Film & movie: styles & genres books

5216 books were found.

Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier

Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic...

Author: Homay King
ISBN: 9780822347439
Format: Hardback
$146.95

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

Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis

Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis

Author: Karen Redrobe
ISBN: 9780822347262
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Argues that representations of the car crash in film genres from slapstick comedies to industrial-safety movies...  Read More >>

Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis

Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis

Author: Karen Redrobe
ISBN: 9780822347088
Format: Hardback
$161.95

Argues that representations of the car crash in film genres from slapstick comedies to industrial-safety movies...  Read More >>

Vernunftige Gedanken Von Dem Gesellschaftlichen Leben Der Menschen (1740)

Vernunftige Gedanken Von Dem Gesellschaftlichen Leben...

Author: Christian Von Wolff
ISBN: 9781166339586
Format: Paperback
$105.49

This Book Is In German. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read...  Read More >>

Das Recht Der Minderjahrigen Und Entmundigten: Nach Dem 1 Januar 1900 (1899)

Das Recht Der Minderjahrigen Und Entmundigten: Nach...

Author: A Goering
ISBN: 9781167831157
Format: Hardback
$84.37

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Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering

Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering

Author: Paul Cooke - see C80107 ,  Marc Silberman (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781571134370
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath....  Read More >>

The Dark Mirror: Psychiatry and Film Noir

The Dark Mirror: Psychiatry and Film Noir

Author: Marlisa Santos
ISBN: 9780739136652
Format: Hardback
$171.60

The Dark Mirror explores the richness of psychiatric imagery in film noir and how the popularization of psychoanalysis...  Read More >>

The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies

The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies

Author: Shirley R. Steinberg ,  Joe L. Kincheloe
ISBN: 9781433108730
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The second revised edition of The Hollywood Curriculum analyzes over 165 films distributed throughout the United...  Read More >>

Literature, Cinema and Politics 1930-1945: Reading Between the Frames

Literature, Cinema and Politics 1930-1945: Reading Between...

Author: Lara Feigel (Lecturer in English, King's College London)
ISBN: 9780748639502
Format: Hardback
$219.00

This book tells the story of a generation of writers who were passionately engaged with politics and with cinema,...  Read More >>

Genre and Performance: Film and Television

Genre and Performance: Film and Television

Author: Christine Cornea ,  Bethan Hirst
ISBN: 9780719079801
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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Asian Horror

Asian Horror

Author: Andy Richards
ISBN: 9781842433201
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Film Noir: The Encyclopedia

Film Noir: The Encyclopedia

Author: Alain Silver ,  Elizabeth Ward
ISBN: 9780715638804
Format: Hardback
$77.63

Lets you meet the cynical and obsessive heroes of film noir portrayed by actors like Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre,...  Read More >>

The Uses of Phobia: Essays on Literature and Film

The Uses of Phobia: Essays on Literature and Film

Author: David Trotter (University of Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9781444333848
Format: Paperback
$42.95

The essays brought together in this book understand phobia not as a pathology, but as a versatile moral, political,...  Read More >>

Vampires V Werewolves

Vampires V Werewolves

Author: Martin Howden
ISBN: 9781844549610
Format: Paperback
$34.19

This is the most complete and up-to-date book that will tell you everything you need to know about both sides of...  Read More >>

Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood

Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood

Author: Ron Backer
ISBN: 9780786448647
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy

Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance...

Author: Robert B. Pippin
ISBN: 9780300145779
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three...  Read More >>

100 Greatest 'Looney Tunes' Cartoons

100 Greatest 'Looney Tunes' Cartoons

Author: Leonard Maltin ,  Leonard Maltin
ISBN: 9781608870035
Format: Hardback
$65.87

In a world of rascally rabbits, megalomaniacal ducks, and stuttering pigs, what defines greatness? This question...  Read More >>

Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema

Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema...

Author: Simon Sheridan
ISBN: 9781904674221
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Traces the history of the British sex film from its beginnings in coy nudist camp films such as Some Like It Cool...  Read More >>

Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the ""War on Terror""

Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the ""War...

Author: Ph.D. Jeff Birkenstein (Centralia College, USA) ,  Dr. Anna Froula
ISBN: 9781441119056
Format: Paperback
$79.99

A collection of analyses focusing on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about...  Read More >>

Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories

Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories

Author: Rosalind Galt (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex) ,  Karl Schoonover (Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Michigan State University)
ISBN: 9780195385625
Format: Hardback
$154.95

""Art cinema"" has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly...  Read More >>

Killer Kaiju Monsters: Strange Beasts of Japanese Film

Killer Kaiju Monsters: Strange Beasts of Japanese Film...

Author: Ivan Vartanian
ISBN: 9780061655791
Format: Hardback
$73.89

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