Film & movie: styles & genres books

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""Brigadoon"", ""Braveheart"" and the Scots: Distortions of Scotland in Hollywood Cinema

""Brigadoon"", ""Braveheart"" and the Scots: Distortions...

Author: Colin McArthur
ISBN: 9781860649271
Format: Hardback
$179.52

The films ""Brigadoon"" and ""Braveheart"" have an enormous resonance and provide general impressions of ""Scottishness""....  Read More >>

The Warrior Women of Television: A Feminist Cultural Analysis of the New Female Body in Popular Media / Dawn Heinecken.

The Warrior Women of Television: A Feminist Cultural...

Author: Dawn Heinecken
ISBN: 9780820462196
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The Warrior Women of Television examines contemporary representations of the female action hero in three series:...  Read More >>

The Western

The Western

Author: David Lusted
ISBN: 9780582437364
Format: Paperback
$118.00

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The Emperor's Old Groove: Decolonizing Disney's Magic Kingdom

The Emperor's Old Groove: Decolonizing Disney's Magic...

Author: Brenda Ayres ,  Brenda Ayers
ISBN: 9780820463636
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Disney's attempt to validate multicultural diversity may appear to be a worthy, even admirable, endeavor. However,...  Read More >>

Gainsborough Pictures Reframed: Or: Raising Jane Austen for 1990s Film A Film-Historic and Film-Analytical Study of the 1995 Films Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion

Gainsborough Pictures Reframed: Or: Raising Jane Austen...

Author: Martina Anzinger
ISBN: 9783631501993
Format: Paperback
$126.59

In the 1990s U.S. and British adaptations of Jane Austen novels enjoyed unprecedented popularity. To find out why,...  Read More >>

Television: Aesthetic Reflections

Television: Aesthetic Reflections

Author: Ruth Lorand ,  Robert Ginsberg
ISBN: 9780820455273
Format: Hardback
$281.42

Television has been the subject of research in politics, culture, education, and economy, but very little has been...  Read More >>

The Horror Genre – From Beelzebub to Blair Witch

The Horror Genre – From Beelzebub to Blair Witch

Author: Paul Wells ,  Paul Wells
ISBN: 9781903364000
Format: Paperback
$46.55

A comprehensive introduction to the history and key themes of the genre. The main issues and debates raised by horror,...  Read More >>

Woman as Individual in English Renaissance Drama: A Defiance of the Masculine Code

Woman as Individual in English Renaissance Drama: A...

Author: Carol Hansen
ISBN: 9780820420097
Format: Paperback
$135.43

A critical analysis of the position of women in English Renaissance drama, this book examines the impact of male...  Read More >>

Spectacular Narratives: Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster

Spectacular Narratives: Hollywood in the Age of the...

Author: Geoff King
ISBN: 9781860645730
Format: Paperback
$73.92

This text focuses on the dynamic relationship between narrative and spectacle in Hollywood cinema. It shows how...  Read More >>

Horror Film Reader

Horror Film Reader

Author: Alain Silver ,  James Ursini
ISBN: 9780879102975
Format: Paperback
$59.40

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Impossible Performances: Duras as Dramatist

Impossible Performances: Duras as Dramatist

Author: Gabrielle H. Cody
ISBN: 9780820444857
Format: Hardback
$211.99

Impossible Performances argues that Marguerite Duras is one of the most important figures on the landscape of twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Faith and Film: Theological Themes at the Cinema

Faith and Film: Theological Themes at the Cinema

Author: Bryan P Stone
ISBN: 9780827210271
Format: Paperback
$63.33

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Rapanui: A Descriptive Grammar

Rapanui: A Descriptive Grammar

Author: Veronica du Feu
ISBN: 9780415000116
Format: Hardback
$546.00

This descriptive grammar provides a new look at the whole structure of Rapanui, covering the syntax, morphology,...  Read More >>

The Great Detective Pictures

The Great Detective Pictures

Author: James Robert Parish ,  Michael R. Pitts
ISBN: 9780810822863
Format: Hardback
$264.00

""Parish and Pitts score again with this thorough and well-written catalog of some 400 feature-length detective...  Read More >>

The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft

The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft

Author: H P Lovecraft
ISBN: 9782491704421
Format: Paperback
$63.21

The Dunwich Horror is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published...  Read More >>

The Lost Films Fanzine Presents Movie Milestones #1: (Premium Color/Variant Cover A)

The Lost Films Fanzine Presents Movie Milestones #1:...

Author: John Lemay ,  Mike Bogue
ISBN: 9781953221971
Format: Paperback
$29.01

THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #1, which celebrates the 80th anniversary of One Million B.C. (1940)....  Read More >>

When Harry Met Sally...

When Harry Met Sally...

Author: Tamar Jeffers McDonald (University of Kent, UK)
ISBN: 9781805750253
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A new edition of Tamar Jeffers McDonald's study of the classic romcom When Harry Met Sally ... (1989) in the BFI...  Read More >>

Cinematic Encounters with Disaster: Realisms for the Anthropocene

Cinematic Encounters with Disaster: Realisms for the...

Author: Simon R. Troon (Monash University, Australia) ,  David Martin-Jones
ISBN: 9798765101544
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Cinematic Encounters with Disaster rethinks the possibilities of disaster as a contemporary cinematic cultural imaginary....  Read More >>

Stardom, Film Couples and Love Teams in 1970s Philippine Cinema

Stardom, Film Couples and Love Teams in 1970s Philippine...

Author: Chrishandra Sebastiampillai (Lecturer in Film, Television and Screen Studies, Monash University Malaysia)
ISBN: 9781399521000
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Examines the multi-layered construction of film couples as a characteristic of Philippine stardom and cinema.  Read More >>

Kafkaesque Cinema

Kafkaesque Cinema

Author: Angelos Koutsourakis (Associate Professor in Film and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9781474498975
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Argues that Kafkaesque cinema is a critical category that can enable us to consider the interconnections between...  Read More >>

The Female Avenger, Women’s Anger and Rape-Revenge Film and Television

The Female Avenger, Women’s Anger and Rape-Revenge Film...

Author: Margrethe Bruun Vaage (Senior Lecturer in Film and Media, Univeristy of Kent)
ISBN: 9781399532105
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Examines the affective response to rape-revenge films, and how this response can be harnessed to work through complex...  Read More >>

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