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  • Shakespeare and British World War Two Film
    Jr. Garrett A. Sullivan / JrGarrett ASullivan
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    120,63 €

  • Eliseo Subiela in Life and Cinema
    Nancy J. Membrez
    Audiences never have a lukewarm opinion of a Subiela film. They either love it passionately or hate it profoundly. That Eliseo Subiela (Buenos Aires, 1944-2016), an original and sensitive thinker, survived, and indeed throve in economically challenged Argentina while garnering more accolades abroad than in his own country, is a tribute to his grit, intelligence, imagination...
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    80,66 €

  • Vulgar Beauty
    Mila Zuo
    In Vulgar Beauty Mila Zuo offers a new theorization of cinematic feminine beauty by showing how mediated encounters with Chinese film and popular culture stars produce feelings of Chineseness. To illustrate this, Zuo uses the vulgar as an analytic to trace how racial, gendered, and cultural identity is imagined and produced through affect. She frames the vulgar as a characteris...
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    138,26 €

  • Queer African Cinemas
    Lindsey B. Green-Simms
    In Queer African Cinemas, Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century in an environment of increasing antiqueer violence, efforts to criminalize homosexuality, and other state-sanctioned homophobia. Green-Simms argues that these films not only record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many que...
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    131,94 €

  • Queer African Cinemas
    Lindsey B. Green-Simms
    In Queer African Cinemas, Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century in an environment of increasing antiqueer violence, efforts to criminalize homosexuality, and other state-sanctioned homophobia. Green-Simms argues that these films not only record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many que...
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    35,32 €

  • Vulgar Beauty
    Mila Zuo
    In Vulgar Beauty Mila Zuo offers a new theorization of cinematic feminine beauty by showing how mediated encounters with Chinese film and popular culture stars produce feelings of Chineseness. To illustrate this, Zuo uses the vulgar as an analytic to trace how racial, gendered, and cultural identity is imagined and produced through affect. She frames the vulgar as a characteris...
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    36,40 €

  • Films of Delmer Daves
    Douglas Horlock
    Delmer Daves (1904-1977) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his dramas and Western adventures, most notably Broken Arrow and 3:10 to Yuma. Despite the popularity of his films, there has been little serious examination of Daves’s work. Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has called Daves the most forgotten of American directors, and to date no scholarly mono...
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    158,32 €

  • Films of Delmer Daves
    Douglas Horlock
    Delmer Daves (1904-1977) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his dramas and Western adventures, most notably Broken Arrow and 3:10 to Yuma. Despite the popularity of his films, there has been little serious examination of Daves’s work. Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has called Daves the most forgotten of American directors, and to date no scholarly mono...
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    50,16 €

  • Crime Films of Anthony Mann
    Max Alvarez
    Anthony Mann (1906-1967) is renowned for his outstanding 1950s Westerns starring James Stewart (Winchester ’73, The Naked Spur, The Man from Laramie). But there is more to Mann’s cinematic universe than those tough Wild West action dramas featuring conflicted and secretive heroes. This brilliant Hollywood craftsman also directed fourteen electrifying crime thrillers between 194...
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    49,81 €

  • Breaking Into The Movies
    Anita Loos / John Emerson
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSBreaking Into The MoviesThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The compl...
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    9,45 €

  • Affordances of Film for Literacy Instruction
    Jason D. DeHart
    Within the past decade, the role of film and media in K-12 classrooms has grown from entertainment-based activities to an active literacy-centered textual practice. A multitude of approaches in instruction are required for literacy education, including a vast knowledge of a range of texts and awareness of key steps in activating knowledge according to the affordances contained ...
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    281,88 €

  • Affordances of Film for Literacy Instruction
    Jason D. DeHart
    Within the past decade, the role of film and media in K-12 classrooms has grown from entertainment-based activities to an active literacy-centered textual practice. A multitude of approaches in instruction are required for literacy education, including a vast knowledge of a range of texts and awareness of key steps in activating knowledge according to the affordances contained ...
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    216,03 €

  • The Piano on Film
    David Huckvale
    Since the early days of silent film accompaniment, the piano has played an integral part in the history of cinema. Film’s fascination with the piano, both in soundtracks and onscreen as a status symbol and icon of popular romanticism, offers a revealing opportunity to chart the changing perception of the instrument. From Mozart to Elton John, this book surveys the cultural h...
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    64,85 €

  • The Whole Durn Human Comedy
    Joseph McBride
    A groundbreaking, incisive critical study of the Coen Bros., the quirky team of filmmaking brothers who delight in unsettling cinematic conventions and confounding audiences while raising disturbing questions about human nature. ...
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    24,24 €

  • 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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    121,10 €

  • Truth and Storytelling
    Emily Edwards
    The book offers a guide for writers to better understand and confront the truths they want to reveal through narrative stories and how to find legitimacy in the fictional characters and situations they create. ...
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    180,27 €

  • Truth and Storytelling
    Emily Edwards
    The book offers a guide for writers to better understand and confront the truths they want to reveal through narrative stories and how to find legitimacy in the fictional characters and situations they create. ...
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    64,80 €

  • Karl Freund
    Gavin Schmitt
    Karl Freund is the most important film pioneer you’ve never heard of. From the silent film era to the rise of the American sitcom, Freund was there at every turn. Countless camera techniques can be traced back to his 'unchained camera.' His lighting setup for filming I Love Lucy live remains standard to this day. He was the man behind the lens for many influential and award-...
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    57,44 €

  • The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema
    Temenuga Trifonova
    The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema explores contemporary debates around the concepts of ’Europe’ and ’European identity’ through an examination of recent European films dealing with various aspects of globalization (the refugee crisis, labour migration, the resurgence of nationalism and ethnic violence, neoliberalism, post-colonialism) with a particular a...
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    50,88 €

  • Subversive Spanish Cinema
    Fiona Noble
    A camp lipsynched routine by three air stewards distracts unsuspecting passengers from the fact that their plane is to make a crash landing. Performance functions as a diversion from unsavoury realities. In this way, Pedro Almodóvar’s 2013 film I’m So Excited adopts a strategy of subversive anti-establishment censor-evading filmmaking practices under Franco. Contemporary cinema...
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    51,13 €

  • How to Make a Short Film
    Bruce May / Gary Parker
    Written by seasoned professionals with a lifetime of experience in video production and filmmaking, How to Make a Short Film is full of insights into the practical side of filmmaking. Start with a good story, then apply the practices described for scripting, shooting, and editing your film. When you polish off the skills you acquire making your own films, you will discover th...
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    34,94 €

  • Su Friedrich
    Sonia Misra
    Su Friedrich (b. 1954) has been described as an autobiographical filmmaker, an experimental filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker, an independent filmmaker, a feminist filmmaker, and a lesbian filmmaker--labels that she sprucely dodges, insisting time and again she is, quite simply, a filmmaker. Nevertheless, the influences of the experimental film culture and of the feminist and ...
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    21,16 €

  • Brothers Mankiewicz
    Sydney Ladensohn Stern
    Winner of the 2020 Peter C. Rollins Book AwardLonglisted for the 2020 Moving Image Book Award by the Kraszna-Krausz FoundationNamed a 2019 Richard Wall Memorial Award Finalist by the Theatre Library Association Herman J. (1897-1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Ka...
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    20,00 €

  • Screendance from Film to Festival
    Cara Hagan
    Dance and film have shared a dynamic relationship since the advent of cinema--a natural interplay that developed into the genre known as screendance. Charting the history of screendance festivals, this book examines important shifts in practice and theory, distinct festival eras and communities, and the process of selecting and programming works. ...
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    57,54 €

  • J. Arthur Rank - The Rise and Fall of His Film Empire
    Gareth Owen
    J. Arthur Rank was the biggest and perhaps the most unlikely of film moguls. The staunch Methodist, and blunt Yorkshire miller, maintained he only became involved in movies after discovering the popularity of some religious films he ran at his local Sunday school; after exhausting their supply he decided to fund the production of more himself to help spread ’the word of god’. M...
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    32,79 €

  • Life-Destroying Diagrams
    Eugenie Brinkema
    In Life-Destroying Diagrams, Eugenie Brinkema brings the insights of her radical formalism to bear on supremely risky terrain: the ethical extremes of horror and love. Through close readings of works of film, literature, and philosophy, she explores how diagrams, grids, charts, lists, abecedaria, toroids, tempos, patterns, colors, negative space, lengths, increments, and thresh...
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    157,09 €

  • It’s me, Billy - Black Christmas Revisited
    David Hastings / Paul Downey
    It’s Me Billy: Black Christmas Revisited is a brand-new definitive book chronicling the making of Bob Clark’s seminal 1974 Christmas slasher film. which is gearing up to celebrate its 50th anniversary while still being acclaimed by critics around the world as well as loved by a cult fanbase. Featuring interviews with both cast and crew of the ground-breaking original film, as w...
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    38,57 €

  • The Poetry-Film Nexus in Latin America
    Filmmakers often mine novels and plays for stories and characters, but what happens when poetry appears on screen? In this edited volume, contributors explore the rich corpus of Latin American films that operate where poetry and cinema meet. Examples include the adaptation of poems to film; the characterisation of poets on screen; the role of poets as filmmakers; the concept of...
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    138,94 €

  • Marlon & Greg
    Joseph Brutsman
    Nobody dealt with fame, career and family like these two.'They were great friends of mine for years, and I worked with both of them on many projects, writing the screenplays that were to be their final starring roles. Marlon’s film got made - because he was Marlon. Greg’s film was another story entirely, just as Greg was.'MARLON & GREG is the true story of two legends in their ...
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    32,65 €

  • Go Fuck an Iceberg! A Brit’s Take on Guns, Tits and Other Fun Movie Stuff
    Dave Franklin
    A bawdy, politically incorrect and scattershot guide focusing on movies from the last half of the 20th century. Dave Franklin has also written ten novels.  ...
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    16,79 €