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  • Lost in the Dark
    Brad Weismann
    Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them--The Shape of Water--won. Since 1990, the production of horror films has risen exponentially worldwide, and in 2013, horror films earned an estimated $400 million in ticket sales. Horror has long been the most popular film genre, and more horror movies have been made than any other k...
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    158,25 €

  • The Golden Age of Crap
    Nathan Shumate
    Just because you can’t respect a movie doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it. A seminal text of the VHS nostalgia movement, The Golden Age of Crap serves up a sampling of junk-food flicks that gained their audiences on videocassette rental shelves during the ’80s and ’90s, a time when one couldn’t visit the video rental store without being tempted by Italian post-apocalyptic adventur...
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    52,28 €

  • Universal ’40s Monsters
    John T. Soister / John TSoister
    'I have here collection of the world’s most astounding horrors' boasted Professor Lampini in House of Frankenstein, but really all he had to offer was Dracula’s bones. We can do far better than the hapless professor. These pages offer Frankenstein’s monster, the Wolf Man, a mummy in search of his lost love, invisible intruders, ape women, a spine-breaking serial killer, and twi...
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    44,69 €

  • Universal ’40s Monsters (hardback)
    John T. Soister / John TSoister
    'I have here collection of the world’s most astounding horrors' boasted Professor Lampini in House of Frankenstein, but really all he had to offer was Dracula’s bones. We can do far better than the hapless professor. These pages offer Frankenstein’s monster, the Wolf Man, a mummy in search of his lost love, invisible intruders, ape women, a spine-breaking serial killer, and twi...
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    54,87 €

  • The Encyclopedia of British Film
    The fifth edition of this highly successful reference guide features more than 6,500 articles on the producers, directors, actors and studios behind a century or so of great British cinema. ...
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    273,25 €

  • Inside King Kong
    Will Shephard
    When actor Will Shephard turned up at the Beverley Hills offices of Dino De Laurentiis, he expected to be interviewed for a modest role in the great man’s next production.'My agent told me on the phone that you were looking for actors who could do animal movements, but she didn’t tell me what the film was about,' said Will.'It’s King Kong,' said the producer.'You mean a remake ...
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    12,54 €

  • The Careers of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas as Referenced in Literature
    Henryk Hoffmann
    The Careers of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas as Referenced in Literature is a study of the perception of these two Hollywood megastars and their work, as presented in the text and context of references and allusions found in world literature. This book also aims to establish the impact factor of the two actors and their major films, as well as to provide extensive data for fu...
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    55,31 €

  • Film Festivals
    Mar Diestro-Dópido
    Film festivals, once seen as only a matter for journalism, are increasingly a subject of attention within scholarly film studies. They are, as Mar Diestro-Dópido argues, not only of cultural value in themselves but also sites of cinematic, artistic, social, political and economic exchange. Three fasci­nating case studies develop this argument beyond the habitual focus of critic...
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    132,83 €

  • Media Crossroads
    The contributors to Media Crossroads examine space and place in media as they intersect with sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, class, and ability. Considering a wide range of film, television, video games, and other media, the authors show how spaces-from the large and fantastical to the intimate and virtual-are shaped by the social interactions and intersections staged within t...
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    37,52 €

  • Media Crossroads
    The contributors to Media Crossroads examine space and place in media as they intersect with sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, class, and ability. Considering a wide range of film, television, video games, and other media, the authors show how spaces-from the large and fantastical to the intimate and virtual-are shaped by the social interactions and intersections staged within t...
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    138,07 €

  • The Body Snatcher
    Scott Allen Nollen
    In 1994, historian Scott Allen Nollen published the critically acclaimed Robert Louis Stevenson: Life, Literature and the Silver Screen, the only volume dedicated to screen adaptations of the prolific Scottish author’s work. The Body Snatcher provides the same expansive treatment for this classic 1945 'historical horror' film. Opening with a foreword by Gregory William Mank, No...
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    37,85 €

  • The Body Snatcher
    Scott Allen Nollen
    In 1994, historian Scott Allen Nollen published the critically acclaimed Robert Louis Stevenson: Life, Literature and the Silver Screen, the only volume dedicated to screen adaptations of the prolific Scottish author’s work. The Body Snatcher provides the same expansive treatment for this classic 1945 'historical horror' film. Opening with a foreword by Gregory William Mank, No...
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    27,67 €

  • City of Screens
    Jasmine Nadua Trice
    In City of Screens Jasmine Nadua Trice examines the politics of cinema circulation in early-2000s Manila. She traces Manila’s cinema landscape by focusing on the primary locations of film exhibition and distribution: the pirated DVD district, mall multiplexes, art-house cinemas, the university film institute, and state-sponsored cinematheques. In the wake of digital media pirac...
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    36,34 €

  • City of Screens
    Jasmine Nadua Trice
    In City of Screens Jasmine Nadua Trice examines the politics of cinema circulation in early-2000s Manila. She traces Manila’s cinema landscape by focusing on the primary locations of film exhibition and distribution: the pirated DVD district, mall multiplexes, art-house cinemas, the university film institute, and state-sponsored cinematheques. In the wake of digital media pirac...
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    138,20 €

  • Essays on Japan’s Lost Decade and Cinema Volume 1
    Zoe Burgess-Foreman
    A collection of essays focused on social and cultural change during Japan’s Lost Decade through a cinematic lens. Volume 1 collects together topics of youth violence during this period. The essays included are:The Representation of Violence in Contemporary Japanese Cinema. The Representation of Dissatisfied Youth Culture in Contemporary Japanese Cinema. The Criticisms and Me...
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    6,77 €

  • Decoding the Movies
    Richard Maltby / Richard Prof. Maltby
    This book 'decodes' 1930s Hollywood movies and explains why they looked and behaved as they did. Representing the summation of Richard Maltby’s four decades of scholarship in the field, it uses a series of case studies to demonstrate how an appreciation of these movies is enhanced by examining the circumstances of their production and consumption. ...
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    183,57 €

  • God’s Beauty in the Deep
    Gary Knapp
    Following numerous courses in scuba diving, Gary Knapp embarked on a twelve-year filming adventure inspired by his promise to God to share with mankind the majestic life He created both under and above the world’s oceans.Through his vivid accounts, Gary takes you on an incredible journey beneath the depths of the seas, to exotic islands, and other countries by the oceans as he ...
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    15,82 €

  • Screenwriters in French cinema
    Isabelle Vanderschelden / Sarah Leahy
    This volume explores the overlooked category of screenwriters in French cinema, from the coming of sound to the digital age. Using key figures as case studies, it considers how the role has evolved industrially and critically, and sheds light on screenwriting practices in the context of debates on word and image, national cinema and authorship. ...
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    156,70 €

  • THE LOST FILMS FANZINE #5
    THE LOST FILMS FANZINE is the premiere digest fanzine specializing in lost films, un-produced scripts, and obscure movies long forgotten...until now. This issue celebrates the lost films of famous ape suit performer Charles Gemora, who starred in INGAGI-banned for the last 90 years! Also covered are Gemora’s unmade projects, like THE BIG THAW where Ice Age monsters run amuck du...
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    4,73 €

  • Becoming Dracula - The Early Years of Bela Lugosi Vol. 1 (hardback)
    Bill Kaffenberger / Gary D. Rhodes / Gary DRhodes
    The cobwebs of time and space are finally cleared. Drawing on years of research across four countries, excavating and analyzing thousands of yellowed documents in archives as well as every digitized source, Gary D. Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger shine light from their candelabrum onto a long-forgotten past, onto the creation of a legend.  Becoming Dracula is a two-volume biograph...
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    56,84 €

  • Big Bad John
    Nat Segaloff
     'John comes on a bit strong at first; he plays the Hemingway bit. I think he’s very clever. I think he’s very talented and kind of refreshing.'- Sean Connery 'Francis [Coppola][ couldn’t tell a story like John. George [Lucas][ is a great storyteller; he couldn’t tell a story like John. None of us.'- Steven Spielberg 'I think he likes the grandiose. He liked something that. . ....
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    26,87 €

  • Big Bad John (hardback)
    Nat Segaloff
     'John comes on a bit strong at first; he plays the Hemingway bit. I think he’s very clever. I think he’s very talented and kind of refreshing.'- Sean Connery 'Francis [Coppola][ couldn’t tell a story like John. George [Lucas][ is a great storyteller; he couldn’t tell a story like John. None of us.'- Steven Spielberg 'I think he likes the grandiose. He liked something that. . ....
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    37,06 €

  • Next Generation Adaptation
    Allen H Redmon
    Contributions by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth, Marc DiPaolo, Emine Akkülah Doğan, Caroline Eades, Noelle Hedgcock, Tina Olsin Lent, Rashmila Maiti, Allen H. Redmon, Jack Ryan, Larry T. Shillock, Richard Vela, and Geoffrey Wilson In Next Generation Adaptation: Spectatorship and Process, editor Allen H. Redmon brings together eleven essays from a range of voices in adaptation studi...
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    158,31 €

  • Next Generation Adaptation
    Allen H Redmon
    Contributions by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth, Marc DiPaolo, Emine Akkülah Doğan, Caroline Eades, Noelle Hedgcock, Tina Olsin Lent, Rashmila Maiti, Allen H. Redmon, Jack Ryan, Larry T. Shillock, Richard Vela, and Geoffrey Wilson In Next Generation Adaptation: Spectatorship and Process, editor Allen H. Redmon brings together eleven essays from a range of voices in adaptation studi...
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    50,15 €

  • Motherless Children
    Hal Hartley
    When his wife dies young, Canadian immigrant ironworker, Jim Fulton, is left with four children he hardly knows and a neighborhood of relatives willing to help raise them. But his stubborn independence keeps getting in his way as he grapples clumsily with a world changing fast and sometimes violently. Set in the Long Island suburbs and up on the girders of the Manhattan skyline...
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    30,46 €

  • Becoming Dracula - The Early Years of Bela Lugosi Vol. 1
    Bill Kaffenberger / Gary D. Rhodes / Gary DRhodes
    The cobwebs of time and space are finally cleared. Drawing on years of research across four countries, excavating and analyzing thousands of yellowed documents in archives as well as every digitized source, Gary D. Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger shine light from their candelabrum onto a long-forgotten past, onto the creation of a legend.  Becoming Dracula is a two-volume biograph...
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    44,78 €

  • Flash Flaherty
    Scott MacDonald
    Flash Flaherty, the much-anticipated follow-up volume to The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema, offers a people’s history of the world-renowned Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, an annual event where participants confront and reimagine the creative process surrounding multiple document/documentary forms and modes of the moving image.This collection, which includ...
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    67,22 €

  • Experts in Action
    Lauren Steimer
    Action movie stars ranging from Jackie Chan to lesser-known stunt women and men like Zoë Bell and Chad Stahelski stun their audiences with virtuosic martial arts displays, physical prowess, and complex fight sequences. Their performance styles originate from action movies that emerged in the industrial environment of 1980s Hong Kong. In Experts in Action Lauren Steimer examines...
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    132,09 €

  • Experts in Action
    Lauren Steimer
    Action movie stars ranging from Jackie Chan to lesser-known stunt women and men like Zoë Bell and Chad Stahelski stun their audiences with virtuosic martial arts displays, physical prowess, and complex fight sequences. Their performance styles originate from action movies that emerged in the industrial environment of 1980s Hong Kong. In Experts in Action Lauren Steimer examines...
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    34,15 €

  • Anita Page
    Allan R Ellenberger / Allan R. Ellenberger / Robert Murdoch Paton
    Anita Page (1910-2008) first captured attention near the end of the silent film era in such classics as While the City Sleeps (1928) with Lon Chaney, The Flying Fleet (1929) with Ramon Novarro, and her own favorite, Our Dancing Daughters (1928) with Joan Crawford. In a relatively short career, Page enjoyed critical acclaim. She appeared in the first full-sound movie to win B...
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    57,46 €