Film theory & criticism books

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Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror

Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror

Author: Victoria McCollum ,  Aislinn Clarke
ISBN: 9781611463095
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror is the first book-length exploration of female creators at the cutting edge...  Read More >>

Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination

Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination

Author: Martin M. Winkler (George Mason University, Virginia)
ISBN: 9781009396714
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Demonstrates the affinities between antiquity and today by interpreting several themes in classical literature and...  Read More >>

Semiotics for Screenwriters: Break Down Your Favorite Movies Then Write Your Own

Semiotics for Screenwriters: Break Down Your Favorite...

Author: Michael Tierno (East Carolina University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501391002
Format: Hardback
$180.00

You're trying to finish a screenplay, but there's a voice in your ear whispering, “You should know more about how...  Read More >>

Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation: The Adaptation of Children’s Novels into the World Masterpiece Theater Series

Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation: The Adaptation...

Author: Maria Chiara Oltolini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy)
ISBN: 9781501389900
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""The first academic work to examine the Japanese World Masterpiece Theater (Sekai Meisaku Gekij�o, 1969-2009),...  Read More >>

Movie Publicity Showcase - The Serials Volume 1: "Bela Lugosi in ""The Return of Chandu"" and ""Spooks Run Wild"""

Movie Publicity Showcase - The Serials Volume 1: "Bela...

Author: I Joseph Hyatt
ISBN: 9798320407081
Format: Paperback
$39.47

"""Movie Publicity Showcase - The Serials Volume 1"" places the Bela Lugosi's film ""The Return of Chandu"" into...  Read More >>

The Afterlives of Frankenstein: Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings

The Afterlives of Frankenstein: Popular and Artistic...

Author: Professor Robert I. Lublin (Professor Theatre Arts, University of Massachusets, Boston, USA) ,  Professor Elizabeth A. Fay (Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
ISBN: 9781350351561
Format: Hardback
$170.00

An exploration of the treatment of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in popular art and culture, this book examines adaptations...  Read More >>

Transnational Arab Stardom: Glamour, Performance and Politics

Transnational Arab Stardom: Glamour, Performance and...

Author: Dr Kaya Davies Hayon (University of Lincoln, UK) ,  Stefanie Van de Peer (Queen Margaret University, UK)
ISBN: 9781501393228
Format: Hardback
$190.00

"""A richly illustrated collection, structured along chronological, geographical and thematic lines, this book offers...  Read More >>

A Century in the Telling: Must-See Genre Films

A Century in the Telling: Must-See Genre Films

Author: James Stratton
ISBN: 9798887713953
Format: Paperback
$105.60

This perceptive, entertaining book celebrates a century of genre films, everything from comedies and musicals to...  Read More >>

Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews

Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews

Author: Carl Rollyson
ISBN: 9781496849557
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Here at last is the complete story of Dana Andrews (1909–1992): a great actor who struggled to overcome alcoholism...  Read More >>

Superspy Science: Science, Death and Tech in the World of James Bond

Superspy Science: Science, Death and Tech in the World...

Author: Kathryn Harkup
ISBN: 9781472982254
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Investigating the science behind the escapades of James Bond and his foes  Read More >>

Cinema '62: The Greatest Year at the Movies

Cinema '62: The Greatest Year at the Movies

Author: Stephen Farber ,  Michael McClellan
ISBN: 9781978840720
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Challenging the common assumption that the early 1960s were a drab time for American film, this book makes the bold...  Read More >>

Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror

Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror...

Author: Kartik Nair
ISBN: 9780520392281
Format: Paperback
$49.95

"In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches,...  Read More >>

Urban Crime Control in Cinema: Fallen Guardians and the Ideology of Repression

Urban Crime Control in Cinema: Fallen Guardians and...

Author: Vladimir Rizov
ISBN: 9783031129803
Format: Paperback
$316.77

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Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror

Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror...

Author: Kartik Nair
ISBN: 9780520392274
Format: Hardback
$140.95

"In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches,...  Read More >>

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

Author: Robert Calder
ISBN: 9780299346201
Format: Hardback
$211.07

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Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Taxidermy: Fashioning Corpses

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Taxidermy: Fashioning...

Author: Subarna Mondal (The Sanskrit College and University Kolkata, India)
ISBN: 9798765101186
Format: Hardback
$150.00

"""An investigation into how Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) significantly contributes to the Body Horrors of mainstream...  Read More >>

HITCHOLOGY: A film-by-film guide to the style and themes of Alfred Hitchcock

HITCHOLOGY: A film-by-film guide to the style and themes...

Author: Neil Alcock
ISBN: 9781739522001
Format: Paperback
$42.21

HITCHOLOGY considers how Hitchcock used narrative tropes and formal flourishes to create some of cinema's most unforgettable...  Read More >>

The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema

The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema

Author: Bliss Cua Lim
ISBN: 9781478021001
Format: Hardback
$303.47

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Film Figures: An Organological Approach

Film Figures: An Organological Approach

Author: Warwick Mules (Adjunct Associate Professor, Southern Cross University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781501361210
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Film Figures develops a figural account of the memory structure of films. Employing theoretical concepts drawn...  Read More >>

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