Film: styles & Genres
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The Playboy and James Bond: 007, Ian Fleming and Playboy Magazine
Claire HinesCurrent price €86.12Original price €98.99This is the first book to focus on James Bonds relationship to the playboy ideal through the sixties and beyond. Examining aspects of the Bond phen...
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The Films of Jesus Franco, 1953-1966
Francesco CesariCurrent price €64.37Original price €73.99With more than 180 films during a career spanning several decades, Jesús Franco (1930-2013) was an extraordinarily prolific and chameleon-like Span...
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Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror Film and Television
Liverpool University PressCurrent price €112.22Original price €128.99Horrors pleasures fundamentally hinge on looking backward, either on destabilising trauma, or as a period of comfort and happiness which is undermi...
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Journeys into Terror: Essays from the Cinematic Intersection of Travel and Horror
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €54.80Original price €62.99Since ancient times, explorers and adventurers have captured popular imagination with their frightening narratives of travels gone wrong. Usually, ...
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The Ultimate Superhero Movie Guide: The definitive handbook for comic book film fans
Helen O'HaraCurrent price €23.06Original price €26.50The Ultimate Superhero Movie Guide is a thrilling journey through the history of the world's favorite movie genre. From the early glories of Superm...
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Dead of Night
David BatesCurrent price €24.80Original price €28.50Released a matter of days after the end of the Second World War and a dozen years ahead of the first full-blooded Hammer Horror, the Ealing Studios...
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Mad Dreams and Monsters: The Art of Phil Tippett
Alexandre PoncetCurrent price €111.19Original price €138.99A spectacular and comprehensive authorized retrospective of Oscar-winning visual effects master Phil Tippett, founder and namesake of iconic Tippet...
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Gothic Dreams and Nightmares
Manchester University PressCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99Gothic dreams and nightmares is an edited collection on the compelling yet under-theorised subject of Gothic dreams and nightmares ranging across m...
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''Guilty Pleasures'': European Audiences and Contemporary Hollywood Romantic Comedy
Dr Alice GuilluyCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99In Guilty Pleasures, Alice Guilluy examines the reception of contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy by European audiences. She offers a new look at...
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The Horror Film: An Introduction
Rick WorlandCurrent price €33.92Original price €38.99A lively and reliable narrative account of the horror genre, featuring new and revised material throughout The Horror Film: An Introduction surveys...
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Richard Green in South African Film: Forging Creative New Directions
Keyan A. TomaselliCurrent price €41.75Original price €47.99Both a history and a critique of South Africa's film industry, this book recounts the long experience of filmmaker and producer Richard Green.Green...
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The Art of the Classic Western Movie Poster
Ed HulseCurrent price €59.15Original price €67.99Acknowledging the iconic, but with plenty of room for the rare and unfamiliar, The Art of the Classic Western Movie Poster presents poster art crea...
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When Harry Met Sally ...
Tamar Jeffers McDonaldCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Ground-breaking in its departure from its predecessors, When Harry Met Sally (1989) established classic romantic comedy themes and tropes still bei...
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Refocus: the Films of Albert Brooks
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €86.12Original price €98.99This is the first sustained critical collection on Albert Brooks, one of the key but under-examined figures in American stand-up, television comedy...
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Beyond Realism: Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice
Robert SingerCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99Current price €90.47Original price €103.99Save 13% -
Beyond Realism: Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice
Robert SingerCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99Current price €90.47Original price €103.99Save 13% -
Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa
Ed GodziszewskiCurrent price €20.87Original price €23.99The first comprehensive biography of the director behind Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi classics.Ishiro Honda was arguably the most internation...
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Slapstick Comedy
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €43.49Original price €49.99From Chaplins tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of ...
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Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition)
Eddie MullerCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50TCM host Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in an ...
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Culture Wars and Horror Movies: Social Fears and Ideology in post-2010 Horror Cinema
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €107.00Original price €122.99In this volume, contributors explore the deep ideological polarization in US society as portrayed in horror narratives and tropes. By navigating th...
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Singing a Different Tune: The Slavic Film Musical in a Transnational Context
Helena GosciloCurrent price €97.43Original price €111.99A beneficiary of the pioneering incorporation of sound and synchronicity into cinema, the Hollywood musical became the most popular film genre in A...
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Prepare for Zombies, Survive a Flood: Natural Disaster Lessons from Undead Cinema
Michael WaltonCurrent price €32.36Original price €38.99Disaster can strike anyone at any time and unfortunately most people are not prepared for it. Disaster preparedness is essential, but most find ...
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Classic Egyptian Movies: 101 Must-See Films
Sameh FathyCurrent price €33.92Original price €38.99A prolific film industry has flourished on the banks of the Nile since the earliest days of cinema, producing movies that have been hugely popular ...
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Herstories on Screen: Feminist Subversions of Frontier Myths
Professor Kathleen CumminsCurrent price €81.77Original price €93.99From the late 1970s into the early 1990s, a generation of female filmmakers took aim at their home countries popular myths of the frontier. Deeply ...
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