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  • Hard to Watch
    David C. Hayes
    Collected from across the nation, forty writers, film critics, academics, artists, filmmakers and editors tackle the complete film oeuvre of action star Steven Seagal. From the early days of Above the Law all the way to Beyond the Law, the nation’s martial arts laureate is examined in exacting detail, Some love him, some hate him, some simply wish to understand him and the rest...
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    27,86 €

  • Hard to Watch (hardback)
    David C. Hayes
    Collected from across the nation, forty writers, film critics, academics, artists, filmmakers and editors tackle the complete film oeuvre of action star Steven Seagal. From the early days of Above the Law all the way to Beyond the Law, the nation’s martial arts laureate is examined in exacting detail, Some love him, some hate him, some simply wish to understand him and the rest...
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    38,03 €

  • Gene Tierney
    Will Scheibel
    Gene Tierney may be one of the most recognizable faces of studio-era Hollywood: she starred in numerous classics, including Leave Her to Heaven, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and Laura, with the latter featuring her most iconic role. While Tierney was considered one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, she personified 'ordinariness' both on- and off-screen. Tierney portrayed ro...
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    136,09 €

  • The Funniest People in Movies
    David Bruce
    This book contains 250 anecdotes about movies, including this one: Late in Peter Lorre’s career, after he had begun to make bad films, a fan wrote him, 'I would love to be tortured by you.' Mr. Lorre wrote back, 'You have been tortured enough by going to my pictures.'This is a short, quick, and easy read.Most of these anecdotes are probably just OK, but there should be at least...
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    7,32 €

  • Shots to the Heart
    Steven Rybin
    This book continues the author’s project, begun in the 2017 monograph Gestures of Love, of exploring the place of film actors in an emotional and thoughtful reception of movies. Shots to the Heart aims to provide both concrete critical engagements with moments of performance as well as philosophical explorations of and reflections on the implications of a love for performance i...
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    35,69 €

  • The Hard Sell of Paradise
    Jason Sperb
    Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai’i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s. ...
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    42,70 €

  • Cinema of Stephanie Rothman
    Alicia Kozma
    The rare woman director working in second-wave exploitation, Stephanie Rothman (b. 1936) directed seven successful feature films, served as the vice president of an independent film company, and was the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America’s student filmmaking prize. Despite these career accomplishments, Rothman retired into relative obscurity. In The Cinema of Ste...
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    42,71 €

  • Claude Rains - An Invisible Man
    Toby I. Cohen
    Claude Rains was 'the greatest character actor of his age - possibly of all ages,' according to film historian Richard Schickel. Classic credits include The Invisible Man, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Now, Voyager, Casablanca, Notorious and Lawrence of Arabia. A stage star in his native England, Rains didn’t make his screen debut until age 43. Thr...
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    44,50 €

  • Claude Rains - An Invisible Man (hardback)
    Toby I. Cohen
    Claude Rains was 'the greatest character actor of his age - possibly of all ages,' according to film historian Richard Schickel. Classic credits include The Invisible Man, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Now, Voyager, Casablanca, Notorious and Lawrence of Arabia. A stage star in his native England, Rains didn’t make his screen debut until age 43. Thr...
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    56,56 €

  • Nietzsche in Hollywood
    Matthew Rukgaber
    Argues that Nietzsche’s idea of the Übermensch was a central concern of filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s. ...
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    121,61 €

  • Orienting Italy
    Mary Ann McDonald Carolan
    Explores Italian filmmakers’ representations of China and the Chinese, both at home and abroad. ...
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    121,99 €

  • Robert Preston - Forever The Music Man
    Warren
    Born Robert Preston Meservey in the suburbs of Boston in 1918, Preston moved with his family to Los Angeles as a toddler. He caught the acting bug in high school and continued as an actor with a Shakespearean acting troupe and at the Pasadena Playhouse before being discovered by Paramount Studios in 1938 at the age of nineteen. After languishing in B-movies for over a decade, h...
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    31,78 €

  • Robert Preston - Forever The Music Man
    Debra Warren
    Born Robert Preston Meservey in the suburbs of Boston in 1918, Preston moved with his family to Los Angeles as a toddler. He caught the acting bug in high school and continued as an actor with a Shakespearean acting troupe and at the Pasadena Playhouse before being discovered by Paramount Studios in 1938 at the age of nineteen. After languishing in B-movies for over a decade, h...
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    23,60 €

  • The Great Depression on Film
    David Luhrssen
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    89,07 €

  • Bruce Beresford on Film (hardback)
    R. J. Cardullo
    This is the first book to fully document Bruce Beresford’s directing career-through interviews, a filmography, a bibliography, movie images, a contextualizing introduction, and a comprehensive index. Up to now, Beresford’s career in Australia and America has largely been ignored, despite the fact that he has been working for five decades, directed two Academy-Award-winning film...
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    33,82 €

  • Bruce Beresford on Film
    R. J. Cardullo
    This is the first book to fully document Bruce Beresford’s directing career-through interviews, a filmography, a bibliography, movie images, a contextualizing introduction, and a comprehensive index. Up to now, Beresford’s career in Australia and America has largely been ignored, despite the fact that he has been working for five decades, directed two Academy-Award-winning film...
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    32,86 €

  • Picturegoers
    Luke McKernan
    This book shows the impact of cinema on individuals across the globe, from the 1890s to the present day. It analyses and celebrates the audience’s point of view, shaped by time, experience and place, providing a rich, entertaining portrait of a medium that became so transformative because anyone, rich or poor, educated or not, could share in it. ...
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    113,28 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €


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