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  • Said No One Ever
    Gregory Crosby
    Gregory Crosby is our go-to poet for cinematic deep-dives, apocalyptic parables, hot takes on literary dustups, and lusty interludes of backlit longing. Said No One Ever collects a decades’ worth of breakneck verbal switchbacks and charged poetic insight-there is almost no subject pertinent to American culture that Crosby doesn’t square up. Here we are in the 21st Century, our ...
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    16,23 €

  • 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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    127,08 €

  • Mind Reeling
    Homer B. Pettey
    Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema. ...
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    126,98 €

  • China and the Chinese in Popular Film
    Jeffrey Richards
    There’s a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the ’mysterious East’ to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved. Hollywood films played their part in perpetuating these myths and stereotypes that constituted ’The Yellow Peril’. Jeffrey Richards examines in detail how and why they did ...
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    54,95 €

  • The Voyages of Star Trek
    A. S. Carlisle / ASCarlisle / K.M. Heath / K.MHeath
    This volume looks at how each Star Trek series reflected the cultural landscape of its time—from the original series that ran from 1966-1969 to the most recent iteration—and how it became a worldwide phenomenon, not only generating numerous spin-offs and multiple features but inspiring countless other pop culture shows, films, books, etc. ...
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    46,05 €

  • Star Wars
    Josef Benson
    Star Wars: The Triumph of Nerd Culture engagingly reveals how the most popular film franchise of all time sprang from the mind of a deeply insecure nerd, who then inspired and betrayed a generation of fans. ...
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    46,33 €

  • Shadow Cinema
    Filmmakers and cinema industries across the globe invest more time, money and creative energy in projects and ideas that never get produced than in the movies that actually make it to the screens. Thousands of projects are abandoned in pre-production, halted, cut short, or even made and never distributed - a 'shadow cinema' that exists only in the archives. This collection of e...
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    173,74 €

  • Walls Without Cinema
    Larrie Dudenhoeffer
    This volume closely examines the near-ubiquitous images of state security walls, domes, and other such defense enclosures flashing across movie screens since 2006, the year of the ratification of George W. Bush’s Secure Fence Act. This study shows that many of the films of this era enable us to imaginatively test the effects of these security mechanisms on citizens, immigrants,...
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    173,89 €

  • Law Enforcement in American Cinema, 1894-1952
    George Beck
    Widespread law enforcement or formal policing outside of cities appeared in the early 20th century around the same time the early film industry was developing--the two evolved in tandem, intersecting in meaningful ways. Much scholarship has focused on portrayals of the criminal in early American cinema, yet little has been written about depictions of the criminal’s antagonis...
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    57,67 €

  • Cold War II
    Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
    Contributions by Thomas J. Cobb, Donna A. Gessell, Helena Goscilo, Cyndy Hendershot, Christian Jimenez, David LaRocca, Lori Maguire, Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad, Ian Scott, Vesta Silva, Lucian Tion, Dan Ward, and Jon Wiebel In recent years, Hollywood cinema has forwarded a growing number of images of the Cold War and entertained a return to memories of conflicts between the USSR ...
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    158,25 €

  • Cold War II
    Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
    Contributions by Thomas J. Cobb, Donna A. Gessell, Helena Goscilo, Cyndy Hendershot, Christian Jimenez, David LaRocca, Lori Maguire, Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad, Ian Scott, Vesta Silva, Lucian Tion, Dan Ward, and Jon Wiebel In recent years, Hollywood cinema has forwarded a growing number of images of the Cold War and entertained a return to memories of conflicts between the USSR ...
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    50,09 €

  • World War II on Film
    David Luhrssen
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    89,06 €

  • 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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    127,30 €

  • Godard and Sound
    Albertine Fox
    What happens when we listen to a film? How can we describe the relationship of sound to vision in cinema, and in turn our relationship as spectators with the audio-visual? Jean-Luc Godard understood the importance of the soundtrack in cinema and relied heavily on the impact of carefully constructed sound to produce innovative effects. For the first time, this book brings togeth...
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    54,80 €

  • Charlotte Gainsbourg
    Felicity Chaplin
    Actress, singer, indie icon and fashion muse, Charlotte Gainsbourg has left her mark on the cultural landscape through her daring artistic choices and creative collaborations. This book traces the development of her star persona while simultaneously interrogating transmedia and transnational stardom. ...
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    157,20 €

  • A Van Beuren Production
    Hal Erickson
    Prolific American film producer Amedee J. Van Beuren (1879-1938) did not start out in the film industry. After a decade spent in business and advertising, Van Beuren turned his intellect and creativity towards acquiring a foothold in film and began building his empire. He is best known to animation fans for his bizarre cartoons of the 1920s and 1930s, featuring such zanies a...
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    58,64 €

  • The Film Cheat
    Murray Pomerance
    Murray Pomerance, venerated film scholar, is the first to take on the ’cheat’ in film, where ’cheating’ constitutes a collection of production, performance, and structuring maneuvers intended to foster the impression of a screen reality that does not exist as presented. This usually calls for a suspension of disbelief in the viewer, but that rests on the assumption that disbeli...
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    173,28 €

  • Rhetoric, Inc.
    Timothy Johnson
    Examines motion pictures produced or sponsored by Ford Motor Company from a rhetorical perspective, demonstrating how the films reveal a long-term rhetorical project that has helped embed corporations into many of the social systems guiding societies today.  ...
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    136,35 €

  • Tracks From the Crypt
    John Mowitt / Rebecca Boguska / Vinzenz Hediger
    David Bowie’s 2015 Blackstar has been understood by critics and fans alike to have a certain valedictory status. For them, perhaps for us, it is a 39-minute and 13-second farewell. A long goodbye. My angle is different. By situating the Bowie/Renck collaboration on 'Lazarus' in the context of a meditation on the question once posed by Georg Stanitzek, 'Was ist Kommunikation?' I...
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    48,00 €

  • Tracks From the Crypt
    John Mowitt / Rebecca Boguska / Vinzenz Hediger
    David Bowie’s 2015 Blackstar has been understood by critics and fans alike to have a certain valedictory status. For them, perhaps for us, it is a 39-minute and 13-second farewell. A long goodbye. My angle is different. By situating the Bowie/Renck collaboration on 'Lazarus' in the context of a meditation on the question once posed by Georg Stanitzek, 'Was ist Kommunikation?' I...
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    33,63 €

  • Dad Made Dirty Movies
    Joe Blevins / Jordan Todorov
    Strippers, zombies, fugitives and jewel thieves. These were just some of the characters who inhabited the weird, wild films of director Stephen C. Apostolof in the 1960s and 1970s. But Apostolof’s own life was every bit as improbable as the plots of his lurid movies. Escaping the clutches of the communists in his native Bulgaria, he came to America in 1952 and decided on a w...
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    58,90 €

  • She Damn Near Ran the Studio
    Jacqueline R Braitman
    Best known as the woman who 'ran MGM,' Ida R. Koverman (1876-1954) served as talent scout, mentor, executive secretary, and confidant to American movie mogul Louis B. Mayer for twenty-five years. She Damn Near Ran the Studio: The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman is the first full account of Koverman’s life and the true story of how she became a formidable politico and a c...
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    25,50 €

  • See! Hear! Cut! Kill!
    Wickham Clayton
    Sean S. Cunningham and Victor Miller's Friday the 13th franchise is one of the most successful horror film franchises in history. To date, it includes twelve movies, a television show, comic books, and video games, among other media. In SEE! HEAR! CUT! KILL! Experiencing "Friday the 13th," Wickham Clayton explores several aspects of the films including how the technical asp...
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    50,20 €

  • See! Hear! Cut! Kill!
    Wickham Clayton
    Sean S. Cunningham and Victor Miller's Friday the 13th franchise is one of the most successful horror film franchises in history. To date, it includes twelve movies, a television show, comic books, and video games, among other media. In SEE! HEAR! CUT! KILL! Experiencing "Friday the 13th," Wickham Clayton explores several aspects of the films including how the technical asp...
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    158,36 €

  • Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy
    Anastasia Salter / Mel Stanfill
    Increasingly over the past decade, fan credentials on the part of writers, directors, and producers have come to be seen as a guarantee of quality media making--the "fanboy auteur." Figures like Joss Whedon are both one of "us" and one of "them." This is a strategy of marketing and branding--it is a claim from the auteur himself or industry PR machines that the presence of an a...
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    158,37 €

  • Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy
    Anastasia Salter / Mel Stanfill
    Increasingly over the past decade, fan credentials on the part of writers, directors, and producers have come to be seen as a guarantee of quality media making--the "fanboy auteur." Figures like Joss Whedon are both one of "us" and one of "them." This is a strategy of marketing and branding--it is a claim from the auteur himself or industry PR machines that the presence of an a...
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    50,21 €

  • Capitán Latinoamérica
    Vinodh Venkatesh
    Analyzes contemporary superhero-themed cinema, television, and web series in Latin America. ...
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    126,91 €

  • Videographic Cinema
    Jonathan Rozenkrantz
    In 1957, A Face in the Crowdincorporated live video images to warn about the future of broadcast TV. In 2015, Kung Fury was infused with analogue noise to evoke the nostalgic feeling of watching an old VHS tape. Between the two films, numerous ones would incorporate video images to imagine the implications of video practices. Drawing on media archaeology, Videographic Cinema sh...
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    174,00 €

  • Thinking Cinema with Proust
    Patrick ffrench
    How can Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu prompt us to re-imagine the cinema? Although no-one goes to the cinema in the novel, and its narrator is critical of a ‘merely’ cinematographic account of reality, the proposition of Thinking Cinema with Proust is that the Recherche can provide a powerful catalyst for re-thinking the cinema, and that the ’structural absence’ of cin...
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    17,46 €

  • Erotic Literature in Adaptation and Translation
    Transgressive by nature, erotic literature engages the reader in a dialogue informed by the social and aesthetic conventions that it playfully disregards or happily reproduces. But once this intimate, arousing and, often, disturbing dialogue transitions into another language, culture or medium, it must reposition itself within new conventions. How does this happen in practice?E...
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    17,46 €


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