Films, Cinema
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Guillermo Calles: A Biography of the Actor and Mexican Cinema Pioneer
Rogelio AgrasánchezCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50In 1912, Guillermo Calles (1893-1958) became the first Mexican actor to appear in films made in California. Despite limited resources, he began ...
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Fundamentals of Film Directing
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The Wind Is Never Gone: Sequels, Parodies and Rewritings of Gone with the Wind
M. Carmen Gomez-GalisteoCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99More than seventy years after its publication in 1936, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind has never been out of print. An icon of American c...
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Allied Artists Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films
Michael R. PittsCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Between 1952 and 1977, Allied Artists Pictures Corporation released over 80 feature films with horror, science fiction and fantasy themes, sever...
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Jennifer Jones: The Life and Films
Paul GreenCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The distinguished film career of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Jones (1919-2009) is thoroughly chronicled from her faltering start as Phyl...
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Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What''s at Stake in a Post-Vampire World
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Machinima: The Art and Practice of Virtual Filmmaking
Donald PettitCurrent price €25.30Original price €27.50Unlike traditional animation techniques that use specialized 3D animation software, machinima--a term derived from the words machine and cinema-...
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The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia
Peter DendleCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99Zombies are cautionary forms of humankind's most universally cherished ideal--life after death. Ragged, ill-spoken, rotting zombies (or the post...
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The Changing Spanish Family: Essays on New Views in Literature, Cinema and Theater
Tiffany TrotmanCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Despite centuries of Catholic conservatism, Spain stands among the Western countries that have recently embraced non-traditional families. A declin...
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Pamela Tiffin: Hollywood to Rome, 1961-1974
Tom LisantiCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Dark-haired siren Pamela Tiffin debuted in Summer and Smoke (1961) and was a scene-stealing comedienne in Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961) bef...
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Anatole Litvak: The Life and Films
Michelangelo CapuaCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50During his 40-year career, director-producer Anatole Litvak (1902-1974) made films of all genres in Russia, Germany, England, France and the Uni...
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Beyond Adaptation: Essays on Radical Transformations of Original Works
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Some film and novel revisions go so far beyond adaptation that they demand a new designation. This critical collection explores movies, plays, e...
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Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010
Caroline Joan (Kay) PicartCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the world's most famous vampire, with more than 700 citations of domestic and international Dracula films,...
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Sherlock Holmes for the 21st Century: Essays on New Adaptations
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50The 21st century is a good time to be Sherlock Holmes. He stars in the recent Guy Ritchie films, with Robert Downey, Jr., playing the great detecti...
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The Cinema of Preston Sturges
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €25.30Original price €27.50Most published works on writer-director Preston Sturges (1898-1959) have focused on the elements that made him a symbol of classic Hollywood comedy...
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Screening the Mafia: Masculinity, Ethnicity and Mobsters from The Godfather to The Sopranos
George S. Larke-WalshCurrent price €25.30Original price €27.50The post-classic era of American gangster films began in 1967 with the release of Bonnie and Clyde, achieving a milestone five years later with ...
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Unraveling Resident Evil: Essays on the Complex Universe of the Games and Films
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Resident Evil is a multidimensional as well as multimedia universe: Various books, graphic novels, games and movies (the fifth one came out in 2...
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Cinema Arthuriana: Twenty Essays, rev. ed.
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50The legends of King Arthur have not only endured for centuries, but also flourished in constant retellings and new stories built around the cent...
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Sounds of the Future
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €25.30Original price €27.50Covering titles ranging from Rocketship X-M (1950) to Wall-E (2008), these insightful essays measure the relationship between music and science fic...
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Fall Girl
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, acclaimed horse trainer and show rider Martha Crawford Cantarini was among the busiest of Hollywood's elite corps o...
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The Flamingos: A Complete History of the Doo-Wop Legends
Todd R. BaptistaCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Formed by five young black men from Chicago, the Flamingos rose to prominence as one of the top vocal acts of the 1950s rock and roll explosion....
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The British Aristocracy in Popular Culture: Essays on 200 Years of Representations
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99As traditional social hierarchies fall away, ever steeper levels of economic inequality and the entrenchment of new class distinctions lend a ne...
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Excavating Indiana Jones: Essays on the Films and Franchise
Megan HessCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50With his signature bullwhip and fedora, the rousing sounds of his orchestral anthem, and his eventful explorations into the arcana of world reli...
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The Making of Outlander: The Series: The Official Guide to Seasons Three and Four
Tara BennettCurrent price €48.75Original price €52.99Current price €48.75Original price €52.99Save 8%