Film theory & criticism books

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Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews

Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews

Author: Carl Rollyson
ISBN: 9781496849557
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Here at last is the complete story of Dana Andrews (1909–1992): a great actor who struggled to overcome alcoholism...  Read More >>

Superspy Science: Science, Death and Tech in the World of James Bond

Superspy Science: Science, Death and Tech in the World...

Author: Kathryn Harkup
ISBN: 9781472982254
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Cinema '62: The Greatest Year at the Movies

Cinema '62: The Greatest Year at the Movies

Author: Stephen Farber ,  Michael McClellan
ISBN: 9781978840720
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Challenging the common assumption that the early 1960s were a drab time for American film, this book makes the bold...  Read More >>

Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror

Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror...

Author: Kartik Nair
ISBN: 9780520392281
Format: Paperback
$49.95

"In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches,...  Read More >>

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

Author: Robert Calder
ISBN: 9780299346201
Format: Hardback
$211.07

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Urban Crime Control in Cinema: Fallen Guardians and the Ideology of Repression

Urban Crime Control in Cinema: Fallen Guardians and...

Author: Vladimir Rizov
ISBN: 9783031129803
Format: Paperback
$316.77

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Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror

Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror...

Author: Kartik Nair
ISBN: 9780520392274
Format: Hardback
$140.95

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Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Taxidermy: Fashioning Corpses

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Taxidermy: Fashioning...

Author: Subarna Mondal (The Sanskrit College and University Kolkata, India)
ISBN: 9798765101186
Format: Hardback
$150.00

"""An investigation into how Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) significantly contributes to the Body Horrors of mainstream...  Read More >>

HITCHOLOGY: A film-by-film guide to the style and themes of Alfred Hitchcock

HITCHOLOGY: A film-by-film guide to the style and themes...

Author: Neil Alcock
ISBN: 9781739522001
Format: Paperback
$42.21

HITCHOLOGY considers how Hitchcock used narrative tropes and formal flourishes to create some of cinema's most unforgettable...  Read More >>

The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema

The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema

Author: Bliss Cua Lim
ISBN: 9781478021001
Format: Hardback
$303.47

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Film Figures: An Organological Approach

Film Figures: An Organological Approach

Author: Warwick Mules (Adjunct Associate Professor, Southern Cross University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781501361210
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Film Figures develops a figural account of the memory structure of films. Employing theoretical concepts drawn...  Read More >>

The Sound of Silence: Ryan Gosling, Expressionism and the Silent Hero in 21st-Century Film

The Sound of Silence: Ryan Gosling, Expressionism and...

Author: Nancy Epton
ISBN: 9798765108055
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The Sound of Silence explores how non-verbal communication in film, shown primarily through the acting of Ryan Gosling,...  Read More >>

If Films Could Smell

If Films Could Smell

Author: Roddy Bogawa
ISBN: 9781885030214
Format: Paperback
$54.31

"Capturing the 1990s independent film scene and art world through a collection of interviews and writings by Roddy...  Read More >>

The Year′s Work in Showgirls Studies

The Year′s Work in Showgirls Studies

Author: M Hardie
ISBN: 9780253068163
Format: Paperback
$78.99

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Casablanca's Conscience

Casablanca's Conscience

Author: Robert Weldon Whalen
ISBN: 9781531504809
Format: Paperback
$50.99

"A new look at a beloved classic film that explores the philosophical dynamics of Casablanca Celebrating its eightieth...  Read More >>

Pasolini: Il Cinema Di Poesia/ The Cinema of Poetry

Pasolini: Il Cinema Di Poesia/ The Cinema of Poetry...

Author: Jeremy Mark Robinson
ISBN: 9781861719218
Format: Paperback
$79.17

A new critical study of the Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975).  Read More >>

Casablanca's Conscience

Casablanca's Conscience

Author: Robert Weldon Whalen
ISBN: 9781531504793
Format: Hardback
$186.99

"A new look at a beloved classic film that explores the philosophical dynamics of Casablanca Celebrating its eightieth...  Read More >>

Films, festivals et mondes contemporains: pour une anthropologie du visuel

Films, festivals et mondes contemporains: pour une anthropologie...

Author: Andrew McGregor ,  Philippe Met
ISBN: 9781636671352
Format: Hardback
$250.67

The aim of this edited collection is to contribute to the identification of a new film festival period which has...  Read More >>

Reel Change III: Flashbacks and Coming Attractions

Reel Change III: Flashbacks and Coming Attractions

Author: Bill Mesce, Jr
ISBN: 9798887713977
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon

Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon

Author: Kate Andersen Brower
ISBN: 9780008435868
Format: Paperback
$27.99

The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor.  Read More >>

Our Country/Whose Country?: Early Westerns and Travel Films as Stories of Settler Colonialism

Our Country/Whose Country?: Early Westerns and Travel...

Author: Richard Abel (Emeritus Professor of International Cinema and Media, Emeritus Professor of International Cinema and Media, University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9780197744055
Format: Paperback
$75.95

"This book offers an original analysis of early westerns and travel pictures through the lens of settler colonialism,...  Read More >>

It's Not the Years, It's the Mileage: The Definitive History of Indiana Jones

It's Not the Years, It's the Mileage: The Definitive...

Author: Michael Coate
ISBN: 9798986623740
Format: Hardback
$73.89

Spanning 40+ years, the Indiana Jones film series has defined what an adventure movie should be. It’s Not the...  Read More >>

The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 19451985

The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film...

Author: James Chapman
ISBN: 9781399500777
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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