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  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    Ray Morton
    CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND: THE MAKING OF STEVEN SPIELBERG’S CLASSIC FILM ...
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    31,06 €

  • Missing Reels
    Harry Waldman
    During the first half of this century, motion pictures were often considered disposable once their circulations were over. The recycling of used film and the use of components for war efforts contributed to the loss of many movies, as did the unstable nature of the nitrate film itself. The loss of extant works has created gaps in the national cinematic history of the United ...
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    73,47 €

  • Postcolonial African cinema
    David Murphy / Patrick Williams
    An excellent introductory volume for those wishing to know more about the hitherto neglected cinema from the African continent, including directors from Egypt, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Tunisia, Cameroon, South Africa ...
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    29,68 €

  • A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film
    Bruce Babington
    A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film is the only comprehensive account of the New Zealand feature film from its beginnings to the present. Countering tendencies to think of New Zealand film as beginning in the 1970s, Bruce Babington discloses a longer saga showing how the present, for all its difference, can only be understood through the past: Gaston Méliès’ New Z...
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    29,30 €

  • Hollywood’s American Tragedies
    Mandy Merck
    Theodore Dreiser’s dissection of the American dream, An American Tragedy, was hailed as the greatest novel of its generation. Now a classic of American literature, the story is one to which Hollywood has repeatedly returned.Hollywood’s obsession with this tale of American greed, justice, religion and sexual hypocrisy stretches across the history of cinema. Some of cinema’s grea...
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    47,47 €

  • I Love the Illusion
    Charles Tranberg
    Lovers of old-time radio hold a special place in their heart for Agnes Moorehead. She was one of the busiest and most definitive actresses of that medium. The bottom line is that Agnes Moorehead is one of the few actresses who succeeded in every realm of show business: stage, radio, film, and television. The respect of her peers can be summed up in these statistics: four Academ...
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    36,03 €

  • Film, Folklore and Urban Legends
    Mikel J Koven / Mikel J. Koven / Mikel JKoven
    From Alien to When a Stranger Calls, many films are based on folklore or employ an urban legend element to propel the narrative. Films, Folklore and Urban Legends explores the convergence of folklore with popular cinema studies and focuses on the study of urban legends and how these narratives are used as inspiration for a number of films. Beginning with a general survey of the...
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    86,20 €

  • Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies
    Howard Good
    Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies poses urgent questions about journalism ethics and offers candid answers. As the title suggests, the authors-some of the nation’s leading journalism scholars-investigate popular movies to illustrate the kind of ethical dilemmas journalists encounter on the job, resulting in a student-friendly book sure to spark interest and stimulate thinkin...
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    42,10 €

  • Empire of Dreams
    Andrew M. Gordon / Andrew MGordon
    Empire of Dreams is the first definitive look at all of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror films directed by Steven Spielberg, one of the most popular and influential contemporary filmmakers. Spielberg helped spark the renaissance of these genres in the 1970s and 1980s and remains productive and prominent in them today. Following most of Spielberg’s oeuvre as well as his ...
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    52,56 €

  • Hollywood Highbrow
    Shyon Baumann
    Today’s moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie 'art.' Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 19...
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    89,39 €

  • Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking
    Linda T. Calendrillo / Linda TCalendrillo
    The essays in WAYS OF SEEING, WAYS OF SPEAKING: THE INTEGRATION OF RHETORIC AND VISION IN CONSTRUCTING THE REAL explore the intersections among image, word, and visual habits in shaping realities and subjectivities. Each of the nine authors addresses the following question: How is the constitution of our world and our identities composed of the intricate interweaving of imagery...
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    38,16 €

  • Cinema of Obsession
    Dominique Mainon / James Ursini
    CINEMA OF OBSESSION: EROTIC FIXATION AND LOVE GONE WRONG IN THE MOVIES ...
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    27,64 €

  • Before the Fall
    Anna Lawton
    This is an expanded edition of Kinoglasnost: Soviet Cinema in Our Time. The book examines the fascinating world of Soviet cinema during the years of glasnost and perestroika-the 1980s. It shows how the reforms that shook the foundations of the Bolshevik state and affected economic and social structures have been reflected in the film industry. A new added chapter provides a co...
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    24,00 €

  • The Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture
    When the first season of Star Trek opened to American television viewers in 1966, the thematically insightful sci-fi story line presented audiences with the exciting vision of a bold voyage into the final frontiers of space and strange, new galactic worlds. Perpetuating this enchanting vision, the story has become one of the longest running and most multifaceted franchises i...
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    42,75 €

  • Blur (Volume 1)
    Stephen R. Bissette / Stephen RBissette
    Welcome to the first of four volumes collecting the complete weekly 'Video Views' columns (1999-2001) by renowned cartoonist, author and film scholar Stephen R. Bissette. Here is the ’blur’ of Bissette’s comprehensive weekly columns covering the endless flow of video and DVD releases from June 1999 to March 2000. He brings uncanny focus to everything he writes about, as this co...
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    23,15 €

  • The Cinema of Michael Mann
    Steven Rybin
    The Cinema of Michael Mann traces the work of this important Hollywood director through a critical study of his film style and its relationship to genre, film criticism, auteurism, and historical context. The book covers Mann’s entire filmography, from his beginning in television to his recently released film adaptation of the television series Miami Vice. ...
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    141,56 €

  • Screening Difference
    Jaap Van Ginneken / Van Jaap Ginneken
    Did you know that Pocahontas probably never fell in love with John Smith, as film versions pretend? That the myth of the sexually eager Hula girls is based on misunderstandings by early explorers? Screening Difference is a fascinating voyage through recent movie blockbusters dealing with encounters between ’us,’ based on white Hollywood, and ’them,’ the representations of other...
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    146,90 €

  • Screening Difference
    Jaap Van Ginneken / Van Jaap Ginneken
    Did you know that Pocahontas probably never fell in love with John Smith, as film versions pretend? That the myth of the sexually eager Hula girls is based on misunderstandings by early explorers? Screening Difference is a fascinating voyage through recent movie blockbusters dealing with encounters between 'us,' based on white Hollywood, and 'them,' the representations of other...
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    56,95 €

  • The Cinema of Michael Mann
    Steven Rybin
    The Cinema of Michael Mann traces the work of this important Hollywood director through a critical study of his film style and its relationship to genre, film criticism, auteurism, and historical context. The book covers Mann’s entire filmography, from his beginning in television to his recently released film adaptation of the television series Miami Vice. ...
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    66,82 €

  • The Literature/Film Reader
    James MWelsh
    From examinations of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, The Literature Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation covers a wide range of films adapted from other sources. The first section presents essays on the hows and whys of adaptation studies, and subsequent sections highlight films adapted from a variety of sources, including classic and popular l...
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    100,57 €

  • Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen
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    66,25 €

  • Monstrous adaptations
    The first book devoted to the study of horror film and adaptation. Comprised of essays by top scholars in the field, this anthology includes analyses of such under-examined films as Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein, John Barrymore’s Jekyll and Hyde, Jean Epstein’s La Chute de la maison Usher, Gus van Sant’s Psycho and Guillermo de Toro’s Cronos ...
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    169,55 €

  • From silent screen to multi-screen
    Stuart Hanson
    The book is the first comprehensive survey charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening - the Lumière Brothers’ showing of their Cinématographe show at London’s Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896 - through to the development of the multiplex and megaplex cinema. ...
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    157,49 €

  • From silent screen to multi-screen
    Stuart Hanson
    The book is the first comprehensive survey charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening - the Lumière Brothers’ showing of their Cinématographe show at London’s Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896 - through to the development of the multiplex and megaplex cinema. ...
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    29,67 €

  • Postmodern Hollywood
    M. Keith Booker / MKeith Booker
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    82,50 €

  • Contemporary European Cinema
    Mary P. Wood
    An overview of the dynamics of twenty-first century European cinema ...
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    52,48 €

  • Upward Mobility and the Common Good
    Bruce Robbins
    We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals rather than with any collective interest. In Upward Mobility and the Common Good, Bruce Robbins completely overturns these assumptio...
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    81,55 €

  • 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 fi...
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    184,24 €

  • Revenge
    Jonathan L Bowen
    In 2005, the most successful film series of all time came to a close with Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith. Not only did the movie break countless box office records-and hit a first-ever $50 million opening day-it also impressed critics worldwide. The fan frenzy led to a record $3 billion in consumer spending on related products. With its $850 million worldwide box-of...
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    28,77 €

  • Revenge
    Jonathan L Bowen
    In 2005, the most successful film series of all time came to a close with Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith. Not only did the movie break countless box office records-and hit a first-ever $50 million opening day-it also impressed critics worldwide. The fan frenzy led to a record $3 billion in consumer spending on related products. With its $850 million worldwide box-of...
    Disponible

    40,01 €


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