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The Long Shadow of the Past: Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture

The Long Shadow of the Past: Contemporary Austrian Literature,...

Author: Katya Krylova
ISBN: 9781640140738
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Examines key contemporary Austrian literary texts, films, and memorials that treat Nazism and the Holocaust for...  Read More >>

Happiness by Design: Modernism and Media in the Eames Era

Happiness by Design: Modernism and Media in the Eames...

Author: Justus Nieland
ISBN: 9781517902049
Format: Hardback
$323.40

A cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles...  Read More >>

Metamorphosen Der Madame Butterfly: Interkulturelle Liebschaften Zwischen Literatur, Oper Und Film

Metamorphosen Der Madame Butterfly: Interkulturelle...

Author: Hyunseon Lee
ISBN: 9783825362676
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Pierre Loti's 'Madame Chrysanthemum' (1887) develops the global narrative of 'Madame Butterfly' at the 'Fin de Siecle'....  Read More >>

After Authority: Global Art Cinema and Political Transition

After Authority: Global Art Cinema and Political Transition...

Author: Kalling Heck
ISBN: 9781978806986
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Postcolonial Lack: Identity, Culture, Surplus

Postcolonial Lack: Identity, Culture, Surplus

Author: Gautam Basu Thakur
ISBN: 9781438477695
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations...  Read More >>

Utopia and Reality: Documentary, Activism and Imagined Worlds

Utopia and Reality: Documentary, Activism and Imagined...

Author: Simon Spiegel ,  Andrea Reiter
ISBN: 9781786835246
Format: Hardback
$175.00

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Empires of the Imagination: A Critical Survey of Fantasy Cinema from Georges Melies to The Lord of the Rings

Empires of the Imagination: A Critical Survey of Fantasy...

Author: Alec Worley
ISBN: 9781476681375
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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After Authority: Global Art Cinema and Political Transition

After Authority: Global Art Cinema and Political Transition...

Author: Kalling Heck
ISBN: 9781978806993
Format: Hardback
$302.50

Explores the tendency in art cinema to respond to political transition by turning to ambiguity, a system that ideally...  Read More >>

Spanish Cinema Against Itself: Cosmopolitanism, Experimentation, Militancy

Spanish Cinema Against Itself: Cosmopolitanism, Experimentation,...

Author: Steven Marsh
ISBN: 9780253046314
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Spanish Cinema against Itself maps the evolution of Spanish surrealist and politically committed cinematic traditions...  Read More >>

Household Horror: Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects

Household Horror: Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life...

Author: Marc Olivier
ISBN: 9780253046567
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Take a tour of the house where a microwave killed a gremlin, a typewriter made Jack a dull boy, a sewing machine...  Read More >>

Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland

Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland

Author: Gerald Clarke ,  Erin Bennett
ISBN: 9798200785810
Format: Audio
$147.81

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Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland

Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland

Author: Gerald Clarke ,  Erin Bennett
ISBN: 9798200785803
Format: Audio
$131.97

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Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland

Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland

Author: Gerald Clarke ,  Erin Bennett
ISBN: 9798200785797
Format: Audio
$197.97

Judy Garland, the girl with the pigtails in THE WIZARD OF OZ, was an entertainer of almost magical power. With...  Read More >>

Hollywood's Hard-Luck Ladies: 23 Actresses Who Suffered Early Deaths, Accidents, Missteps, Illnesses and Tragedies

Hollywood's Hard-Luck Ladies: 23 Actresses Who Suffered...

Author: Laura Wagner
ISBN: 9781476678436
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Spanish Cinema Against Itself: Cosmopolitanism, Experimentation, Militancy

Spanish Cinema Against Itself: Cosmopolitanism, Experimentation,...

Author: Steven Marsh
ISBN: 9780253046307
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Spanish Cinema against Itself maps the evolution of Spanish surrealist and politically committed cinematic traditions...  Read More >>

Household Horror: Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects

Household Horror: Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life...

Author: Marc Olivier
ISBN: 9780253046550
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Take a tour of the house where a microwave killed a gremlin, a typewriter made Jack a dull boy, a sewing machine...  Read More >>

Natalie Wood: The Complete Biography

Natalie Wood: The Complete Biography

Author: Suzanne Finstad
ISBN: 9780593136942
Format: Paperback
$52.80

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The definitive biography of a vulnerable and talented actress, now with explosive new...  Read More >>

Kunst für ein auserwähltes Volk: Aneignung und Verwandlung biblischer Motive in Schönbergs Oper und in Straub-Huillets Opernfilm »Moses und Aron«

Kunst für ein auserwähltes Volk: Aneignung und Verwandlung...

Author: Dr. Thorsten Gubatz
ISBN: 9783847111337
Format: Paperback
$89.76

Der opulente Bedeutungsreichtum des scheinbar kargen Opernfilms »Moses und Aron«  Read More >>

Writing Japanese Monsters: From the Files of The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies

Writing Japanese Monsters: From the Files of The Big...

Author: John Lemay ,  Ted Johnson
ISBN: 9781734154658
Format: Hardback
$90.56

Discover the hidden histories of your favorite Japanese Monster Movies! Learn how King Kong vs. Godzilla actually...  Read More >>

Kenneth Lonergan: Filmmaker and Philosopher

Kenneth Lonergan: Filmmaker and Philosopher

Author: Todd May
ISBN: 9781350112070
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy: Education Without Learning

Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy: Education Without...

Author: René V. Arcilla (New York University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350110427
Format: Hardback
$220.00

What is education? Most of the time, we have little patience for this question because we take the answer to be...  Read More >>

Kenneth Lonergan: Filmmaker and Philosopher

Kenneth Lonergan: Filmmaker and Philosopher

Author: Todd May
ISBN: 9781350112063
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Kenneth Lonergan’s three films—You Can Count on Me (2000), Margaret (2011), and Manchester by the Sea (2016)—are...  Read More >>

Aardman Animations: Beyond Stop-Motion

Aardman Animations: Beyond Stop-Motion

Author: Annabelle Honess Roe (University of Surrey, UK)
ISBN: 9781350114555
Format: Hardback
$200.00

The Bristol-based animation company Aardman is best known for its most famous creations Wallace and Gromit and Shaun...  Read More >>

The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism

The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia,...

Author: Adam R. Ochonicky
ISBN: 9780253045973
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Adam R. Ochonicky gives a critical overview of the Midwest's symbolic and often contradictory meanings in film and...  Read More >>

The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism

The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia,...

Author: Adam R. Ochonicky
ISBN: 9780253045966
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Adam R. Ochonicky gives a critical overview of the Midwest's symbolic and often contradictory meanings in film and...  Read More >>

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