wyszukanych pozycji: 58
Johnny Depp Starts Here
ISBN: 9780813535661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From beloved bad-boy to cool and captivating maverick, Johnny Depp has inspired media intrigue and has been the source of international acclaim since the early 1990s. He has attracted attention for his eccentric image, his accidental acting career, his beguiling good looks, and his quirky charm. In Johnny Depp Starts Here, film scholar Murray Pomerance explores our fascination with Depp, his riddling complexity, and his meaning for our culture. Moving beyond the actor's engaging and inscrutable private life, Pomerance focuses on his enigmatic screen performances from A Nightmare on Elm Street...
From beloved bad-boy to cool and captivating maverick, Johnny Depp has inspired media intrigue and has been the source of international acclaim since ...
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158,94 zł |
A Silence from Hitchcock
ISBN: 9781438491875 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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390,04 zł |
Shining in Shadows: Movie Stars of the 2000s
ISBN: 9780813551487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In the 2000s, new technologies transformed the experiences of movie-going and movie-making, giving us the first generation of stars to be just as famous on the computer screen as on the silver screen. Shining in Shadows examines a wide range of Hollywood icons from a turbulent decade for the film industry and for America itself. Perhaps reflecting our own cultural fragmentation and uncertainty, Hollywood's star personas sent mixed messages about Americans' identities and ideals. Disheveled men-children like Will Ferrell and Jack Black shared the multiplex with debonair... In the 2000s, new technologies transformed the experiences of movie-going and movie-making, giving us the first generation of stars to be just as f... |
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172,70 zł |
Color It True: Impressions of Cinema
ISBN: 9781501383083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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148,64 zł |
Color It True: Impressions of Cinema
ISBN: 9781501383113 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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512,72 zł |
The Last Laugh: Strange Humors of Cinema
ISBN: 9780814335130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For critics, fans, and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has traditionally been tied to comedy, indicating and expressing mirth, witty relief, joyous celebration, or arch and sarcastic parody. But strange, dark laughter that illuminates non-comedic, unfunny situations gets much less attention. In The Last Laugh: Strange Humors of Cinema, editor Murray Pomerance has assembled contributions from thirteen estimable scholars that address the strange laughter of cinema from varying intellectual perspectives and a wide range of sources. Contributors consider unusual humors in... For critics, fans, and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has traditionally been tied to comedy, indicating and expressing mirth, witty relief, ... |
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183,23 zł |
Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American Film
ISBN: 9780814767061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at best a riddle, not one of us. Lewis is someone we take profound pleasure in excluding, if not ridiculing. Enfant Terrible Jerry Lewis in American Film is the first comprehensive collection devoted to one of the most controversial and accomplished figures in twentieth-century American cinema. A veteran of virtually every form of show business, Lewis's performances... The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. Th... |
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134,87 zł |
Cinema and Modernity
ISBN: 9780813538167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The modern impulse gave us captivating technology and dark anxiety, rampant mobility and a world filled with strangers, the futuristic city and a fragmentation of experience. Motion pictures--the quintessence of modernism--entered into this cultural, technical, and philosophical richness with a vast public appeal and a jarring new vision of what life could be.In Cinema and Modernity, Murray Pomerance brings together new essays by seventeen leading scholars to explore the complexity of the essential connection between film and modernity. Among the many films considered are...
The modern impulse gave us captivating technology and dark anxiety, rampant mobility and a world filled with strangers, the futuristic city and a frag...
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179,46 zł |
Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic
ISBN: 9781501350672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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148,64 zł |
Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance
ISBN: 9780813564968 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments when, for a brief scene or even just a single shot, an actor's performance triggers a visceral response in the viewer? Moment of Action delves into the mysteries of screen performance, revealing both the acting techniques and the technical apparatuses that coalesce in an instant of cinematic alchemy to create movie gold. Considering a range of acting styles while examining films as varied as Bringing Up Baby, Psycho, The...
There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments ...
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669,23 zł |
Alfred Hitchcock's America
ISBN: 9780745653020 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema.
Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and a detailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock's films and production techniques to explore how America of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s is revealed and critically commented upon in Hitchcock's work. Alfred Hitchcock's America is full of stunning details that bring new light to Hitchcock's method and works. The American "spirit of place,"... With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical...
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323,82 zł |
A Voyage with Hitchcock
ISBN: 9781438485249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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145,56 zł |
The Film Cheat: Screen Artifice and Viewing Pleasure
ISBN: 9781501364990 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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563,99 zł |
Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen
ISBN: 9780791459409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Violence and corruption sell big, especially since the birth of action cinema, but even from cinema's earliest days, the public has been delighted to be stunned by screen representations of negativity in all its forms--evil, monstrosity, corruption, ugliness, villainy, and darkness. Bad examines the long line of thieves, rapists, varmints, codgers, dodgers, manipulators, exploiters, conmen, killers, vamps, liars, demons, cold-blooded megalomaniacs, and warmhearted flakes that populate cinematic narrative. From Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley, the contributors consider a wide range of...
Violence and corruption sell big, especially since the birth of action cinema, but even from cinema's earliest days, the public has been delighted to ...
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145,56 zł |
Cinema, If You Please: The Memory of Taste, the Taste of Memory
ISBN: 9781474428682 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 'Cinema, If You Please', Murray Pomerance explores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
In 'Cinema, If You Please', Murray Pomerance explores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to the...
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461,44 zł |
A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film
ISBN: 9780813550602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Think about some commercially successful film masterpieces--The Manchurian Candidate. Seven Days in May. Seconds. Then consider some lesser known, yet equally compelling cinematic achievements--The Fixer. The Gypsy Moths. Path to War. These triumphs are the work of the best known and most highly regarded Hollywood director to emerge from live TV drama in the 1950s--five-time Emmy-award-winner John Frankenheimer. Although Frankenheimer was a pioneer in the genre of political thrillers who embraced the antimodernist critique of contemporary society, some of his... Think about some commercially successful film masterpieces--The Manchurian Candidate. Seven Days in May. Seconds. Then consider some ... |
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194,83 zł |
Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience
ISBN: 9781501398742 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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512,72 zł |
A Voyage with Hitchcock
ISBN: 9781438485256 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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390,04 zł |
Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue: Eight Reflections on Cinema
ISBN: 9780520266865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema s greatest modernist filmmakers. The films in his black and white trilogy of the early 1960sL avventura, La Notte, Leclisseare justly celebrated for their influential, gorgeously austere style. But in this book, Murray Pomerance demonstrates why the color films that followed are, in fact, Antonioni s greatest works. Writing in an accessible style that evokes Antonioni s expansive use of space, Pomerance discusses The Red Desert, Blow-Up, Professione: Reporter (The Passenger), Zabriskie Point, Identification of a Woman, The...
Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema s greatest modernist filmmakers. The films in his black and white trilogy of the early 196...
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161,91 zł |
Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American Film
ISBN: 9780814767054 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at best a riddle, not one of us. Lewis is someone we take profound pleasure in excluding, if not ridiculing. Enfant Terrible Jerry Lewis in American Film is the first comprehensive collection devoted to one of the most controversial and accomplished figures in twentieth-century American cinema. A veteran of virtually every form of show business, Lewis's performances onscreen and the... The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. Th... |
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410,17 zł |