Film & movie: styles & genres books

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Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema

Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese...
Author: Jean Ma ISBN: 9780822358763 Format: Paperback	$92.27
Jean Ma shows how the rise and domination of singing actresses-or songstresses-in Chinese cinema attests to the... Read More >>

Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema

Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese...
Author: Jean Ma ISBN: 9780822358657 Format: Hardback	$369.47
Jean Ma shows how the rise and domination of singing actresses-or songstresses-in Chinese cinema attests to the... Read More >>

Dark Humor in Films of the 1960s

Dark Humor in Films of the 1960s
Author: Wheeler Winston Dixon ISBN: 9781137564207 Format: Hardback	$116.41
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Sex, Sadism, Spain, and Cinema: The Spanish Horror Film

Sex, Sadism, Spain, and Cinema: The Spanish Horror Film...
Author: Nicholas G. Schlegel ISBN: 9781442251151 Format: Hardback	$138.95
This book explores how a group of films produced, distributed and exhibited under the crumbling dictatorship of... Read More >>

Orphans of the East: Postwar Eastern European Cinema and the Revolutionary Subject

Orphans of the East: Postwar Eastern European Cinema...
Author: Constantin Parvulescu ISBN: 9780253016737 Format: Hardback	$198.00
In these films, the orphan becomes a cinematic trope that interrogates socialist visions of ideological institutionalization... Read More >>

Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity

Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film...
Author: Allyson Nadia Field ISBN: 9780822359074 Format: Hardback	$369.47
Allyson Nadia Field recovers the forgotten body of African American filmmaking from the 1910s which she calls uplift... Read More >>

The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo del Toro: Critical Essays

The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo del Toro: Critical...
Author: John W. Morehead ISBN: 9780786495955 Format: Paperback	$79.07
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Punishment in Popular Culture

Punishment in Popular Culture
Author: Charles J. Ogletree Jr. , Austin Sarat ISBN: 9781479861958 Format: Hardback	$193.00
The way a society punishes demonstrates its commitment to standards of judgment and justice, its distinctive views... Read More >>

Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film

Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror...
Author: Dominic Lennard ISBN: 9781438453286 Format: Paperback	$89.63
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The Silent Sound Designer: Rediscovering Cinema Through Quietness

The Silent Sound Designer: Rediscovering Cinema Through...
Author: Danny Hahn ISBN: 9780993338601 Format: Paperback	$31.05
Danny Hahn is The Silent Sound Designer - a film-writer like no other, passionately unmasking cinema's audio-visual... Read More >>

The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films

The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films
Author: Qinna Shen ISBN: 9780814339039 Format: Paperback	$67.10
From 1950 to 1989 East Germany's state-sponsored film company, DEFA produced over forty feature-length, live-action... Read More >>

The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on «The Real Housewives»

The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on «The Real...
Author: Rachel E. Silverman ISBN: 9781433130496 Format: Hardback	$529.06
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The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film

The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film
Author: Yvonne Tasker (University of East Anglia, UK) ISBN: 9780470659250 Format: Paperback	$62.95
The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of the history, myriad themes,... Read More >>

American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture

American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary...
Author: Michele Schreiber (Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Emory University) ISBN: 9781474405560 Format: Paperback	$57.99
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Selling the Splat Pack: The DVD Revolution and the American Horror Film

Selling the Splat Pack: The DVD Revolution and the American...
Author: Mark Bernard (Instructor of American Studies and Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte) ISBN: 9781474405584 Format: Paperback	$57.99
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English Gothic: Classic Horror Cinema 1897-2015

English Gothic: Classic Horror Cinema 1897-2015
Author: Jonathan Rigby ISBN: 9780957648166 Format: Hardback	$65.00
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Fantastic Transmedia: Narrative, Play and Memory Across Science Fiction and Fantasy Storyworlds

Fantastic Transmedia: Narrative, Play and Memory Across...
Author: C. Harvey ISBN: 9781137306036 Format: Hardback	$263.97
Contemporary culture is packed with fantasy and science fiction storyworlds extending across multiple media platforms.... Read More >>

The Blair Witch Project

The Blair Witch Project
Author: Peter Turner ISBN: 9781906733841 Format: Paperback	$118.77
In this Devil's Advocate, Peter Turner tells the story of the film from his conception and production then provides... Read More >>

The Spark of Fear: Technology, Society and the Horror Film

The Spark of Fear: Technology, Society and the Horror...
Author: Brian N. Duchaney ISBN: 9780786495115 Format: Paperback	$79.07
The allure of the horror film is varied. Some prefer the voyeurism of watching others suffer. Some enjoy the cinematic... Read More >>

Hong Kong Documentary Film

Hong Kong Documentary Film
Author: Ian Aitken (Professor of Film Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University) , Michael Ingham ISBN: 9781474405591 Format: Paperback	$67.99
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Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror...
Author: Carol J. Clover , Carol J. Clover ISBN: 9780691166292 Format: Paperback	$52.67
From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity... Read More >>

Hollywood Presents Jules Verne: The Father of Science Fiction on Screen

Hollywood Presents Jules Verne: The Father of Science...
Author: Brian Taves ISBN: 9780813161129 Format: Hardback	$92.40
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The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on «The Real Housewives»

The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on «The Real...
Author: Rachel E. Silverman ISBN: 9781433130489 Format: Paperback	$143.35
The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on ‘The Real Housewives’ explores the series and the women of The Real Housewives... Read More >>

Classic Horror Films and the Literature That Inspired Them

Classic Horror Films and the Literature That Inspired...
Author: Ron Backer ISBN: 9780786498963 Format: Paperback	$79.07
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From France With Love: Gender and Identity in French Romantic Comedy

From France With Love: Gender and Identity in French...
Author: Mary Harrod (University of Warwick, UK) ISBN: 9781784533588 Format: Hardback	$260.00
Love stories have always been at the heart of French cinema, but romantic comedies have, until recently, been absent... Read More >>

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