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  • We all die at the end
    Sam Haddow
    As the ravages of climate change throw our future into question, many of our stories are turning to the subject of extinction. This book is about what they are saying and why it demands our attention. ...
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    157,61 €

  • Feeling Colour
    Bregt Lameris
    The shift from monochrome to coloured motion picture famously provided moviegoers the dazzling opportunity to more fully engage their senses, all the while opening new modes of affective possibilities for filmmakers. Set against the intersection of media studies, emotion theory, biology, and digital humanities, Feeling Colour: Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture (1950s-1960s) ...
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    69,68 €

  • Becoming AFI
    James Hindman / Jean Picker Firstenberg
    For over fifty years, the American Film Institute has flourished as one of America’s great cultural entities. Its graduates, faculty, supporters, and trustees have included such acclaimed individuals as Steven Spielberg, Maya Angelou, Gregory Peck, Meryl Streep, Les Moonves, Patty Jenkins, David Lynch, Jane Fonda, Edward James Olmos, Shonda Rhimes, James L. Brooks, Michael Nesm...
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    27,18 €

  • The Complete History of American Film Criticism
    Jerry Roberts
    The Complete History of American Film Criticism is a chronicle of the lives and work of the most influential film critics of the past 100 years. From the first movie review in the New York Times in 1896 through the Silent Era, the pre- and postwar years, the Film Generation of the 1960s, the Golden Age of the 1970s, and into the 21st century, critics have educated generations o...
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    27,55 €

  • Bodies of Water
    Geoffrey Maguire
    Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.Honorable Mention, for the 2025 British Association of Film Television and Screen Studies Best Publication PrizeRivers, swimming pools, lakes, and oceans: these watery spaces recur with remarkable frequency in recent queer Latin American cinem...
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    44,72 €

  • Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War
    Historical consensus increasingly views the Cold War period as a multifaceted conflict which extended beyond the borders of the USSR and USA, encompassing both cultural and diplomatic history. Debate remains, however, about how best to balance the Cold War as a cultural event with the existence of Cold War culture. Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War provides a fresh reassessment...
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    184,05 €

  • Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus
    Director Ingmar Bergman occupies a central place in the history of modern cinema. Credited with igniting a cinematic revolution, his ability to produce work which resonated with audiences globally has brought scholarly attention to the impact of Bergman’s Swedish background on his oeuvre. Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus revises this question of Bergman’s 'familiarity' to produce a ...
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    184,29 €

  • Screened Encounters
    Caroline Moine
    Established in 1955, the Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival became a central arena for staging the cultural politics of the German Democratic Republic, both domestically and in relation to West Germany and the rest of the world. Screened Encounters represents the definitive history of this key event, recounting the political and artistic exchanges it enabled from i...
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    53,46 €

  • Cavell on Film
    Stanley Cavell
    A collection of the philosopher Stanley Cavell’s most important writings on cinema.Stanley Cavell was the first philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition to make film a central concern of his work, and this volume offer a substantially complete retrospective of his writings on cinema, which continues to offer inspiration and new directions to the field of film and media studi...
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    51,45 €

  • Cavell on Film
    Stanley Cavell
    A collection of the philosopher Stanley Cavell’s most important writings on cinema.Stanley Cavell was the first philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition to make film a central concern of his work, and this volume offer a substantially complete retrospective of his writings on cinema, which continues to offer inspiration and new directions to the field of film and media studi...
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    192,56 €

  • The Media Reader on Representations of Race, Gender, Disability, Body Size, Age, and Sexuality
    Caroline Heldman / Rebecca Bargiachi
    This reader is the first comprehensive look at representations of race, gender, disability, body size, age, and sexuality in US entertainment media. The 'bible' of media representation, it weaves contemporary media examples together with quantitative data and qualitative case studies in a way that is accessible to students, industry insiders, and media advocates. Using over twe...
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    107,52 €

  • Casas Tomadas
    Carlos A. González
    ’Casas Tomadas: Monsters and Metaphors on the Periphery of Latin American Literature and Media’ examines how Latin American writers, filmmakers, and artists use monstrosity to reflect on marginalization, identity, and social trauma. This volume brings together close analyses of literature, film, and visual art from across Latin America, exploring how the monstrous symbolizes re...
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    134,08 €

  • Passage works
    John Sears / Patricia Allmer
    The first English-language book on the work of Viennese artist, film-maker, and writer Ruth Beckermann., addressing all Beckermann’s major works and offering innovative critical readings. ...
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    159,82 €

  • Tattoos in crime and detective narratives
    Tattoos in crime and detective narratives: Marking and remarking examines representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, television and film, from two periods of tattoo renaissance (1851-1914, and c1955 to present). ...
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    44,05 €

  • Diario cinematográfico de Márgara Averbach
    Márgara Averbach
    A partir de algunas de las reseñas de películas y series publicadas por la autora en Facebook entre 2015 y 2022, se plantean, entre muchas otras cuestiones, las siguientes preguntas: ¿en qué sentido son diferentes las reseñas que se publican en diarios y revistas de las que aparecen en redes sociales como Facebook?; ¿qué razones llevan a escribirlas o dejar de hacerlo?; ¿qué re...
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    19,50 €

  • What Made Cinema? Essays on Visual Culture and Early Film
    Ian Christie
    'Immersion' is everywhere in entertainment today. But this promise didn’t start with digital media - it was over two hundred years ago that Georgian London became the world centre of such immersive spectacles as the Leicester Square Panorama, the Eidophusikon’s magical moving pictures with music, and a hundred years later, cinema itself was born in the capital’s giant music hal...
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    25,92 €

  • Mitzi Gaynor
    Peter Shelley
    Mitzi Gaynor (b. September 4, 1931) is an American actress, singer, dancer and writer. As a child dancer, she performed in the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association before being discovered by 20th Century-Fox for the movies. She was in a number of Fox movies and won the coveted role of Nellie Forbush in the film version of South Pacific (1958). In the 1960s, she played ...
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    57,55 €

  • Movies and the Church of Baseball
    Jonathan Plummer
    Christian religious imagery and symbolism has a long history in American baseball cinema, from The Busher (1919) to Angels in the Outfield(1994) and present-day movies. This book examines The Natural, Field of Dreams, Bull Durham and other films, exploring the frequency of Christian imagery and themes in the American baseball movie. From Babe Ruth’s performance of a miracle to ...
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    79,42 €

  • The Celluloid Atlantic
    Saverio Giovacchini
    Offers a fresh look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period.The Celluloid Atlantic changes the way we look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period. In the thirty years following World War II, American and Italian film industries came to be an integrated, transnational unit rather than two separate, nation-based entities. Written in jargon-free prose an...
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    166,68 €

  • Soho on Screen
    Jingan Young
    Despite Soho’s rich cultural history, there remains an absence of work on the depiction of the popular neighbourhood in film. Soho on Screen provides one of the first studies of Soho within post-war British cinema. Drawing upon historical, cultural and urban studies of the area, this book explores twelve films and theatrically released documentaries from a filmography of over o...
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    47,16 €

  • Hollywood on the Tiber
    Gene Lerner / Hank Kaufman
    Hollywood on the Tiber is a dazzling blend of the epic and intimate featuring a glittering cast of screen gods and goddesses. This vibrant chronicle recounts how Hank Kaufman and Gene Lerner became unsung movers and shakers of a unique and unrepeatable era: the rise of Rome as the center of Europe’s film industry in the 1950s and ’60s.Kaufman and Lerner, partners in both life a...
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    33,18 €

  • Hollywood on the Tiber
    Gene Lerner / Hank Kaufman
    Hollywood on the Tiber is a dazzling blend of the epic and intimate featuring a glittering cast of screen gods and goddesses. This vibrant chronicle recounts how Hank Kaufman and Gene Lerner became unsung movers and shakers of a unique and unrepeatable era: the rise of Rome as the center of Europe’s film industry in the 1950s and ’60s.Kaufman and Lerner, partners in both life a...
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    33,24 €

  • From Havana to Hollywood
    Philip Kaisary
    Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.From Havana to Hollywood examines the presence or absence of Black resistance to slavery in feature films produced in either Havana or Hollywood-including Gillo Pontecorvo’s Burn!, neglected masterpieces by Cuban auteurs Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Sergio Gir...
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    44,51 €

  • Fame Amid the Ruins
    Stephen Gundle
    Italian cinema gave rise to a number of the best-known films of the postwar years, from Rome Open City to Bicycle Thieves. Although some neorealist film-makers would have preferred to abolish stars altogether, the public adored them and producers needed their help in relaunching the national film industry. This book explores the many conflicts that arose in Italy between 1945 a...
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    46,58 €

  • Carnivalizing Reconciliation
    Hanna Teichler
    Transitional justice and national inquiries may be the most established means for coming to terms with traumatic legacies, but it is in the more subtle social and cultural processes of 'memory work' that the pitfalls and promises of reconciliation are laid bare. This book analyzes, within the realms of literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile wi...
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    47,10 €

  • Overhearing Film Music
    John Caps
    Three generations of famous movie soundtrack composers reveal the secrets of their art and success.Beginning with a quick history of film scoring and then taking the reader backstage to interview a dozen major screen composers, Overhearing Film Music represents three generations of movie soundtrack music. Ranging from groundbreaking composers who scored classic 1940s melodramas...
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    166,62 €

  • 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. New Revised Edition. Copyright 2025. ...
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    37,98 €

  • Disney’s Live-Action Movie Bombs, 1979-2019
    Tyler Mattis
    This book explores the history of Disney’s biggest live-action movie failures from the late 1970s to the late 2010s. That stretch of time was a transformative period in which the company made many financial gains but gradually lost its identity, which had largely been synonymous with founder Walt Disney. The chapters explain why each movie was made, the casting process, prod...
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    58,61 €

  • You Squashed My Pea! A Brit’s Take on War, Stalkers and Other Fun Movie Stuff
    Dave Franklin
    Exploding heads. A bunch of pygmies in blackface firing arrows at a herd of rampaging elephants. The devil’s helpers innocuously serving up choccy mousse. Geriatric commandos. A pickaxe being driven through a tattooed female chest. Malcolm McDowell in swastika-adorned underpants. Malcolm McDowell raping a bride. Malcolm McDowell clapping with glee as heads are sliced off. Gee, ...
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    16,21 €

  • Under the Mistletoe
    Liz W Faber
    When you think of holiday romance in popular culture, you probably imagine the formulaic made-for-TV movies we all love to watch: a career gal moves from the big city to a small town, where she finds the love of her life and the true meaning of Christmas. Yet, as with so much of the romance genre, our favorite holiday movies, books, TV episodes, and plays are so much richer ...
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    71,81 €


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