Film & movie: styles & genres books

Presents the Hammer story - an oral history detailing the fascinating biographies of Hammer's key players.  Read More >>

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A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio...  Read More >>

"Features a look at Hammer Films, with a focus on the ""Let Me In"". This title lets you revisit Clive Barker's...  Read More >>

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A guide that features movies with specific stoner appeal and containing pot scenes and drug themes. It contains...  Read More >>

What is Blaxploitation? In the early 1970s a type of film emerged that featured all-black casts, really cool soul,...  Read More >>

A world-weary detective, a seductive femme fatale, a mysterious murder - these elements of classic film noir live...  Read More >>

The fascinating true story and original screenplay behind the making of the groundbreaking horror epic, Night of...  Read More >>

Enables you to learn life lessons that Jamie Lee, Cissy Spacek, Drew Barrymore, and other large-breasted girls have...  Read More >>

Coming Out to the Mainstream is a collection of essays written from a range of perspectives, from scholars to film...  Read More >>

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Lets you meet the Bounty Hunters. This title features the dangerous bounty hunters, as well as other characters,...  Read More >>

* Guides readers through the genre's central characteristics and conventions * Provides a theoretical framework...  Read More >>

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Based on analysis of the visual and narrative fabric of seven films set in Ancient Rome, 'Ancient Rome at the Cinema'...  Read More >>

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In Celluloid Saviours, the author analyses a corpus of US films dating from the silent era that she calls film blanc....  Read More >>

Arranged by decades, this one-stop sourcebook of the horror movie genre unearths the historical origins of characters...  Read More >>

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Arranged by decades, this one-stop sourcebook of the horror movie genre unearths the historical origins of characters...  Read More >>

"Helps novices gently ease into the genre and overcome thier terrible affliction of only watching romantic comedies....  Read More >>

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An argument that the fantasy of an inscrutable East has functioned as a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood...  Read More >>