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  • 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 €

  • 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 €


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