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  • 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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    42,88 €

  • 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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    42,01 €

  • 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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    42,88 €

  • 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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    41,87 €

  • Was It Yesterday?
    Matthew Leggatt
    Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television. ...
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    41,90 €

  • The History of American Literature on Film
    Thomas Leitch
    From William Dickson’s Rip Van Winkle films (1896) to Baz Luhrmann’s big-budget production of The Great Gatsby (2013) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of American literature participate in a rich and fascinating history. Unlike previous studies of American literature and film, which emphasize particular authors like Edith Wharton and Nathaniel Hawthorne, particular texts like ...
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    50,03 €

  • Stories from the Fireplace
    Tekletsadik Belachew
    This book is an interdisciplinary theological exploration of Haile Gerima’s cinema, an Ethiopian filmmaker and storyteller who successfully translated African folkloric orality and wove other indigenous art forms into the language of cinema. Gerima’s five decades legacy of Pan-African cinema embodies ’symbolic resistance’ against Afro-pessimistic and stereotypical mis/disrepres...
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    59,35 €

  • Let’s Go Stag!
    Dan Erdman
    For much of the 20th century, the underground pornography industry - made up of amateurs and hobbyists who created hardcore, explicit 'stag films' - went about its business hounded by reformers and law enforcement, from local police departments all the way up to the FBI. Rumors of this illicit activity circulated and became the stuff of urban myth, but this period of pornograph...
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    154,37 €

  • Mexico Unmanned
    Samanta Ordóñez
    Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema. ...
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    121,82 €

  • Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen
    Susan Delson
    In the 1940s, folks at bars and restaurants would gather around a Panoram movie machine to watch three-minute films called Soundies, precursors to today’s music videos. This history was all but forgotten until the digital era brought Soundies to phones and computer screens--including a YouTube clip starring a 102-year-old Harlem dancer watching her younger self perform in Sound...
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    121,12 €

  • Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen
    Susan Delson
    In the 1940s, folks at bars and restaurants would gather around a Panoram movie machine to watch three-minute films called Soundies, precursors to today’s music videos. This history was all but forgotten until the digital era brought Soundies to phones and computer screens--including a YouTube clip starring a 102-year-old Harlem dancer watching her younger self perform in Sound...
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    38,70 €

  • Profit Margins
    Jeremy Groskopf
    Between the advent of print advertising and the dawn of radio came cinema ads. These ads, aimed at a captive theater audience, became a symbol of the developing binary between upper-class film consumption and more consumerist media.In Profit Margins, Jeremy Groskopf examines how the ad industry jockeyed for direct advertisement space in American motion pictures. In fact, advert...
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    121,40 €

  • Profit Margins
    Jeremy Groskopf
    Between the advent of print advertising and the dawn of radio came cinema ads. These ads, aimed at a captive theater audience, became a symbol of the developing binary between upper-class film consumption and more consumerist media.In Profit Margins, Jeremy Groskopf examines how the ad industry jockeyed for direct advertisement space in American motion pictures. In fact, advert...
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    42,44 €

  • Across Texts
    Keith Reader
    The essays grouped together here reflect a career-long preoccupation with aspects of modern French culture. These range from the canonical (no French or indeed European film-maker is more universally admired than Renoir; few screen actresses have aroused such strong feelings as Arletty), by way of the ascetically philosophical (whereof it would be difficult to find a more strik...
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    138,91 €

  • Luxury, Sensation and the Moving Image
    Alice Blackhurst
    In recent years, the embrace of ’slow;’ sensuous and durational forms of cinema and the moving image registers desires to immerse in phenomenological experiences of artworks as potential antidotes to our information-saturated, techno-capitalist age. Exploring shifts away from ownership, accumulation and possessive acquisition of the object towards more experiential, immaterial ...
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    139,18 €

  • Behind the Kaiju Curtain
    Norman England
    'One of the most entertaining yet informative books you will ever read'ーEd Godziszewski, author of Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to KurosawaNorman England’s gutsy and insightful stories will do more than just entertain. This is the first and only book in English to take you on a deep dive into the Japanese film industry. You will join well-known directors, cast, a...
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    42,08 €

  • Doubling for McQueen and Redford
    James C Udel / James C. Udel
    Since Hollywood’s first motion-picture, stunt players have given blood, sweat, and tears to the business. From high falls and horse gags to fist-fights, fire, water-work and automotive mayhem, this largely unsung group of action-performers has been making movie violence believable and telling stories through exciting sequences without so much as an Oscar category to acknowled...
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    65,93 €

  • Gats, Gams, and Guts
    Pierre V. Comtois / Pierre VComtois
    As early as 1946, French film critic Nino Frank was able to identify a new trend in the American film industry, one that he labeled film noir. Loosely translated, the term described movies that had an overall black or dark nature that described both their cinematographical qualities using light and shadow to create mood and their subject matter that often dealt in criminal acti...
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    26,26 €

  • De-centering queer theory
    Bogdan Popa
    This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies. ...
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    145,05 €

  • Freedom and Entertainment
    Stephen Vaughn
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    113,84 €

  • Childhood in Contemporary Performance of Shakespeare
    Gemma Miller
    Child characters feature more numerously and prominently in the Shakespearean canon than in that of any other early modern playwright. Focusing on stage and film productions from the past four decades, this study addresses how Shakespeare’s child characters are reflected, refracted and reinterpreted in performance. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates clo...
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    51,10 €

  • Films of Fred Schepisi
    Brian McFarlane
    Fred Schepisi is one of the crucial names associated with the revival of the Australian film industry in the 1970s. The Films of Fred Schepisi traces the lead-up to his critical successes in feature filmmaking, via his earlier award-winning success as a producer in advertising commercials in the 1960s and the setting up of his own company. Unlike some directors, he derived from...
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    50,37 €

  • Films of Fred Schepisi
    Brian McFarlane
    Fred Schepisi is one of the crucial names associated with the revival of the Australian film industry in the 1970s. The Films of Fred Schepisi traces the lead-up to his critical successes in feature filmmaking, via his earlier award-winning success as a producer in advertising commercials in the 1960s and the setting up of his own company. Unlike some directors, he derived from...
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    158,53 €

  • Cinema on the Front Line
    Chris Grosvenor
    Cinema on the Front Line offers the first comprehensive history and analysis of how British soldiers engaged with and were engaged by the medium of cinema during World War I. Utilizing extensive archival records and soldier testimony, the book offers a unique perspective on the cultural value and importance of cinema to the army during wartime. ...
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    127,99 €

  • Reframing remembrance
    Lisa Harper Campbell
    Reframing remembrance is an investigation into French cinema’s representation of the Second World War. Focusing on films released between 1995 and 2015, it argues that Jacques Chirac’s 1995 Vél’ d’Hiv speech heralded a generational shift in WWII commemoration in French cinematic storytelling. ...
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    145,41 €

  • Monsters, Makeup & Effects
    Heather Wixson
    Pennywise. Xenomorphs. Freddy Krueger. Beetlejuice. Jason Voorhees. Most movie fans immediately recognize these creatures and characters, but hardly know much about the artists behind these iconic designs. In Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Volume 1, journalist Heather Wixson shines the spotlight on twenty special makeup effects artists, creators and technicians whose work has left...
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    26,73 €

  • Black Panther
    Terence McSweeney
    Black Panther is one of the most financially successful and culturally impactful films to emerge from the American film industry in recent years. When it was released in 2018 it broke numerous records and resonated with audiences all around the world in ways that transcended the dimensions of the superhero film. In Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon author Teren...
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    158,29 €

  • Black Panther
    Terence McSweeney
    Black Panther is one of the most financially successful and culturally impactful films to emerge from the American film industry in recent years. When it was released in 2018 it broke numerous records and resonated with audiences all around the world in ways that transcended the dimensions of the superhero film. In Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon author Teren...
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    20,92 €

  • Sports on Film
    Johnny Boggs
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    88,94 €

  • The 1960s on Film
    Jim Willis / Mark Miller
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    89,14 €


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