Film & movie: styles & genres books

4591 books were found.

RKO Radio Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1929-1956

RKO Radio Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy...

Author: Michael R. Pitts
ISBN: 9780786460472
Format: Paperback
$60.50

King Kong and The Thing from Another World are among the most popular horror and science fiction films of all time...  Read More >>

Cinema and Counter-History

Cinema and Counter-History

Author: Marcia Landy
ISBN: 9780253016126
Format: Hardback
$161.95

Marshaling evidence across European, African, and Asian cinema, Landy engages in a counter-historical project that...  Read More >>

Graphis Social & Political Protest Posters

Graphis Social & Political Protest Posters

Author: B. Martin Pedersen
ISBN: 9781932026924
Format: Hardback
$198.00

The subjects confronted are anti-war, anti-violence, the environment, human rights, and of course politics. The...  Read More >>

The Horror of It All: One Moviegoer's Love Affair With Masked Maniacs, Frightened Virgins, and the Living Dead...

The Horror of It All: One Moviegoer's Love Affair With...

Author: Adam Rockoff ,  R. C. Bray
ISBN: 9781494557720
Format: Audio
$65.97

Pop culture history meets blood-soaked memoir as a horror film aficionado and screenwriter recalls a life spent...  Read More >>

The Fascination of Film Violence

The Fascination of Film Violence

Author: Henry Bacon
ISBN: 9781137476432
Format: Hardback
$204.95

The Fascination of Film Violence is a study of why fictional violence is such an integral part of fiction film....  Read More >>

The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema

The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema

Author: Peter Stanfield
ISBN: 9780813572987
Format: Paperback
$102.83

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The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema

The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema

Author: Peter Stanfield
ISBN: 9780813572994
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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Dictionary of Film Terms: The Aesthetic Companion to Film Art – Fifth Edition

Dictionary of Film Terms: The Aesthetic Companion to...

Author: Frank Beaver
ISBN: 9781433127274
Format: Paperback
$129.10

Now in its fifth edition, Frank Beaver’s Dictionary of Film Terms has become an indispensable reference tool for...  Read More >>

Sounding Funny: Sound and Comedy Cinema

Sounding Funny: Sound and Comedy Cinema

Author: Mark Evans ,  Philip Hayward
ISBN: 9781845536749
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film

The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film...

Author: Barry Keith Grant
ISBN: 9780292772458
Format: Paperback
$56.95

Now updated to include contemporary developments in the horror film genre and the critical thinking about it, Barry...  Read More >>

Educational Institutions in Horror Film: A History of Mad Professors, Student Bodies, and Final Exams

Educational Institutions in Horror Film: A History of...

Author: A. Grunzke
ISBN: 9781137469199
Format: Hardback
$192.95

An exploration of how educational institutions have been portrayed in horror film, this book examines the way that...  Read More >>

Sounding Funny: Sound and Comedy Cinema

Sounding Funny: Sound and Comedy Cinema

Author: Mark Evans ,  Philip Hayward
ISBN: 9781781790991
Format: Hardback
$264.00

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Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles before World War II

Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in...

Author: Colin Gunckel
ISBN: 9780813570761
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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Columbia Noir: A Complete Filmography, 1940-1962

Columbia Noir: A Complete Filmography, 1940-1962

Author: Gene Blottner
ISBN: 9780786470143
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Alien Imaginations: Science Fiction and Tales of Transnationalism

Alien Imaginations: Science Fiction and Tales of Transnationalism...

Author: Ulrike Küchler (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) ,  Silja Maehl (Brown University, USA)
ISBN: 9781628921151
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Explores the literary, cinematic, and philosophical connections between science fiction and globalization, focusing...  Read More >>

Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939

Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939

Author: Thomas Doherty
ISBN: 9780231163934
Format: Paperback
$37.95

The behind-the-scenes story of Hollywood’s struggle with Nazism before the outbreak of war.  Read More >>

Classical Myth on Screen

Classical Myth on Screen

Author: M. Cyrino ,  M. Safran
ISBN: 9781137494535
Format: Hardback
$181.95

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

East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue

East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural...

Author: Chi-Yun Shin ,  Mark Gallagher (Independent researcher, US)
ISBN: 9781780760094
Format: Paperback
$59.49

*First book on Asian Film Noir *Fresh approach to crime films & thrillers  Read More >>

East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue

East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural...

Author: Chi-Yun Shin ,  Mark Gallagher (Independent researcher, US)
ISBN: 9781780760087
Format: Hardback
$336.38

*First book on Asian Film Noir *Fresh approach to crime films & thrillers  Read More >>

The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama

The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film...

Author: Louis Bayman
ISBN: 9781474402866
Format: Paperback
$75.01

Melodrama - the key cinematic form of post war Italy, central to popular life and the dramatic arts. This book uncovers...  Read More >>

A History of 1970s Experimental Film: Britain's Decade of Diversity

A History of 1970s Experimental Film: Britain's Decade...

Author: P. Gaal-Holmes
ISBN: 9781137369376
Format: Hardback
$192.95

This comprehensive historical account demonstrates the rich diversity in 1970s British experimental filmmaking,...  Read More >>

The Clint Eastwood Westerns

The Clint Eastwood Westerns

Author: James L. Neibaur
ISBN: 9781442245037
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This book looks at the film and television genre that made Clint Eastwood a star: westerns. The author discusses...  Read More >>

Hollywood Action Films and Spatial Theory

Hollywood Action Films and Spatial Theory

Author: Nick Jones (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138812505
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book applies the discourse of the so-called ‘spatial turn’ to popular contemporary cinema, in particular the...  Read More >>

Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements

Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions,...

Author: Jun Okada
ISBN: 9780813565019
Format: Paperback
$108.11

The words “Asian American film” might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined...  Read More >>

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