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  • 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 €

  • La cinta ancha
    Fabiola Reyna Gutierrez
    Este libro es una radiografía del sector cinematográfico peruano y las brechas de género que existen en él. A través de un análisis minucioso de la producción y exhibición cinematográfica peruana, el acceso a fondos públicos y la percepción de les cineastes sobre las desigualdades de género y hostigamiento sexual en el sector, Fabiola Reyna muestra el estado de la participación...
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    10,40 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €