Film & movie: styles & genres books

5216 books were found.

The Making of Horror Movies: Key Figures who Established the Genre

The Making of Horror Movies: Key Figures who Established...

Author: Jennifer Selway
ISBN: 9781526774705
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Reveals the key role that British talent played in establishing the genre.  Read More >>

Celluloid Colony: Locating History and Ethnography in Early Dutch Colonial Films of Indonesia

Celluloid Colony: Locating History and Ethnography in...

Author: Sandeep Ray
ISBN: 9789813251380
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Uses the case of Dutch colonial film in Indonesia to show how a critically-, historically- and cinematically-informed...  Read More >>

Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film

Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film

Author: Brad Weismann
ISBN: 9781496833211
Format: Paperback
$50.60

Starting with silent-era horror films and ending with 2020's The Invisible Man, Lost in the Dark looks at decades...  Read More >>

Cinematic Virtual Reality: A Critical Study of 21st Century Approaches and Practices

Cinematic Virtual Reality: A Critical Study of 21st...

Author: Kath Dooley
ISBN: 9783030721466
Format: Hardback
$155.22

With reference to traditional film theory and frameworks drawn from fields such as screenwriting studies and anthropology,...  Read More >>

Australian Genre Film

Australian Genre Film

Author: Kelly McWilliam (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) ,  Mark David Ryan (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138603141
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia’s so-called new golden age of genre cinema,...  Read More >>

Presenting Persis Khambatta: From Miss India to Star Trek--The Motion Picture and Beyond

Presenting Persis Khambatta: From Miss India to Star...

Author: Sherilyn Connelly
ISBN: 9781476681955
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld: A Semiotic Analysis

Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld: A Semiotic Analysis...

Author: Dr. Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
ISBN: 9781501377327
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld presents a theoretical investigation of whatmakes the films of Wes Anderson distinctive....  Read More >>

Film Genres in Hungarian and Romanian Cinema: History, Theory, and Reception

Film Genres in Hungarian and Romanian Cinema: History,...

Author: Andrea Virginás
ISBN: 9781793613431
Format: Hardback
$228.00

This book analyzes Hungarian and Romanian cinema employs a film historical overview to merge the study of small...  Read More >>

Seeing the Apocalypse: Essays on Bird Box

Seeing the Apocalypse: Essays on Bird Box

Author: Brandon R. Grafius ,  Gregory Stevenson
ISBN: 9781611462982
Format: Hardback
$277.20

Seeing the Apocalypse: Essays on Bird Box is the first volume to explore Josh Malerman’s best-selling novel and...  Read More >>

The Legal Thriller from Gardner to Grisham: See you in Court!

The Legal Thriller from Gardner to Grisham: See you...

Author: Lars Ole Sauerberg
ISBN: 9781349680979
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Overviewing the legal thriller, where most of the titles have been written by professionals such as lawyers and...  Read More >>

Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film

Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film

Author: Brad Weismann
ISBN: 9781496833228
Format: Hardback
$222.20

Starting with silent-era horror films and ending with 2020's The Invisible Man, Lost in the Dark looks at decades...  Read More >>

Passing the Buck: Coleman Francis and Other Cinematic Metaphysicians

Passing the Buck: Coleman Francis and Other Cinematic...

Author: James J O'Meara
ISBN: 9780648766094
Format: Paperback
$36.10

"Welcome to Metaphysical Science Theater 3000. This collection is the first comprehensive attempt to place Traditionalism...  Read More >>

Godzilla vs. Kong: One Will Fall

Godzilla vs. Kong: One Will Fall

Author: Daniel Wallace ,  Adam Wingard
ISBN: 9781647221409
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Go behind the scenes of the biggest battle in movie history, with this deluxe book that explores the art and making...  Read More >>

The Rise & Fall of Max Linder: The First Cinema Celebrity

The Rise & Fall of Max Linder: The First Cinema Celebrity...

Author: Lisa Stein Haven ,  Catherine Cormon
ISBN: 9781629337128
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Linder's story is both a comedy and a tragedy.  Read More >>

The Rise & Fall of Max Linder (hardback): The First Cinema Celebrity

The Rise & Fall of Max Linder (hardback): The First...

Author: Lisa Stein Haven ,  Catherine Cormon
ISBN: 9781629337135
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Linder's story is both a comedy and a tragedy.  Read More >>

The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007

The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007...

Author: Jeremy Black
ISBN: 9781538126363
Format: Paperback
$76.56

This insightful and entertaining book offers a historian's perspective on James Bond. Tracing Bond's evolution since...  Read More >>

Women in Marvel Films

Women in Marvel Films

Author: Miriam Kent
ISBN: 9781474448826
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Women in Marvel Films provides the first rigorous analysis of the portrayals of women, heroic and otherwise, in...  Read More >>

Star Trek, History and Us: Reflections of the Present and Past Throughout the Franchise

Star Trek, History and Us: Reflections of the Present...

Author: A.J. Black
ISBN: 9781476681696
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Greek Weird Wave: A Cinema of Biopolitics

Greek Weird Wave: A Cinema of Biopolitics

Author: Dimitris Papanikolaou (Associate Professor, St Cross College at the University of Oxford.)
ISBN: 9781474436311
Format: Hardback
$219.00

This book establishes a cinematic and cultural history of Greece during the last difficult decade in an engaged...  Read More >>

ReFocus: The Films of John Hughes

ReFocus: The Films of John Hughes

Author: Timothy Shary (Professor, Eastern Florida State College) ,  Frances Smith (Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781474449021
Format: Hardback
$219.00

This wide-ranging collection examines the films of John Hughes from diverse angles, considering how he depicted...  Read More >>

Understanding Genres in Comics

Understanding Genres in Comics

Author: Nicolas Labarre
ISBN: 9783030435561
Format: Paperback
$142.29

This book offers a theoretical framework and numerous cases studies – from early comic books to contemporary graphic...  Read More >>

Graphis Journal Magazine 369

Graphis Journal Magazine 369

Author: B. Martin Pedersen
ISBN: 9781931241960
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Graphis Journal Take a deep dive into the minds of some of today's renowned designers, photographers, art directors,...  Read More >>

The Lost Films Fanzine Presents Movie Milestones #4: (Basic Color/Variant Cover B)

The Lost Films Fanzine Presents Movie Milestones #4:...

Author: John Lemay
ISBN: 9781953221711
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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The Golden Age of Crap: 77 B-Movies From the Glory Days of VHS

The Golden Age of Crap: 77 B-Movies From the Glory Days...

Author: Nathan Shumate
ISBN: 9781087866802
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Just because you can't respect a movie doesn't mean you can't enjoy it. A seminal text of the VHS nostalgia...  Read More >>

Universal '40s Monsters: A Critical Commentary

Universal '40s Monsters: A Critical Commentary

Author: John T Soister
ISBN: 9781629336923
Format: Paperback
$110.88

An 800 page look at Universal's horror films.  Read More >>

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