Catálogo de libros: Teoría y crítica cinematográficas

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  • Screening Charles Dickens
    William Farina
    Among professional storytellers whose works have been adapted for cinematic dramatization, mid-19th century English novelist Charles Dickens stands in a class of his own. In addition to his most well-known works such as A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist, which are unrivaled for their sheer number of film adaptations, each of Dickens’ other major works have been adapted for ...
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    57,40 €

  • Walter Hill
    Wayne Byrne
    This is a comprehensive journey through the long career of auteur Hollywood filmmaker Walter Hill, director of The Driver, The Warriors, Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs., Streets of Fire and many more. The book covers every motion picture that Hill directed, with historical detail and critical commentary on each, and discusses Hill’s overall cultural relevance and industrial impact...
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    58,53 €

  • Stunning Backdrop
    Mary Graham
    Alberta’s magnificent landscape has served as a popular location for filmmakers since the dawn of the movie industry. For film pioneers, Alberta embodied the myth of the Great Northwest, a primeval mountain wilderness and the last western frontier. In turn, Canadian entrepreneurs were eager for American studios to drape Alberta landscape across the backdrop of their movies, an ...
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    147,35 €

  • The White Indians of Mexican Cinema
    Mónica García Blizzard
    Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico. ...
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    42,87 €

  • Writ on Water
    Charles Warren
    A powerful and original statement on the nature of film and the intimate relation of 'film imagination' to our lives as human beings in the world. ...
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    41,77 €

  • Screening #MeToo
    Considers how Hollywood films since the 1960s have both reflected and shaped attitudes toward rape and sexual violence. ...
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    41,98 €

  • 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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    121,64 €

  • The Films of Judy Garland
    James L. Neibaur
    Judy Garland was an entertainment icon whose performances on stage, screen and television had a tremendous impact across decades and media. This film-by-film study of her work follows her progression from pig-tailed child to a top motion picture star, with such timeless classics as The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St Louis, and A Star is Born. Garland’s talent and versatility...
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    57,56 €

  • Experiencing Cinema
    Emma Pett
    Film is often conceived as a medium that is watched rather than experienced. Existing studies of film audiences, and of media reception more broadly, have revealed the complexity of viewing practices and cultures surrounding cinema-going and its exhibition spaces. Experiencing Cinema offers the first in-depth study of participant engagement with a range of experiential media fo...
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    51,10 €

  • Bill Douglas
    This book uses new source material to reappraise the work of Bill Douglas - one of Britain’s most significant and singular filmmakers. Douglas’s poetic and moving films continue to inspire filmmakers today but his struggles within the film industry raise questions as to whether it is possible to be an artist working within a commercial medium. ...
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    116,94 €

  • Missing the Action (hardback)
    David C. Hayes
    Collected from across the nation, over twenty writers, film critics, academics, artists, filmmakers and editors tackle the complete film oeuvre of action star Chuck Norris. The swift kicks to the head, from Bruce Lee all the way to the Texas Rangers, knocked some sense into American action fans for almost fifty years. Beloved, hated, feared, misunderstood, ignored, Chuck Norr...
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    34,85 €

  • Missing the Action
    David C. Hayes
    Collected from across the nation, over twenty writers, film critics, academics, artists, filmmakers and editors tackle the complete film oeuvre of action star Chuck Norris. The swift kicks to the head, from Bruce Lee all the way to the Texas Rangers, knocked some sense into American action fans for almost fifty years. Beloved, hated, feared, misunderstood, ignored, Chuck Norr...
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    24,67 €

  • Gene Tierney
    Will Scheibel
    Gene Tierney may be one of the most recognizable faces of studio-era Hollywood: she starred in numerous classics, including Leave Her to Heaven, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and Laura, with the latter featuring her most iconic role. While Tierney was considered one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, she personified 'ordinariness' both on- and off-screen. Tierney portrayed ro...
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    136,09 €

  • Shots to the Heart
    Steven Rybin
    This book continues the author’s project, begun in the 2017 monograph Gestures of Love, of exploring the place of film actors in an emotional and thoughtful reception of movies. Shots to the Heart aims to provide both concrete critical engagements with moments of performance as well as philosophical explorations of and reflections on the implications of a love for performance i...
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    35,69 €

  • The Hard Sell of Paradise
    Jason Sperb
    Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai’i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s. ...
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    42,70 €

  • Cinema of Stephanie Rothman
    Alicia Kozma
    The rare woman director working in second-wave exploitation, Stephanie Rothman (b. 1936) directed seven successful feature films, served as the vice president of an independent film company, and was the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America’s student filmmaking prize. Despite these career accomplishments, Rothman retired into relative obscurity. In The Cinema of Ste...
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    42,71 €

  • 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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    121,61 €

  • Orienting Italy
    Mary Ann McDonald Carolan
    Explores Italian filmmakers’ representations of China and the Chinese, both at home and abroad. ...
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    121,99 €

  • The Great Depression on Film
    David Luhrssen
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    89,07 €

  • Picturegoers
    Luke McKernan
    This book shows the impact of cinema on individuals across the globe, from the 1890s to the present day. It analyses and celebrates the audience’s point of view, shaped by time, experience and place, providing a rich, entertaining portrait of a medium that became so transformative because anyone, rich or poor, educated or not, could share in it. ...
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    113,28 €

  • Are We Living in a Disaster Movie?
    Brian A. Shaer
    Some periods of history contain so many compounded disasters they seem to be inspired by disaster movies. In the early 2020s, the Covid-19 pandemic upended the world and thrust populations into a state of uncertainty and fear--as seen in movies like Outbreak, The Towering Inferno or Armageddon. Birthed from the author’s original research on disaster movies, this book argue...
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    42,81 €

  • Robert Guédiguian
    Joseph Mai
    Considers Guédiguian’s career, both as a filmmaker and producer, as a valid response to a crisis in post-Communist Leftist political movements in France ...
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    36,09 €

  • Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index
    Allen H Redmon
    Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index offers a reassessment of the cinematic index as it sits at the intersection of film studies, trauma studies, and adaptation studies. Author Allen H. Redmon argues that far too often scholars imagine the cinematic index to be nothing more than an acknowledgment that the lens-based camera captures and brings to the screen a reality t...
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    42,98 €

  • Germaine Dulac
    Maryann De Julio
    This book examines the career of Germaine Dulac, a pioneering French filmmaker and feminist whose perspective, innovations and ardent promotion of cinema are documented in her theoretical writings. ...
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    145,10 €

  • The Coming Death
    Richard F. Calichman
    Explores questions of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema. ...
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    42,35 €

  • The Yin and Yang of Short Film Storytelling
    Richard Raskin
    In the first book to study the short film using the yin yang complementarity, Raskin proposes a new paradigm-describing major forms of yin and yang, redefined as ungendered, freed of patriarchal bias. Yin evokes such properties as holding back and an openness to interpretation while yang promotes structure, causality, and control. Ten exemplary short films show how the model il...
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    37,24 €

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.comWalt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937) occupies a central place within the history of global animation. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the film was the first feature-length animated film produced by ...
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    50,66 €

  • Crank it up
    Jason Statham is Britain’s most important post-millennial male film star. This book examines his work throughout a career encompassing film, television, music videos, multi-media platforms and video gaming. ...
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    35,59 €

  • Smile, You Sonuvabitch! A Brit’s Take on Catfights, Serial Killers and Other Fun Movie Stuff
    Dave Franklin
    From Peckinpah and Schwarzenegger to Ulzana’s Raid and Switchblade Sisters, Dave Franklin takes a politically incorrect look at the glories of twentieth century cinema.In this second volume of his Baby Ice Dog Movie Guide, he offers eight Fucked-Up Films, a bit of tit trauma, ten of the best Starring Debuts, some macho idiots, a tribute to Michael Douglas’ prime, and a quick ex...
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    17,00 €

  • Ruth Roman
    Derek Sculthorpe
    With her striking looks, the raven-haired, dark eyed Ruth Roman had an air of sophistication that made her seem sexy yet wholesome. She had to strive harder than most to establish herself as a leading actress in Hollywood during its glory years and finally broke through in 1949 with her role in Champion. As one of the last Warner Bros. contract players, she appeared in Alfre...
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    57,48 €


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