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  • The Films of Sergio Leone
    Robert C Cumbow / Robert C. Cumbow / Robert CCumbow
    The Films of Sergio Leone examines the work of this Italian filmmaker who made his mark re-envisioning the American Western. The book examines each of Leone’s major films as director, as well as My Name Is Nobody, which Leone co-wrote and guided as producer. The book also includes an exhaustive bibliography, discography, and filmography, completely updated for this new edition....
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    85,90 €

  • Apocalyptic Transformation
    Elizabeth K Rosen / Elizabeth K. Rosen / Elizabeth KRosen
    Apocalyptic Transformation explores how one the oldest sense-making paradigms, the apocalyptic myth, is altered when postmodern authors and filmmakers adopt it. It examines how postmodern writers adapt a fundamentally religious story for a secular audience and it proposes that even as these writers use the myth in traditional ways, they simultaneously undermine and criticize th...
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    145,74 €

  • Apocalyptic Transformation
    Elizabeth K. Rosen / Elizabeth KRosen
    Apocalyptic Transformation explores how one the oldest sense-making paradigms, the apocalyptic myth, is altered when postmodern authors and filmmakers adopt it. It examines how postmodern writers adapt a fundamentally religious story for a secular audience and it proposes that even as these writers use the myth in traditional ways, they simultaneously undermine and criticize th...
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    66,84 €

  • Zombie Culture
    Zombie Culture examines the living dead through a variety of lenses. By looking at how portrayals of zombies have evolved from their folkloric roots and entered popular culture, readers will gain deeper insights into what zombies mean in terms of the public psyche, how they represent societal fears, and how their evolving portrayals continue to reflect underlying beliefs of The...
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    86,15 €

  • The Sacred Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    THE SACRED CINEMA OF ANDREI TARKOVSKYBy Jeremy RobinsonA major new study of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986), director of seven feature films, including Mirror, Andrei Rublev, Solaris and The Sacrifice. This book explores every aspect of Andrei Tarkovsky’s output in the most detailed fashion - including scripts, budget, production, shooting, editing, camera, sound...
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    56,48 €

  • African Americans and the Oscar
    Edward Mapp
    African Americans and the Oscar highlights the advancements Black performers have made on the silver screen and how those performances were honored by the Academy. Edward Mapp profiles all the nominees and recipients of the coveted award in the acting, writing, and directing categories, providing valuable information about how the role or film was viewed during its time and pla...
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    50,21 €

  • Contact Zones
    Sheila Petty
    Created at the crossroads of slavery, migration, and exile, and comprising a global population, the black diaspora is a diverse space of varied histories, experiences, and goals. Likewise, black diasporic film tends to focus on the complexities of transnational identity, which oscillates between similarity and difference and resists easy categorization. In Contact Zones author ...
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    49,70 €

  • ’Then it Was Destroyed by the Volcano’
    Arthur J. Pomeroy
    Depictions of the ancient world on the stage and in art have always competed with the reconstruction of the past by academics. The rise of cinema and television has heightened the difficulty in distinguishing between ’elite’ and ’popular’ culture. On American TV, Buffy the Vampire Slayer has incorporated aspects of the classical within the high school horror genre. In art cinem...
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    42,33 €

  • Postcolonial African cinema
    David Murphy / Patrick Williams
    This is the first introduction of its kind to an important cross-section of postcolonial African filmmakers from the 1950s to the present. Building on previous critical work in the field, this volume will bring together ideas from a range of disciplines - film studies, African cultural studies, and, in particular, postcolonial studies - in order to combine the in-depth analysis...
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    145,04 €

  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Brian Dauth
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Interviews features talks with the master director of such classics as All About Eve, The Barefoot Contessa, and Cleopatra. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) was a creative force in Hollywood from the end of the silent film era through the early years of the Hollywood renaissance of the 1970s. Displaying the wit, insight, and daring that were the hallmarks of his mov...
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    20,98 €

  • Hollywood Winners and Losers
    Mark M. Thise / Mark MThise / Mark Thise
    HOLLYWOOD WINNERS & LOSERS FROM A TO Z ...
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    21,35 €

  • Andrzej Wajda
    Janina Falkowska
    Falkowska’s comprehensive survey of Wajda’s artistic evolution is a worthwhile addition to the growing critical literature on this exceptional filmmaker. In practical terms, the monographs is also useable as a textbook and...can serve as a point of departure for the continuing discourse von Andrzej Wajda and his films. Slavic and East European Journal...a highly readable, jargo...
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    43,99 €

  • Toward a New Film Aesthetic
    Bruce Isaacs
    Film and theory have always gone hand in hand. In many ways, the professional academic study of cinema grew out of the revolutionary surges in literary and cultural theory in Europe. Since the 1970s, film theory has predominantly been a lens through which to wage philosophical and cultural war (in increasingly abstract terms), and cinema was in the right place at the right time...
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    64,16 €

  • Toward a New Film Aesthetic
    Bruce Isaacs
    Film and theory have always gone hand in hand. In many ways, the professional academic study of cinema grew out of the revolutionary surges in literary and cultural theory in Europe. Since the 1970s, film theory has predominantly been a lens through which to wage philosophical and cultural war (in increasingly abstract terms), and cinema was in the right place at the right time...
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    258,84 €

  • The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature
    Brian J. Frost / Brian JFrost
    In The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature, Brian J. Frost provides the first in-depth survey and bibliography of works of fiction featuring mummies. ...
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    128,95 €

  • Stanley Kubrick
    Seventeen essays examine the career and films of director Stanley Kubrick from a variety of perspectives. Part I focuses on his early career, including his first newsreels, his photography for Look magazine, and his earliest films (Fear and Desire, Killer’s Kiss). Part II examines his major or most popular films (Paths of Glory, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey). Part III ...
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    44,08 €

  • Forgeries of Memory and Meaning
    Cedric J. Robinson / Cedric JRobinson
    Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early 'talkies' firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans.Robinson grounds his study in contexts that illuminate the paral...
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    56,99 €

  • A Second Life
    Thomas Elsaesser
    German cinema is best known for its art cinema and its long line of outstanding individual directors. The double spotlight on these two subject has only deepened the obscurity surrounding the popular cinema. German Cinema performs a kind of archaeology on a period largely overlooked: the first two decades of German cinema. This collection of essays by established authors refocu...
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    17,96 €

  • Joris Ivens and the Documentary Context
    Kees Bakker
    The life of Joris Ivens (1898-1989) coincides roughly with the history of the film. His own place of prominence in that history was earned by his pioneering work in the documentary film, which combined a striking aesthetic with intense personal and political involvement. This book places his life and work in the context of twentieth-century history and the development of the do...
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    36,73 €

  • Cult Films
    Allan Havis
    Cult Films: Taboo and Transgression looks at nine decades of cult films history within American culture. By highlighting three films per decade including a brief summary of the decade’s identity and sensibility, the book investigates the quality, ironies, and spirit of cult film evolution. The twenty-seven films selected for this study are analyzed for story content and in thei...
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    53,47 €

  • Cinematics
    Stephen Mark Norman
    Cinematics is a book that explores key areas of film theory from the film language to genre. The book is split into five sections dealing with biology, grammar, genre, catharsis and dynamism all with examples from popular films and world classics. 3 ...
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    12,96 €

  • The Keystone Krowd
    Stuart Oderman
    From the man who brought you Talking to the Piano Player (and its upcoming sequel) comes an amazing history of the greatest comedy studio in history - Keystone.At Mack Sennett’s Fun Factory it was all laughs: flying pies, bathing beauties on the beach, traintrack thrills, cliffhangers, sight gags, and rehearsed spontaniety. All that was required for the anxious distributors and...
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    22,21 €

  • The new pornographies
    Martin Crowley / Victoria Best
    Why do many of the most prominent books and films of the last decade return obsessively to the themes and imagery of pornography? Discussing many of France’s most successful and scandalous contemporary writers and directors, this book is the first to address this important trend. ...
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    157,26 €

  • Deathtripping
    Jack Sargeant
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    16,71 €

  • The Epic in Film
    Constantine Santas
    Constantine Santas encourages us to wonder why critics have routinely dismissed the epic film. In The Epic in Film, Santas argues that 'blockbuster' and 'artistic' are not mutually exclusive terms and that epic film is an inherently profound genre in its ability to tap into a nation’s dreams and fears. Whether you love Gone with the Wind or hate Troy, find Akira Kurosawa’s film...
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    156,77 €

  • The New Face of Political Cinema
    Martin O'Shaughnessy / Martin O’Shaughnessy
    'O’Shaughnessy’s book succeeds in bringing to light a new tendency in French political cinema, and as such will reward the attention of those interested in political cinema as well as French cinema more generally. The book also further opens up fertile terrain in the ’aesthetic of the fragment’.' Senses of Cinema'This volume is a major statement on contemporary politically comm...
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    184,48 €

  • The Epic in Film
    Constantine Santas
    Constantine Santas encourages us to wonder why critics have routinely dismissed the epic film. In The Epic in Film, Santas argues that ’blockbuster’ and ’artistic’ are not mutually exclusive terms and that epic film is an inherently profound genre in its ability to tap into a nation’s dreams and fears. Whether you love Gone with the Wind or hate Troy, find Akira Kurosawa’s film...
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    57,14 €

  • Britain Can Take it
    Jeffrey Richards / Tony Aldgate
    At the outbreak of the Second World War, all cinemas in Britain were closed. Ten days later, they were opened again as a valuable way of boosting morale and a principal source of recreation for the nation at war. Feature films were not just escapist entertainment; they provided instruction and information, and over the next six years, some 300 feature films and thousands of sho...
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    45,32 €

  • The Mummy Unwrapped
    Thomas M Feramisco / Thomas M. Feramisco
    The mummy came to life in the 1940s out of Universal Pictures’ need to produce quick turnaround, low budget 'B' movies. Universal produced The Mummy’s Hand, The Mummy’s Tomb, The Mummy’s Ghost, and The Mummy’s Curse (originally The Mummy’s Return) and thus created a popular franchise that is still supported today by a following of loyal fans. (Universal was prompted to produ...
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    51,38 €

  • Screen Savers
    John DiLeo
    Boris Karloff will forever be Frankenstein's Monster, but is that any reason for us to overlook his later great horror film Isle of the Dead (1945)? An Oscar was George Clooney's reward for Syriana (2005), but isn't the underrated war film Three Kings (1999) still his best movie? Woman of the Year (1942) introduced the team of Tracy and Hepburn, yet didn't their later Pat and M...
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    17,80 €


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