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Gus Van Sant: Le Sens Du Rythme

Gus Van Sant: Le Sens Du Rythme

Author: Benoit Riviere
ISBN: 9782406165439
Format: Hardback
$253.44

The aim of this book is twofold: to analyze the cinematographic work of Gus Van Sant in light of the notion of rhythm,...  Read More >>

Silent Film's Last Hurrah: The Remarkable Movies of the Long 1928

Silent Film's Last Hurrah: The Remarkable Movies of...

Author: David Meuel
ISBN: 9781476668956
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Presents a critical appreciation of an unusually fertile period for the production of great silent films: late 1927...  Read More >>

Military Women in World Cinema: A 20th Century History and Filmography

Military Women in World Cinema: A 20th Century History...

Author: Deborah A. Deacon ,  Stacy Fowler
ISBN: 9781476684512
Format: Paperback
$127.60

From British soldier Flora Sandes to the famed World War II Night Witches of the Soviet Air Force, women across...  Read More >>

Mabel Normand: The Life and Career of a Hollywood Madcap

Mabel Normand: The Life and Career of a Hollywood Madcap...

Author: Timothy Dean Lefler
ISBN: 9781476687582
Format: Paperback
$68.20

American silent film actress Mabel Normand (1892-1930) appeared in a string of popular movies opposite stars like...  Read More >>

Disability in Wonderland: Health and Normativity in Speculative Utopias

Disability in Wonderland: Health and Normativity in...

Author: Amanda Martin Sandino
ISBN: 9781476683034
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Spanning from Lewis Carroll’s 1865 Alice in Wonderland to Jordan Peele’s 2019 film Us, this examination of the wonderland...  Read More >>

Theda Bara: Her Career, Life and Legend

Theda Bara: Her Career, Life and Legend

Author: Roy Liebman
ISBN: 9781476687254
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Although a major star in the 1910s, Theda Bara - known as ‘The Vamp’ - was largely neglected until the 1990s, when...  Read More >>

Radio in the Movies: A History and Filmography

Radio in the Movies: A History and Filmography

Author: Laurence Etling, ,  Frank Barnas
ISBN: 9781476690988
Format: Paperback
$160.60

A richly detailed examination of two branches of American entertainment that focuses on the various ways that radio...  Read More >>

In Search of The Thin Man: Dashiell Hammett, William Powell and the Classic Film Series

In Search of The Thin Man: Dashiell Hammett, William...

Author: Philip Zwerling
ISBN: 9781476686578
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Offers a complete history of The Thin Man series, covering the brightest stars, tastiest scandals, headlines and...  Read More >>

The Characters of Oz: Essays on Their Adaptation and Transformation

The Characters of Oz: Essays on Their Adaptation and...

Author: Dina Schiff Massachi
ISBN: 9781476687971
Format: Paperback
$84.70

When L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he created an American myth that has endured the test of time....  Read More >>

The Music of Space: Scoring the Cosmos in Film and Television

The Music of Space: Scoring the Cosmos in Film and Television...

Author: Chris Carberry
ISBN: 9781476688978
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Tells the story of the music and the composers who have helped define the sound of space for over a century. Musical...  Read More >>

Proibito!: A History of Italian Film Censorship, 1913-2021

Proibito!: A History of Italian Film Censorship, 1913-2021...

Author: Roberto Curti
ISBN: 9781476688565
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Analyses the history of Italian film censorship from its early days to the present, discussing the most controversial...  Read More >>

Imperial Japan on Screen, 1931-2022

Imperial Japan on Screen, 1931-2022

Author: Bob Herzberg
ISBN: 9781476689876
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Deals with the seldom-written topic featuring depictions of Imperial Japan from the time it was a totalitarian power...  Read More >>

Cinematic Journeys in Latin America: Geography Through the Lens of Exploration and Discovery Films

Cinematic Journeys in Latin America: Geography Through...

Author: Richard Francaviglia
ISBN: 9781476692524
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Critically examines how movies that feature real or imagined explorers and expeditions creatively feature the geography...  Read More >>

Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British and German Culture

Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British...

Author: Isabelle Hesse
ISBN: 9781399523677
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Examines an important relational shift in British and German cultural depictions of Palestine and Israel since 1987...  Read More >>

Refocus: The Films of Lawrence Kasdan

Refocus: The Films of Lawrence Kasdan

Author: Brett Davies
ISBN: 9781399524070
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Critically examines the work of American filmmaker and screenwriter, Lawrence Kasdan  Read More >>

Arab World Cinemas: A Reader and Guide

Arab World Cinemas: A Reader and Guide

Author: Marl� Hammond
ISBN: 9781474435772
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Celebrates the variety and richness of Arabic-language cinema by analysing 28 films released between 1933 and 2021,...  Read More >>

From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood

From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood

Author: Michael Renov ,  Vincent Brook
ISBN: 9781612499093
Format: Paperback
$51.70

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Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World

Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a...

Author: Wil Haygood
ISBN: 9780813199382
Format: Paperback
$73.79

"A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR - BOOKLISTS' EDITOR'S CHOICE - ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...  Read More >>

Jean Peters: Hollywood's Mystery Girl

Jean Peters: Hollywood's Mystery Girl

Author: Michelangelo Capua
ISBN: 9781496850263
Format: Hardback
$59.40

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Conquest of the Useless: Fever Dreams in the Jungle

Conquest of the Useless: Fever Dreams in the Jungle...

Author: Werner Herzog ,  Krishna Winston
ISBN: 9780593832134
Format: Paperback
$47.52

Newly repackaged as a Penguin paperback, Conquest of the Useless, the legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog's diary...  Read More >>

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: A Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: A Jonathan Rosenbaum...

Author: Jonathan Rosenbaum
ISBN: 9781955125321
Format: Hardback
$105.60

A culmination of nearly six decades of writing from the mind of iconoclastic film, literary, and music critic Jonathan...  Read More >>

The Gothic Peckinpah

The Gothic Peckinpah

Author: Tony Williams
ISBN: 9781802074611
Format: Hardback
$297.56

This work attempts a re-reading of Peckinpah's films by applying recent scholarship on the Gothic to understand...  Read More >>

Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror Film and Television

Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Trauma...

Author: Karrȧ Shimabukuro ,  Wickham Clayton
ISBN: 9781802074628
Format: Hardback
$297.56

Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror aims to examine why we...  Read More >>

The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn: Genre, Gender, Glamour

The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn: Genre, Gender, Glamour...

Author: David Sweeney
ISBN: 9781802074581
Format: Hardback
$258.75

This critical study engages with the films of the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, from his first feature Pusher...  Read More >>

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