Catálogo de libros: Teoría y crítica cinematográficas

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  • Ingmar Bergman
    Erik Hedling
    This book combines new approaches to Bergman’s films and writings with more traditional analyses of widely acclaimed masterpieces like Smiles of a Summer Night and Fanny and Alexander. Most of the contributors are established Bergman specialists, and all of them provide challenging readings of the works of one of the world’s most famous filmmakers. ...
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    42,67 €

  • Silent Vignettes
    Tim Lussier
    Pickford, Lloyd, Keaton, Garbo. You’re familiar with these icons of silent film, of course - and they are here within these pages. But are you familiar with Francelia Billington? No? How about Harold Lockwood, Edna Flugrath, Marion Byron, Virginia Brown Faire? Still, no? Well, fear not. Film historian and author Tim Lussier ('Bare Knees' Flapper: The Life and Films of Virginia ...
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    35,11 €

  • 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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    121,28 €

  • 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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    121,72 €

  • Chantal Akerman
    Chantal Akerman was one of the most significant directors of our times. A radical innovator of cinematic forms, she was at the forefront of feminist and women’s filmmaking. In the 1990s, she developed an important installation practice and began to experiment with self-writing.Focusing on Akerman’s works of the last two decades, a period during which she diversified her creativ...
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    17,62 €

  • Projected Passion
    Frogg Moody / Richard Nash
    Projected Passion tells the story of the cinema in Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, to the end of the twentieth century. From the showing of moving pictures at the annual charter fair, via the old city theatres, the story of cinema pioneer Albany Ward and his civilian and garrison theatres, to the golden years when Salisbury could support three state-of-the-art cinemas (with a fourth ...
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    27,00 €

  • The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema
    Gerry Turvey
    This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through a history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company in the years 1908-1916, when it became one of Britain’s leading film producers. The book provides an account of its films and personalities, and explores its production methods and business practices. ...
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    150,56 €

  • Charles Laughton
    David a Redfern / David A. Redfern
    Oscar-winning actor, translator of Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo, and director of the iconoclastic The Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton’s name alone commanded box office and theatre acclaim. This book is the first to offer an intimate examination of his 54 films produced in Britain and Hollywood from 1928 to 1962. Each has technical credits and cast lists, as well as publici...
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    65,93 €

  • Screening American Nostalgia
    This book examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colors the visions of American life, essays explore contemporary American ideology as it is created and sustained by the screen. Nostalgia is omnipresent, selling a version of America that arguably never existed. Current socio-cultural ch...
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    79,49 €

  • Be Italian
    Jimmy Angelina / Wyatt Doyle
    First there was THE LAST COLORING BOOK, then THE LAST COLORING BOOK ON THE LEFT (not a sequel but an equal); groundbreaking collections that exploded the coloring book form and reconfigured it as a venue for film study and autobiography. Now, Jimmy Angelina and Wyatt Doyle (Italians, both) proudly present BE ITALIAN. Not a coloring book, but an unprecedented visual history expl...
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    21,30 €

  • Be Italian
    Jimmy Angelina / Wyatt Doyle
    First there was THE LAST COLORING BOOK, then THE LAST COLORING BOOK ON THE LEFT (not a sequel but an equal); groundbreaking collections that exploded the coloring book form and reconfigured it as a venue for film study and autobiography. Now, Jimmy Angelina and Wyatt Doyle (Italians, both) proudly present BE ITALIAN. Not a coloring book, but an unprecedented visual history expl...
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    51,88 €

  • 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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    121,71 €

  • 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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    121,58 €

  • Edward Dmytryk
    Fintan McDonagh
    Edward Dmytryk was one of the so-called 'Hollywood Ten' jailed for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. Finding himself blacklisted after his prison sentence and unable to operate under a pseudonym, he took the step of testifying and naming names to the Committee. His career resumed to considerable commerci...
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    66,23 €

  • 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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    17,10 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €