Film & movie: styles & genres books

4591 books were found.

The Age of Dystopia: One Genre, Our Fears and Our Future

The Age of Dystopia: One Genre, Our Fears and Our Future...

Author: Louisa MacKay Demerjian
ISBN: 9781443886949
Format: Hardback
$189.95

This book examines the recent popularity of the dystopian genre in literature and film, as well as connecting contemporary...  Read More >>

The American Civil War and the Hollywood War Film

The American Civil War and the Hollywood War Film

Author: John Trafton
ISBN: 9781349573875
Format: Paperback
$44.99

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The X-Men Films: A Cultural Analysis

The X-Men Films: A Cultural Analysis

Author: Claudia Bucciferro
ISBN: 9781442265332
Format: Hardback
$253.00

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Forbidden Love: A Queer Film Classic

Forbidden Love: A Queer Film Classic

Author: Jean Bruce ,  Gerda Cammaer
ISBN: 9781551526089
Format: Paperback
$19.99

The Beebo Brinker Chronicles. This award-winning movie became the most popular ever produced by the National Film...  Read More >>

C.R.A.Z.Y.: A Queer Film Classic

C.R.A.Z.Y.: A Queer Film Classic

Author: Robert Schwartzwald
ISBN: 9781551526102
Format: Paperback
$19.99

A Queer Film Classic on the 2005 film debut by French-Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee (best known for Dallas...  Read More >>

Rock 'N' Film: Cinema's Dance With Popular Music

Rock 'N' Film: Cinema's Dance With Popular Music

Author: David E. James (Professor of Film, Professor of Film, University of Southern California)
ISBN: 9780199387595
Format: Hardback
$80.95

Rock 'N' Film presents a cultural history of films about US and British rock music during the period when biracial...  Read More >>

The Kaiju Film: A Critical Study of Cinema's Biggest Monsters

The Kaiju Film: A Critical Study of Cinema's Biggest...

Author: Jason Barr
ISBN: 9780786499632
Format: Paperback
$32.95

The Kaiju (strange monster) film genre has a number of themes that go well beyond the “big monsters stomping on...  Read More >>

Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video and Exploitation Film Fandom

Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video and Exploitation...

Author: David Church
ISBN: 9781474409001
Format: Paperback
$75.01

Exploitation films have become sincerely appreciated cult objects on home video. In this new study, David Church...  Read More >>

Straight Girls and Queer Guys: The Hetero Media Gaze in Film and Television

Straight Girls and Queer Guys: The Hetero Media Gaze...

Author: Christopher Pullen
ISBN: 9780748694846
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Examines the emergence of gay male and female heterosexual alliances within contemporary media.  Read More >>

Japanese Horror Films and their American Remakes

Japanese Horror Films and their American Remakes

Author: Valerie Wee (National University of Singapore)
ISBN: 9781138653870
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines Japanese horror films and their American remakes. Focusing on the textual transformations that...  Read More >>

European Civil War Films: Memory, Conflict, and Nostalgia

European Civil War Films: Memory, Conflict, and Nostalgia...

Author: Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou (University of Salford, UK)
ISBN: 9781138654167
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This title examines the way in which late 20th-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil...  Read More >>

Writing the Comedy Movie

Writing the Comedy Movie

Author: Marc Blake (Southampton Solent University, UK)
ISBN: 9781628925951
Format: Paperback
$59.99

It is often suggested that there are ‘secrets’ to comedy or that it is ‘lightning in a bottle’, but the craft of...  Read More >>

Alex Cox's Introduction to Film: A Director's Perspective

Alex Cox's Introduction to Film: A Director's Perspective...

Author: Alex Cox
ISBN: 9781843447467
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Emerging filmmakers need to know the basics of their art form: the language of the camera, and lenses, the different...  Read More >>

Writing the Comedy Movie

Writing the Comedy Movie

Author: Marc Blake (Southampton Solent University, UK)
ISBN: 9781501316340
Format: Hardback
$190.00

It is often suggested that there are ‘secrets’ to comedy or that it is ‘lightning in a bottle’, but the craft of...  Read More >>

Movies, Moves and Music: The Sonic World of Dance Films

Movies, Moves and Music: The Sonic World of Dance Films...

Author: Mark Evans ,  Mary Fogarty
ISBN: 9781845539580
Format: Paperback
$79.07

This volume investigates the relationship between movement and sound as it is revealed, manipulated and crafted...  Read More >>

Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic Mutations in Horror Film

Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic Mutations...

Author: Richard Hand ,  Jay McRoy
ISBN: 9781784992484
Format: Paperback
$36.99

The first book devoted to the study of horror film and adaptation. Comprised of essays by top scholars in the field,...  Read More >>

White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan

White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of...

Author: Tom Rice
ISBN: 9780253018366
Format: Hardback
$151.95

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Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic

Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic

Author: Scott MacKenzie ,  Anna Westerstahl Stenport
ISBN: 9781474409018
Format: Paperback
$75.01

With chapters on polar explorer films, silent cinema, documentaries, ethnographic and indigenous film, gender and...  Read More >>

Slow Cinema

Slow Cinema

Author: Tiago de Luca ,  Nuno Barradas Jorge
ISBN: 9780748696048
Format: Paperback
$75.01

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Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering

Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering

Author: Rebecca Bell-Metereau ,  Colleen Glenn
ISBN: 9780814339398
Format: Paperback
$92.37

Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering offers film buffs, students, and scholars a fresh take on casting, method...  Read More >>

The Apocalypse in Film: Dystopias, Disasters, and Other Visions about the End of the World

The Apocalypse in Film: Dystopias, Disasters, and Other...

Author: Karen A. Ritzenhoff ,  Angela Krewani
ISBN: 9781442260276
Format: Hardback
$216.00

Apart from well-established Hollywood blockbusters that imagine the end of the world, there is a new wave of zombie...  Read More >>

Lethal Repetition: Serial Killing in European Cinema

Lethal Repetition: Serial Killing in European Cinema...

Author: Richard Dyer (King's College London, UK) ,  Richard Dyer
ISBN: 9781844573943
Format: Hardback
$180.00

For such a rare phenomenon, serial killing gains a lot of attention on film, often presented as an ever-growing...  Read More >>

Mothers on Mothers: Maternal Readings of Popular Television

Mothers on Mothers: Maternal Readings of Popular Television...

Author: Rebecca Feasey
ISBN: 9783034318266
Format: Hardback
$190.70

From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and...  Read More >>

Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood Films

Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood...

Author: K. Combe ,  B. Boyle
ISBN: 9781349472048
Format: Paperback
$181.95

In film, Men are good and Monsters are bad. In this book, Combe and Boyle consider the monstrous body as a metaphor...  Read More >>

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