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The Horror of Police

The Horror of Police

Author: Travis Linnemann
ISBN: 9781517905927
Format: Paperback
$44.99

""Drawing on the language and texts of horror fiction, Travis Linnemann recasts the police not only as self-proclaimed...  Read More >>

The Horror of Police

The Horror of Police

Author: Travis Linnemann
ISBN: 9781517905910
Format: Hardback
$180.00

""Drawing on the language and texts of horror fiction, Travis Linnemann recasts the police not only as self-proclaimed...  Read More >>

Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter

Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter

Author: Therese Henningsen & Juliette Joffé ,  Khalik Allah
ISBN: 9781913513306
Format: Paperback
$45.00

An anthology exploring the idea of documentary as encounter through essays, stories, interviews and other creative...  Read More >>

Glory and Life to the New Flesh!: Four Texts on David Cronenberg

Glory and Life to the New Flesh!: Four Texts on David...

Author: Federica Zotti ,  Federico Cacia
ISBN: 9798355953492
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Unanimously considered to be the father of the body horror film genre, David Cronemberg gave sight to a film genre...  Read More >>

Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood

Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood

Author: Lisa Funnell ,  Ralph Beliveau
ISBN: 9781438487601
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Considers how Hollywood films since the 1960s have both reflected and shaped attitudes toward rape and sexual violence....  Read More >>

The Intertextual Knot: An Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope

The Intertextual Knot: An Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock’s...

Author: Dario Martinelli
ISBN: 9783030852757
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book is a thorough analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948) and of its multiple connections with the Leopold...  Read More >>

Writ on Water: The Sources and Reach of Film Imagination

Writ on Water: The Sources and Reach of Film Imagination...

Author: Charles Warren
ISBN: 9781438488103
Format: Paperback
$92.27

A powerful and original statement on the nature of film and the intimate relation of ""film imagination"" to our...  Read More >>

The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age

The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade...

Author: Mónica García Blizzard
ISBN: 9781438488042
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico....  Read More >>

Geological Filmmaking

Geological Filmmaking

Author: Sascha Litvintseva
ISBN: 9781785421105
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Geological Filmmaking expands current conversations in the environmental humanities through building on the rich...  Read More >>

Horror Bulletin Monthly October 2022

Horror Bulletin Monthly October 2022

Author: Brian Schell
ISBN: 9798355682811
Format: Paperback
$26.37

The lucky Thirteenth issue of the Horror Guys Monthly review digest, Horror Bulletin, includes reviews of thirty-two...  Read More >>

Meaninglessness: Time, Rhythm, and the Undead in Postcolonial Cinema

Meaninglessness: Time, Rhythm, and the Undead in Postcolonial...

Author: Vlad Dima
ISBN: 9781611864380
Format: Paperback
$131.87

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A Kind of Magic: Making the Original Highlander

A Kind of Magic: Making the Original Highlander

Author: Jonathan Melville
ISBN: 9781913538446
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Author Jonathan Melville looks back at the creation ofHighlanderwith the help of more than 60 cast and crew, including...  Read More >>

Magnificent Méliès: The Authorized Biography

Magnificent Méliès: The Authorized Biography

Author: Madeleine Malthête-Méliès ,  Kel Pero
ISBN: 9780472132584
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Biography of pioneer early filmmaker Georges Méliès, now in English  Read More >>

The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar...

Author: Bruce Davis ,  Jim Meskimen
ISBN: 9798212233057
Format: Audio
$123.95

The first behind-the-scenes history of the organization behind the Academy Awards For all the near-fanatic attention...  Read More >>

The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar...

Author: Bruce Davis ,  Jim Meskimen
ISBN: 9798212233040
Format: Audio
$150.35

The first behind-the-scenes history of the organization behind the Academy Awards For all the near-fanatic attention...  Read More >>

Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema: Filmmakers and Protagonists of the Twenty-First Century

Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema: Filmmakers and Protagonists...

Author: Jack A. Draper, III ,  Cacilda M. Rêgo
ISBN: 9781438490250
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Illuminates the complex factors that have helped or hindered creative work by and about women in the twenty-first-century...  Read More >>

Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage

Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage...

Author: Robert S. Bader
ISBN: 9780810145757
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Before film made them international comedy legends, the Marx Brothers developed their comic skills on stage for...  Read More >>

Looking Beyond Neoliberalism: French and Francophone Belgian Cinema and the Crisis

Looking Beyond Neoliberalism: French and Francophone...

Author: Martin O'Shaughnessy (Professor, Nottingham Trent University)
ISBN: 9781474448628
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Develops important insights into the politics of contemporary cinema and cinematic responses to the Crisis.  Read More >>

Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology

Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology...

Author: Erin James ,  Eric Morel
ISBN: 9780814255650
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Collection of essays connecting ecocriticism and narrative theory to encourage constructive discourse about narrative's...  Read More >>

A Silent Scream: An Approach to «King Kong» and the Evolution of the Contemporary American Imaginary

A Silent Scream: An Approach to «King Kong» and the...

Author: Lisa Gotto ,  Juan Antonio Roche Cárcel
ISBN: 9783631883105
Format: Paperback
$98.32

The four main versions of King Kong dramatize the fear of the Other: women, people of colour, nature, history, and...  Read More >>

The 1980s British Conspiracy Thriller: Terror Struck by Shadows

The 1980s British Conspiracy Thriller: Terror Struck...

Author: Paul Lynch
ISBN: 9781666913156
Format: Hardback
$264.00

The British conspiracy cycle of the 1980s emerged in response to an increasingly Orwellian secret state in Great...  Read More >>

New Philosophies of Film: An Introduction to Cinema as a Way of Thinking

New Philosophies of Film: An Introduction to Cinema...

Author: Dr Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350181922
Format: Paperback
$44.99

What can philosophy teach us about cinema? Can cinema transform how we understand philosophy? How should we describe...  Read More >>

Legacies of the Past: Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Screen Cultures

Legacies of the Past: Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual...

Author: Niamh Thornton (Reader, University of Liverpool.) ,  Miriam Haddu (Senior Lecturer, Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9781474480543
Format: Paperback
$49.99

This collection analyses the audio-visual representations of several heightened events in Mexican history.  Read More >>

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