Film & movie: styles & genres books

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The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul

The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul

Author: Gina Freitag ,  André Loiselle
ISBN: 9781442628502
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Featuring chapters on Pontypool, Ginger Snaps, 1970s slasher films, Quebec horror, and the work of David Cronenberg,...  Read More >>

Anime: A Critical Introduction

Anime: A Critical Introduction

Author: Rayna Denison (University of East Anglia, UK)
ISBN: 9781847884800
Format: Hardback
$220.00

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

For His Eyes Only: The Women of James Bond

For His Eyes Only: The Women of James Bond

Author: Lisa Funnell
ISBN: 9780231176156
Format: Paperback
$52.95

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For His Eyes Only: The Women of James Bond

For His Eyes Only: The Women of James Bond

Author: Lisa Funnell
ISBN: 9780231176149
Format: Hardback
$173.95

The first book-length anthology on femininity and feminism in the Bond series  Read More >>

Surfing in the Movies: A Critical History

Surfing in the Movies: A Critical History

Author: John Engle
ISBN: 9780786495214
Format: Paperback
$54.95

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The Hollywood War Machine: U.S. Militarism and Popular Culture

The Hollywood War Machine: U.S. Militarism and Popular...

Author: Carl Boggs (National University) ,  Pollard Tom
ISBN: 9781612057972
Format: Hardback
$242.00

The newly expanded and revised edition of The Hollywood War Machine includes wide-ranging exploration of numerous...  Read More >>

Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents: The 100 Greatest Science-Fiction Films

Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents:...

Author: Douglas Brode
ISBN: 9780292739192
Format: Hardback
$56.95

With revelations for even the most avid fans, here are the one hundred greatest sci-fi films of all time, from today’s...  Read More >>

Traveling in French Cinema

Traveling in French Cinema

Author: Sylvie Blum-Reid
ISBN: 9781137553539
Format: Hardback
$192.95

Travel narratives abound in French cinema since the 1980s. This study delineates recurrent travel tropes in films...  Read More >>

The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy: You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned

The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy: You Must Unlearn...

Author: Jason T. Eberl (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA) ,  Kevin S. Decker (Eastern Washington University, USA)
ISBN: 9781119038061
Format: Paperback
$25.95

Does it take faith to be a Jedi? Are droids capable of thought? Should Jar Jar Binks be held responsible for the...  Read More >>

Hollywood and the Holocaust

Hollywood and the Holocaust

Author: Henry Gonshak
ISBN: 9781442252233
Format: Hardback
$109.00

2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the WWII's end and the beginning of the general public's awareness of Holocaust...  Read More >>

Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon

Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic...

Author: Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ,  Linnie Blake
ISBN: 9781784530259
Format: Hardback
$240.00

This book argues that, in its increasing use of hand-held techniques, the motifs of surveillance and found footage...  Read More >>

Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film

Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film

Author: Wickham Clayton
ISBN: 9781137496461
Format: Hardback
$181.95

Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film fills a broad scholastic gap by analysing the elements of narrative...  Read More >>

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Author: Cristina Massaccesi
ISBN: 9780993238451
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Unravels the never-ending fascination exercised by the film and provides a clear guide to the film's contexts, cinematography,...  Read More >>

How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture: The Multifarious Walking Dead in the 21st Century

How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture: The Multifarious...

Author: Kyle William Bishop
ISBN: 9780786495412
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Since the early 2000s, popular culture has experienced a “Zombie Renaissance,” beginning in film and expanding into...  Read More >>

Espionage in British Fiction and Film since 1900: The Changing Enemy

Espionage in British Fiction and Film since 1900: The...

Author: Oliver Buckton
ISBN: 9781498504829
Format: Hardback
$265.00

Espionage in British Fiction and Film Since 1900: The Changing Enemy explores the key role of the spy novel and...  Read More >>

Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar's Greatest Films

Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling...

Author: Dean Movshovitz
ISBN: 9781717736406
Format: Paperback
$31.44

PIXAR STORYTELLING offers an in-depth analysis of the storytelling techniques that make Pixar's films so successful...  Read More >>

Global Melodrama: Nation, Body, and History in Contemporary Film

Global Melodrama: Nation, Body, and History in Contemporary...

Author: Carla Marcantonio
ISBN: 9781137530615
Format: Hardback
$181.95

Global Melodrama is the first booklength work to investigate melodrama in a specifically twenty-first century setting...  Read More >>

New Silent Cinema

New Silent Cinema

Author: Katherine Groo (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) ,  Paul Flaig (University of Aberdeen, Scotland)
ISBN: 9780415735278
Format: Paperback
$110.00

With the success of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011) and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist (2011) nothing seems more...  Read More >>

Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney: International Perspectives

Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney: International Perspectives...

Author: Jack Zipes (University of Minnesota, USA) ,  Pauline Greenhill (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415709293
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The fairy tale has become one of the dominant cultural forms and genres internationally, thanks in large part to...  Read More >>

Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction Cinema

Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction Cinema

Author: Jennifer L. Feeley ,  Sarah Ann Wells
ISBN: 9780816693184
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Simultaneous Worlds challenges the notion that science fiction cinema is largely aWestern genre by focusing on...  Read More >>

Star Trek: Costumes

Star Trek: Costumes

Author: Paula M. Block
ISBN: 9781783299676
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Simultaneous Release This deluxe book showcases the unique costumes featured in the Star Trek franchise, from...  Read More >>

The World of Shaft: A Complete Guide to the Novels, Comic Strip, Films and Television Series

The World of Shaft: A Complete Guide to the Novels,...

Author: Steve Aldous
ISBN: 9780786499236
Format: Paperback
$27.50

Mention Shaft and most people think of Gordon Parks' seminal 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in a leather coat,...  Read More >>

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