Film & movie: styles & genres books

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This book undertakes a concentrated study of the impact of degraded and low-quality imagery in contemporary cinema...  Read More >>

Emphasizing films such as Batman: The Movie that have received little scholarly attention, this book presents a...  Read More >>

This collection of essays examines how New York and Los Angeles are depicted in noir and neo-noir films from the...  Read More >>

Emphasizing films such as Batman: The Movie that have received little scholarly attention, this book presents a...  Read More >>

This book explores how Bakhtin’s ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema....  Read More >>

This book, a collection of fifteen original essays on the film performances and stardom of John Barrymore, redresses...  Read More >>

Explore the dark and brooding elegance of Film Noir with this essential handbook to the genre, exploring key noir...  Read More >>

This book addresses what a superhero body can do by developing several “x-rays” of the superbody’s sensoria, anatomic...  Read More >>

Applies the principles of process philosophy and Deleuzian film aesthetics to animation as a genre and medium.  Read More >>

A comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome...  Read More >>

An oral history of the video store era as told by the filmmakers who were there.  Read More >>

Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers...  Read More >>

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Considering selected films representing three periods in history - World Wars I and II, the Vietnam War, and major...  Read More >>

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Passionate, intelligent and accessible. Midnight Movie monographs go where other critical series fear to tread....  Read More >>

This comprehensive study brings together leading international scholars in a variety of disciplines to both revisit...  Read More >>

Focusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, French-language Road Cinema contends that nowhere...  Read More >>

Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema,...  Read More >>

Applying the metaphor of the 'border crossing' from one temporal or spatial territory into another, Border Crossing:...  Read More >>

A collection of interdisciplinary essays, collected for the first time, on the work of filmmaker and screenwriter...  Read More >>

From Jacob Riis' How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Igor Krsti outlines...  Read More >>

The first collection to address the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, Andre Bazin and Georg Lukcs in...  Read More >>