Film Theory & Criticism
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Traveling Auteurs: The Geopolitics of Postwar Italian Cinema
Luca CaminatiCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50What tensions characterized the relationships between cinema, European Leftists, and emerging postcolonial ideologies after World War II? In Travel...
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Whitewashing the Movies: Asian Erasure and White Subjectivity in U.S. Film Culture
David C OhCurrent price €133.19Original price €147.99Whitewashing the Movies addresses the popular practice of excluding Asian actors from playing Asian characters in film. Media activists and critics...
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Kes
David ForrestCurrent price €17.02Original price €18.50Ken Loach's 1969 drama Kes, considered one of the finest examples of British social realism, tells the story of Billy, a working class boy who find...
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Revisiting Women''s Cinema: Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China
Lingzhen WangCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50In Revisiting Womens Cinema, Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and e...
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A New History of Documentary Film: Second Edition
Betsy A. McLaneCurrent price €28.51Original price €30.99A New History of Documentary Film, Second Edition offers a much-needed resource, considering the very rapid changes taking place within documentary...
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Through a Nuclear Lens: France, Japan, and Cinema from Hiroshima to Fukushima
Hannah HoltzmanCurrent price €77.39Original price €85.99Current price €77.39Original price €85.99Save 10% -
Antonio Pietrangeli, The Director of Women: Feminism and Film Theory in Postwar Italian Cinema
Emma Katherine Van NessCurrent price €86.47Original price €93.99One of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, Antonio Pietrangeli went on to focus his lens upon the female subject. Ei...
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Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition
Julie GrossmanCurrent price €38.24Original price €44.99Dominated by men and bound by the restrictive Hays Code, postwar Hollywood offered little support for a female director who sought to make unique f...
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''Grease Is the Word'': Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon
Anthem PressCurrent price €29.90Original price €32.50Bringing together a group of international scholars from diverse academic backgrounds, Grease Is the Word analyses the cultural phenomenon Grease. ...
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The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn: Genre, Gender, Glamour
David SweeneyCurrent price €104.87Original price €113.99Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This critical study engages with the films of the Danish dir...
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The Gothic Peckinpah
Tony WilliamsCurrent price €118.67Original price €128.99This book argues for the importance of Gothic in understanding one of the key elements within the films of Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984). Although occa...
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Roy Anderssons Songs from the Second Floor: Contemplating the Art of Existence
Ursula LindqvistCurrent price €23.91Original price €25.99Swedish filmmaker Roy Anderssons celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Sp...
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Ripping England!: Postwar British Satire from Ealing to the Goons
Roger RawlingsCurrent price €77.39Original price €85.99Current price €77.39Original price €85.99Save 10% -
The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema
Robert P. KolkerCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99Welles. Hitchcock. Kubrick. These names appear on nearly every list of the all-time greatest filmmakers. But what makes these directors so great? D...
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Movies and Midrash: Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation
Wendy I. ZierlerCurrent price €77.39Original price €85.99Current price €77.39Original price €85.99Save 10% -
L.A. Private Eyes
Dahlia SchweitzerCurrent price €70.19Original price €77.99L.A. Private Eyes examines the tradition of the private eye as it evolves in films, books, and television shows set in Los Angeles from the 1930s t...
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L.A. Private Eyes
Dahlia SchweitzerCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50L.A. Private Eyes examines the tradition of the private eye as it evolves in films, books, and television shows set in Los Angeles from the 1930s t...
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The Music of the How to Train Your Dragon Trilogy: A Guide to the Scores of John Powell
Erik HeineCurrent price €45.99Original price €49.99One of the many reasons the How to Train Your Dragon films are loved by children and adults alike is the music. John Powell composed the music for ...
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The Femme Fatale
Julie GrossmanCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Ostensibly the villain, but also a model of female power, poise, and intelligence, the femme fatale embodies Hollywoods contradictory attitudes tow...
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Sinophone Cinemas
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainlan...
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Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinema Contexts
Columbia University PressCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe. Contributors explore ...
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Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture
Haidee WassonCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of mov...
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Scratches and Glitches Observations on Preserving and Exhibiting Cinema in the Early 21st Century
Jurij MedenCurrent price €17.02Original price €18.50A quick succession of changes some entirely expected, some less so has drastically reshaped the domain of preserving and exhibiting film heritage...
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The Celluloid Madonna From Scripture to Screen
Catherine O'BrienCurrent price €77.27Original price €83.99Current price €77.27Original price €83.99Save 8%