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European Nightmares: Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945

European Nightmares: Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945...

Author: Patricia Allmer ,  David Huxley
ISBN: 9780231162098
Format: Paperback
$44.95

This volume is the first edited collection of essays focusing on European horror cinema from 1945 to the present....  Read More >>

Hard to Swallow: Hard-Core Pornography on Screen

Hard to Swallow: Hard-Core Pornography on Screen

Author: Claire Hines ,  Darren Kerr
ISBN: 9780231162104
Format: Hardback
$173.95

A Wallflower book published by Columbia University Press --Title page verso.  Read More >>

The American Success Myth on Film

The American Success Myth on Film

Author: J. Levinson
ISBN: 9781137482525
Format: Paperback
$84.99

In examining the enduring appeal that rags-to-riches stories exert on our collective imagination, this book highlights...  Read More >>

The American Success Myth on Film

The American Success Myth on Film

Author: J. Levinson
ISBN: 9780230363366
Format: Hardback
$84.99

In examining the enduring appeal that rags-to-riches stories exert on our collective imagination, this book highlights...  Read More >>

Screening the Face

Screening the Face

Author: P. Coates
ISBN: 9780230298477
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Coates presents the face in film as a place where transformations begin, reflecting both the experience of modernity...  Read More >>

Cross-Cultural Connections in Crime Fictions

Cross-Cultural Connections in Crime Fictions

Author: V. Miller ,  H. Oakley
ISBN: 9780230353985
Format: Hardback
$84.99

A collection of ten original essays forging new interdisciplinary connections between crime fiction and film, encompassing...  Read More >>

Reeling with Laughter: American Film Comedies: From Anarchy to Mockumentary

Reeling with Laughter: American Film Comedies: From...

Author: Michael V. Tueth
ISBN: 9780810883673
Format: Hardback
$98.20

In this book, Tueth looks at some of the most enduring comic movies of all time. Beginning with the anarchic romp...  Read More >>

Europe and Love in Cinema

Europe and Love in Cinema

Author: Luisa Passerini ,  Jo Labanyi (New York University)
ISBN: 9781841503790
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from...  Read More >>

British Comedy Cinema

British Comedy Cinema

Author: I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK) ,  Laraine Porter (De Montfort University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415666671
Format: Paperback
$83.99

British comedy cinema has been a mainstay of domestic production since the beginning of the last Century and arguably...  Read More >>

Travels of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay to L.A.

Travels of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay to L.A.

Author: Gera Roy ,  Beng Huat
ISBN: 9780198075981
Format: Hardback
$70.95

Contributed articles presented in a workshop held at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore,...  Read More >>

British Comedy Cinema

British Comedy Cinema

Author: I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK) ,  Laraine Porter (De Montfort University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415666657
Format: Hardback
$284.00

British comedy cinema has been a mainstay of domestic production since the beginning of the last Century and arguably...  Read More >>

Tipping on a Tightrope: Divas in African American Literature

Tipping on a Tightrope: Divas in African American Literature...

Author: Aisha Damali Lockridge
ISBN: 9781433105753
Format: Hardback
$330.13

When Black runway models began throwing phones and VH1's Divas Live riveted viewers, a new paradigm for Black women...  Read More >>

Liebesfilme sind halt so unrealistisch: Der Horrorfilm und seine Zuschauerinnen. Eine qualitative Studie �ber Bedeutung und Faszination des Horrorfilms f�r sein weibliches Publikum

Liebesfilme sind halt so unrealistisch: Der Horrorfilm...

Author: Solveig Wrage
ISBN: 9783838203157
Format: Paperback
$103.24

Warum schauen Frauen Horrorfilme? An wissenschaftlichen Er�rterungen dieses kontroversen Genres und seiner Zielgruppe...  Read More >>

The Hollywood Film Musical

The Hollywood Film Musical

Author: Barry Keith Grant (Brock University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781405182522
Format: Paperback
$39.95

The Hollywood Film Musical examines the cross-fertilization between the genre and the popular music industry, tracing...  Read More >>

Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema

Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema

Author: Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9781441197979
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Illustrates how contemporary horror films explore visceral and emotional reactions to the attacks and how they underpin...  Read More >>

Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema

Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema

Author: Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9781441132956
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Illustrates how contemporary horror films explore visceral and emotional reactions to the attacks and how they underpin...  Read More >>

The Hollywood Film Musical

The Hollywood Film Musical

Author: Barry Keith Grant (Brock University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781405182539
Format: Hardback
$279.84

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Stop the Clocks!: Time and Narrative in Cinema

Stop the Clocks!: Time and Narrative in Cinema

Author: Helen Powell
ISBN: 9781780762166
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Broad based and accessible, Stop the Clocks! will appeal to a wide interdisciplinary audience and provides a useful...  Read More >>

Challenging Heterosexism from the «Other» Point of View: Representations of Homosexuality in «Queer as Folk» and «The L Word»

Challenging Heterosexism from the «Other» Point of View:...

Author: Dana Frei
ISBN: 9783034311076
Format: Hardback
$122.78

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Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear

Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The...

Author: Julian Hanich (Free University Berlin, Germany)
ISBN: 9780415516570
Format: Paperback
$98.99

Why can fear be pleasurable? Why do we sometimes enjoy an emotion we otherwise desperately wish to avoid? And why...  Read More >>

Westerns: The Essential 'Journal of Popular Film and Television' Collection

Westerns: The Essential 'Journal of Popular Film and...

Author: Gary R. Edgerton ,  Michael Marsden (Bowling Green State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415783248
Format: Paperback
$98.99

This groundbreaking anthology comprises the Journal of Popular Film and Television’s rich and longstanding legacy...  Read More >>

Westerns: The Essential 'Journal of Popular Film and Television' Collection

Westerns: The Essential 'Journal of Popular Film and...

Author: Gary R. Edgerton ,  Michael Marsden (Bowling Green State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415783231
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This groundbreaking anthology comprises the Journal of Popular Film and Television’s rich and longstanding legacy...  Read More >>

Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal: Public Daydreams

Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal: Public Daydreams...

Author: Anna Siomopoulos
ISBN: 9780415882934
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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