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  • Brute Meaning
    David Trotter
    The essays collected in this volume trace the evolution over a period of thirty years of a critical approach resembling what would now be described as the ‘new materialism’. These essays insist that literature and film are never more vital than in their enactment of the ‘brute meaning’ Maurice Merleau-Ponty once found in the work of Paul Cézanne: the crude sense we make, as cre...
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    132,32 €

  • Russian Americans’ in Soviet Film
    Marina L. Levitina
    Certain aspects of American popular culture had a formative influence on early Soviet identity and aspirations. Traditionally, Soviet Russia and the United States between the 1920s and the 1940s are regarded as polar opposites on nearly every front. Yet American films and translated adventure fiction were warmly received in 1920s Russia and partly shaped ideals of the New Sovie...
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    54,58 €

  • The Jaws Book
    After 45 years, Steven Spielberg’s Jawsremains the definitive summer blockbuster, a cultural phenomenon with a fierce and dedicated fan base. The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster is an exciting illustrated collection of new critical essays that offers the first detailed and comprehensive overview of the film’s significant place in cinema history. Br...
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    193,28 €

  • Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema
    James S. Williams
    Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Fanta Régina Nacro, Alain Gomis, Newton I. Aduaka, Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Mati Diop, who have begun to reassess and ...
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    54,38 €

  • Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema
    Chris Lippard / Terri Ginsberg
    This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on individual films, filmmakers, actors, significant historical figures, events, and concepts, and the countries themselves. ...
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    237,90 €

  • Abbas Kiarostami’s Cinema of Life
    Julian Rice
    This book focuses on revolutionary filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s opposition to war, his eclectic spirituality, and the symbolic texture of his cinema which is more attuned to poetic than philosophical interpretation. It covers the most-up-to-date films, with a focus on thematic continuity within and between individual films. ...
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    128,91 €

  • Queer Muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film
    Alberto Fernández Carbajal
    This book interrogates the depiction of same-sex desire in contemporary literature and film by artists of Muslim heritage. . ...
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    36,71 €

  • Olivia de Havilland and the Golden Age of Hollywood
    Ellis Amburn
    This is classic Hollywood history as told through the life and career of one of its mosticonic actresses. The book benefits tremendously from the author's meeting with Olivia de Havilland after he was assigned to handle her projected memoir at the Delacorte Press in 1973. Amburn also knew many of the key figures in her life and career, a veritable pantheon of Hollywood roya...
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    16,66 €

  • Rewind to the ’90s
    Alexander Wiggan / Phil Shelly
    Ever wondered what Weekend at Bernie’s II, Stay Tuned, Body of Evidence, and Mandroid have in common? All of these films feature in Rewind to the ’90s - a humorous and occasionally torturous journey through 100 movies from the 1990s.Inspired by a long-running feature on the It’s A Stampede! blog, Rewind to the ’90s, presents thoughts, observations, and a running commentary on s...
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    32,03 €

  • Discovering Kubrick’s Symbolism
    Nicole M. Berg
    Bringing to light the long-shrouded symbolism and startling spiritual depth that renowned director Stanley Kubrick packed into every detail of his iconic films, this book excavates the subtle ways Kubrick calls attention to universal truths and shocking realities still pervading our society. It cites the master director’s use of encoded graphic symbols, signifying light effe...
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    57,39 €

  • Gerard Depardieu On Screen
    chris wade
    Chris Wade examines the screen career of French icon Gerard Depardieu, one of the most exciting and influential stars in cinema history. Highlighting key films from the 1970s to the present day, the book explores the making of each movie, Depardieu’s performances in them, as well as their reception and lasting legacy. Films include: Loulou, Jean de Florette, Under the Sun of Sa...
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    19,86 €

  • 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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    76,53 €

  • La batalla por el buen cine
    Armando Robles Godoy
    Este es el registro de la batalla que libró Armando Robles Godoy por el buen cine entre 1961 y 1963 desde las páginas del diario La Prensa y el suplemento dominical 7 Días del Perú y del Mundo; la primera de las varias que sostuvo por la misma causa durante el resto de su vida. En estos textos defendió la concepción del cine como arte antes que como negocio o espectáculo, deman...
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    36,32 €

  • Dan Duryea
    Mike Peros
    Dan Duryea (1907-1968) made a vivid impression on moviegoers with his first major screen appearance as the conniving Leo Hubbard in 1941's classic melodrama The Little Foxes. His subsequent film and television career would span from 1941 until his death. Duryea remains best known for the nasty, scheming villains he portrayed in such noir masterpieces as Scarlet Street, Cris...
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    42,83 €

  • Hollywood Hates Hitler!
    Chris Yogerst
    In September 1941, a handful of isolationist senators set out to tarnish Hollywood for warmongering. The United States was largely divided on the possibility of entering the European War, yet the immigrant moguls in Hollywood were acutely aware of the conditions in Europe. After Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass), the gloves came off. Warner Bros. released the first dire...
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    158,37 €

  • John Alton
    Leon Lewis
    Devoted to his craft--sometimes to the detriment of his reputation--cinematographer John Alton (1901-1996) was sought after by such directors as Vincente Minnelli, Richard Brooks and Anthony Mann but was disdained by others of comparable talent. An auteur in the truest sense, Alton established a landmark body of work described by Variety film critic Todd McCarthy as 'The ess...
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    64,98 €

  • The Silent Movies of W. C. Fields
    Arthur Frank Wertheim
    Arthur Frank Wertheim’s groundbreaking book is the first to examine W.C. Fields’ twelve silent movies and how they influenced his later career in sound films. The author concludes that Fields might never have become one of the prem-ier comedians during the Golden Age of Sound Films without first embarking on a career in silent movies. In this explo-ration, readers will discover...
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    37,70 €

  • Bungalow Modernity
    Mary Lou Emery
    Despite its cozy image, the bungalow in literature and film is haunted by violence even while fostering possibilities for personal transformation, utopian social vision and even comedy. Originating in Bengal and adapted as housing for colonialist ventures worldwide, the homes were sold in mail-order kits during the 'bungalow mania' of the early 20th century and enjoyed a rev...
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    79,31 €

  • The Spanish quinqui film
    Tom Whittaker
    This is first English-language study of cine quinqui, a cycle of Spanish delinquent-themed films made in the 1970s and 1980s. Exploring how the films reflected the auditory experience of marginal youth cultures during this period, the book casts new light on the criminological, economic and political fault lines of Spain’s transition to democracy. ...
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    157,39 €

  • Victoria, Queen of the Screen
    Leigh Ehlers Telotte
    Both in life and death, Queen Victoria is among the most popular monarchs to be committed to film. Her reign was characterized by an explosion in media coverage that began to rely on images rather than words to tell her story. Even though Victoria has been labeled the 'first media monarch,' the sheer magnitude of her screen presence has been neither chronicled nor fully appr...
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    57,37 €

  • World War II Veterans in Hollywood
    Art Evans
    Profiling World War II veterans who became famous Hollywood personalities, this book presents biographical chapters on celebrities like Audie Murphy, 'America’s number one soldier'; Clark Gable, the 'King of Hollywood'; Jimmy Stewart, combat pilot; Gene Autry, the 'singing cowboy,' who flew the infamous Hump; the amorous Mickey Rooney; Jackie Coogan, 'the Kid' who crashed gl...
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    57,22 €

  • Brute Force
    Dominic Lennard
    Considers how dangerous beasts in horror films illuminate the human-animal relationship. ...
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    41,98 €

  • Cinematic Skepticism
    Jeroen Gerrits
    Drawing on the film-philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, argues that skepticism is an ethical problem that pervades contemporary film. ...
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    42,14 €

  • Sounds Like Helicopters
    Matthew Lau
    Explores how modernist films use classical music in ways that restore the music’s original subversive energy. ...
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    41,05 €

  • The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939
    Michael Hammond
    Assesses how America’s film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period. ...
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    43,10 €

  • Troubling Masculinities
    Glen Donnar
    Troubling Masculinities: Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11 is the first multigenre study of representations of masculinity following the emergence of violent terror as a plot element in American cinema after September 11, 2001. Across a broad range of subgenres--including disaster melodrama, monster movies, postapocalyptic science fiction, discover...
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    50,16 €

  • Hollywood Musicals You Missed
    Edwin M. Bradley
    Pre-World War II Hollywood musicals weren’t only about Astaire and Rogers, Mickey and Judy, Busby Berkeley, Bing Crosby, or Shirley Temple. The early musical developed through tangents that reflected larger trends in film and American culture at large. Here is a survey of select titles with a variety of influences: outsized songwriter personalities, hubbub over 'hillbilly' a...
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    66,21 €

  • To Each His Own Dolce Vita
    John Francis Lane
    Declining to come of age in an England locked in austerity and sexual repression, John Francis Lane moves to Paris, meets Robert Bresson, Jean Cocteau and Edith Piaf and embarks on a lifelong feasting on the best that the art world can offer. He devours landmark works by Maria Callas and Luchino Visconti, Eduardo De Filippo, Franco Zeffirelli, Dario Fo. He moves to Rome when Ho...
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    36,45 €

  • Mapping the English left through film
    Ian Parker
    Ian Parker’s Mapping the English Left through Film: Twenty Five Uneasy Pieces is a block-buster of a book, mercilessly unpicking the cinematic narratives that infuse twenty-five organisations. Key elements of plot and production are used to tell the story of purges and splits and cult-favourites in this innovative history of Trotskyist groups in England. This is the place where...
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    8,63 €

  • The Cannon Film Guide
    Austin Trunick
    “The Cannon Film Guide is the greatest book anyone could ever write about the greatest movie studio that ever was. And is.”—Mike McPadden, author of Teen Movie Hell and Heavy Metal Movies The Cannon Film Guide Volume I explores forty films and franchises produced by The Cannon Group, the most prolific b-movie studio of the 1980s, during the company’s first five years under the ...
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    47,94 €


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