Film & movie: styles & genres books

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Comedy-horror Films: A Chronological History, 1914-2008

Comedy-horror Films: A Chronological History, 1914-2008...

Author: Bruce G. Hallenbeck
ISBN: 9780786433322
Format: Hardback
$60.50

Fun and fright have long been partners in the cinema, dating back to the silent film era and progressing to the...  Read More >>

Relocating Shakespeare and Austen on Screen

Relocating Shakespeare and Austen on Screen

Author: Lisa Hopkins
ISBN: 9780230579552
Format: Hardback
$84.99

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Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore

Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from...

Author: Jeffrey Escoffier
ISBN: 9780786720101
Format: Hardback
$65.87

How the gay porn film industry grew dramatically and transformed the way men conceived of masculinity and their...  Read More >>

100 Film Noirs

100 Film Noirs

Author: Jim Hillier ,  Jim Hillier
ISBN: 9781844572168
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Silent Mystery and Detective Movies: A Comprehensive Filmography

Silent Mystery and Detective Movies: A Comprehensive...

Author: Ken Wlaschin
ISBN: 9780786443505
Format: Paperback
$60.50

The silent-film era was known in part for its cliffhanger serials and air of suspense that kept audiences returning...  Read More >>

Silent Comedy

Silent Comedy

Author: Paul Merton
ISBN: 9780099510130
Format: Paperback
$27.99

On the surface it may seem slightly surprising that a master of verbal humour should also be a devotee of silent...  Read More >>

Trashfiend: Disposable Horror Culture of the 1960s and 1970s

Trashfiend: Disposable Horror Culture of the 1960s and...

Author: Scott Stine
ISBN: 9781900486668
Format: Paperback
$36.20

A loving look at disposable' horror culture from the 1960s and 1970s.'  Read More >>

Hollywood Musicals Nominated for Best Picture

Hollywood Musicals Nominated for Best Picture

Author: Frederick G. Vogel
ISBN: 9780786443420
Format: Paperback
$71.50

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The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films: An Historical Survey

The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films: An Historical...

Author: Bartlomiej Paszylk
ISBN: 9780786436958
Format: Hardback
$131.87

"Beginning with Victor Sjostrom's """"The Phantom Carriage"""" in 1921, this book tracks the evolution and influence...  Read More >>

The Presence of the Feminine in Film

The Presence of the Feminine in Film

Author: Virginia Apperson ,  John Beebe
ISBN: 9781443805131
Format: Paperback
$51.72

This pioneering book introduces a largely unremarked dimension of film, the feminine, which cannot be reduced...  Read More >>

10,000 Ways to Die: A Director's Take on the Italian Western

10,000 Ways to Die: A Director's Take on the Italian...

Author: Alex Cox
ISBN: 9781842433041
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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The Religious Film: Christianity and the Hagiopic

The Religious Film: Christianity and the Hagiopic

Author: Pamela Grace (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
ISBN: 9781405160254
Format: Hardback
$167.95

"Lush, vaguely liturgical music floods the theater. A sonorous offscreen male voice slowly articulates the words,...  Read More >>

Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms: Essays on Gender, Race and Culture

Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms: Essays on...

Author: John Edgar Browning ,  "Caroline Joan ""Kay"" S. Picart"
ISBN: 9780810866966
Format: Hardback
$108.95

This provocative assembly of essays examines Dracula films and their movement across borders of nationality, sexuality,...  Read More >>

Slasher Films: An International Filmography, 1960 through 2001

Slasher Films: An International Filmography, 1960 through...

Author: Kent Byron Armstrong
ISBN: 9780786442317
Format: Paperback
$60.50

"The slasher film genre got its start in the early 1960s when acclaimed filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and...  Read More >>

The Religious Film: Christianity and the Hagiopic

The Religious Film: Christianity and the Hagiopic

Author: Pamela Grace (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
ISBN: 9781405160261
Format: Paperback
$65.95

"Lush, vaguely liturgical music floods the theater. A sonorous offscreen male voice slowly articulates the words,...  Read More >>

Italian Sexy Comedy

Italian Sexy Comedy

Author:
ISBN: 9788889886236
Format: Undefined
$160.99

Sexy Comedy was a very popular genre of film in Italy in the 70's. All the saucy circumstances and situations depicted...  Read More >>

It Lives Again! Horror Movies in the New Millennium

It Lives Again! Horror Movies in the New Millennium...

Author: Axelle Carolyn
ISBN: 9781845830205
Format: Hardback
$39.95

Taboo breakers. Films that pushed boundaries, overstepped the line or simply went all out to shock. Whether through...  Read More >>

In the Dark Room: Marguerite Duras and Cinema

In the Dark Room: Marguerite Duras and Cinema

Author: Wendy Everett ,  Axel Goodbody
ISBN: 9783039113545
Format: Paperback
$184.67

This book examines Duras’s contribution to contemporary cinema. The ‘dark room’ in the collection’s title refers...  Read More >>

Cinemas of Ireland

Cinemas of Ireland

Author: Isabelle le Corff ,  Estelle Epinoux
ISBN: 9781443802406
Format: Hardback
$103.47

Cinemas of Ireland is a collection of fourteen essays which provide numerous approaches to the new Irish cinemascape...  Read More >>

Circle the Wagons!: Attacks on Wagon Trains in History and Hollywood Films

Circle the Wagons!: Attacks on Wagon Trains in History...

Author: Gregory F. Michno ,  Susan Michno
ISBN: 9780786439973
Format: Hardback
$145.20

It's a cinematic image as familiar as John Wayne's face: a wagon train circling as a defensive maneuver against...  Read More >>

Defeated Masculinity: Post-Traumatic Cinema in the Aftermath of War

Defeated Masculinity: Post-Traumatic Cinema in the Aftermath...

Author: Dominique Nasta ,  Raya Morag
ISBN: 9789052014692
Format: Paperback
$75.81

La collection « Repenser le cinéma » privilégie les approches novatrices, les analyses de concepts, de genres, de...  Read More >>

After Neorealism: Italian Filmmakers and Their Films; Essays and Interviews

After Neorealism: Italian Filmmakers and Their Films;...

Author: Bert Cardullo
ISBN: 9781443803588
Format: Hardback
$90.54

The term neorealism was first applied by the critic Antonio Pietrangeli to Visconti's Ossessione (1942), and the...  Read More >>

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