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  • Framing the Fifties
    The demise of the New German Cinema and the return of popular cinema since the 1990s have led to a renewed interest in the postwar years and the complicated relationship between East and West German cinema in particular. A survey of the 1950s, as offered here for the first time, is therefore long overdue. Moving beyond the contempt for 'Papa’s Kino' and the nostalgia for the ’f...
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    44,49 €

  • Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic
    William Grange
    The Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic is an account of significant cultural events in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic. Weimar culture was responsible for producing such icons as actress Marlene Dietrich, novels like All Quiet on the Western Front, musicals like The Threepenny Opera, the political cabaret, the Bauhaus School, and films like The Cabinet of ...
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    111,78 €

  • Discovering World Religions at 24 Frames Per Second
    Julien R. Fielding / Julien RFielding
    Discovering World Religions at 24 Frames Per Second takes students beyond the written page, offering an exploration of religious traditions through the study of feature films and focusing mainly on Eastern traditions. Biographical sketches of directors whose films tend to focus on a particular religious tradition are also included, such as Zhang Yimou, Hayao Miyazaki, Deepa Meh...
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    148,57 €

  • A History of Film Music
    Mervyn Cooke
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    198,81 €

  • The Psychology of the Western
    William Indick
    Western films are often considered sprawling reflections of the American spirit. This book analyzes the archetypes, themes, and figures within the mythology of the western frontier. Western themes are interpreted as expressions of cultural needs that perform specific psychological functions for the audience. Chapters are devoted to the frontier hero character, the roles of w...
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    42,73 €

  • Films and Dreams
    Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
    Films and Dreams considers the essential link between films and the world of dreams. Thorsten Botz-Bornstein reveals a common structure of ’dreamtense’ in the works of major filmmakers like Tarkovsky, Sokurov, Bergman, and Wong Kar-wai. ...
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    64,33 €

  • Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema
    Ian Buchanan
    In 1971, Deleuze and Guattari’s collaborative work, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia caused an international sensation by fusing Marx with a radically rewritten Freud to produce a new approach to critical thinking, which they provocatively called "schizoanalysis." Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema explores the possibilities of using this concept to investigate ...
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    52,74 €

  • Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema
    In 1971, Deleuze and Guattari’s collaborative work, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia caused an international sensation by fusing Marx with a radically rewritten Freud to produce a new approach to critical thinking they provocatively called schizoanalysis. Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema explores the possibilities of using this concept to interrogate cinemat...
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    206,91 €

  • The Asian Influence on Hollywood Action Films
    Barna William Donovan
    Filmmakers of the Pacific Rim have been delivering punches and flying kicks to the Hollywood movie industry for years. This book explores the ways in which the storytelling and cinematic techniques of Asian popular culture have migrated from grainy, low-budget martial arts movies to box-office blockbusters such as The Magnificent Seven, Star Wars, The Matrix and Transformers...
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    42,49 €

  • The Architecture of Drama
    David Letwin / Joe and Robin Stockdale
    Many of the world’s greatest dramas have sprung not only from the creative impulses of the authors but also from the time-honored principles of structure and design that have forged those impulses into coherent and powerful insights. An understanding of these principles is essential to the craft of creating and interpreting works of drama for the stage or screen. The Architectu...
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    86,34 €

  • Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood
    Karen Ward Mahar
    Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood explores when, how, and why women were accepted as filmmakers in the 1910s and why, by the 1920s, those opportunities had disappeared. In looking at the early film industry as an industry-a place of work-Mahar not only unravels the mystery of the disappearing female filmmaker but untangles the complicated relationship among gender, work cultu...
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    39,19 €

  • Through Stranger Eyes
    David Brin
    rom bestselling author David Brin comes a collected work that takes the reader on a swooping, controversial ride through worlds of fiction, nonfiction and film. Through Stranger Eyes is a freedom-of-expression free-for-all, offering more than two dozen reviews and commentaries that are sure to enlighten and entertain, possibly infuriate, even make you laugh.From carefully measu...
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    32,44 €

  • Slave Cinema
    Andr Seewood / Andrae Seewood / Andre Seewood
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    17,82 €

  • Slave Cinema
    Andr Seewood / Andrae Seewood
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    31,91 €

  • Hollywood’s Ancient Worlds
    Jeffrey Richards
    Jeffrey Richards examines the cultural, social, economic and technological circumstances that dictated the rise and decline of each successive cycle of Ancient World epics, from the silent film era, to the 'golden age' of the 1950s, right up to the present day (Gladiator, 300, Rome). Analysis reveals that historical films are always as much about the time in which they are made...
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    95,57 €

  • Camera and Action
    Elaine M Bapis / Elaine M. Bapis
    This study examines the changes in the American film industry, audiences, and feature films between 1965 and 1975. With transformations in production codes, adjustments in national narratives, a rise in independent filmmaking, and a new generation of directors and producers addressing controversial issues on the mainstream screen, film was a major influence on the social cha...
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    58,68 €

  • The Toho Studios Story
    Stuart Galbraith / Stuart IV Galbraith
    Since its inception in 1933, Toho Co., Ltd., Japan’s most famous movie production company and distributor, has produced and/or distributed some of the most notable films ever to come out of Asia, including Seven Samurai, Godzilla, Ringu, and Spirited Away. The Toho Studios Story provides a complete picture of every Toho feature the Japanese studio produced and released. ...
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    314,48 €

  • Riefenstahl Screened
    Neil Christian Pages
    Leni Riefenstahl is larger than life. From the lure of her persona as it enters our homes via television to our pleasure in the recognition of her film images at rock concerts, to her place as part of the history of the Nazi period, Riefenstahl lives on in our imagination and in our cultural productions. Thus, the editors’ introduction to this volume examines the manner in whic...
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    63,94 €

  • Image and Mind
    Gregory Currie
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    57,69 €

  • Nazis and the Cinema
    Susan Tegel
    Before the rise of television, the cinema was a key medium of entertainment and information. The Nazi regime, which inherited the largest film industry outside Hollywood, realised this, with some of the most memorable images of Hitler and his party coming from Leni Riefenstahl’s film Triumph of the Will. Susan Tegel has written a comprehensive account of the films made in Nazi...
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    51,93 €

  • A Foreign Affair
    Gerd Gem'unden / Gerd Gem’unden
    '...provides a hugely readable, insightful examination of Billy Wilder’s American films as the product of transnational cultural exchange.' · Monatshefte'Gemünden’s vital decoding of Wilder’s translation of himself into the American vernacular offers stimulating new material and perspectives that will no doubt shape Wilder scholarship to come.' · Austrian Studies Newsletter...
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    26,69 €

  • Masculinity in Fiction and Film
    Brian Baker
    This book looks at a wide range of fiction and film texts, from the 1950s to the present, in order to analyse the ways in which masculinity has been represented in popular culture in Britain and the United States. It covers numerous genres, including spy fiction, science fiction, the Western and police thrillers. Each chapter focuses on key forms of masculinity found in each ge...
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    97,09 €

  • Crowd Scenes
    Michael Tratner
    The movies and the masses erupted on the world stage together. In a few decades around the turn of the twentieth century, millions of persons who rarely could afford a night at the theater and had never voted in an election became regular paying customers at movie palaces and proud members of new political parties. The question of how to represent these new masses fascinated an...
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    50,45 €

  • Foreign Affair
    Gerd Gemünden
    With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute’s list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other director, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish émigré from C...
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    184,48 €

  • Movie Medievalism
    Nickolas Haydock
    This work offers a theoretical introduction to the portrayal of medievalism in popular film. Employing the techniques of film criticism and theory, it moves beyond the simple identification of error toward a poetics of this type of film, sensitive to both cinema history and to the role these films play in constructing what the author terms the 'medieval imaginary.' The ope...
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    42,78 €

  • Adapting Nathaniel Hawthorne to the Screen
    Laurence Raw
    Considered one of the greatest American authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne created a memorable body of literature. In Adapting Nathaniel Hawthorne to the Screen: Forging New Worlds, Laurence Raw demonstrates how filmmakers have turned to Hawthorne to comment on the nation’s past, present, and future.From filmmakers who use Hawthorne’s material to depict American life of the mid-19th ...
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    101,50 €

  • Conversations with Directors
    Elsie MWalker
    Founded in 1973, the journal Literature/Film Quarterly has featured interviews with some of the most prominent and influential filmmakers from around the world. In Conversations with Directors, the journal’s coeditors have assembled an exciting collection of interviews spanning 35 years. Interviewees include directors like Robert Wise, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, Federico Fellin...
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    107,89 €

  • The Magnificent Showman the Epic Films of Samuel Bronston
    Mel Martin
    Samuel Bronston produced some of the greatest and most remembered epic films of the sixties. El Cid, King of Kings, Fall of the Roman Empire, John Paul Jones, and Circus World. With a literal ’cast of thousands’, and the biggest and most historically accurate sets ever built, the films have become legendary. The Magnificent Showman tells the stories behind the making of these m...
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    27,74 €

  • The Magnificent Showman the Epic Films of Samuel Bronston (hardback)
    Mel Martin
    Samuel Bronston produced some of the greatest and most remembered epic films of the sixties. El Cid, King of Kings, Fall of the Roman Empire, John Paul Jones, and Circus World. With a literal ’cast of thousands’, and the biggest and most historically accurate sets ever built, the films have become legendary. The Magnificent Showman tells the stories behind the making of these m...
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    40,28 €

  • Science Fiction Serials
    Roy Kinnard
    Destination Moon; George Pal’s 1950 Technicolor epic, is generally cited as the first noteworthy science fiction film. Usually ignored or casually dismissed in genre histories are the serials, the low-budget chapterplays exhibited as Saturday matinee fare and targeted almost exclusively at children. Lacking stars and top-notch writers or directors, the serials went largely u...
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    42,88 €


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