Film theory & criticism books

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The Crow: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Classic Film

The Crow: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Classic...

Author: Bridget Baiss
ISBN: 9781493074112
Format: Paperback
$57.99

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Cinema and Surveillance: The Asymmetric Gaze

Cinema and Surveillance: The Asymmetric Gaze

Author: Martin Blumenthal-Barby (Rice University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032134611
Format: Hardback
$103.00

Cinema and Surveillance: The Asymmetric Gaze shows how key modern filmmakers challenge and disturb the relation...  Read More >>

The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema

The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain...

Author: Laure Astourian (Bentley University)
ISBN: 9780253069597
Format: Paperback
$78.99

The Ethnographic Optic traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its...  Read More >>

Rene Girard, Law, Literature, and Cinema: The Legal Drama of the Scapegoat

Rene Girard, Law, Literature, and Cinema: The Legal...

Author: Eric M. Wilson
ISBN: 9789819711550
Format: Hardback
$422.37

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Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life

Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life

Author: Elizabeth Effinger
ISBN: 9781839990267
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy....  Read More >>

Starring Joan Crawford: The Films, the Fantasy, and the Modern Relevance of a Silver Screen Icon

Starring Joan Crawford: The Films, the Fantasy, and...

Author: Samuel Garza Bernstein
ISBN: 9781493074457
Format: Hardback
$55.99

Joan Crawford: the name has an enduring fascination. Forty-five years after her death, Crawford remains a familiar...  Read More >>

The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema

The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain...

Author: Laure Astourian (Bentley University)
ISBN: 9780253069580
Format: Hardback
$165.99

The Ethnographic Optic traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its...  Read More >>

Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children’s Television

Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children’s...

Author: Lauren Stephenson (York St. John University, UK) ,  Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar (Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University, UK)
ISBN: 9781501390562
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""A detailed and innovative book which examines weird, eerie and horrifying children's television and literature...  Read More >>

The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn: Genre, Gender, Glamour

The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn: Genre, Gender, Glamour...

Author: David Sweeney
ISBN: 9781802074581
Format: Hardback
$258.75

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The Gothic Peckinpah

The Gothic Peckinpah

Author: Tony Williams
ISBN: 9781802074611
Format: Hardback
$297.56

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Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females

Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More...

Author: Julie Wosk (SUNY Maritime College)
ISBN: 9780253069252
Format: Paperback
$64.99

"What distinguishes humanity from artificial beings? What do constructed creatures tell us about ourselves? From...  Read More >>

Phantom Limbs: Dissecting Horror's Lost Sequels and Remakes

Phantom Limbs: Dissecting Horror's Lost Sequels and...

Author: Jason Jenkins
ISBN: 9781960721419
Format: Paperback
$50.13

phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm'lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated. Wasn't...  Read More >>

Silent Film's Last Hurrah: The Remarkable Movies of the Long 1928

Silent Film's Last Hurrah: The Remarkable Movies of...

Author: David Meuel
ISBN: 9781476668956
Format: Paperback
$68.20

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Radio in the Movies: A History and Filmography

Radio in the Movies: A History and Filmography

Author: Laurence Etling, ,  Frank Barnas
ISBN: 9781476690988
Format: Paperback
$160.60

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Proibito!: A History of Italian Film Censorship, 1913-2021

Proibito!: A History of Italian Film Censorship, 1913-2021...

Author: Roberto Curti
ISBN: 9781476688565
Format: Paperback
$84.70

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Retelling Jane Austen: Essays on Recent Adaptations and Derivative Works

Retelling Jane Austen: Essays on Recent Adaptations...

Author: Tammy Powley ,  April Van Camp
ISBN: 9781476691930
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Fills the gap in Austen scholarship from 2000 to today, demonstrating Austen’s enduring talent and relevancy. The...  Read More >>

Choose Life. Choose Leith.: Trainspotting on Location

Choose Life. Choose Leith.: Trainspotting on Location...

Author: Tim Bell
ISBN: 9781804251096
Format: Paperback
$38.79

By examining the book, the play and the film, Choose Life, Choose Leith both critically analyses the Trainspotting...  Read More >>

Teaching Film from the People's Republic of China

Teaching Film from the People's Republic of China

Author: Zhuoyi Wang ,  Emily Wilcox
ISBN: 9781603296328
Format: Paperback
$64.90

Essays for teaching Chinese film, history, and society. This volume brings a diverse range of voices - from anthropology,...  Read More >>

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