Film Theory & Criticism
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Abjection and Representation: An Exploration of Abjection in the Visual Arts, Film and Literature
R. AryaCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Abjection and Representation is a theoretical investigation of the concept of abjection as expounded by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror (1982) a...
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Cinema and the Imagination in Katherine Mansfield''s Writing
M. AscariCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Using silent cinema as a critical lens enables us to reassess Katherine Mansfield's entire literary career. Starting from the awareness that innova...
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Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict: The Yemenite Babies Affair
S. Madmoni-GerberCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99A study of the media coverage of the Yemenite Babies Affair - the story of the alleged kidnapping of hundreds of Yemenite babies from their familie...
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Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction
M. TanakaCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99Starting with the history of apocalyptic tradition in the West and focusing on modern Japanese apocalyptic science fiction in manga, anime, and nov...
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Bollywood Shakespeares
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Here, essays use the latest theories in postcolonialism, globalization, and post-nationalism to explore how world cinema and theater respond to Bol...
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Work in Cinema: Labor and the Human Condition
E. KerrCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99Cinema frequently depicts various types of work, but this representation is never straightforward. It depends on and reflects many factors, especia...
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Contemporary Asylum Narratives: Representing Refugees in the Twenty-First Century
A. WoolleyCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Contemporary Asylum Narratives marks a transition from traditional modes of diasporic belonging to the need for identifications that encompass the ...
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The Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility
E. PeerenCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99What does it mean to live as a ghost? Exploring spectrality as a metaphor in the contemporary British and American cultural imagination, Peeren pro...
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National Identity in Global Cinema: How Movies Explain the World
C. CelliCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99When themes of historical and cultural identity appear and repeat in popular film, it is possible to see the real pulse of a nation and comprehend ...
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Gendering Science Fiction Films: Invaders from the Suburbs
S. GeorgeCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99In the 1950s, science fiction invasion films played a complicated part in supporting and criticizing Cold War ideologies. By reading these invasion...
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Rosemary''s Baby
Michael NewtonCurrent price €17.02Original price €18.50Rosemarys Baby is one of the greatest movies of the late 1960s and one of the best of all horror movies, an outstanding modern Gothic tale. An art-...
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Philosophy and Blade Runner
Timothy ShanahanCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Philosophy and Blade Runner explores philosophical issues in the film Blade Runner , including human nature, personhood, identity, consciousness, f...
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Revolutionary Cycles in Chinese Cinema, 19511979
Z. WangCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99A comprehensive history of how the conflicts and balances of power in the Maoist revolutionary campaigns from 1951 to 1979 complicated and diversif...
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Columbo: A Rhetoric of Inquiry with Resistant Responders
Christyne BerzsenyiCurrent price €33.99Original price €39.99This book presents an analysis of Lieutenant Columbo's investigative method of rhetorical inquiry as seen in the television police procedural Colum...
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Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea
I. MacDonaldCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99A new, original investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve the screen idea. Using a range o...
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Siegfried Kracauer
Graeme GillochCurrent price €58.64Original price €68.99This major new book offers a much-needed introduction to the work of Siegfried Kracauer, one of the main intellectual figures in the orbit of the F...
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Style in British Television Drama
L. CookeCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This pioneering book provides detailed analysis of scenes from nine British television dramas produced between 1954 and 2001. Taking dinner table s...
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Intensive Media: Aversive Affect and Visual Culture
A. McCoskerCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of human suffering. Intensive Media e...
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Passionate Love and Popular Cinema: Romance and Film Genre
Erica ToddCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book analyses the romantic drama and the way that passionate love is presented as the central storyline in popular cinema, drawing upon genre ...
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Rethinking the Romance Genre: Global Intimacies in Contemporary Literary and Visual Culture
E. DavisCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Rethinking the Romance Genre examines why the romance genre has proven such an irresistible form for contemporary writers and filmmakers as they ap...
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Popular Cinema as Political Theory: Idealism and Realism in Epics, Noirs, and Satires
J. NelsonCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The book presents cinematic case studies in political realism versus political idealism, demonstrating methods of viewing popular cinema as politic...
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Beijing Film Academy 2018
Intellect BooksCurrent price €138.59Original price €153.99The annual Beijing Film Academy Yearbook showcases the best academic debates, discussions and research from the previous year, as previously publis...
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Hymns for the Fallen: Combat Movie Music and Sound after Vietnam
Todd DeckerCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99In Hymns for the Fallen, Todd Decker listens closely to forty years of Hollywood combat films produced after Vietnam. Ever a noisy genre, post-Viet...
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