Hong Kong Horror Cinema
ISBN: 9781474424592 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping cadavers. Big-head babies. For decades, Hong Kong cinema has served up images of horror quite unlike those found in other parts of the world. In seminal films such as A Chinese Ghost Story, Rouge, The Eye, Dumplings, and Rigor Mortis, the region's filmmakers have pushed the boundaries of genre, cinematic style, and bad taste. But what makes Hong Kong horror cinema so utterly unique? Why does it hold such fascination for "serious" cinephiles and cult fans alike? Hong Kong Horror Cinema is the...
Dumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping cadavers. Big-head babies. For decades, Hong Kong cinema has served up ima...
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The Birth of the American Horror Film
ISBN: 9781474430852 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although early cinema has long been a key area of research in film studies, the origin and development of the horror film has been a neglected subject for what is arguably one of the world's most popular film genres. Using thousands of primary sources and long-unseen illustrations, The Birth of the American Horror Film examines a history that begins in colonial Salem, taking an interdisciplinary approach to explore the influence of horror-themed literature, theatre and visual culture in America, and how that context established an amorphous structural foundation for films...
Although early cinema has long been a key area of research in film studies, the origin and development of the horror film has been a neglected subject...
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515,71 zł |
The Birth of the American Horror Film
ISBN: 9781474430869 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although early cinema has long been a key area of research in film studies, the origin and development of the horror film has been a neglected subject for what is arguably one of the world's most popular film genres. Using thousands of primary sources and long-unseen illustrations, The Birth of the American Horror Film examines a history that begins in colonial Salem, taking an interdisciplinary approach to explore the influence of horror-themed literature, theatre and visual culture in America, and how that context established an amorphous structural foundation for films...
Although early cinema has long been a key area of research in film studies, the origin and development of the horror film has been a neglected subject...
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139,19 zł |
Joss Whedon Versus the Corporation: Big Business Critiqued in the Films and Television Programs
ISBN: 9781476667768 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Screenwriter, director, producer and comic book author Joss Whedon is best known for his television series and films featuring villainous vampires, angry gods and even bloggers who wish to rule the world. Within these works is a prevalent yet commonly overlooked theme--the corporate antagonist. This book examines the effects of this corporate culture on the protagonists of Whedon's most famous works--including Buffy, Roseanne, the Avengers, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Dollhouse--to reveal explicit sociopolitical commentaries on corporate control in the real...
Screenwriter, director, producer and comic book author Joss Whedon is best known for his television series and films featuring villainous vampires, an...
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191,22 zł |
Films of Jess Franco
ISBN: 9780814343166 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Films of Jess Francolooks at the work of Jes's "Jess" Franco (1930-2013), one of the most prolific and madly inventive filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is best known as the director of jazzy, erotically charged horror movies featuring mad scientists, lesbian vampires, and women in prison, but he also dabbled in a multitude of genres from comedy to science fiction to pornography. Although he built his career in the ghetto of low-budget exploitation cinema, he managed to create a body of work that is deeply personal, frequently political, and surprisingly poetic. Editors... The Films of Jess Francolooks at the work of Jes's "Jess" Franco (1930-2013), one of the most prolific and madly inventive filmmakers in the... |
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191,46 zł |
Beyond Eastern Noir: Reimagining Russia and Eastern Europe in Nordic Cinemas
ISBN: 9781474418102 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressing representations of Russia and neighbouring Eastern Europe in post-1989 Nordic cinemas, this ground-breaking book investigates their hitherto overlooked transnational dimension. Departing from the dark and lawless stereotypes that have characterised much of 'Eastern noir', the book presents Russia and Eastern Europe as imagined spaces of rich and previously neglected cinematic diversity. Cross-disciplinary in its approach, with in-depth case studies of films, documentaries and television dramas like Lilya 4-ever, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence and...
Addressing representations of Russia and neighbouring Eastern Europe in post-1989 Nordic cinemas, this ground-breaking book investigates their hithert...
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464,14 zł |
Hearing Haneke: The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur
ISBN: 9780190495916 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hearing Haneke: The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur is the first book devoted to the sound tracks of Michael Haneke. Despite his notorious preoccupation with violence, this book shows how Haneke uses sound to reawaken our capacity for hearing the world with greater compassionate understanding.
Hearing Haneke: The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur is the first book devoted to the sound tracks of Michael Haneke. Despite his notorious preoccupat...
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138,16 zł |
Through the Looking Glass: John Cage and Avant-Garde Film
ISBN: 9780190628086 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the Looking Glass examines John Cage's interactions and collaborations with avant-garde filmmakers, and in turn seeks out the implications of the audiovisual experience on Cage's career. The examples chosen highlight moments of rupture within Cage's notions of the audiovisual experience and the medium-specific ontology of a work of art.
Through the Looking Glass examines John Cage's interactions and collaborations with avant-garde filmmakers, and in turn seeks out the implications of ...
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179,69 zł |
Through The Looking Glass
ISBN: 9780190628079 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the Looking Glass examines John Cage's interactions and collaborations with avant-garde filmmakers, and in turn seeks out the implications of the audiovisual experience on Cage's career. The examples chosen highlight moments of rupture within Cage's notions of the audiovisual experience and the medium-specific ontology of a work of art.
Through the Looking Glass examines John Cage's interactions and collaborations with avant-garde filmmakers, and in turn seeks out the implications of ...
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485,09 zł |
Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s
ISBN: 9781474431927 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.
This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.
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147,95 zł |
Contemporary Spanish Gothic
ISBN: 9781474431934 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary Spanish Gothic' is the first book to study how the Gothic mode intersects with cultural production in Spain today, considering some of the ways in which such production feeds off and simultaneously feeds into Gothic production more widely.
Contemporary Spanish Gothic' is the first book to study how the Gothic mode intersects with cultural production in Spain today, considering some of th...
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123,72 zł |
Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema
ISBN: 9781474431972 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By blending film studies and cognitive sciences, Miklos Kiss and Steven Willemsen's study on 'Impossible Puzzle Films 'looks into the relation between complex storytelling and the mind.
By blending film studies and cognitive sciences, Miklos Kiss and Steven Willemsen's study on 'Impossible Puzzle Films 'looks into the relation between...
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122,43 zł |
Who's in the Money?: The Great Depression Musicals and Hollywood's New Deal
ISBN: 9781474429412 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using newly unearthed primary sources, this ground-breaking book examines the bitter and little known struggle in Hollywood and Washington D.C. during 1933 to create a National Recovery Administration (NRA) code of practice for the motion picture industry.
Using newly unearthed primary sources, this ground-breaking book examines the bitter and little known struggle in Hollywood and Washington D.C. during...
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123,72 zł |
Derek Jarman's Medieval Modern
ISBN: 9781843844938 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First exploration of Jarman's engagement with the medieval, revealing its importance to his work.
First exploration of Jarman's engagement with the medieval, revealing its importance to his work.
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180,50 zł |
Raindance Writers' Lab: Write + Sell the Hot Screenplay
ISBN: 9781138466340 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Irish Queer Cinema
ISBN: 9781474411486 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the different ways gender and sexuality intersect with nationhood and national forms of belonging, and explores the role of queerness within the constitution of an Irish national culture.
This book investigates the different ways gender and sexuality intersect with nationhood and national forms of belonging, and explores the role of que...
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464,14 zł |
John Huston as Adaptor
ISBN: 9781438463728 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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146,40 zł |
The Style of Sleaze: The American Exploitation Film, 1959-1977
ISBN: 9781474409254 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Style of Sleaze' reasons that the aesthetic and thematic approach of the key texts within three distinct exploitation demarcations blaxploitation, horror and sexploitation indicate a concurrent evolution of filmmaking that could be seen as an identifiable cinematic movement.
The Style of Sleaze' reasons that the aesthetic and thematic approach of the key texts within three distinct exploitation demarcations blaxploitatio...
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464,14 zł |
Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers
ISBN: 9781474425261 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the significance of women's work in popular genres
Examines the significance of women's work in popular genres
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489,92 zł |
Cinema Between Media: An Intermediality Approach
ISBN: 9781474429016 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers new tools from intermediality studies for analysing contemporary cinema.
Offers new tools from intermediality studies for analysing contemporary cinema.
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489,92 zł |