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  • Brigitte Bardot
    Barnett Singer
    Actress and sex symbol Brigitte Bardot had a stunning career in France and America in the mid-20th century. Since the 1970s, she has dedicated her life to the welfare and protection of animals, with much personal involvement. In this book the author makes the case that far from being a pretty face or a spotlight grabber, Bardot was an accomplished actress and has always been...
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    43,90 €

  • The Jerry Lewis Films
    James L. Neibaur / Ted Okuda
    Using interviews with Jerry Lewis and many of his co-stars, this book analyzes his collaborative efforts with Dean Martin, his subsequent solo work, his writing and directorial careers, and later movies such as Hardly Working (1979) and The King of Comedy (1982). Comprehensive data are provided for each of the films, with cast and production credits, studio, release date, ...
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    28,04 €

  • Masculinity and Film Performance
    Donna Peberdy
    Masculinity and Film Performance is a lively and engaging study of the complex relationship between masculinity and performance on and off screen, focusing on the performance of 'male angst' in American film and popular culture during the 1990s and 2000s. Building on theories of film acting, masculinity, performance, and cultural studies, this book establishes a framework for s...
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    66,58 €

  • The Science Fiction Reboot
    Heather Urbanski
    This analysis examines several recent reimagined science fiction franchises (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, V, and Star Wars) in order to capture how 'reboots' work from a fan perspective. Previous encounters with these stories make the reboot experience distinct for fan-viewers, who bring with them a set of expectations and knowledge, often tied to franchise canon that ca...
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    42,81 €

  • Transnational Australian Cinema
    Audrey Yue / Belinda Smaill / Olivia Khoo
    This book provides the first in-depth study of a history of Asian Australian cinema. Structured through case studies that progress chronologically, the book examines Australian cinema’s transnationality through its under-examined cinematic encounters with Asia. ...
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    119,55 €

  • How to Make Movies
    Kevin J Lindenmuth / Kevin J. Lindenmuth
    The success of low-budget independent films like The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity have clearly demonstrated that successful movies can be made with very small budgets. Still, working on a tight budget requires both skill and ingenuity, and is an inevitable and continuous learning experience for the filmmaker. Join two dozen truly independent filmmakers--thos...
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    36,87 €

  • Woody Allen’s Angst
    Sander H Lee / Sander H. Lee
    While Woody Allen is generally considered to be a master of the comic genre he created, his serious films are very important in understanding his role as one of this generation’s more influential filmmakers. In this work such Allen films as Annie Hall (1977), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Mighty Aphrodite (1995) are analyzed for the common ph...
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    56,68 €

  • American Horror Film
    Steffen Hantke
    Essays that assault the conviction that horror film is a genre on its deathbedEssays by Craig Bernardini, David Church, Pamela Craig, Blair Davis, Martin Fradley, Steffen Hantke, Reynold Humphries, James Kendrick, Christina Klein, Ben Kooyman, Jay McRoy, Kial Natale, Andrew Patrick Nelson, Tony Perrello, and Philip L. SimpsonCreatively spent and politically irrelevant, the Amer...
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    49,99 €

  • TV’s Not Dead!
    David Brennan
    Just five years ago, television was considered to be in terminal decline, soon to be written off as yet another casualty of the digital revolution. Advertising revenues were tumbling and it was feared that audiences would rapidly decrease. Fast forward to today and television is strong than ever. Not only is it reaching record audiences but the very technologies that were meant...
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    17,37 €

  • Harpo Marx as Trickster
    Charlene Fix
    The author invites readers to spend time in the pleasure of Harpo’s cinematic company while comparing him to tricksters from folklore, myth and legend. The book demonstrates how Harpo, the sweetest, wildest, most magical Marx brother, accomplishes the archetypal trickster’s work. Thirteen chapters examine Harpo’s trickster persona closely in each of the Marx Brothers’ films:...
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    42,84 €

  • Vital Crises in Italian Cinema
    P. Adams Sitney
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    45,87 €

  • Realism and the Audiovisual Media
    This collection examines two recent phenomena: the return of realist tendencies and practices in world cinema and television, and the rehabilitation of realism in film and media theory.The contributors investigate these two phenomena in detail, querying their origins, relations, divergences and intersections from a variety of perspectives. ...
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    66,30 €

  • The Sopranos
    Gary R Edgerton
    From its premiere in 1999, The Sopranos captivated viewers with its easily relatable protagonist who has troubles at work and home, and went on to be one of the most critically successful shows in television history. By demonstrating that TV could be at once artistic and profitable, complex and engaging, edifying and entertaining, the series also redefined the prime-time drama....
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    28,65 €

  • Screening the East
    Nick Hodgin
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    44,62 €

  • French Film in Britain
    Catherine Wheatley / Lucy Mazdon
    In a market long dominated by Hollywood, French films are consistently the most widely distributed non-English language works. French cinema, however, appears to undergo a transformation as it reaches Britain, becoming something quite different to that experienced by audiences at home. Drawing on extensive archival research the authors examine in detail the discourses, debate...
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    163,52 €

  • The Time of Our Lives
    A low-budget independent film made by a now defunct video company in the late 1980s, Dirty Dancing became a sleeper hit with a huge, primarily young audience. Even twenty-five years on, the film has found millions of devoted fans around the world through TV, video, and DVD releases. In The Time of Our Lives: Dirty Dancing and Popular Culture editors Yannis Tzioumakis and Siân L...
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    49,48 €

  • The Titan
    Ib Melchior
    In the 1960’s, the US Government was experimenting with something called a Cybernetic Organism - or Cyborg. A human individual, a man, who by replacing some of his organs, and substituting and adding mechanical or chemical devices or compounds, was given the capacity of existing and functioning in different atmospheres and climactic conditions. In other word, creating a man wit...
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    31,12 €

  • China on Film
    Paul G. Pickowicz / Paul GPickowicz
    Leading scholar Paul G. Pickowicz traces the dynamic history of Chinese filmmaking and its stunning development decade-by-decade since the 1920s. During the last one hundred years, China has been embroiled in a seemingly unending series of wars, revolutions, and jarring social transformations. Despite daunting censorship obstacles, Chinese filmmakers have found ingenious ways o...
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    66,05 €

  • Noise Matters
    Greg Hainge
    Everyone knows what noise is. Or do they? Can we in fact say that one man’s noise is another teenager’s music? Is noise in fact only an auditory phenomenon or does it extend far beyond this realm? If our common definitions of noise are necessarily subjective and noise is not just unpleasant sound, then it merits a closer look (or listen). Greg Hainge sets out to define noise in...
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    48,17 €

  • Noise Matters
    Greg Hainge
    Everyone knows what noise is. Or do they? Can we in fact say that one man’s noise is another teenager’s music? Is noise in fact only an auditory phenomenon or does it extend far beyond this realm? If our common definitions of noise are necessarily subjective and noise is not just unpleasant sound, then it merits a closer look (or listen). Greg Hainge sets out to define noise in...
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    206,46 €

  • The Horror of Dracula
    Jimmy Sangster
    In 1958 Hammer Films of England began their ’now classic’remakes of the Classic Universal Monster Films.Today the remakes themselves are considered Classics,revived in full Technicolor and wide screen.With full canine fangs and Technicolor blood ChristopherLee gave us a more horrific and brutal version of CountDracula which delighted the audiences and continuesto do so today.Th...
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    32,33 €

  • The Signs of James Bond
    Daniel Ferreras Savoye
    This book is an analysis of the most significant elements that compose the 'Bond formula,' such as names, binary oppositions and narrative patterns. It tackles Ian Fleming’s novels as well as the 22 films of the Eon Productions series and follows the evolution of certain determining features (paradigms) from the text to the screen, to determine their function within the narr...
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    42,94 €

  • Storytelling Across Worlds
    Michael Fry / Michael Niederman / Tom Dowd
    Don’t restrict your creative property to one media channel. Make the essential leap to transmedia! From film to television to games and beyond, Storytelling Across Worlds gives you the tools to weave a narrative universe across multiple platforms and meet the insatiable demand of today’s audience for its favorite creative property. This, the first primer in the field for both p...
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    78,32 €

  • Hollywood Monster
    Alan Goldsher / Robert Englund
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    16,99 €

  • Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies
    Trevor Lynch
    Since 2001, Trevor Lynch’s witty, pugnacious, and profound film essays and reviews have developed a wide following among cinephiles and White Nationalists alike. Lynch deals frankly with the anti-white bias and Jewish agenda of many mainstream films, but he is even more interested in discerning positive racial messages and values, sometimes in the most unlikely places.Trevor Ly...
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    22,28 €

  • Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies
    Trevor Lynch
    Since 2001, Trevor Lynch’s witty, pugnacious, and profound film essays and reviews have developed a wide following among cinephiles and White Nationalists alike. Lynch deals frankly with the anti-white bias and Jewish agenda of many mainstream films, but he is even more interested in discerning positive racial messages and values, sometimes in the most unlikely places.Trevor Ly...
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    38,67 €

  • The Casting Handbook
    Jennifer Granville / Suzy Catliff
    Casting is a crucial creative element of any production - and yet the craft and skills needed to put together a successful and exciting cast are often overlooked. The Casting Handbook explains the casting process from beginning to end and covers everything producers and directors needs to know - as well as proving a fascinating and illuminating read for actors. ...
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    241,09 €

  • Screening Text
    Rather than limiting the cinema, as certain French New Wave critics feared, adaptation has encouraged new inspiration to explore the possibilities of the intersection of text and film. This collection of essays covers various aspects of adaptation studies--questions of genre and myth, race and gender, readaptation, and pedagogical and practical approaches. ...
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    57,36 €

  • Navarro’s Silent Film Guide
    Dan Navarro
    Navarro’s Guide to Silent Films is an exhaustive directory listing every silent feature film (5 reels or more) produced in the United States, 9,000 titles in all! Each of the entries includes title, year of release, director, and/or production company, cast list, and a synopsis. The volume totals 641 pages, with 587 pages of film entries, 40 pages of photographs, and an index o...
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    46,51 €

  • Lest We Forget
    Bill Levy
    John Ford (1894-1973) directed scores of memorable movies that feature countless scenes that linger in one’s memory. He is the only director to have won four Best Director Academy Awards, for The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), and The Quiet Man (1952).There have been many biographies and film studies of John Ford and his motion pict...
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    29,94 €


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