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23 produkter
“Slumdog” Phenomenon
A Critical Anthology
Inbunden, 2013
1227 kr
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“The ‘Slumdog’ Phenomenon” addresses multiple issues related to “Slumdog Millionaire” and, in the process, provides new ways of looking at this controversial film. Each of the book’s four sections considers a particular aspect of the film: its relation to the nation, to the slum, to Bollywood and …
Cinema at the Margins
Inbunden, 2013
1200 kr
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More and more, just a few canonical classics, such as Michael Curtiz’s “Casablanca” (1942) or Victor Fleming’s “Gone With The Wind” (1939), are representing the entire film output of an era, to a new generation that knows little of the past, and is encouraged by popular media to live only in the …
Selected Film Essays and Interviews
Inbunden, 2013
1200 kr
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This engaging collection of Bruce F. Kawin’s most important film essays (1977–2011) is accompanied by his interviews with Lillian Gish (1978) and Howard Hawks (1976). The Hawks interview is particularly concerned with his work with William Faulkner and their friendship. The Gish interview …
Selected Film Essays and Interviews
Häftad, 2013
448 kr
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This engaging collection of Bruce F. Kawin’s most important film essays (1977–2011) is accompanied by his interviews with Lillian Gish (1978) and Howard Hawks (1976). The Hawks interview is particularly concerned with his work with William Faulkner and their friendship. The Gish interview …
Horror and the Horror Film
Inbunden, 2012
1227 kr
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Horror films can be profound fables of human nature and important works of art, yet many people dismiss them out of hand. ‘Horror and the Horror Film’ conveys a mature appreciation for horror films along with a comprehensive view of their narrative strategies, their relations to reality and fantasy …
Horror and the Horror Film
Häftad, 2012
448 kr
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Horror films can be profound fables of human nature and important works of art, yet many people dismiss them out of hand. ‘Horror and the Horror Film’ conveys a mature appreciation for horror films along with a comprehensive view of their narrative strategies, their relations to reality and fantasy …
From Happy Homemaker to Desperate Housewives
Motherhood and Popular Television
Häftad, 2012
422 kr
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‘From Happy Homemaker to Desperate Housewives: Motherhood and Popular Television’ is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to key debates concerning the representations of motherhood, motherwork and the maternal role in contemporary television programming. The volume looks at the construction …
Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941
Av Robert Dixon, Christopher Lee
Häftad, 2011
448 kr
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This is the first illustrated edition of the diaries kept by Australian-born photographer and film maker Frank Hurley about his work on the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, his two expeditions to Papua in the 1920s, and his experiences during the First and Second World Wars. While …
Cinema at the Margins
Häftad, 2013
439 kr
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More and more, just a few canonical classics, such as Michael Curtiz’s “Casablanca” (1942) or Victor Fleming’s “Gone With The Wind” (1939), are representing the entire film output of an era, to a new generation that knows little of the past, and is encouraged by popular media to live only in the …
Unhomely Cinema
Home and Place in Global Cinema
Av Dwayne Avery
Inbunden, 2014
1227 kr
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Representations of troubled and inhospitable domestic places are a common feature of many cinematic narratives. “Unhomely Cinema” explores how the unhomely nature of contemporary film narrative provides an insight into what it means to dwell in today’s global societies. Providing analyses of a …
“Slumdog” Phenomenon
A Critical Anthology
Häftad, 2014
448 kr
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“The ‘Slumdog’ Phenomenon” addresses multiple issues related to “Slumdog Millionaire” and, in the process, provides new ways of looking at this controversial film. Each of the book’s four sections considers a particular aspect of the film: its relation to the nation, to the slum, to Bollywood and …
Films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan
A Cinema of Emancipation
Inbunden, 2015
1200 kr
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This first study of Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s feature films offers a compelling analysis of the socio-historical contexts of his work. Suranjan Ganguly examines how Kerala’s abrupt displacement from a princely feudal state into twentieth-century modernity has shaped Gopalakrishnan’s complex narratives …
Films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan
A Cinema of Emancipation
Häftad, 2015
448 kr
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This first study of Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s feature films offers a compelling analysis of the socio-historical contexts of his work. Suranjan Ganguly examines how Kerala’s abrupt displacement from a princely feudal state into twentieth-century modernity has shaped Gopalakrishnan’s complex narratives …
Bollywood’s Corporeal Turn
Aesthetic Response and Diasporic Memory
Av Vijay Mishra, Sudesh Mishra
Inbunden, 2026
1264 kr
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Explores Bollywood cinema’s aesthetic, cultural and corporeal dimensions across foundational genres, iconic performers and diasporic narratives, highlighting the interplay of narrative, poetry, the body and national and transnational identities.The first substantive chapter of the book recovers the …
Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers
Häftad, 2022
258 kr
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The Coen Bros. have attracted a wide following and been rewarded with Oscars and other honors. Some of their films are cult favorites and box office hits, such as Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and No Country for Old Men. Yet the team of filmmaking brothers remains misunderstood in some circles. Ethan …
Spectral West
Super-Nature and the Gothic in the Western Film
Av Keith McDonald, Wayne Johnson
Inbunden, 2025
1108 kr
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This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. These dark and sinister undertones often exist in Western narratives to draw attention to the ever-present issue of death and its haunting resonance which characters encounter. This book examines this …
Cultural Theory in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Inbunden, 2023
1290 kr
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This book is neither biography nor a conventional film critique. Rather, the text explores aspects of Hitchcock’s work in relation to theories drawn from the social sciences and philosophy. The various chapters focus not on specific films, but on broader ideas central to Hitchcock’s work. There is, …
Cavell's Ontology of Film
'The World Viewed' After Half a Century
Inbunden, 2026
1290 kr
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Cavell’s Ontology of Film presents ten essays by some of the most prominent international scholars of Stanley Cavell’s work with a double purpose: to look back, half a century after its original publication, at Cavell’s now seminal film-philosophical book The World Viewed (1971, enlarged 1979), and …
Sentimental Songs, Melodrama and Filmic Narrative in Bollywood’s Golden Age (1951–1963)
Inbunden, 2026
1516 kr
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The considerably large critical literature on Bollywood cinema is marked by an absence as it has not engaged fully with the ways in which songs lead to the memorial construction of films and how a spectator connects with films through their songs. The studies tended to deflect the emotional …
Action!
Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran
Av Gary Morris
Häftad, 2009
337 kr
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‘Action!’ presents nineteen outstanding interviews with directors past and present, from around the world, working in a variety of genres, budgets and production environments from major studios to indie and DIY. The result is a vibrant group portrait of the filmmaking art, a kind of festival in …
Screen Writings
Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics
Inbunden, 2010
1200 kr
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'Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics' offers close readings of genre films and acknowledged film classics in an attempt to explore both the aesthetics of genre and the definition of 'classic' - as well as the changing perception of so-called classic movies over time. Implicitly …
Screen Writings
Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary
Inbunden, 2010
1200 kr
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'Screen Writings: Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary' offers close readings of individual films intended to explain how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex and significant humanistic goals. It fills the middle ground between vague, simple plot summaries …
Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity
Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments
Av Robert Dixon
Häftad, 2013
389 kr
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‘Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity’ is not a biography of Frank Hurley the man; it is instead an examination of the social life of the many marvellous and meaningful things he made as a professional photographer and film maker. The focus of this volume surrounds the media events that …
