Catálogo de libros: Directores de cine y cineastas

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  • Tracking King Kong
    Cynthia Erb
    In Tracking King Kong Cynthia Erb charts the cultural significance of the character of King Kong, from the early 1930s, when Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s classic film King Kong was first released, to Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake. Although King Kong has received much academic attention over the past twenty-five years, the bulk of these analyses deal with the film’s...
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    46,63 €

  • After Kieslowski
    Steven Woodward
    Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski died unexpectedly in March 1996 at precisely the moment he had reached the height of his career and gained a global audience for his work with the Three Colors trilogy (1993-94). Since his death he has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential directors of all time, elevated to the elite of world cinema alongside Jean Renoir, ...
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    47,02 €

  • A Doll’s House
    Henrik Ibsen / William Archer
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    15,07 €

  • John Singleton
    Craigh Barboza
    John Singleton (1968-2019) rocketed from obscurity to the top ranks of Hollywood directors in 1991, when he released his debut film Boyz N the Hood. The poignant coming-of-age story, set in the streets of south central Los Angeles, where Singleton grew up amid gang violence and hip-hop music, earned him Oscar nominations for best original screenplay and best directing. Only twe...
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    21,02 €

  • De compañero a contrarrevolucionario
    Joan del Alcàzar / Sergio López Rivero
    Aquel hecho histórico lleno de esperanza que se inauguró el primero de enero de 1959, que tanto alborozo, admiración y expectativas despertó, cuando menos se ha convertido en parte de una articulación mítica, que justifica las relaciones e instituciones en el llamado mundo revolucionario. A liberarnos del mito revolucionario y de su función legitimadora, nos ha ayudado el cine ...
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    15,00 €

  • The Correspondence Of Henrik Ibsen (1905)
    Henrik Ibsen
    The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen is a collection of letters written by the famous Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The book was published in 1905, after Ibsen’s death. The collection includes letters written by Ibsen to his contemporaries and friends, such as August Strindberg, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, and Edvard Grieg. The letters cover a wide range of topics, including Ibse...
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    43,89 €

  • Edgar G. Ulmer
    Gary DRhodes
    Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row examines the full scope of the career of this often overlooked film auteur, with essays exploring individual films, groups of films (such as his important work in film noir), repetitive themes appearing across the spectrum of his work, and a case study of three essays analyzing The Black Cat (1934). ...
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    163,26 €

  • Lady Inger Of Ostrat; The Vikings At Helgeland; The Pretenders (1904)
    Henrik Ibsen
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    26,33 €

  • The Films of Sergio Leone
    Robert C Cumbow / Robert C. Cumbow / Robert CCumbow
    The Films of Sergio Leone examines the work of this Italian filmmaker who made his mark re-envisioning the American Western. The book examines each of Leone’s major films as director, as well as My Name Is Nobody, which Leone co-wrote and guided as producer. The book also includes an exhaustive bibliography, discography, and filmography, completely updated for this new edition....
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    85,90 €

  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Brian Dauth
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Interviews features talks with the master director of such classics as All About Eve, The Barefoot Contessa, and Cleopatra. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) was a creative force in Hollywood from the end of the silent film era through the early years of the Hollywood renaissance of the 1970s. Displaying the wit, insight, and daring that were the hallmarks of his mov...
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    20,98 €

  • Postcolonial African cinema
    David Murphy / Patrick Williams
    This is the first introduction of its kind to an important cross-section of postcolonial African filmmakers from the 1950s to the present. Building on previous critical work in the field, this volume will bring together ideas from a range of disciplines - film studies, African cultural studies, and, in particular, postcolonial studies - in order to combine the in-depth analysis...
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    145,04 €

  • Andrzej Wajda
    Janina Falkowska
    Falkowska’s comprehensive survey of Wajda’s artistic evolution is a worthwhile addition to the growing critical literature on this exceptional filmmaker. In practical terms, the monographs is also useable as a textbook and...can serve as a point of departure for the continuing discourse von Andrzej Wajda and his films. Slavic and East European Journal...a highly readable, jargo...
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    43,99 €

  • Stanley Kubrick
    Seventeen essays examine the career and films of director Stanley Kubrick from a variety of perspectives. Part I focuses on his early career, including his first newsreels, his photography for Look magazine, and his earliest films (Fear and Desire, Killer’s Kiss). Part II examines his major or most popular films (Paths of Glory, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey). Part III ...
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    44,08 €

  • Empire of Dreams
    Andrew M. Gordon / Andrew MGordon
    Empire of Dreams is the first definitive look at all of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror films directed by Steven Spielberg, one of the most popular and influential contemporary filmmakers. Spielberg helped spark the renaissance of these genres in the 1970s and 1980s and remains productive and prominent in them today. Following most of Spielberg’s oeuvre as well as his ...
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    52,56 €

  • The Pretenders; Pillars Of Society; Rosmersholm (1913)
    Henrik Ibsen
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,39 €

  • The Vikings At Helgeland; The Pretenders (1910)
    Henrik Ibsen
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    23,77 €

  • The Films of Robert Wise
    Richard C. Keenan / Richard CKeenan
    The Films of Robert Wise examines the nearly 40 features that represent the director’s career. From Curse of the Cat People in 1944 to A Storm in Summer in 2001, Keenan offers a reappraisal of Wise’s films so that the true quality of his work can be better appreciated. Drawing on more than 30 hours of interviews with Wise-as well as additional interviews with a number of his co...
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    86,08 €

  • Mike Leigh
    Tony Whitehead
    Mike Leigh may well be Britain’s greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. Written with the co-operation of Leigh himself, this book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for television. ...
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    29,64 €

  • Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation
    Greg Jenkins
    Paring a novel into a two-hour film is an arduous task for even the best screenwriters and directors. Often the resulting movies are far removed from the novel, sometimes to the point of being unrecognizable. Stanley Kubrick’s adaptations have consistently been among the best Hollywood has to offer. Kubrick’s film adaptations of three novels--Lolita, The Shining and Full M...
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    50,42 €

  • Andrzej Wajda
    Janina Falkowska
    The work of Andrzej Wajda, one of the world’s most important filmmakers, shows remarkable cohesion in spite of the wide ranging scope of his films, as this study of his complete output of feature films shows. Not only do his films address crucial historical, social and political issues; the complexity of his work is reinforced by the incorporation of the elements of major film ...
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    183,72 €

  • The Films of Woody Allen
    From What’s Up, Tiger Lily? to Match Point, Woody Allen’s work has generated substantial interest among scholars and professionals who have written extensively about the director. In The Films of Woody Allen: Critical Essays, Charles L.P. Silet brings together two-dozen scholarly articles that address the core of Allen’s work from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspecti...
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    135,35 €

  • The Kubrick Facade
    Jason Sperb
    Many of Stanley Kubrick’s films are often interpreted as cold and ambiguous. Whether viewing Barry Lyndon, 2001, The Shining, or Eyes Wide Shut, there is a sense in which these films resist their own audiences, creating a distance from them. Though many note the coldness of Kubrick’s films, a smaller number attempt to explore exactly how his body of work elicits this particular...
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    72,44 €

  • El sello de Spielberg
    David Caldevilla Domínguez
    Steven Allan Spielberg nace en Cincinati (Ohio), ciudad cercana al medio millón de habitantes, en 1.947. Su familia era de la clase media, dedicándose su padre a la electrónica como ingeniero y su madre a tocar el piano. Ambos eran judíos y como tal educaron a sus hijos.Spielberg se crió rodeado de mujeres, pues los continuos viajes de su padre le dejaban con su madre, sus tres...
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    20,00 €

  • Zones of Anxiety
    Vicki Callahan
    The crime serials by French filmmaker Louis Feuillade provide a unique point of departure for film studies, presenting modes rarely examined within early cinematic paradigms. Made during 1913 to 1920, the series of six films share not only a consistency of narrative structure and style but also a progressive revelation of the criminal threat—a dislocation of both cinematic and ...
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    45,81 €

  • Patrice Leconte
    Lisa Downing
    Lisa Downing’s comprehensive study of the films of PatriceLeconte traces lines of continuity and revision through a body of apparentlydisparate films whose 'messages' often appear both contradictory andcontroversial. ...
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    21,29 €

  • Leo McCarey
    Wes D. Gehring / Wes DGehring
    This first full-length biography of a legendary and award-winning Hollywood writer, producer, and director (Duck Soup, My Favorite Wife, An Affair to Remember, Going My Way, and The Bells of St. Mary’s) explores the director’s life as filtered through his art. Gehring maintains that McCarey’s films were often a reworking of his antiheroic self. In addition, the apparent diversi...
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    106,53 €

  • William Beaudine
    Wendy L Marshall / Wendy L. Marshall / Wendy LMarshall
    In his unsurpassed employment of 60 years in the business, Beaudine racked up more than 500 films and in excess of 350 television programs. Until his death at age 78, he was the oldest active director in the business. This detailed biography chronicles Beaudine’s swift rise through the ranks, his triumph as one of the most successful directors of British comedies, his accumulat...
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    107,33 €

  • Body and Soul
    Tony J Williams / Tony J. Williams / Tony JWilliams / Tony Williams
    Body and Soul concentrates on the creative and cultural dilemmas-both personal and political-that affect the individuals in Aldrich’s films. ...
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    107,72 €

  • Hedda Gabler
    Henrik Ibsen
    Hedda Gabler is a play written by Henrik Ibsen and first published in 1890. The story follows the titular character, Hedda Gabler, a newlywed who is dissatisfied with her life and marriage. Hedda is a complex character who is manipulative, bored, and deeply unhappy. She feels trapped in her marriage to the kind but dull George Tesman and longs for excitement and power. Hedda’s ...
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    33,56 €

  • Ghosts
    Henrik Ibsen
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    14,13 €


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