Film & movie: styles & genres books

5216 books were found.

Hollywood Enlists!: Propaganda Films of World War II

Hollywood Enlists!: Propaganda Films of World War II...

Author: Ralph Donald
ISBN: 9781442277267
Format: Hardback
$80.00

This book explores how the Hollywood studios used sophisticated strategies of propaganda to ideologically unite...  Read More >>

Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange

Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange

Author: Adam Scovell
ISBN: 9781911325222
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful And Things Strange charts the summoning of these esoteric arts within the latter half...  Read More >>

Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange

Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange

Author: Adam Scovell
ISBN: 9781911325239
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful And Things Strange charts the summoning of these esoteric arts within the latter half...  Read More >>

Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque

Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the...

Author: Sophia Siddique ,  Raphael Raphael
ISBN: 9781137584168
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This vital theoretical intervention allows Transnational Horror Cinema to widen its scope to the social and cultural...  Read More >>

Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema

Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural...

Author: Meheli Sen
ISBN: 9781477311585
Format: Paperback
$73.79

The first wide-ranging look at horror and the supernatural in Bollywood films made since 1949, this interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema

Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural...

Author: Meheli Sen
ISBN: 9781477311578
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness

Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness

Author: Jack Curtis Dubowsky
ISBN: 9781349687138
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness uses musicology and queer theory to uncover meaning and message in canonical...  Read More >>

What's Eating You?: Food and Horror on Screen

What's Eating You?: Food and Horror on Screen

Author: Cynthia J. Miller (Emerson College, USA) ,  A. Bowdoin Van Riper (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9781501322389
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Explores the horrific side of consumption, as it is portrayed in film and television--from what (and whom) we eat...  Read More >>

Mystery Classics on Film: The Adaptation of 65 Novels and Stories

Mystery Classics on Film: The Adaptation of 65 Novels...

Author: Ron Miller
ISBN: 9781476666853
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher

ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher

Author: Gary D. Rhodes (Professor of Media, Oklahoma Baptist University) ,  Robert Singer (Professor of Liberal Studies, CUNY Graduate Center)
ISBN: 9781474419031
Format: Hardback
$219.00

An evaluation of one of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs Budd Boetticher who was responsible...  Read More >>

Metanarrative Functions of Film Genre in Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare Films: Strange Bedfellows

Metanarrative Functions of Film Genre in Kenneth Branagh's...

Author: Jessica M. Maerz
ISBN: 9781443812658
Format: Hardback
$208.43

Kenneth Branagh is the most important contemporary figure in the production of filmed Shakespeare.  Read More >>

The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity

The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent...

Author: Nadia Lie
ISBN: 9783319435534
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the flourishing genre of the contemporary Latin American...  Read More >>

Slash of the Titans: The Road to Freddy vs Jason

Slash of the Titans: The Road to Freddy vs Jason

Author: Dustin McNeill
ISBN: 9780692033494
Format: Paperback
$58.05

PLACE YOUR BETS, WINNER KILLS ALL! From the author of Phantasm Exhumed comes Slash of the Titans, a revealing look...  Read More >>

Women in the Silent Cinema: Histories of Fame and Fate

Women in the Silent Cinema: Histories of Fame and Fate...

Author: Annette Förster
ISBN: 9789089647191
Format: Hardback
$439.87

This book offers the most comprehensive accounts yet of professional itineraries of three women in the silent film...  Read More >>

Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World

Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on...

Author: Christina Hellmich (Associate Professor in IR & Middle East Studies, University of Reading) ,  Lisa Purse (Associate Professor in Film, University of Reading)
ISBN: 9781474416566
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Looking at a range of films that have provoked debate, from award-winning features like Zero Dark Thirty and American...  Read More >>

Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars

Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars

Author: Kevin Kehrwald
ISBN: 9780231181150
Format: Paperback
$37.95

Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent era to the present....  Read More >>

Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars

Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars

Author: Kevin Kehrwald
ISBN: 9780231181143
Format: Hardback
$124.95

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The First Few Minutes of Spanish Language Films: Early Cues Reveal the Essence

The First Few Minutes of Spanish Language Films: Early...

Author: Richard K. Curry
ISBN: 9781476665887
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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The Postmillennial Vampire: Power, Sacrifice and Simulation in True Blood, Twilight and Other Contemporary Narratives

The Postmillennial Vampire: Power, Sacrifice and Simulation...

Author: Susan Chaplin
ISBN: 9783319483719
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority...  Read More >>

Endorphin Man and Little Sara Tonin

Endorphin Man and Little Sara Tonin

Author: Lue Deck ,  Nicky Shane
ISBN: 9781640078222
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Superheroes, Endorphin Man and Little Sara Tonin use humor and laughter as their weapon to save the world.  Read More >>

Film Noir Light and Shadow

Film Noir Light and Shadow

Author: Alain Silver ,  James Ursini
ISBN: 9781495058974
Format: Paperback
$49.14

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