Film Theory & Criticism
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Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy
Mathew AbbottCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99A deflationary, anti-theoretical film-philosophy through the cinema of Abbas KiarostamiMathew Abbott presents a powerful new film-philosophy throug...
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Terror in the Desert: Dark Cinema of the American Southwest
Brad SykesCurrent price €25.30Original price €27.50Set in the American Southwest, desert terror films combine elements from horror, film noir and road movies to tell stories of isolation and viol...
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Film Censorship in America: A State-by-State History
Jeremy GeltzerCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Since the first films played in nickelodeons, controversial movies have been cut or banned across the United States. Far from Hollywood, regiona...
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Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
David BordwellCurrent price €29.57Original price €33.99In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, a...
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On Location In Blairstown: The Making of Friday the 13th
David GroveCurrent price €26.96Original price €30.99Current price €26.96Original price €30.99Save 13% -
The Working Class in American Film: The Creation of Image and Culture by Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s
Robert A MarcinkCurrent price €93.95Original price €107.99Current price €93.95Original price €107.99Save 13% -
Meaning and Interpretation of Music in Cinema
David P. NeumeyerCurrent price €28.51Original price €30.99By exploring the relationship between music and the moving image in film narrative, David Neumeyer shows that film music is not conceptually separa...
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Agnes Varda
Kelley ConwayCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99Both a precursor to and a critical member of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda weaves documentary and fiction into tapestries that portray distincti...
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Picturing Argentina: Myths, Movies, and the Peronist Vision
Currie K ThompsonCurrent price €74.81Original price €85.99Current price €74.81Original price €85.99Save 13% -
All the Emperor''s Men: Kurosawa''s Pearl Harbor
Hiroshi TasogawaCurrent price €21.15Original price €22.99Current price €21.15Original price €22.99Save 8% -
Identity Politics in George Lucas'' Star Wars
John C. McDowellCurrent price €25.30Original price €27.50George Lucas spoke about the didactic role of cinema and about his own work being presented through the moral megaphone of the film industry. A ...
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The Silent Appalachian: Wordless Mountaineers in Fiction, Film and Television
Vicki CollinsCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Appalachian literature is filled with silent or non-discursive characters. The reasons for their wordlessness vary. Some are mute or pretend to ...
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The Cinema of Joanna Hogg: Female Expression and the New British Art Cinema
Davina QuinlivanCurrent price €73.07Original price €83.99Current price €73.07Original price €83.99Save 13% -
Squid Cinema from Hell: The Emergence of Chthulumedia
David H. FlemingCurrent price €99.17Original price €113.99Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vil m Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a ...
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Squid Cinema from Hell: The Emergence of Chthulumedia
David H. FlemingCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vilm Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a c...
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Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema: Text, Paratext and Home Video Culture
Simon HobbsCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Using paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema: Text, Pa...
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Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €94.82Original price €108.99Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and...
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Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie: Gender, Genre and Identity
Frances SmithCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie is the first academic monograph to consider the aesthetic and narrative potential of this highly popular, yet o...
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Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers
Katarzyna PaszkiewiczCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers sheds light on women's contr...
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Massacred by Mother Nature Exploring the Natural Horror Film
Lee GambinCurrent price €21.32Original price €24.50Current price €21.32Original price €24.50Save 13% -
Midnight Marquee 50th Anniversary Issue 1963-2013, #79
Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Current price €26.09Original price €29.99Current price €26.09Original price €29.99Save 13% -
Alfred Hitchcock. The Complete Films
Taschen GmbHCurrent price €36.79Original price €39.99The name Alfred Hitchcock is synonymous with suspensethat is to say, masterful, spine-tingling, thrilling, shocking, excruciating, eye-boggling sus...
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Speaking in Subtitles: Revaluing Screen Translation
Tessa DwyerCurrent price €27.59Original price €29.99Over 6000 different languages are used in the world today, but the conventions of 'media speak' are far from universal and the complexities of tran...
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American Scary Conversations with the Kings, Queens and Jesters of Late-Night Horror TV
Michael MonahanCurrent price €24.80Original price €28.50Current price €24.80Original price €28.50Save 13% -
Six-Gun Law: he Westerns of Randolph Scott, Audie Murphy, Joel McCrea and George Montgomery
Barry AtkinsonCurrent price €23.48Original price €26.99Current price €23.48Original price €26.99Save 13% -
Shadowplay Philosophy and Psychology of the Modern Horror Film
Willy GreerCurrent price €21.32Original price €24.50Current price €21.32Original price €24.50Save 13% -
The Year''s Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons
Indiana University PressCurrent price €17.18Original price €19.75What happens when math nerds, band and theater geeks, goths, sci-fi fanatics, Young Republican debate poindexters, techies, Trekkies, D&D playe...
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Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers: Practising Independence
Shweta KishoreCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99Independent documentary is enjoying a resurgence in post-reform India. But in contemporary cinema and media cultures, where 'independent' operates ...
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Female Agency and Documentary Strategies: Subjectivities, Identity and Activism
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99Examines the politics of female authorship in relation to contemporary documentary practicesThis book, like its twin volume 'Female Authorship and ...
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Contemporary Musical Film
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €27.59Original price €29.99Since the turn of the millennium, films such asChicago (2002) and Phantom of the Opera (2004) have reinvigorated the popularity of the screen music...
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Improving Passions: Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film
Charles BurnettsCurrent price €27.59Original price €29.99When did the sentimental start to mean 'awful'? Why are so many popular mainstream films dismissed for their sentimentality, and are there any mean...
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Cinema Between Media: An Intermediality Approach
Anne GjelsvikCurrent price €23.93Original price €27.50Cinema has often been seen as a form between media. Early cinema borrowed heavily from traditional performing arts, like theatre and tableau vivant...
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Chow Yun-Fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom
Lin FengCurrent price €27.59Original price €29.99As one of the most popular and versatile Hong Kong film stars, Chow Yun-fat has enjoyed international success over the last four decades. Using Cho...
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Midnight Marquee''s Classic Horror Movie Scrapbook, 1930s, Vol.1
Midnight Marquee Press Inc.Current price €27.83Original price €31.99Current price €27.83Original price €31.99Save 13% -
Contemporary Political Cinema
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99The political films that have emerged on the global film festival circuit since the 1990s mark a shift in cinematic strategies for critically addre...
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Living with Zombies: Society in Apocalypse in Film, Literature and Other Media
Alexander H. CohenCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Depictions of the zombie apocalypse continue to reshape our concept of the walking dead (and of ourselves). The undead mirror cultural fears--go...
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Cinema of the Dark Side: Atrocity and the Ethics of Film Spectatorship
Shohini ChaudhuriCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99A ground-breaking comparative treatment of cinematic images of atrocity, combining critical perspectives on contemporary film and human rights. A f...
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Cinema of the Dark Side: Atrocity and the Ethics of Film Spectatorship
Shohini ChaudhuriCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99This is a ground-breaking comparative treatment of cinematic images of atrocity, combining critical perspectives on contemporary film and human rig...
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Blade Runner and the Cinema of Philip K. Dick
Jeremy Mark RobinsonCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99Current price €17.39Original price €19.99Save 13% -
Avant-garde to New Wave: Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties
Jonathan L. OwenCurrent price €100.66Original price €122.76The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of t...
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Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
NA NACurrent price €76.26Original price €93.00First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informed, Pet...
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Borderland Films: American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada during the Progressive Era
Dominique Bregent-HealdCurrent price €49.00Original price €59.75The concept of North American borderlands in the cultural imagination fluctuated greatly during the Progressive Era as it was affected by similarly...
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Television Today: A Primer of Critical Thinking, Censorship, Social Justice, and Fake News in American Popular Culture
Jack FritscherCurrent price €9.95Original price €11.99Current price €9.95Original price €11.99Save 17% -
Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema: Volume II
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €40.59Original price €49.50Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volume II continues the work presented in the first volume of this title, published by Cambridge...
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Moscow Believes in Tears: Russians and Their Movies
Louis MenasheCurrent price €29.57Original price €33.99Current price €29.57Original price €33.99Save 13% -
The Making and Influence of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Scott Allen NollenCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Robert E. Burns, a World War I veteran coerced into taking part in a petty crime in Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to hard labor on a chain gan...
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