Film theory & criticism books

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Black Oscars: From Mammy to Minny, What the Academy Awards Tell Us about African Americans

Black Oscars: From Mammy to Minny, What the Academy...

Author: professor Frederick Gooding Jr.
ISBN: 9781538175682
Format: Paperback
$68.64

Black Oscars is a timely exploration of the complicated legacy of the Academy Awards and African American participation...  Read More >>

American Newspaper Journalists on Film: Portrayals of the Press During the Sound Era

American Newspaper Journalists on Film: Portrayals of...

Author: Johnny D. Boggs
ISBN: 9781476679938
Format: Paperback
$131.87

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New Media and the Artaud Effect

New Media and the Artaud Effect

Author: Jay Murphy
ISBN: 9783030834906
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book proposes, following Antonin Artaud, an investigation exploring the virtual body, neurology and the brain...  Read More >>

The Disney Animation Renaissance: Behind the Glass at the Florida Studio

The Disney Animation Renaissance: Behind the Glass at...

Author: Mary E. Lescher ,  Mary Lescher
ISBN: 9780252086861
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida opened in Orlando at the dawn of the Disney Renaissance. As a member of the...  Read More >>

Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives

Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in...

Author: Kristy L. Ulibarri
ISBN: 9781477326572
Format: Paperback
$66.00

A thorough examination of the political and economic exploitation of Latinx subjects, migrants, and workers through...  Read More >>

Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives

Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in...

Author: Kristy L. Ulibarri
ISBN: 9781477326015
Format: Hardback
$206.80

A thorough examination of the political and economic exploitation of Latinx subjects, migrants, and workers through...  Read More >>

The Disney Animation Renaissance: Behind the Glass at the Florida Studio

The Disney Animation Renaissance: Behind the Glass at...

Author: Mary E. Lescher ,  Mary Lescher
ISBN: 9780252044779
Format: Hardback
$239.00

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Lame Brains and Lunatics 2: More Good, Bad and Forgotten of Silent Comedy

Lame Brains and Lunatics 2: More Good, Bad and Forgotten...

Author: Steve Massa
ISBN: 9798887710501
Format: Paperback
$105.60

A new batch of unsung practitioners and overlooked aspects of silent film comedy.  Read More >>

A Theater Near You! Advertising Night of the Living Dead

A Theater Near You! Advertising Night of the Living...

Author: Geoff Turner
ISBN: 9798833365755
Format: Paperback
$52.77

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Screening Queer Memory: LGBTQ Pasts in Contemporary Film and Television

Screening Queer Memory: LGBTQ Pasts in Contemporary...

Author: Dr Anamarija Horvat (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9781350188402
Format: Paperback
$61.99

In Screening Queer Memory, Anamarija Horvat examines how LGBTQ history has been represented on-screen, and interrogates...  Read More >>

The Eisenstein Universe

The Eisenstein Universe

Author: Ian Christie (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) ,  Julia Vassilieva (Monash University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350239616
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Over the decades since he was first hailed by critics and filmmakers around the world, Sergei Eisenstein has assumed...  Read More >>

To Boldly Go: Marketing the Myth of Star Trek

To Boldly Go: Marketing the Myth of Star Trek

Author: Djoymi Baker (RMIT University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350252363
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Today's media, cinema and TV screens are host to new manifestations of myth, their modes of storytelling radically...  Read More >>

Divergent Tracks: How Three Film Communities Revolutionized Digital Film Sound

Divergent Tracks: How Three Film Communities Revolutionized...

Author: Dr. Vanessa Theme Ament (Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Endowed Chair of Telecommunications, Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9781501378539
Format: Paperback
$61.99

By examining three case studies of award-winning soundtracks from cult films—Barton Fink (1991), Bram Stoker’s Dracula...  Read More >>

Musicals at the Margins: Genre, Boundaries, Canons

Musicals at the Margins: Genre, Boundaries, Canons

Author: Julie Lobalzo Wright (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Martha Shearer (University College Dublin, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781501378522
Format: Paperback
$61.99

But is it a musical? This question is regularly asked of films, television shows and other media objects that sit...  Read More >>

Martin Scorsese: A Journey

Martin Scorsese: A Journey

Author: Mary Pat Kelly ,  Leonardo DiCaprio
ISBN: 9780306831010
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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A Philosophy of Fashion Through Film: On the Body, Style, and Identity

A Philosophy of Fashion Through Film: On the Body, Style,...

Author: Laura T. Di Summa (William Paterson University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350157002
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The question of whether movies can deliver philosophical content is a leading topic in the cognitive and analytic...  Read More >>

Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience

Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience

Author: Professor Murray Pomerance (Independent scholar, Canada)
ISBN: 9781501398742
Format: Hardback
$200.00

""An in-depth study of several films and television shows to demonstrate the difficulties of conveying the experience...  Read More >>

Jack Nicholson: The Film Guide

Jack Nicholson: The Film Guide

Author: Chris Wade
ISBN: 9781470981921
Format: Paperback
$52.80

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO THE FILM CAREER OF JACK NICHOLSON, ONE OF THE GREATEST MOVIE STARS OF ALL TIME. CHARTING HIS...  Read More >>

Twilight's Last Screaming

Twilight's Last Screaming

Author: Sean Hogan
ISBN: 9781913038830
Format: Paperback
$71.25

In the follow-up to his acclaimed England’s Screaming, Sean Hogan acts as your guide through the liminal spaces...  Read More >>

Notes, Recollections and Sequences of Things Seen: Excerpts from an Intimate Diary

Notes, Recollections and Sequences of Things Seen: Excerpts...

Author: Raul Ruiz
ISBN: 9782381620060
Format: Paperback
$52.95

This volume gathers excerpts from the diary of celebrated Chilean experimental film director Raul Ruiz. A continuation...  Read More >>

Immortal Films: ""Casablanca"" and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic

Immortal Films: ""Casablanca"" and the Afterlife of...

Author: Barbara Klinger
ISBN: 9780520296473
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Casablanca is one of the most celebrated Hollywood films of all time, its iconic romance enshrined in collective...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory

Author: Kyle Stevens (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Appalachian State University)
ISBN: 9780190873929
Format: Hardback
$314.00

Despite changes in the media landscape, film remains a vital force in contemporary culture, as do our ideas of what...  Read More >>

Nabokov Noir: Cinematic Culture and the Art of Exile

Nabokov Noir: Cinematic Culture and the Art of Exile...

Author: Luke Parker
ISBN: 9781501766527
Format: Hardback
$94.75

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Immortal Films: ""Casablanca"" and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic

Immortal Films: ""Casablanca"" and the Afterlife of...

Author: Barbara Klinger
ISBN: 9780520296459
Format: Hardback
$157.95

Casablanca is one of the most celebrated Hollywood films of all time, its iconic romance enshrined in collective...  Read More >>

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