Film theory & criticism books

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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 ,  Kim Niemi
ISBN: 9798874764326
Format: Audio
$121.31

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

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

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

Author: A Ashley Hoff ,  Kim Niemi
ISBN: 9798874764319
Format: Audio
$131.97

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

Deanna Durbin in Hollywood: Her Life, Films and Music

Deanna Durbin in Hollywood: Her Life, Films and Music...

Author: Barry Lowe
ISBN: 9781476685335
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Pays tribute to Deanna Durbin by placing her life and career in the context of her time and appraises her film work...  Read More >>

Law at the Movies: Turning Legal Doctrine into Art

Law at the Movies: Turning Legal Doctrine into Art

Author: Prof Stanley Fish (Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law, Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law, Florida International University)
ISBN: 9780198898726
Format: Hardback
$58.95

Stanley Fish focuses on well-known movies (such as Anatomy of a Murder, Twelve Angry Men, or A Man for All Seasons)...  Read More >>

The Age of Heroes

The Age of Heroes

Author: Mukesh Manjunath
ISBN: 9789390327300
Format: Paperback
$41.37

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Baseball: The Movie

Baseball: The Movie

Author: Noah Gittell ,  Noah Gittell
ISBN: 9798874751012
Format: Audio
$190.05

Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a...  Read More >>

Baseball: The Movie

Baseball: The Movie

Author: Noah Gittell ,  Noah Gittell
ISBN: 9798874751029
Format: Audio
$121.31

Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a...  Read More >>

Baseball: The Movie

Baseball: The Movie

Author: Noah Gittell ,  Noah Gittell
ISBN: 9798874751005
Format: Audio
$131.97

Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a...  Read More >>

Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror

Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror

Author: Victoria McCollum ,  Aislinn Clarke
ISBN: 9781611463095
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror is the first book-length exploration of female creators at the cutting edge...  Read More >>

New Perspectives on Early Cinema History: Concepts, Approaches, Audiences

New Perspectives on Early Cinema History: Concepts,...

Author: Mario Slugan (Queen Mary University of London, UK) ,  Daniël Biltereyst (Ghent University, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781350451452
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Provides a theoretical reconceptualization of the paradigms of early cinema, highlighting the latest methods in...  Read More >>

The Neoliberal Self in Bollywood: Cinema, Popular Culture, and Identity

The Neoliberal Self in Bollywood: Cinema, Popular Culture,...

Author: Namrata Rele Sathe (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)
ISBN: 9781789388800
Format: Hardback
$223.95

This book focuses on the neoliberal self, which, far from being a stable marker of urban, liberal, millennial Indian...  Read More >>

Semiotics for Screenwriters: Break Down Your Favorite Movies Then Write Your Own

Semiotics for Screenwriters: Break Down Your Favorite...

Author: Michael Tierno (East Carolina University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501390999
Format: Paperback
$49.99

You're trying to finish a screenplay, but there's a voice in your ear whispering, “You should know more about how...  Read More >>

The Biopic and Beyond: Celebrities as Characters in Screen Media

The Biopic and Beyond: Celebrities as Characters in...

Author: Dr. Melanie Piper (School of Communication and Arts Sessional Academic, University of Queensland, Australia)
ISBN: 9781501393990
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""An examination of how contemporary film, television, and fan media transform celebrities into fictionalised characters""--"...  Read More >>

Screening the Crisis: US Cinema and Social Change in the Wake of the 2008 Crash

Screening the Crisis: US Cinema and Social Change in...

Author: Dr. Hilaria Loyo (former Associate Professor, University of Zaragoza, Spain) ,  Professor Juan A. Tarancón (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
ISBN: 9781501388163
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""Explores the ways in which contemporary US cinema engages with the multiple political, social and cultural manifestations...  Read More >>

Costa-Gavras: Encounters with History

Costa-Gavras: Encounters with History

Author: Professor John J. Michalczyk ,  Dr Susan A. Michalczyk
ISBN: 9781501390920
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""An exciting overview of Costa-Gavras oeuvre, while also attending to the Greek-French filmmaker's life as it...  Read More >>

From the Margins to the Mainstream: Women in Film and Television

From the Margins to the Mainstream: Women in Film and...

Author: Marianne Kac-Vergne (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France) ,  Julie Assouly (Université d’Artois, France)
ISBN: 9781350331655
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book explores the various issues raised by women’s fraught integration into the mainstream in film and television,...  Read More >>

The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos: Films, Form, Philosophy

The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos: Films, Form, Philosophy...

Author: Eddie Falvey
ISBN: 9781501375507
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"From the critical and commercial fanfare his films generate, it is largely understood that Yorgos Lanthimos is...  Read More >>

Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination

Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination

Author: Martin M. Winkler (George Mason University, Virginia)
ISBN: 9781009396714
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Demonstrates the affinities between antiquity and today by interpreting several themes in classical literature and...  Read More >>

Semiotics for Screenwriters: Break Down Your Favorite Movies Then Write Your Own

Semiotics for Screenwriters: Break Down Your Favorite...

Author: Michael Tierno (East Carolina University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501391002
Format: Hardback
$180.00

You're trying to finish a screenplay, but there's a voice in your ear whispering, “You should know more about how...  Read More >>

Attention Spans: Garrett Stewart, a Reader

Attention Spans: Garrett Stewart, a Reader

Author: Professor or Dr. Garrett Stewart (James O. Freedman Professor of Letters, University of Iowa, USA) ,  Dr. David LaRocca (Cornell University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765102237
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Attention Spans’ chronological review of Garrett Stewart’s critical approach tracks and maps the evolution of intersecting...  Read More >>

The Prison of Time: Stanley Kubrick, Adrian Lyne, Michael Bay and Quentin Tarantino

The Prison of Time: Stanley Kubrick, Adrian Lyne, Michael...

Author: Elisa Pezzotta
ISBN: 9781501380570
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""This book focuses on the representation of time in cinema, by focusing on four filmmakers: Stanley Kubrick, Quentin...  Read More >>

Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema

Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema

Author: Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez
ISBN: 9781501384677
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""The book critically reviews the portrayal of indigenous characters in Latin American films produced after the...  Read More >>

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