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Critical Guide to Horror Film Series
Av Ken Hanke
Inbunden, 2013
2680 kr
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In this book the author takes a fresh look at horror film series as series and presents an understanding of how the genre thrived in this format for a large portion of its history. It sheds light on older films such as the Universal and the Hammer series films on Dracula, Frankenstein and the Mummy …
American Film Exhibition and an Analysis of the Motion Picture Industry's Market Structure 1963-1980
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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This study looks at how the movie industry organisation functioned between the late ‘40s and 1983 when it was originally published. It describes the changing role of domestic exhibition through this time and analyses the wider film industry to provide a model of the exhibition structure in relation …
American Political Movies
An Annotated Filmography of Feature Films
Av James Combs
Inbunden, 2013
2144 kr
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Essays here explore the relationship between politics and explicitly political feature films from the beginning of the movie industry to World War I, and for each decade through to the 1980's. The included filmography is particularly useful. Originally published in 1990, the method of inquiry put …
At a Theater or Drive-in Near You
The History, Culture, and Politics of the American Exploitation Film
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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Millions of Americans have been thrilled, scared, titillated, and shocked by exploitation movies, low budget films with many scenes of sex, violence, and other potentially lurid elements. The term derives from the fact that promoters of such films exploit the contents in advertising that plays up …
Chicano Images
Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film
Inbunden, 2013
1237 kr
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Providing textual analysis of 12 feature films written and directed by filmmakers who explore aspects of the Chicano cultural movement, this book discusses films including Cheech and Chong's Still Smokin' (1983), El Norte (1985), and Break of Dawn (1988). The text analyzes the portrayal of Chicano, …
Cinema and Ireland
Av Kevin Rockett, Luke Gibbons m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2680 kr
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This was the first comprehensive study of film production in Ireland from the silent period to the present day, and of representations of Ireland and ‘Irishness’ in native, British, and American films. It remains an authority on the topic. The book focuses on Irish history and politics to examine …
Cinema Eye, Cinema Ear
Some Key Film-makers of the Sixties
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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Since the cinema first began to be taken seriously as an art form, there has been a constant debate on the question: who is the real creator of the film, the writer or the director? This study of a group of key film-makers in the sixties suggests that during this decade there was an emergence of a …
Cinema, Literature & Society
Elite and Mass Culture in Interwar Britain
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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During the interwar period cinema and literature seemed to be at odds with each other, part of the continuing struggle between mass and elite culture which so worried writers such as Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot and the Leavises. And this cultural divide appeared to be sharp evidence of a deeper …
Directors and Directions
Cinema for the Seventies
Inbunden, 2013
2680 kr
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This is a study of nine key film-makers who came into prominence in the early ‘70s: Claude Chabrol, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lindsay Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey, Satyajit Ray, Miklos Jancsó, and Dušan Makavejev – representing seven film-producing countries. In this book …
Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception
Av Yuri Tsivian, Richard Taylor
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years.The author traces the changing perceptions of cinema and its social transition from a modernist invention to a …
Eisenstein: A Documentary Portrait
Inbunden, 2013
1575 kr
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Of all the pioneers of the cinema, the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein has exerted the most enduring hold on the popular imagination. This book offers a unique portrait of the director based on the personal recollections of those who knew him. Originally published in 1976, it is illustrated …
Feature Films as History
Inbunden, 2013
1274 kr
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Bringing together the work of leading film historians, originally published in 1981, this book illustrates the breadth of methodological approaches adopted by the field and the variety of its interests. Dealing with a period from about 1924-1945, it considers feature films in particular, showing …
Film and Reform
John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement
Av Ian Aitken
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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Best known for his documentaries such as Drifters, North Sea, and Housing Problems, John Grierson was the most important figure in the British documentary film movement and one of the most influential of British film theorists.This major assessment of Grierson and the documentary film movement …
Film and the Working Class
The Feature Film in British and American Society
Av Peter Stead
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concerned with working-class conditions and struggle, and discusses them within the context of the debate on the social significance of the feature film. …
Film Propaganda and American Politics
An Analysis and Filmography
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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Originally published in 1994, this important book traces the rise of film propaganda in the 20th Century, discussing specifically how film can be used to manipulate public perception and opinions. Two distinct areas are covered: war propaganda, including feature and documentary films regarding …
Film Semiotics, Metz, and Leone's Trilogy
Av Lane Roth
Inbunden, 2013
2680 kr
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Semiotics offers a systematic approach to analysing the stylistic structure of film. When this study was originally published in 1983 this was a recent addition to the methods of film study and it presents an explanation of film semiotics with direct application to comparative film research. It …
Hollywood Goes to War
Films and American Society, 1939-1952
Inbunden, 2013
2276 kr
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A historian’s view of the relationship between American history and the American film industry, this book is a witty and perceptive account of Hollywood and its films in the years from the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe to the end of the war in Korea, It describes how film makers and …
Hollywood in the Age of Television
Av Tino Balio
Inbunden, 2013
3082 kr
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This collection of papers examines the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s onwards. The institutional and technological histories of the film and TV industries are looked at, concluding that Hollywood and television had a symbiotic relationship …
Image and Influence
Studies in the Sociology of Film
Av Andrew Tudor
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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This text outlines what sociologists need to know of the nature of communication and of mass culture, while also looking in some empirical detail at the workings of the Hollywood community and the psychology of the star system. It explores trends such as attempts to adapt semiology and …
Masters of the Soviet Cinema
Crippled Creative Biographies
Inbunden, 2013
2680 kr
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Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, Vertov: these Soviet film directors are acknowledged to be among the greatest in the history of cinematography. To Eisenstein we owe such films as Battleship Potemkin and October; to Pudovkin Mother and The End of St Petersburg; to Dovzhenko Earth and Zvenigora; and …
Motion Picture Series and Sequels
A Reference Guide
Inbunden, 2013
2208 kr
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In 1989 alone, for example, there were some forty-five major motion pictures which were sequels or part of a series. The film series phenomenon crosses all genres and has been around since the silent film era. This reference guide, in alphabetical order, lists some 906 English Language motion …
Movies and Politics
The Dynamic Relationship
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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Collecting together some of the best thinking about the relationship between movies and politics, this book, originally published in 1993, encourages an awareness of the political dimension of film, both for film scholars and those entering the film industry. Eight essays are grouped into four …
Off Screen
Women and Film in Italy: Seminar on Italian and American directions
Av Giuliana Bruno, Maria Nadotti
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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This feminist anthology from Italy offers an enriching perspective on cinema studies. Focusing on women’s engagement with political theory and film-making, the book never loses sight of the female experience of cinema. It examines how women have chosen to represent themselves and how they have been …
Our Lady Cinema
How and Why I went into the Photo-play World and What I Found There
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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This charming classic of film literature was originally published in 1914 and hence represents an early attempt to catalogue the allure of cinema and how the motion picture industry began. This tale of life in the early days of cinema will be of interest to film historians and anyone interested in …
Swordsmen of the Screen
From Douglas Fairbanks to Michael York
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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This fascinating study of the genre of swashbuckling films received wide critical acclaim when it was first published in 1977. Jeffrey Richards assesses the contributions to the genre of directors, designers and fencing masters, as well as of the stars themselves, and devotes several chapters to …
British Board of Film Censors
Film Censorship in Britain, 1896-1950
Inbunden, 2013
1575 kr
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The secrecy in which the British Board of Film Censors enveloped itself until 1948 resulted in a glaring vacuum in British cinematic history. Originally published in 1985, this book filled this important gap, drawing on the detailed registers of films passed, cut and banned since 1913. The book …
Cinema Ideal
An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Studies of the Film Spectator
Inbunden, 2013
2454 kr
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This study explores the model derived from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, via Marxism and semiotics, of looking at film. It retraces the steps of film theory from ideological criticism of the late ‘60s to spectator studies in 1988 when the book was originally published. Psychoanalysis …
Cinema of Apartheid
Race and Class in South African Film
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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This study analyses the historical development of South African cinema up to he book's original publication in 1988. It describes the films and comments on their relationship to South African realities, addressing all aspects of the industry, focusing on domestic production, but also discussing …
Decline of the Cinema
An Economist’s Report
Av John Spraos
Inbunden, 2013
2208 kr
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Between 1952 and 1962, when this book was originally published, the number of people visiting British cinemas had fallen by nearly two thirds and was little more than half the pre-war total. Nearly 1500 of the 4500 cinemas functioning in 1955 had closed five years later, and the author here …
Difficulty of Difference
Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory
Inbunden, 2013
2084 kr
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This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally …
