Film Theory & Criticism
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Noir Affect
Fordham University PressCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Noir Affect proposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect. This new understanding emphasizes that noir is, first and foremost,...
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Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism: The Rise of Hollywood''s Gods
M. WilliamsCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hol...
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Stieg Larsson''s Millennium Trilogy: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nordic Noir on Page and Screen
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Uniquely placed to explore the worldwide phenomenon of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy beginning with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the book ...
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Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99The term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, but what makes cult stars distinct from other fi...
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The CinemaScope Years: Films That Revolutionized Moviegoing, 1953-1967
Aubrey SolomonCurrent price €60.29Original price €66.99Virtually every current widescreen movie, tv broadcast or streamed image benefits from the techniques that have evolved since the widespread ado...
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Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings: Stings, Grifts, Hustles and the Long Con
A. SargeantCurrent price €61.19Original price €67.99Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings identifies recurrent themes and techniques of the con film, suggests precedents in literature and discusses the p...
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Alien Audiences: Remembering and Evaluating a Classic Movie
K. EganCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Released in 1979, Ridley Scott's Alien has come to be regarded as a classic film, and has been widely written about. But how have audiences engage...
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The Post-2000 Film Western: Contexts, Transnationality, Hybridity
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This collection explores the post-2000 film Western. With examples ranging from major American films, through acclaimed international productions, ...
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Discovering Short Films: The History and Style of Live-Action Fiction Shorts
C. FelandoCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99As film history's oldest and one of today's most prominent forms, the live-action short film has both historical and contemporary significance. Fel...
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Twenty British Films: A Guided Tour
Brian McFarlaneCurrent price €23.91Original price €25.99Anyone who has loved British films will want to read this book. In choosing twenty films, many of them classics of their kind think of Brief Encou...
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Screening Post-1989 China: Critical Analysis of Chinese Film and Television
W. HoCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This unique book investigates the tug-of-war between the free market economy and authoritative state regulation in Chinese culture after 1989. Cont...
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The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness
B. MurphyCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influe...
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The Works of Tim Burton: Margins to Mainstream
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €119.69Original price €132.99Tim Burton has had a massive impact on twentieth and twenty-first century culture through his films, art, and writings. This book examines how his ...
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Documentary Films in India: Critical Aesthetics at Work
Aparna SharmaCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book introduces the diverse practices of three non-canonical practitioners: David MacDougall, Desire Machine Collective and Kumar Shahani. It ...
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The Great War in Popular British Cinema of the 1920s: Before Journey''s End
L. NapperCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book discusses British cinema's representation of the Great War during the 1920s. It argues that popular cinematic representations of the war ...
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The Fascination of Film Violence
Henry BaconCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The Fascination of Film Violence is a study of why fictional violence is such an integral part of fiction film. How can something dreadful be a sou...
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A History of the Screenplay
S. PriceCurrent price €57.95Original price €62.99The screenplay is currently the focus of extensive critical re-evaluation, however, as yet there has been no comprehensive study of its historical ...
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A History of the Screenplay
S. PriceCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99The screenplay is currently the focus of extensive critical re-evaluation, however, as yet there has been no comprehensive study of its historical ...
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A History of 1970s Experimental Film: Britain''s Decade of Diversity
P. Gaal-HolmesCurrent price €79.19Original price €87.99This comprehensive historical account demonstrates the rich diversity in 1970s British experimental filmmaking, acting as a form of reclamation for...
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East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History
S. HeiduschkeCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, produced a films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, musicals, and childr...
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East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History
S. HeiduschkeCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, produced a films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, musicals, and childr...
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Gaming Film: How Games are Reshaping Contemporary Cinema
Jasmina KallayCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Gaming Film explores the growing influence of computer games on contemporary cinema. From the type of stories told to their complex structural patt...
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Embodiment and Horror Cinema
Larrie DudenhoefferCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Using the four tissue types (connective, epithelial, nervous, and muscular), Dudenhoeffer expands and complicates the subgenre of body horror. Chan...
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Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema...
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