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  • Defining cult movies
    Concentrates on the analysis of cult movies, how they are defined, who defines them and the cultural politics of these definitions. Raises issues about the perception of it as an oppositional form of cinema, and of its strained relationships to mainstream cinema and the processes of institutionalisation and classification. Claims that the history of academic film studies and th...
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    28,45 €

  • Understanding Cinema
    Per Persson
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    124,13 €

  • Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film
    Caroline Joan S Picart / Caroline Joan S. Picart
    Explores how filmmakers and screenwriters have used comedy and science fiction to extend the boundaries of the Frankenstein narrative. ...
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    43,30 €

  • Fritz Lang
    Lang Humphries / Reynold Humphries
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    44,81 €

  • Stars in Modern French Film
    Guy Austin
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    68,47 €

  • Little Vera
    Frank Beardow
    Directed by Vasisli Pichul and released in 1988 'Little Vera' received the European Film Award for best screenplay as well as the special jury prize at Montreal. Looking at the wider context of the film, this text observes its use of space and representations of complex family relationships, placing 'Little Vera' within the context of youth cinema and overturning its reputation...
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    38,58 €

  • Rungs on a Ladder
    Christopher Lee / Christopher Neame
    Christopher Neame, son of director Ronald, started his film career in the early 1960s with Hammer Films. This account is told from the perspective of an amateur who observes ’through a soft gauze’ many characters both in front of and behind the camera, including such producers of classic tales of Gothic horror as Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Anthony Hinds, Michael Carreras, ...
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    92,11 €

  • Korean Film
    Eungjun Min / Han Kwak / Jinsook Joo
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    121,82 €

  • Get Carter
    Steve Chibnall
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    45,02 €

  • Memory and popular film
    Paul Grainge
    One of the first books to put memory at the centre of analysis when exploring the relationship between film culture and the past. Provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present, drawing from film studies, American studies and cultural studies. Adopts a resolutely cultural perspective and unlike psychoanalytic or formalist...
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    28,19 €

  • The Cinema of Robert Zemeckis
    Norman Kagan
    Kagan unlocks the mind behind the making of these diverse and groundbreaking hits-appraising each work’s appeal while placing it in the context of Zemeckis’s career. ...
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    17,82 €

  • On the Waterfront
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    100,97 €

  • Luchino Visconti
    Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
    Aristocrat and Marxist, master equally of harsh realism and sublime melodrama, Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was without question one of the greatest European film directors. His career as a film-maker began in the 1930s when he escaped the stifling culture of Fascist Italy to work with Jean Renoir in the France of the Popular Front. Back in his native country in the 40s he was ...
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    160,79 €

  • To Change Reels
    Isabel Balseiro
    With the end of apartheid, South African cinema is at a turning point in its history. But how can we speak of a national cinema when so far only an elite minority has participated in it? How can filmmakers draw upon the past as they take South Africa into a new artistic era? This collection offers an unprecedented look at a film industry that has excluded its country’s black ma...
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    42,49 €

  • HOLLYWOOD
    William Park
    'Hollywood: An Epic Production' delights as it instructs. Written in heroic couplets, the form used by Dryden and Pope in their mock epics and satires, it recounts and interprets the history of the movies. Like other great epics, it contains twelve (short) cantos, each one devoted to an era such as the Twenties or Film Noir, an epic catalogue, and epic similes. Its witty lin...
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    14,26 €

  • British cinema of the 1950s
    Offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film history. Covers a variety of genres, such as B-movies, war films, women’s pictures and theatrical adaptations; as well as social issues which affect film-making, such as censorship. Includes fresh assessment of maverick directors; Pat Jackson, Robert Ham...
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    28,32 €

  • New Soviet Man
    John Haynes
    Examines the ’New Soviet Man’ not only as an ideal of masculinity presented to Soviet cinemagoers, but also, precisely, as a man in his specific, and hotly debated social, cultural and political context ...
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    32,30 €

  • Novels Into Film
    George BlueStone
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    43,40 €

  • Ain’t It Cool?
    Harry Knowles
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    24,48 €

  • The British working class in postwar film
    Philip Gillett
    An incidental pleasure of watching a film is what it tells us about the society in which it is made. Using a sociological model this title looks at how working-class people were portrayed in British feature films in the decade after the Second World War. ...
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    29,58 €

  • Dreams on Film
    Leslie Halpern
    Films with dream sequences, or a dreamlike quality, allow directors to create their own rules of logic and nature to meet a variety of artistic needs. For instance, an opening dream immediately establishes what a character is feeling; a later dream--or series of them--provides viewers with a glimpse of the climax, and a concluding dream ties up loose ends. (In real life, of ...
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    43,46 €

  • Performing Whiteness
    Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
    Explores how whiteness is culturally constructed in American films. ...
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    41,00 €

  • Screen Saviors
    Andrew Gordon / Andrew M. Gordon / Andrew MGordon / Deborah Barndt / Hern / N Vera / Hernán Vera
    Screen Saviors studies how the self of whites is imagined in Hollywood movies-by white directors featuring white protagonists interacting with people of another color. This collaboration by a sociologist and a film critic, using the new perspective of critical 'white studies,' offers a bold and sweeping critique of almost a century’s worth of American film, from Birth of Nation...
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    56,89 €

  • Jane Austen and Co.
    Examines recent Austen remakes as well as other 'post-heritage' films and television shows to show how the past is reshaped for a contemporary market. ...
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    43,25 €

  • Growing up with Audrey Hepburn
    Rachel Moseley
    The first full length academic study of Hepburn’s star persona and films featuring reseach into the experience of British women who have admired her in the 1950s, 1960s and the 1990s. Examines the historical specificity of discourses of feminity circulating around Hepburn and her female fans, suggesting that the flexibility of Hepburn’s image has contributed to her enduring app...
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    29,42 €

  • You’re Only as Good as Your Next One
    Mike Medavoy
    'If I had a talent for anything, it was a talent for knowing who was talented.'Mike Medavoy is a Hollywood rarity: a studio executive who, though never far from controversy, has remained well loved and respected through four decades of moviemaking. What further sets him apart is his role in bringing to the screen some of the most acclaimed Oscar-winning films of our time: Apoca...
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    23,20 €

  • Spanish Film and the Postwar Novel
    Norberto Minguez-Arranz
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    121,69 €

  • Reel V. Real
    Frank Sanello
    This book profiles sixty movies that portray actual moments in history, and compares the mythologized account of each event to what really happened. ...
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    18,93 €

  • French Cinema
    Keith Reader / Phil Powrie
    What are the Cahiers du cinéma ? Which are the most popular French films ? How do you write an essay on a French film ? What is a high-angle shot in French ? When did more French spectators go to see American films than French films ? How do you talk about a short sequence of film ? You can find the answers to these and many more questions in this essential resource for student...
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    55,11 €

  • Screening the Text
    Jefferson T. Kline / T. Jefferson Kline
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    43,15 €