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  • Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East
    Nolwenn Mingant
    Traces the circulation of Hollywood films in North Africa and the Middle East from the early twentieth century to the present. ...
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    121,74 €

  • The Misfits
    Aubrey Malone
    John Huston’s ’eastern Western’ signaled the end of the careers of three major Hollywood figures. It was Marilyn Monroe’s last completed film. Clark Gable died a fortnight after shooting ended. Montgomery Clift rumbled on for a few years but without doing much of note.  It also signaled the end of Monroe’s marriage to Arthur Miller. Miller wrote the screenplay as a ’gift’ to hi...
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    27,98 €

  • The Misfits (hardback)
    Aubrey Malone
    John Huston’s ’eastern Western’ signaled the end of the careers of three major Hollywood figures. It was Marilyn Monroe’s last completed film. Clark Gable died a fortnight after shooting ended. Montgomery Clift rumbled on for a few years but without doing much of note.  It also signaled the end of Monroe’s marriage to Arthur Miller. Miller wrote the screenplay as a ’gift’ to hi...
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    38,15 €

  • Film Close Up
    chris wade
    Chris Wade takes a look at two cult classics from the 1990s, Smoke and Blue in the Face, made by writer Paul Auster and director Wayne Wang. Released during a golden era for American independent cinema, Smoke focuses on a Brooklyn cigar shop run by Auggie Wren (Harvey Keitel), and the various characters that revolve around it. Blue in the Face is the companion film to Smoke, a ...
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    13,22 €

  • Autobiographical Reenactment in French and Belgian Film
    Tom Cuthbertson
    We live in ’reenactive times’. Recent decades have witnessed a marked proliferation of various forms of reenactment across numerous cultural contexts and domains to the point that it is today seemingly impossible to enter museums, heritage sites, art galleries or even to turn on the television without encountering at least some elements of this veritable boom. In such a way, re...
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    139,13 €

  • Amateur and Flirt
    Hal Hartley
    Amateur is the unsettling story of a poor young woman who, recently released from her vows as a Catholic nun, tries to earn a living writing pornography. She meets and assists a helpless and kind man with amnesia who is gradually revealed to be a sadistic, murderous pornographer himself, though he cannot remember any of this. In Flirt three young people of different genders, ra...
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    22,69 €

  • Top Gun Memos
    Jordan / Meredith Jordan
    TOP GUN MEMOS: The Making and Legacy of an Iconic Movie tells the comprehensive story of the long-lived movie 'Top Gun' through the eyes of the people on the ground - and in the air - who made it. It drills down on the art and artistry present in its scenes, while also looking unflinchingly at dangerous situations that arose during filming. The book covers how the 1986 movie...
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    17,10 €

  • The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Making Affordable Feature Films
    Matt Shaw
    Purgatory Pictures have made a number of profitable feature films now, all for less than £5,000. Within this book, one of the driving forces behind Purgatory Pictures shares all the tips and tricks you need to be able to do the same for yourself. Sometimes it’s less about making the biggest film possible but - instead - just getting a film made and, better yet, without landing ...
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    24,92 €

  • Fear City Cinema
    Roger A. Salerno
    This book studies a grouping of films set in New York City between 1965 and 1995, reflecting a town besieged by rampant criminality, social distress and physical decay. 'Fear City' is a term the NYPD used to label New York as a frightening environment, incapable of securing the safety of its residents. This book not only deals with the social problems evident in New York dur...
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    72,02 €

  • Screening Europe in Australasia
    Julie K. Allen
    This book’s treatment of the extensive circulation of European silent features and stars in Australasia reveals the vibrant transnationalism of silent film before the rise of Hollywood, and frames the emergence of art house cinema in the 1920s. ...
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    127,06 €

  • PASOLINI
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    PASOLINIIL CINEMA DI POESIA/ THE CINEMA OF POETRY By Jeremy Mark RobinsonA new critical study of the Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975). The focus is the cinema of Pasolini, which includes The Gospel According To Matthew (his best-known film), the controversial Salo, the ’trilogy of life’ movies based on Middle Ages texts (Chaucer, Boccaccio and the 1001...
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    57,71 €

  • Making Hollywood Magic
    Vivien Cooper
    Day after day and sometimes long into the night, 'below-the-line' crews from different departments make a living making the Hollywood magic that we see every day in our favorite T.V. shows and movies. Long before the actors and the director ever take their places on the studio set, these studio workers are engaged in a collaboration that involves precision, creativity, and brea...
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    29,88 €

  • Making Hollywood Magic (hardback)
    Vivien Cooper
    Day after day and sometimes long into the night, 'below-the-line' crews from different departments make a living making the Hollywood magic that we see every day in our favorite T.V. shows and movies. Long before the actors and the director ever take their places on the studio set, these studio workers are engaged in a collaboration that involves precision, creativity, and brea...
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    31,53 €

  • Transnationalism and Imperialism
    David Roche / Hervé Mayer
    While Western films can be seen as a mode of American exceptionalism, they have also become a global genre. Around the world, Westerns exemplify colonial cinema, driven by the exploration of racial and gender hierarchies and the progress and violence shaped by imperialism.Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film traces the Western from the silent e...
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    57,15 €

  • Transnationalism and Imperialism
    David Roche / Hervé Mayer
    While Western films can be seen as a mode of American exceptionalism, they have also become a global genre. Around the world, Westerns exemplify colonial cinema, driven by the exploration of racial and gender hierarchies and the progress and violence shaped by imperialism.Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film traces the Western from the silent e...
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    128,79 €

  • Bertrand Tavernier
    Lynn A Higgins
    Bertrand Tavernier (b. 1941-2021) was widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s in the wake of the New Wave. In just over forty years, he directed twenty-two feature films in an eclectic range of genres from intimate family portrait to historical drama and neo-Western. Beginning with his debut feature-...
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    42,86 €

  • Screening #MeToo
    Considers how Hollywood films since the 1960s have both reflected and shaped attitudes toward rape and sexual violence. ...
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    121,69 €

  • The White Indians of Mexican Cinema
    Mónica García Blizzard
    Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico. ...
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    121,27 €

  • Writ on Water
    Charles Warren
    A powerful and original statement on the nature of film and the intimate relation of 'film imagination' to our lives as human beings in the world. ...
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    121,48 €

  • The Mazursky Method (hardback)
    Nat Segaloff
    He was the most observant, sympathetic, and successful filmmaker about the American middle class. He found the humor and drama in their struggle to cope with the massive social changes of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. In Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Blume in Love, Down & Out in Beverly Hills, Harry & Tonto, and An Unmarried Woman, among other now-classics, he poked fun at--while still l...
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    38,06 €

  • Reframing Todd Haynes
    Theresa L. Geller
    For three decades, award-winning independent filmmaker Todd Haynes, who emerged in the early 1990s as a foundational figure in New Queer Cinema, has gained critical recognition for his outsider perspective. Today, Haynes is widely known for bringing women’s stories to the screen. Analyzing Haynes’s films including Safe (1995), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Far from Heaven (2002), and...
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    37,47 €

  • Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke
    Michael Berry
    Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke is an extended dialogue between film scholar Michael Berry and the internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker. Drawing from extensive interviews and public talks, this volume offers a portrait of Jia’s life, art, and approach to filmmaking. Jia and Berry’s conversations range from Jia’s childhood and formative years to extensive discussions of his ma...
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    132,11 €

  • Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke
    Michael Berry
    Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke is an extended dialogue between film scholar Michael Berry and the internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker. Drawing from extensive interviews and public talks, this volume offers a portrait of Jia’s life, art, and approach to filmmaking. Jia and Berry’s conversations range from Jia’s childhood and formative years to extensive discussions of his ma...
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    34,17 €

  • Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman
    Mari Ruti
    In Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Mari Ruti traces the development of feminist film theory from its foundational concepts such as the male gaze, female spectatorship, and the masquerade of femininity to 21st-century analyses of neoliberal capitalism, consumerism, postfeminism, and the revival of 'girly' femininity as a cultural ideal. By interpreting Pretty Woman as a m...
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    32,95 €

  • Hollywood’s Native Americans
    Angela Aleiss / Jan-Christoppher Horak
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    82,52 €

  • VHS Nasty
    Barbie Wilde / David Bond / Ramsey Campbell
    VHS Nasty: The Video Nasties is the definitive, full-colour guide to the halcyon days of the 1980s, when the British government and its nanny state, headed by the self-proclaimed and totally unelected 'Protector of Public Morals,' Mary Whitehouse, decided it would dictate what the viewing public could-and, more specifically, couldn’t-watch in the privacy of their own homes. Th...
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    125,91 €

  • How the World Remade Hollywood
    Ed Glaser
    For decades, filmmakers worldwide have been remaking Hollywood movies in colorful ways. They’ve chronicled a singing and dancing Hannibal Lecter in India, star-crossed lovers aboard the doomed Nigerian ship Titanic, a Japanese expedition to the planet of the apes, and an uncivil war in Turkey between Captain America and a mobbed-up Spider-Man. Most of these films were low bu...
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    58,80 €

  • Bigger Than Life
    Mary Ann Doane
    In Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator’s sense of place, space, and orientation. Doane traces the history of scalar transformations from early cinema to the contemporary use of digital technology. In the early years of cinema, audiences regarded the monumental close...
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    140,97 €

  • Bigger Than Life
    Mary Ann Doane
    In Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator’s sense of place, space, and orientation. Doane traces the history of scalar transformations from early cinema to the contemporary use of digital technology. In the early years of cinema, audiences regarded the monumental close...
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    40,42 €

  • The Mazursky Method
    Nat Segaloff
    He was the most observant, sympathetic, and successful filmmaker about the American middle class. He found the humor and drama in their struggle to cope with the massive social changes of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. In Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Blume in Love, Down & Out in Beverly Hills, Harry & Tonto, and An Unmarried Woman, among other now-classics, he poked fun at--while still l...
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    27,89 €