Film & movie: styles & genres books

4572 books were found.

The Art of the Screwball Comedy: Madcap Entertainment from the 1930s to Today

The Art of the Screwball Comedy: Madcap Entertainment...

Author: Doris Milberg
ISBN: 9780786467815
Format: Paperback
$43.95

"""Part One of this exploration of screwball comedies and their later offspring begins midcentury discussing the...  Read More >>

Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Hollywood

Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai,...

Author: Yiman Wang
ISBN: 9780824836078
Format: Hardback
$129.36

From melodrama to Cantonese opera, from silent to 3D animated film, Remaking Chinese Cinema traces cross-Pacific...  Read More >>

Watching Human Rights: The 101 Best Films

Watching Human Rights: The 101 Best Films

Author: Mark Gibney
ISBN: 9781612051406
Format: Hardback
$242.00

Wide-ranging exploration of how film can inform and reinforce our understanding of human rights, analysing more...  Read More >>

Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body

Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled...

Author: Steven Allen
ISBN: 9780230319387
Format: Hardback
$84.99

From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas

Author: Carlos Rojas (Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image, Duke University) ,  Eileen Chow (Assistant Professor of Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard)
ISBN: 9780199765607
Format: Hardback
$422.40

What does it mean for a cinematic work to be Chinese ? Does it refer specifically to a work's subject, or does...  Read More >>

Fantasy Film Post 9/11

Fantasy Film Post 9/11

Author: F. Pheasant-Kelly
ISBN: 9781349351831
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Examining a range of fantasy films released in the past decade, Pheasant-Kelly looks at why these films are meaningful...  Read More >>

New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut

New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut

Author: B. Ruby Rich
ISBN: 9780822354284
Format: Paperback
$62.07

B. Ruby Rich has been involved with queer filmmaking—as a critic, film-festival curator, publicist, scholar, and...  Read More >>

New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut

New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut

Author: B. Ruby Rich
ISBN: 9780822354116
Format: Hardback
$284.99

B. Ruby Rich has been involved with queer filmmaking—as a critic, film-festival curator, publicist, scholar, and...  Read More >>

Fantasy Film Post 9/11

Fantasy Film Post 9/11

Author: F. Pheasant-Kelly
ISBN: 9780230392120
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Examining a range of fantasy films released in the past decade, Pheasant-Kelly looks at why these films are meaningful...  Read More >>

Raised Eyebrows (hardback)

Raised Eyebrows (hardback)

Author: Steve Stolier
ISBN: 9781593934033
Format: Hardback
$110.88

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The Cinema of Cruelty: From Buñuel to Hitchcock

The Cinema of Cruelty: From Buñuel to Hitchcock

Author: André Bazin ,  François Truffaut
ISBN: 9781611456905
Format: Paperback
$27.99

An amazing collection of essays from the father of film criticism.  Read More >>

Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film: Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations

Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film: Building the Soviet...

Author: Joshua Malitsky
ISBN: 9780253007667
Format: Paperback
$45.95

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Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film: Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations

Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film: Building the Soviet...

Author: Joshua Malitsky
ISBN: 9780253007643
Format: Hardback
$128.95

In the charged atmosphere of post-revolution, artistic and political forces often join in the effort to reimagine...  Read More >>

Theodor Adorno and Film Theory: The Fingerprint of Spirit

Theodor Adorno and Film Theory: The Fingerprint of Spirit...

Author: B. Wall
ISBN: 9781349455065
Format: Paperback
$84.99

What is the fundamental nature of the filmic object: is it a commodity or is it, can it be, art? What would that...  Read More >>

Theodor Adorno and Film Theory: The Fingerprint of Spirit

Theodor Adorno and Film Theory: The Fingerprint of Spirit...

Author: B. Wall
ISBN: 9781137306135
Format: Hardback
$84.99

What is the fundamental nature of the filmic object: is it a commodity or is it, can it be, art? What would that...  Read More >>

Korean Horror Cinema

Korean Horror Cinema

Author: Alison Peirse ,  Daniel Martin
ISBN: 9780748643097
Format: Paperback
$62.07

An original and comprehensive survey of the horror film in Korea, examining the social, cultural, historical and...  Read More >>

Korean Horror Cinema

Korean Horror Cinema

Author: Alison Peirse ,  Daniel Martin
ISBN: 9780748643103
Format: Hardback
$194.06

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The Rodeo and Hollywood: Rodeo Cowboys on Screen and Western Actors in the Arena

The Rodeo and Hollywood: Rodeo Cowboys on Screen and...

Author: Jim Ryan
ISBN: 9780786475230
Format: Paperback
$61.00

Provides career profiles of both types of performers who crossed over between acting and cowboying in the period...  Read More >>

Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy

Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy...

Author: Robert B. Pippin
ISBN: 9780813934020
Format: Paperback
$46.20

The crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unusual...  Read More >>

The Jerry Lewis Films: An Analytical Filmography of the Innovative Comic

The Jerry Lewis Films: An Analytical Filmography of...

Author: James L. Neibaur ,  Ted Okuda
ISBN: 9780786475001
Format: Paperback
$27.50

Using interviews with Jerry Lewis and many of his co-stars, this book analyses his collaborative efforts with Dean...  Read More >>

Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory

Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and...

Author: M. Elise Marubbio ,  Eric L. Buffalohead
ISBN: 9780813136653
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Over the years, Indigenous filmmakers have both challenged these representations and moved past them, offering their...  Read More >>

Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema

Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema...

Author: David A. Kirby (Senior Lecturer in Science Communication Studies, University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780262518703
Format: Paperback
$49.99

How science consultants make movie science plausible, in films ranging from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Finding Nemo....  Read More >>

Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture

Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary...

Author: Ian Olney
ISBN: 9780253006523
Format: Paperback
$43.95

In this volume, Olney explores some of the most popular genres of Euro Horror cinema—including giallo films, named...  Read More >>

Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture

Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary...

Author: Ian Olney
ISBN: 9780253006486
Format: Hardback
$128.95

In this volume, Olney explores some of the most popular genres of Euro Horror cinema—including giallo films, named...  Read More >>

Film and Ethics: What Would You Have Done?

Film and Ethics: What Would You Have Done?

Author: Jacqui Miller
ISBN: 9781443844161
Format: Hardback
$103.47

This book forms part of the multi-disciplinary Studies in Ethics Series from Liverpool Hope University. It explores...  Read More >>

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