Catálogo de libros: Teoría y crítica cinematográficas

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  • The Legacy of World War II in European Arthouse Cinema
    Samm Deighan
    World War II irrevocably shaped culture--and much of cinema--in the 20th century, thanks to its devastating, global impact that changed the way we think about and portray war. This book focuses on European war films made about the war between 1945 and 1985 in countries that were occupied or invaded by the Nazis, such as Poland, France, Italy, the Soviet Union, and Germany it...
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    65,98 €

  • The Truth at Twenty-Four Frames per Second
    Anthony Slide
    Collected together here are Anthony Slide’s writings on film and television history from the 1960s through the present. Subjects and individuals discussed are varied, including Lillian Gish, Val Guest, Vivienne Segal, Wendy Richard, Elisabeth Welch, Lawrence Welk, and Betty White. All illustrate the author’s scholarship, dedication to the serious study of the history of popular...
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    26,74 €

  • Adapting Superman
    John Darowski
    Almost immediately after his first appearance in comic books in June 1938, Superman began to be adapted to other media. The subsequent decades have brought even more adaptations of the Man of Steel, his friends, family, and enemies in film, television, comic strip, radio, novels, video games, and even a musical. The rapid adaptation of the Man of Steel occurred before the ch...
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    58,76 €

  • The Phenomenology of Religious Belief
    Michael J. Shapiro
    In The Phenomenology of Religious Belief, the renowned philosopher Michael J. Shapiro investigates how art - and in particular literature and film - can impact upon both traditional interpretations and critical studies of religious beliefs and experiences. In doing so, he examines the work of prolific and award-winning writers such as Toni Morrison, Philip K. Dick and Robert C...
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    154,42 €

  • Charles Crichton
    Quentin Falk
    Charles Crichton, director of A Fish Called Wanda and several much-loved Ealing comedies, had one of the most remarkable careers in British film history. Featuring interviews with colleagues such as Dame Judi Dench, Petula Clark, John Cleese and Sir Michael Palin, this book provides the first comprehensive study of his work. ...
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    157,20 €

  • Was It Yesterday?
    Matthew Leggatt
    Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television. ...
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    121,60 €

  • 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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    121,27 €

  • Arctic Cinemas
    Kylo-Patrick R Hart
    Arctic cinemas represent a noteworthy new subfield of film studies, and in the current era of unprecedented global warming, interest in the Arctic region and its cinematic portrayals has never been greater. Individually and collectively, films pertaining to Arctic inhabitants and experiences have substantially influenced viewer perceptions of the region throughout the world,...
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    64,98 €

  • War, Revolution and Remembrance in World Cinema
    Nancy J Membrez
    Two World Wars engulfed Europe, Asia and the United States, leaving indelible scars on the landscape and survivors. The trauma of civil wars in Spain (declared) and Latin America (tacit) spanned decades yet, contradictorily, bind parties together even today. Civil wars still haunt Africa where, in more recent years, ethnic cleansing has led to wholesale genocide. Drawing on ...
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    95,59 €

  • Projections of Passing
    N Megan Kelley
    A key concern in postwar America was 'who’s passing for whom?' Analyzing representations of passing in Hollywood films reveals changing cultural ideas about authenticity and identity in a country reeling from a hot war and moving towards a cold one. After World War II, passing became an important theme in Hollywood movies, one that lasted throughout the long 1950s, as it became...
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    49,98 €

  • Beulah Bondi
    Axel Nissen
    Best known for her roles in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Make Way for Tomorrow, Beulah Bondi (1889-1981) had a 60-year long acting career and an interesting on-screen life. Despite starting her professional acting career at 30, she made her mark on the film industry as a character actress. Before making a name for herself on-screen, she worked at ...
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    73,24 €

  • Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld
    Warren Buckland
    Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworldpresents a theoretical investigation of whatmakes the films of Wes Anderson distinctive. Chapter by chapter, it relentlessly pulls apart each of Anderson’s narratives to pursue the proposition that they all share the same deep underlying symbolic values - a common symbolic storyworld. Taking the polemical strategy of outlining and employing Cla...
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    52,50 €

  • Rape-Revenge Films
    Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
    Often considered the lowest depth to which cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film is broadly dismissed as fundamentally exploitative and sensational, catering only to a demented, regressive demographic. This second edition, ten years after the first, continues the assessment of these films and the discourse they provoke. Included is a new chapter about women-directed rape...
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    65,87 €

  • Clark Gable in the 1930s
    James L Neibaur / James L. Neibaur
    The 1930s represented the strongest and most significant decade in Clark Gable’s career. Later known as The King of Hollywood, Gable started out as a journeyman actor who quickly rose to the level of star, and then icon. With his ruggedly attractive looks and effortless charisma, Gable was the sort of manly romantic lead that bolstered features alongside the likes of Jean Ha...
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    58,48 €

  • Black to Nature
    Stefanie K Dunning
    In Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture, author Stefanie K. Dunning considers both popular and literary texts that range from Beyoncé’s Lemonade to Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones. These key works restage Black women in relation to nature. Dunning argues that depictions of protagonists who return to pastoral settings contest the violent and racist histo...
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    43,04 €

  • Black to Nature
    Stefanie K Dunning
    In Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture, author Stefanie K. Dunning considers both popular and literary texts that range from Beyoncé’s Lemonade to Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones. These key works restage Black women in relation to nature. Dunning argues that depictions of protagonists who return to pastoral settings contest the violent and racist histo...
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    158,50 €

  • 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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    20,88 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €


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