Film theory & criticism books

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Animals in Narrative Film and Television: Strange and Familiar Creatures

Animals in Narrative Film and Television: Strange and...

Author: Karin Beeler ,  Stan Beeler
ISBN: 9781666904833
Format: Paperback
$68.99

This book explores fictional representations of animals in animated and live-action film and television and examines...  Read More >>

Cinema, Black Suffering, and Theodicy: Modern God

Cinema, Black Suffering, and Theodicy: Modern God

Author: Shayne Lee
ISBN: 9781666904239
Format: Paperback
$68.99

This book analyzes how films depict God when black characters experience suffering and tragedy to elucidate how...  Read More >>

Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion

Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture:...

Author: Sarah Gleeson-White (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9780197558065
Format: Paperback
$69.95

Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion discovers the considerable impact...  Read More >>

Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion

Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture:...

Author: Sarah Gleeson-White (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9780197558058
Format: Hardback
$219.95

Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion discovers the considerable impact...  Read More >>

Dirty Real: Exile on Hollywood and Vine with the Gin Mill Cowboys

Dirty Real: Exile on Hollywood and Vine with the Gin...

Author: Peter Stanfield
ISBN: 9781789148626
Format: Hardback
$39.99

This is the tale of how Hollywood, inspired by the success of Easy Rider, sold a cycle of films as the new dirty...  Read More >>

The Legend of Mad Max

The Legend of Mad Max

Author: Ian Nathan
ISBN: 9781761450792
Format: Hardback
$50.00

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You Never Know: A Memoir

You Never Know: A Memoir

Author: Tom Selleck ,  Ellis Henican
ISBN: 9780008685706
Format: Paperback
$35.99

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50...  Read More >>

Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage,...

Author: Philip Gefter
ISBN: 9781635579628
Format: Hardback
$44.99

An award-winning writer reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the provocative play, the groundbreaking film it...  Read More >>

Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood

Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood...

Author: Jonathan Frembling ,  Kristen Gaylord
ISBN: 9783777442839
Format: Hardback
$85.00

"Moving Pictures examines the Hollywood career of Karl Struss (1886-1981), a pioneering artist of both still and...  Read More >>

You Never Know: A Memoir

You Never Know: A Memoir

Author: Tom Selleck ,  Ellis Henican
ISBN: 9780008685690
Format: Hardback
$50.00

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50...  Read More >>

The Children’s Hour

The Children’s Hour

Author: Julia Erhart
ISBN: 9780228021209
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic

With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional...

Author: A. Ashley Hoff
ISBN: 9781641607681
Format: Paperback
$34.99

When she died in 1977, Joan Crawford was remembered as an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age—until publication the following...  Read More >>

Peerless: Rouben Mamoulian, Hollywood, and Broadway

Peerless: Rouben Mamoulian, Hollywood, and Broadway...

Author: Kurt Jensen
ISBN: 9780299348205
Format: Hardback
$92.27

A proud Armenian who claimed a distant link to nobility, born in what was then part of czarist Russia, Rouben Mamoulian...  Read More >>

The Children’s Hour

The Children’s Hour

Author: Julia Erhart
ISBN: 9780228021193
Format: Hardback
$250.80

The Children’s Hour (1961) was the first mainstream US film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role. Julia...  Read More >>

Hollywood Behind the Lens: Treasures from the Bison Archives

Hollywood Behind the Lens: Treasures from the Bison...

Author: Marc Wanamaker ,  Steven Bingen
ISBN: 9781493078554
Format: Hardback
$101.00

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Stardust: Cinematic Archives at the End of the World

Stardust: Cinematic Archives at the End of the World...

Author: Hannah Goodwin
ISBN: 9781517916503
Format: Paperback
$47.99

An exploration of the fundamental bond between cinema and the cosmos The advent of cinema occurred alongside...  Read More >>

Xala

Xala

Author: James S. Williams (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781839025983
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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Kes

Kes

Author: David Forrest
ISBN: 9781839025648
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Ken Loach's 1969 drama Kes, considered one of the finest examples of British social realism, tells the story of...  Read More >>

Bob Dylan on Film: The Intersection of Music and Visuals

Bob Dylan on Film: The Intersection of Music and Visuals...

Author: Jonathan Hodgers
ISBN: 9781138586321
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Delving into Bob Dylan's distinctive cinematic journey, this book explores his experimental, boundary-pushing artistry...  Read More >>

Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory: A Study of Youssef Chahine's al-Masir

Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory: A Study...

Author: Assistant Professor Robert K. Beshara (Northern New Mexico College, USA)
ISBN: 9781501385117
Format: Hardback
$180.00

In this book, Robert K. Beshara applies decolonial film theory to an analysis of Youssef Chahine’s (1997) Al-Masir...  Read More >>

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