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  • The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry
    Anthony Slide
    From author Anthony Slide, Hollywood’s most celebrated and prolific scholar, cames a wonderfully comprehensive dictionary of American producing and releasing companies, technical innovations, industry terms, studios, genres, and organizations. ...
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    49,25 €

  • The Boys
    Scott Allen Nollen
    The Boys provides new ways to view and evaluate the work of this famous comedy team. The initial chapter summarizes the critical reception of the two and compares Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy to other contemporary comedians. Brief biographies analyze their early solo films and the development of the team. Special attention is given to the team’s cinematic and comic style, us...
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    43,11 €

  • The Screwball Comedy Films
    Duane Byrge / Robert Milton Miller
    My Man Godfrey, Four’s a Crowd, My Favorite Wife, The Devil and Miss Jones--for their inspired blend of slapstick humor with casual elegance and witty repartee, these movies are examples of what became known as 'screwball' comedies. This study focuses on the genre, film-by-film, year-by-year, providing the film enthusiast or serious researcher with an informed guide to the s...
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    43,15 €

  • Beyond Ballyhoo
    Mark Thomas McGee
    William Castle, for instance, was a master promoter. In one scheme involving The Tingler, Vincent Price warns in the movie that 'the only way to stop the monster is to scream. That’s the signal to the projectionist to throw the switch. Under ten or twelve seats were some electric motors, war surplus things that Castle got a bargain on. The motors vibrated the seat, in the ho...
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    42,73 €

  • Contemporary Korean cinema
    Hyangjin Lee
    The first in-depth, comprehensive study of Korean cinema offering original insight into the relationships between ideology and the art of cinema from East Asian perspectives. Combines issues of contemporary Korean culture and cinematic representation of the society and people in both North and South Korea. Covers the introduction of motion pictures in 1903, Korean cinema during...
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    44,45 €

  • The Tarantinian Ethics
    Fred Botting / Scott Wilson
    The screenplays and films of Quentin Tarantino raise profound comic and ethical dilemmas. Developing ideas from Lacanian psychoanalysis, the authors explore ethical issues in relation to Tarantino’s work, postmodernity and recent cultural theory. They argue that Tarantino’s texts provide a provocative and telling contribution to theorized accounts of contemporary culture. ...
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    254,83 €

  • Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls
    Murray Pomerance
    Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political, cultural, and economic conditions. ...
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    42,91 €

  • From Alice to Buena Vista
    Roger Bromley
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    122,27 €

  • A Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema
    Charles P. Mitchell / Charles PMitchell
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    105,73 €

  • Film It with Music
    Thomas S. Hischak / Thomas SHischak
    ...
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    104,87 €

  • J. Lee Thompson
    Steve Chibnall
    The first to examine the work of a man once hailed as the finest film-maker to emerge from the British studio system after the Second World War, J. Lee Thompson ...
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    36,24 €

  • Gary Cooper
    Jeffrey Mayers / Jeffrey Meyers
    A definitive biography of film legend Gary Cooper ...
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    15,56 €

  • The Men Who Made the Movies
    Richard Schickel
    Mr. Schickel takes on eight of Hollywood’s finest directors in conversation-Hitchcock, Capra, Minnelli, Cukor, Hawks, Wellman, Vidor, and Walsh-reminiscing about their working lives which spanned the most intriguing decades of American filmmaking. Each of these directors created a canon of work that even today sustains critical analysis without sacrificing popular appeal. 'Imme...
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    17,13 €

  • The Gorehound’s Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s
    Scott Aaron Stine
    For the uninitiated the author has obligingly supplied a definition for the slasher/splatter film: 'Any motion picture which contains scenes of extreme violence in graphic and grisly detail....' For those film viewers who think this is a good thing and are more likely to select The Texas Chainsaw Massacre than The Remains of the Day, or for those who are not quite sure but a...
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    42,54 €

  • Silent Stars Speak
    Tony Villecco
    The pioneers of the motion picture industry were a group of uncommonly talented men, women, and children. Many of their films have now vanished or disintegrated, and the only evidence of them is in the memories of their creators. The twelve men and women featured in this collection of interviews share their memories of the early days of filmmaking, from the technicalities of...
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    42,95 €

  • The Big Picture
    Herb Gardner / William Goldman
    THE BIG PICTURE ...
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    16,18 €

  • Giving Up War
    Otis Carney
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    28,26 €

  • Citizen Sarris, American Film Critic
    Emanuel Levy / Martin Scorsese
    This collection of essays pays tribute to film critic Andrew Sarris, the most influential film critic in American film history. The 38 essays assembled here and arranged according to major theme demonstrate the amazing impact Sarris has had on every aspect of the film world: fellow critics, filmmakers, readers, and American popular culture. ...
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    105,70 €

  • Writing in Light
    Joanne Bernardi
    While most people associate Japanese film with modern directors like Akira Kurosawa, Japan’s cinema has a rich tradition going back to the silent era. Japan’s 'pure film movement' of the 1910s is widely held to mark the birth of film theory as we know it and is a touchstone for historians of early cinema. Yet this work has been difficult to access because so few prints have bee...
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    42,16 €

  • European Cinema
    This book is a highly original introduction to the study of European cinema. Following a wide-ranging first part which asks whether European cinema exists and, if so, what its aesthetic, political, and economic characteristics might be, the book offers a series of fascinating and informative case studies of films from the major European film-producing countries including Britai...
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    67,02 €

  • Contemporary Australian cinema
    Jonathan Rayner
    Provides an introduction to the products and context of the new Australian film industry which arose toward the end of the 1960s. Traces the development of Australian film, in terms of prominent directors and stars, consistent themes, styles and evolving genres. The evolution of the film genres peculiar to Australia, and the adaptation of conventional Hollywood forms (such as t...
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    32,29 €

  • Jack Clayton
    Neil Sinyard
    A personal and fascinating account of the career and achievement of an important, much-loved director; Jack Clayton. ...
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    31,75 €

  • 100 years of European cinema
    Cinema provides entertainment, but it also communicates a set of values, a vision of the world or an ideology. European cinema has dealt with the tension between these two functions in a variety of ways. Diverse and entertaining, this book explores the complex relationship between entertainment, ideology and audiences in European film. ...
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    28,44 €

  • Golden Images
    Eve Golden
    This work contains 41 engaging essays on players of the silent screen, from superstars like Rudolph Valentino and Clara Bow to fascinating figures like Clarine Seymour and Arthur Johnson. These stories range from the tragic (early deaths, drug problems, talkie-related career failures) to the triumphant (a surprising number of silent stars enjoyed long, happy lives). Many of ...
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    51,38 €

  • Word and Image in Japanese Cinema
    ...
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    149,18 €

  • Order in the Universe
    Robert C Cumbow / Robert C. Cumbow / Robert CCumbow
    An obscure independent filmmaker until Halloween (1978), John Carpenter has been applauded for his classic sense of compositions, yet reviled for his 'B-film' sensibility. With a chronology of Carpenter’s career, a detailed filmography, photos, brief plot synopses, and a thorough index, this volume will be treasured by film scholars and fans alike. ...
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    81,98 €

  • Memoirs of a Hollywood Script Girl
    Vera Zirn
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    14,93 €

  • 100 Nights in the Dark
    Joe Barlow
    ...
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    19,22 €

  • Out of the Past
    Barry Gifford
    For a tour of noir cinema, this handbook is the perfect companion and Barry Gifford is an ideal guide. His choice selection of films exposes the menacing, moody, and oftentimes violent underbelly of this dark movie genre that occupies a favorite niche in American popular culture. Some are classics, some are little known and seldom seen, but all, once viewed, are deeply remembe...
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    50,36 €

  • France in Focus
    This volume brings together the work of leading film scholars from the UK, France and the US who assess a dominant art form’s engagement with expressions of national identity at key moments in French cinematic history, from its origins at the end of the nineteenth century, through the inter-war period, the Occupation, the post-Liberation era, and the New Wave, up to the current...
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    193,47 €


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