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  • The Art of Pure Cinema

    Hitchcock and His Imitators

    by Bruce Isaacs ...
    In a now-famous interview with Fran?ois Truffaut in 1962, Alfred Hitchcock described his masterpiece Rear Window (1954) as "the purest expression of a cinematic idea." But what, precisely, did Hitchcock mean by pure cinema? Was pure cinema a function of mise en sc?ne, or composition within the frame? Was it a function of montage, "of pieces of film assembled"? This notion of pure cinema has ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Sports Movies

    Series series Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
    From Rocky to Field of Dreams, sports movies are among the most beloved of American films. Revolving around familiar narratives like the underdog story, these movies have generated modern-day legends, reinforcing and disseminating our national myths about the American Dream.In Sports Movies, Lester D. Friedman describes the traditional formulas that have made these movies such crowd-pleasers, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Themes in Latin American Cinema

    A Critical Survey, 2d ed.

    This updated and expanded edition gives critical analyses of 23 Latin American films from the last 20 years, including the addition of four films from Bolivia. Explored throughout the text are seven crucial themes: the indigenous image, sexuality, childhood, female protagonists, crime and corruption, fratricidal wars, and writers as characters.Designed for general and scholarly interest, as well ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Arab Modernism as World Cinema

    The Films of Moumen Smihi

    Arab Modernism as World Cinema explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, demonstrating the importance of Moroccan and Arab film cultures in histories of world cinema. Addressing the legacy of the Nahda or “Arab Renaissance” of the nineteenth and early twentieth century—when Arab writers and artists reenergized Arab culture by engaging with other languages and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Mediating the Windrush Children

    Caryl Phillips and Horace Ové

    Mediating the Windrush Children analyses three plays by St. Kitts-born British playwright Caryl Phillips: Strange Fruit (1981), Where There is Darkness (1982), The Shelter (1984), and a film by Trinidadian-British filmmaker Horace Ové, Pressure (1975), as artistic depictions of the experience of the Windrush generation, a term that refers to the Anglo-Caribbean islanders recruited to help rebuild ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Postcinematic Vision

    The Coevolution of Moving-Image Media and the Spectator

    by Roger F. Cook ...
    Series Book 54 - Posthumanities
    A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experienceHow has cinema transformed our senses, and how does it continue to do so? Positing film as a stage in the long coevolution of human consciousness and visual technology, Postcinematic Vision offer a fresh perspective on the history of film while providing ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • American Avant-Garde Cinema's Philosophy of the In-Between

    Can films philosophize rather than simply represent philosophical ideas developed outside of the cinematic medium? Taking up this crucial question for the emergent field of film philosophy, American Avant-Garde Cinema's Philosophy of the In-Between argues that the films of the American avant-garde do in fact do philosophy and illuminates the ethical stakes of their aesthetic interventions. Author ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Underglobalization

    Beijing's Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy

    by Joshua Neves ...
    Despite China's recent emergence as a major global economic and geopolitical power, its association with counterfeit goods and intellectual property piracy has led many in the West to dismiss its urbanization and globalization as suspect or inauthentic. In Underglobalization Joshua Neves examines the cultural politics of the “fake” and how frictions between legality and legitimacy propel dominant ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal

    Edited by Dr. Mariana Liz, Hilary Owen ...
    Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal brings together scholars from Portugal, UK and the USA, to discuss 14 women film directors in Portugal, focussing on their production in both feature film and documentary genres over the last half-century. It charts the specific cinematic visions that these women have brought to the re-emergence of Portuguese national cinema in the wake of the 1974 ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Six Critical Essays on Film

    by Mike Kimmel ...
    Six Critical Essays on Film is a clear, succinct guide to studying and understanding feature films as both a medium of communication and artistic expression. Intended for college and adult school students, this book offers a short - but diverse - selection of quality films from the 1920s through 1970s for review and application. The text provides active, workable solutions to break films down into ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Real Life Taxi Driver: A Biography of Arthur Herman Bremer (The Real Inspiration of Travis Bickle)

    You know the movie, but do you know the real story?Robert De Niro has played many different people, but he is perhaps most remembered for his performance in Taxi Driver. What's crazier than the person De Nero portrayed is the fact that it was actually based on a real person: Arthur Bremer.What turned an innocent kid from Milwaukee into a crazed lunatic who attempted to assassinate presidential ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cinema of the Arab World

    Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Terri Ginsberg, Chris Lippard ...
    Series series Global Cinema
    This volume engages new films and modes of scholarly research in Arab cinema, and older, often neglected films and critical topics, while theorizing their structural relationship to contemporary developments in the Arab world. The volume considers the relationship of Arab cinema to transnational film production, distribution, and exhibition, in turn recontextualizing the works of acknowledged as ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Bond vs. Bond: Revised and Updated

    The Many Faces of 007

    by Paul Simpson ...
    Connery. Lazenby. Moore. Dalton. Brosnan. Craig.Who is your favorite Bond? Whether you prefer Sean Connery to Roger Moore or Daniel Craig to Pierce Brosnan, you’ll find every incarnation of the debonair spy in this unofficial comprehensive guide. Revised and updated, this edition of Bond vs. Bond includes the 2020 movie Bond 25, along with speculation about the fu... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Angels of Efficiency

    A Media History of Consulting

    by Florian Hoof ...
    Angels of Efficiency traces the invention of film and the parallel rise of management consulting, telling the story of how these together brought about new forms of information visualization and visual management. The period from 1880 to 1930, author Florian Hoof argues, saw the genesis of a form of visual knowledge that provided a novel means to intervene in management processes. Visual ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • La vieja escuela

    El rol del Cine Arte Normandie en la formación de audiencias (1982-2001)

    El Cine Arte Normandie es hasta hoy una de las salas de cine más significativas de Santiago de Chile. Entre 1982 y 2001 creó un espacio cultural fundamental para la vida de la ciudad, enmarcado primero en el período de dictadura (1973-1990) y luego en la restauración de la democracia en los años noventa (1991-2001). Apoyado en entrevistas y documentos del archivo del cine Normandie, en este libro ... Read more

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  • Miraculous Realism

    The French-Walloon Cinéma du Nord

    by Niels Niessen ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    At the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, two movies from northern-Francophone Europe swept almost all the main awards. Rosetta by the Walloon directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne won the Golden Palm, and L'humanité by the French director Bruno Dumont won the Grand Prize; both won acting awards as well. Taking this "miracle" of Cannes as the point of departure, Niels Niessen identifies a transregional ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Les résonances de The Leftovers

    Perdre et se (re)trouver

    Amoureux de la série The Leftovers, Sylvain Romieu en étudie les personnages, l'écriture et la musique.Le 14 octobre 2011, 2 % de la population mondiale disparaît en une fraction de seconde, sans explications. De ce point de départ tragique, la série The Leftovers, créée par Damon Lindelof (Lost) et le romancier Tom Perrotta, déroule un récit puissant, centré sur des personnages complexes et ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hollywood Diplomacy

    Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations

    Hollywood Diplomacy contends that, rather than simply reflect the West’s cultural fantasies of an imagined “Orient,” images of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ethnicities have long been contested sites where the commercial interests of Hollywood studios and the political mandates of U.S. foreign policy collide, compete against one another, and often become compromised in the process. While tracing ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Urban Horror

    Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility

    by Erin Y. Huang ...
    Series series Sinotheory
    In Urban Horror Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal post-socialist China. Drawing on Marxist phenomenology, geography, and aesthetics from Engels and Merleau-Ponty to Lefebvre and Rancière, Huang traces the emergence and mediation of what she calls urban horror—a sociopolitical public affect that exceeds comprehension and provides the grounds for ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Disability, Media, and Representations

    Other Bodies

    Series series Routledge Research in Disability and Media Studies
    Bringing together scholars from around the world to research the intersection between media and disability, this edited collection aims to offer an interdisciplinary exploration and critique of print, broadcast and online representations of physical and mental impairments.Drawing on a wide range of case studies addressing how people can be ‘othered’ in contemporary media, the chapters focus on ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Little Shoppe of Horrors #12

    Little Shoppe of Horrors #12(132 pages from 1994)Dennis Wheatley was one of the best known writers on the Supernatural in the world, when in 1967 and 1975 Hammer decided to bring three of his greatest stories to the screen.Dennis Wheatley at Hammer by Bruce G. HallenbeckThe Making of THE DEVIL RIDES OUTThe Making of THE LOST CONTINENTThe Making of TO THE DEVIL … A DAUGHTERInterviews with- ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voci notturne

    Saggi - saggio (57 pagine) - Voci Notturne è andato in onda per la prima volta nel 1995, su RaiUno. Da allora, diverse traversie hanno trasformato questo sceneggiato, scritto dal maestro del gotico/thriller italiano e prodotto dal fratello Antonio, in un piccolo, indiscusso cult in rete.GianLorenzo Franzì, grazie agli interventi degli autori, produttori e attori protagonisti, ha messo insieme ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dans les coulisses du Marvel Cinematic Universe

    Volume 2

    Focus sur ce phénomène cinématographique incontournable : Marvel !Après plus de dix ans d'activité et des milliards de dollars amassés, que l'on aime ou pas les films Marvel, il est impossible de ne pas saluer la réussite de cette entreprise un peu folle. Il paraît évident, pour quiconque s'intéresse de près ou de loin à l'histoire du cinéma, qu'il serait dommage de passer sous silence celle, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dans les coulisses du Marvel Cinematic Universe

    Volume 2

    Focus sur ce phénomène cinématographique incontournable : Marvel !Après plus de dix ans d'activité et des milliards de dollars amassés, que l'on aime ou pas les films Marvel, il est impossible de ne pas saluer la réussite de cette entreprise un peu folle. Il paraît évident, pour quiconque s'intéresse de près ou de loin à l'histoire du cinéma, qu'il serait dommage de passer sous silence celle, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD