Film theory & criticism books

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2001: A Space Odyssey and Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory

2001: A Space Odyssey and Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory...

Author: Daniel Bristow
ISBN: 9783319887807
Format: Paperback
$129.35

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick completed and released his magnum opus motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey; This book...  Read More >>

Exploitation Nation #6: UNDERGROUND COMIX: Cover A: BODE

Exploitation Nation #6: UNDERGROUND COMIX: Cover A:...

Author: Mike Haushalter ,  Justin Channell
ISBN: 9781795498715
Format: Paperback
$19.11

"Exploitation Nation #6: UNDERGROUND COMIX! Did your old man throw YOURS away? Interviews with: Stephen BissetteHoward...  Read More >>

Hollywood in Havana: US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959

Hollywood in Havana: US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism...

Author: Megan Feeney
ISBN: 9780226593692
Format: Paperback
$62.95

In the 1940s and '50s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn,...  Read More >>

The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Author: Deborah Martin
ISBN: 9781137530608
Format: Hardback
$284.60

What is the child for Latin American cinema? This book aims to answer that question, tracing the common tendencies...  Read More >>

Hollywood in Havana: US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959

Hollywood in Havana: US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism...

Author: Megan Feeney
ISBN: 9780226593555
Format: Hardback
$187.95

In the 1940s and '50s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn,...  Read More >>

Spectatorship and Film Theory: The Wayward Spectator

Spectatorship and Film Theory: The Wayward Spectator...

Author: Carlo Comanducci
ISBN: 9783030072407
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book interrogates the relation between film spectatorship and film theory in order to criticise some of the...  Read More >>

Rx Hollywood: Cinema and Therapy in the 1960s

Rx Hollywood: Cinema and Therapy in the 1960s

Author: Michael DeAngelis
ISBN: 9781438468525
Format: Paperback
$92.27

How films of the 1960s and early 1970s framed therapeutic issues as problems of human communication, and individual...  Read More >>

Immanent Frames: Postsecular Cinema between Malick and von Trier

Immanent Frames: Postsecular Cinema between Malick and...

Author: John Caruana ,  Mark Cauchi
ISBN: 9781438470160
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief....  Read More >>

Adapting Gender: Mexican Feminisms from Literature to Film

Adapting Gender: Mexican Feminisms from Literature to...

Author: Ilana Dann Luna
ISBN: 9781438468266
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico.  Read More >>

La saga Alien: généalogie filiation cousinade

La saga Alien: généalogie filiation cousinade

Author: Alain Pelosato
ISBN: 9782915512304
Format: Paperback
$25.77

Depuis sa sortie en 1979, le monstre du film Alien, le 8e passager a continué à hanter les salles de cinéma jusqu'en...  Read More >>

Echoes of a Queer Messianic: From Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain

Echoes of a Queer Messianic: From Frankenstein to Brokeback...

Author: Richard O. Block
ISBN: 9781438469546
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate...  Read More >>

Sound Objects

Sound Objects

Author: James A. Steintrager ,  Rey Chow
ISBN: 9781478001454
Format: Paperback
$80.99

The contributors to this ambitious and wide-ranging collection explore sound as an object, sound studies as a discipline,...  Read More >>

Rumble and Crash: Crises of Capitalism in Contemporary Film

Rumble and Crash: Crises of Capitalism in Contemporary...

Author: Milo Sweedler
ISBN: 9781438472799
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism's precarious state in the early twenty-first century.  Read More >>

Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan, 1919-1937

Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan, 1919-1937...

Author: Cloe Drieu ,  Adrian Morfee
ISBN: 9780253037848
Format: Paperback
$110.88

Between the founding of Soviet Uzbekistan in 1924 and the Stalinist Terror of the late 1930s, a nationalist cinema...  Read More >>

CINÉMA&CIE INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES JOURN ALvol. XVIII, no. 30, Spring 2018: Reinventing Mao: Maoisms and National Cinemas

CINÉMA&CIE INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES JOURN ALvol. XVIII,...

Author: Federico Zecca ,  Marco Dalla Gassa
ISBN: 9788869771705
Format: Paperback
$47.52

This special issue of ""Cinéma & Cie"" aims to investigate the relationship between national cinemas and trans-national...  Read More >>

Hollywood's Lost Backlot: 40 Acres of Glamour and Mystery

Hollywood's Lost Backlot: 40 Acres of Glamour and Mystery...

Author: Steven Bingen
ISBN: 9781493033614
Format: Paperback
$51.99

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Monster! #34: Winter 2019

Monster! #34: Winter 2019

Author: Steve Fenton ,  Stephen R Bissette
ISBN: 9781792119217
Format: Paperback
$42.11

MONSTER! #34 - Boasting eye-poppingly colorful Kappa cover art by Ian Coleman, our first issue of MONSTER! in...  Read More >>

Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan, 1919-1937

Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan, 1919-1937...

Author: Cloe Drieu ,  Adrian Morfee
ISBN: 9780253037831
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Between the founding of Soviet Uzbekistan in 1924 and the Stalinist Terror of the late 1930s, a nationalist cinema...  Read More >>

Friendship Fictions: The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary

Friendship Fictions: The Rhetoric of Citizenship in...

Author: Michael A. Kaplan
ISBN: 9780817359386
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Friendship serves as a metaphor for citizenship and mirrors the individual's participation in civic life. Friendship...  Read More >>

Kafka and Noise: The Discovery of Cinematic Sound in Literary Modernism

Kafka and Noise: The Discovery of Cinematic Sound in...

Author: Kata Gellen
ISBN: 9780810138940
Format: Hardback
$316.80

A series of disruptive, unnerving sounds haunts the fictional writings of Franz Kafka. In Kafka and Noise, Kata...  Read More >>

Promises of Citizenship: Film Recruitment of African Americans in World War II

Promises of Citizenship: Film Recruitment of African...

Author: Kathleen M. German
ISBN: 9781496823335
Format: Paperback
$71.50

To generate African American support for World War II, the government turned to mass media. Kathleen German delves...  Read More >>

Home Away from Home: Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity, and Coloniality in Contemporary Spanish Culture

Home Away from Home: Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity,...

Author: N. Michelle Murray
ISBN: 9781469647463
Format: Paperback
$171.60

Home Away from Home: Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity, and Coloniality in Contemporary Spanish Culture examines...  Read More >>

Researching Newsreels: Local, National and Transnational Case Studies

Researching Newsreels: Local, National and Transnational...

Author: Ciara Chambers ,  Mats Jönsson
ISBN: 9783030063283
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This volume addresses the underscrutinised topic of cinema newsreels. The book presents a range of current research...  Read More >>

Holy Horror: The Bible and Fear in Movies

Holy Horror: The Bible and Fear in Movies

Author: Steve A. Wiggins
ISBN: 9781476674667
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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The Hal Roach Comedy Shorts of Thelma Todd, ZaSu Pitts and Patsy Kelly

The Hal Roach Comedy Shorts of Thelma Todd, ZaSu Pitts...

Author: James L. Neibaur
ISBN: 9781476672557
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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