, Gender and the Haitian Loas on Screen

Zombifying a Nation: Race, Gender and the Haitian Loas...

Author: Toni Pressley-Sanon
ISBN: 9780786494248
Format: Paperback
$43.95

"""The figure of the zombie that entered the popular imagination with the publication of William Seabrook's The...  Read More >>

Cowboy Classics: The Roots of the American Western in the Epic Tradition

Cowboy Classics: The Roots of the American Western in...

Author: Kirsten Day
ISBN: 9781474402460
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Cowboy Classics looks at the surprisingly close connection between Western film and Greek and Roman epic, each of...  Read More >>

The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films

The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films

Author: Salvador Jiménez Murguía
ISBN: 9781442261662
Format: Hardback
$265.00

Although the horror genre has been embraced by filmmakers around the world, Japan has been one of the most prolific...  Read More >>

Alien Imaginations: Science Fiction and Tales of Transnationalism

Alien Imaginations: Science Fiction and Tales of Transnationalism...

Author: Ulrike Küchler (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) ,  Silja Maehl (Brown University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501319976
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Explores the literary, cinematic, and philosophical connections between science fiction and globalization, focusing...  Read More >>

The Latin American Road Movie

The Latin American Road Movie

Author: Verónica Garibotto ,  Jorge Pérez
ISBN: 9781137590350
Format: Hardback
$204.95

This volume explores the ways films made by Latin American directors and/or co-produced in Latin American countries...  Read More >>

Indian Cinema: A Very Short Introduction

Indian Cinema: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Ashish Rajadhyaksha (Independent researcher)
ISBN: 9780198723097
Format: Paperback
$21.95

The Indian cinema sells 2.9 billion movie tickets annually, the largest in the world. Yet, as an economic entity,...  Read More >>

Queer Sexualities in Early Film: Cinema and Male-Male Intimacy

Queer Sexualities in Early Film: Cinema and Male-Male...

Author: Shane Brown
ISBN: 9781784536657
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Since the publication of Vito Russo's seminal study The Celluloid Closet in 1981, much has been written about the...  Read More >>

Film Production and Consumption in Contemporary Taiwan: Cinema as a Sensory Circuit

Film Production and Consumption in Contemporary Taiwan:...

Author: Ya-Feng Mon
ISBN: 9789089648884
Format: Hardback
$345.84

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Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Narratives, Cultural Contexts, Audiences

Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Narratives,...

Author: Peter J. Bräunlein ,  Andrea Lauser
ISBN: 9789004323407
Format: Hardback
$285.12

Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond explores ghost movies, one of the most popular film genres in East and...  Read More >>

Giallo Cinema and Its Folktale Roots: A Critical Study of 10 Films, 1962-1987

Giallo Cinema and Its Folktale Roots: A Critical Study...

Author: Michael Sevastakis
ISBN: 9780786495016
Format: Paperback
$43.95

The Italian giallo film genre was based on popular British and American fiction of the 30s and 40s, adapted to the...  Read More >>

Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema: Blind Paul

Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema:...

Author: Sean Desilets
ISBN: 9781138955509
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book revisits the tradition of Western religious cinema in light of scholarship on St. Paul’s political theology....  Read More >>

Studying Waltz with Bashir

Studying Waltz with Bashir

Author: Giulia Miller
ISBN: 9781911325154
Format: Paperback
$38.79

On its release in 2008, Ari Folman's animated documentary Waltz with Bashir was heralded as a brilliant and original...  Read More >>

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