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  • Are We Living in a Disaster Movie?
    Brian A. Shaer
    Some periods of history contain so many compounded disasters they seem to be inspired by disaster movies. In the early 2020s, the Covid-19 pandemic upended the world and thrust populations into a state of uncertainty and fear--as seen in movies like Outbreak, The Towering Inferno or Armageddon. Birthed from the author’s original research on disaster movies, this book argue...
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    42,81 €

  • Robert Guédiguian
    Joseph Mai
    Considers Guédiguian’s career, both as a filmmaker and producer, as a valid response to a crisis in post-Communist Leftist political movements in France ...
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    36,09 €

  • The Good Place
    Erin Giannini
    'Pobody’s nerfect'--or whatever the saying might be! As humans we are constantly worried about how our actions may come back to haunt us. The Good Place (2016-2020) is a high-concept American sitcom that brought light to the dark topic of the afterlife, and the show tackled this worry head-on. Although it had a life span of only four seasons, The Good Place made a lasting impac...
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    22,57 €

  • Kolchak
    Kendall R. Phillips
    Before Buffy the Vampire Slayer or The X-Files, there was Carl Kolchak, a world-weary Chicago newspaper reporter with a cheap, seersucker suit and a penchant for uncovering monsters lurking in every corner. Kolchak first appeared on American screens in the 1972 ABC television movie The Night Stalker, which was then the most-watched television movie in history. The success of th...
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    22,47 €

  • The Ultimate Halloween Movie Experience
    Scotty McCoy
    'When I was being interviewed by Scotty McCoy for his book it was so much fun remembering all the wonderful people that had worked on that film.'- Ana Alicia, star of Halloween II (1981) 'Halloween III truly has been the gift that keeps on giving as NONE of us anticipated its cult status decades later ... It’s all quite surreal - and lots of fun!!'- Stacey Nelkin, star of Hallo...
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    32,83 €

  • The Ultimate Halloween Movie Experience (hardback)
    Scotty McCoy
    'When I was being interviewed by Scotty McCoy for his book it was so much fun remembering all the wonderful people that had worked on that film.'- Ana Alicia, star of Halloween II (1981) 'Halloween III truly has been the gift that keeps on giving as NONE of us anticipated its cult status decades later ... It’s all quite surreal - and lots of fun!!'- Stacey Nelkin, star of Hallo...
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    43,01 €

  • Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index
    Allen H Redmon
    Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index offers a reassessment of the cinematic index as it sits at the intersection of film studies, trauma studies, and adaptation studies. Author Allen H. Redmon argues that far too often scholars imagine the cinematic index to be nothing more than an acknowledgment that the lens-based camera captures and brings to the screen a reality t...
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    42,98 €

  • Crazy Old Ladies
    Caroline Young
    From the moment Bette Davis served up a dead rat to Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? a subset of camp horror films was born. The ’Hag Horror’ genre exploited the former Oscar-winners and glamour queens who had effectively built Hollywood, transforming them into grotesque caricatures that revealed a cultural disdain for older women. In Crazy Old Ladies: The Stor...
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    32,79 €

  • Crazy Old Ladies (hardback)
    Caroline Young
    From the moment Bette Davis served up a dead rat to Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? a subset of camp horror films was born. The ’Hag Horror’ genre exploited the former Oscar-winners and glamour queens who had effectively built Hollywood, transforming them into grotesque caricatures that revealed a cultural disdain for older women. In Crazy Old Ladies: The Stor...
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    42,96 €

  • The George Raft Films
    James L. Neibaur
    George Raft’s career trajectory is quite fascinating, from the stirring image of a gangster coldly flipping a coin in Scarfaceto achieving stardom as a leading man, and finally ending his career once again playing small roles as a gangster in Hollywood films. This book is a film-by-film look at Raft’s long career with movies like Bolero, in which he was able to exhibit his form...
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    32,95 €

  • The George Raft Films (hardback)
    James L. Neibaur
    George Raft’s career trajectory is quite fascinating, from the stirring image of a gangster coldly flipping a coin in Scarfaceto achieving stardom as a leading man, and finally ending his career once again playing small roles as a gangster in Hollywood films. This book is a film-by-film look at Raft’s long career with movies like Bolero, in which he was able to exhibit his form...
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    43,12 €

  • 1000 Amazing Horror Movie Facts
    Tom Chapman
    Think you know all there is to know about horror movies? Well, think again. 1000 Amazing Horror Movie Facts is chock full of fascinating and unusual facts about classic (and not so classic) horror movies. Blockbusters, B-movies, slashers, ghost stories, video nasties, anthologies, sequels, gore, cursed productions, what might have been, casting, controversy, and so on. So dim t...
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    13,45 €

  • Germaine Dulac
    Maryann De Julio
    This book examines the career of Germaine Dulac, a pioneering French filmmaker and feminist whose perspective, innovations and ardent promotion of cinema are documented in her theoretical writings. ...
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    145,10 €

  • Queer cinema in contemporary France
    Todd Reeser / Todd W. Reeser
    Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across five French directors’ careers, from their earliest, often unknown films to their later, major films with international release. ...
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    144,29 €

  • London calling Italy
    Ester Lo Biundo
    London calling Italy is a book about the BBC Italian Service during the Second World War. It examines the role of the Italian broadcasters, the programmes and their reception. ...
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    145,22 €

  • The Coming Death
    Richard F. Calichman
    Explores questions of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema. ...
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    42,35 €

  • The Yin and Yang of Short Film Storytelling
    Richard Raskin
    In the first book to study the short film using the yin yang complementarity, Raskin proposes a new paradigm-describing major forms of yin and yang, redefined as ungendered, freed of patriarchal bias. Yin evokes such properties as holding back and an openness to interpretation while yang promotes structure, causality, and control. Ten exemplary short films show how the model il...
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    37,24 €

  • Television and the Making of Richard Nixon
    William T. Horner
    While Richard Nixon’s accomplishments and shortcomings are well-documented, one often ignored aspect of his career is his influence on the media conduct of politicians. Nixon pioneered the use of visual media in politics, beginning in the 1940s during his Congressional service. His historic 'Checkers' speech was the first of its kind: a politician using television to save hi...
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    57,32 €

  • Isabelle Huppert
    Featuring a lineup of distinguished academics, this collection remedies the absence of scholarly attention to French cinematic legend Isabelle Huppert. This volume deconstructs Huppert’s star persona and public profile through critical and theoretical analysis of her various screen roles-from her very early appearances alongside Romy Schneider in César et Rosalie (Sautet, 1972)...
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    51,00 €

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.comWalt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937) occupies a central place within the history of global animation. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the film was the first feature-length animated film produced by ...
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    50,66 €

  • Representing Religion in Film
    This is the first full-length exploration of the relationship between religion, film, and ideology. It shows how religion is imagined, constructed, and interpreted in film and film criticism. The films analyzed include The Last Jedi, Terminator, Cloud Atlas, Darjeeling Limited, Hellboy, The Revenant, Religulous, and The Secret of my Success. Each chapter offers: - an explana...
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    115,03 €

  • Invasion ’51
    Sean Kotz
    Between March and September of 1951, three very different films launched a new Hollywood genre, the alien invasion feature, defining our cultural expectations for extraterrestrial contact in the process. Where The Thing from Another World gives us the first movie monster capable of total human annihilation, The Day the Earth Stood Still provides a messianic messenger who unmask...
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    27,74 €

  • Invasion ’51 (hardback)
    Sean Kotz
    Between March and September of 1951, three very different films launched a new Hollywood genre, the alien invasion feature, defining our cultural expectations for extraterrestrial contact in the process. Where The Thing from Another World gives us the first movie monster capable of total human annihilation, The Day the Earth Stood Still provides a messianic messenger who unmask...
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    37,91 €

  • Crank it up
    Jason Statham is Britain’s most important post-millennial male film star. This book examines his work throughout a career encompassing film, television, music videos, multi-media platforms and video gaming. ...
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    35,59 €

  • Starstruck - How I Magically Transformed Chicago into Hollywood for More Than Fifty Years (hardback)
    Michael Kutza
    'For many of us, Michael Kutza brought the great city of Chicago to life with his infectious love of film.'- Oliver Stone, Oscar®-winning director of Platoon, JFK, and Born on the Fourth of July'Michael is the real deal. He has heart, a great sense of humor, and he loves films for all the right reasons. I am blessed to call him a friend.'- Sophia Loren, Oscar® winner and legend...
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    45,71 €

  • Raise the Titanic - The Making of the Movie Volume 2 (hardback)
    Jonathan Smith
    'That’s right sir. We can’t get divers down to the Titanic. Which leaves us with only one choice. We don’t go to the mountain. The mountain comes to us.' Dirk Pitt (Richard Jordan)  It was claimed to be the 'Big One' for the 1980s; a film adventure to rival the James Bond franchise and the movie that would make Great Britain’s entertainment mogul Lord Lew Grade a threat to the ...
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    63,98 €

  • Sheldon Lettich
    Corey Danna
    From the steaming jungles of Vietnam to the verdant hills of Hollywood, Sheldon Lettich has carved a unique legacy amongst his peers. In an era before costumed superheroes ruled the multiplex, when action stars were not pumped up and enhanced by special effects, because they were the special effect! Sheldon was at the forefront, working with action superstars like Jean-Claude V...
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    30,91 €

  • Sheldon Lettich (hardback)
    Corey Danna
    From the steaming jungles of Vietnam to the verdant hills of Hollywood, Sheldon Lettich has carved a unique legacy amongst his peers. In an era before costumed superheroes ruled the multiplex, when action stars were not pumped up and enhanced by special effects, because they were the special effect! Sheldon was at the forefront, working with action superstars like Jean-Claude V...
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    41,08 €

  • Raise the Titanic - The Making of the Movie Volume 2
    Jonathan Smith
    'That’s right sir. We can’t get divers down to the Titanic. Which leaves us with only one choice. We don’t go to the mountain. The mountain comes to us.' Dirk Pitt (Richard Jordan)  It was claimed to be the 'Big One' for the 1980s; a film adventure to rival the James Bond franchise and the movie that would make Great Britain’s entertainment mogul Lord Lew Grade a threat to the ...
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    51,93 €

  • The Cinema of Maria Novaro
    James Stratton
    THE CINEMA OF MARÍA NOVARO Writer-director María Novaro emerged during the 1990s as a major figure in the rebirth of Mexican cinema. Beginning with Lola (1989) and Danzón (1991), she created a series of complex women protagonists struggling with issues of identity, family, and empowerment.  In this first book-length English language examination of her career, film historian Jam...
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    29,88 €


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