Film theory & criticism books

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Playful Frames: Styles of Widescreen Cinema

Playful Frames: Styles of Widescreen Cinema

Author: Steven Rybin
ISBN: 9781978815957
Format: Hardback
$248.99

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Decalogue by Krzysztof Kieślowski

Decalogue by Krzysztof Kieślowski

Author: Simone Malacrida
ISBN: 9798223760672
Format: Paperback
$21.09

""Decalogue"", which aired at the end of 1988, immediately became a cornerstone of Krzysztof Kieślowski's artistic...  Read More >>

Ghibliotheque Film Korea: The essential guide to the wonderful world of Korean cinema

Ghibliotheque Film Korea: The essential guide to the...

Author: Jake Cunningham ,  Michael Leader
ISBN: 9781802796339
Format: Hardback
$45.00

This guide to the country's cinematic story explores 30 movies, combining reviews with director biographies, and...  Read More >>

Inszenierungen Zeitgenössischer Propaganda: Kampagnenfilme Im Dienste Des Gemeinwohls

Inszenierungen Zeitgenössischer Propaganda: Kampagnenfilme...

Author: Thomas J J Scherer
ISBN: 9783111185385
Format: Hardback
$232.29

Hans Bausch Mediapreis 2024 ""Don't drink and drive!"", ""Respect Covid regulations!"", or ""Don't get the vaccine!""...  Read More >>

The New American War Film

The New American War Film

Author: Robert Burgoyne
ISBN: 9781517915445
Format: Paperback
$66.00

""The New American War Film explores how, in the wake of 9/11, both the nature of military conflict and the symbolic...  Read More >>

The Female Gaze Lib/E: Essential Movies Made by Women

The Female Gaze Lib/E: Essential Movies Made by Women...

Author: Alicia Malone ,  Brigid Lohrey
ISBN: 9798874637507
Format: Audio
$190.05

"With the success of the Wonder Woman movies and the results following the outcry of the #MeToo movement, now is...  Read More >>

Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher--Television

Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse...

Author: Foster Hirsch
ISBN: 9780307958921
Format: Hardback
$95.00

""This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf.""  Read More >>

The Avenging-Woman On-Screen: Female Empowerment and Feminist Possibilities

The Avenging-Woman On-Screen: Female Empowerment and...

Author: Lara C. Stache ,  Rachel D. Davidson
ISBN: 9781666915556
Format: Hardback
$250.80

This book demonstrates how the avenging-woman character on-screen represents cultural conversations about female...  Read More >>

Folk Horror on Film: Return of the British Repressed

Folk Horror on Film: Return of the British Repressed...

Author: Kevin J. Donnelly ,  Louis Bayman
ISBN: 9781526164926
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This is the first scholarly collection to focus on the special importance of British cinema to folk horror. The...  Read More >>

The New American War Film

The New American War Film

Author: Robert Burgoyne
ISBN: 9781517915438
Format: Hardback
$180.00

""The New American War Film explores how, in the wake of 9/11, both the nature of military conflict and the symbolic...  Read More >>

Italian Film Music, 1950s-1970s: Between Tradition, Innovation, and Internationalisation

Italian Film Music, 1950s-1970s: Between Tradition,...

Author: Franco Sciannameo
ISBN: 9782503608464
Format: Hardback
$446.16

This book provide a tribute to Italian Film Music of 1950s-1970s  Read More >>

The Bad Class: Class of 1984, Bad Boys, The Outsiders, Repo Man, and Other Gems of '80s Trash Cinema

The Bad Class: Class of 1984, Bad Boys, The Outsiders,...

Author: Ben Beard
ISBN: 9798887712888
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Pop culture and films of the 1980s.  Read More >>

Purple Fury: Rumbling with the Warriors

Purple Fury: Rumbling with the Warriors

Author: Rob Ryder
ISBN: 9798989269310
Format: Paperback
$39.57

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Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV

Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV...

Author: Peter Biskind
ISBN: 9780062991669
Format: Hardback
$85.80

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SELECTION ""Biskind's saga about the rise and fall of prestige television explains,...  Read More >>

A Disturbance in the Force: How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened

A Disturbance in the Force: How and Why the Star Wars...

Author: Steve Kozak ,  Kirby Heyborne
ISBN: 9798212933421
Format: Audio
$110.85

"Even by the standards of the 1970s, even compared to Jar-Jar Binks, the legendary 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special...  Read More >>

A Disturbance in the Force: How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened

A Disturbance in the Force: How and Why the Star Wars...

Author: Steve Kozak ,  Kirby Heyborne
ISBN: 9798212933414
Format: Audio
$124.05

"Even by the standards of the 1970s, even compared to Jar-Jar Binks, the legendary 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special...  Read More >>

The Bad Class (hardback): Class of 1984, Bad Boys, The Outsiders, Repo Man, and Other Gems of '80s Trash Cinema

The Bad Class (hardback): Class of 1984, Bad Boys, The...

Author: Ben Beard
ISBN: 9798887712895
Format: Hardback
$84.48

Pop culture and films of the 1980s.  Read More >>

Perfect Wave: More Essays on Art and Democracy

Perfect Wave: More Essays on Art and Democracy

Author: Dave Hickey
ISBN: 9780226333144
Format: Paperback
$29.95

 A collection of essays by American art critic Dave Hickey, nicknamed “The Bad Boy of Art Criticism.”   When Dave...  Read More >>

Rushmore

Rushmore

Author: Kristi Irene McKim (Hendrix College, USA)
ISBN: 9781839024498
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Earning critical acclaim and commercial success upon its 1998 release, Rushmore—the sophomore film of American auteur...  Read More >>

Mean Streets

Mean Streets

Author: Demetrios Matheou (journalist, critic and programmer, UK)
ISBN: 9781839022951
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Mean Streets was Martin Scorsese’s third feature film, and the one that confirmed him as a major new talent. On...  Read More >>

Lost Federations: The Unofficial Unmade History of Star Trek

Lost Federations: The Unofficial Unmade History of Star...

Author: A. J. Black
ISBN: 9781915359117
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Lost Federationstraces the story of unmade projects across theStar Trekfranchise from the 1960s to the present day,...  Read More >>

Timeless Adventures: The Unofficial Story of How Doctor Who Conquered Television

Timeless Adventures: The Unofficial Story of How Doctor...

Author: Brian J. Robb
ISBN: 9781915359070
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes

Author: Pamela Hutchinson (freelance writer and critic, London, UK)
ISBN: 9781839026065
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Endlessly fascinating, dark and bright, The Red Shoes (1948) employs...  Read More >>

Toward an Anthropology of Screens: Showing and Hiding, Exposing and Protecting

Toward an Anthropology of Screens: Showing and Hiding,...

Author: Mauro Carbone ,  Graziano Lingua
ISBN: 9783031308154
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book shows that screens don’t just distribute the visible and the invisible, but have always mediated our body's...  Read More >>

David Lynch: A Retrospective

David Lynch: A Retrospective

Author: Ian Nathan
ISBN: 9781786751270
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Stunningly illustrated biography of filmmaker David Lynch, published to coincide with the 45th anniversary of Eraserhead...  Read More >>

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