Film theory & criticism books

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Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch

Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch...

Author: Lucy Bolton (Reader in Film Studies, Queen Mary, University of London)
ISBN: 9781474416399
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Bringing together Murdoch's moral philosophy and contemporary cinema to build a dialogue about vision, ethics and...  Read More >>

Harry Potter Quizzes: How Much Do You Know About Harry Potter Series?

Harry Potter Quizzes: How Much Do You Know About Harry...

Author: Sarah Hopkins
ISBN: 9781071310267
Format: Paperback
$21.09

THE ULTIMATE HARRY POTTER QUIZ - More than 20 years ago, J K. Rowling introduced us to a magical world in her Harry...  Read More >>

Halloween Horror Watchlist

Halloween Horror Watchlist

Author: Steve Hutchison
ISBN: 9781077746176
Format: Paperback
$28.18

An excellent way to celebrate All Hallows' Eve all through October, this book contains 53 ranked reviews of Halloween-themed...  Read More >>

Halloween Horror Watchlist

Halloween Horror Watchlist

Author: Steve Hutchison
ISBN: 9781077746923
Format: Paperback
$15.99

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An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah

An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of...

Author: Jennifer Cazenave
ISBN: 9781438474762
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust...  Read More >>

Welcome to the Cheap Seats: Silver Screen Portrayals of the British Working Class

Welcome to the Cheap Seats: Silver Screen Portrayals...

Author: Andrew Graves
ISBN: 9781910170625
Format: Paperback
$25.85

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Cinema and Ontology

Cinema and Ontology

Author: Maurizio Ferraris ,  Enrico Terrone
ISBN: 9788869771606
Format: Paperback
$44.88

The essays presented in this volume investigate the relationship between cinema and ontology.  Read More >>

The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience

The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience...

Author: Julian Hanich
ISBN: 9781474431774
Format: Paperback
$57.99

In this innovative book, Julian Hanich explores the subjectively lived experience of watching films together, to...  Read More >>

Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit

Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit...

Author: Ross Anderson
ISBN: 9781496822338
Format: Paperback
$60.50

Ross Anderson interviewed over 140 artists to tell the story of how, with Who Framed Roger Rabbit, they created...  Read More >>

Blood and Black Lace

Blood and Black Lace

Author: Roberto Curti
ISBN: 9781911325932
Format: Paperback
$72.47

Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace (1964) is a legendary title, and is commonly considered as the archetypal giallo....  Read More >>

How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures

How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures

Author: Mark Kermode
ISBN: 9781474608992
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The hilarious memoir of adored film critic Mark Kermode's riotous attempts to become a popstar - 'Wonderful...terrific...hit...  Read More >>

Science Fiction Films of The 20th Century: 1955-1956

Science Fiction Films of The 20th Century: 1955-1956...

Author: Theresa M Moore
ISBN: 9781938752995
Format: Paperback
$42.24

A collection of essays by the author about films which were important to pop culture and the genre. Each essay includes...  Read More >>

Cinematic Encounters 2: Portraits and Polemics

Cinematic Encounters 2: Portraits and Polemics

Author: Jonathan Rosenbaum
ISBN: 9780252084386
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Eschewing the idea of film reviewer-as-solitary-expert, Jonathan Rosenbaum continues to advance his belief that...  Read More >>

Robert Taylor: Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom in Hollywood

Robert Taylor: Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom...

Author: Gillian Kelly
ISBN: 9781496823144
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Robert Taylor was a central figure of Hollywood's classical era. In Robert Taylor: Male Beauty, Masculinity, and...  Read More >>

The Cinema of Things: Globalization and the Posthuman Object

The Cinema of Things: Globalization and the Posthuman...

Author: Elizabeth Ezra (University of Stirling, UK)
ISBN: 9781501352492
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Traces the progressive redrawing of the boundaries between human beings and things as represented in cinema through...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas

Author: Carlos Rojas (Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image, Duke University) ,  Eileen Chow (Assistant Professor of Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard)
ISBN: 9780190050719
Format: Paperback
$76.95

What does it mean for a cinematic work to be Chinese ? Does it refer specifically to a work's subject, or does...  Read More >>

Return of the Son of Trevor Lynch's CENSORED Guide to the Movies

Return of the Son of Trevor Lynch's CENSORED Guide to...

Author: Trevor Lynch ,  Greg Johnson
ISBN: 9781642641332
Format: Paperback
$41.40

Return of the Son of Trevor Lynch's CENSORED Guide to the Movies is the author's third anthology on film, including...  Read More >>

Transatlantic Television Drama: Industries, Programs, and Fans

Transatlantic Television Drama: Industries, Programs,...

Author: Professor of Media and Film Matt Hills (University of Huddersfield) ,  Professor Emerita Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
ISBN: 9780190663162
Format: Undefined
$277.20

In 2014, the UK science-fiction television series Black Mirror was released on Netflix worldwide, quickly becoming...  Read More >>

The Origins of the Film Star System: Persona, Publicity and Economics in Early Cinema

The Origins of the Film Star System: Persona, Publicity...

Author: Andrew Shail (Newcastle University, UK)
ISBN: 9781788312073
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Andrew Shail traces the emergence of film stardom in Europe and North...  Read More >>

Robert Taylor: Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom in Hollywood

Robert Taylor: Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom...

Author: Gillian Kelly
ISBN: 9781496823137
Format: Hardback
$222.20

Robert Taylor was a central figure of Hollywood's classical era. In Robert Taylor: Male Beauty, Masculinity, and...  Read More >>

Cinematic Encounters 2: Portraits and Polemics

Cinematic Encounters 2: Portraits and Polemics

Author: Jonathan Rosenbaum
ISBN: 9780252042553
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Eschewing the idea of film reviewer-as-solitary-expert, Jonathan Rosenbaum continues to advance his belief that...  Read More >>

Lasting Screen Stars: Images that Fade and Personas that Endure

Lasting Screen Stars: Images that Fade and Personas...

Author: Lucy Bolton ,  Julie Lobalzo Wright
ISBN: 9781349680993
Format: Paperback
$64.66

"""The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. London"" -- Title page verso."  Read More >>

The Coen Brothers' America

The Coen Brothers' America

Author: M. Keith Booker
ISBN: 9781538120866
Format: Hardback
$118.80

From Blood Simple and Raising Arizona to Inside Llewyn Davis and Hail, Caesar!, the films of Joel and Ethan Coen...  Read More >>

Transcendence and Film: Cinematic Encounters with the Real

Transcendence and Film: Cinematic Encounters with the...

Author: David P. Nichols ,  Dylan James Trigg
ISBN: 9781498579995
Format: Hardback
$228.00

In this book, ten experts in philosophy of film explore the importance of transcendence for cinema as an art form...  Read More >>

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