Catálogo de libros: Teoría y crítica cinematográficas

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  • The Biggest Thing in Show Business
    Matthew Solomon / Murray Pomerance
    A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956. ...
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    126,42 €

  • Elephant of Silence
    John Barger
    'A poem is an act of faith because the poet believes in it,' contends John Wall Barger in The Elephant of Silence, a collection of essays exploring forms of knowing (and not knowing) that awaken a poetic mind. By considering poetry, film, and the intersections among aesthetic moments and our lives, Barger illuminates the foundations of poetic craft but also probes how to be al...
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    22,22 €

  • Isn’t She Great
    Elizabeth Teets
    A love letter to women-led comedies. Based on Elizabeth Teets’s program series called 'Isn’t She Great' at the Hollywood Theater, this anthology is a collection of the most beloved female-centric comedies and the audiences who adore them. From 9 to 5 to Romy and Michelle to the iconic Elle Woods, the essays in this collection build on our devotion to these films and continue th...
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    14,58 €

  • Hollywood Enigma
    Carl Rollyson
    Dana Andrews (1909-1992) worked with distinguished directors such as John Ford, Lewis Milestone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Mervyn Le Roy, Jean Renoir, and Elia Kazan. He played romantic leads alongside the great beauties of the modern screen, including Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Greer Garson, Merle Oberon, Linda Darnell, Susan Hayward,...
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    42,42 €

  • Torturous Etiquettes
    Daniel Varndell
    Explores the 'torture' of mannered behavior and the prevalence of etiquette as a theme in classical and contemporary Hollywood and European cinema. ...
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    44,47 €

  • Charlie Chaplin and the Nazis
    Norbert Aping
    Until recently, it was assumed that the Nazis agitated against Chaplin from 1931 to 1933, and then again from 1938, when his plan to make The Great Dictator became public. This book demonstrates that Nazi agitation against Chaplin was in fact a constant from 1926 through the Third Reich. When The Gold Rush was released in the Weimar Republic in 1926, the Nazis began to fight...
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    77,23 €

  • God on the Planet of the Apes
    Dann Michalski
    'Somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man. Has to be.' -Col. Taylor. Join the search for a higher power as the Planet of the Apes films are examined from a Christian perspective-from the 1968 classic to the Tim Burton remake to the modern reboots. Discover the moral lessons of this madhouse and how God reveals Himself in an upside down world in God on...
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    16,75 €

  • De-centering queer theory
    Bogdan Popa
    This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies. ...
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    44,28 €

  • El cine de Jean Luc Godard: rupturas y aperturas
    Isaac León Frías
    Jean-Luc Godard (París, 1930 - Rolle, Suiza, 2022) fue uno de los revolucionarios críticos que, desde las páginas de Cahiers du Cinéma, promovieron la política de autores: una renovada concepción del director de cine como creador que, mediante la puesta en escena, convertía sus películas en obras de arte. Fue, quizá el más audaz de los cineastas de la nueva ola del cine francés...
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    37,82 €

  • Eleanor Roosevelt on Screen
    Angela S. Beauchamp
    Eleanor Roosevelt recognized the power of film and television, especially as educational tools to reach young people. She hosted three political talk shows in the 1950s and early 1960s, often appearing in guest spots to promote the United Nations, Democratic candidates, and progressive issues with Ed Sullivan, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Mike Wallace, and Edward R. Murrow. In t...
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    109,92 €

  • The Devil Inside
    Acevedo Carlos
    'At a time when critics are expected to be publicists, and anything famous is ‘classic’ or ‘iconic,’ Carlos Acevedo has managed to hold the line. The Devil Inside is a sharp, hard-nosed aesthetic and cultural investigation into what everybody was throwing up about fifty years ago. It succeeds as criticism, history, and social analysis.'-Charles Taylor, film critic at Esquire, a...
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    19,20 €

  • THE GHOST IN THE SHELL BOOK
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    THE GHOST IN THE SHELL BOOKVOLUME 2: ANIMÉA Critical Study by Jeremy Mark RobinsonThis is a study of the adaptations of Ghost In the Shell by Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, born in 1961, Kobe, Japan). Shirow is a Japanese artist best known for Ghost In the Shell, Appleseed and Dominion: Tank Police. Masamune Shirow is one of the great creators in the world of Japanese...
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    63,56 €

  • TSUI HARK
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    TSUI HARK: THE DRAGON MASTER OF CHINESE CINEMA: A Critical Study••••• By Jeremy Mark Robinson ••••• Tsui Hark is the dragon master of Chinese cinema (Stephen Teo calls Tsui a ’lion dancer among film directors’). Yes - a master, a lion dancer, a sifu, a wizard, a dragon. ••••• Tsui Hark is a one-man film industry - as a glance as his list of credits will show, along with setting...
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    74,83 €

  • THE GHOST IN THE SHELL BOOK
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    THE GHOST IN THE SHELL BOOKVOLUME 2: ANIMÉA Critical Study Color Editionby Jeremy Mark RobinsonThis is a study of the adaptations of Ghost In the Shell by Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, born in 1961, Kobe, Japan). Shirow is a Japanese artist best known for Ghost In the Shell, Appleseed and Dominion: Tank Police. Masamune Shirow is one of the great creators in the worl...
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    80,62 €

  • Intersecting Aesthetics
    Charlene Regester
    Contributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields, and Judith E. Smith Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness illuminates cultural and material trends that shaped Black film adaptations during the twentieth century. Cont...
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    158,15 €

  • Intersecting Aesthetics
    Charlene Regester
    Contributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields, and Judith E. Smith Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness illuminates cultural and material trends that shaped Black film adaptations during the twentieth century. Cont...
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    42,69 €

  • Deanna Durbin
    Alice Lorence
    A photographic essay, for serious students of operella and operetta, on the motion picture career of the Classical soprano Deanna Durbin covering each of her delightful musical films from 1936 to 1948. Soft-Cover. Square 8.5 Inch Format. 202 Pages. 286 Photographs. Copyright 2023. ...
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    51,84 €

  • Movies of the ’90s
    Riley Webster
    The 1990s was an amazing decade for movies, witnessing the release of dozens of incredible films, including The Matrix, The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Fargo, Jurassic Park, and so many more. Despite this embarrassment of riches, author Riley Webster believes this decade has never received as much praise or as many kudos as it deserves-until now. Whether you...
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    50,77 €

  • Movies of the ’90s
    Riley Webster
    The 1990s was an amazing decade for movies, witnessing the release of dozens of incredible films, including The Matrix, The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Fargo, Jurassic Park, and so many more. Despite this embarrassment of riches, author Riley Webster believes this decade has never received as much praise or as many kudos as it deserves-until now. Whether you...
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    61,02 €

  • La trilogia dei colori di Krzysztof Kieślowski
    Simone Malacrida
    La trilogia dei colori, composta dai film ispirati agli ideali dell'Illuminismo e della bandiera francese (Blu, Bianco e Rosso), è di gran lunga l'opera più rinomata e apprezzata di Krzysztof Kieślowski, nonché la sua ultima testimonianza artistica.Oltre la prima apparenza, essa cela significati reconditi e palesi corrispondenze con quanto già messo in scena nei film pr...
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    8,73 €

  • Watching the World Die
    Mike Bogue
    During the 1980s, popular fear of World War III spurred moviemakers to produce dozens of nuclear threat films. Categories ranged from monster movies to post-apocalyptic adventures to realistic depictions of nuclear war and its immediate aftermath. Coverage of atomic angst films isn’t new, but this is the first book to solely analyze 1980s nuclear threat movies as a group. ...
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    58,70 €

  • La doppia vita di Veronica di Krzysztof Kieślowski
    Simone Malacrida
    Dopo decenni dalla sua uscita, "La doppia vita di Veronica" è considerato, a torto, un film di intermezzo tra le due opere più famose di Krzysztof Kieślowski. La raffinatezza artistica, lo stile delicato, la magnifica interpretazione di Irene Jacob e le prorompenti musiche di Zbigniew Preisner rendono, al contrario, quest'opera del tutto unica e irripetibile.Un piccolo gioi...
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    5,96 €

  • An Illustrated Journey of Cookie & Co
    Michael Perkins
    Embarking on an incredible adventure as we traverse the world in celebration of the By-Centenary of Australia 1788-1988, in a mere 152 days, accompanied by COOKIE. Our vehicle of choice. A vibrant yellow 1924 14/40 Vauxhall roadster that goes on to inspire the beloved Pixar/Disney animated film 'CARS,' captivating audiences worldwide and achieving remarkable box office success....
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    34,93 €

  • Watching the Cops
    Marcus K Harmes
    Globally, police officers are the object of unprecedented visual scrutiny. The use of mobile phones, CCTV and personal body cams means that police are not only being filmed on the job but are also filming themselves. In popular culture, police have featured heavily on the big screen since the era of silent shorts and on television since the 1930s. Their fictional portrayals ...
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    108,36 €

  • An Illustrated Journey of Cookie & Co
    Michael owen Perkins / Michael Perkins
    Embarking on an incredible adventure as we traverse the world in celebration of the By-Centenary of Australia 1788-1988, in a mere 152 days, accompanied by COOKIE. Our vehicle of choice. A vibrant yellow 1924 14/40 Vauxhall roadster that goes on to inspire the beloved Pixar/Disney animated film 'CARS,' captivating audiences worldwide and achieving remarkable box office success....
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    24,42 €

  • Decalogo di Krzysztof Kieślowski
    Simone Malacrida
    "Decalogo", andato in onda alla fine del 1988, è divenuto, fin da subito, una pietra miliare dell'opera artistica di Krzysztof Kieślowski e, più in generale, della cinematografia.In questo libro saranno presentati i significati e le tematiche esposte, i vari livelli di interpretazione e la simbologia, le connessioni e i richiami, le scelte stilistiche e la storia che hanno ...
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    8,76 €

  • Decalogue by Krzysztof Kieślowski
    Simone Malacrida
    "Decalogue", which aired at the end of 1988, immediately became a cornerstone of Krzysztof Kieślowski's artistic work and, more generally, of cinematography.This book will present the meanings and themes exposed, the various levels of interpretation and symbolism, the connections and references, the stylistic choices and the history that led to the conception and creation o...
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    8,76 €

  • Folk horror on film
    This is the first scholarly collection to focus on the special importance of British cinema to folk horror. The chapters consider the artistic styles, historical contexts, cultural tensions and cinematic fears that distinguish folk horror from other forms of horror and from traditional ways of viewing the folk. ...
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    169,60 €

  • Movies That Made Me Gay
    Larry Duplechan
    Movies That Made Me Gay is a wonderfully well-informed, witty and acerbic take on iconic Hollywood films, film-stars, and indie cult favorites from an author who is himself a Black gay icon; and is also a touching and extremely readable personal memoir of growing up gay in the early ’60s, surviving the AIDS pandemic of the ’80s (legendary Vito Celluloid Closet Russo was a dear ...
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    21,48 €

  • Jim Tully
    Mark Dawidziak / Paul J. Bauer
    Many saw the dark side of the American dream, but none wrote about it like Jim Tully. Having spent six years of his childhood in a Cincinnati orphanage, Tully returned to his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio before climbing aboard a freight train in 1901. Drifting across the country as a 'road kid,' he spent his teens, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, and haunting p...
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    27,18 €