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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Häftad, 2026
176 kr
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With its narrative of emotionless alien duplicates replacing average folk, Don Siegel’s 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers was the first post-war horror film to locate the monstrous in the everyday, thus marking it as a pivotal moment in American horror film history four years before Alfred …
Ingmar Bergman
Av Robin Wood, Barry Keith Grant
Häftad, 2012
383 kr
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At a time when few reviewers and critics were taking the study of film seriously, Robin Wood released a careful and thoroughly cinematic commentary on Ingmar Bergman’s films that demonstrated the potential of film analysis in a nascent scholarly field. The original Ingmar Bergman influenced a …
Voyages of Discovery
The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman
Inbunden, 2023
1272 kr
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Frederick Wiseman is America’s foremost chronicler of public institutions. His films have focused on city, state, and local governments; hospitals; asylums; creative organizations and museums; schools; libraries; and more. In recent years, Wiseman’s work has reached a new level of popularity, with …
Voyages of Discovery
The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman
Häftad, 2023
322 kr
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Frederick Wiseman is America’s foremost chronicler of public institutions. His films have focused on city, state, and local governments; hospitals; asylums; creative organizations and museums; schools; libraries; and more. In recent years, Wiseman’s work has reached a new level of popularity, with …
Film Genre Reader IV
Inbunden, 2012
781 kr
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From reviews of the third edition:“Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology’s consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as its inclusion …
Dread of Difference
Gender and the Horror Film
Häftad, 2015
379 kr
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“The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. It’s rarely on the shelf at my university library, so continuously does it circulate. Now this new edition expands the already comprehensive coverage of gender in the horror film with new …
Five Films by Frederick Wiseman
Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing
Av Frederick Wiseman, Barry Keith Grant
Häftad, 2006
323 kr
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Frederick Wiseman is among America's foremost documentary filmmakers. The recipient of many awards, including three Emmys, Wiseman has made more than thirty feature-length documentaries during a career that has spanned five decades. Together, these films provide a fascinating chronicle of American …
Five Films by Frederick Wiseman
Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing
Av Frederick Wiseman, Barry Keith Grant
E-bok, 2006
552 kr
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Frederick Wiseman is among America’s foremost documentary filmmakers. The recipient of many awards, including three Emmys, Wiseman has made more than thirty feature-length documentaries during a career that has spanned five decades. Together, these films provide a fascinating chronicle of American …
Thrillers
Av Martin Rubin, Barry Keith Grant
Häftad, 1999
465 kr
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The thriller is perhaps the most popular and widespread movie genre - and the most difficult to define. Thrillers can contain gangsters or ghosts, space helmets or fedoras. They charge our familiar world with a spirit of exotic, old-fashioned adventure. They give us pleasure by making us …
Science Fiction Film
Av J. P. Telotte, Barry Keith Grant
Inbunden, 2001
1285 kr
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Science Fiction Film examines one of the most enduring and popular genres of Hollywood cinema, suggesting how the science fiction film reflects attitudes toward science, technology, and reason as they have evolved in American culture over the course of the twentieth century. J. P. Telotte provides …
Science Fiction Film
Av J. P. Telotte, Barry Keith Grant
Häftad, 2001
483 kr
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Science Fiction Film examines one of the most enduring and popular genres of Hollywood cinema, suggesting how the science fiction film reflects attitudes toward science, technology, and reason as they have evolved in American culture over the course of the twentieth century. J. P. Telotte provides …
John Ford's Stagecoach
Inbunden, 2002
669 kr
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Stagecoach is one of the classics of Hollywood cinema. Made in 1939, it revitalized the Western genre, served as a milestone in John Ford's career, and made John Wayne a star. This volume offers a rich overview of the film in essays by six leading film critics. Approaching Stagecoach from a variety …
John Ford's Stagecoach
Häftad, 2002
448 kr
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Stagecoach is one of the classics of Hollywood cinema. Made in 1939, it revitalized the Western genre, served as a milestone in John Ford's career, and made John Wayne a star. This volume offers a rich overview of the film in essays by six leading film critics. Approaching Stagecoach from a variety …
Planks of Reason
Essays on the Horror Film
Av Barry Keith Grant, Christopher Sharrett
Häftad, 2004
980 kr
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The original edition of Planks of Reason was the first academic critical anthology on horror. In retrospect, it appeared as a kind of homage to the "golden age" of the American horror film, as this genre played an increasing role in film culture and American life. The original material represented …
American Cinema of the 1960s
Themes and Variations
Häftad, 2008
469 kr
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The profound cultural and political changes of the 1960s brought the United States closer to social revolution than at any other time in the twentieth century. The country fragmented as various challenges to state power were met with increasing and violent resistance. The Cold War heated up and the …
Monster Cinema
Häftad, 2018
290 kr
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Monster Cinema introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters. Some are gigantic, like King Kong or the kaiju in Pacific Rim, while others are microscopic. Some monsters appear uncannily human, from serial killers like Norman Bates to the pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And …
Monster Cinema
Inbunden, 2018
871 kr
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Monster Cinema introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters. Some are gigantic, like King Kong or the kaiju in Pacific Rim, while others are microscopic. Some monsters appear uncannily human, from serial killers like Norman Bates to the pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And …
Apu Trilogy
Av Robin Wood, Barry Keith Grant
Häftad, 2016
347 kr
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The Apu Trilogy is the fourth directorial monograph written by influential film critic Robin Wood and republished for a contemporary audience. Focusing on the famed trilogy from Indian director Satyajit Ray, Wood persuasively demonstrates his ability at detailed textual analysis, providing an …
Arthur Penn
Av Robin Wood, Richard Lippe m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
323 kr
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Arthur Penn - director of The Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant and Little Big Man - was at the height of his career when Robin Wood’s analysis of the American director was originally published in 1969. Although Wood then considered Penn’s career only through Little Big Man, …
Britton on Film
The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton
Av Wayne State University Press, Barry Keith Grant
Häftad, 2008
498 kr
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For fifteen years before his untimely death, Andrew Britton produced a body of undeniably brilliant film criticism that has been largely ignored within academic circles. Though Britton’s writings are extraordinary in their depth and range and are closely attuned to the nuances of the texts they …
Shadows of Doubt
Negotiations of Masculinity in American Genre Films
Häftad, 2010
357 kr
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In Shadows of Doubt: Negotiations of Masculinity in American Genre Films, Barry Keith Grant questions the idea that Hollywood movies reflect moments of crisis in the dominant image of masculinity. Arguing instead that part of the mythic function of genre movies is to offer audiences an ongoing …
Documenting the Documentary
Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video
Av Barry Keith Grant, Jeannette Sloniowski
Häftad, 2013
428 kr
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Originally released in 1998, Documenting the Documentary responded to a scholarly landscape in which documentary film was largely understudied and undervalued aesthetically, and analysed instead through issues of ethics, politics, and film technology. Editors Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette …
Robin Wood on the Horror Film
Collected Essays and Reviews
Av Robin Wood, Barry Keith Grant
Häftad, 2018
424 kr
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Robin Wood’s writing on the horror film, published over five decades, collected in one volume.Robin Wood—one of the foremost critics of cinema—has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror film in the last half-century. Wood’s interest in horror spanned his entire career and was a …
Robin Wood on the Horror Film
Collected Essays and Reviews
Av Robin Wood, Barry Keith Grant
Inbunden, 2018
1014 kr
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Robin Wood’s writing on the horror film, published over five decades, collected in one volume.Robin Wood—one of the foremost critics of cinema—has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror film in the last half-century. Wood’s interest in horror spanned his entire career and was a …
Twilight Zone
Häftad, 2020
293 kr
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CBS's The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) remains a benchmark of serious telefantasy and one of the most iconic series in the history of American television. Barry Keith Grant carefully situates The Twilight Zone within the history of broadcast television and American culture, both of which were changing …
Broads, Sisters, Exes
Feminist Millennial Television
Av Vincent L. Stephens, Barry Keith Grant
Häftad, 2025
385 kr
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Broads, Sisters, Exes
Feminist Millennial Television
Av Vincent L. Stephens, Barry Keith Grant
Inbunden, 2025
1016 kr
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Female Playback in Bombay Cinema
Voice, Body, Technology
Av Shikha Jhingan, Barry Keith Grant
Häftad, 2025
411 kr
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Drawing on sound studies and performance theory, scholar Shikha Jhingan explores the discursive nature of the female playback voice in Bombay film songs. Mapping the production, circulation, and reception of the voices of singing stars—notably Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle—Jhingan situates the …
