Catálogo de libros: Teoría y crítica cinematográficas

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  • Theorising Media
    John Corner
    Issues of power, form and subjectivity are at the centre of all attempts to understand the media better. This book highlights both what we know and what we need to know, using regular examples to make its points. ...
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    29,55 €

  • French Comedy on Screen
    Rémi Fournier Lanzoni
    Analyzes film forms, narratives, history, and major interpretative approaches within the comedy genre, particularly French comedies in their cultural context and the aesthetics of French film. ...
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    65,01 €

  • French Comedy on Screen
    R. Lanzoni
    French comedy films occupy a specific cultural space and are influenced by national traditions and shared cultural references, but at the same time they have always been difficult to classify. This book investigates the different methods in which these comedies textually inscribed and exemplified a variety of cultural and historical landmarks. ...
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    66,36 €

  • Food on Film
    Tom Hertweck
    This collection addresses the relative scarcity of work relating to food-film studies, showcasing innovative viewpoints about a popular, yet understudied, subject in film. The volume asks provocative questions about food and its relationship with work, urban life, sexual orientation, the family, race, morality, and a wide range of “appetites.” ...
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    129,10 €

  • Classical Masculinity and the Spectacular Body on Film
    Daniel O’Brien
    The cinema has often showcased the muscular male body, most notably in genres invoking classical Greco-Roman culture, whether peplum, epic or sword-and-sorcery. This book reassesses the classically-inflected action film as a significant cinematic form, often marginalized in media studies, that transcends such reductive labels as camp or kitsch. The focus is on the depiction of ...
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    65,37 €

  • Classical Masculinity and the Spectacular Body on Film
    D. O’Brien
    The muscle-bound male body is a perennial feature of classically-inflected action cinema. This book reassesses these films as a cinematic form, focusing on the depiction of heroic masculinity. In particular, Hercules in his many incarnations has greatly influenced popular cultural interpretations of manliness and the exaggerated male form. ...
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    48,40 €

  • 100 Greatest Silent Film Comedians
    James Roots
    This book ranks the top 100 silent film stars based on a scale that considers creativity, originality, chemistry with fellow performers, and other factors. The author also promotes some lesser-known performers, singles out each artist’s best works, and identifies key films available on DVD. ...
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    153,71 €

  • Filming the End of the Holocaust
    John Michalczyk
    Filming the End of the Holocaust considers how the US Government commissioned the US Signal Corps and other filmmakers to document the horrors of the concentration camps during the April-May 1945 liberation. The evidence of the Nazis’ genocidal actions amassed in these films, some of them made by Hollywood luminaries such as John Ford and Billy Wilder, would go on to have a maj...
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    206,59 €

  • The S. George Ullman Memoir
    George Ullman
    In the days following the sudden death of Rudolph Valentino in 1926, his business manager and closest friend, George Ullman published a book titled, Valentino As I Knew Him. Before his own death in 1975, Ullman wrote a personal memoir about his life 'behind-the-scenes' with Rudy. This memoir is a treasure trove of new anecdotes and information about the movie star’s personal a...
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    37,65 €

  • Literature and Film, Dispositioned
    Alice Gavin
    Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature’s encounter with film - silent film in particular - as a means to thinking about the locations of thought in literature. Interested especially in theories of free indirect style both literary and filmic, it brings these theories together by seeing the free indirect as involving less the representation of i...
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    65,40 €

  • Revisionist Rape-Revenge
    Claire Henry
    Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in recent years. This book analyzes the politics, ethics, and affects at play in the filmic construction of rape and its responses. ...
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    66,56 €

  • Revisionist Rape-Revenge
    Claire Henry
    Rape-revenge is one of film studies’ neglected genres, in spite of the plethora of examples globally over the past decade. Previously considered a notorious subset of 1970s and 1980s horror or exploitation, there has been a massive revitalization and diver ...
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    65,22 €

  • Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema
    Natalia Pinazza
    There is a large body of South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. These films, made from the 1990s onwards, take into account the neoliberal post-dictatorship ...
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    65,36 €

  • Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema
    Natalia Pinazza
    Many South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. Pinazza performs a careful cultural analysis of the films and investigates how road movies deal with narratives on nationhood whilst simultaneously inserting themselves in a transnational dialogue. ...
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    66,72 €

  • JFK Image
    Raluca Lucia Cimpean
    This volume examines various representation of John F. Kennedy on film, from fictionalized accounts of his wartime exploits—PT-109 (1963)—to his presidency, his assassination, and his legacy. With a focus on docudramas, the book looks at how such films keep the myth of Kennedy and Camelot alive. ...
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    129,27 €

  • Projecting 9/11
    Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo / Carmen RLugo-Lugo / Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo / Mary KBloodsworth-Lugo
    Projecting 9/11 looks at how the themes of race, gender, and citizenship are treated in more than 20 recent movies. The book highlights racial and gender stereotypes and shows how characters are portrayed as un-American or “other.” The book illustrates how films both reflect social realities in America and also help create them. ...
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    109,92 €

  • Unhomely Cinema
    Dwayne Avery
    Representations of troubled and inhospitable domestic places are a common feature of many cinematic narratives. 'Unhomely Cinema' explores how the unhomely nature of contemporary film narrative provides an insight into what it means to dwell in today’s global societies. ...
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    142,67 €

  • Animation, Sport and Culture
    P. Wells
    Animation, Sport and Culture is a wide-ranging study of both sport and animated films. From Goofy to Goalkeepers, Wallace and Gromit to Tiger Woods, Mickey Mouse to Messi, and Nike to Nationhood, this Olympic-sized analysis looks at the history, politics, aesthetics and technologies of sport and animation from around the globe. ...
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    65,17 €

  • Animation, Sport and Culture
    P. Wells
    Animation, Sport and Culture is a wide-ranging study of both sport and animated films. From Goofy to Goalkeepers, Wallace and Gromit to Tiger Woods, Mickey Mouse to Messi, and Nike to Nationhood, this Olympic-sized analysis looks at the history, politics, aesthetics and technologies of sport and animation from around the globe. ...
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    48,08 €

  • Coen Brothers Encyclopedia
    Lynnea Chapman King
    This encyclopedia focuses on all aspects of the Coen Brothers’ work—from writing and directing Blood Simple (1983) to their involvement in the forthcoming television series, Fargo. This extensive reference contains material on all of the films the brothers have written, produced, and directed, as well as their sideline ventures. ...
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    132,16 €

  • Reeling with Laughter
    Michael V. Tueth / Michael VTueth
    In this book, Tueth looks at some of the most enduring comic movies of all time. Beginning with the anarchic romp Duck Soup (1933), each chapter explores a specific sub-genre by examining a representative film. Tueth delves into the background of each film’s production and discusses their audience reception and critical appraisal. ...
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    43,24 €

  • James Cagney Films of the 1930s
    James L. Neibaur / James LNeibaur
    This book provides a film-by-film look at the thirty-two movies James Cagney made during the 1930s, from his supporting role in Sinner’s Holiday (1930) to the end of the decade as an established star of Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and The Roaring Twenties in 1939. ...
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    129,19 €

  • The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro
    Offering a multifaceted approach to the Mexican-born director Guillermo del Toro, this book examines his many roles: as special effects meister, screenwriter, comic fan, and horror guru. The contributors marshal their expertise in the fields of horror, fan ...
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    169,77 €

  • Composing for the Red Screen
    Kevin Bartig
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    48,79 €

  • The Sounds of Silent Films
    Anna Katharina Windisch
    The Sounds of Silent Films comprises up-to-date research on silent film sound, providing a particular focus on historical performance practices combined with detailed theoretical case studies. The contributions by eminent scholars in the fields of musicology, film studies and media studies, as well as by curators and archivists, explore crucial notions such as the historicity o...
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    144,89 €

  • The war that won’t die
    David Archibald
    Students and Lecturers and intelligent readers interested in the Spanish Civil War and the representation of history in cinema ...
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    32,14 €

  • The Sounds of Silent Films
    Anna Katharina Windisch / Claus Tieber
    The Sounds of Silent Films is a unique collection of investigatory and theoretical essays that, for the first time, unite up-to-date research on the complex historical performance practices of silent film accompaniment with in-depth analyses of relevant case studies. ...
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    47,87 €

  • Spike Lee
    Jason Vest
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    94,88 €

  • Body, Soul and Cyberspace in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema
    Sylvie Magerstadt
    Body, Soul and Cyberspace explores how recent science-fiction cinema addresses questions about the connections between body and soul, virtuality, and the ways in which we engage with spirituality in the digital age. The book investigates notions of love, life and death, taking an interdisciplinary approach by combining cinematic themes with religious, philosophical and ethical ...
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    65,88 €

  • Listening to Stanley Kubrick
    Christine Lee Gengaro
    In Listening to Stanley Kubrick, Christine Gengaro provides an in-depth exploration of the music that was composed for Stanley Kubrick’s films and places the preexistent music he utilized into historical context. This book offers a thoroughly researched examination into the musical elements of one of cinema’s most brilliant artists. ...
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    51,12 €


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