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  • 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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    127,04 €

  • Krzysztof Kieślowski
    Renata Bernard
    Krzysztof Kieślowski’s untimely death came at the height of his career, after his Three Colors trilogy of films garnered international acclaim (and an Oscar nomination), and he had been proclaimed Europe’s most important filmmaker by many critics. Born in 1941, he was only fifty-four years old when he died. Kieślowski himself tried to tell the story of his life and career in th...
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    42,73 €

  • Danny Boyle
    Brent Dunham
    A humble man from humble beginnings, Danny Boyle (b. 1956) became a popular cinema darling when Slumdog Millionaire won big at the 2009 Academy Awards. Prior to this achievement, this former theater and television director helped the British film industry pull itself out of a decades-long slump. With Trainspotting, he proved British films could be more than stuffy, period drama...
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    42,99 €

  • Samuel Fuller
    Gerald Peary
    In the early twentieth century, the art world was captivated by the imaginative, original paintings of Henri Rousseau, who, without formal art training, produced works that astonished not only the public but great artists such as Pablo Picasso. Samuel Fuller (1912-1997) is known as the 'Rousseau of the cinema,' a mostly 'B' genre Hollywood moviemaker deeply admired by 'A' filmm...
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    43,18 €

  • D. W. Griffith
    Anthony Slide
    D. W. Griffith (1875-1948) is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture. As director of The Birth of a Nation, he is also one of the most controversial. He raised the cinema to a new level of art, entertainment, and innovation, and at the same time he illustrated, for the first time, its potential to influence an audience and propagandize a cause....
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    42,79 €

  • Michael Winterbottom
    Damon Smith
    Prolific British director Michael Winterbottom (b. 1961) might be hard to pin down and even harder to categorize. Over sixteen years, he has created feature films as disparate and stylistically diverse as Welcome to Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People, In This World, Butterfly Kiss, and The Killer Inside Me. But in this collection, the first English-language volume to gather interna...
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    43,05 €

  • Gender, Power, and Identity in The Films of Stanley Kubrick
    This volume features a set of thought-provoking and long overdue approaches to situating Stanley Kubrick’s films in contemporary debates around gender, race, and age - with a focus on women’s representations. ...
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    72,76 €

  • Retelling Jane Austen
    April Van Camp / Tammy Powley
    Jane Austen wrote for a Regency-period audience and could never have predicted the lasting success of her original works. The slew of variations and adaptations of Austen’s works in both film and novels has grown into an industry with a fan base clamoring for more. This collection fills a gap in Austen scholarship, examining universal and contemporary themes in the origin...
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    72,06 €

  • Secret Cinema and the immersive experience industry
    Helen W. Kennedy / Sarah Atkinson
    A comprehensive history and analysis of Secret Cinema - the leading producer of large-scale immersive experiences in the UK. The book examines how they have evolved their format over twelve years from experimental and artisanal beginnings to becoming a global leader in large scale immersive entertainment. ...
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    44,13 €

  • King Vidor in Focus
    Cullen Gallagher / Kevin L. Stoehr
    King Vidor (1894-1982) had the longest career of any Hollywood director, and his works include some of the most dramatic, sublime moments in the history of American cinema. Regarded by many film historians as one of the greatest of silent era filmmakers--especially for masterworks The Big Parade, The Crowd, and Show People--Vidor is nonetheless one of the most underrated of ...
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    73,54 €

  • 16 Maps of Hell
    Jasun Horsley
    Working on your book would be an act of biting the hand that feeds me at the moment.. . . I think that one would be asking a publisher to bite the hand that feeds them by publishing a book that takes on a system they are invested in. Or if your theory is true - they would give you an advance then bury your book to protect their fellow media mafia.~Literary agent, to author, on ...
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    37,16 €

  • Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age
    Majsova Natalija / Chernyi Arsenii
    ENGThis book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in post-Soviet Russia. The author analyzes over 30 Soviet science fiction films, foregrounding their structures of utopia and their evolution over time, in order to trace both their transnation...
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    40,90 €

  • Hell Inside Hollywood
    Dan Gilbert
    'An amazing number of the stars have been sucked into Communist and Communistic-run subversive organizations. Investigators estimate that at least seven or eight million dollars have been wrong from Hollywood stars by Red agents, agitators and 'promotors.' The influence of the movies is to turn its own stars into crackpots, freaks, degenerates, alcoholics, dope fiends, free lov...
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    16,85 €

  • 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.From 1946 to 1956, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis provoked audiences into rollicking laughter as they shook up and delighted a culture they both mediated and made fun of. Using the duo’s phenomenal popularity as a starting point, The Biggest Thing in Show Business look...
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    30,67 €

  • Science on Screen and Paper
    During the Cold War, scientific discoveries were adapted and critiqued in many different forms of media across a divided Europe. Now, more than 30 years since the end of the Cold War, Science on Screen and Paper explores the intersections between scientific research and media by drawing from media history, film studies, and the history of science. From public relations material...
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    184,07 €

  • Documenting Socialism
    More than 30 years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, its cinema continues to attract scholarly attention. Documenting Socialism moves beyond the traditionally analyzed 'feature film production' and places East Germany’s documentary cinema at the center of history behind the Iron Curtain. Between questions of gender, race and sexuality and the complexities of...
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    197,38 €

  • Surrealism and film after 1945
    Kristoffer Noheden
    Surrealism and Film after 1945 is the first collection devoted to the vibrant culture of transnational surrealist cinema since the Second World War. Eleven chapters by leading and emerging scholars of surrealism and film studies establish the parameters of this history and situate surrealism as a major force in postwar cinema. ...
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    38,30 €

  • Beckett’s afterlives
    Jonathan Bignell
    Beckett’s afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to posthumous adaptations of Beckett’s oeuvre. This collection analyses the remarkable diversity of creative engagements across different media and cultural contexts that have ensured the survival and continuing relevance of Beckett’s work in a constantly changing world. ...
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    43,40 €

  • Das Gesicht im Film
    Frank Thomas Meyer
    ​Das menschliche Gesicht gilt einerseits als subtiler, „schwacher Code', das sich im Alltag den Deutungen der menschlichen Wahrnehmung immer wieder zu entziehen scheint. Andererseits wird gerade in Medien wie dem Film das Gesicht strategische eingesetzt, um unterschwellig Botschaften zu vermitteln. Die Bild-Werdung des Menschen hat, wie diese Arbeit zeigt, nicht erst mit dem Au...
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    99,27 €

  • Dueling Harlows
    Tom Lisanti
    In 1965 producers Joseph E. Levine and Bill Sargent were racing to get their problem-laden biopics of Jean Harlow (both titled Harlow) into theaters first. Levine’s film starred Carroll Baker in a big-budget, color production. Sargent’s movie starred Carol Lynley in a quickie, black and white production shot in a new process called Electronovision. In the press the two produ...
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    58,56 €

  • Ann Sheridan
    Michael D. Rinella
    Ann Sheridan was much more than just Hollywood’s glamorous and sexy 'Oomph Girl.' She was also a versatile actress who beguiled movie audiences with her vibrant personality and no-nonsense acting style opposite some of the biggest stars of the time like James Cagney, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, and Errol Flynn. She excelled in multiple genres, including drama, ...
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    58,40 €

  • Marco Ferreri
    Roberto Curti
    Marco Ferreri (1928-1997) was one of Italian cinema’s boldest auteurs. A maverick personality, he worked with some of the most popular actors of the time (Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Ugo Tognazzi, Carroll Baker, Roberto Benigni, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert and others), and directed internationally acclaimed films. His ...
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    88,12 €

  • Hindustani Filmein - Funn aur Funnkaar
    Mukarram Niyaz
    Urdu is a language that originated in India and has had a profound impact on every sphere of life. It is the charm of the sweetness and simplicity of this language that even those who are unfamiliar with this language are attached to it. A proof of this is the Hindi (Bollywood) films of India, in which most of the dialogues, songs and dialogues are in Urdu. This book presents a...
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    23,12 €

  • Filmi Muusiqii - Funn aur Funnkaar
    Mukarram Niyaz
    Urdu language and narration, dialogues and songs used in hindi or bollywood films have given Indian films such a place that even today when people listen to these songs, they cannot remain without enjoyment. This book presents an interesting research and critical analysis of the personality and art of Indian film lyricists and singers and their film songs./ہندوسانی فلموں میں مس...
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    20,27 €

  • The Chai-Light Zone
    David DeAngelo / Stephen Stern / Steven Gimbel
    The Twilight Zone is remembered as a science fiction television series that reflected the uneasiness of Cold War America. Its creator, Rod Serling, was a secular Jew who fought in World War II and returned stateside to see moral problems at home, like racism and the potential for technology to rob us of our humanity. The Twilight Zone was Serling’s attempt to influence mainstre...
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    17,92 €

  • The Chai-Light Zone
    David DeAngelo / Stephen Stern / Steven Gimbel
    The Twilight Zone is remembered as a science fiction television series that reflected the uneasiness of Cold War America. Its creator, Rod Serling, was a secular Jew who fought in World War II and returned stateside to see moral problems at home, like racism and the potential for technology to rob us of our humanity. The Twilight Zone was Serling’s attempt to influence mainstre...
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    30,40 €

  • Screening Europe in Australasia
    Julie K. Allen
    This book’s treatment of the extensive circulation of European silent features and stars in Australasia reveals the vibrant transnationalism of silent film before the rise of Hollywood, and frames the emergence of art house cinema in the 1920s. ...
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    59,55 €

  • 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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    126,83 €

  • Past
    Boris Buden / Želimir Žilnik / Olivera Jokić
    Who can know what is in the past? Is it what historians can tell us? Should we also trust what we can remember? Past: An Introduction to the Problem proposes that the problem of the past now concerns everyone. Visions of a different, brighter future defeated in the Cold War and its heated afterlives, we are being offered the past as the only horizon of possibility. And what are...
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    26,46 €

  • Changed Men
    Erin Lee Mock
    Postwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and confidence. Many veterans struggled, openly ...
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    165,45 €


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