Film & movie: styles & genres books

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Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering

Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering

Author: Paul Cooke - see C80107 ,  Marc Silberman (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781571134370
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath....  Read More >>

The Dark Mirror: Psychiatry and Film Noir

The Dark Mirror: Psychiatry and Film Noir

Author: Marlisa Santos
ISBN: 9780739136652
Format: Hardback
$129.95

The Dark Mirror explores the richness of psychiatric imagery in film noir and how the popularization of psychoanalysis...  Read More >>

The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies

The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies

Author: Mary M. Dalton
ISBN: 9781433108730
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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The Epic Film in World Culture

The Epic Film in World Culture

Author: Robert Burgoyne
ISBN: 9780415990189
Format: Paperback
$81.99

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The Epic Film in World Culture

The Epic Film in World Culture

Author: Robert Burgoyne
ISBN: 9780415990172
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Genre and Performance: Film and Television

Genre and Performance: Film and Television

Author: Christine Cornea ,  Bethan Hirst
ISBN: 9780719079801
Format: Hardback
$195.00

This book explores how popular film and television genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance. It brings...  Read More >>

Literature, Cinema and Politics, 1930-1945: Reading Between the Frames

Literature, Cinema and Politics, 1930-1945: Reading...

Author: Lara Feigel
ISBN: 9780748639502
Format: Hardback
$164.99

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Asian Horror

Asian Horror

Author: Andy Richards
ISBN: 9781842433201
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Since Japanese horror sensations The Ring and Audition first terrified Western audiences at the turn of the millennium,...  Read More >>

Film Noir: The Encyclopedia

Film Noir: The Encyclopedia

Author: Alain Silver ,  Elizabeth Ward
ISBN: 9780715638804
Format: Hardback
$77.63

Lets you meet the cynical and obsessive heroes of film noir portrayed by actors like Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre,...  Read More >>

The Uses of Phobia: Essays on Literature and Film

The Uses of Phobia: Essays on Literature and Film

Author: David Trotter (University of Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9781444333848
Format: Paperback
$42.95

The essays brought together in this book understand phobia not as a pathology, but as a versatile moral, political,...  Read More >>

Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood

Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood

Author: Ron Backer
ISBN: 9780786448647
Format: Paperback
$60.50

Focuses on 19 mystery series that were primarily released during the 1940s. The shows covered range from such enduring...  Read More >>

Vampires V Werewolves

Vampires V Werewolves

Author: Martin Howden
ISBN: 9781844549610
Format: Paperback
$34.19

This is the most complete and up-to-date book that will tell you everything you need to know about both sides of...  Read More >>

The Multi-Protagonist Film

The Multi-Protagonist Film

Author: María del Mar Azcona (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
ISBN: 9781444325300
Format: Digital
$316.80

Guides readers through the genre's central characteristics and conventions Provides a theoretical framework developed...  Read More >>

100 Greatest 'Looney Tunes' Cartoons

100 Greatest 'Looney Tunes' Cartoons

Author: Leonard Maltin ,  Leonard Maltin
ISBN: 9781608870035
Format: Hardback
$65.87

In a world of rascally rabbits, megalomaniacal ducks, and stuttering pigs, what defines greatness? This question...  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: 9780300145779
Format: Hardback
$92.40

"Explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three...  Read More >>

Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema

Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema...

Author: Simon Sheridan
ISBN: 9781904674221
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Traces the history of the British sex film from its beginnings in coy nudist camp films such as Some Like It Cool...  Read More >>

The Scene of Violence: Cinema, Crime, Affect

The Scene of Violence: Cinema, Crime, Affect

Author: Alison Young
ISBN: 9780415585088
Format: Paperback
$69.95

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Reframing 9/11: "Film, Popular Culture and the ""War on Terror"""

Reframing 9/11: "Film, Popular Culture and the ""War...

Author: Ph.D. Jeff Birkenstein (Saint Martin's University, USA) ,  Dr. Anna Froula
ISBN: 9781441119056
Format: Paperback
$56.00

A collection of analyses focusing on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about...  Read More >>

Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories

Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories

Author: Rosalind Galt (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex) ,  Karl Schoonover (Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Michigan State University)
ISBN: 9780195385625
Format: Hardback
$154.95

"""Art cinema"" has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly...  Read More >>

Killer Kaiju Monsters: Strange Beasts of Japanese Film

Killer Kaiju Monsters: Strange Beasts of Japanese Film...

Author: Ivan Vartanian
ISBN: 9780061655791
Format: Hardback
$73.89

Features graphic full-colour illustrations of some of the most notable kaiju, along with descriptions of their strengths,...  Read More >>

Fantasy Cinema – Impossible Worlds on Screen

Fantasy Cinema – Impossible Worlds on Screen

Author: David Butler
ISBN: 9781906660161
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Often dismissed as escapist tales of sword and sorcery or childish fairytales, fantasy is one of the fundamental...  Read More >>

Representations of Illness in Literature and Film

Representations of Illness in Literature and Film

Author: Bennett Kravitz
ISBN: 9781443820837
Format: Hardback
$90.54

This book examines the ways that various syndromes, disorders and diseases appear in modern literature and film....  Read More >>

Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History

Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History...

Author: Steve Neale ,  Sheldon Hall
ISBN: 9780814330081
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Reframing 9/11: "Film, Popular Culture and the ""War on Terror"""

Reframing 9/11: "Film, Popular Culture and the ""War...

Author: Ph.D. Jeff Birkenstein (Saint Martin's University, USA) ,  Dr. Anna Froula
ISBN: 9781441111326
Format: Hardback
$182.00

A collection of analyses focusing on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about...  Read More >>

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