Film Theory & Criticism
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Cinema, Democracy and Perfectionism: Joshua Foa Dienstag in Dialogue
Manchester University PressCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99In the lead essay for this volume, Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing skeptica...
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East, West and Centre: Reframing Post-1989 European Cinema
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Re-examines notions of East and West in contemporary European cinemaTwenty-five years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of ...
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Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema
Miklos KissCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. ...
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The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in...
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Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads: Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99What links Italian neorealism to Django Unchained, French comic books to Third-World insurgency, and Bollywood song-and-dance to Eastern Bloc film ...
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Indie Reframed: Women''s Filmmaking and Contemporary American Independent Cinema
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99With the consolidation of 'indie' culture in the 21st century, female filmmakers face an increasingly indifferent climate. Within this sector, wome...
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In Secrecy''s Shadow: The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema 1941-1979
Simon WillmettsCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99During the Second World War hundreds of Hollywood filmmakers under the command of the legendary director John Ford enlisted in the OSS to produce t...
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Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women''s Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain
Lisa SteadCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain offers a rich new exploration of interwar women's fictions ...
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Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99In the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a dream factory producing escapist movies to distract the American people from the greatest economi...
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Hong Kong Neo-Noir
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique a...
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Spanish Erotic Cinema
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99This book covers a significant part of the history of Spanish film, from the 1920s until the present day. Starting with a study of the kiss in sile...
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Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €31.27Original price €33.99Moving image culture seems to privilege the instantly identifiable: the recognisable face, the well-timed stunt, the perfectly synchronised line of...
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The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia: Between Pain and Pleasure
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99Bringing together a range of theoretical and critical approaches, this edited collection is the first book to examine representations of the body i...
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Screen Presence: Cinema Culture and the Art of Warhol, Rauschenberg, Hatoum and Gordon
Stephen MonteiroCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99Cinema plays a major role in contemporary art, yet the deeper influence of its diverse historical forms on artistic practice has received little at...
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Extreme Cinema: Affective Strategies in Transnational Media
Aaron KernerCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention i...
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Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom
Lin FengCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99As 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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Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums
Igor KrstiCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a 'planet of slums.' But how has this hard ...
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Transnational Film Remakes
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Offering a variety of case studies in which films have been remade across national borders, Transnational Film Remakes provides an analysis of cine...
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Border Crossing: Russian Literature into Film
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99Each time a border is crossed there are cultural, political, and social issues to be considered. Applying the metaphor of the 'border crossing' fro...
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French-Language Road Cinema: Borders, Diasporas, Migration and ''New Europe''
Michael GottCurrent price €27.59Original price €29.99Over the past two decades road cinema has become an increasingly popular form of expression for European directors. Focusing on a corpus of films f...
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Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks: Gender, Genre and Film Sound in American Cinema
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €27.59Original price €29.99The representation of gender in film remains an intensely debated topic, particularly in academic considerations of US mainstream cinema where it i...
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French and Spanish Queer Film: Audiences, Communities and Cultural Exchange
Chris PerriamCurrent price €27.59Original price €29.99Headline: Examines how LGBT filmmaking in France and Spain moves across borders and finds new audiencesBlurb: The book advances the current state o...
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Troubled Everyday: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema
Alison TaylorCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99Extreme violence in contemporary European art cinema is generally interpreted for its affective potential, but what about the significance of the e...
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The Major Realist Film Theorists: A Critical Anthology
Ian AitkenCurrent price €27.59Original price €29.99From the 1910s to the emergence of structuralism and post-structuralism in the 1960s, the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, Andr Bazin...
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