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  • Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema
    Tan Ye / Yun Zhu
    Motion pictures were first introduced to China in 1896 and today China has become a major player in the film industry. However, the story of how Chinese cinema became what it is today is an exceptionally turbulent one. It encompasses incursions by foreign powers, warfare among contending rulers, the collapse of the Chinese empire, and the massive setback of the Cultural Revolut...
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    200,72 €

  • REEL TERROR
    DAVID KONOW
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    20,59 €

  • The British New Wave
    B. F. Taylor / BFTaylor
    This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate. Taylor presenting a new and innovative look at this famous cycle of British films. ...
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    29,79 €

  • Phenomenology and the Future of Film
    Jenny Chamarette
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    64,97 €

  • Psychoanalyzing Cinema
    jan jagodzinski
    The philosophical systems of Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Slavoj Žižek are formidable in their own right. Lacanian psychoanalysis has had a long history of developmental application to cinema studies, Žižek being one of its primary exponents. Deleuzian cinematic studies develop a schizoanalysis of cinema, which both challenges as well as supplements these past developments...
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    64,90 €

  • The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Zizek’s Theory of Film
    Matthew Flisfeder
    Slavoj Žižek is one of the world’s most important contemporary public intellectuals. Much of his popularity stems from his constant and recurring references to popular culture and cinema, as well as his own appearances in films such as The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema and Examined Life. Although Žižek refers to cinema in order to help explain difficult concepts in his theoretical ...
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    65,34 €

  • John Hughes and Eighties Cinema
    Thomas A. Christie / Thomas AChristie
    JOHN HUGHES AND EIGHTIES CINEMA John Hughes is the acclaimed writer and director of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty In Pink and many other classic movies of the 1980s. This book is the first full-length analysis of all of John Hughes’s films throughout the 1980s; not only the features that he directed, but also those for which he provided...
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    52,26 €

  • Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium
    Sabine Hake
    In the last five years of the twentieth century, films by the second and third generation of the so-called German guest workers exploded onto the German film landscape. Self-confident, articulate, and dynamic, these films situate themselves in the global exchange of cinematic images, citing and rewriting American gangster narratives, Kung Fu action films, and paralleling other...
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    184,20 €

  • The Simpsons, Satire, and American Culture
    M. Henry
    How is The Simpsons a satirical artwork engaged with important social, political, and cultural issues? In time for the twenty-fifth anniversary, Henry offers the first comprehensive understanding of the show as a satire and explores the ways in which The Simpsons participates in the so-called "culture war" debates taking place in American society. ...
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    66,19 €

  • Screening the Dark Side of Love
    Karen A. Ritzenhoff / Karen Randell
    How can love be understood globally as a problematic transgression rather than the narrative of "happy endings" that Hollywood has offered? The contributors utilize varying methodologies of textual analysis, psychoanalytic models, and cultural critique and engage with a broad range of films to explore issues of gender identity and spectatorship. ...
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    66,33 €

  • Don’t Stop Believin’
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    19,95 €

  • The Gus Van Sant Touch
    Justin Vicari
    Beloved, controversial, influential, the creator of such fascinating and award-winning films as My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, Elephant, and Milk, Gus Van Sant stands among the great international directors, equally at home in Hollywood and the avant-garde. Examining his films thematically, this book finds consistency of vision in Van Sant’s unique approach to cine...
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    42,71 €

  • British Crime Film
    Barry Forshaw
    Presenting a social history of British crime film, this book focuses on the strategies used in order to address more radical notions surrounding class, politics, sex, delinquency, violence and censorship. Spanning post-war crime cinema to present-day 'Mockney' productions, it contextualizes the films and identifies important and neglected works. ...
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    48,01 €

  • Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema
    Isak Thorsen / John Sundholm / Lars Gustaf Andersson
    The Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema covers the history of the Nordic countries through a chronology, introductory essays on each country, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on major persons and films, pan-Scandinavian entries on film genres, themes, and subjects such as animation, ethnicity, migration and cen...
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    219,43 €

  • Racial Stigma on the Hollywood Screen
    Brian Locke
    Racial Stigma on the Hollywood Screen from WWII to the Present charts how the dominant white and black binary of American racial discourse influences Hollywood’s representation of the Asian. The Orientalist buddy film draws a scenario in which two buddies, one white and one black, transcend an initial hatred for one another by joining forces against a foreign Asian menace. Alon...
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    66,61 €

  • Hollywood's Chosen People
    As studio bosses, directors, and actors, Jews have been heavily involved in film history and vitally involved in all aspects of film production. Yet Jewish characters have been represented onscreen in stereotypical and disturbing ways, while Jews have also helped to produce some of the most troubling stereotypes of people of color in Hollywood film history. In Hollywood's C...
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    46,89 €

  • Psychoanalyzing Cinema
    J. jagodzinski
    The essays within this collection explore the possibilities and potentialities of all three positions, presenting encounters that are, at times contradictory, at other times supportive, as well as complementary. The collection thereby enriches the questions that are being raised within contemporary cinematic studies. ...
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    66,26 €

  • Shocked But Connected
    Michael Roemer
    In Shocked But Connected, distinguished filmmaker Michael Roemer reflects on the nature of comedy and laughter. Incorporating the work of both the great thinkers and great comedians of our age, Roemer investigates what makes us laugh and what distinguishes comedy from all other art forms. ...
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    61,55 €

  • Cinema of John Boorman
    Brian Hoyle
    John Boorman has written and directed more than 25 television and feature films, including such classics as Deliverance, Point Blank, Hope and Glory, and Excalibur. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards, including twice for best Director (Deliverance and Hope and Glory). In the first full-length critical study of the director in more than two decades, author Brian Hoyle...
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    113,72 €

  • Historical Dictionary of Crime Films
    Geoff Mayer
    The Historical Dictionary of Crime Films covers the history of this genre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on key films, directors, performers, and studios. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about crime cinema. ...
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    211,02 €

  • Jesus at the Movies
    W. Barnes Tatum
    Since the earliest days of the movies more than a century ago, moviemakers have been intrigued by 'the greatest story ever told.' They have tried, with varying degrees of success, to capture the life of Jesus on film. In Jesus at the Movies Barnes Tatum has created a fascinating and exhaustively-researched viewer’s guide to the movies about Jesus. Tatum guides the reader film-b...
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    33,50 €

  • The Films of Joseph H. Lewis
    Joseph H. Lewis enjoyed a monumental career in many genres, including film noir and B-movies (with the East Side Kids) as well as an extensive and often overlooked TV career. In The Films of Joseph H. Lewis, editor Gary D. Rhodes, PhD. gathers notable scholars from around the globe to examine the full range of Lewis's career. While some studies analyze Lewis's work in d...
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    46,81 €

  • American Culture Transformed
    Bruce Tucker / Priscilla Walton
    The bombing of the Twin Towers in New York City on September 11, 2001, marked a major turning point in modern American culture. Priscilla Walton and Bruce Tucker examine critical moments in the aftermath of 9/11 - the Enron scandal, the trial of Martha Stewart, the capture and rescue of Jessica Lynch, the torture at Abu Ghraib prison, the widespread popularity of Dan Brown’s Th...
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    120,72 €

  • France, Film, and the Holocaust
    Ferzina Banaji
    When confronted with a historical event of the tragic magnitude of the Holocaust, cinema with its inherently representational nature has often been found lacking. The proliferation of Holocaust films, especially in France, testifies that filmmakers appear stubbornly immune to representational moratoria making film’s relationship with the Holocaust a profoundly engaged and compl...
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    65,32 €

  • American Culture Transformed
    Bruce Tucker / Priscilla Walton
    The bombing of the Twin Towers in New York City on September 11, 2001, marked a major turning point in modern American culture. Priscilla Walton and Bruce Tucker examine critical moments in the aftermath of 9/11 - the Enron scandal, the trial of Martha Stewart, the capture and rescue of Jessica Lynch, the torture at Abu Ghraib prison, the widespread popularity of Dan Brown’s Th...
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    66,73 €

  • The new pornographies
    Martin Crowley / Victoria Best
    Why do many of the most prominent books and films of the last decade return obsessively to the themes and imagery of pornography? Discussing many of France’s most successful and scandalous contemporary writers and directors, this book is the first to address this important trend. ...
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    29,42 €

  • Emilio Fernández
    Dolores Tierney
    This book is an authoritative account of the career of Emilio Fernández, (1906-1986), one of Mexico’s and Latin America’s most successful and significant directors. It challenges assumptions about classical Mexican cinema and offers new, detailed textual analyses of Fernández’ most significant films (Enamorada, Rio Escondido, María Candelaria). ...
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    29,72 €

  • Julio Medem
    Rob Stone / Robert Stone
    This, the first book-length study of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem in English, contains profound analysis of his life and films in the context of contemporary Spain and World cinema and is based on original interviews with Medem and many of his collaborators by the author, an establish expert on Spanish cinema. ...
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    29,54 €

  • The cinema of Álex de la Iglesia
    Andrew Willis / Andy Willis / N. Ria Triana-Toribio / NRia Triana-Toribio / Nuria Triana-Toribio / Peter Buse
    The first book in English about Álex de la Iglesia, critically acclaimed former protégé of Pedro Almodóvar, and one of the highest grossing directors in Spain and Latin America. De la Iglesia’s cinema is representative of a new generation of Spanish and European directors who combine avant-garde strategies with forms such as comedy and horror. ...
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    29,67 €

  • Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema
    Simone de Beauvoir’s work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first feminist thinker to inaugurate the concept of the gendered ’othering’ gaze. This book is an attempt to redress this balance and reopen the dialogue between Beauvoir’s writings and film studies. The authors analyse a range of films, fr...
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    184,51 €


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