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Films, cinema
Brand: Manchester University Press
Offers a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, as well as bringing new material into the broader field of Television Studies. Surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing the unspoken assumptions and common misconc..
18.18£
Brand: McFarland Publishers
Almost immediately after his first appearance in comic books in June 1938, Superman began to be adapted to other media. The subsequent decades have brought even more adaptations of the Man of Steel, his friends, family, and enemies in film, televisi..
59.63£
This volume offers analysis of contemporary independent, community-based, collaborative, and indigenous-language audiovisual and radio production in Mexico and in Mexican migrant communities in the United States. ISBN: 9780822964469Publisher: Univer..
69.82£
Brand: Grand Central Publishing
Now available as an ebook for the first time!No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other..
25.01£
Over the past twenty-five years, Scott MacDonald's kaleidoscopic explorations of independent cinema have become the most important chronicle of avant-garde and experimental film in the United States. In this collection of thematically related person..
35.27£
In 1900, Paris had no skyscrapers, no tourist helicopters, no drones. Yet well before aviation made aerial views more accessible, those who sought such vantages had countless options available to them. They could take in the vista from an observatio..
31.13£
Brand: Indiana University Press
"Manthia Diawara is quite simply the best critic (in any language) currently writing on African cinema." -Robert Stam"Diawara has produced a useful history, a cogent analysis, and, in his arguments on how African cinema should develop, an undoubtedl..
25.70£
Brand: Columbia University Press
Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium ..
35.80£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
After Dracula tells of films set in London music halls and Yorkshire coal mines, South Sea Islands and Hungarian modernist houses of horror, with narrators that survey the outskirts of contemporary Paris and travel back in time to ancient Egypt. Ali..
28.83£
Brand: Henry Holt and Company
Keith Phipps paints a portrait of Hollywood's most eccentric and singular leading man, Nicolas Cage. He shows us what makes the actor tick through the last four decades of the motion pictures produced in the United States. ISBN: 9781250773043Publish..
26.41£
Among the most innovative and influential filmmakers of the twentieth century, Alain Resnais (1922-2014) did not originally set out to become a director. He trained as an actor and film editor and, during the sixty-eight years of his working life, d..
28.50£
Here is the definitive resource for fans and students of the films of Alfred Hitchcock. For the paperback edition, Jane Sloan has updated the annotated bibliography and indexes.ISBN: 9780520089044Publisher: University of California PressImprint: Uni..
41.33£
Brand: Welbeck Publishing
A book like no other. An experience you'll never forget. This special interactive book has been beamed back to us from the future reality witnessed in the movies. Alien - Augmented Reality Survival Manual was written for new recruits of the U.S. Col..
32.93£
Brand: Columbia University Press
The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has died in childbirth, and her vengeful return upset..
33.01£
Brand: Faber & Faber
Pedro Almodóvar's influence on European popular culture has been immense. From a small village in rural Spain to international acclaim for his many wonderfully vivid and outrageous films, Almodóvar On Almodóvar tells the story of the man and his fil..
20.03£
From the very beginning of cinema, there have been amateur filmmakers at work. It wasn't until Kodak introduced 16mm film in 1923, however, that amateur moviemaking became a widespread reality, and by the 1950s, over a million Americans had amateur..
32.54£
American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary is a critical history of American filmmakers crucial to the development of ethnographic film and personal documentary. The Boston and Cambridge area is notable for nurturing these approaches to doc..
37.11£
This engaging, deeply researched study provides the richest and most nuanced picture we have to date of cinema-both movies and movie-going-in the early 1910s. At the same time, it makes clear the profound relationship between early cinema and the co..
34.47£
In 1895, Louis Lumière supposedly said that cinema is "an invention without a future." James Naremore uses this legendary remark as a starting point for a meditation on the so-called death of cinema in the digital age, and as a way of introducing a..
32.44£
Ana M. López is one of the foremost film and media scholars in the world. Her work has addressed Latin American filmmaking in every historical period, across countries and genres-from early cinema to the present; from Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico to dia..
95.07£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
Fargo - that bloody tale of greed, kidnapping and murder set in the freezing tundra of Minnesota - was the Coen brothers' break-out film, scooping two Oscars and a towering snowdrift of critical and commercial acclaim. On the 25th anniversary of its..
15.47£
Adaptation was central to André Bazin's lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each medium. More importantly, it helped him wage his campaign for a..
32.74£
Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the great visual artists of the cinema. The central and distinguishing strength of Antonioni's mature films, Seymour Chatman argues, is narration by a kind of visual minimalism, by an intense concentration on the she..
31.18£
Looney Tunes cartoons, writes celebrated television critic Jaime Weinman, are the high-water mark of American filmed comedy. Surreal, irreverent, philosophical, and riotously funny, they have maintained their power over audiences for generations and..
34.06£