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218 produkter
Film Studies, second edition
An Introduction
Av Ed Sikov
Häftad, 2020
368 kr
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Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically training the spectator to be an active reader and …
The Impossible David Lynch
Av Todd McGowan
Häftad, 2007
314 kr
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Todd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch's groundbreaking oeuvre. He studies Lynch's talent for blending the bizarre and the normal to emphasize the odd nature of normality itself. Hollywood is often criticized for distorting reality and providing …
Film, a Sound Art
Av Michel Chion
Häftad, 2009
368 kr
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French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise--it enacts a process of audio-viewing. The audiovisual makes use of a wealth of tropes, devices, techniques, and effects that convert multiple sensations into image and sound, therefore …
The Cinema of Extractions
Film Materials and Their Forms
Häftad, 2025
280 kr
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Finalist, 2026 Limina Award for Best International Film Studies Book, Cinéma & CieFrom the petroleum used to make film stock to the carbon and tungsten needed for studio lights and theater projectors, every movie relies on extractive processes. The film industry of Hollywood, moreover, rose …
Man of Taste
The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger
Av Rob King
Häftad, 2025
325 kr
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Radley Metzger was one of the foremost directors of adult film in America, with credits including softcore titles like The Lickerish Quartet and the hardcore classic The Opening of Misty Beethoven. After getting his start making arthouse trailers for Janus Films, Metzger would go on to become among …
This Mad Masquerade
Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age
Häftad, 1996
617 kr
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-- American Studies International
Perplexing Plots
Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder
Häftad, 2023
382 kr
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Nominated, 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category of best critical/biographical, Mystery Writers of AmericaShortlisted, 2024 Agatha Awards - Best Mystery Nonfiction, Malice DomesticPosthumous Winner - 2023 IFCA Book Prize, International Crime Fiction AssociationNarrative innovation is typically …
The Use and Abuse of Cinema
German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present
Inbunden, 2015
1460 kr
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Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar and postwall epochs and into the new millennium. These journeys afford rich panoramas and nuanced …
The Use and Abuse of Cinema
German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present
Häftad, 2015
371 kr
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Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar and postwall epochs and into the new millennium. These journeys afford rich panoramas and nuanced …
Sexual Politics and Narrative Film
Hollywood and Beyond
Av Robin Wood
Häftad, 1998
315 kr
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One of the most distinctive voices in film criticism explores relationships between narrative style and sexual politics. Robin Wood, well known for his books Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan and Hitchcock's Films Revisited, probes the political and sexual ramifications of fascism and cinema, …
Primitive Passions
Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Av Rey Chow
Inbunden, 1995
2135 kr
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Each year in the United States, millions of mass-produced greeting cards proclaim their occasional messages: "For My Loving Daughter," "On the Occasion of Your Marriage," and "It's a Boy!" For more than 150 years, greeting cards have tapped into and organized a shared language of love, affection, …
Primitive Passions
Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Av Rey Chow
Häftad, 1995
588 kr
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Chow situates contemporary Chinese film within the broad context of Chinese history and culture, giving readers a glimpse of the unique shared identity that characterizes the current crop of outstanding filmmakers, such as Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou.
What Made Pistachio Nuts?
Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic
Häftad, 1992
316 kr
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Lively and highly readable, What Made Pistachio Nuts? examines what Henry Jenkins calls the anarchistic tradition of American film comedy. Anarchistic comedies of the 1930s mock the social order and celebrate the creativity and impulsiveness of their protagonists in a form of clowning that …
Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies
Sexual Re-Orientation in Film and Video
Häftad, 1996
307 kr
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Engaging feminist and queer theory ranging from Nancy Chodorow to Judith Butler to Valerie Solanis's SCUM Manifesto, Straayer considers the wealth of films made by and for nontraditional viewers. Straayer investigation ranges from Stella Dallas to Mrs. Doubtfire, "experimental" lesbian and gay …
Laughing Hysterically
American Screen Comedy of the 1950s
Av Ed Sikov
Häftad, 1996
671 kr
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A tour de force through the landscape of American comedy in the 1950s.
Black Women as Cultural Readers
Häftad, 1995
602 kr
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Bobo demonstrates that African-American women, as a separate interpretive community, view cultural products in a unique way. In interviews with black women, she examines their specific responses as spectators and consumers of films and novels, including Waiting to Exhale, The Color Purple, and …
The Cinema of Max Ophuls
Magisterial Vision and the Figure of Woman
Av Susan White
Häftad, 1995
704 kr
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Using film theory and current criticism, White traces the figure of woman in the work of Max Ophuls.
Picturing Japaneseness
Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film
Häftad, 1996
332 kr
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Explores the role of 1930s Japanese cinema in the construction of a national identity and in the larger context of Japan's encounter-and struggle-with the West and modernity. Davis lends a new perspective to such celebrated films as Gate of Hell, Kagemusha, and Ran.
Brazilian Cinema
Av Randal Johnson, Robert Stam
Häftad, 1995
416 kr
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From the documentary to the cinema novo and cannibalism, from Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Vidas Secas to music in the films of Glauber Rocha, this third, revised edition is a century-spanning introduction to the story of a medium that flourished in one of the most developed of 'underdeveloped' …
The Sounds of Commerce
Marketing Popular Film Music
Av Jeff Smith
Häftad, 1998
324 kr
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The Sounds of Commerce is the first book to present a detailed historical analysis of popular music in American film, from the era of sheet music sales, to that of orchestrated pop records by Henry Mancini and Ennio Morricone in the 1960* to the MTV-ready pop songs that occupy soundtrack CDs of …
Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture
Häftad, 1998
692 kr
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From the earliest days of radio to the golden age of television and beyond, Orson Welles has occupied a unique place in American culture. In Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture, Michael Anderegg considers Welles's influence as an interpreter of Shakespeare for twentieth-century American …
Masculine Interests
Homoerotics in Hollywood Film
Av Robert Lang
Inbunden, 2002
2380 kr
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Until Masculine Interests not much had been written about men "as men" in the cinema. Now Robert Lang considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. He considers masculinity in social and psychoanalytic terms, maintaining that a major function of …
Masculine Interests
Homoerotics in Hollywood Film
Av Robert Lang
Häftad, 2002
648 kr
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Until Masculine Interests not much had been written about men "as men" in the cinema. Now Robert Lang considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. He considers masculinity in social and psychoanalytic terms, maintaining that a major function of …
Melodrama and Modernity
Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts
Av Ben Singer
Häftad, 2001
769 kr
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In this groundbreaking investigation into the nature and meanings of melodrama in American culture between 1880 and 1920, Ben Singer offers a challenging new reevaluation of early American cinema and the era that spawned it. Singer looks back to the sensational or "blood and thunder" melodramas …
Sound Technology and the American Cinema
Perception, Representation, Modernity
Av James Lastra
Häftad, 2000
307 kr
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Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of sensory perception, given the ephemeral unprecedented parity with the eternal, and created profound …
Projections of War
Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II
Häftad, 1999
588 kr
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Thomas Doherty reveals how and why Hollywood marshaled its artistic resources on behalf of the war effort and interprets the cultural meanings and enduring legacies of the motion picture record of the war years. He explains the social, political, and economic forces that created such genre classics …
Silent Film Sound
Av Rick Altman
Inbunden, 2004
2689 kr
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Because silent cinema is widely perceived as having been exactly that-silent-no one has fully examined how souns was used to accompany the films of this era. Silent Film Sound reconsiders all aspects of sound practices during the entire silent film period. Based on extensive origianl reserach and …
Silent Film Sound
Av Rick Altman
Häftad, 2007
736 kr
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Because silent cinema is widely perceived as having been exactly that-silent-no one has fully examined how souns was used to accompany the films of this era. Silent Film Sound reconsiders all aspects of sound practices during the entire silent film period. Based on extensive origianl reserach and …
Wondrous Difference
Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture
Inbunden, 2002
1417 kr
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The ethical and ideological implications of cross-cultural image-making continue to stir debate among anthropologists, film scholars, and museum professionals. This innovative book focuses on the contested origins of ethnographic film from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, vividly depicting …
Wondrous Difference
Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture
Häftad, 2002
360 kr
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The ethical and ideological implications of cross-cultural image-making continue to stir debate among anthropologists, film scholars, and museum professionals. This innovative book focuses on the contested origins of ethnographic film from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, vividly depicting …
