Film & movie: styles & genres books

4591 books were found.

Cocaine Fiends and Reefer Madness: An Illustrated History of Drugs in the Movies 1894-1978

Cocaine Fiends and Reefer Madness: An Illustrated History...

Author: Michael Starks
ISBN: 9781579511890
Format: Paperback
$34.99

From the very beginning, filmmakers have struggled to free themselves from censorship and manipulation by special-interest...  Read More >>

Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Documentary

Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Documentary...

Author: Paolo Magagnoli
ISBN: 9780231172714
Format: Paperback
$44.95

This timely volume discusses the experimental documentary projects of some of the most significant artists working...  Read More >>

Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Documentary

Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Documentary...

Author: Paolo Magagnoli
ISBN: 9780231172707
Format: Hardback
$157.95

This timely volume discusses the experimental documentary projects of some of the most significant artists working...  Read More >>

Modernism and Science Fiction

Modernism and Science Fiction

Author: P. March-Russell
ISBN: 9780230273481
Format: Hardback
$168.16

A socio-cultural analysis of the relationship between modernism and science fiction, from the 1870s to the 1970s,...  Read More >>

The Hollywood Melodrama

The Hollywood Melodrama

Author: Tamar Jeffers McDonald
ISBN: 9780470670309
Format: Paperback
$60.81

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The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film

The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics...

Author: Hilary Neroni (University of Vermont)
ISBN: 9780231170703
Format: Hardback
$157.95

Showcases film and television studies’ singular ability to expose and potentially disable the fantasies that sustain...  Read More >>

Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Documentary

Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Documentary...

Author: Paolo Magagnoli
ISBN: 9780231850773
Format: Electronic book text
$68.61

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Studying Talk to Her

Studying Talk to Her

Author: Emily Hughes
ISBN: 9781906733438
Format: Paperback
$38.79

Provides an in-depth analysis of Talk to Her, including both the formal elements of the film (its narrative, genre,...  Read More >>

The Sagebrush Trail: Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America

The Sagebrush Trail: Western Movies and Twentieth-Century...

Author: Richard Aquila
ISBN: 9780816531547
Format: Paperback
$98.20

Tells the story of Western movies whilst offering a history of twentieth-century America. Richard Aquila's fast-paced...  Read More >>

Frightmares: A History of British Horror Cinema

Frightmares: A History of British Horror Cinema

Author: Ian Cooper
ISBN: 9780993071737
Format: Paperback
$64.66

An in-depth analysis of the home-grown horror film, each chapter anchored by close studies of key titles, consisting...  Read More >>

Embroidering the Scarlet A: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film

Embroidering the Scarlet A: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate...

Author: Janet Mason Ellerby
ISBN: 9780472052639
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Discusses an array of narratives that span the American literary tradition, tracing the evolution of the “fallen...  Read More >>

Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969

Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969

Author: Roberto Curti
ISBN: 9780786494378
Format: Paperback
$43.95

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A Christian Response to Horror Cinema: Ten Films in Theological Perspective

A Christian Response to Horror Cinema: Ten Films in...

Author: Peter Fraser
ISBN: 9780786498246
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The Christian faith has had a powerful impact on every sphere of art in the West, even art which can on the surface...  Read More >>

Studying Hot Fuzz

Studying Hot Fuzz

Author: Neil Archer
ISBN: 9780993238406
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Neil Archer considers to what extent a modestly funded film such as this can be considered 'British' at all  Read More >>

Embroidering the Scarlet A: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film

Embroidering the Scarlet A: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate...

Author: Janet Mason Ellerby
ISBN: 9780472072637
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Discusses an array of narratives that span the American literary tradition, tracing the evolution of the “fallen...  Read More >>

Projecting Politics: Political Messages in American Films

Projecting Politics: Political Messages in American...

Author: Elizabeth Haas (University of Bridgeport, USA) ,  Terry Christensen (San Jose State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780765635976
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This work examines in detail the relationship between American politics and films, from Birth of a Nation to Fahrenheit...  Read More >>

Film, History and Memory

Film, History and Memory

Author: Fearghal McGarry ,  Jennie Carlsten
ISBN: 9781137468949
Format: Hardback
$181.95

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Film, History and Memory broadens the focus from 'history', the study of past...  Read More >>

Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11: Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation

Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11: Horror, Exploitation,...

Author: Aaron Michael Kerner
ISBN: 9780813564036
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Saw, Hostel, The Devil’s Rejects: this wave of horror movies has been classed under the disparaging label “torture...  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: 9781137501479
Format: Hardback
$181.95

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

Film Criticism in the Digital Age

Film Criticism in the Digital Age

Author: Mattias Frey ,  Cecilia Sayad
ISBN: 9780813570723
Format: Paperback
$110.75

Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a “crisis...  Read More >>

Projecting Politics: Political Messages in American Films

Projecting Politics: Political Messages in American...

Author: Elizabeth Haas (University of Bridgeport, USA) ,  Terry Christensen (San Jose State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780765635969
Format: Hardback
$315.00

The new edition of this influential work updates and expands the scope of the original, including more sustained...  Read More >>

The Great War in Popular British Cinema of the 1920s: Before Journey's End

The Great War in Popular British Cinema of the 1920s:...

Author: L. Napper
ISBN: 9780230371705
Format: Hardback
$181.95

This book discusses British cinema's representation of the Great War during the 1920s. It argues that popular cinematic...  Read More >>

Film Criticism in the Digital Age

Film Criticism in the Digital Age

Author: Mattias Frey ,  Cecilia Sayad
ISBN: 9780813570730
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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