Film & movie: styles & genres books

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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: 9781844573936
Format: Paperback
$52.99

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

Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art

Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and...

Author: Doris Berger (Academy Museum in Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9781501315732
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Biopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists’ lives and work. Projected Art History highlights...  Read More >>

Psycho Origins

Psycho Origins

Author: Simon Fitzjohn
ISBN: 9780993054181
Format: Paperback
$38.68

This 'Horror Companion' from Hemlock Books examines the impact on popular culture made by Robert Bloch's 1959 pulp...  Read More >>

Sex Radical Cinema

Sex Radical Cinema

Author: Carol Siegel
ISBN: 9780253018014
Format: Hardback
$132.95

By examining such popular film and television shows as Mystic River, The Wire, Fifty Shades of Grey, Batman Returns,...  Read More >>

Melodrama After the Tears: New Perspectives on the Politics of Victimhood

Melodrama After the Tears: New Perspectives on the Politics...

Author: Jörg Metelmann ,  Scott Loren
ISBN: 9789089646736
Format: Hardback
$409.20

This volume condenses elements of theory on melodrama by bringing into focus what it recognizes to be the locus...  Read More >>

When Harry Met Sally ...

When Harry Met Sally ...

Author: Tamar Jeffers McDonald (University of Kent, UK)
ISBN: 9781844579075
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Ground-breaking in its departure from its predecessors, When Harry Met Sally (1989) established classic romantic...  Read More >>

Gender and the Modern Sherlock Holmes: Essays on Film and Television Adaptations Since 2009

Gender and the Modern Sherlock Holmes: Essays on Film...

Author: Nadine Farghaly
ISBN: 9780786494590
Format: Paperback
$43.95

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Classical Myth on Screen

Classical Myth on Screen

Author: M. Cyrino ,  M. Safran
ISBN: 9781349504800
Format: Paperback
$174.95

An examination of how screen texts embrace, refute, and reinvent the cultural heritage of antiquity, this volume...  Read More >>

Narco Cinema: Sex, Drugs, and Banda Music in Mexico’s B-Filmography

Narco Cinema: Sex, Drugs, and Banda Music in Mexico’s...

Author: Ryan Rashotte
ISBN: 9781349505517
Format: Paperback
$174.95

This book provides the first comprehensive study of narco cinema, a cross-border exploitation cinema that, for over...  Read More >>

Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society

Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre...

Author: Johnny Walker
ISBN: 9780748689736
Format: Hardback
$38.79

Combining industry analysis, interviews and detailed textual readings, this book examines the post-millennial revival...  Read More >>

ReFocus: The Films of Preston Sturges

ReFocus: The Films of Preston Sturges

Author: Jeff Jaeckle ,  Sarah Kozloff
ISBN: 9781474406550
Format: Hardback
$245.81

This first collection of critical essays on Preston Sturges—director, screenwriter, comic genius of Hollywood—reawakens...  Read More >>

The Vader Project Auction Catalog: 100 Helmets, 100 Artists

The Vader Project Auction Catalog: 100 Helmets, 100...

Author: Dov Kelemer
ISBN: 9780991579013
Format: Paperback
$58.50

Star Wars fans and art aficionados will enjoy this beautifully conceived catalogue of Star Wars ephemera. For this...  Read More >>

Masters of the Shoot-'Em-Up: Conversations with Directors, Actors and Writers of Vintage Action Movies and Television Shows

Masters of the Shoot-'Em-Up: Conversations with Directors,...

Author: Tadhg Taylor
ISBN: 9780786494064
Format: Paperback
$43.95

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Women and Death in Film, Television, and News: Dead but Not Gone

Women and Death in Film, Television, and News: Dead...

Author: Joanne Clarke Dillman
ISBN: 9781349498710
Format: Paperback
$174.95

Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book, Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment...  Read More >>

Snatched: Child Abductions in U.S. News Media

Snatched: Child Abductions in U.S. News Media

Author: Spring-Serenity Duvall ,  Leigh Moscowitz
ISBN: 9781433127168
Format: Hardback
$500.28

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Savages and Saints: The Changing Image of American Indians in Westerns

Savages and Saints: The Changing Image of American Indians...

Author: Bob Herzberg
ISBN: 9781476662787
Format: Paperback
$48.40

Examines the changing image of the American Indian in the Western film genre, contrasting the fictionalized images...  Read More >>

Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality

Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality...

Author: Homay King
ISBN: 9780822359593
Format: Hardback
$263.87

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The US-Mexico Border in American Cold War Film: Romance, Revolution, and Regulation

The US-Mexico Border in American Cold War Film: Romance,...

Author: Stephanie Fuller
ISBN: 9781137538567
Format: Hardback
$181.95

Through an analysis of Cold War Era films including Border Incident , Where Danger Lives , and Touch of Evil , Stephanie...  Read More >>

Snatched: Child Abductions in U.S. News Media

Snatched: Child Abductions in U.S. News Media

Author: Spring-Serenity Duvall ,  Leigh Moscowitz
ISBN: 9781433127151
Format: Paperback
$138.60

Snatched is the first book-length study to interrogate the predominant myths centered on gender and class that shaped...  Read More >>

Bond on Bond: The Ultimate Book on Over 50 Years of 007

Bond on Bond: The Ultimate Book on Over 50 Years of...

Author: Roger Moore
ISBN: 9781782434061
Format: Paperback
$29.95

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Anime: A Critical Introduction

Anime: A Critical Introduction

Author: Rayna Denison (University of East Anglia, UK)
ISBN: 9781847884794
Format: Paperback
$56.99

"""From mecha robots to shojo anime's hearts and flowers, [this book] investigates the wild, wonderful and often...  Read More >>

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