Film & movie: styles & genres books

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The Martial Arts Cinema of the Chinese Disapora: Ang Lee, John Woo and Jackie Chan in Hollywood

The Martial Arts Cinema of the Chinese Disapora: Ang...

Author: Kin-Yan Szeto
ISBN: 9780809330218
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Kin-Yan Szeto critically examines three of the most internationally famous martial arts film artists to arise out...  Read More >>

Radio in the Movies: A History and Filmography, 1926-2010

Radio in the Movies: A History and Filmography, 1926-2010...

Author: Laurence Etling ,  Kenneth Jurkiewicz
ISBN: 9780786449491
Format: Paperback
$118.80

This richly detailed examination of two branches of American entertainment focuses on the various ways that radio...  Read More >>

Hollywood's African American Films: The Transition to Sound

Hollywood's African American Films: The Transition to...

Author: Ryan Jay Friedman
ISBN: 9780813550480
Format: Hardback
$190.08

Explores why the movie business turned to black musical performance at the end of the 1920s to both resolve technological...  Read More >>

Hollywood's African American Films: The Transition to Sound

Hollywood's African American Films: The Transition to...

Author: Ryan Jay Friedman
ISBN: 9780813550497
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Explores why the movie business turned to black musical performance at the end of the 1920s to both resolve technological...  Read More >>

Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation

Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation

Author: John Ellis (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415574198
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Digital technologies have transformed documentary for both filmmakers and audiences. Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation...  Read More >>

Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation

Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation

Author: John Ellis (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415574181
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Digital technologies have transformed documentary for both filmmakers and audiences. Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation...  Read More >>

Masculinity and Film Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary American Cinema

Masculinity and Film Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary...

Author: D. Peberdy
ISBN: 9781137337726
Format: Paperback
$84.99

A lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing on well-known male...  Read More >>

Masculinity and Film Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary American Cinema

Masculinity and Film Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary...

Author: D. Peberdy
ISBN: 9780230283787
Format: Hardback
$84.99

A lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing on well-known male...  Read More >>

Maximum Movies - Pulp Fictions: Film Culture and the Worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane and Jim Thompson

Maximum Movies - Pulp Fictions: Film Culture and the...

Author: Peter Stanfield ,  Richard Maltby
ISBN: 9780813550619
Format: Hardback
$190.08

In the words of Richard Maltby . . . ""Maximum Movies--Pulp Fictions describes two improbably imbricated worlds...  Read More >>

Just Images: Ethics and the Cinematic

Just Images: Ethics and the Cinematic

Author: Boaz Hagin ,  Sandra Meiri
ISBN: 9781443828451
Format: Hardback
$103.47

Just Images: Ethics and the Cinematic charts current developments within the field of ethics and the role it plays...  Read More >>

European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory and Politics

European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory...

Author: E. Mazierska
ISBN: 9780230579545
Format: Hardback
$84.99

This book offers an up-to-date approach to the question of representing history through film, exploring how films...  Read More >>

The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy

The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy

Author: Celestino Deleyto ,  Bethan Hirst
ISBN: 9780719085598
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Science Fiction Film Directors, 1895-1998

Science Fiction Film Directors, 1895-1998

Author: Dennis Fischer
ISBN: 9780786460915
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study

Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study

Author: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
ISBN: 9780786449613
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Combat Films: American Realism, 1945-2010, 2d ed.

Combat Films: American Realism, 1945-2010, 2d ed.

Author: Steven Jay Rubin
ISBN: 9780786458929
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Provides a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most important American war films of the last 60 years. Based on...  Read More >>

The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe

The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe

Author: Tanya Horeck ,  Dr. Tina Kendall
ISBN: 9780748641604
Format: Hardback
$168.00

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Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960-1980

Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy,...

Author: Danny Shipka
ISBN: 9780786448883
Format: Paperback
$131.87

"With subject matter running the gamut from Italian zombies to Spanish werewolves to French lesbian vampires, the...  Read More >>

Back from the Dead: Remakes of the Romero Zombie Films as Markers of Their Times

Back from the Dead: Remakes of the Romero Zombie Films...

Author: Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
ISBN: 9780786446421
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Since 1968, the name of motion picture director George Romero has been synonymous with the living dead. His landmark...  Read More >>

100 Silent Films

100 Silent Films

Author: Bryony Dixon
ISBN: 9781844573080
Format: Paperback
$52.80

?100 Silent Films provides an authoritative and accessible history of silent cinema through one hundred of its most...  Read More >>

Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present

Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the...

Author: Darrel Richard Frear (Motorola Inc., Tempe, Arizona, USA) ,  M. Datta (Cooligy, Inc., Mountain View, California, USA)
ISBN: 9780415880206
Format: Paperback
$94.91

"From King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of the horror film has always been a site for provocative...  Read More >>

100 Silent Films

100 Silent Films

Author: Bryony Dixon
ISBN: 9781844573097
Format: Hardback
$198.00

?100 Silent Films provides an authoritative and accessible history of silent cinema through one hundred of its most...  Read More >>

Hollywood Romantic Comedies of the Fifties: A Critical Study of a Film Genre

Hollywood Romantic Comedies of the Fifties: A Critical...

Author: Manuela Ruiz
ISBN: 9780773439405
Format: Hardback
$422.27

Intends to analyze the transformative and counter cultural nature of romantic comedies from the 1950s.  Read More >>

Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present

Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the...

Author: Darrel Richard Frear (Motorola Inc., Tempe, Arizona, USA) ,  M. Datta (Cooligy, Inc., Mountain View, California, USA)
ISBN: 9780415880190
Format: Hardback
$396.00

"From King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of the horror film has always been a site for provocative...  Read More >>

A History of Irish Ballet from 1927 to 1963

A History of Irish Ballet from 1927 to 1963

Author: Eamon Maher ,  Victoria O'Brien
ISBN: 9783039118731
Format: Paperback
$100.27

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