Film & movie: styles & genres books

5216 books were found.

Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements

Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions,...

Author: Jun Okada
ISBN: 9780813565019
Format: Paperback
$83.60

The words “Asian American film” might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined...  Read More >>

Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements

Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions,...

Author: Jun Okada
ISBN: 9780813565026
Format: Hardback
$396.00

The words “Asian American film” might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined...  Read More >>

Cinema, Gender, and Everyday Space: Comedy, Italian Style

Cinema, Gender, and Everyday Space: Comedy, Italian...

Author: Natalie Fullwood
ISBN: 9781349487042
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Commedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change. This book, utilizing...  Read More >>

Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema: Towards a Political Reading of the Tragic Hero

Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema: Towards...

Author: Isolde Standish (SOAS, UK)
ISBN: 9781138863231
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This text argues that in Japanese popular cinema the 'tragic hero' narrative is an archetypal plot-structure upon...  Read More >>

Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film

Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear...

Author: Mick Broderick ,  Broderick
ISBN: 9781138863552
Format: Paperback
$105.00

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Cinema, Gender, and Everyday Space: Comedy, Italian Style

Cinema, Gender, and Everyday Space: Comedy, Italian...

Author: Natalie Fullwood
ISBN: 9781137403568
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Commedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change. This book, utilizing...  Read More >>

The Joker: A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime

The Joker: A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime...

Author: Robert Moses Peaslee ,  Robert G. Weiner
ISBN: 9781628462388
Format: Hardback
$222.20

The first study of Batman's evil arch-nemesis in comics, on television, and in film  Read More >>

Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema

Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World...

Author: B. Forshaw
ISBN: 9781137390059
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Sex and Film is a frank, comprehensive analysis of the cinema's love affair with the erotic. Forshaw's lively study...  Read More >>

Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema

Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World...

Author: B. Forshaw
ISBN: 9781137390042
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Sex and Film is a frank, comprehensive analysis of the cinema's love affair with the erotic. Forshaw's lively study...  Read More >>

Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis

Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis

Author: Justin Remes
ISBN: 9780231169639
Format: Paperback
$47.95

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Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis

Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis

Author: Justin Remes
ISBN: 9780231169622
Format: Hardback
$165.95

Challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation....  Read More >>

The Noir Western: Darkness on the Range, 1943-1962

The Noir Western: Darkness on the Range, 1943-1962

Author: David Meuel
ISBN: 9780786494521
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Educational Institutions in Horror Film: A History of Mad Professors, Student Bodies, and Final Exams

Educational Institutions in Horror Film: A History of...

Author: Andrew L. Grunzke
ISBN: 9781137469205
Format: Electronic book text
$244.65

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Halloween

Halloween

Author: Murray Leeder
ISBN: 9781906733797
Format: Paperback
$118.77

The 1970s represented an unusually productive and innovative period for the horror film, and John Carpenter's Halloween...  Read More >>

A History of 1970s Experimental Film: Britain's Decade of Diversity

A History of 1970s Experimental Film: Britain's Decade...

Author: Patti Gaal-Holmes
ISBN: 9781137369383
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

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Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood

Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood

Author: Kristen Hatch
ISBN: 9780813563251
Format: Paperback
$79.20

In the 1930s, Shirley Temple was heralded as “America’s sweetheart”, and she remains the icon of wholesome American...  Read More >>

Swords and Cinema

Swords and Cinema

Author: Jeremiah B. McCall
ISBN: 9781848844766
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Asks how realistic are the portrayals of ancient battles in modern cinema? What does Hollywood get right and wrong?...  Read More >>

Pornography Feminism: As Powerful as She Wants to Be

Pornography Feminism: As Powerful as She Wants to Be...

Author: Rich Moreland
ISBN: 9781782794967
Format: Paperback
$38.79

Pornography feminists unshackle their desires and celebrate their sexuality in the patriarchal world of filmed sex....  Read More >>

Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003

Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of...

Author: Roland Leander Williams Jr.
ISBN: 9780815633822
Format: Hardback
$71.50

Charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film:...  Read More >>

Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film, Updated Edition

Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror...

Author: Tony Williams
ISBN: 9781628461077
Format: Paperback
$81.40

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Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action: A Different Tune

Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action: A Different...

Author: Amanda Howell
ISBN: 9780415897204
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Drawing on scholarship of popular music and the pop score as well as feminist film and media studies, Howell addresses...  Read More >>

Imagining Ancient Cities in Film: From Babylon to Cinecittà

Imagining Ancient Cities in Film: From Babylon to Cinecittà...

Author: Marta Garcia Morcillo (Roehampton University, UK) ,  Pauline Hanesworth (Department of Classics, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)
ISBN: 9780415843973
Format: Hardback
$315.00

In film imagery, urban spaces show up not only as spatial settings of a story, but also as projected ideas and forms...  Read More >>

I've Heard The Mermaids Singing: A Queer Film Classic

I've Heard The Mermaids Singing: A Queer Film Classic...

Author: Julia Mendenhall
ISBN: 9781551525648
Format: Paperback
$19.99

A Queer Film Classic on the 1987 feminist love story by director Patricia Rozema.  Read More >>

L.A. Plays Itself / Boys In The Sand: A Queer Film Classic

L.A. Plays Itself / Boys In The Sand: A Queer Film Classic...

Author: Cindy Patton
ISBN: 9781551525624
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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