Film & movie: styles & genres books

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Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents

Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation...

Author: Stephen Thrower
ISBN: 9781903254462
Format: Hardback
$129.35

Stephen Thrower has explored the attics and cellars of American cinema, delved beneath the floorboards, peered between...  Read More >>

Beauty and the Abject: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Beauty and the Abject: Interdisciplinary Perspectives...

Author: Leslie Boldt-Irons ,  Corrado Federici
ISBN: 9780820488103
Format: Hardback
$297.92

This collection of eighteen essays explores the meanings and depictions of beauty and the abject in art (from Renaissance...  Read More >>

The Presidents on Film: A Comprehensive Filmography of Portrayals from George Washington to George W. Bush

The Presidents on Film: A Comprehensive Filmography...

Author: Sarah Miles Bolam ,  Thomas J. Bolam
ISBN: 9780786424818
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Examines how filmmakers and their public have viewed the presidents and the presidency over years. This book presents...  Read More >>

The """Hellraiser"" Films and Their Legacy"

The """Hellraiser"" Films and Their Legacy"

Author: Paul Kane
ISBN: 9780786427529
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Explores not only the cinematic interpretations of the Hellraiser mythos but also its intrusion into other artistic...  Read More >>

Great Hollywood Westerns: Classic Pictures, Must-see Movies and  B  Films

Great Hollywood Westerns: Classic Pictures, Must-see...

Author: John Howard Reid
ISBN: 9781430309680
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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The Rodeo and Hollywood: Rodeo Cowboys on Screen and Western Actors in the Arena

The Rodeo and Hollywood: Rodeo Cowboys on Screen and...

Author: Jim Ryan
ISBN: 9780786424702
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Provides career profiles of both types of performers who crossed over between acting and cowboying in the period...  Read More >>

Psycho Thrillers: Cinematic Explorations of the Mysteries of the Mind

Psycho Thrillers: Cinematic Explorations of the Mysteries...

Author: William Indick
ISBN: 9780786423712
Format: Paperback
$54.95

Mind control, madness and altered states of reality can make for exciting nights at the movies--which explains the...  Read More >>

Science Fiction America: Essays on SF Cinema

Science Fiction America: Essays on SF Cinema

Author: David J. Hogan
ISBN: 9780786421497
Format: Hardback
$131.87

"The 22 original essays in this collection examine how issues in particular science fiction films - from 1930's...  Read More >>

Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film

Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern...

Author: Tony Magistrale
ISBN: 9780820470566
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Past and Present: National Identity and the British Historical Film

Past and Present: National Identity and the British...

Author: Prof James Chapman (University of Leicester, UK)
ISBN: 9781850438083
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Looking closely at the issues that they present, from gender, class and ethnicity to militarism and imperialism,...  Read More >>

Past and Present: National Identity and the British Historical Film

Past and Present: National Identity and the British...

Author: Prof James Chapman (University of Leicester, UK)
ISBN: 9781850438076
Format: Hardback
$167.00

Looking at the historical films genre in all its complexity, the author argues that historical films say as much...  Read More >>

Love and Sexuality: New Approaches in Fench Studies

Love and Sexuality: New Approaches in Fench Studies...

Author: Sarah F. Donachie ,  Kim Harrison
ISBN: 9783039102495
Format: Paperback
$132.74

The papers collected in this volume are selected from the proceedings of the Love and Sexuality conference held...  Read More >>

French-Speaking Women Documentarians: A Guide

French-Speaking Women Documentarians: A Guide

Author: Janis L. Pallister ,  Ruth A. Hottell
ISBN: 9780820476148
Format: Hardback
$319.84

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Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000

Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to...

Author: Carol Allen
ISBN: 9780820476209
Format: Hardback
$274.30

This book features African American women playwrights from 1875 to 2000, with an emphasis on the late nineteenth...  Read More >>

Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000

Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to...

Author: Carol Allen
ISBN: 9780820476193
Format: Paperback
$129.10

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Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online

Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online

Author: Rhiannon Bury ,  Steve Jones
ISBN: 9780820471181
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Cyberspaces of Their Own interrogates the social and spatial relations of the rapidly expanding virtual terrain...  Read More >>

Mob Culture: Hidden Histories of the American Gangster Film

Mob Culture: Hidden Histories of the American Gangster...

Author: Lee Grieveson ,  Esther Sonnet
ISBN: 9780813535579
Format: Paperback
$65.87

The gangster is perhaps the most potent figure in American cinema. Yet film criticism has focused almost entirely...  Read More >>

Identidades Maternacionales en el Ine de Maria Novaro

Identidades Maternacionales en el Ine de Maria Novaro...

Author: Oscar Robles ,  Tamara Alvarez-Detrell
ISBN: 9780820471396
Format: Hardback
$295.42

Lola (1989), Danzon (1991) y El jardin del Eden (1993) de Maria Novaro (Mexico, 1951) crearon nuevas identidades...  Read More >>

Once Upon A Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns

Once Upon A Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers'...

Author: Howard Hughes
ISBN: 9781850438960
Format: Paperback
$39.00

Explores the films through the biographies and filmographies of key personnel, stories of the films' making, their...  Read More >>

Engaging Film Criticism: Film History and Contemporary American Cinema

Engaging Film Criticism: Film History and Contemporary...

Author: Walter Metz
ISBN: 9780820474038
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Engaging Film Criticism examines recent American cinema in relationship to its imaginative intertexts, films from...  Read More >>

"""Brigadoon"", ""Braveheart"" and the Scots": Distortions of Scotland in Hollywood Cinema

"""Brigadoon"", ""Braveheart"" and the Scots": Distortions...

Author: Colin McArthur
ISBN: 9781860649271
Format: Hardback
$118.00

"The films ""Brigadoon"" and ""Braveheart"" have an enormous resonance and provide general impressions of ""Scottishness""....  Read More >>

The Warrior Women of Television: A Feminist Cultural Analysis of the New Female Body in Popular Media / Dawn Heinecken.

The Warrior Women of Television: A Feminist Cultural...

Author: Dawn Heinecken
ISBN: 9780820462196
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The Warrior Women of Television examines contemporary representations of the female action hero in three series:...  Read More >>

The Western

The Western

Author: David Lusted
ISBN: 9780582437364
Format: Paperback
$112.00

This study of the Western movie comprises two main parts: part one deals with background issues such as the Western...  Read More >>

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