Film theory & criticism books

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Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the Truth

Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the Truth

Author: Todd McLaren ,  Stephanie Bentley
ISBN: 9781665138161
Format: Audio
$97.65

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The Magic Glasses of Critical Thinking: Seeing Through Alternative Fact & Fake News

The Magic Glasses of Critical Thinking: Seeing Through...

Author: D. Michael Rivage-Seul
ISBN: 9781433149528
Format: Paperback
$154.84

D. Michael Rivage-Seul’s new book, The Magic Glasses of Critical Thinking: Seeing through Alternative Fact & Fake...  Read More >>

Monsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America After World War II

Monsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the...

Author: Steffen Hantke
ISBN: 9781496818263
Format: Paperback
$71.50

During the 1950s and early 1960s, the American film industry produced a distinct cycle of films situated on the...  Read More >>

Music in Disney's Animated Features: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the Jungle Book

Music in Disney's Animated Features: Snow White and...

Author: James Bohn ,  Jeff Kurtti
ISBN: 9781496818331
Format: Paperback
$71.50

Investigates how music functions in Disney animated films and identifies several vanguard techniques used in them....  Read More >>

Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema

Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema...

Author: Gina Marchetti ,  Sheldon H. Lu
ISBN: 9780824866570
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Explores the role film plays in creating a common ground for the exchange of political and aesthetic ideas between...  Read More >>

The Gothic: A Reader

The Gothic: A Reader

Author: Simon Bacon
ISBN: 9781787072688
Format: Paperback
$64.69

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Contemporary Peruvian Cinema: History, Identity and Violence on Screen

Contemporary Peruvian Cinema: History, Identity and...

Author: Sarah Barrow
ISBN: 9781784538217
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The political violence that erupted near the end of the 20th century between the Peruvian state and militant group...  Read More >>

A Short History of Film, Third Edition

A Short History of Film, Third Edition

Author: Wheeler Winston Dixon ,  Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
ISBN: 9780813595139
Format: Hardback
$396.00

With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema, an expanded section on African-American filmmakers,...  Read More >>

Magnificent Obsession: The Outrageous History of Film Buffs, Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics

Magnificent Obsession: The Outrageous History of Film...

Author: Anthony Slide
ISBN: 9781496810533
Format: Hardback
$71.50

Looks at the way film has dominated the minds and lives of film buffs, film collectors, film academics, and just...  Read More >>

Excavating the Future: Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Film and Television

Excavating the Future: Archaeology and Geopolitics in...

Author: Shawn Malley
ISBN: 9781786941190
Format: Hardback
$97.01

A cultural study of an array of popular North American science fiction film and television texts, Excavating the...  Read More >>

Habsburgs Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

Habsburgs Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)...

Author: Hannes Leidinger ,  Gunter Bischof
ISBN: 9781608011575
Format: Paperback
$76.43

A divergent survey of scholarship on World War I cinema produced in succession countries of the Habsburg Empire....  Read More >>

Buster Keaton in His Own Time: What the Responses of 1920s Critics Reveal

Buster Keaton in His Own Time: What the Responses of...

Author: Wes D. Gehring
ISBN: 9781476666808
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Mapping Modern Beijing: Space, Emotion, Literary Topography

Mapping Modern Beijing: Space, Emotion, Literary Topography...

Author: Weijie Song (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Rutgers University Department of Asian Languages and Cultures)
ISBN: 9780190200671
Format: Hardback
$227.00

Mapping Modern Beijing investigates five methods of representing Beijing-a warped hometown, a city of snapshots...  Read More >>

Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices

Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices...

Author: Catherine Russell
ISBN: 9780822370451
Format: Hardback
$369.47

Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology--the reuse, recycling,...  Read More >>

New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies

New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies

Author: Guy Austin
ISBN: 9781785338298
Format: Paperback
$79.07

French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's work has been extremely influential, but has only intermittently been used...  Read More >>

Avengers Assemble!: Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Avengers Assemble!: Critical Perspectives on the Marvel...

Author: Terence McSweeney
ISBN: 9780231186254
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Avengers Assemble! explores the cinematic and televisual branches of the Marvel Cinematic Universe from a diverse...  Read More >>

I Spit on Your Grave

I Spit on Your Grave

Author: David Maguire
ISBN: 9780231188753
Format: Paperback
$24.95

Meir Zarchi’s I Spit On Your Grave (1978) is of the most controversial films ever made—both condemned as misogynistic...  Read More >>

Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making

Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American...

Author: Yvonne Welbon ,  Alexandra Juhasz
ISBN: 9780822370864
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Assembling a range of interviews, essays, and conversations, Sisters in the Life narrates the history of African...  Read More >>

What if We Rewrite the Stars?: Blank Journal and Movie Quote

What if We Rewrite the Stars?: Blank Journal and Movie...

Author: Write Run ,  David Cowan
ISBN: 9781718741409
Format: Paperback
$18.45

This amorous quote comes from The Greatest Showman motion picture. It's especially for those experiencing the...  Read More >>

There's No Place Like Home: The Migrant Child in World Cinema

There's No Place Like Home: The Migrant Child in World...

Author: Dr. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (The University of Lincoln, UK)
ISBN: 9781784534233
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2018 The Wizard of Oz brought many now-iconic tropes into popular culture: the...  Read More >>

Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity

Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity

Author: Frederick Blichert
ISBN: 9781476671994
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Deleuze, Cinema and the Thought of the World

Deleuze, Cinema and the Thought of the World

Author: Allan James Thomas (Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University)
ISBN: 9781474432795
Format: Hardback
$253.00

Deleuze turns to the cinema because its formal resources enable it to 'think' the relation between movement and...  Read More >>

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