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  • Souls for Sale
    Terry Lindvall
    The beginning of the twentieth century evolved out of an era of Freethinking atheists and agnostics who challenged the Protestant hegemony of the day. Key among these mavericks was author and filmmaker Rubert Hughes, uncle to Howard Hughes. In 1922, Hughes published Souls for Sale, his wickedly playful satire of the Bible belt and Hollywood, offering a mischievous snapshot of t...
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    29,15 €

  • THIRD EDITION
    G. Shields / GShields
    A topical reference of how some of your favorite professionals in the film industry enhanced their career choice and insured their future.THIRD EDITION: READY FOR YOUR CLOSE UP? AFRICAN AMERICANS AND INTERNATIONALS IN CINEMA WHO ARE COLLEGE GRADUATES by G. Shields offers a core account of collegiate backgrounds of recognized and influential professionals in the film industry. F...
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    12,02 €

  • Scarlett Johansson
    Kim R. Holston / Warren Hope
    Despite her prominence as an actress, fashionista, social activist and the 'sexiest woman in the world,' Scarlett Johansson has kept her life private. Her work ethic has been strong since her film debut in North (1994) at age 10. Then in 2003, Lost in Translation brought kudos and launched her adult career. While she never abandoned the independents, Johansson became a lea...
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    58,65 €

  • Mind Reeling
    Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema. ...
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    42,04 €

  • Tastemakers and Tastemaking
    Niamh Thornton
    Considers how and why taste persists in the analysis of Mexican film and television by looking at key figures and their impact on the curation of violence. ...
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    42,14 €

  • Capitán Latinoamérica
    Vinodh Venkatesh
    Analyzes contemporary superhero-themed cinema, television, and web series in Latin America. ...
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    41,97 €

  • Giallo!
    Alexia Kannas
    Traces the giallo mystery/horror genre from its genesis in Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s to its contemporary place in the global cult-film canon. ...
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    41,05 €

  • Surrealism and film after 1945
    Surrealism and Film after 1945 is the first collection devoted to the vibrant culture of transnational surrealist cinema since the Second World War. Eleven chapters by leading and emerging scholars of surrealism and film studies establish the parameters of this history and situate surrealism as a major force in postwar cinema. ...
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    171,85 €

  • The Godfather and Sicily
    Raymond Angelo Belliotti
    Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence. ...
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    121,90 €

  • 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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    121,62 €

  • 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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    121,89 €

  • Curtains of Light
    George Toles
    Provides a new way of thinking about film’s relation to theatre. ...
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    121,56 €

  • The Abyss is the Foundation of the Possible - Writing On and Through Film, 2007-2018
    M Kitchell
    Over a decade’s worth of M Kitchell’s writing on film. The collection includes the novella Paul Garrior in Jacques Riverrun’s 'The Abyss is the Foundation of the Possible', a formalist collage story about the vampiric pull of the filmed image, the creative process, and the human voids of isolation and loss. The accompanying film essays that follow all expand cogently on Kitchel...
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    17,63 €

  • Honor Among Thieves
    Andrew Dickos
    The crosscurrents between the classic Hollywood cinema and France’s postwar cinema are rich in producing iconic imagery with philosophical resonance, and no filmmaker has immersed himself in this project more than Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973). Nurtured on American movies, and living through the turbulent years of the mid-20th century, Melville memorialized his wartime exper...
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    15,97 €

  • Classic Film Series
    chris wade
    The Classic Film Series highlights movies from the past, forgotten, overlooked and cherished alike, selected for their influence, relevance and worth.In this edition, writer, musician and filmmaker Chris Wade looks at one of the greatest gangster epics ever made, Sergio Leone’s legendary, Once Upon A Time In America. Starring Robert De Niro as Jewish mobster Noodles, the film f...
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    15,29 €

  • Sex and desire in British films of the 2000s
    Nigel Mather
    This book explores how British filmmakers of the 2000s engaged with the themes of love, sex and desire. It ranges from powerful contemporary dramas such as Kidulthood, Closer and Disobedience to the lighter mood of the Bridget Jones series, as well as exploring dramatisations of the lives of Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Plath and Iris Murdoch. ...
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    159,42 €

  • The Legacy of World War II in European Arthouse Cinema
    Samm Deighan
    World War II irrevocably shaped culture--and much of cinema--in the 20th century, thanks to its devastating, global impact that changed the way we think about and portray war. This book focuses on European war films made about the war between 1945 and 1985 in countries that were occupied or invaded by the Nazis, such as Poland, France, Italy, the Soviet Union, and Germany it...
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    65,98 €

  • Jesus Christ Movie Star (hardback)
    Phil Hall
    The life of Jesus Christ has challenged and inspired filmmakers from the pioneering works of the late 1890s through today’s digital cinema. No other life story has been the subject of so many films, with so many wildly different interpretations.  The big screen Jesus has traveled through multimillion dollar epics and microbudget underground films, recreating the miracles of the...
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    34,76 €

  • Jesus Christ Movie Star
    Phil Hall
    The life of Jesus Christ has challenged and inspired filmmakers from the pioneering works of the late 1890s through today’s digital cinema. No other life story has been the subject of so many films, with so many wildly different interpretations.  The big screen Jesus has traveled through multimillion dollar epics and microbudget underground films, recreating the miracles of the...
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    24,58 €

  • Creature from the Black Lagoon (Universal Filmscripts Series Classic Science Fiction)
    Tom Weaver
    The complete history of The Creature from the Black Lagoon, with many, many pictures, behind the scenes information from Tom Weaver, and the complete shooting script of the movie. From MagicImage Filmbooks, now a BearManor Media company. ...
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    32,40 €

  • Creature from the Black Lagoon (Universal Filmscripts Series Classic Science Fiction) (hardback)
    Tom Weaver
    The complete history of The Creature from the Black Lagoon, with many, many pictures, behind the scenes information from Tom Weaver, and the complete shooting script of the movie. From MagicImage Filmbooks, now a BearManor Media company. ...
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    44,46 €

  • The Truth at Twenty-Four Frames per Second
    Anthony Slide
    Collected together here are Anthony Slide’s writings on film and television history from the 1960s through the present. Subjects and individuals discussed are varied, including Lillian Gish, Val Guest, Vivienne Segal, Wendy Richard, Elisabeth Welch, Lawrence Welk, and Betty White. All illustrate the author’s scholarship, dedication to the serious study of the history of popular...
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    26,74 €

  • Where To Land
    Hal Hartley
    Joe Fulton is a semi-retired director of romantic comedies. He decides he should have his last will and testament drawn up. At the same time, eager to be outdoors and work with his hands, he applies for a job as assistant grounds keeper at a nearby cemetery. His highly dramatic girlfriend, his impressionable young niece, his neighbors and friends all assume he is dying but is t...
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    22,65 €

  • Adapting Superman
    John Darowski
    Almost immediately after his first appearance in comic books in June 1938, Superman began to be adapted to other media. The subsequent decades have brought even more adaptations of the Man of Steel, his friends, family, and enemies in film, television, comic strip, radio, novels, video games, and even a musical. The rapid adaptation of the Man of Steel occurred before the ch...
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    58,76 €

  • The Phenomenology of Religious Belief
    Michael J. Shapiro
    In The Phenomenology of Religious Belief, the renowned philosopher Michael J. Shapiro investigates how art - and in particular literature and film - can impact upon both traditional interpretations and critical studies of religious beliefs and experiences. In doing so, he examines the work of prolific and award-winning writers such as Toni Morrison, Philip K. Dick and Robert C...
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    154,42 €

  • The Joe E. Brown Films
    James L. Neibaur / James LNeibaur
    Joe E. Brown was the most popular movie comedian in the 1930s, his films being bigger moneymakers than those featuring Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, or The Marx Brothers. A regrettable business decision in the middle of the decade resulted in indie productions that relegated Joe to second-feature status. After losing a son in World War Two, Joe became a tireless entertainer fo...
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    27,67 €

  • The Joe E. Brown Films (hardback)
    James L. Neibaur / James LNeibaur
    Joe E. Brown was the most popular movie comedian in the 1930s, his films being bigger moneymakers than those featuring Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, or The Marx Brothers. A regrettable business decision in the middle of the decade resulted in indie productions that relegated Joe to second-feature status. After losing a son in World War Two, Joe became a tireless entertainer fo...
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    37,85 €

  • Charles Crichton
    Quentin Falk
    Charles Crichton, director of A Fish Called Wanda and several much-loved Ealing comedies, had one of the most remarkable careers in British film history. Featuring interviews with colleagues such as Dame Judi Dench, Petula Clark, John Cleese and Sir Michael Palin, this book provides the first comprehensive study of his work. ...
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    157,20 €

  • Jacques Audiard
    Gemma King
    Fragile yet powerful, macho yet transgressive, Jacques Audiard’s films portray disabled, marginalised or otherwise non-normative bodies in constant states of crisis and transformation. Jacques Audiard is the first book on the cinema of one of the most important French directors working today. It studies his screenwriting background, his collaborative practices and his use of ge...
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    157,26 €

  • Was It Yesterday?
    Matthew Leggatt
    Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television. ...
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    121,60 €