Film & movie: styles & genres books

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The Performance of Trauma in Moving Image Art

The Performance of Trauma in Moving Image Art

Author: Dirk Cornelis de Bruyn
ISBN: 9781443860536
Format: Hardback
$216.35

With reference to recent neurological research into Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) using new imaging technologies...  Read More >>

The Horrors of Trauma in Cinema: Violence Void Visualization

The Horrors of Trauma in Cinema: Violence Void Visualization...

Author: Michael Elm ,  Kobi Kabalek
ISBN: 9781443860420
Format: Hardback
$240.11

This volume explores the multifaceted depiction and staging of historical and social traumata as the result of extreme...  Read More >>

Modern Sci-Fi Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Time-Travel, Alien, Robot, and Out-of-This-World Movies Since 1970

Modern Sci-Fi Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know About...

Author: Tom DeMichael
ISBN: 9781480350618
Format: Paperback
$49.14

MODERN SCI-FI FILMS FAQ: ALL THATS LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT TIME TRAVEL ALIEN ROBOT AND OUT-O  Read More >>

The Emergence of Film Culture: Knowledge Production, Institution Building, and the Fate of the Avant-Garde in Europe, 1919–1945

The Emergence of Film Culture: Knowledge Production,...

Author: Malte Hagener
ISBN: 9781782384236
Format: Hardback
$297.56

Between the two world wars, a distinct and vibrant film culture emerged in Europe. Film festivals and schools were...  Read More >>

House of Horror Film by Film

House of Horror Film by Film

Author:
ISBN: 9781910270301
Format: Mixed media product
$33.61

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Confio: Siguiendo Las Huellas de Santa Faustina

Confio: Siguiendo Las Huellas de Santa Faustina

Author: Grzegorz Gorny ,  Janusz Rosikon
ISBN: 9781586179960
Format: Hardback
$79.07

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New Visions of the Child in Italian Cinema

New Visions of the Child in Italian Cinema

Author: Pierpaolo Antonello ,  Robert S.C. Gordon
ISBN: 9783034302692
Format: Paperback
$113.85

This book draws on a growing body of work in the history and theory of children on film and applies some of these...  Read More >>

The Other Guy: Media Masculinity Within the Margins

The Other Guy: Media Masculinity Within the Margins...

Author: Toby Miller ,  Derek A. Burrill
ISBN: 9781433122453
Format: Paperback
$143.35

From the films of Judd Apatow to sitcoms and popular music, this new breed of man is desperately attempting to change...  Read More >>

Texture In Film

Texture In Film

Author: Lucy Fife Donaldson
ISBN: 9781137034786
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives of art, literature and music, Donaldson develops a stimulating understanding...  Read More >>

Westerns

Westerns

Author:
ISBN: 9781910270578
Format: Mixed media product
$33.61

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Heroism and Gender in War Films

Heroism and Gender in War Films

Author: Karen A. Ritzenhoff ,  J. Kazecki
ISBN: 9781137364531
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Filmic constructions of war heroism have a profound impact on public perceptions of conflicts. Here, contributors...  Read More >>

Film Genre for the Screenwriter

Film Genre for the Screenwriter

Author: Jule Selbo
ISBN: 9781138020832
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Invasions USA: The Essential Science Fiction Films of the 1950s

Invasions USA: The Essential Science Fiction Films of...

Author: Michael Bliss
ISBN: 9781442236516
Format: Hardback
$115.00

Of the twenty or so science fiction films produced in America during the 1950s, there is a fascinating subset of...  Read More >>

Film Genre for the Screenwriter

Film Genre for the Screenwriter

Author: Jule Selbo
ISBN: 9781138020818
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood: Bloodlines

Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood: Bloodlines

Author: Aspasia Stephanou
ISBN: 9781137349224
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts....  Read More >>

Totalitarianism on Screen: The Art and Politics of The Lives of Others

Totalitarianism on Screen: The Art and Politics of The...

Author: Carl Eric Scott ,  F. Flagg Taylor
ISBN: 9780813144986
Format: Hardback
$79.20

Featuring contributions from German president Joachim Gauck, prominent singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, journalists...  Read More >>

Slapstick and Comic Performance: Comedy and Pain

Slapstick and Comic Performance: Comedy and Pain

Author: L. Peacock
ISBN: 9780230364134
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Slapstick comedy has a long and lively history from Greek Theatre to the present day. This book explores the ways...  Read More >>

Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television

Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television

Author: M. Stewart
ISBN: 9781137319845
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to:...  Read More >>

Revolutionary Cycles in Chinese Cinema, 1951–1979

Revolutionary Cycles in Chinese Cinema, 1951–1979

Author: Z. Wang
ISBN: 9781137378736
Format: Hardback
$263.97

A comprehensive history of how the conflicts and balances of power in the Maoist revolutionary campaigns from 1951...  Read More >>

The Politics of Big Fantasy: The Ideologies of Star Wars, The Matrix and The Avengers

The Politics of Big Fantasy: The Ideologies of Star...

Author: John C. McDowell
ISBN: 9780786474882
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Swedish Cops: From Sjöwall and Wahlöö to Stieg Larsson

Swedish Cops: From Sjöwall and Wahlöö to Stieg Larsson...

Author: Michael Tapper (Lund University, Sweden.)
ISBN: 9781783201884
Format: Paperback
$59.95

Believing the Swedish police narrative tradition to be part and parcel of the European history of ideas and culture,...  Read More >>

Shot/Countershot: Film Tradition and Women's Cinema

Shot/Countershot: Film Tradition and Women's Cinema...

Author: Lucy Fischer
ISBN: 9780691609218
Format: Paperback
$171.60

The aim of this book is to provide a synthesis of two broad approaches to feminist film study - the unmasking of...  Read More >>

Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema, 1931-1943

Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema, 1931-1943...

Author: Marcia Landy
ISBN: 9780691610900
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Through her study of the narrative themes and strategies of Italian commercial sound films of the fascist era, Marcia...  Read More >>

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