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11 produkter
Encyclopedia of Film Noir
Av Geoff Mayer, Brian McDonnell
E-bok, 2007
1220 kr
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When viewers think of film noir, they often picture actors like Humphrey Bogart playing characters like Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon , the film based on the book by Dashiell Hammett. Yet film noir is a genre much richer. The authors first examine the debate surrounding the parameters of the …
Guide to British Cinema
Av Geoff Mayer
Inbunden, 2003
988 kr
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Scholarly and popular interest in British cinema has never been stronger, with films ranging from the Merchant/Ivory pictures through Notting Hill finding both critical and commercial success in America. As such, The Guide to British Cinema represents an invaluable guide to the nation's cinematic …
Encyclopedia of Film Noir
Av Geoff Mayer, Brian McDonnell
Inbunden, 2007
1143 kr
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When viewers think of film noir, they often picture actors like Humphrey Bogart playing characters like Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, the film based on the book by Dashiell Hammett. Yet film noir is a genre much richer. The authors first examine the debate surrounding the parameters of the genre …
New Australian Cinema
Sources and Parallels in American and British Film
Av Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer
Häftad, 1992
569 kr
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The institutions and products of the Australian film industry have been extensively surveyed, yet few analyses consider the sources of the film revival that took place in the 1970s and 1980s. This book represents a body of thinking about Australian cinema that asks where the origins of films lie. …
Roy Ward Baker
Av Geoff Mayer
Häftad, 2011
394 kr
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This book traces the career of Roy Ward Baker, one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry. He directed the landmark British film Morning Departure (1949), worked at Twentieth Century Fox in Hollywood in the early 1950s where he directed Marilyn Monroe's 'breakthrough' …
Historical Dictionary of Crime Films
Av Geoff Mayer
Inbunden, 2012
2269 kr
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The crime film genre consists of detective films, gangster films, suspense thrillers, film noir, and caper films and is produced throughout the world. Crime film was there at the birth of cinema, and it has accompanied cinema over more than a century of history, passing from silent films to …
Historical Dictionary of Crime Films
Av Geoff Mayer
E-bok, 2012
2407 kr
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The crime film genre consists of detective films, gangster films, suspense thrillers, film noir, and caper films and is produced throughout the world. Crime film was there at the birth of cinema, and it has accompanied cinema over more than a century of history, passing from silent films to …
Cinema of Australia and New Zealand
Av Geoff Mayer, Geoff Mayer m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
298 kr
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Encyclopedia of American Film Serials
Av Geoff Mayer
Häftad, 2017
821 kr
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From their heyday in the 1910s to their lingering demise in the 1950s, American film serials delivered excitement in weekly installments for millions of moviegoers, despite minuscule budgets, nearly impossible shooting schedules and the disdain of critics. Early heroines like Pearl White, Helen …
Hollywood's Melodramatic Imagination
Film Noir, the Western and Other Genres from the 1920s to the 1950s
Av Geoff Mayer
Häftad, 2021
959 kr
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Melodrama is the foundation of American cinema. It is, however, a poorly understood term. While it is a pervasive and persuasive dramatic mode, it is not tied to any specific moral or ideological system. It is not a singular genre; rather, it operates as a "genre generating machine" capable of …
Cinema of Australia and New Zealand
Av Geoff Mayer, Geoff Mayer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
799 kr
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