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  • Left of Eden
    Dennis Broe
    “Dennis Broe, a renowned scholar of film noir, has written his own hard-boiled noir masterpiece, sprinkled with murder, blackmail, and sexual intrigue”—Peter Kuznick, co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States  “A terse mash-up of hard-boiled prose and good old-fashioned historical research” --Jon Lewis, author of Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Pun...
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    11,64 €

  • The films of Costa-Gavras
    This collection provides new perspectives on the work of filmmaker Costa-Gavras. Contributors from a variety of fields examine his studies of human political crises, from the horrors of the Nazis and state totalitarianism to contemporary crises of immigration and global financial collapse. ...
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    157,36 €

  • The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies
    John LeMay
    1989 marked the start of the Heisei era in Japan. It also marked a new direction in tokusatsu films beginning with Godzilla vs. Biollante and Gunhed. This tome covers all the Japanese giant monster movies produced from 1989 up to 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters. This book covers a broad range of titles, from well known fare such as Gamera, Guardian of the Universe (1995),...
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    15,89 €

  • Cinema of Ettore Scola
    The Cinema of Ettore Scola offers contemporary perspectives on Ettore Scola (1931-2016), one of the premier filmmakers of Italian cinema. Scola was a crucial figure in postwar Italy as a screenwriter of comedies in the 1950s and 1960s who later became one of the country's most beloved directors in the 1970s and 1980s with his bittersweet comedies and dramas on history, poli...
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    121,21 €

  • Fellini’s Eternal Rome
    Alessandro Carrera
    *** Winner of the2019 Flaiano Prize in the category Italian Studies ***In Fellini’s Eternal Rome, Alessandro Carrera explores the co-existence and conflict of paganism and Christianity in the works of Federico Fellini. By combining source analysis, cultural history and jargon-free psychoanalytic film theory, Carrera introduces the reader to a new appreciation of Fellini’s work....
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    55,22 €

  • Marcello Mastroianni
    chris wade
    The complete guide to the cinematic career of Italian icon Marcello Mastroianni, starting with his early Italian films, the legendary work with Fellini, and going all the way through to his final movies. Films explored include: La Dolce Vita, La Notte, Divorce Italian Style, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, 8 1/2, Marriage Italian Style, A Special Day, City of Women, Dark Eyes, ...
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    21,42 €

  • Black Oscars
    Frederick Gooding / Frederick Jr. Gooding / Frederick JrGooding
    Black Oscars is a timely exploration of the complicated legacy of the Academy Awards and African American participation in film. Reflecting on how the Oscars have recognized Black actors from the award’s inception to the present, this book is an indispensable guide to understanding race in mainstream Hollywood and American history. ...
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    51,32 €

  • It Came From ...The Stories and Novels Behind Classic Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Films
    Bob Madison / Jim Nemeth
    How many times have you said, the book was better? And how many times was that actually true?            The cinema of the fantastic has benefitted from literary adaptations on a level unlike any other genre. With such brilliant authors as Mary Shelley, Robert Bloch, Pierre Boulle, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert Louis Stevenson to choose from, it’s no surprise that fantastic f...
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    26,10 €

  • El gobierno de mañana
    Dean Luis Reyes
    La invención del cine independiente cubano ha sido una tarea plagada de impedimentos y dificultades. Hasta hace unos años el término «independiente» era anatema explícito en la prensa y en los espacios de legitimación mayoritarios en Cuba. Este libro explora una tradición cultural embrionaria, edificada fragmento a fragmento, desde la pregunta por la posibilidad de encontrar un...
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    17,15 €

  • Film Directors and Emotion
    Darragh Greene / Graham Price
    Cinema is an affective medium. Films move us to feel wonder, joy, and love as well as fear, anger, and hatred. Today, we are living through a new age of sensibility when emotion is given priority over reason. Yet, there is a counter-cultural current in contemporary American cinema that offers a more nuanced treatment of emotion. Both aesthetically and eidetically, this new c...
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    79,54 €

  • Hollywood v. Beauty and the Synchronicity of the Six
    Kirk Henderson
    Hollywood v. Beauty and the Synchronicity of the Six presents the biographies of six movie actresses from the 1920s to the 1970s, with a single actress representing her decade of activity: Louise Brooks 1920s, Jean Harlow 1930s, Hedy Lamarr 1940s, Barbara Payton 1950s, Jean Seberg 1960s, and Sondra Locke 1970s. The synchronicity between the lives of these women is phenomenal, a...
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    29,96 €

  • Hollywood v. Beauty and the Synchronicity of the Six
    Kirk Henderson
    Hollywood v. Beauty and the Synchronicity of the Six presents the biographies of six movie actresses from the 1920s to the 1970s, with a single actress representing her decade of activity: Louise Brooks 1920s, Jean Harlow 1930s, Hedy Lamarr 1940s, Barbara Payton 1950s, Jean Seberg 1960s, and Sondra Locke 1970s. The synchronicity between the lives of these women is phenomenal, a...
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    20,32 €

  • William Faulkner in Hollywood
    Stefan Solomon
    During more than two decades (1932-1954), William Faulkner worked on approximately fifty screenplays for studios, including MGM, 20th Century-Fox, and Warner Bros., and was credited on such classic films as The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not. The scripts that Faulkner wrote for film--and, later on, television--constitute an extensive and, until now, thoroughly underexplored...
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    36,71 €

  • Gunslinging justice
    Justin Joyce
    Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United States. ...
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    36,87 €

  • Antonio Pietrangeli, The Director of Women
    Emma Katherine Van Ness
    This book re-examines the films of Antonio Pietrangeli, one of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, from a feminist perspective. Of the ten full-length films completed by Antonio Pietrangeli, eight featured a female protagonist. This attention to the female subject is noteworthy today, much less in the 1950s and 1960s. ...
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    180,11 €

  • The Construction of Testimony
    In The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes, editors Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and Markus Zisselsberger gather contributions on how Shoah (1985) fundamentally changed the nature and use of filmed testimony and laid the groundwork for how historians and documentarians regard and understand the history of the Holocaust. Critics have taken lo...
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    120,42 €

  • The Construction of Testimony
    In The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes, editors Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and Markus Zisselsberger gather contributions on how Shoah (1985) fundamentally changed the nature and use of filmed testimony and laid the groundwork for how historians and documentarians regard and understand the history of the Holocaust. Critics have taken lo...
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    51,69 €

  • Idols of the Odeons
    Andrew Roberts
    This book provides an extensive overview of the British actors who achieved their greatest stardom during the 1950s. This was a transitional period for the British cinema, when the major studios faced growing competition from television and Hollywood increasingly dominated the UK film industry. ...
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    156,94 €

  • Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen Since 1971
    Derrick Bang
    Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn theme. Lalo Schifrin’s Mission: Impossible theme. Isaac Hayes’ theme from Shaft. These iconic melodies have remained a part of the pop culture landscape since their debuts back when movie studios and TV production companies employed full orchestral ensembles to provide a jazz backdrop for the suspenseful adventures of secret agents, private detecti...
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    66,09 €

  • Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen, 1950-1970
    Derrick Bang
    Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn theme. Lalo Schifrin’s Mission: Impossible theme. John Barry’s arrangement of the James Bond theme. These iconic melodies have remained a part of the pop culture landscape since their debuts in the late 1950s and early ’60s: a 'golden decade' that highlighted an era when movie studios and TV production companies employed full orchestral ensembles t...
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    66,26 €

  • An Introduction to Film Analysis
    Melissa Lenos / Michael Ryan
    An Introduction to Film Analysis is designed to introduce students to filmmaking techniques while also providing an invaluable guide to film interpretation. It takes readers step by step through:-the basic technical terms-shot-by-shot analyses of film sequences-set design, composition, editing, camera work, post-production, art direction and more-each chapter provides clear exa...
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    195,62 €

  • Nick McLean Behind the Camera
    Nick McLean / Wayne Byrne
    Nick McLean was one of the most acclaimed camera operators in American cinema of the 1970s, during which time he shot many classics of the New Hollywood movement including McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Heaven Can Wait, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter, Marathon Man, and Being There. As a cinematographer throughout the 1980s, McLean would film blockbusters such as ...
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    54,56 €

  • John Derek
    Michelangelo Capua
    Actor and director John Derek was born in Hollywood, where his striking good looks helped get him a contract with David O’ Selznick. Derek’s career took off after Humphrey Bogart made him his costar in the cultish noir Knock at Any Doors. Derek appeared in such Academy Award-nominated films as All the King’s Men, Run for Cover, The Ten Commandments and Exodus, and worked wit...
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    43,89 €

  • Queering the South on Screen
    Tison Pugh
    Within the realm of American culture and its construction of its citizenry, geography, and ideology, who are southerners and who are queers, and what is the South and what is queerness? Queering the South on Screen addresses these questions by examining the intersections of queerness, regionalism, and identity depicted in film, television, and other visual media about the South...
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    128,01 €

  • Queering the South on Screen
    Tison Pugh
    Within the realm of American culture and its construction of its citizenry, geography, and ideology, who are southerners and who are queers, and what is the South and what is queerness? Queering the South on Screen addresses these questions by examining the intersections of queerness, regionalism, and identity depicted in film, television, and other visual media about the South...
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    39,06 €

  • Life of Dick Haymes
    Ruth Prigozy
    There was a time when no one would have left Dick Haymes (1918-1980) out of the top class of such contemporaries as Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. But now the Argentine-born baritone is known only to those ardent fans and music historians who still claim him as one of the most talented popular singers of the twentieth century.Haymes worked with several great bandleaders, includi...
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    49,89 €

  • Film History Through Trade Journal Art, 1916-1920
    Jeff Codori
    The period in film history between the regimentation of the Edison Trust and the vertical integration of the Studio System--roughly 1916 through 1920--was a time of structural and artistic experimentation for the American film industry. As the nature of the industry was evolving, society around it was changing as well; arts, politics and society were in a state of flux betwe...
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    109,93 €

  • Sicily on Screen
    Giovanna Summerfield
    With its physical beauty and kaleidoscopic cultural background, Sicily has long been a source of inspiration for filmmakers. Twelve new essays by international scholars--and additional writings from directors Roberta Torre, Giovanna Taviani, and Costanza Quatriglio--seek to offset the near-absence of scholarship focusing on the relationship between the Mediterranean island...
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    93,77 €

  • Themes in Latin American Cinema
    Keith John Richards / Keith John Richards
    This updated and expanded edition gives critical analyses of 23 Latin American films from the last 20 years, including the addition of four films from Bolivia. Explored throughout the text are seven crucial themes: the indigenous image, sexuality, childhood, female protagonists, crime and corruption, fratricidal wars, and writers as characters. Designed for general and sch...
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    58,81 €

  • International Film Festivals
    Tricia Jenkins
    More than 5,000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades. International Film Festivals collects the leading scholarship on this increasingly prominent phenomenon from both historical and contemporary perspectives, using diverse methods including archival research, interviews and surveys and drawing widely from field...
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    54,81 €


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