Film: styles & Genres
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Horror Cinema
Taschen GmbHCurrent price €23.06Original price €26.50Get ready to quake in fear with this revised and expanded edition of our history of horror cinema. This chilling volume packs 640 pages full with t...
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Film: A Very Short Introduction
Michael WoodCurrent price €13.91Original price €15.99Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of tel...
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Horror: A Very Short Introduction
Darryl JonesCurrent price €13.91Original price €15.99Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to ...
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Star Wars: The Best of Star Wars Insider: Volume 4
Titan ComicsCurrent price €20.55Original price €21.99Volume 4 The very best features and interviews from Star Wars Insider-the official magazine of the Star Wars saga! Mark Hamill discusses the making...
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Star Wars: Rogues, Scoundrels & Bounty Hunters
Titan BooksCurrent price €23.93Original price €27.50A new Star Wars Insider collection, featuring content previously printed in the Star Wars Insider magazine. Each volume brings together a collectio...
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Star Wars Year by Year
Daniel WallaceCurrent price €37.79Original price €44.99Discover everything you've ever wanted to know about Star Wars in this complete history of the most famous franchise in movie history.Painstakingly...
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Out at the Movies: A History of Gay Cinema
Sharon FreemanCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Updated and Expanded Edition Over the decades, gay cinema has reflected the community's journey from persecution to emancipation to acceptance. Pol...
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Reappraising Cult Horror Films: From Carnival of Souls to Last Night in Soho
Bloomsbury Publishing PlcCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99Identifies key and in some cases previously overlooked cult horror films from around the world and reappraises them by approaching and interrogat...
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Ride the High Country
Robert NottCurrent price €19.13Original price €21.99Director Sam Peckinpah was just starting out when he made Ride the High Country in 1962. He was a new kind of director: young, brash, and in a hurr...
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Cinema Speculation
Quentin TarantinoCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino.The long-awaited first work o...
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Alien Abduction in the Cinema: A History from the 1950s to Today
Paul MeehanCurrent price €54.80Original price €62.99The alien abduction phenomenon is one of the enduring enigmas of our time. While the reality of alien abductions is a hotly debated topic among UF...
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The Art and Soul of Dune: Part Two
Tanya LapointeCurrent price €55.67Original price €63.99Immerse yourself in the world of Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two and discover the incredible creative journey that brought this new instalment to...
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Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema: A Revised and Expanded Filmography of Their Terrifying Collaborations
David J. HoganCurrent price €43.49Original price €49.99From their first pairing in Hamlet (1948) to House of the Long Shadows (1983), British film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing forged perhaps ...
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Joan Crawford in Film Noir: The Actress as Auteur
David MeuelCurrent price €43.49Original price €49.99Although rarely discussed in its totality, Joan Crawford's contribution to film noir during the 1940s and 1950s is one of her most impressive an...
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George Washington on Screen
Leigh Ehlers TelotteCurrent price €54.80Original price €62.99One of the most moving and intriguing narratives from the American Revolution is the first presidential administration and the many precedents set ...
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A Cut Below: A Celebration of B Horror Movies, 1950s-1980s
Scott DrebitCurrent price €33.92Original price €38.99Horror films have been around for more than 100 years, and they continue to make a large impact on popular culture as they reflect their contempora...
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Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood
A. WinchCurrent price €48.71Original price €55.99From Mean Girl to BFF, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood explores female sociality in postfeminist popular culture. Focusing on a range of me...
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The Postfeminist Biopic: Narrating the Lives of Plath, Kahlo, Woolf and Austen
B. PolaschekCurrent price €48.71Original price €55.99This book contributes to the growing literature on the biopic genre by outlining and exploring the conventions of the postfeminist biopic. It does ...
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Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood
S. ArnoldCurrent price €107.00Original price €122.99Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well ...
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Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood
S. ArnoldCurrent price €107.00Original price €122.99Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well ...
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Educational Institutions in Horror Film: A History of Mad Professors, Student Bodies, and Final Exams
A. GrunzkeCurrent price €48.71Original price €55.99An exploration of how educational institutions have been portrayed in horror film, this book examines the way that scary movies have dealt with the...
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All That Jazz: The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago
Ethan MorddenCurrent price €31.76Original price €36.50In 1975, the Broadway musical Chicago brought together a host of memes and myths -- the gleefully subversive character of American musical comedy, ...
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Bad Movie Bible: Ultimate Modern Guide to Movies That Are so Bad They''re Good
Rob HillCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99Whether you realise it or not, you probably enjoy bad movies. If you've ever been amused by cheesy '80s action, or laughed at a shoddy horror movie...
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Intercultural Screen Adaptation: British and Global Case Studies
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €86.12Original price €98.99Current price €86.12Original price €98.99Save 13% -
New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror
Patricia PistersCurrent price €94.82Original price €108.99Current price €94.82Original price €108.99Save 13% -
Sensing Justice Through Contemporary Spanish Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics, Law
Monica Lopez LermaCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99Current price €90.47Original price €103.99Save 13% -
The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama
Louis BaymanCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99This book deals with melodrama - the key cinematic form of post-war Italy. The commercial success and formal perfection of melodrama is central to ...
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French Queer Cinema
Nick Rees-RobertsCurrent price €31.76Original price €36.50This book looks at queer self-representation in contemporary auteur film and experimental video in France. French Queer Cinema addresses the socio-...
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Romantics and Modernists in British Cinema
John OrrCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99In a fresh and invigorating look at British cinema that considers film as an art form among other arts, John Orr takes a critical look at the intri...
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Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film
Ryan BishopCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99This title analysis the growth of American comedy film in relation to world events and cultural trends. This book uses large scale social and cultu...
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Cinematic Nihilism: Encounters, Confrontations, Overcomings
John MarmyszCurrent price €26.09Original price €29.99Current price €26.09Original price €29.99Save 13% -
Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video and Exploitation Film Fandom
David ChurchCurrent price €31.76Original price €36.50Too often dismissed as 'trash cinema', exploitation films have nevertheless become sincerely appreciated cult objects on home video. In this new st...
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The The Invisibilities of Political Torture: The Presence of Absence in US and Chilean Cinema and Television
Berenike JungCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99Examines the ways in which moving images can help us better understand factual political torture Examines role of images and film in (mis)understa...
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Women in the Western
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €94.82Original price €108.99As the Western matured, womens roles became more complex and modern transmitting a subtle cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionis...
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World Cinema and the Essay Film
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99World Cinema and the Essay Film examines the ways in which essay film practices are deployed by non-Western filmmakers in specific local and nation...
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Postfeminist Whiteness: Problematising Melancholic Burden in Contemporary Hollywood
Kendra MarstonCurrent price €31.76Original price €36.50In the first extended study into the politics of whiteness inherent within postfeminist cinema, Kendra Marston interrogates representations of mela...
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Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema: Legacies and Transformations into the Twenty-First Century
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Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman''s Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror
David GrevenCurrent price €48.71Original price €55.99The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physic...
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Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman''s Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror
David GrevenCurrent price €48.71Original price €55.99The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physic...
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Theodor Adorno and Film Theory: The Fingerprint of Spirit
B. WallCurrent price €48.71Original price €55.99What is the fundamental nature of the filmic object: is it a commodity or is it, can it be, art? What would that mean - can it still matter? This b...
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Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre
Claire HenryCurrent price €48.71Original price €55.99Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in rece...
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The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea
Andrew JacksonCurrent price €86.12Original price €98.99Examines the 1990s growth of art film exhibition, consumption, and cinephilia within South Korean cinema This book is a narrative history of art f...
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Cowboy Hamlets and Zombie Romeos: Shakespeare in Genre Film
Kinga FöldváryCurrent price €23.06Original price €26.50The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres. Its approach is both scholarly ...
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