Film & movie: styles & genres books

5216 books were found.

Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror

Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century...

Author: Kimberly Jackson
ISBN: 9781137536778
Format: Hardback
$232.85

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Cinema in Service of the State: Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960

Cinema in Service of the State: Perspectives on Film...

Author: Lars Karl ,  Pavel Skopal
ISBN: 9781782389965
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Despite being two key sites for filmmaking in the Soviet bloc, the national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany...  Read More >>

Mediated Moms: Contemporary Challenges to the Motherhood Myth

Mediated Moms: Contemporary Challenges to the Motherhood...

Author: Heather L. Hundley ,  Sara E. Hayden
ISBN: 9781433131660
Format: Paperback
$138.60

The authors in this volume explore how images of mothers have expanded beyond the good/bad dichotomy, simultaneously...  Read More >>

Roadshow!: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s

Roadshow!: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s

Author: Matthew Kennedy (Instructor in Film Studies and Anthropology, Instructor in Film Studies and Anthropology, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA)
ISBN: 9780190262440
Format: Paperback
$49.95

In Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s, film historian Matthew Kennedy explores the downfall of a beloved...  Read More >>

Mediated Moms: Contemporary Challenges to the Motherhood Myth

Mediated Moms: Contemporary Challenges to the Motherhood...

Author: Heather L. Hundley ,  Sara E. Hayden
ISBN: 9781433131677
Format: Hardback
$532.62

The authors in this volume explore how images of mothers have expanded beyond the good/bad dichotomy, simultaneously...  Read More >>

Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art

Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and...

Author: Doris Berger (Academy Museum in Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9781501315732
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Biopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists’ lives and work. Projected Art History highlights...  Read More >>

Psycho Origins

Psycho Origins

Author: Simon Fitzjohn
ISBN: 9780993054181
Format: Paperback
$38.68

This 'Horror Companion' from Hemlock Books examines the impact on popular culture made by Robert Bloch's 1959 pulp...  Read More >>

Sex Radical Cinema

Sex Radical Cinema

Author: Carol Siegel
ISBN: 9780253018014
Format: Hardback
$184.80

By examining such popular film and television shows as Mystic River, The Wire, Fifty Shades of Grey, Batman Returns,...  Read More >>

Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic

Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic

Author: Scott MacKenzie (Professor of Film and Media, Queen's University, Canada) ,  Anna Westerstahl Stenport (Professor and Chair of the School of Modern Languages, Georgia Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9781474409018
Format: Paperback
$67.99

The first book to address the vast diversity of Northern circumpolar cinemas from a transnational perspective, Films...  Read More >>

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

Author: Ian Christie (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781844579211
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Ian Christie contextualizes the film as an epic Russian love story and a Cold War classic, charts its production...  Read More >>

When Harry Met Sally ...

When Harry Met Sally ...

Author: Tamar Jeffers McDonald (University of Kent, UK)
ISBN: 9781844579075
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Ground-breaking in its departure from its predecessors, When Harry Met Sally (1989) established classic romantic...  Read More >>

Gender and the Modern Sherlock Holmes: Essays on Film and Television Adaptations Since 2009

Gender and the Modern Sherlock Holmes: Essays on Film...

Author: Nadine Farghaly
ISBN: 9780786494590
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Classical Myth on Screen

Classical Myth on Screen

Author: M. Cyrino ,  M. Safran
ISBN: 9781349504800
Format: Paperback
$206.97

An examination of how screen texts embrace, refute, and reinvent the cultural heritage of antiquity, this volume...  Read More >>

Narco Cinema: Sex, Drugs, and Banda Music in Mexico’s B-Filmography

Narco Cinema: Sex, Drugs, and Banda Music in Mexico’s...

Author: Ryan Rashotte
ISBN: 9781349505517
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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Star Wars on Trial: The Force Awakens Edition: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time

Star Wars on Trial: The Force Awakens Edition: Science...

Author: David Brin ,  Matthew Woodring Stover
ISBN: 9781942952046
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Order in the Court! Star Wars: the most significant, powerful myth of the twenty-first century or morally bankrupt...  Read More >>

The Maltese Falcon to Body of Lies: Spies, Noirs, and Trust

The Maltese Falcon to Body of Lies: Spies, Noirs, and...

Author: Robert von Hallberg
ISBN: 9780826351364
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Examining twenty-eight great noir films from the earliest examples of the genre, including The Maltese Falcon, The...  Read More >>

The Vader Project Auction Catalog: 100 Helmets, 100 Artists

The Vader Project Auction Catalog: 100 Helmets, 100...

Author: Dov Kelemer
ISBN: 9780991579013
Format: Paperback
$58.50

Star Wars fans and art aficionados will enjoy this beautifully conceived catalogue of Star Wars ephemera. For this...  Read More >>

Women and Death in Film, Television, and News: Dead but Not Gone

Women and Death in Film, Television, and News: Dead...

Author: Joanne Clarke Dillman
ISBN: 9781349498710
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book, Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment...  Read More >>

Masters of the Shoot-'Em-Up: Conversations with Directors, Actors and Writers of Vintage Action Movies and Television Shows

Masters of the Shoot-'Em-Up: Conversations with Directors,...

Author: Tadhg Taylor
ISBN: 9780786494064
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Savages and Saints: The Changing Image of American Indians in Westerns

Savages and Saints: The Changing Image of American Indians...

Author: Bob Herzberg
ISBN: 9781476662787
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality

Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality...

Author: Homay King
ISBN: 9780822360025
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Using continental philosophy and critical theory, Homay King returns to the original meaning of the virtual-which...  Read More >>

Snatched: Child Abductions in U.S. News Media

Snatched: Child Abductions in U.S. News Media

Author: Sharon R. Mazzarella ,  Spring-Serenity Duvall
ISBN: 9781433127168
Format: Hardback
$500.28

Snatched is the first book-length study to interrogate the predominant myths centered on gender and class that shaped...  Read More >>

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