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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • KAPPIYA 70MM -3 / காப்பியா 70MM 3
    ’sembathai’ Imayaka
    This book encloses interviews and personal experiences of yester (until 70’s) actor actress, musicians, playback singers, directors, producers of Tamil Film industry.  ...
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    16,69 €

  • 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 €