Film & movie: styles & genres books

5216 books were found.

Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks: Gender, Genre and Film Sound in American Cinema

Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks: Gender, Genre...

Author: Heidi Wilkins (Journalist and Independent Scholar)
ISBN: 9781474425902
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This book explores a range of popular film genres throughout American history and uncovers the ways that sound is...  Read More >>

In Secrecy's Shadow: The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema 1941-1979

In Secrecy's Shadow: The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema...

Author: Simon Willmetts (Lecturer in American Studies, University of Hull)
ISBN: 9781474425940
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Drawing on extensive archival research, In Secrecy's Shadow explores the revolution in the relationship between...  Read More >>

Screen Presence: Cinema Culture and the Art of Warhol, Rauschenberg, Hatoum and Gordon

Screen Presence: Cinema Culture and the Art of Warhol,...

Author: Stephen Monteiro (Associate Professor of Global Communications, American University of Paris)
ISBN: 9781474425971
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Screen Presence explores the intersections of film, popular media and contemporary art through the examples of four...  Read More >>

ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves

ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves

Author: Matthew Carter (Senior Lecturer in Film, Television and Cultural Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University) ,  Andrew Patrick Nelson (Assistant Professor of Film History and Critical Studies, Montana State University)
ISBN: 9781474425988
Format: Paperback
$67.99

As the first comprehensive study of Daves's career, this collection of essays seeks to deepen our understanding...  Read More >>

Expressionism in the Cinema

Expressionism in the Cinema

Author: Olaf Brill (Freelance Writer and Editor) ,  Gary D. Rhodes (Professor of Media, Oklahoma Baptist University)
ISBN: 9781474425872
Format: Paperback
$67.99

An innovative and wide-ranging collection, Expressionism in Cinema re-canonizes the classical Expressionist aesthetic,...  Read More >>

French and Spanish Queer Film: Audiences, Communities and Cultural Exchange

French and Spanish Queer Film: Audiences, Communities...

Author: Chris Perriam (Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Manchester) ,  Darren Waldron (Senior Lecturer in French, The University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9781474425995
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Advancing the current state of film audience research and of our knowledge of sexuality in transnational contexts,...  Read More >>

Contemporary Russian Cinema: Symbols of a New Era

Contemporary Russian Cinema: Symbols of a New Era

Author: Vlad Strukov (Associate Professor, University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9781474425957
Format: Paperback
$67.99

One of the first books to explore Russian cinema in the new millennium, this volume captures the emergence of a...  Read More >>

Doctor Who and History: Critical Essays on Imagining the Past

Doctor Who and History: Critical Essays on Imagining...

Author: Carey Fleiner ,  Dene October
ISBN: 9781476666563
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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Free and Easy?: A Defining History of the American Film Musical Genre

Free and Easy?: A Defining History of the American Film...

Author: Sean Griffin
ISBN: 9781405194952
Format: Paperback
$49.95

A History of the American Musical narrates the evolution of the film musical genre, discussing its influences and...  Read More >>

Free and Easy?: A Defining History of the American Film Musical Genre

Free and Easy?: A Defining History of the American Film...

Author: Sean Griffin
ISBN: 9781405194969
Format: Hardback
$147.95

A History of the American Musical narrates the evolution of the film musical genre, discussing its influences and...  Read More >>

Representing the Eighteenth Century in Film and Television, 2000–2015

Representing the Eighteenth Century in Film and Television,...

Author: Karen Bloom Gevirtz
ISBN: 9783319562667
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This book analyzes early twenty-first century film and television’s fascination with representing the Anglo-American...  Read More >>

Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty

Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty...

Author: Martine Beugnet (Professor in Visual Studies, University of Paris 7 Diderot) ,  Allan Cameron (Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Television, University of Auckland)
ISBN: 9781474407144
Format: Paperback
$57.99

With a range of approaches, from aesthetics to phenomenology to production studies, the authors in this volume investigate...  Read More >>

Contemporary Musical Film

Contemporary Musical Film

Author: K. J. Donnelly (Professor of Film and Film Music, University of Southampton) ,  Kevin J. Donnelly (Professor of Film and Film Music, University of Southampton)
ISBN: 9781474413121
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This edited collection looks closely at the range and scope of contemporary film musicals, from stage adaptations...  Read More >>

Im Wandel ... Metamorphosen der Animation

Im Wandel ... Metamorphosen der Animation

Author: Julia Eckel ,  Erwin Feyersinger
ISBN: 9783658159962
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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Twisted Visions: Interviews with Cult Horror Filmmakers

Twisted Visions: Interviews with Cult Horror Filmmakers...

Author: Matthew Edwards
ISBN: 9781476663760
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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A Fistful of Icons: Essays on Frontier Fixtures of the American Western

A Fistful of Icons: Essays on Frontier Fixtures of the...

Author: Sue Matheson
ISBN: 9780786498048
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Female Stars of British Cinema: The Women in Question

Female Stars of British Cinema: The Women in Question...

Author: Melanie Williams (Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia)
ISBN: 9781474405645
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Female Stars of British Cinema uses case studies of seven female stars whose careers span the 1940s to the present...  Read More >>

Improving Passions: Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film

Improving Passions: Sentimental Aesthetics and American...

Author: Charles Burnetts (Lecturer, Kings University College, The University of Western Ontario)
ISBN: 9780748698196
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examining eighteenth century 'moral sense' philosophy as a neglected but important intellectual area for film theory,...  Read More >>

Wrecking Balls

Wrecking Balls

Author: Giambrone Joe
ISBN: 9781521719138
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Wrecking Balls recounts the legendary feud between stand-up comedians Charleston Cranston and Gary Giordano. Their...  Read More >>

Clueless: American Youth in the 1990s

Clueless: American Youth in the 1990s

Author: Lesley Speed ,  Sian Lincoln
ISBN: 9781138681217
Format: Hardback
$131.00

Clueless: American Youth in the 1990s is a timely contribution to the increasingly prominent academic field of youth...  Read More >>

Scars and Wounds: Film and Legacies of Trauma

Scars and Wounds: Film and Legacies of Trauma

Author: Nick Hodgin ,  Amit Thakkar
ISBN: 9783319410234
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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The Monster Movies of Universal Studios

The Monster Movies of Universal Studios

Author: James L. Neibaur
ISBN: 9781442278165
Format: Hardback
$134.64

Universal Studios produced some of the most famous movie monsters in history including Dracula, Frankenstein, The...  Read More >>

Reality's Written Language: A Critical Anthology of Classical and Contemporary Film Theory

Reality's Written Language: A Critical Anthology of...

Author: Jon Wagner ,  Denise Spampinato
ISBN: 9781626617667
Format: Paperback
$263.87

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