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  • 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 €

  • Personajes Femeninos en el Cine Africano Contemporáneo
    Francisco Javier Rodríguez Barranco
    Los ensayos sociopolíticos por sí mismos, con sus porcentajes y diagramas de todo tipo, pueden resultar herméticos para un público no especialista. Los índices filmográficos por sí mismos, con los títulos, directoras(es), fechas de rodaje, etcétera, pueden ser tediosos, sobre todo cuando el lector no ha sido espectador de las películas enumeradas. Sin embargo, cuando unimos amb...
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    20,80 €

  • 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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    138,20 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • THIRAIGNANUM URAIGNANUM NAANAE / திரைஞனும் உரைஞனும் நானே
    Shobasakthi
    This book encloses articles on cinema criticism. The author has written the criticism in his style. He is a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee and a former LTTE child-soldier. He has published two novels, a collection of short stories, three plays and many essays. ...
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    13,16 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    50,15 €

  • Flash Flaherty
    Scott MacDonald
    Flash Flaherty, the much-anticipated follow-up volume to The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema, offers a people’s history of the world-renowned Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, an annual event where participants confront and reimagine the creative process surrounding multiple document/documentary forms and modes of the moving image.This collection, which includ...
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    67,22 €

  • Experts in Action
    Lauren Steimer
    Action movie stars ranging from Jackie Chan to lesser-known stunt women and men like Zoë Bell and Chad Stahelski stun their audiences with virtuosic martial arts displays, physical prowess, and complex fight sequences. Their performance styles originate from action movies that emerged in the industrial environment of 1980s Hong Kong. In Experts in Action Lauren Steimer examines...
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    132,09 €

  • Experts in Action
    Lauren Steimer
    Action movie stars ranging from Jackie Chan to lesser-known stunt women and men like Zoë Bell and Chad Stahelski stun their audiences with virtuosic martial arts displays, physical prowess, and complex fight sequences. Their performance styles originate from action movies that emerged in the industrial environment of 1980s Hong Kong. In Experts in Action Lauren Steimer examines...
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    34,15 €

  • Anita Page
    Allan R Ellenberger / Allan R. Ellenberger / Robert Murdoch Paton
    Anita Page (1910-2008) first captured attention near the end of the silent film era in such classics as While the City Sleeps (1928) with Lon Chaney, The Flying Fleet (1929) with Ramon Novarro, and her own favorite, Our Dancing Daughters (1928) with Joan Crawford. In a relatively short career, Page enjoyed critical acclaim. She appeared in the first full-sound movie to win B...
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    57,46 €

  • Clothes Make the Character
    Lora Ann Sigler
    'Clothes make the man' (or woman). This is especially true in early Hollywood silent films where a character’s appearance could show an immense number of different things about them. For example, Theda Bara’s role in A Fool There Was (1915) was known for her revealing clothing, seductive appearance, and being the first 'Vamp.' Wardrobe and costume design played a larger r...
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    80,50 €

  • The Body Onscreen in the Digital Age
    Susan Flynn
    This collection examines the peculiarly modern phenomenon of voyeurism as it is experienced through the digital screen. Violence, voyeurism, and power populate film more than ever, and the centrality of the terrified body to many digital narratives suggests new forms of terror and angst, where bodies are subjected to an endless knowing look. The particular perils of the digi...
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    79,55 €

  • Petrocinema
    Petrocinemapresents a collection of essays concerning the close relationship between the oil industry and modern media-especially film. Since the early 1920s, oil extracting companies such as Standard Oil, Royal Dutch/Shell, ConocoPhillips, or Statoil have been producing and circulating moving images for various purposes including research and training, safety, process observat...
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    173,77 €

  • 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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    160,86 €

  • Our Fears Made Manifest
    Ashley Jae Carranza
    The beginning of the 21st century was a time of unprecedented events in American society: Y2K, 9/11 and the wars that followed, partisan changes in government and the rapid advancements of the Internet and mass consumerism. In the two decades since, popular culture--particularly film--has manifested the underlying anxieties of the American psyche. This collection of new essa...
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    71,78 €


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