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Giallo!
Genre, Modernity, and Detection in Italian Horror Cinema
Häftad, 2021
483 kr
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Traces the giallo mystery/horror genre from its genesis in Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s to its contemporary place in the global cult-film canon.Italian giallo films have a peculiar allure. Taking their name from the Italian for "yellow"- reflecting the covers of pulp crime novels-these …
Rebel Without a Cause
Approaches to a Maverick Masterwork
Häftad, 2005
491 kr
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Assesses the layered meanings and persistent global legacy of an American film classic.Five decades after the production and initial release of Rebel Without a Cause, this book examines both the complicated historical moment in which the film was made as well as its continuing and pervasive …
Apocalyptic Dread
American Film at the Turn of the Millennium
Häftad, 2007
386 kr
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The power and presence of dread in recent American cinema.In Apocalyptic Dread, Kirsten Moana Thompson examines how fears and anxieties about the future are reflected in recent American cinema. Through close readings of such films as Cape Fear, Candyman, Dolores Claiborne, Se7en, Signs, and War of …
Exile Cinema
Filmmakers at Work beyond Hollywood
Häftad, 2008
386 kr
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Offers a cross section of international fringe cinema.Outside the shrinking American film-culture market there is a vast movie-crazed world where madmen, geniuses, and apostates roam freely, subject to a relatively minimal degree of corporate industry and spin control. In Exile Cinema, prominent …
Ecology and Popular Film
Cinema on the Edge
Av Robin L. Murray, Joseph K. Heumann
Häftad, 2009
463 kr
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Ecocritical takes on popular film.Ecology and Popular Film examines representations of nature in mainstream film while also looking at film itself as a form of nature writing. Considering a selection of mainstream movies that embrace a wide variety of environmental themes, from the Lumières' Oil …
Three Documentary Filmmakers
Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Jean Rouch
Häftad, 2009
657 kr
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Uses new critical approaches to demonstrate deep affinities in these vastly different filmmakers' philosophies on film, fantasy, and reality.Film study has tended to treat documentary as a marginal form, but as the essays in Three Documentary Filmmakers demonstrate, the films of Jean Rouch, Ross …
Second Takes
Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel
Av Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Constantine Verevis
Häftad, 2010
491 kr
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The first collection of essays devoted to the phenomenon of the film sequel.Sequels, serials, and remakes have been a staple of cinema since the very beginning, and recent years have seen the emergence of dynamic and progressive variations of these multi-film franchises. Taking a broad range of …
Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination
Georges Méliès's Trip to the Moon
Häftad, 2011
491 kr
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An authoritative and comprehensive guide to cinema's first true blockbuster."Best moving pictures I ever saw." Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon [Le Voyage dans la lune], after it was screened for enthusiastic audiences in October 1902. Cinema's …
Hitchcock
The Murderous Gaze
Häftad, 2012
561 kr
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An expanded edition of a classic work of film criticism, with a provocative and eloquent new chapter on Marnie, Hitchcock's most heartfelt—and most controversial—film.First published in 1982, William Rothman's Hitchcock is a classic work of film criticism. Written in an engaging style that is …
Native Recognition
Indigenous Cinema and the Western
Inbunden, 2012
1286 kr
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Offers a new interpretation of the century-long relationship between the Western film genre and Native American filmmaking.In Native Recognition, Joanna Hearne persuasively argues for the central role of Indigenous image-making in the history of American cinema. Across the twentieth and into the …
Native Recognition
Indigenous Cinema and the Western
Häftad, 2013
490 kr
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Offers a new interpretation of the century-long relationship between the Western film genre and Native American filmmaking.In Native Recognition, Joanna Hearne persuasively argues for the central role of Indigenous image-making in the history of American cinema. Across the twentieth and into the …
Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground
Nicholas Ray in American Cinema
Av Steven Rybin, Will Scheibel
Häftad, 2015
517 kr
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A range of approaches to the director's life and work.The director of such classic Hollywood films as In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, and Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray nevertheless remained on the margins of the American studio system throughout his career, and despite his cult status among …
Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground
Nicholas Ray in American Cinema
Av Steven Rybin, Will Scheibel
Inbunden, 2014
1365 kr
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A range of approaches to the director's life and work.The director of such classic Hollywood films as In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, and Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray nevertheless remained on the margins of the American studio system throughout his career, and despite his cult status among …
B Is for Bad Cinema
Aesthetics, Politics, and Cultural Value
Av Claire Perkins, Constantine Verevis
Häftad, 2015
463 kr
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Considers films that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability in taste, style, and politics.B Is for Bad Cinema continues and extends, but does not limit itself to, the trends in film scholarship that have made cult and exploitation films and other "low" genres increasingly acceptable objects for …
Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors
The Child Villains of Horror Film
Häftad, 2015
483 kr
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Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror's most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil …
Bombay before Bollywood
Film City Fantasies
Av Rosie Thomas
Inbunden, 2015
1365 kr
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Traces the development of Indian cinema from the 1920s to the mid-1990s, before "Bollywood" erupted onto the world stage.Bombay before Bollywood offers a fresh, alternative look at the history of Indian cinema. Avoiding the conventional focus on India's social and mythological films, Rosie Thomas …
Very Old Machine
The Many Origins of the Cinema in India
Häftad, 2016
477 kr
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Argues that Indian cinema's deep nineteenth-century past continues to play a vital role in its twenty-first-century present.In A Very Old Machine, Sudhir Mahadevan shows how Indian cinema's many origins in the technologies and practices of the nineteenth century continue to play a vital and broad …
Binghamton Babylon
Voices from the Cinema Department, 1967-1977
Häftad, 2015
477 kr
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Documents a volatile and productive moment in the development of film studies.In Binghamton Babylon, Scott M. MacDonald documents one of the crucial moments in the history of cinema studies: the emergence of a cinema department at what was then the State University of New York at Binghamton (now …
Ghost Faces
Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity
Av David Greven
Häftad, 2017
487 kr
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Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Nonfiction category presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Ghost Faces explores the insidious nature of homophobia …
Ghost Faces
Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity
Av David Greven
Inbunden, 2016
1286 kr
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Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Nonfiction category presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Ghost Faces explores the insidious nature of homophobia …
Encounters with Godard
Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics
Häftad, 2017
517 kr
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A wide-ranging and accessible approach to Godard's later work, and a major intervention in the study of film and ethics.Encounters with Godard takes the reader on a personal voyage into the sensory pleasures and polyphonic rhythms of Jean-Luc Godard's multimedia work since the late 1970s, from his …
Encounters with Godard
Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics
Inbunden, 2016
1609 kr
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A wide-ranging and accessible approach to Godard's later work, and a major intervention in the study of film and ethics.Encounters with Godard takes the reader on a personal voyage into the sensory pleasures and polyphonic rhythms of Jean-Luc Godard's multimedia work since the late 1970s, from his …
Invented Lives, Imagined Communities
The Biopic and American National Identity
Av William H. Epstein, R. Barton Palmer
Inbunden, 2016
1365 kr
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How Hollywood biopics both showcase and modify various notions of what it means to be an American.Biopics-films that chronicle the lives of famous and notorious figures from our national history-have long been one of Hollywood's most popular and important genres, offering viewers various …
Regarding Life
Animals and the Documentary Moving Image
Häftad, 2017
477 kr
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Contends that the narrative and aesthetic qualities of the documentary genre enable new understandings of animals and animal/human relationships.As indicated by the success of such films as March of the Penguins and Food, Inc., the documentary has become the preeminent format for rendering animals …
John Huston as Adaptor
Av Douglas McFarland, Wesley King
Häftad, 2018
517 kr
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Argues that understanding Huston's film adaptations of literary works is essential to understanding his oeuvre as a filmmaker.John Huston as Adaptor makes the case that adaptation is the salient element in Huston's identity as a filmmaker and that his early and deep attraction to the experience of …
Hitchcock's Moral Gaze
Av R. Barton Palmer, Homer B. Pettey m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
487 kr
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Offers new and compelling perspectives on the deeply moral nature of Hitchcock's films.In his essays and interviews, Alfred Hitchcock was guarded about substantive matters of morality, preferring instead to focus on discussions of technique. That has not, however, discouraged scholars and critics …
American Stranger
Modernisms, Hollywood, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray
Häftad, 2018
657 kr
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Reconstructs how Ray became a "rebel auteur" in cinema culture.How does cinema culture imagine one of its favorite figures, the rebel? The reputation of the American director Nicholas Ray provides a particularly notable example. Most famous for Rebel Without a Cause, Ray has since been canonized as …
Gestures of Love
Romancing Performance in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Av Steven Rybin
Häftad, 2018
491 kr
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Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.Gestures of Love considers the viewer's enchantment with charismatic actors in film as the starting point for closely analyzing the performance of love in movies. Written with a thoughtful adoration for the …
Ripping England!
Postwar British Satire from Ealing to the Goons
Inbunden, 2017
1324 kr
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Examines an all too often neglected period of postwar British cinema and popular culture.Ripping England! investigates a fertile moment for British satire-the period between 1947 and 1953, which produced the films Passport to Pimlico, Kind Hearts and Coronets, and The Lavender Hill Mob, as well as …
Rx Hollywood
Cinema and Therapy in the 1960s
Häftad, 2019
601 kr
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How films of the 1960s and early 1970s framed therapeutic issues as problems of human communication, and individual psychological problems as social ones.Rx Hollywood investigates how therapy surfaced in the themes, representations, and narrative strategies of a changing film industry. In the 1960s …
