Film theory & criticism books

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The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: The Lost Films: Mutated Edition

The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: The Lost...

Author: John Lemay ,  Ted Johnson
ISBN: 9781734154603
Format: Hardback
$110.88

THAT'S RIGHT. THE LOST FILMS IS BACK. And like a Heisei era Godzilla foe, it's mutated into its second, bigger,...  Read More >>

Martin Scorsese's Divine Comedy: Movies and Religion

Martin Scorsese's Divine Comedy: Movies and Religion...

Author: Catherine O'Brien (Kingston University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350141605
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Catherine...  Read More >>

Film, Music, Memory

Film, Music, Memory

Author: Berthold Hoeckner
ISBN: 9780226649610
Format: Hardback
$213.95

""This book explores music soundtracks for films and demonstrates that film has helped shape modern culture by changing...  Read More >>

Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick

Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of...

Author: Maarten Coegnarts
ISBN: 9781644691120
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Film as Embodied Art reveals Stanley Kubrick as a genuine master of the art of embodying themental life of characters,...  Read More >>

Fiction and Imagination in Early Cinema: A Philosophical Approach to Film History

Fiction and Imagination in Early Cinema: A Philosophical...

Author: Mario Slugan (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781788314121
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Shortlisted for the BAFTSS 'Best Monograph' Award 2021 When watching the latest instalment of Batman, it is perfectly...  Read More >>

The Mummy on Screen: Orientalism and Monstrosity in Horror Cinema

The Mummy on Screen: Orientalism and Monstrosity in...

Author: Dr Basil Glynn (Middlesex University, UK)
ISBN: 9781788314084
Format: Hardback
$220.00

The Mummy is one of the most recognizable figures in horror and is as established in the popular imagination as...  Read More >>

Uncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europe

Uncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration...

Author: Nataša Kovačević (Associate Professor at the Department of English, Language and Literature, Easter Michigan University)
ISBN: 9781474435895
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Uncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europetakes a critical stance toward both assimilationist...  Read More >>

Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick

Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of...

Author: Maarten Coegnarts
ISBN: 9781618118363
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Film as Embodied Art reveals Stanley Kubrick as a genuine master of the art of embodying themental life of characters,...  Read More >>

For Kids of All Ages: The National Society of Film Critics on Children's Movies

For Kids of All Ages: The National Society of Film Critics...

Author: Peter Keough ,  The National Society of Film Critics
ISBN: 9781538128589
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Members of the National Society of Film Critics celebrate the wonder of childhood in cinema with original essays...  Read More >>

Partners in Peril: Walter Miller and Allene Ray, King and Queen of the Silent Serial

Partners in Peril: Walter Miller and Allene Ray, King...

Author: Ed Hulse
ISBN: 9781675287323
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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'Grease Is the Word': Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon

'Grease Is the Word': Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon...

Author: Oliver Gruner ,  Peter Krämer
ISBN: 9781785271106
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Bringing together a group of international scholars, 'Grease Is the Word' offers fresh insight into the impact and...  Read More >>

The Cinematic Political: Film Composition as Political Theory

The Cinematic Political: Film Composition as Political...

Author: Michael J. Shapiro (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, USA)
ISBN: 9781138596160
Format: Hardback
$389.00

In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented...  Read More >>

Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities

Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities

Author: Vivienne Lo ,  Chris Berry (Kings College, London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138580299
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Chinese Film and the Medical Humanities is the first book to reflect on the power of film in representing medical...  Read More >>

Postmodern Pirates: Tracing the Development of the Pirate Motif with Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean

Postmodern Pirates: Tracing the Development of the Pirate...

Author: Susanne Zhanial
ISBN: 9789004416086
Format: Hardback
$440.88

Postmodern Pirates offers a comprehensive analysis of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean series and the pirate motif...  Read More >>

The Bizarro Encyclopedia of Film Volume 1

The Bizarro Encyclopedia of Film Volume 1

Author: John Skipp ,  Heather Drain
ISBN: 9781621052951
Format: Paperback
$59.49

"WARNING!!! EVERY MOVIE YOU EVER LOVED MAY ALREADY BE BIZARRO! From the first silent movies to the latest YouTube...  Read More >>

War Games

War Games

Author: Jonna Eagle
ISBN: 9780813598918
Format: Paperback
$65.87

As simulations of war become more integrated into both popular culture and military practice, how do they shape...  Read More >>

Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity

Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity

Author: Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett ,  Ruth Mayer
ISBN: 9780813599311
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and...  Read More >>

Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film

Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film

Author: Allyson Nadia Field ,  Marsha Gordon
ISBN: 9781478004769
Format: Paperback
$105.47

The contributors to Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film examine the place and role of race in educational...  Read More >>

Rotten Movies We Love: Cult Classics, Underrated Gems, and Films So Bad They're Good

Rotten Movies We Love: Cult Classics, Underrated Gems,...

Author: The Editors of Rotten Tomatoes
ISBN: 9780762496051
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Celebrating everything from guilty pleasures to campy cult classics, Rotten Tomatoes' first book is a light-hearted,...  Read More >>

The American West on Film

The American West on Film

Author: Johnny D. Boggs (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9781440866760
Format: Hardback
$100.00

More than a history of Western movies, The American West on Film intertwines film history, the history of the American...  Read More >>

Home Is Where the Hurt Is: Media Depictions of Wives and Mothers

Home Is Where the Hurt Is: Media Depictions of Wives...

Author: Sara Hosey
ISBN: 9781476671987
Format: Paperback
$145.20

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War Games

War Games

Author: Jonna Eagle
ISBN: 9780813598925
Format: Hardback
$189.95

As simulations of war become more integrated into both popular culture and military practice, how do they shape...  Read More >>

Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity

Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity

Author: Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett ,  Ruth Mayer
ISBN: 9780813599328
Format: Hardback
$302.50

Explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and...  Read More >>

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