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Melancholy Emotion in Contemporary Cinema: A Spinozian Analysis of Film Experience

Melancholy Emotion in Contemporary Cinema: A Spinozian...

Author: Francesco Sticchi
ISBN: 9781138317741
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Believing in Film: Christianity and Classic European Cinema

Believing in Film: Christianity and Classic European...

Author: Mark Le Fanu (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781788311441
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Explores the importance of Christianity in shaping post-War European cinema.  Read More >>

Postfeminist War: Women in the Media-Military-Industrial Complex

Postfeminist War: Women in the Media-Military-Industrial...

Author: Mary Douglas Vavrus
ISBN: 9780813576817
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Media representations that have emerged out of contemporary wars have been well documented. These treatments, however,...  Read More >>

The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity

The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent...

Author: Nadia Lie
ISBN: 9783030104139
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the flourishing genre of the contemporary Latin American...  Read More >>

The Queer Film Festival: Popcorn and Politics

The Queer Film Festival: Popcorn and Politics

Author: Stuart James Richards
ISBN: 9781349958610
Format: Paperback
$181.10

This book examines the queer film festival and opens the discussion on social enterprises and sustainable lesbian,...  Read More >>

Postfeminist War: Women in the Media-Military-Industrial Complex

Postfeminist War: Women in the Media-Military-Industrial...

Author: Mary Douglas Vavrus
ISBN: 9780813576824
Format: Hardback
$207.90

Considers two important questions: how the construction of gender, race, and class in media are productive of régimes...  Read More >>

Bestiaire du cinéma fantastique

Bestiaire du cinéma fantastique

Author: Alain Pelosato
ISBN: 9782915512281
Format: Paperback
$41.58

Ce bestiaire du cinéma fantastique et de SF présente les films que l'auteur a vus (ils sont très nombreux) dans...  Read More >>

Desapuntes de Un Cinefilo: Impresiones Y Recuerdos 5

Desapuntes de Un Cinefilo: Impresiones Y Recuerdos 5...

Author: Jesus I Callejas
ISBN: 9781793312877
Format: Paperback
$31.65

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Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History

Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film...

Author: Laura L. S. Bauer (Claremont Graduate University, USA)
ISBN: 9781440836480
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This is a topical resource that provides a comprehensive look at the most influential women in Hollywood cinema...  Read More >>

Science Fiction Films of The 20th Century: The 1940s

Science Fiction Films of The 20th Century: The 1940s...

Author: Theresa M Moore
ISBN: 9781938752971
Format: Paperback
$42.24

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

The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of...

Author: Jonathan Theodore
ISBN: 9781349848935
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This book investigates the ‘decline and fall’ of Rome as perceived and imagined in aspects of British and American...  Read More >>

Warner Bros.: Hollywood's Ultimate Backlot

Warner Bros.: Hollywood's Ultimate Backlot

Author: Steven Bingen ,  Marc Wanamaker
ISBN: 9781493035335
Format: Paperback
$57.99

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The Fly

The Fly

Author: Emma Westwood
ISBN: 9781911325420
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Rarely does a remake outshine its original but David Cronenberg's reimagining of The Fly (1986) is one of those...  Read More >>

Desapuntes de Un Cinefilo Impresiones Y Recuerdos 4: Impresiones Y Recuerdos 4

Desapuntes de Un Cinefilo Impresiones Y Recuerdos 4:...

Author: Jesus I Callejas
ISBN: 9781793198976
Format: Paperback
$31.65

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Desapuntes de Un Cinefilo: Impresiones Y Recuerdos 2

Desapuntes de Un Cinefilo: Impresiones Y Recuerdos 2...

Author: Jesus I Callejas
ISBN: 9781793167224
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Historia y resenas de cine; y en especial una extensa recopilacion sobre diversas adaptaciones del teatro de William...  Read More >>

In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema

In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema...

Author: Professor of Film Ivone Margulies (Hunter College)
ISBN: 9780190496852
Format: Undefined
$277.20

In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema delineates a new performative genre based on replay and...  Read More >>

Media in Mind

Media in Mind

Author: Daniel Reynolds (Emory University)
ISBN: 9780190872557
Format: Undefined
$277.20

Where do you end, and where do media begin? In Media in Mind, author Daniel Reynolds draws upon naturalist philosophies...  Read More >>

Dziga Vertov: Life and Work (Volume 1: 18961921)

Dziga Vertov: Life and Work (Volume 1: 18961921)

Author: John MacKay
ISBN: 9781618117342
Format: Hardback
$270.00

For 60 years, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov, creator of the famed Man with a Movie Camera (1929), has been recognized...  Read More >>

Sport Documentaries

Sport Documentaries

Author: Ian McDonald (Newcastle University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415580939
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Sport has become a dominant global cultural form and therefore, with increasing frequency, a cinematic subject....  Read More >>

Astral Affairs Rambova: The Séances, The Psychic & The Valentino Death Prophecy

Astral Affairs Rambova: The Séances, The Psychic & The...

Author: Evelyn Zumaya
ISBN: 9780998709819
Format: Paperback
$87.09

In August of 1925, Rudolph Valentino and his second wife Natacha Rambova separated, after their separation, Natacha...  Read More >>

Queer Art Camp Superstar: Decoding the Cinematic Cyberworld of Ryan Trecartin

Queer Art Camp Superstar: Decoding the Cinematic Cyberworld...

Author: Ricardo E. Zulueta
ISBN: 9781438468945
Format: Paperback
$134.51

The first book-length study of Trecartin's artistic genealogy, evolving aesthetics, radical approach to digital...  Read More >>

Gods Like Us

Gods Like Us

Author: Ty Burr
ISBN: 9781663611734
Format: Hardback
$77.48

With 8 Pages of Black-and-White Photographs In this captivating history of stardom, Boston Globe film critic...  Read More >>

The Holocaust in Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Films

The Holocaust in Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Films...

Author: Sarka Sladovnikova ,  Reinhard Ibler
ISBN: 9783838211961
Format: Paperback
$56.93

Šárka Sladovníková analyzes the depiction of the Holocaust in Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Films and the relevant...  Read More >>

Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre

Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre

Author: Lee Clark Mitchell
ISBN: 9781496201966
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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