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  • The Making of Casablanca
    Aljean Harmetz
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    29,06 €

  • Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy
    Steve Bell / Wes D Gehring / Wes D. Gehring / Wes DGehring
    Including over 60 titles each of romantic and screwball comedy dating from the 1930’s to the present, this research tool not only demonstrates how screwball and romantic comedy are two distinct genres, but also highlights pivotal social and artistic changes which impacted both genres. Includes 16 black and white movie stills, countless quotations from selected films, an annotat...
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    91,77 €

  • Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen
    Robert Mayer
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    43,31 €

  • The Triumph of the Ordinary
    Joshua Feinstein
    Were movies in the East Bloc propaganda or carefully veiled dissent? In the first major study in English of East German film, Joshua Feinstein argues that the answer to this question is decidedly complex. Drawing on newly opened archives as well as interviews with East German directors, actors, and state officials, Feinstein traces how the cinematic depiction of East Germany ch...
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    70,49 €

  • Playing the Race Card
    Linda Williams
    The black man suffering at the hands of whites, the white woman sexually threatened by the black man. Both images have long been burned into the American conscience through popular entertainment, and today they exert a powerful and disturbing influence on Americans’ understanding of race. So argues Linda Williams in this boldly inquisitive book, where she probes the bitterly di...
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    56,43 €

  • Framing Hitchcock
    Sidney Gottlieb
    In its ten-year history, the Hitchcock Annual has established itself as a key source of historical information and critical commentary on one of the central figures in film history and arguably one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Fans of Alfred Hitchcock—both scholars and general readers alike—will be entertained and informed by this selection of writing...
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    46,23 €

  • Genre and Contemporary Hollywood
    Steve Neale
    This wide-ranging text is one of the first to look in detail at some of the principal genres, cycles and trends in Hollywood’s output during the last two decades. It includes analysis of such films as Sense and Sensibility, Grifters, The Mask, When Harry Met Sally, Pocahontas, Titanic, Basic Instinct, Coppola’s Dracula, and Malcolm X. ...
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    57,22 €

  • Adaptation revisited
    Sarah Cardwell
    Offers a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, as well as bringing new material into the broader field of Television Studies. Surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing the unspoken assumptions and common misconceptions that underlie them and explores the problems inherent in previous approaches, developing an original perspective that consi...
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    28,33 €

  • A Year at the Movies
    Kevin Murphy
    For some of us, moviegoing is an occasional pleasure. Kevin Murphy made it his obsession, and he did it for you.Mr. Murphy, known to legions of fans as Tom Servo on the legendary TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000, went to the movies every day for a year. That’s every single day, people. For a whole fricken’ year. And not only did he endure, he prevailed -- for this is th...
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    18,82 €

  • Film and Knowledge
    Film has become such an underpinning of art and pop culture that its potential for inspiring serious thought is often overlooked. Our intellectual involvement with film has been minimized as more in the audience want to be merely amazed and entertained. Essays written by both established and cutting-edge philosophers of film concentrate in this work on the value of film i...
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    42,76 €

  • Hollywood Values
    Steven C. Scheer / Steven CScheer
    Tagline: We watch the same movies, but we don?t see the same movies. Hollywood Values makes a heroic effort to show that Hollywood bashing doesn?t have it right. Good things are coming out of Hollywood. This book proves it. ...
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    32,47 €

  • Celluloid Heroes Down Under
    Theodore Sheckels
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    121,57 €

  • The Hanging Figure
    Christopher D. Morris / Christopher DMorris
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    121,25 €

  • Between the Bullets
    Michael Bliss
    Through an examination of representative films from the director’s Hong Kong and American periods, Michael Bliss demonstrates that Woo should be regarded as a predominantly religious director, in whose films action is the vehicle by virtue of which a concern with spirituality is dramatized. Contains a chapter on Chinese opera tradition as relates to Woo’s films, an exclusive in...
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    92,12 €

  • American film and politics from Reagan to Bush Jr
    Covers a crucial two decades in American history, when the links between Hollywood and Washington DC were at their strongest.. The period is ’book-ended’ by the mighty political and cinematic figures of Reagan and Clinton.. Covers a period in which movies have become targets of political rhetoric of ’family values’.. Essays examine cinematic views of key American political inst...
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    28,36 €

  • OOPS!
    Jim Kamm / Matteo Molinari
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    15,33 €

  • The New Iranian Cinema Politics, Representation and Identity
    Richard Tapper
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    206,32 €

  • A Star Is Born
    Ronald Haver
    A STAR IS BORN: THE MAKING OF THE 1954 MOVIE AND ITS 1983 RESTORATION , ...
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    14,07 €

  • Romeo and Juliet
    William Shakespeare
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    68,76 €

  • Star Wars
    Max S. Kay / Max SKay / Michael J. Hanson / Michael JHanson
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    21,24 €

  • Star Wars
    Max S. Kay / Max SKay / Michael J. Hanson / Michael JHanson
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    28,34 €

  • Media semiotics
    Jonathan Bignell
    Media semiotics is a lucid investigation of the critical approach in contemporary media studies. Using examples such as Big Brother and Billy Elliot, Jonathan Bignell steps easily from basic concepts to more complex theories, while devoting chapters to specific media forms. New material in this second edition includes sections on men’s style magazines, docusoaps and ’reality TV...
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    22,14 €

  • Unplugged
    Benjamin A. Donley
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    11,14 €

  • A Postmodern Cinema
    Mary Alemany-Galway
    Investigates how postmodern techniques are used to create works that embody contemporary contradictions. The author proposes a poststructuralist/postmodern film theory which enhances the analysis of this type of film. ...
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    135,71 €

  • Hollywood hype and audiences
    Thomas Austin
    A fascinating multi-dimensional investigation of popular film as a commercial, cultural and social phenomenon, focusing on well known and controversial films, and on important - and marketable - issues such as sex and violence. Traces the circulation in Britain of three Hollywood films - Basic Instinct, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Natural Born Killers - from marketing and critica...
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    29,64 €

  • Eighteen Woody Allen Films Analyzed
    Sander H Lee / Sander H. Lee
    This new textbook is an abridgment of the author’s earlier Woody Allen’s Angst: Philosophical Commentaries on His Serious Films (McFarland, 1997; 'invaluable'--Choice.) Five main topics are explored: the desire of many of his characters to ground their lives in traditional ethical values despite their realization that such values may no longer be certain; the opposition be...
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    28,24 €

  • Studying Contemporary American Film
    Thomas Elsaesser / Warren Buckland
    How should the student set about analysing contemporary American cinema? This book takes an innovative approach to film analysis: each chapter examines the assumptions behind one traditional theory of film, distils a method of analysis from it, and then analyses a contemporary American movie. It then goes beyond the traditional theory by analysing the same movie using a more cu...
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    63,80 €

  • The Runaway Bride
    Elizabeth Kendall
    Kendall’s examination of classic comedies from It Happened One Night to The Lady Eve -and the comediennes who starred in them-reveals what these films said about America during the Depression and how they helped Americans get through it. ...
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    16,28 €

  • Class, Language, and American Film Comedy
    Christopher Beach
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    49,41 €

  • British stars and stardom
    Bruce Babington
    Deals analytically with the fascinating topic of the great film stars (and some thought-provoking lesser ones) of the British cinema, from Alma Taylor and Ivor Novello in the Silent period, up to the present day. Looks both at stars who attained worldwide fame through the Hollywood cinema, and those whose contribution is primarily to the national cinema.. First collection of es...
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    32,06 €