Film & movie: styles & genres books

4572 books were found.

Film Noir the Directors

Film Noir the Directors

Author: Alain Silver ,  James Ursini
ISBN: 9780879103941
Format: Paperback
$50.99

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Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film

Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the...

Author: Kendall R. Phillips
ISBN: 9780809330959
Format: Paperback
$46.20

Provides readings of the film rhetorics of auteurs George Romero, Wes Craven, and John Carpenter, showing how they...  Read More >>

Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy

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

Author: Robert B. Pippin
ISBN: 9780813931890
Format: Hardback
$79.20

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

Constructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance'

Constructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations...

Author: C. Gregoriou
ISBN: 9780230299771
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature....  Read More >>

Film Noir

Film Noir

Author: William Luhr (Saint Peter's College, USA)
ISBN: 9781405145954
Format: Paperback
$65.95

Film Noir offers new perspectives on this highly popular and influential film genre, providing a useful overview...  Read More >>

Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches

Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches

Author: C. Perkins ,  C. Verevis
ISBN: 9780230250314
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Drawing on a wide range of examples, this book – the first devoted to the phenomenon of the film trilogy– provides...  Read More >>

Romantics and Modernists in British Cinema

Romantics and Modernists in British Cinema

Author: John Orr
ISBN: 9780748649372
Format: Paperback
$64.66

In a fresh and invigorating look at British cinema that considers film as an art form among other arts, John Orr...  Read More >>

Studying The Bourne Ultimatum

Studying The Bourne Ultimatum

Author: Neil Archer
ISBN: 9781906733599
Format: Paperback
$38.79

At the time of its release in 2007, The Bourne Ultimatum was described by one writer as the blockbuster it was 'okay...  Read More >>

Film Noir

Film Noir

Author: William Luhr (Saint Peter's College, USA)
ISBN: 9781405145947
Format: Hardback
$157.95

Film Noir offers new perspectives on this highly popular and influential film genre, providing a useful overview...  Read More >>

Screwball Comedy and Film Noir: Unexpected Connections

Screwball Comedy and Film Noir: Unexpected Connections...

Author: Thomas C. Renzi
ISBN: 9780786466726
Format: Paperback
$49.50

"This is a comprehensive comparative analysis of the screwball comedy and film noir genres--two popular Hollywood...  Read More >>

Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy

Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance...

Author: Robert B. Pippin
ISBN: 9780300172065
Format: Paperback
$61.95

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The International Film Musical

The International Film Musical

Author: Corey Creekmur ,  Linda Mokdad
ISBN: 9780748634767
Format: Hardback
$232.88

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Film and Genocide

Film and Genocide

Author: Kristi M. Wilson ,  Tomas F. Crowder-Taraborrelli
ISBN: 9780299285647
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Brings together scholars of film and of genocide to discuss film representations, both fictional and documentary,...  Read More >>

Film: A Very Short Introduction

Film: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Michael Wood (Charles Barnwell Start Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780192803535
Format: Paperback
$21.95

Film is considered to be the dominant art form of the twentieth century. It can be considered many other things;...  Read More >>

Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema

Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror...

Author: Angela M. Smith
ISBN: 9780231157179
Format: Paperback
$56.95

Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic...  Read More >>

Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema

Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror...

Author: Angela M. Smith
ISBN: 9780231157162
Format: Hardback
$173.95

Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic...  Read More >>

Shock Value

Shock Value

Author: Jason Zinoman
ISBN: 9780715645857
Format: Paperback
$33.61

How a few eccentric outsiders gave us nightmares, conquered Hollywood and invented modern horror  Read More >>

Hollywood and the American Historical Film

Hollywood and the American Historical Film

Author: J.E. Smyth (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9780230230934
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This definitive interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars probes the theoretical and historical contexts...  Read More >>

The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema

The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema

Author: Lawrence Baron
ISBN: 9781611681994
Format: Paperback
$105.47

The first global investigation of Jewish experiences in film from a wide spectrum of disciplines  Read More >>

The Maltese Touch of Evil

The Maltese Touch of Evil

Author: Richard L. Edwards ,  Shannon Scott Clute
ISBN: 9781611680478
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Part thinking-man's fan crush, part crazily inspired remix of the most beloved of film genres, this book will force...  Read More >>

The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe

The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe

Author: Tanya Horeck (Anglia Ruskin University) ,  Tina Kendall (Anglia Ruskin University)
ISBN: 9780748651221
Format: Undefined
$295.68

Explosive images of sex and violence in films by directors such as Catherine Breillat, Gaspar No�, Michael Haneke...  Read More >>

Screening the Face

Screening the Face

Author: P. Coates
ISBN: 9781349334650
Format: Paperback
$84.99

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

Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel

Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel...

Author: K. Loock ,  C. Verevis
ISBN: 9781349442539
Format: Paperback
$84.99

A dynamic investigation of processes of cultural reproduction – remaking and remodelling – which considers a wide...  Read More >>

Hollywood's Detectives: Crime Series in the 1930s and 1940s from the Whodunnit to Hard-boiled Noir

Hollywood's Detectives: Crime Series in the 1930s and...

Author: F. Mason
ISBN: 9781349367672
Format: Paperback
$84.99

The study of Hollywood detectives has often overlooked the B-Movie mystery series in favour of hard-boiled film....  Read More >>

Constructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance'

Constructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations...

Author: C. Gregoriou
ISBN: 9781349335404
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature....  Read More >>

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