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37 produkter
Too Bold for the Box Office
The Mockumentary from Big Screen to Small
Inbunden, 2012
1202 kr
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Although considered a relatively new genre, the mockumentary has existed nearly as long as filmmaking itself and has become one of the most common forms of film and television comedy today. In order to better understand the larger cultural truths artfully woven into their deception, these works …
Too Bold for the Box Office
The Mockumentary from Big Screen to Small
E-bok, 2012
1284 kr
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Although considered a relatively new genre, the mockumentary has existed nearly as long as filmmaking itself and has become one of the most common forms of film and television comedy today. In order to better understand the larger cultural truths artfully woven into their deception, these works …
Undead in the West
Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Inbunden, 2012
1214 kr
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In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled a collection of essays that explore the many tropes and themes through which undead Westerns make the genre’s inner plagues and demons visible, and lay …
Undead in the West
Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
E-bok, 2012
1324 kr
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In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled a collection of essays that explore the many tropes and themes through which undead Westerns make the genre’s inner plagues and demons visible, and lay …
Steaming into a Victorian Future
A Steampunk Anthology
Av Julie Anne Taddeo, Cynthia J. Miller
Inbunden, 2012
1396 kr
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A popular sub-genre of fantasy and science fiction, steampunk re-imagines the Victorian age in the future, and re-works its technology, fashion, and values with a dose of anti-modernism. While often considered solely through the lens of literature, steampunk is, in fact, a complex phenomenon that …
Steaming into a Victorian Future
A Steampunk Anthology
Av Julie Anne Taddeo, Cynthia J. Miller
E-bok, 2012
514 kr
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A popular sub-genre of fantasy and science fiction, steampunk re-imagines the Victorian age in the future, and re-works its technology, fashion, and values with a dose of anti-modernism. While often considered solely through the lens of literature, steampunk is, in fact, a complex phenomenon that …
Border Visions
Identity and Diaspora in Film
Av Jakub Kazecki, Karen A. Ritzenhoff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1364 kr
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Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the notion of borders around the world. Borderland areas, such as East and West Europe, the US/Mexican frontera, and the Middle East, serve as places of cultural transfer and …
Border Visions
Identity and Diaspora in Film
Av Jakub Kazecki, Karen A. Ritzenhoff m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
1373 kr
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Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the notion of borders around the world. Borderland areas, such as East and West Europe, the US/Mexican frontera, and the Middle East, serve as places of cultural transfer and …
Undead in the West II
They Just Keep Coming
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Inbunden, 2013
1285 kr
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The undead are back! In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper assembled a collection of essays that explored the unique intersection of two seemingly distinct genres in cinema: the western and the horror …
Undead in the West II
They Just Keep Coming
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
E-bok, 2013
1489 kr
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The undead are back! In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper assembled a collection of essays that explored the unique intersection of two seemingly distinct genres in cinema: the western and the horror …
International Westerns
Re-Locating the Frontier
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Inbunden, 2013
1666 kr
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The Western tradition, with its well-worn tropes, readily identifiable characters, iconic landscapes, and evocative soundtracks, is not limited to the United States. Western, or Western-inspired films have played a part in the output of numerous national film traditions, including Asia, Central and …
International Westerns
Re-Locating the Frontier
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
E-bok, 2013
1929 kr
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The Western tradition, with its well-worn tropes, readily identifiable characters, iconic landscapes, and evocative soundtracks, is not limited to the United States. Western, or Western-inspired films have played a part in the output of numerous national film traditions, including Asia, Central and …
Steaming into a Victorian Future
A Steampunk Anthology
Av Julie Anne Taddeo, Cynthia J. Miller
Häftad, 2014
475 kr
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A popular sub-genre of fantasy and science fiction, steampunk re-imagines the Victorian age in the future, and re-works its technology, fashion, and values with a dose of anti-modernism. While often considered solely through the lens of literature, steampunk is, in fact, a complex phenomenon that …
Explorers on Screen
Adventure! Danger! Romance!
Av Sue Matheson, Cynthia J. Miller
Inbunden, 2026
1413 kr
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Explorers on Screen: Adventure! Danger! Romance! brings together essays that break new ground on films featuring explorers and adventurers from the Age of Exploration to the present. It focuses on fictional and dramatized representations, rather than biopics, as these create the most interesting …
Explorers on Screen
Adventure! Danger! Romance!
Av Sue Matheson, Cynthia J. Miller
E-bok, 2026
1730 kr
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Explorers on Screen: Adventure! Danger! Romance! brings together essays that break new ground on films featuring explorers and adventurers from the Age of Exploration to the present. It focuses on fictional and dramatized representations, rather than biopics, as these create the most interesting …
Explorers on Screen
Adventure! Danger! Romance!
Av Sue Matheson, Cynthia J. Miller
E-bok, 2026
1730 kr
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Explorers on Screen: Adventure! Danger! Romance! brings together essays that break new ground on films featuring explorers and adventurers from the Age of Exploration to the present. It focuses on fictional and dramatized representations, rather than biopics, as these create the most interesting …
Horrors of War
The Undead on the Battlefield
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Inbunden, 2015
1251 kr
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Battlefields have traditionally been considered places where the spirits of the dead linger, and popular culture brings those thoughts to life. Supernatural tales of war told in print, on screen, and in other media depict angels, demons, and legions of the undead fighting against—or alongside—human …
Laughing Dead
The Horror-Comedy Film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Inbunden, 2016
1364 kr
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Hybrid films that straddle more than one genre are not unusual. But when seemingly incongruous genres are mashed together, such as horror and comedy, filmmakers often have to tread carefully to produce a cohesive, satisfying work. Though they date as far back as James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein …
Silence of the Lambs
Critical Essays on a Cannibal, Clarice, and a Nice Chianti
Inbunden, 2016
1289 kr
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One of only three films to-date to win Academy Awards in all five major categories, The Silence of the Lambs marked a sea change in horror films when it debuted, shifting the genre from teen slasher fare of the 1970s to the sophisticated psychological horror that characterizes acclaimed films …
Urban Noir
New York and Los Angeles in Shadow and Light
Av James J. Ward, Cynthia J. Miller
Inbunden, 2017
1289 kr
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Film noir has always been associated with urban landscapes, and no two cities have been represented more prominently in these films than New York and Los Angeles. In noir and neo-noir films since the 1940s, both cities are ominous locales where ruthless ambition, destructive impulses, and dashed …
Divine Horror
Essays on the Cinematic Battle Between the Sacred and the Diabolical
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Häftad, 2017
560 kr
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From Rosemary's Baby (1968) to The Witch (2015), horror films use religious entities to both inspire and combat fear and to call into question or affirm the moral order. Churches provide sanctuary, clergy cast out evil, religious icons become weapons, holy ground becomes battleground--but all of …
Terrifying Texts
Essays on Books of Good and Evil in Horror Cinema
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Häftad, 2018
560 kr
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From Faust (1926) to The Babadook (2014), books have been featured in horror films as warnings, gateways, prisons and manifestations of the monstrous. Ancient grimoires such as the Necronomicon serve as timeless vessels of knowledge beyond human comprehension, while runes, summoning diaries, and …
Elder Horror
Essays on Film's Frightening Images of Aging
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Häftad, 2019
569 kr
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As baby boomers gray, cinematic depictions of aging and the aged are on the rise. In the horror genre, fears of growing old take on fantastic proportions. Elderly characters are portrayed as either eccentric harbingers of doom--the crone who stops at nothing to restore her youth, the ancient …
Horror Comes Home
Essays on Hauntings, Possessions and Other Domestic Terrors in Cinema
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Häftad, 2019
388 kr
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Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the monsters out--until it isn't.This collection of new essays focuses on genre horror movies in which the home is central to the narrative, whether as refuge, prison, menace or supernatural battleground. The contributors …
Journeys into Terror
Essays from the Cinematic Intersection of Travel and Horror
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Häftad, 2023
620 kr
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Since ancient times, explorers and adventurers have captured popular imagination with their frightening narratives of travels gone wrong. Usually, these stories heavily feature the exotic or unknown, and can transform any journey into a nightmare. Stories of such horrific happenings have a long and …
Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema
Sidesplitting sLaughter
Av John A. Dowell, Cynthia J. Miller
Inbunden, 2017
1214 kr
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When evil clowns menace the screen, do we scream or laugh? When zombies converge to tear a victim limb from limb, do we cringe and hide our eyes, or shriek “What??! Play that again!!”? What about those instances when these seemingly opposite reactions happen at once? This is the phenomenon known as …
American Civil War on Film and TV
Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color
Av Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
592 kr
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Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Free State of Jones (2016), the war has provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes for …
Dark Forces at Work
Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Häftad, 2023
518 kr
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Dark Forces at Work examines the role of race, class, gender, religion, and the economy as they are portrayed in, and help construct, horror narratives across a range of films and eras. These larger social forces not only create the context for our cinematic horrors, but serve as connective tissue …
What's Eating You?
Food and Horror on Screen
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Inbunden, 2017
1996 kr
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Divided into four thematic sections, What's Eating You? explores the deeper significance of food on screen—the ways in which they reflect (or challenge) our deepest fears about consuming and being consumed. Among the questions it asks are: How do these films mock our taboos and unsettle our notions …
What's Eating You?
Food and Horror on Screen
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
E-bok, 2017
543 kr
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Divided into four thematic sections, What's Eating You? explores the deeper significance of food on screen-the ways in which they reflect (or challenge) our deepest fears about consuming and being consumed. Among the questions it asks are: How do these films mock our taboos and unsettle our notions …
