Film & movie: styles & genres books

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Once Upon a Time in the Contemporary World: Modern Vision of Old Stories

Once Upon a Time in the Contemporary World: Modern Vision...

Author: Elena Polyudova
ISBN: 9781443889049
Format: Hardback
$189.95

This volume brings together a selection of streams present in modern mass-media culture, from classic cartoons to...  Read More >>

Industrial Society and the Science Fiction Blockbuster: Social Critique in Films of Lucas, Scott and Cameron

Industrial Society and the Science Fiction Blockbuster:...

Author: Mark T. Decker
ISBN: 9780786499113
Format: Paperback
$43.95

"""As challengers of the status quo's technological underpinnings, Luke Skywalker, Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor...  Read More >>

Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film

Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual...

Author: Casey Ryan Kelly
ISBN: 9780813575100
Format: Paperback
$100.19

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Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinema Contexts

Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinema...

Author: Benjamin Fraser
ISBN: 9780231177498
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across...  Read More >>

The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books

The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital...

Author: Bart Beaty ,  Benjamin Woo
ISBN: 9781349719785
Format: Paperback
$145.17

"Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo work to historicize why it is that certain works or creators have come to define the...  Read More >>

Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film

Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual...

Author: Casey Ryan Kelly
ISBN: 9780813575117
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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Unsung Hollywood Musicals of the Golden Era: 50 Overlooked Films and Their Stars, 1929-1939

Unsung Hollywood Musicals of the Golden Era: 50 Overlooked...

Author: Edwin M. Bradley
ISBN: 9780786498338
Format: Paperback
$60.50

The most famous American movie musicals of the 1930s showcased the talents of Fred Astaire, Busby Berkeley, Bing...  Read More >>

The New Western: Critical Essays on the Genre Since 9/11

The New Western: Critical Essays on the Genre Since...

Author: Scott F. Stoddart
ISBN: 9780786479283
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Since 9/11, the Western has made a remarkable comeback, blending its original patriotic narrative with critical...  Read More >>

Investigating Lois Lane: The Turbulent History of the Daily Planet's Ace Reporter

Investigating Lois Lane: The Turbulent History of the...

Author: Tim Hanley
ISBN: 9781613733325
Format: Paperback
$34.99

""A comprehensive history of the beloved comic book character.""--Provided by publisher.  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns: Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Films, Television and Games

Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns: Supernatural and Science...

Author: Paul Green
ISBN: 9781476662572
Format: Paperback
$105.47

From automatons to zombies, many fantastic elements have been cross-pollinated with the western genre. This second...  Read More >>

Robot Ecology and the Science Fiction Film

Robot Ecology and the Science Fiction Film

Author: J. P. Telotte (Georgia Tech, USA)
ISBN: 9781138649583
Format: Hardback
$124.00

This book offers the first specific application in film studies of what is generally known as ecology theory, shifting...  Read More >>

International Noir

International Noir

Author: Homer B. Pettey ,  R. Barton Palmer
ISBN: 9781474413084
Format: Paperback
$75.01

Ranging from Japanese silent films and women's films to French, Hong Kong, and Nordic New Waves, this book explores...  Read More >>

Film Noir

Film Noir

Author: Homer B. Pettey ,  R. Barton Palmer
ISBN: 9781474413077
Format: Paperback
$75.01

This book traces the development of what we know as film noir from the proto-noir elements of Feuillade's silent...  Read More >>

Movies, Myth, and the National Security State

Movies, Myth, and the National Security State

Author: Dan O'Meara ,  Alex MacLeod
ISBN: 9781626374591
Format: Hardback
$185.01

While analysts may agree that Hollywood movies have always both mirrored and helped to shape the tenor of their...  Read More >>

The Problematic Tyler Perry

The Problematic Tyler Perry

Author: Brian C. Johnson
ISBN: 9781433130199
Format: Hardback
$563.38

This book explores the vast chasm between his fans’ adoration and the critical reception of his work: while some...  Read More >>

ReFocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling

ReFocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling

Author: Frances Smith ,  Timothy Shary
ISBN: 9781474404617
Format: Hardback
$245.81

A collection of interdisciplinary essays, collected for the first time, on the work of filmmaker and screenwriter...  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: 9781474406895
Format: Hardback
$232.88

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

Expressionism in the Cinema

Expressionism in the Cinema

Author: Olaf Brill ,  Gary D. Rhodes
ISBN: 9781474403252
Format: Hardback
$232.88

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Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934

Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and...

Author: Laura Horak
ISBN: 9780813574820
Format: Paperback
$108.11

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Matinee Melodrama: Playing with Formula in the Sound Serial

Matinee Melodrama: Playing with Formula in the Sound...

Author: Scott Higgins
ISBN: 9780813563299
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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The Problematic Tyler Perry

The Problematic Tyler Perry

Author: Brian C. Johnson
ISBN: 9781433130182
Format: Paperback
$146.65

This book explores the vast chasm between his fans’ adoration and the critical reception of his work: while some...  Read More >>

James Bond - The Secret History

James Bond - The Secret History

Author: Sean Egan ,  Jeremy Duns
ISBN: 9781786060204
Format: Hardback
$43.96

With the help of Bond scholars, Fleming intimates, Bond film crew and others, James Bond: The Secret History shows...  Read More >>

Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership

Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of...

Author: Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415749824
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book brings together three areas of study that have received consistent academic attention in recent years...  Read More >>

Fantasy of Modernity: Romantic Love in Bombay Cinema of the 1950s

Fantasy of Modernity: Romantic Love in Bombay Cinema...

Author: Aarti Wani
ISBN: 9781107117211
Format: Hardback
$175.92

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to 1950s Bombay cinema, contextualizing the theme of love within the...  Read More >>

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