Inside Popular Film – serie
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Monsters in the Closet
Homosexuality and the Horror Film
Häftad, 1997
272 kr
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One of the few books to address the horror film from any kind of critical position.. Unique - The first history of the horror film to approach it from a queer perspective.. Written with detail and thoroughness - covers all eras of the horror film and correlates specific types of movie monsters to …
Contemporary French cinema
An introduction
Av Guy Austin
Häftad, 1996
359 kr
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This introductory text analyzes 25 years of popular French film including recent developments in all genres. Reflecting French cinema's diversity since the new Wave, chapters include the Heritage film; thrillers; war movies; Cinema-du-Look; representations of sexuality; women film-makers; and …
Realism and Popular Cinema
Av Julia Hallam, Margaret Marshment
Häftad, 2000
300 kr
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This groundbreaking study engages with the theoretical aspects of realism - a long neglected area in film studies.. Contributes to an understanding of how popular films use realist forms to address contentious social and political issues such as social exclusion, war and violence.. Focusing on key …
Film stars
Hollywood and beyond
Av Andy Willis
Häftad, 2004
394 kr
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Stars are central to the cinema experience, and this collection offers a variety of fresh and informed perspectives on this important but sometimes neglected area of film studies.This book takes as its focus film stars from the past and present, from Hollywood, its margins and beyond and analyses …
Hollywood Hype and Audiences
Selling and Watching
Häftad, 2002
318 kr
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A fascinating multi-dimensional investigation of popular film as a commercial, cultural and social phenomenon, focusing on well known and controversial films, and on important - and marketable - issues such as sex and violence. Traces the circulation in Britain of three Hollywood films – Basic …
New Avengers
Av Jacinda Read
Häftad, 2000
294 kr
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A study of the rape-revenge film, in which Jacinda Read suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the primary ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the changing shape of heterosexual femininity in the post-1970 period. Arguing that rape-revenge is …
Spanish Popular Cinema
Av Antonio Lazario-Reboll, Andrew Willis m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
289 kr
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This is the first collection in English to focus exclusively on the various forms of popular film produced in Spain and to acknowledge the variety, range and depth of Spanish cinema.Contributors from across Hispanic, media and cultural studies explore a range of genres, from the musicals of the …
Growing Up with Audrey Hepburn
Häftad, 2003
300 kr
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The first full length academic study of Hepburn's star persona and films featuring reseach into the experience of British women who have admired her in the 1950s, 1960s and the 1990s. Examines the historical specificity of discourses of feminity circulating around Hepburn and her female fans, …
Memory and Popular Film
Av Paul Grainge
Häftad, 2003
294 kr
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One of the first books to put memory at the centre of analysis when exploring the relationship between film culture and the past. Provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present, drawing from film studies, American studies and cultural …
Interpreting Rock Movies
Pop Film and its Critics in Britain
Av Andrew Caine
Häftad, 2014
394 kr
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Andrew Caine details the reaction to British and American pop films during the 1950s and 1960s. By examining the British reception of films such as Rock Around the Clock, Love Me Tender, A Hard Day's Night and Summer Holiday the book provides a valuable insight into British film criticism, teenage …
Defining Cult Movies
The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste
Av Mark Jancovich, Antonio Lazario-Reboll m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
300 kr
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Concentrates on the analysis of cult movies, how they are defined, who defines them and the cultural politics of these definitions. Raises issues about the perception of it as an oppositional form of cinema, and of its strained relationships to mainstream cinema and the processes of …
New Hollywood Violence
Häftad, 2004
318 kr
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New Hollywood violence is a groundbreaking collection of essays devoted to an interrogation of various aspects, dimensions, and issues relating to the depiction of violence in New Hollywood filmmaking. 'New Hollywood’ refers to the return to genre filmmaking following America's flirtation with …
Dolby Era
Film Sound in Contemporary Hollywood
Häftad, 2004
318 kr
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Since the 1970s Hollywood cinema has been the site of remarkable developments in film sound. New revolutionary sound technologies have been developed, a new generation of filmmakers have learned to use them as powerful storytelling tools, and audiences have enjoyed a different way of experiencing …
Trash or Treasure
Censorship and the Changing Meanings of the Video Nasties
Av Kate Egan
Häftad, 2012
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
300 kr
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Trash or treasure is a wide-ranging historical study of the British circulation of the video nasties - a term that was originally coined to ban a group of horror videos in Britain in the 1980s but which continues to have cultural resonance in Britain up to the present day.The book is divided into …
Cinematic Countrysides
Av Robert Fish
Inbunden, 2007
1234 kr
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Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the 'spatialities of cinema' across the social sciences and humanities, yet to date critical inquiry has tended to explore this issue as a question of the 'city' and the 'urban'. For the first time, leading scholars in geography, film and …
Cinematic Countrysides
Av Robert Fish
Häftad, 2014
318 kr
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Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the 'spatialities of cinema' across the social sciences and humanities, yet to date critical inquiry has tended to explore this issue as a question of the 'city' and the 'urban'. For the first time, leading scholars in geography, film and …
Trash or Treasure
Censorship and the Changing Meanings of the Video Nasties
Av Kate Egan, Mark Jancovich m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1156 kr
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Trash or Treasure is a study of the British video nasties, examining the historical circulation of banned films. The book argues that censorship is not just about rules and regulations, but also about the discourses that generate censorship, and the cultural and commercial consequences of a …
