Film theory & criticism books

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Conrad’s Presence in Contemporary Culture: Adaptations and Appropriations

Conrad’s Presence in Contemporary Culture: Adaptations...

Author: Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech ,  Nathalie Martinière
ISBN: 9789004691971
Format: Hardback
$348.48

The book showcases the Conrad-effect in contemporary culture. It consists of various essays authored by scholars...  Read More >>

Comedy Films 1894–1954

Comedy Films 1894–1954

Author: John Montgomery ,  Norman Wisdom
ISBN: 9781032212937
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Originally published in 1954, this was the first factual history of comedy films and the men and women who had since...  Read More >>

Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood

Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern...

Author: Hilary A. Hallett (Columbia University)
ISBN: 9781324094463
Format: Paperback
$58.08

A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study...  Read More >>

Thunder on the Stage: The Dramatic Vision of Richard Wright

Thunder on the Stage: The Dramatic Vision of Richard...

Author: Bruce Allen Dick
ISBN: 9780252045684
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Richard Wright’s dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped...  Read More >>

Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema

Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of...

Author: Jane M. Ferguson
ISBN: 9780824895679
Format: Hardback
$184.80

In a tour-de-force study of sixty years of cinematic entertainment, this volume traces the veins of Burmese popular...  Read More >>

Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema

Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema...

Author: Maggie Hennefeld
ISBN: 9780231213295
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic

With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional...

Author: A Ashley Hoff ,  Bruce Vilanch
ISBN: 9798874764302
Format: Audio
$176.85

When she died in 1977, Joan Crawford was remembered as an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age--until publication the...  Read More >>

Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics

Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics...

Author: Dilip M Menon ,  Amir Taha
ISBN: 9781032159164
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation;...  Read More >>

Blood in, Blood Out

Blood in, Blood Out

Author: Taylor Hackford ,  Jimmy Santiago Baca
ISBN: 9781955125376
Format: Hardback
$158.40

A poetic, behind-the-scenes retrospective of an L.A. cinema classic. Akin to The Godfather in its scope and themes,...  Read More >>

Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System

Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made...

Author: Derek Long
ISBN: 9781477328941
Format: Hardback
$145.20

A history of film distribution in the United States from the 1910s to the 1930s, concentrating on booking, circuiting,...  Read More >>

Stigmatized on Screen: How Hollywood Portrays Nonstandard Dialects

Stigmatized on Screen: How Hollywood Portrays Nonstandard...

Author: Lindsey Clouse
ISBN: 9781793647436
Format: Paperback
$68.99

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Studies in Medievalism XXXIII: (En)gendering Medievalism

Studies in Medievalism XXXIII: (En)gendering Medievalism...

Author: Karl Fugelso (Author) ,  Professor Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr
ISBN: 9781843847175
Format: Hardback
$181.13

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages.  Read More >>

The Sinful Maternal: Motherhood in Possession Films

The Sinful Maternal: Motherhood in Possession Films...

Author: Lauren Rocha
ISBN: 9781496851741
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Working at the intersections of gender studies, architectural theory, trauma studies and monster theory, with a...  Read More >>

Animals in Narrative Film and Television: Strange and Familiar Creatures

Animals in Narrative Film and Television: Strange and...

Author: Karin Beeler ,  Stan Beeler
ISBN: 9781666904833
Format: Paperback
$68.99

This book explores fictional representations of animals in animated and live-action film and television and examines...  Read More >>

Cinema, Black Suffering, and Theodicy: Modern God

Cinema, Black Suffering, and Theodicy: Modern God

Author: Shayne Lee
ISBN: 9781666904239
Format: Paperback
$68.99

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Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community

Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making...

Author: William Gow
ISBN: 9781503639089
Format: Paperback
$55.99

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Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy

Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy

Author: Richard Ravalli
ISBN: 9780813199399
Format: Paperback
$110.00

While he is best known as the creative mind behind the Star Wars franchise, Lucas first gained notoriety with his...  Read More >>

Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film

Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical...

Author: Kim Nelson
ISBN: 9781978829770
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Making History Move builds upon decades of scholarship investigating history in visual culture, proposing a methodology...  Read More >>

Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community

Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making...

Author: William Gow
ISBN: 9781503638099
Format: Hardback
$227.99

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Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata (4th Edition)

Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao...

Author: Michelle Le Blanc ,  Colin Odell
ISBN: 9798874745011
Format: Audio
$105.57

The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are among the most respected in the movie industry. Their delightful films...  Read More >>

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