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  • Seeing Symphonically
    Erica Stein
    Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning in midcentury New York. ...
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    41,87 €

  • Was It Yesterday?
    Matthew Leggatt
    Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television. ...
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    41,90 €

  • The History of American Literature on Film
    Thomas Leitch
    From William Dickson’s Rip Van Winkle films (1896) to Baz Luhrmann’s big-budget production of The Great Gatsby (2013) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of American literature participate in a rich and fascinating history. Unlike previous studies of American literature and film, which emphasize particular authors like Edith Wharton and Nathaniel Hawthorne, particular texts like ...
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    50,03 €

  • Looking For Muriel (hardback)
    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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    37,02 €

  • Stories from the Fireplace
    Tekletsadik Belachew
    This book is an interdisciplinary theological exploration of Haile Gerima’s cinema, an Ethiopian filmmaker and storyteller who successfully translated African folkloric orality and wove other indigenous art forms into the language of cinema. Gerima’s five decades legacy of Pan-African cinema embodies ’symbolic resistance’ against Afro-pessimistic and stereotypical mis/disrepres...
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    59,35 €

  • Waterloo - Making an Epic
    Simon Lewis
    History has thrown up few events as dramatic and decisive as the four-day campaign that culminated in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. In 1970, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis spent $25 million to re-stage Napoleon’s tumultuous encounter with Wellington, portrayed by Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer. It was directed by Sergei Bondarchuk who deployed almost 20,000 Soviet ...
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    40,87 €

  • Pity The Movie Lover
    Martha Kemm Landes
    She just wanted to meet a movie star... Kitty Kole, nicknamed Pity, is a music teacher and divorced mother of two teenage girls. The busy, impulsive gal loves movies; In fact, she’s a movie fanatic. In the week preceding her annual Oscar Party, Pity is chosen to be a stand-in for the leading actress in a new movie being filmed in Tulsa. She is ecstatic about her luck, but thing...
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    10,08 €

  • Let’s Go Stag!
    Dan Erdman
    For much of the 20th century, the underground pornography industry - made up of amateurs and hobbyists who created hardcore, explicit 'stag films' - went about its business hounded by reformers and law enforcement, from local police departments all the way up to the FBI. Rumors of this illicit activity circulated and became the stuff of urban myth, but this period of pornograph...
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    154,37 €

  • Waterloo - Making an Epic (hardback)
    Simon Lewis
    History has thrown up few events as dramatic and decisive as the four-day campaign that culminated in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. In 1970, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis spent $25 million to re-stage Napoleon’s tumultuous encounter with Wellington, portrayed by Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer. It was directed by Sergei Bondarchuk who deployed almost 20,000 Soviet ...
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    51,04 €

  • Film, Philosophy and Religion
    Hollywood is a $40 billion annual business, one that is highly influential in culture. If we want to know who we are as individuals and a society, what we believe and what we value, we need to know and understand Hollywood and film. Make no mistake, Hollywood is neither philosophically, politically, nor morally neutral! Many studies demonstrate how movies 'affect' us long befor...
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    80,29 €

  • James Dean, Fairmount, Indiana & Farming
    Marcus Winslow
    'After months of auditioning I am very proud to announce that I am a member of The Actors Studio. The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Elia Kazan...' Unpublished James Dean letter to Winslow family-Summer 1952James Dean, Fairmount, Indiana & Farming: Conversations with Marcus Winslow tells the story of Jame...
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    35,06 €

  • On Borrowed Fame
    Donald Jeffries
    This meticulously researched book explores the concept of fame in all its fleeting glory and confounding inconsistency. Why do so many entertainers do so much better financially than peers who have comparable resumes? Author Donald Jeffries also examines a subject he is quite familiar with; the myriad of unnatural deaths which have plagued the entertainment industry since the d...
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    34,63 €

  • War Is Hell
    Danny Stewart
    'I could tell that Tony really wanted to shoot a war movie as much as he wanted to shoot a horror one!' Screenwriter Peter Atkins  War is Hell Making Hellraiser III Hell on Earth - A thorough chronicle of the journey on the battlefield of Hellraiser III Hell on Earth  It provides unproduced script treatments for Hell on Earth by writer Peter Atkins. An Examination of Hell on Ea...
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    30,90 €

  • Can You Dig It
    Sean Egan
    CAN YOU DIG ITWalter Hill’s The Warriors was not just a motion picture-it was a social phenomenon on every level.The tale of a Coney Island street gang who, framed for murder, have to make the perilous journey back to home turf across the terrain of rival crews out for revenge, it caused a sensation when it hit the theaters in early 1979. Despite a low budget, an absence of mar...
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    29,74 €

  • Here There Be Monsters
    Bryan Senn
    For over three decades, author Bryan Senn has researched, analyzed, and written about the cinema fantastique. His interviews and articles have appeared in a score of genre publications-everything from well-established prozines like Filmfax and Shivers to well-regarded fanzines like Midnight Marquee and Monsters from the Vault. Herein are three decades’ worth of interviews, hist...
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    44,86 €

  • Can You Dig It (hardback)
    Sean Egan
    CAN YOU DIG ITWalter Hill’s The Warriors was not just a motion picture-it was a social phenomenon on every level.The tale of a Coney Island street gang who, framed for murder, have to make the perilous journey back to home turf across the terrain of rival crews out for revenge, it caused a sensation when it hit the theaters in early 1979. Despite a low budget, an absence of mar...
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    39,92 €

  • Mexico Unmanned
    Samanta Ordóñez
    Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema. ...
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    121,82 €

  • Woody allen’s parallel worlds
    Dirk Clara
    This great book is an in-depth study that analyzes a recurring theme of Allens movies, plays and short stories: his characters desire to escape, in various forms and to different degrees, the world they come from to find refuge in another. This new world can be sociocultural, mental or fictional. Dirk Clara explores the characteristics and resemblances of these worlds and the d...
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    24,95 €

  • Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen
    Susan Delson
    In the 1940s, folks at bars and restaurants would gather around a Panoram movie machine to watch three-minute films called Soundies, precursors to today’s music videos. This history was all but forgotten until the digital era brought Soundies to phones and computer screens--including a YouTube clip starring a 102-year-old Harlem dancer watching her younger self perform in Sound...
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    121,12 €

  • Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen
    Susan Delson
    In the 1940s, folks at bars and restaurants would gather around a Panoram movie machine to watch three-minute films called Soundies, precursors to today’s music videos. This history was all but forgotten until the digital era brought Soundies to phones and computer screens--including a YouTube clip starring a 102-year-old Harlem dancer watching her younger self perform in Sound...
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    38,70 €

  • Profit Margins
    Jeremy Groskopf
    Between the advent of print advertising and the dawn of radio came cinema ads. These ads, aimed at a captive theater audience, became a symbol of the developing binary between upper-class film consumption and more consumerist media.In Profit Margins, Jeremy Groskopf examines how the ad industry jockeyed for direct advertisement space in American motion pictures. In fact, advert...
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    121,40 €

  • Profit Margins
    Jeremy Groskopf
    Between the advent of print advertising and the dawn of radio came cinema ads. These ads, aimed at a captive theater audience, became a symbol of the developing binary between upper-class film consumption and more consumerist media.In Profit Margins, Jeremy Groskopf examines how the ad industry jockeyed for direct advertisement space in American motion pictures. In fact, advert...
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    42,44 €

  • Across Texts
    Keith Reader
    The essays grouped together here reflect a career-long preoccupation with aspects of modern French culture. These range from the canonical (no French or indeed European film-maker is more universally admired than Renoir; few screen actresses have aroused such strong feelings as Arletty), by way of the ascetically philosophical (whereof it would be difficult to find a more strik...
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    138,91 €

  • Luxury, Sensation and the Moving Image
    Alice Blackhurst
    In recent years, the embrace of ’slow;’ sensuous and durational forms of cinema and the moving image registers desires to immerse in phenomenological experiences of artworks as potential antidotes to our information-saturated, techno-capitalist age. Exploring shifts away from ownership, accumulation and possessive acquisition of the object towards more experiential, immaterial ...
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    139,18 €

  • Behind the Kaiju Curtain
    Norman England
    'One of the most entertaining yet informative books you will ever read'ーEd Godziszewski, author of Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to KurosawaNorman England’s gutsy and insightful stories will do more than just entertain. This is the first and only book in English to take you on a deep dive into the Japanese film industry. You will join well-known directors, cast, a...
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    42,08 €

  • Sardonicus - Scripts from the Crypt #11 (hardback)
    Amanda Russsell / Marc Russell / Tom Weaver
    The laws of man end at Baron Sardonicus’ gate.When lights burn inside,    the castle façade looks like a skull.Wolfbane and hemlock grow in the garden.Why is Sardonicus masked?The peasants do not know.They only know that within the castle,    there are no mirrors.This book is a tribute to prize-winning author Ray Russell (1924-1999), whose works include the novella 'Sardonicus'...
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    37,85 €

  • The Actors Who Could Have Been James Bond
    John Fox
    The enduring success of the James Bond franchise has made the casting of a new Bond actor a very big deal in the film and entertainment industry. Tabloids and entertainment clickbait sites love nothing more than constantly speculating (wrongly of course) on who the next Bond actor might be. Taking on the part of James Bond is like playing the lead in Hamlet, Doctor Who, Sherloc...
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    12,68 €

  • Accent in North American Film and Television
    Charles Boberg
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    162,92 €

  • Doubling for McQueen and Redford
    James C Udel / James C. Udel
    Since Hollywood’s first motion-picture, stunt players have given blood, sweat, and tears to the business. From high falls and horse gags to fist-fights, fire, water-work and automotive mayhem, this largely unsung group of action-performers has been making movie violence believable and telling stories through exciting sequences without so much as an Oscar category to acknowled...
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    65,93 €

  • Sardonicus - Scripts from the Crypt #11
    Amanda Russsell / Marc Russell / Tom Weaver
    The laws of man end at Baron Sardonicus’ gate.When lights burn inside,    the castle façade looks like a skull.Wolfbane and hemlock grow in the garden.Why is Sardonicus masked?The peasants do not know.They only know that within the castle,    there are no mirrors.This book is a tribute to prize-winning author Ray Russell (1924-1999), whose works include the novella 'Sardonicus'...
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    35,01 €


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