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  • Constructing the Coens
    Allen Redmon
    This book combines recent developments in cognitive film theory, genre studies, and adaptation theory to isolate the ways in which the Coens encourage spectators to participate in the ongoing construction of their movies. ...
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    90,59 €

  • Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema
    Marek Haltof
    Through a chronology; an introductory essay; appendixes, a bibliography; and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on films, directors, actors, producers, and film institutions, a balanced picture of the richness of Polish cinema is presented. ...
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    157,59 €

  • Bodies in Pain
    Tarja Laine
    'Bodies in Pain offers nuanced and persuasive interpretations of Darren Aronofsky’s films, yet it is more than a study of an auteur director. Rather, Laine conceptualises film authorship as a co-creative process that involves the intentions and achievements of the filmmaker...[and] attributes to Aronofsky a distinctively corporeal audio-visual style that produces visceral, emot...
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    184,53 €

  • Palimpsestic Memory
    Max Silverman
    '... a very impressive contribution to discussions of memory in relation to the Holocaust and colonialism in French and Francophone contexts. It is original, erudite, theoretically highly sophisticated and likely to be of immense value in developing debates in the field. It is also very well-written: eloquent and subtle in its expression of and contribution to the theoretical c...
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    44,70 €

  • Supercinema
    William Brown
    'The author presents ... an innovative perspective on cinema in the digital age. From the opening page, we encounter an articulate writing voice that presents a broad agenda for the study of contemporary cinema - with Fight Club standing in as a constant reference point.' · Warren Buckland, Oxford Brookes University'This is an excellent, provocative book that I enthusiastical...
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    38,26 €

  • Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema
    'The volume convincingly demonstrates the enduring value of Beauvoir’s work, and makes a very distinctive contribution to contemporary French film studies.' · Modern and Contemporary France'[The editors] accomplish this genre’s most important task: framing the collection with an urgency that leads a reader to wonder how such a book didn’t already exist...By the time I’d reac...
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    38,25 €

  • Cinema of Choice
    Nitzan Ben Shaul
    '...a welcome contribution to the scholarship on film narrative. Ben Shaul provides thought-provoking commentary on how movies construct their narratives and the process by which audiences cognitively interact with them. [His] book should appeal to anyone interested in film narratology or cognitive studies of film, and is particularly relevant to those interested in experimenta...
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    38,26 €

  • Jacques Rivette
    Alison Smith / Douglas Morrey
    A complete survey - the first in English - of Jacques Rivette’s sixty-year career in French cinema, from the New Wave to the present day. ...
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    28,16 €

  • Catherine Breillat
    Douglas Keesey
    The first full-length monograph in English devoted to one of the most acclaimed and controversial directors in contemporary cinema ...
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    28,59 €

  • Sex and Film
    Barry Forshaw
    Sex and Film is a frank, comprehensive analysis of the cinema’s love affair with the erotic. Forshaw’s lively study moves from the sexual abandon of the 1930s to filmmakers’ circumvention of censorship, the demolition of taboos by arthouse directors and pornographic films, and an examination of how explicit imagery invaded modern mainstream cinema. ...
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    134,12 €

  • So Deadly, So Perverse 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
    Troy Howarth
    Beginning with the release of Mario Bava's THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH in 1963, Italian filmmakers developed and perfected their own peculiar brand of mystery-thriller known as the giallo. Named after the yellow (giallo in Italian) covers of the murder mysteries published by Mondadori, the giallo is awash in fetishistic imagery. For many fans, these films—popularized in the ...
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    51,37 €

  • After the Fact
    Brad Prager
    After the Fact studies the terrain of Holocaust documentaries subsequent to the turn of the twenty-first century. Until now most studies have centered primarily on canonical films such as Shoah and Night and Fog, but over the course of the last ten years filmmaking practices have altered dramatically. Changing techniques, diminishing communities of survivors, and the public’s r...
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    48,24 €

  • Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television
    Brian Baker
    While masculinity has been an increasingly visible field of study within several disciplines (sociology, literary studies, cultural studies, film and tv) over the last two decades, it is surprising that analysis of contemporary representations of the first part of the century has yet to emerge. Professor Brian Baker, evolving from his previous work Masculinities in Fiction and ...
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    226,06 €

  • After the Fact
    Brad Prager
    After the Fact studies the terrain of Holocaust documentaries subsequent to the turn of the twenty-first century. Until now most studies have centered primarily on canonical films such as Shoah and Night and Fog, but over the course of the last ten years filmmaking practices have altered dramatically. Changing techniques, diminishing communities of survivors, and the public’s r...
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    193,26 €

  • Silver Screen Buddha
    Sharon A. Suh
    How do contemporary films depict Buddhists and Buddhism? What aspects of the Buddhist tradition are these films keeping from our view? By repeatedly romanticizing the meditating monk, what kinds of Buddhisms and Buddhists are missing in these films and why?Silver Screen Buddha is the first book to explore the intersecting representations of Buddhism, race, and gender in contemp...
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    226,22 €

  • Mimesis, Movies, and Media
    Building on the growing recognition and critical acclaim of volumes 1 and 2 of Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, this third volume in the series showcases the most groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research in mimetic theory, with a focus on well-known films, television series, and other media. Mimesis, Movies, and Media reaches beyond the traditional boundaries of continental ...
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    245,71 €

  • Doubling, Distance and Identification in the Cinema
    Paul Coates
    The intention of this project is to argue theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, identification and doubling in the cinema. The link between the first two terms (scale and distance) and the latter two (identification and doubling) is implicit in the title, and its unfolding constitutes th...
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    65,25 €

  • Arab American Drama, Film and Performance
    Michael Malek Najjar
    Beginning with early Arab American playwright, poet and novelist Kahlil Gibran and concluding with contemporary playwright Yussef El Guindi, this book provides an historical overview and critical analysis of the plays, films and performances of self-identified Arab Americans. Playwrights, filmmakers and performers covered include Ameen Fares Rihani, Danny Thomas, Heather Raf...
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    42,62 €

  • The Documentary
    Belinda Smaill
    The Documentary proposes that emotions such as pleasure, hope, pain, empathy or nostalgia play a powerful role in the circulation and reception of documentaries. Emotion shapes how political issues and individuals are represented and perceived in documentary and it is crucial to how we engage with the vicissitudes of the public sphere. In the past, documentary has been popularl...
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    66,58 €

  • The American Success Myth on Film
    Julie Levinson
    Contemporary cultural narratives, like ancient myths, speak to our common aspirations and anxieties. These ritually retold stories help to create a sense of communal identity. The American Success Myth on Film considers how movies, as bearers of modern myths, have illuminated the ideological contradictions at the heart of the American idea of success. In examining the enduring ...
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    66,58 €

  • Doubling, Distance and Identification in the Cinema
    P. Coates
    This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, identification and doubling in the cinema. It contains analyses of a wide variety of films, including Citizen Kane, The Double Life of Véronique, The Great Gatsby, Gilda, Vertigo and Wings of Desire. ...
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    48,15 €

  • Real War vs. Reel War
    Suzanne Broderick
    In this book, World War II veterans compare their wartime experiences—as soldiers, pilots, “code talkers,” and prisoners of war—to on-screen portrayals of the war in Hollywood films. In addition, two women—real life “Rosie the Riveters”—compare depictions of women and the home front at wartime with their experiences. ...
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    60,25 €

  • Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema
    This book explores the oneiric in Italian cinema from filmic representations and visualizations of dreams, nightmares, hallucinations, and dream-like and hypnotic states, to dreams as cinematic allegories and metaphors and the theoretical frameworks applied to the investigation of this relationship. ...
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    122,36 €

  • Human Rights Film Festivals
    Sonia M. Tascón
    Human rights film festivals have been steadily growing in number in recent years. They are all bound by a common thread, human rights, and yet show distinctly different films. What leads them to be so different, and how is the universalism of human rights made sense by each? ...
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    65,07 €

  • Human Rights Film Festivals
    Sonia M. Tascón
    Human rights film festivals have been steadily growing in number in recent years. They are all bound by a common thread, human rights, and yet show distinctly different films. What leads them to be so different, and how is the universalism of human rights made sense by each? ...
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    47,99 €

  • Van Johnson
    Ronald L. Davis
    Van Johnson’s dazzling smile, shock of red hair, and suntanned freckled cheeks made him a movie-star icon. Among teenaged girls in the 1940s he was popularized as the bobbysoxer’s heartthrob.He won the nation’s heart, too, by appearing in a series of blockbuster war films--A Guy Named Joe, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Weekend at the Waldorf, and Battleground. Perennially a leadin...
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    50,02 €

  • Taking Fame to Market
    B. King
    This book explores, from a sociological perspective, the relationship between acting as symbolic work and the commercialization of popular culture. Particular attention is paid to the social conditions that gave rise to stardom in the theatre and cinema, and how shifts in the marketing of stars have impacted upon contemporary celebrity culture. ...
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    66,41 €

  • The Politics of Adaptation
    In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their underlying ideologies that are reshaping our global media landscape, including questions of audience participation and transmedia storytelling. ...
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    66,35 €

  • World Cinema and Cultural Memory
    I. Hedges
    Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five continents. The book’s innovative approach and approachable style should transform the way that we think of film and its social effects. ...
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    66,72 €

  • The Fascination of Film Violence
    Henry Bacon
    The Fascination of Film Violence is a study of why fictional violence is such an integral part of fiction film. How can something dreadful be a source of art and entertainment? Explanations are sought from the way social and cultural norms and practices have shaped biologically conditioned violence related traits in human behavior. ...
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    66,57 €


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