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  • The Human Figure on Film
    Seth Barry Watter
    The Human Figure on Film asks what it is we look for when we look at human beings projected on a screen. People have appeared onscreen since film was invented. Nothing could be more common, and yet nothing confounds us more, than a filmed human being. Scholars and critics have attempted to reduce the mystery, creating methodologies that make this figure legible. Some of their e...
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    127,23 €

  • Movies on a Mission
    Glenn Reynolds
    This investigation into the little-known genre of mission-oriented films uncovers how Protestant missionaries overseas sought to bring back motion picture footage from remote parts of the world. In the broader religious community, mission films aimed to educate congregants back home about efforts to evangelize communities around the world. This book, however, demonstrates t...
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    109,79 €

  • Global London on screen
    Global London on screen presents a mélange of films by directors from the Global South and North, portraying everyday life to the more fantastical, odious or extraordinary circumstances that are captured cinematically in this superdiverse city. ...
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    169,51 €

  • Yiddish Cinema
    Jonah Corne / Monika Vrečar
    Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema’s fascination with media and communication. ...
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    126,55 €

  • Deanna Durbin
    Alice Lorence
    An informal socialist study of Deanna Durbin’s twelve year motion picture career from a sophocratic or paternalist point of view, an enlightened point of view which combines, in equal proportion, cultural elitism and elitist socialism. Rejecting all that is populist, it is a study devoted to the Classical as expressed in the musical films of Deanna. As a book written for reader...
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    79,02 €

  • Celluloid Adventures 4 Science Fiction Thrills...Horror Chills
    Nicholas Anez / Nick Anez
    An overdue look at movies, that with one exception, were box-office failures.These movies cover a span of 35 years, from 1943 to 1978, and representthe wide range of themes and ideas that science fiction and horror movies may encompass. As in his previous volumes, the author attempt to provide an informative analysis of each movie along with production details, including infor...
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    20,17 €

  • MARVELOUS NAMES IN LITERATURE AND CINEMA
    P. Adams Sitney
    MARVELOUS NAMESIN LITERATURE AND CINEMABy P. Adams SitneyA new collection of essays from P. Adams Sitney, author of Visionary Film, an important and influential early study of American experimental cinema. P. Adams Sitney explores topics such as Herman Melville and the novel Moby-Dick, Charlie Chaplin, the early cinema of Géorges Méliès, Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958), Wavele...
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    40,86 €

  • Chain Saw Confidential
    Gunnar Hansen
    The in-depth look at the making of making of the most notorious film of all time, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, written by its chainsaw wielding star, the beloved, Gunnar Hansen, is finally back in print! When The Texas Chain Saw Massacre first hit movie screens in 1974 it was both reviled and championed. To critics, it was either 'a degrading, senseless misuse of film and time...
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    25,24 €

  • Theda Bara
    Roy Liebman
    Although a major star in the 1910s, Theda Bara--known as 'The Vamp'--was largely neglected until the 1990s, when her fame began to resurface. Since then, there have been biographies, documentaries and other works that have brought the silent film actress back into the spotlight, including a painstaking stills reconstruction of her lost epic Cleopatra. This is a complete e...
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    58,53 €

  • Imperial Japan on Screen, 1931-2022
    Bob Herzberg
    This book deals with film depictions of Imperial Japan from the time it was a totalitarian power to the productions of recent years. It especially covers wartime depictions, as well as the historical events that inspire the stories behind these productions. In the 1930s, Hollywood gave us the likeable Mr. Moto at the same time Japan was set on its expansionist course. When w...
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    73,11 €

  • Ana M. López
    Ana M López
    Brings together Ana M. López’s field-defining essays on Latin American film and media in one indispensable volume. ...
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    44,66 €

  • A Silence from Hitchcock
    Murray Pomerance
    Extensive meditations on silence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock. ...
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    42,88 €

  • Distancing Representations in Transgender Film
    Lucy J. Miller
    Argues that transgender representations in film make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and for transgender people to fully participate in public life. ...
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    42,08 €

  • Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives
    Jason Jacobs
    Explores the figure of the detective as a pursuer of knowledge in four noir films. ...
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    42,04 €

  • Life Above the Clouds
    Steven DeLay
    The definitive philosophical exploration of the work of pioneering filmmaker Terrence Malick. ...
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    42,67 €

  • Bay Lodyans
    Cécile Accilien
    Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges. ...
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    121,78 €

  • In the company of wolves
    This volume of essays presents innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, children raised by wolves, and werewolves, as portrayed in different media and genres. ...
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    35,43 €

  • 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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    35,72 €

  • Del blockbuster al autorretrato
    Ricardo Bedoya
    En este volumen, Ricardo Bedoya ofrece una visión panorámica de ciertos motivos, tendencias estilísticas y tratamientos rastreables en el cine internacional desde el inicio del siglo XXI. El volumen recoge apuntes sobre centenares de filmes, sopesados desde la perspectiva de un cinéfilo que no reconoce placeres culposos ni jerarquías entre las películas consideradas de arte y e...
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    74,58 €

  • Bioscope
    Zulfiqar Ali Zulfi
    'Bioscope' (Read as ’Baascop’ in Balochi language) by Author Zulfiqar Ali Zulfi is a unique book on the subject of cinema in Urdu, through which a discussion on films and their themes has been initiated. An attempt has been made to discuss various themes and trends of mainstream Hindi cinema also. Apart from this, dialogues with various filmgoers on some films are also included...
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    39,56 €

  • The Illustrated Guide to Film Formats
    Ashley Blewer
    The Illustrated Guide to Film Formats is an easy-to-read exploration of thirty-six popular and forgotten film formats. This collection begins with the Magic Lantern and concluding with DCP and IMAX Laser projection systems. In between, this book covers major developments in moving image cameras, projectors, and the medium of film. This includes classic small gauge formats like ...
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    22,70 €

  • On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular
    Nicole Brenez / Ted Fendt
    A collection of wide-ranging essays written throughout the 1990s, On the Body in General and the Figure in Particular: Figurative Invention in Cinema covers an array of genres and styles to propose an original method of cinematic analysis and interpretation foregrounding film’s formal and plastic qualities in all their multifaceted materiality and aesthetics. Brenez reconsiders...
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    158,26 €

  • The Movie Renaissance-A Look into the 80s Film Industry
    Adriana Shannon
    Get ready to dive into the world of cinema in the 1980s, as 'The Movie Renaissance: A Look into the 80s Film Industry' takes you on a thrilling journey through the era that revolutionized the way we experience movies.From the booming business of Hollywood to the emergence of independent filmmakers, this book explores the cultural and technological advancements that shaped the f...
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    10,16 €

  • 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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    121,57 €

  • TV-Philosophy
    Sandra Laugier / Daniela Ginsburg
    The first book to explore the hold of the TV series on ordinary life from a philosophical and ethical perspective. ...
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    101,48 €

  • TV-Philosophy in Action
    Sandra Laugier
    This book gives Laugier’s response as a philosopher-viewer to selected TV shows from the last 20 years, and their relationship to social and political issues of our times. ...
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    101,06 €

  • Bela Lugosi
    chris wade
    Chris Wade explores the film career of movie icon Bela Lugosi. From his silent films in Europe, his early American movies, the iconic roles in the likes of Dracula, The Black Cat, and White Zombie, through the low budget B movies of the 1940s, up to his final screen work for Ed Wood, Wade celebrates the great man’s performances in a series of essays, examining the career of a m...
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    23,36 €

  • From Silent Film Idol to Superman
    Jonathan Croall
    A popular romantic actor with a fan club rivalling that of Ivor Novello, John Stuart was frequently mobbed by his adoring fans. He starred in films by Alfred Hitchcock and G.W. Pabst, played opposite British stars such as Madeleine Carroll, Fay Compton, Gracie Fields, and German actor Conrad Veidt, and was also the first actor to ever speak on screen in Britain. Yet despite ...
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    67,51 €

  • Horror Galore
    Nathaniel Tolle
    If you already know the Universal Monsters, deadites, cenobites, people under the stairs, silver shamrocks, maniacs with blades on their fingers and others with a love for machetes, then it’s time to take your fandom to the next level by diving deep into the DVD bins for some horrific hidden gems.Horror Galore is the most comprehensive compendium of lesser-known films in the ge...
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    72,43 €

  • Horror Galore
    Nathaniel Tolle
    If you already know the Universal Monsters, deadites, cenobites, people under the stairs, silver shamrocks, maniacs with blades on their fingers and others with a love for machetes, then it’s time to take your fandom to the next level by diving deep into the DVD bins for some horrific hidden gems.Horror Galore is the most comprehensive compendium of lesser-known films in the ge...
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    59,46 €


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