Film theory & criticism books

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The Queer Coming of Age Film Genre

The Queer Coming of Age Film Genre

Author: Brad Windhauser
ISBN: 9781666949858
Format: Hardback
$290.40

This book argues for the existence of the Queer Coming of Age genre, in which films reveal the unique challenges...  Read More >>

An Imaginary Cinema: Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized Film

An Imaginary Cinema: Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized...

Author: Dustin Condren
ISBN: 9781501778469
Format: Hardback
$119.90

An Imaginary Cinema is the first systematic study of Sergei Eisenstein's unrealized films as well as a deeply informed...  Read More >>

Columbia Pictures: A Century of Hollywood Motion Picture Magic

Columbia Pictures: A Century of Hollywood Motion Picture...

Author: Jim Pauley
ISBN: 9781493084807
Format: Hardback
$112.00

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Hollywood Unions

Hollywood Unions

Author: Kate Fortmueller ,  Luci Marzola
ISBN: 9781978830585
Format: Paperback
$71.50

Who makes films and television shows? How do those people make a living in Hollywood? Hollywood Unions tells the...  Read More >>

Hollywood Unions

Hollywood Unions

Author: Kate Fortmueller ,  Luci Marzola
ISBN: 9781978830592
Format: Hardback
$242.00

Who makes films and television shows? How do those people make a living in Hollywood? Hollywood Unions tells the...  Read More >>

Von Der Leichtigkeit Der Realitat: Abbas Kiarostami Und Die Spatmoderne

Von Der Leichtigkeit Der Realitat: Abbas Kiarostami...

Author: Sahar Daryab
ISBN: 9783770569151
Format: Paperback
$380.16

Without dramatizing or denying the reality of our lives in late modernity, the renowned and Palme d'Or-winning director...  Read More >>

Embodiment and Legal Theory: Law in Fifty Shades of Grey

Embodiment and Legal Theory: Law in Fifty Shades of...

Author: Kirsty Duncanson (La Trobe University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367335069
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This book addresses the importance of the body in legal theory, through an analysis of the film Fifty Shades of...  Read More >>

Arthouse Crime Scenes: Art Film, Genre and Crime in Contemporary World Cinema

Arthouse Crime Scenes: Art Film, Genre and Crime in...

Author: Geoff King (Professor of Film Studies, Brunel University London, UK)
ISBN: 9798765108154
Format: Hardback
$190.00

How is crime represented in art cinema? And how can this be understood in the context of global sociopolitical and...  Read More >>

Edge of the Screen

Edge of the Screen

Author: Professor Murray Pomerance (Independent scholar, Canada)
ISBN: 9798765128336
Format: Hardback
$190.00

This book is a series of seventeen mediations that revolve around the notion of the viewer’s placement at the edge...  Read More >>

The Human Shutter: Photographs, Stereoscopic Depth, and Moving Images

The Human Shutter: Photographs, Stereoscopic Depth,...

Author: Robert L. Bowen
ISBN: 9781835950395
Format: Paperback
$65.95

The book celebrates art and artists, philosophers, and scientists inspired by stereoscopic vision. The origin of...  Read More >>

Bong Joon Ho

Bong Joon Ho

Author: Joseph Jonghyun Jeon
ISBN: 9780252088575
Format: Paperback
$48.99

Successful cult films like The Host and Snowpiercer proved to be harbingers for Bong Joon Ho’s enormous breakthrough...  Read More >>

The Invention of the Spectator: How has Early film Spectatorship shaped Audience and Reception Theory. Selected Writings (1900s-1910s)

The Invention of the Spectator: How has Early film Spectatorship...

Author: Frédéric Gimello-Mesplomb
ISBN: 9791043111792
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This volume explores the overlooked early research on cinema audiences before Kracauer. It emphasizes these studies...  Read More >>

Kubrick: An Odyssey

Kubrick: An Odyssey

Author: Robert P Kolker ,  Nathan Abrams
ISBN: 9781639368761
Format: Paperback
$57.95

The most comprehensive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odessey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange.  Read More >>

Old Hollywood: Little-Known Facts & Interesting Details

Old Hollywood: Little-Known Facts & Interesting Details...

Author: Kate Westworth
ISBN: 9783911724012
Format: Paperback
$44.85

What if there was a book that gives you all the information on Old Hollywood that you usually don't get? Not the...  Read More >>

David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials

David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials

Author: Violet Lucca ,  Little White Little White Lies
ISBN: 9781419771910
Format: Hardback
$69.99

An illustrated monograph on the work of legendary writer/director David Cronenberg, master of body horror and cinematic...  Read More >>

Cinema and the Political Imagination: Third Cinema and Its After-Image

Cinema and the Political Imagination: Third Cinema and...

Author: Robin Truth Goodman (Florida State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032470474
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Highlighting the importance of Third Cinema on twenty-first century political filmmaking, this book examines films...  Read More >>

On My Way

On My Way

Author: Martine Beswicke ,  Simon Firth
ISBN: 9781399996587
Format: Hardback
$131.87

In ON MY WAY, Martine Beswicke tells her fascinating story, that reads like a who's who of cinema and creativity...  Read More >>

Francophone Oceania Today: Literature, Visual Arts, Music, and Cinema

Francophone Oceania Today: Literature, Visual Arts,...

Author: Michelle Royer ,  Nathalie Ségeral
ISBN: 9781802071931
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Francophone Oceania Today: Literature, Visual Arts, Music and Cinema is a compilation of essays that breaks new...  Read More >>

From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary

From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic...

Author: Philip Kaisary
ISBN: 9781438498485
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance...  Read More >>

The Biopolitics of Gesture in the Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos: Operations of Life

The Biopolitics of Gesture in the Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos:...

Author: Carlo Comanducci
ISBN: 9783031741883
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This book establishes a dialogue between Yorgos Lanthimos and Giorgio Agamben as a way of interpreting the “weird”...  Read More >>

AGI is Waking Up!: From the Thought Lab of Science Fiction

AGI is Waking Up!: From the Thought Lab of Science Fiction...

Author: Li Zhang
ISBN: 9789819745142
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book is an engaging and comprehensive exploration that delves into the possibility of artificial intelligence...  Read More >>

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