Film theory & criticism books

17727 books were found.

Film Regulation in a Cultural Context

Film Regulation in a Cultural Context

Author: Daniel Sacco
ISBN: 9781474482387
Format: Hardback
$195.00

Compares censorship's distinct and varying profiles across five differentnational contexts - U.S.A., Britain, Canada,...  Read More >>

Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface

Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User...

Author: Nick Jones
ISBN: 9781399522762
Format: Hardback
$195.00

Explores the influence of the graphic user interface on contemporary screen media  Read More >>

Reframing Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Film

Reframing Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Film

Author: Tarja Laine
ISBN: 9781793651945
Format: Hardback
$264.00

In this book, Tarja Laine provides insights into how traumatic cinema invites profound affective engagement with...  Read More >>

Oh, My God! Ninja! A Brit's Take on Arnie, Icky Sex and Other Fun Movie Stuff

Oh, My God! Ninja! A Brit's Take on Arnie, Icky Sex...

Author: Dave Franklin
ISBN: 9798223344650
Format: Paperback
$39.57

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of American Horror Film Shorts: 1915–1976

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of American Horror Film Shorts:...

Author: Gary D. Rhodes ,  David J. Hogan
ISBN: 9783030975661
Format: Paperback
$413.97

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of American Horror Film Shorts chronicles for the first time over 1,500 horror and horror-related...  Read More >>

Rewind: A Half-Century of Classics, Cult Hits, and Other Must-See Movies

Rewind: A Half-Century of Classics, Cult Hits, and Other...

Author: Rick Anderson
ISBN: 9780578382937
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Some movies are iconic. Others are merely entertaining. In Rewind: A Half-Century of Classics, Cult Hits, and Other...  Read More >>

Thinking Film: Philosophy at the Movies

Thinking Film: Philosophy at the Movies

Author: Professor Richard Kearney (Boston College, USA) ,  M. E. Littlejohn (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350113466
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Hailed as one of America's original art forms, film has the distinctive character of crossing high and low art....  Read More >>

The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema

The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema...

Author: Antonio Gómez (Tulane University, USA) ,  Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián (Durham University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350281752
Format: Paperback
$59.99

How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema? Comprising 15 essays and a...  Read More >>

City Limits: Filming Belfast, Beirut and Berlin in Troubled Times

City Limits: Filming Belfast, Beirut and Berlin in Troubled...

Author: Dr Stephanie Schwerter (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France)
ISBN: 9781501380426
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Belfast, Beirut and Berlin are notorious for their internal boundaries and borders. As symbols for political disunion,...  Read More >>

Esfir Shub: Pioneer of Documentary Filmmaking

Esfir Shub: Pioneer of Documentary Filmmaking

Author: Ilana Shub Sharp (Independent Scholar, Australia)
ISBN: 9781501376481
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Esfir Shub was the only prominent female director of nonfiction film present at the dawning of the Soviet film industry....  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies

The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies

Author: Rosamund Davies ,  Paolo Russo
ISBN: 9783031207686
Format: Hardback
$517.47

This book provides an overview of the growing field of screenwriting research and is essential reading for both...  Read More >>

Screening the Posthuman

Screening the Posthuman

Author: Missy Molloy (Senior Lecturer in Film, Senior Lecturer in Film, Victoria University of Wellington) ,  Pansy Duncan (Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Massey University)
ISBN: 9780197538579
Format: Paperback
$68.95

From AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, cultural, and social transformations have unsettled...  Read More >>

Philosophical Reflections on Black Mirror

Philosophical Reflections on Black Mirror

Author: Professor Dan Shaw (Late of Lock Haven University, USA) ,  Kingsley Marshall (Falmouth University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350279537
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Black Mirror is a cultural phenomenon. It is a creative and sometimes shocking examination of modern society and...  Read More >>

Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities

Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism,...

Author: Ellie Tomsett (Birmingham City University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350302280
Format: Hardback
$170.00

An in-depth exploration of the ways in which the contemporary live UK comedy industry simultaneously encourages...  Read More >>

Thinking Film: Philosophy at the Movies

Thinking Film: Philosophy at the Movies

Author: Professor Richard Kearney (Boston College, USA) ,  M. E. Littlejohn (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350113459
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Hailed as one of America's original art forms, film has the distinctive character of crossing high and low art....  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Histories on Screen: Adaptation, Race and Intersectionality

Shakespeare’s Histories on Screen: Adaptation, Race...

Author: Jennie M. Votava (Allegheny College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350326644
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This volume reframes the critical conversation about Shakespeare’s histories and national identity by bringing together...  Read More >>

Space Race Television: Bildfahrzeuge als Agenten (trans-)globaler Medialisierung Ost/West

Space Race Television: Bildfahrzeuge als Agenten (trans-)globaler...

Author: Sven Grampp
ISBN: 9783658413996
Format: Paperback
$155.22

Analysiert werden Spielfilme, Dokumentationen, Live-Berichterstattung im Fernsehen, Magazine, Briefmarken, Plakate,...  Read More >>

An Atonal Cinema: Resistance, Counterpoint and Dialogue in Transnational Palestine

An Atonal Cinema: Resistance, Counterpoint and Dialogue...

Author: Robert G. White (Kingston, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781501385018
Format: Hardback
$160.00

""An Atonal Cinema theorises contemporary Palestinian cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance...  Read More >>

Energetik Der Film-Rezeption: Mit Bergson Und Deleuze

Energetik Der Film-Rezeption: Mit Bergson Und Deleuze...

Author: Felix Schackert
ISBN: 9783770568154
Format: Hardback
$353.76

This energetical model of film-reception reviews Deleuzes philosophy of cinema via the embodied experience detailed...  Read More >>

The Spanish Quinqui Film: Delinquency, Sound, Sensation

The Spanish Quinqui Film: Delinquency, Sound, Sensation...

Author: Tom Whittaker
ISBN: 9781526171962
Format: Paperback
$70.00

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Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese War Cinema

Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities...

Author: Amanda Weiss
ISBN: 9789888754274
Format: Hardback
$108.68

Taking the ""tidal wave"" of memory in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century as its starting point,...  Read More >>

Under Ten Million? Anything's Possible!: Indie Horror, Fantasy, and Sci-Fi Movies The Very Good, the Very Bad and the Very, Very Ugly!

Under Ten Million? Anything's Possible!: Indie Horror,...

Author: Barry Atkinson ,  A Susan Svehla
ISBN: 9781644301333
Format: Paperback
$145.20

Hundreds of indie horror, sci-fi and fantasy films listed with over 600 photos of indies made during the 2000s....  Read More >>

The Warner Brothers Lib/E

The Warner Brothers Lib/E

Author: Chris Yogerst ,  Daniel Henning
ISBN: 9798212943512
Format: Audio
$203.25

Warner Bros. Studio is best known as a media conglomerate with a broad range of intellectual property, spanning...  Read More >>

Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures

Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible...

Author: Simon Bacon ,  M. Keith Booker
ISBN: 9781666921236
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes recent novels and films, to show that folk...  Read More >>

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