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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 (hardback)
    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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    40,06 €

  • 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 €

  • Starstruck - How I Magically Transformed Chicago into Hollywood for More Than Fifty Years
    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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    33,65 €

  • Smile, You Sonuvabitch! A Brit’s Take on Catfights, Serial Killers and Other Fun Movie Stuff
    Dave Franklin
    From Peckinpah and Schwarzenegger to Ulzana’s Raid and Switchblade Sisters, Dave Franklin takes a politically incorrect look at the glories of twentieth century cinema.In this second volume of his Baby Ice Dog Movie Guide, he offers eight Fucked-Up Films, a bit of tit trauma, ten of the best Starring Debuts, some macho idiots, a tribute to Michael Douglas’ prime, and a quick ex...
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    17,00 €

  • Ruth Roman
    Derek Sculthorpe
    With her striking looks, the raven-haired, dark eyed Ruth Roman had an air of sophistication that made her seem sexy yet wholesome. She had to strive harder than most to establish herself as a leading actress in Hollywood during its glory years and finally broke through in 1949 with her role in Champion. As one of the last Warner Bros. contract players, she appeared in Alfre...
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    57,48 €

  • Truth and Lives on Film
    John T. Aquino
    As early as the Silent Era, movie studios were sued over depictions of real people and events. Filmmakers have always altered the details of true stories and actual persons, living or dead, to make narratives more workable and characters more compelling. When truth and fantasy become inextricably mixed, the effect on people’s lives can be significant, even devastating. Thi...
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    57,27 €

  • The Holiday in His Eye
    William Rothman
    Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell’s oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies. ...
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    46,16 €

  • Mexico Unmanned
    Samanta Ordóñez
    Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema. ...
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    42,10 €

  • Reel Change
    Jon Burrows / Richard Wallace
    Ten years ago, a technological revolution swept through cinemas around the world, as analogue projectors were replaced with digital equipment. It was not just the plastic medium of film that was removed from projection boxes during this transformation; most cinemas took this opportunity to also evict the human projectionists who were hitherto in charge of screenings. Projection...
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    41,17 €

  • White Cottage, White House
    Tony Tracy
    Argues that Irish American masculinity functioned to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1960. ...
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    121,87 €

  • No Jurisdiction
    Fareed Ben-Youssef
    A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture. ...
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    121,79 €

  • Whiteness at the End of the World
    David Venditto
    Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety. ...
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    121,99 €

  • Cary Grant (hardback)
    Gene Popa
    'Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.' - Alfred Hitchcock 'He was a dream, as all works of art are.' - Katharine Hepburn 'Cary Grant was so far the best that there isn’t anybody to be compared to him.' - Howard Hawks 'I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant.' - Cary Grant In 1937, it seemed as if Cary Grant had it all: the fame and fo...
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    36,96 €

  • Cary Grant
    Gene Popa
    'Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.' - Alfred Hitchcock 'He was a dream, as all works of art are.' - Katharine Hepburn 'Cary Grant was so far the best that there isn’t anybody to be compared to him.' - Howard Hawks 'I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant.' - Cary Grant In 1937, it seemed as if Cary Grant had it all: the fame and fo...
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    26,79 €

  • Stacy Keach On Screen
    chris wade
    Chris Wade explores the long, rich and varied screen career of STACY KEACH, one of the most versatile and multi talented American actors in history. For almost sixty years, he has entertained audiences the world over. Beginning his acting life on the stage, he was highly acclaimed for his turns in various productions of the works of Shakespeare, as well as hit plays such as Mac...
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    21,00 €

  • Radical Equalities and Global Feminist Filmmaking
    Radical Equalities and Global Feminist Filmmaking - An Anthology’s main objective is to exhibit and unveil the fruit of the growing movement of feminist filmmakers around the world through interviews with current filmmakers themselves and through critical analysis of the works of these filmmakers. Every filmmaker we examine tells their own story about radical equality from a pl...
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    68,18 €