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States of Danger and Deceit: The European Political Thriller in the 1970s

States of Danger and Deceit: The European Political...

Author: Rachel Hayward ,  Ellen Smith
ISBN: 9781526176448
Format: Paperback
$38.99

This HOME film dossier revisits a key decade in European film history. The 1970s was a period of great social upheaval...  Read More >>

States of Danger and Deceit: The European Political Thriller in the 1970s

States of Danger and Deceit: The European Political...

Author: Rachel Hayward ,  Ellen Smith
ISBN: 9781526176431
Format: Hardback
$206.99

This HOME film dossier revisits a key decade in European film history. The 1970s was a period of great social upheaval...  Read More >>

Moving Pictures: A History of American Animation from Gertie to Pixar and Beyond

Moving Pictures: A History of American Animation from...

Author: Darl Larsen
ISBN: 9781538160374
Format: Hardback
$81.99

A fascinating look at the history of film and television animation in the United States, from the animated comic...  Read More >>

Comedy Films 1894–1954

Comedy Films 1894–1954

Author: John Montgomery ,  Norman Wisdom
ISBN: 9781032212937
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Originally published in 1954, this was the first factual history of comedy films and the men and women who had since...  Read More >>

Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood

Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern...

Author: Hilary A. Hallett (Columbia University)
ISBN: 9781324094463
Format: Paperback
$58.08

A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study...  Read More >>

Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema

Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of...

Author: Jane M. Ferguson
ISBN: 9780824895679
Format: Hardback
$184.80

In a tour-de-force study of sixty years of cinematic entertainment, this volume traces the veins of Burmese popular...  Read More >>

Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema

Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema...

Author: Maggie Hennefeld
ISBN: 9780231213295
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics

Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics...

Author: Dilip M Menon ,  Amir Taha
ISBN: 9781032159164
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation;...  Read More >>

When Hollywood Came to Utah Centennial Edition

When Hollywood Came to Utah Centennial Edition

Author: James V. D'Arc
ISBN: 9781423665809
Format: Hardback
$65.00

A special Centennial Edition celebrating 100 years of Hollywood and indigenous filmmaking in the state of Utah....  Read More >>

Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films

Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond...

Author: Prof James Chapman (University of Leicester, UK)
ISBN: 9781350211087
Format: Paperback
$39.99

"Follows Bond from the 1962 'Dr No', through the subsequent Bond films, exploring them within the culture and politics...  Read More >>

Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada

Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media...

Author: Karrmen Crey
ISBN: 9781517914493
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Exploring how Indigenous media has flourished across Canada from the 1990s to the present In the early 1990s,...  Read More >>

Blood in, Blood Out

Blood in, Blood Out

Author: Taylor Hackford ,  Jimmy Santiago Baca
ISBN: 9781955125376
Format: Hardback
$158.40

A poetic, behind-the-scenes retrospective of an L.A. cinema classic. Akin to The Godfather in its scope and themes,...  Read More >>

Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community

Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making...

Author: William Gow
ISBN: 9781503639089
Format: Paperback
$55.99

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Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System

Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made...

Author: Derek Long
ISBN: 9781477328941
Format: Hardback
$145.20

A history of film distribution in the United States from the 1910s to the 1930s, concentrating on booking, circuiting,...  Read More >>

Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy

Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy

Author: Richard Ravalli
ISBN: 9780813199399
Format: Paperback
$110.00

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Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film

Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical...

Author: Kim Nelson
ISBN: 9781978829770
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Making History Move builds upon decades of scholarship investigating history in visual culture, proposing a methodology...  Read More >>

Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community

Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making...

Author: William Gow
ISBN: 9781503638099
Format: Hardback
$227.99

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Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata (4th Edition)

Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao...

Author: Michelle Le Blanc ,  Colin Odell
ISBN: 9798874745011
Format: Audio
$105.57

The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are among the most respected in the movie industry. Their delightful films...  Read More >>

Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata (4th Edition)

Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao...

Author: Michelle Le Blanc ,  Colin Odell
ISBN: 9798874745035
Format: Audio
$121.31

The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are among the most respected in the movie industry. Their delightful films...  Read More >>

Thunder on the Stage: The Dramatic Vision of Richard Wright

Thunder on the Stage: The Dramatic Vision of Richard...

Author: Bruce Allen Dick
ISBN: 9780252045684
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Richard Wright’s dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped...  Read More >>

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