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  • El cine de Jean Luc Godard: rupturas y aperturas
    Isaac León Frías
    Jean-Luc Godard (París, 1930 - Rolle, Suiza, 2022) fue uno de los revolucionarios críticos que, desde las páginas de Cahiers du Cinéma, promovieron la política de autores: una renovada concepción del director de cine como creador que, mediante la puesta en escena, convertía sus películas en obras de arte. Fue, quizá el más audaz de los cineastas de la nueva ola del cine francés...
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    37,82 €

  • Eleanor Roosevelt on Screen
    Angela S. Beauchamp
    Eleanor Roosevelt recognized the power of film and television, especially as educational tools to reach young people. She hosted three political talk shows in the 1950s and early 1960s, often appearing in guest spots to promote the United Nations, Democratic candidates, and progressive issues with Ed Sullivan, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Mike Wallace, and Edward R. Murrow. In the ...
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    109,92 €

  • The Devil Inside
    Acevedo Carlos
    'At a time when critics are expected to be publicists, and anything famous is ‘classic’ or ‘iconic,’ Carlos Acevedo has managed to hold the line. The Devil Inside is a sharp, hard-nosed aesthetic and cultural investigation into what everybody was throwing up about fifty years ago. It succeeds as criticism, history, and social analysis.'-Charles Taylor, film critic at Esquire, a...
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    19,20 €

  • THE GHOST IN THE SHELL BOOK
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    THE GHOST IN THE SHELL BOOKVOLUME 2: ANIMÉA Critical Study by Jeremy Mark RobinsonThis is a study of the adaptations of Ghost In the Shell by Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, born in 1961, Kobe, Japan). Shirow is a Japanese artist best known for Ghost In the Shell, Appleseed and Dominion: Tank Police. Masamune Shirow is one of the great creators in the world of Japanese...
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    63,56 €

  • TSUI HARK
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    TSUI HARK: THE DRAGON MASTER OF CHINESE CINEMA: A Critical Study••••• By Jeremy Mark Robinson ••••• Tsui Hark is the dragon master of Chinese cinema (Stephen Teo calls Tsui a ’lion dancer among film directors’). Yes - a master, a lion dancer, a sifu, a wizard, a dragon. ••••• Tsui Hark is a one-man film industry - as a glance as his list of credits will show, along with setting...
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    74,83 €

  • THE GHOST IN THE SHELL BOOK
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    THE GHOST IN THE SHELL BOOKVOLUME 2: ANIMÉA Critical Study Color Editionby Jeremy Mark RobinsonThis is a study of the adaptations of Ghost In the Shell by Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, born in 1961, Kobe, Japan). Shirow is a Japanese artist best known for Ghost In the Shell, Appleseed and Dominion: Tank Police. Masamune Shirow is one of the great creators in the worl...
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    80,62 €

  • Intersecting Aesthetics
    Charlene Regester
    Contributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields, and Judith E. Smith Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness illuminates cultural and material trends that shaped Black film adaptations during the twentieth century. Cont...
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    158,15 €

  • Intersecting Aesthetics
    Charlene Regester
    Contributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields, and Judith E. Smith Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness illuminates cultural and material trends that shaped Black film adaptations during the twentieth century. Cont...
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    42,69 €

  • Movies of the ’90s
    Riley Webster
    The 1990s was an amazing decade for movies, witnessing the release of dozens of incredible films, including The Matrix, The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Fargo, Jurassic Park, and so many more. Despite this embarrassment of riches, author Riley Webster believes this decade has never received as much praise or as many kudos as it deserves-until now. Whether you...
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    50,77 €

  • Movies of the ’90s
    Riley Webster
    The 1990s was an amazing decade for movies, witnessing the release of dozens of incredible films, including The Matrix, The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Fargo, Jurassic Park, and so many more. Despite this embarrassment of riches, author Riley Webster believes this decade has never received as much praise or as many kudos as it deserves-until now. Whether you...
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    61,02 €

  • La trilogia dei colori di Krzysztof Kieślowski
    Simone Malacrida
    La trilogia dei colori, composta dai film ispirati agli ideali dell'Illuminismo e della bandiera francese (Blu, Bianco e Rosso), è di gran lunga l'opera più rinomata e apprezzata di Krzysztof Kieślowski, nonché la sua ultima testimonianza artistica.Oltre la prima apparenza, essa cela significati reconditi e palesi corrispondenze con quanto già messo in scena nei film pr...
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    8,73 €

  • La doppia vita di Veronica di Krzysztof Kieślowski
    Simone Malacrida
    Dopo decenni dalla sua uscita, "La doppia vita di Veronica" è considerato, a torto, un film di intermezzo tra le due opere più famose di Krzysztof Kieślowski. La raffinatezza artistica, lo stile delicato, la magnifica interpretazione di Irene Jacob e le prorompenti musiche di Zbigniew Preisner rendono, al contrario, quest'opera del tutto unica e irripetibile.Un piccolo gioi...
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    5,96 €

  • An Illustrated Journey of Cookie & Co
    Michael owen Perkins / Michael Perkins
    Embarking on an incredible adventure as we traverse the world in celebration of the By-Centenary of Australia 1788-1988, in a mere 152 days, accompanied by COOKIE. Our vehicle of choice. A vibrant yellow 1924 14/40 Vauxhall roadster that goes on to inspire the beloved Pixar/Disney animated film 'CARS,' captivating audiences worldwide and achieving remarkable box office success....
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    24,42 €

  • Decalogo di Krzysztof Kieślowski
    Simone Malacrida
    "Decalogo", andato in onda alla fine del 1988, è divenuto, fin da subito, una pietra miliare dell'opera artistica di Krzysztof Kieślowski e, più in generale, della cinematografia.In questo libro saranno presentati i significati e le tematiche esposte, i vari livelli di interpretazione e la simbologia, le connessioni e i richiami, le scelte stilistiche e la storia che hanno ...
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    8,76 €

  • Watching the World Die
    Mike Bogue
    During the 1980s, popular fear of World War III spurred moviemakers to produce dozens of nuclear threat films. Categories ranged from monster movies to post-apocalyptic adventures to realistic depictions of nuclear war and its immediate aftermath. Coverage of atomic angst films isn’t new, but this is the first book to solely analyze 1980s nuclear threat movies as a group. Ent...
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    58,70 €

  • Folk horror on film
    This is the first scholarly collection to focus on the special importance of British cinema to folk horror. The chapters consider the artistic styles, historical contexts, cultural tensions and cinematic fears that distinguish folk horror from other forms of horror and from traditional ways of viewing the folk. ...
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    169,60 €

  • Watching the Cops
    Marcus K Harmes
    Globally, police officers are the object of unprecedented visual scrutiny. The use of mobile phones, CCTV and personal body cams means that police are not only being filmed on the job but are also filming themselves. In popular culture, police have featured heavily on the big screen since the era of silent shorts and on television since the 1930s. Their fictional portrayals tod...
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    108,36 €

  • Movies That Made Me Gay
    Larry Duplechan
    Movies That Made Me Gay is a wonderfully well-informed, witty and acerbic take on iconic Hollywood films, film-stars, and indie cult favorites from an author who is himself a Black gay icon; and is also a touching and extremely readable personal memoir of growing up gay in the early ’60s, surviving the AIDS pandemic of the ’80s (legendary Vito Celluloid Closet Russo was a dear ...
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    21,48 €

  • Jim Tully
    Mark Dawidziak / Paul J. Bauer
    Many saw the dark side of the American dream, but none wrote about it like Jim Tully. Having spent six years of his childhood in a Cincinnati orphanage, Tully returned to his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio before climbing aboard a freight train in 1901. Drifting across the country as a 'road kid,' he spent his teens, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, and haunting p...
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    27,18 €

  • The Human Figure on Film
    Seth Barry Watter
    The Human Figure on Film asks what it is we look for when we look at human beings projected on a screen. People have appeared onscreen since film was invented. Nothing could be more common, and yet nothing confounds us more, than a filmed human being. Scholars and critics have attempted to reduce the mystery, creating methodologies that make this figure legible. Some of their e...
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    127,23 €

  • Global London on screen
    Global London on screen presents a mélange of films by directors from the Global South and North, portraying everyday life to the more fantastical, odious or extraordinary circumstances that are captured cinematically in this superdiverse city. ...
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    169,51 €

  • Movies on a Mission
    Glenn Reynolds
    This investigation into the little-known genre of mission-oriented films uncovers how Protestant missionaries overseas sought to bring back motion picture footage from remote parts of the world. In the broader religious community, mission films aimed to educate congregants back home about efforts to evangelize communities around the world. This book, however, demonstrates the ...
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    109,79 €

  • Yiddish Cinema
    Jonah Corne / Monika Vrečar
    Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema’s fascination with media and communication. ...
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    126,55 €

  • Celluloid Adventures 4 Science Fiction Thrills...Horror Chills
    Nicholas Anez / Nick Anez
    An overdue look at movies, that with one exception, were box-office failures.These movies cover a span of 35 years, from 1943 to 1978, and representthe wide range of themes and ideas that science fiction and horror movies may encompass. As in his previous volumes, the author attempt to provide an informative analysis of each movie along with production details, including infor...
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    20,17 €

  • MARVELOUS NAMES IN LITERATURE AND CINEMA
    P. Adams Sitney
    MARVELOUS NAMESIN LITERATURE AND CINEMABy P. Adams SitneyA new collection of essays from P. Adams Sitney, author of Visionary Film, an important and influential early study of American experimental cinema. P. Adams Sitney explores topics such as Herman Melville and the novel Moby-Dick, Charlie Chaplin, the early cinema of Géorges Méliès, Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958), Wavele...
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    40,86 €

  • Chain Saw Confidential
    Gunnar Hansen
    The in-depth look at the making of making of the most notorious film of all time, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, written by its chainsaw wielding star, the beloved, Gunnar Hansen, is finally back in print! When The Texas Chain Saw Massacre first hit movie screens in 1974 it was both reviled and championed. To critics, it was either 'a degrading, senseless misuse of film and time...
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    25,24 €

  • Theda Bara
    Roy Liebman
    Although a major star in the 1910s, Theda Bara--known as ''The Vamp''--was largely neglected until the 1990s, when her fame began to resurface. Since then, there have been biographies, documentaries and other works that have brought the silent film actress back into the spotlight, including a painstaking stills reconstruction of her lost epic Cleopatra. This is a complete ex...
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    58,53 €

  • Ana M. López
    Ana M López
    Brings together Ana M. López’s field-defining essays on Latin American film and media in one indispensable volume. ...
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    44,66 €

  • A Silence from Hitchcock
    Murray Pomerance
    Extensive meditations on silence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock. ...
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    42,88 €

  • Distancing Representations in Transgender Film
    Lucy J. Miller
    Argues that transgender representations in film make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and for transgender people to fully participate in public life. ...
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    42,08 €