Catálogo de libros: Teoría y crítica cinematográficas

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  • The Last Bohemian
    Lance Pettitt
    The Last Bohemian offers the first extended, critical evaluation of all of Brian Desmond Hurst’s films, reappraising the reputation of a director who was born in 1895 in Belfast and died in Belgravia, London, in 1986. Pettitt skillfully weaves together film analyses, biography, and cultural history with the aim of bringing greater attention to Hurst’s qualities as a director an...
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    114,05 €

  • David Hemmings On Screen
    chris wade
    Chris Wade explores the career of actor and director David Hemmings, one of the most unfairly overlooked figures to emerge during the British cinema boom of the 1960s. Primarily known for his lead role in Michelangelo Antonioni’s iconic masterpiece Blow Up (1966), Hemmings appeared in dozens of films and TV shows. He also worked prolifically as a director for both the cinema an...
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    17,92 €

  • Who Nuked the Duke?
    John William Law
    It’s an epic tale that spans more than 30 years. As the Cold War took hold at that dawn of the 1950s the U.S. government began a program to perfect the atom bomb. The Nevada Test Site would be the prime location for testing atomic weapons on U.S. soil. A key to the program was to reduce impact to the public by having the radioactive nuclear fallout drift 'downwind' into sp...
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    15,53 €

  • 'Singing a Different Tune'
    Helena Goscilo
    The first monograph devoted to the popular genre of the Slavic film musical, this volume offers analyses of some of the most widely-attended Polish and Russian films within a cultural and sociopolitical context. ...
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    202,77 €

  • Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.
    Sam Wasson
    'So smart and entertaining it should come with its own popcorn'--PeopleCoinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the film version of Truman Capote’s Breakast at Tiffany’s, the acclaimed, New York Times bestseller that is the definitive account of Audrey Hepburn and the making of the cultural landmark film--now updated with a new introduction by the author.In Fifth Avenue, 5 ...
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    15,48 €

  • Show Town
    Holly George
    Like many western boomtowns at the turn of the twentieth century, Spokane, Washington, enjoyed a lively theatrical scene, ranging from plays, concerts, and operas to salacious variety and vaudeville shows. Yet even as Spokanites took pride in their city’s reputation as a 'good show town,' the more genteel among them worried about its 'Wild West' atmosphere. In Show Town, histor...
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    35,34 €

  • THE ECSTATIC CINEMA OF TONY CHING SIU-TUNG
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    THE ECSTATIC CINEMA OF TONY CHING SIU-TUNGBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonTony Ching Siu-tung (b. 1953) started out as an actor and stuntman, working in movies in the late 1960s and 1970s; he moved into television as martial arts co-ordinator, in the late 1970s and thru the 1980s (where on several historical TV series); he moved up to directing movies with 1983’s Duel To the Death. This...
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    69,83 €

  • Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema
    Illuminates the complex factors that have helped or hindered creative work by and about women in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry. ...
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    41,92 €

  • The Center Seat - 55 Years of Trek
    Peter Holmstrom
    55 years after its debut, Star Trek is one of the biggest international franchises the world has ever seen! 12 television series and 13 motion pictures (and counting), there is no end in sight for those who seek to go where no man has gone before. The Nacelle Company documentary series, The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek, chronicles the production and cultural impact of thi...
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    31,35 €

  • Chronology of Classic Horror Films
    Donald C. Willis
    Author Donald Willis continues his insights into horror film history with his new tome on the 1940s. Yes, we had vampires and the Frankenstein Monster, mummies, a new villain-the Wolf Man, dark moody Val Lewton films and a slew of comic monster rallies.If the 1930s was Universal and monsters, the 1940s was RKO and mood-states of mind. The Palladists in The Seventh Victim, Kyra ...
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    24,91 €

  • Alexander Bakshy on Film, 1913-1935
    Alexander Bakshy / R. J. Cardullo
    Alexander Bakshy (1885-1949) was the first movie critic for the Nation (1927-33) as well as one of America’s first full-time professional film critics. He was known during his lifetime for his prescience as he stood up for the future of sound cinema in 1929. Bakshy was thus one of the more progressive cultural critics of the years between the world wars, one who did his part in...
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    30,73 €

  • Hollywood vs. America
    Michael Medved
    Why does our popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values that most Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride patriotism? In this explosive book, one of the nation’s best known film critics examines how Hollywood has broken faith with its public, creating movies, television, and po...
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    15,85 €

  • Can Your Heart Stand the Shocking Facts? by Dr. Brentwood Masterling, M.F.A., D.V.M., Ph. D.
    Daniel M. Kimmel
    (a parody by Daniel M. Kimmel)Daniel M. Kimmel has made us think about film as the veteran critic who wrote the Hugo finalist Jar Jar Binks Must Die... and other observations about science fiction movies. He’s made us laugh as the author of Shh! It’s a Secret: a novel about aliens, Hollywood, and the Bartender’s Guide, Time on My Hands: My Misadventures in Time Travel, and Fath...
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    16,56 €

  • Nietzsche in Hollywood
    Matthew Rukgaber
    Argues that Nietzsche’s idea of the Übermensch was a central concern of filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s. ...
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    41,90 €

  • Orienting Italy
    Mary Ann McDonald Carolan
    Explores Italian filmmakers’ representations of China and the Chinese, both at home and abroad. ...
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    42,28 €

  • French B Movies
    David A Pettersen
    In the impoverished outskirts of French cities, known as the banlieues, minority communities are turning to American culture, history, and theory to make their own voices, cultures, and histories visible. Filmmakers have followed suit, turning to Hollywood genre conventions to challenge notions of identity, belonging, and marginalization in mainstream French film.French B Movie...
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    136,00 €

  • French B Movies
    David A Pettersen
    In the impoverished outskirts of French cities, known as the banlieues, minority communities are turning to American culture, history, and theory to make their own voices, cultures, and histories visible. Filmmakers have followed suit, turning to Hollywood genre conventions to challenge notions of identity, belonging, and marginalization in mainstream French film.French B Movie...
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    64,34 €

  • American Slavery on Film
    Caron Knauer
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    89,02 €

  • I Was a Twentysomething CineMama
    Genevieve Radosti
    On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, author Genevieve Radosti invites readers to explore and enjoy this collection of exclusive film writing from 'your local CineMama.'With a contagious passion for movies and film history, Radosti reflects on her twentysomethings and the first two years of parenthood. Regardless of age or parental status, readers will engage with...reviews of ...
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    10,05 €

  • Beckett’s afterlives
    Beckett’s afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to posthumous adaptations of Beckett’s oeuvre. This collection analyses the remarkable diversity of creative engagements across different media and cultural contexts that have ensured the survival and continuing relevance of Beckett’s work in a constantly changing world. ...
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    169,50 €

  • Dreams and atrocity
    This volume examines the relationship between oneiric and historical episodes of atrocity in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, film, literature and theatre. Examining the political and aesthetic power harnessed by dreams in dark times, it takes as its subject the significance granted to the oneiric beyond Freudian psychoanalysis. ...
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    169,48 €

  • Ana M. López
    Ana M López
    Brings together Ana M. López’s field-defining essays on Latin American film and media in one indispensable volume. ...
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    120,44 €

  • A Silence from Hitchcock
    Murray Pomerance
    Extensive meditations on silence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock. ...
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    121,28 €

  • Distancing Representations in Transgender Film
    Lucy J. Miller
    Argues that transgender representations in film make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and for transgender people to fully participate in public life. ...
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    121,78 €

  • Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives
    Jason Jacobs
    Explores the figure of the detective as a pursuer of knowledge in four noir films. ...
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    121,74 €

  • Life Above the Clouds
    Steven DeLay
    The definitive philosophical exploration of the work of pioneering filmmaker Terrence Malick. ...
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    121,08 €

  • Animated Film and Disability
    Slava Greenberg
    While many live-action films portray disability as a spectacle, crip animation (a genre of animated films that celebrates disabled people’s lived experiences) uses a variety of techniques like clay animation, puppets, pixilation, and computer-generated animation to represent the inner worlds of people with disabilities. Crip animation has the potential to challenge the ableist ...
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    92,71 €

  • Animated Film and Disability
    Slava Greenberg
    While many live-action films portray disability as a spectacle, crip animation (a genre of animated films that celebrates disabled people’s lived experiences) uses a variety of techniques like clay animation, puppets, pixilation, and computer-generated animation to represent the inner worlds of people with disabilities. Crip animation has the potential to challenge the ableist ...
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    40,03 €

  • Fashioning Italian youth
    Cecilia Brioni
    Fashioning Italian youth examines representations of Italian young people’s style trends and bodily practices in teen magazines, Musicarelli films and TV programmes. It explores changes in the media construction of young people’s generational, national and gender identity, and contextualises them in the history of 1960-1970s Italian society. ...
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    145,06 €

  • Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image
    This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notions of modernity in the production and reception of the African moving image and of African archival practices. Ideas are presented from multiple historical and contemporary perspectives, while inviting new voices to participate in dis...
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    49,57 €


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