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  • Brittany Murphy
    Peter Shelley
    Brittany Murphy (1977-2009) was an American film, television, and stage actress, singer, voice artist, and film producer. Beginning her career, 1995’s Clueless proved to be her breakthrough film; notable roles followed in Girl, Interrupted (1999), Don’t Say a Word (2001), 8 Mile (2002), and Just Married (2003). Despite the lead in Uptown Girls (2003), the production of The R...
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    50,38 €

  • The Coming Death
    Richard F. Calichman / Richard FCalichman
    Explores questions of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema. ...
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    122,05 €

  • Hawaii Five-O
    Brian Faucette
    Hawaii Five-O, created by Leonard Freeman in 1968, is an American police procedural drama series that was produced by CBS Productions and aired for twelve seasons. Author Brian Faucette discusses the show’s importance by looking at how it framed questions around the security and economy of the Hawaiian Islands in connection with law enforcement, the diversity of its population,...
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    22,48 €

  • Henry’s Chapel
    Graham Guest
    In Graham Guest’s novel Henry’s Chapel we watch a film by proxy, through the eyes of a narrator who offers a play-by-play account, complete with probing analysis, of Albarb Noella’s Lawnmower of a Jealous God. Within this unusual frame we encounter the story of an isolated family in rural East Texas, a tragicomic tale of incest, abuse, mental illness and liberation. As meta-nar...
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    23,68 €

  • Theorizing Colonial Cinema
    Nayoung Aimee Kwon
    Theorizing Colonial Cinema is a millennial retrospective on the entangled intimacy between film and colonialism from film’s global inception to contemporary legacies in and of Asia. The volume engages new perspectives by asking how prior discussions on film form, theory, history, and ideology may be challenged by centering the colonial question rather than relegating it to the ...
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    92,37 €

  • Theorizing Colonial Cinema
    Nayoung Aimee Kwon
    Theorizing Colonial Cinema is a millennial retrospective on the entangled intimacy between film and colonialism from film’s global inception to contemporary legacies in and of Asia. The volume engages new perspectives by asking how prior discussions on film form, theory, history, and ideology may be challenged by centering the colonial question rather than relegating it to the ...
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    35,33 €

  • It’s me, Billy - Black Christmas Revisited (hardback)
    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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    50,63 €

  • Portugal’s Global Cinema
    Mariana Liz
    Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country’s size belies its cultural impact. From the prestige of directors Manoel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa and Miguel Gomes, to box-office hit La Cage Doree, aspects of Portuguese national cinema are widely visible although the output is comparatively small compared to Eur...
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    50,79 €

  • J. Arthur Rank - The Rise and Fall of His Film Empire (hardback)
    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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    33,76 €

  • Analyzing Film
    James R Russo
    Analyzing Film: A Student Casebook is a film textbook containing fifteen essays about sixteen historically and artistically significant films made between 1920 and 1990. This casebook is geographically diverse, with sixteen countries represented: Germany, Russia, Spain, France, the United States, Denmark, Japan, India, England, Italy, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Hungary, Aust...
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    67,49 €

  • Sex, Drugs & Pilot Season
    Joel Thurm
    From his humble beginnings growing up on his grandfather’s dairy farm in New York, JOEL THURM became one of the most admired, powerful, and accomplished casting directors in Hollywood, Early on, Thurm’s instincts proved beyond reproach when he recognized John Travolta as much more than a teen idol, casting him in the TV movie THE BOY IN THE PLASTIC BUBBLE. It was during his yea...
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    34,96 €

  • Looking For Muriel
    Darren Arnold
    Muriel, or The Time of Return was director Alain Resnais’ first color feature, and its film stock immediately set it apart from many other French movies of the early 1960s. Appearing hot on the heels of Resnais’ arthouse smashes Hiroshima mon amour and Last Year at Marienbad, Muriel failed to attract the same attention as its predecessors, and the film’s initial domestic releas...
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    26,85 €

  • Stuart Gordon
    Michael Doyle
    Animated by a singularly subversive spirit, the fiendishly intelligent works of Stuart Gordon (1947-2020) are distinguished by their arrant boldness and scab-picking wit. Provocative gems such as Re-Animator, From Beyond, Dolls, The Pit and the Pendulum, and Dagon consolidated his fearsome reputation as one of the masters of the contemporary horror film, bringing an unfamiliar ...
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    158,06 €

  • Stuart Gordon
    Michael Doyle
    Animated by a singularly subversive spirit, the fiendishly intelligent works of Stuart Gordon (1947-2020) are distinguished by their arrant boldness and scab-picking wit. Provocative gems such as Re-Animator, From Beyond, Dolls, The Pit and the Pendulum, and Dagon consolidated his fearsome reputation as one of the masters of the contemporary horror film, bringing an unfamiliar ...
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    42,60 €

  • School Story
    David Aitchison
    The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The creations discussed are mostly stories for children and young adults. David Aitchison looks at serious novels for teens including Laurie Halse Anders...
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    158,51 €

  • School Story
    David Aitchison
    The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The creations discussed are mostly stories for children and young adults. David Aitchison looks at serious novels for teens including Laurie Halse Anders...
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    50,35 €

  • For No Reason at All
    Jeffrey A Hinkelman
    The years following the signing of the Armistice saw a transformation of traditional attitudes regarding military conflict as America attempted to digest the enormity and futility of the First World War. During these years popular film culture in the United States created new ways of addressing the impact of the war on both individuals and society. Filmmakers with direct experi...
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    50,09 €

  • For No Reason at All
    Jeffrey A Hinkelman
    The years following the signing of the Armistice saw a transformation of traditional attitudes regarding military conflict as America attempted to digest the enormity and futility of the First World War. During these years popular film culture in the United States created new ways of addressing the impact of the war on both individuals and society. Filmmakers with direct experi...
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    158,25 €

  • Deconstructing Will Smith
    Willie Tolliver
    Acclaimed actor and rap artist Will Smith has achieved a level of Hollywood fame rarely attained by a Black celebrity. Early in his career, Smith aspired to be the world’s most famous movie star and being named the world’s top film attraction in 2008, fulfilled his goal. While his rise to a place of worldwide prominence and cultural relevance has made him iconic, his accompl...
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    58,59 €

  • Marlon & Greg (hardback)
    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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    42,82 €

  • Sharon Stone
    chris wade
    The ultimate guide to the career of Sharon Stone, one of the greatest living movie stars. Beginning with her early years on the small screen, through the iconic 90s and to her more recent roles, Chris Wade explores every credit in Stone’s filmography, both on film and TV. All Sharon’s performances are examined throughout this affectionate homage to one of our boldest actors. Fi...
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    21,18 €

  • Premises and Problems
    Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position. ...
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    42,08 €

  • Race and the Suburbs in American Film
    Merrill Schleier
    Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film. ...
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    41,91 €

  • Curtains of Light
    George Toles
    Provides a new way of thinking about film’s relation to theatre. ...
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    43,16 €

  • Encountering the Impossible
    Alexander Sergeant
    The first academic explanation for how spectators use their imaginations as part of the experience and appreciation of popular fantasy filmmaking. ...
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    43,32 €

  • Perpetual Movement
    Neil Badmington
    Offers both a production history and a close analysis, with a chapter for each of the film’s eleven shots. ...
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    42,18 €

  • The Godfather and Sicily
    Raymond Angelo Belliotti
    Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence. ...
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    40,89 €

  • Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema
    Sheds light on emergent Latin America cinema that addresses the politics of environmental destruction, the unevenness of climate change consequences, and new ways of visualizing the world beyond the human. ...
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    42,88 €

  • Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation
    Brendan Hennessey
    Examines the place of book-to-film adaptations by one of Italy’s most famous postwar film directors. ...
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    42,01 €

  • A Voyage with Hitchcock
    Murray Pomerance
    Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich and Strange, and Suspicion. ...
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    42,88 €


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