Catálogo de libros: Teoría y crítica cinematográficas

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  • Are We Living in a Disaster Movie?
    Brian A. Shaer
    Some periods of history contain so many compounded disasters they seem to be inspired by disaster movies. In the early 2020s, the Covid-19 pandemic upended the world and thrust populations into a state of uncertainty and fear--as seen in movies like Outbreak, The Towering Inferno or Armageddon. Birthed from the author’s original research on disaster movies, this book argue...
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    42,81 €

  • Robert Guédiguian
    Joseph Mai
    Considers Guédiguian’s career, both as a filmmaker and producer, as a valid response to a crisis in post-Communist Leftist political movements in France ...
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    36,09 €

  • Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index
    Allen H Redmon
    Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index offers a reassessment of the cinematic index as it sits at the intersection of film studies, trauma studies, and adaptation studies. Author Allen H. Redmon argues that far too often scholars imagine the cinematic index to be nothing more than an acknowledgment that the lens-based camera captures and brings to the screen a reality t...
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    42,98 €

  • Germaine Dulac
    Maryann De Julio
    This book examines the career of Germaine Dulac, a pioneering French filmmaker and feminist whose perspective, innovations and ardent promotion of cinema are documented in her theoretical writings. ...
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    145,10 €

  • The Coming Death
    Richard F. Calichman
    Explores questions of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema. ...
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    42,35 €

  • The Yin and Yang of Short Film Storytelling
    Richard Raskin
    In the first book to study the short film using the yin yang complementarity, Raskin proposes a new paradigm-describing major forms of yin and yang, redefined as ungendered, freed of patriarchal bias. Yin evokes such properties as holding back and an openness to interpretation while yang promotes structure, causality, and control. Ten exemplary short films show how the model il...
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    37,24 €

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.comWalt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937) occupies a central place within the history of global animation. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the film was the first feature-length animated film produced by ...
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    50,66 €

  • Crank it up
    Jason Statham is Britain’s most important post-millennial male film star. This book examines his work throughout a career encompassing film, television, music videos, multi-media platforms and video gaming. ...
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    35,59 €

  • Del clasicismo a las modernidades
    Isaac León Frías
    Con apenas un poco más de un siglo y cuarto de existencia, el cine no se inscribe cómodamente en el sistema de estilos y épocas que la historia del arte prescribe para disciplinas milenarias como la pintura, la música o la literatura. En este libro, Isaac León Frías nos acerca a las particularidades de la historia del cine y al desarrollo de sus distintas estéticas.Esta es la h...
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    44,87 €

  • Ruth Roman
    Derek Sculthorpe
    With her striking looks, the raven-haired, dark eyed Ruth Roman had an air of sophistication that made her seem sexy yet wholesome. She had to strive harder than most to establish herself as a leading actress in Hollywood during its glory years and finally broke through in 1949 with her role in Champion. As one of the last Warner Bros. contract players, she appeared in Alfre...
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    57,48 €

  • Smile, You Sonuvabitch! A Brit’s Take on Catfights, Serial Killers and Other Fun Movie Stuff
    Dave Franklin
    From Peckinpah and Schwarzenegger to Ulzana’s Raid and Switchblade Sisters, Dave Franklin takes a politically incorrect look at the glories of twentieth century cinema.In this second volume of his Baby Ice Dog Movie Guide, he offers eight Fucked-Up Films, a bit of tit trauma, ten of the best Starring Debuts, some macho idiots, a tribute to Michael Douglas’ prime, and a quick ex...
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    17,00 €

  • Truth and Lives on Film
    John T. Aquino
    As early as the Silent Era, movie studios were sued over depictions of real people and events. Filmmakers have always altered the details of true stories and actual persons, living or dead, to make narratives more workable and characters more compelling. When truth and fantasy become inextricably mixed, the effect on people’s lives can be significant, even devastating. Thi...
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    57,27 €

  • The Holiday in His Eye
    William Rothman
    Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell’s oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies. ...
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    46,16 €

  • Mexico Unmanned
    Samanta Ordóñez
    Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema. ...
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    42,10 €

  • Reel Change
    Jon Burrows / Richard Wallace
    Ten years ago, a technological revolution swept through cinemas around the world, as analogue projectors were replaced with digital equipment. It was not just the plastic medium of film that was removed from projection boxes during this transformation; most cinemas took this opportunity to also evict the human projectionists who were hitherto in charge of screenings. Projection...
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    41,17 €

  • White Cottage, White House
    Tony Tracy
    Argues that Irish American masculinity functioned to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1960. ...
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    121,87 €

  • No Jurisdiction
    Fareed Ben-Youssef
    A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture. ...
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    121,79 €

  • Whiteness at the End of the World
    David Venditto
    Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety. ...
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    121,99 €

  • Sean Connery
    Andrew Spicer
    This ground-breaking study provides an authoritative account of the career of this iconic star. It illuminates his early work, his role as James Bond and his later reinvention as father-mentor and screen legend. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it will be essential reading for those interested in the phenomenon of stardom. ...
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    33,86 €

  • The Essence of Film Noir
    Diana Royer
    American classic films noir, beginning with 1941’s The Maltese Falcon and ending with 1950’s Sunset Boulevard, and the neo-noir films made from the 1970s onward, share certain thematic aspects, stylistic qualities, and cultural contexts. Their concern with politics, their depiction of con artists, and the way their characters are shaped by America’s puritanical religious roo...
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    58,58 €

  • The Magnificent ’60s
    Brian Hannan
    Hollywood in the 1960s walked a tightrope between boom and bust. Yet the decade spawned many of the greatest films ever made, saw the advent of the spy thriller, the revival of science fiction and horror, and represented the Golden Era of the 70mm roadshow. Blockbusters like Lawrence of Arabia and The Sound of Music shared marquees with low-budget hits such as Lilies of the ...
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    58,75 €

  • Japanese Cinema
    Peter Cowie
    Peter Cowie is a bona fide expert on international film and has published 30+ books on the subjectHis account of Japanese film includes personal encounters with the directors themselves and others icons such as Donald Richie.A comprehensive guide to Japanese film: from prewar films to 21st-century Japanese animation.Has the breadth of an introduction for the uninitiated along w...
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    16,72 €

  • Frank Sinatra on the Big Screen
    Gary Schneeberger / James L. Neibaur
    Frank Sinatra is an iconic figure in music, but his film career is often overlooked. His innate talent as an actor is proven in many serious dramatic roles, including films like Man with the Golden Arm, The Manchurian Candidate, and From Here to Eternity, for which he received an Oscar. From romantic musical comedies to Rat Pack films, Frank Sinatra achieved a great deal of ...
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    57,30 €

  • The Cinematographer’s Voice
    A unique exploration of contemporary filmmaking from cinema’s ultimate insiders. ...
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    121,46 €

  • Action, Action, Action
    Tom Conley
    Studies the force of action, motion, and vision in the early cinema of Hollywood director Raoul Walsh. ...
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    121,70 €

  • Space Exploration on Film
    Paul Meehan
    Over the course of several decades, scientific fact has overtaken science fiction as humankind’s understanding of the universe has expanded. Mirroring this development, the cinematic depictions of space exploration over the last century have evolved from whimsical sci-fi fantasies to more fact-based portrayals. This book chronologically examines 75 films that depict voyages...
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    73,10 €

  • Walls Without Cinema
    Larrie Dudenhoeffer
    This volume closely examines the near-ubiquitous images of state security walls, domes, and other such defense enclosures flashing across movie screens since 2006, the year of the ratification of George W. Bush’s Secure Fence Act. This study shows that many of the films of this era enable us to imaginatively test the effects of these security mechanisms on citizens, immigrants,...
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    51,06 €

  • Three Hollywood Stalwarts in Literature
    Henryk Hoffmann
    This book focuses on the perception of the names, personae, performances and films of three Hollywood megastars, Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and William Holden, as presented in the references and allusions encountered in American and foreign literature. Its secondary aim is to establish the ’impact factor’ of the three actors and their major films and provide extensive data fo...
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    75,75 €

  • Rhetoric, Inc.
    Timothy Johnson
    Examines motion pictures produced or sponsored by Ford Motor Company from a rhetorical perspective, demonstrating how the films reveal a long-term rhetorical project that has helped embed corporations into many of the social systems guiding societies today.  ...
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    50,10 €

  • Cora Witherspoon
    Axel Nissen
    Born into an upper-crust family in New Orleans, Cora Bell Witherspoon (1890-1957) was an orphan by the age of 10 and a professional actress by 15. She was seen on Broadway from 1910 till 1946 in 36 productions and was a popular character actress in Hollywood between 1931 and 1954. On stage she played roles like Sallie McBride in Daddy Long Legs, Josephine Trent in The Awful ...
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    73,14 €


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