Teoría y crítica cinematográficas

Artes / Cine, televisión y radio / Películas, cine / Teoría y crítica cinematográficas (2645)

Artes / Cine, televisión y radio / Películas, cine / Teoría y crítica cinematográficas
Libros Eliminar filtro Artes Eliminar filtro Cine, televisión y radio Eliminar filtro Películas, cine Eliminar filtro Teoría y crítica cinematográficas Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • White Cottage, White House
    Tony Tracy
    Argues that Irish American masculinity functioned to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1960. ...
    Disponible

    121,87 €

  • No Jurisdiction
    Fareed Ben-Youssef
    A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture. ...
    Disponible

    121,79 €

  • Whiteness at the End of the World
    David Venditto
    Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety. ...
    Disponible

    121,99 €

  • Ruth Roman
    Derek Sculthorpe
    With her striking looks, the raven-haired, dark eyed Ruth Roman had an air of sophistication that made her seem sexy yet wholesome. She had to strive harder than most to establish herself as a leading actress in Hollywood during its glory years and finally broke through in 1949 with her role in Champion. As one of the last Warner Bros. contract players, she appeared in Alfred H...
    Disponible

    57,48 €

  • Sean Connery
    Andrew Spicer
    This ground-breaking study provides an authoritative account of the career of this iconic star. It illuminates his early work, his role as James Bond and his later reinvention as father-mentor and screen legend. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it will be essential reading for those interested in the phenomenon of stardom. ...
    Disponible

    33,86 €

  • Truth and Lives on Film
    John T. Aquino
    As early as the Silent Era, movie studios were sued over depictions of real people and events. Filmmakers have always altered the details of true stories and actual persons, living or dead, to make narratives more workable and characters more compelling. When truth and fantasy become inextricably mixed, the effect on people’s lives can be significant, even devastating. This e...
    Disponible

    57,27 €

  • Japanese Cinema
    Peter Cowie
    Peter Cowie is a bona fide expert on international film and has published 30+ books on the subjectHis account of Japanese film includes personal encounters with the directors themselves and others icons such as Donald Richie.A comprehensive guide to Japanese film: from prewar films to 21st-century Japanese animation.Has the breadth of an introduction for the uninitiated along w...
    Disponible

    16,72 €

  • The Essence of Film Noir
    Diana Royer
    American classic films noir, beginning with 1941’s The Maltese Falcon and ending with 1950’s Sunset Boulevard, and the neo-noir films made from the 1970s onward, share certain thematic aspects, stylistic qualities, and cultural contexts. Their concern with politics, their depiction of con artists, and the way their characters are shaped by America’s puritanical religious roots ...
    Disponible

    58,58 €

  • The Magnificent ’60s
    Brian Hannan
    Hollywood in the 1960s walked a tightrope between boom and bust. Yet the decade spawned many of the greatest films ever made, saw the advent of the spy thriller, the revival of science fiction and horror, and represented the Golden Era of the 70mm roadshow. Blockbusters like Lawrence of Arabia and The Sound of Music shared marquees with low-budget hits such as Lilies of the Fie...
    Disponible

    58,75 €

  • The Cinematographer’s Voice
    A unique exploration of contemporary filmmaking from cinema’s ultimate insiders. ...
    Disponible

    121,46 €

  • Action, Action, Action
    Tom Conley
    Studies the force of action, motion, and vision in the early cinema of Hollywood director Raoul Walsh. ...
    Disponible

    121,70 €

  • Frank Sinatra on the Big Screen
    Gary Schneeberger / James L. Neibaur
    Frank Sinatra is an iconic figure in music, but his film career is often overlooked. His innate talent as an actor is proven in many serious dramatic roles, including films like Man with the Golden Arm, The Manchurian Candidate, and From Here to Eternity, for which he received an Oscar. From romantic musical comedies to Rat Pack films, Frank Sinatra achieved a great deal of suc...
    Disponible

    57,30 €

  • Walls Without Cinema
    Larrie Dudenhoeffer
    This volume closely examines the near-ubiquitous images of state security walls, domes, and other such defense enclosures flashing across movie screens since 2006, the year of the ratification of George W. Bush’s Secure Fence Act. This study shows that many of the films of this era enable us to imaginatively test the effects of these security mechanisms on citizens, immigrants,...
    Disponible

    51,06 €

  • Three Hollywood Stalwarts in Literature
    Henryk Hoffmann
    This book focuses on the perception of the names, personae, performances and films of three Hollywood megastars, Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and William Holden, as presented in the references and allusions encountered in American and foreign literature. Its secondary aim is to establish the ’impact factor’ of the three actors and their major films and provide extensive data fo...
    Disponible

    75,75 €

  • Rhetoric, Inc.
    Timothy Johnson
    Examines motion pictures produced or sponsored by Ford Motor Company from a rhetorical perspective, demonstrating how the films reveal a long-term rhetorical project that has helped embed corporations into many of the social systems guiding societies today.  ...
    Disponible

    50,10 €

  • Space Exploration on Film
    Paul Meehan
    Over the course of several decades, scientific fact has overtaken science fiction as humankind’s understanding of the universe has expanded. Mirroring this development, the cinematic depictions of space exploration over the last century have evolved from whimsical sci-fi fantasies to more fact-based portrayals. This book chronologically examines 75 films that depict voyages int...
    Disponible

    73,10 €

  • Bonkers Ass Cinema
    Matt Rotman
    A Guide to the Wildest of Horror and Exploitation CinemaSit down. Buckle up. Pop in those special peepers you keep in the jar atop the coffee table. Because a journey awaits-a thoughtful and humorous voyage into the world of Bonkers Ass Cinema. Join Matt Rotman in this deep dive, as he covers one hundred films from nine genres, including animals attack, sexploitation, blaxploit...
    Disponible

    26,80 €

  • Bonkers Ass Cinema (hardback)
    Matt Rotman
    A Guide to the Wildest of Horror and Exploitation CinemaSit down. Buckle up. Pop in those special peepers you keep in the jar atop the coffee table. Because a journey awaits-a thoughtful and humorous voyage into the world of Bonkers Ass Cinema. Join Matt Rotman in this deep dive, as he covers one hundred films from nine genres, including animals attack, sexploitation, blaxploit...
    Disponible

    36,98 €

  • Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment
    Carol Siegel
    What are the consequences of how Jews are depicted in movies and television series? Drawing on a host of movies and television series from the 1970s to present day, Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment explores how the media sexualize and racialize American Jews. Race and sexuality frequently intersect in the depiction of Jewish characters in such shows as The Marvelous Mr...
    Disponible

    107,15 €

  • Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment
    Carol Siegel
    What are the consequences of how Jews are depicted in movies and television series? Drawing on a host of movies and television series from the 1970s to present day, Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment explores how the media sexualize and racialize American Jews. Race and sexuality frequently intersect in the depiction of Jewish characters in such shows as The Marvelous Mr...
    Disponible

    27,81 €

  • Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East
    Nolwenn Mingant
    Traces the circulation of Hollywood films in North Africa and the Middle East from the early twentieth century to the present. ...
    Disponible

    121,74 €

  • Cora Witherspoon
    Axel Nissen
    Born into an upper-crust family in New Orleans, Cora Bell Witherspoon (1890-1957) was an orphan by the age of 10 and a professional actress by 15. She was seen on Broadway from 1910 till 1946 in 36 productions and was a popular character actress in Hollywood between 1931 and 1954. On stage she played roles like Sallie McBride in Daddy Long Legs, Josephine Trent in The Awful Tru...
    Disponible

    73,14 €

  • Film Close Up
    chris wade
    Chris Wade takes a look at two cult classics from the 1990s, Smoke and Blue in the Face, made by writer Paul Auster and director Wayne Wang. Released during a golden era for American independent cinema, Smoke focuses on a Brooklyn cigar shop run by Auggie Wren (Harvey Keitel), and the various characters that revolve around it. Blue in the Face is the companion film to Smoke, a ...
    Disponible

    13,22 €

  • Autobiographical Reenactment in French and Belgian Film
    Tom Cuthbertson
    We live in ’reenactive times’. Recent decades have witnessed a marked proliferation of various forms of reenactment across numerous cultural contexts and domains to the point that it is today seemingly impossible to enter museums, heritage sites, art galleries or even to turn on the television without encountering at least some elements of this veritable boom. In such a way, re...
    Disponible

    139,13 €

  • Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan
    David A Conrad / David A. Conrad
    The samurai films of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa are set in the past, but they tell us much about the present, as do his crime stories, romances, military films, medical dramas and art films. His movies are beloved for their timeless protagonists and haunting vistas of old Japan, but we haven’t yet fully grasped everything they can teach us about modern Japan. Ku...
    Disponible

    73,27 €

  • The Sound of Cinema
    Sean Wilson
    While some film scores crash through theater speakers to claim their place in memory, others are more unassuming. Either way, a film’s score is integral to successful world building. This book lifts the curtain on the elusive yet thrilling art form, examining the birth of the Hollywood film score, its turbulent evolution throughout the decades and the multidimensional challenge...
    Disponible

    57,26 €

  • Screening Europe in Australasia
    Julie K. Allen
    This book’s treatment of the extensive circulation of European silent features and stars in Australasia reveals the vibrant transnationalism of silent film before the rise of Hollywood, and frames the emergence of art house cinema in the 1920s. ...
    Disponible

    127,06 €

  • PASOLINI
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    PASOLINIIL CINEMA DI POESIA/ THE CINEMA OF POETRY By Jeremy Mark RobinsonA new critical study of the Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975). The focus is the cinema of Pasolini, which includes The Gospel According To Matthew (his best-known film), the controversial Salo, the ’trilogy of life’ movies based on Middle Ages texts (Chaucer, Boccaccio and the 1001...
    Disponible

    57,71 €

  • Fear City Cinema
    Roger A. Salerno
    This book studies a grouping of films set in New York City between 1965 and 1995, reflecting a town besieged by rampant criminality, social distress and physical decay. 'Fear City' is a term the NYPD used to label New York as a frightening environment, incapable of securing the safety of its residents. This book not only deals with the social problems evident in New York during...
    Disponible

    72,02 €

  • Transnationalism and Imperialism
    David Roche / Hervé Mayer
    While Western films can be seen as a mode of American exceptionalism, they have also become a global genre. Around the world, Westerns exemplify colonial cinema, driven by the exploration of racial and gender hierarchies and the progress and violence shaped by imperialism.Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film traces the Western from the silent e...
    Disponible

    57,15 €


Primera 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 Última