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The Modern British Horror Film
ISBN: 9780813590059 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tracking the revitalization of the British horror film industry over the past two decades, media expert Steven Gerrard investigates why audiences have flocked to these movies. Offering in-depth analysis of numerous films, this book takes readers on a lively tour of the genre's highlights, while provocatively exploring how these films reflect viewers' gravest fears about the state of the nation.
Tracking the revitalization of the British horror film industry over the past two decades, media expert Steven Gerrard investigates why audiences have...
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282,91 |
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Rock 'n' Roll Movies
ISBN: 9780813590073 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents an eclectic look at the many manifestations of rock in motion pictures, from teen-oriented B-movies to Hollywood blockbusters to avant-garde meditations to reverent biopics to animated shorts to performance documentaries. Acclaimed film critic David Sterritt considers the diverse ways that filmmakers have regarded rock 'n' roll.
Presents an eclectic look at the many manifestations of rock in motion pictures, from teen-oriented B-movies to Hollywood blockbusters to avant-garde ...
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282,91 |
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When Warners Brought Broadway to Hollywood, 1923-1939
ISBN: 9781137406576 / Angielski / Twarda / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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483,04 |
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Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy
ISBN: 9781629331324 / Angielski / Miękka / 644 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Funny girls, those comediennes from the silent movies, knew shtick from slapstick. Mabel Normand, Marie Dressler, Bebe Daniels, Dorothy Gish, Constance Talmadge, Marion Davies, and Colleen Moore brought riotous laughter to millions around the world, yet their hilarity may seem hidden to those only familiar with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, and Harold Lloyd. Discover the women of wit, from the supporting players to the stars. Author Steve Massa covers their contributions to comedy with in-depth analyses of the most hilarious heroines of humor, followed by 459 biographies...
Funny girls, those comediennes from the silent movies, knew shtick from slapstick. Mabel Normand, Marie Dressler, Bebe Daniels, Dorothy Gish, Constanc...
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119,41 |
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The Story of Looking
ISBN: 9781782119111 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or express it. And from the blurry, edgeless world we inhabit as infants to the landscape of screens we grow into, looking can define us. In The Story of Looking, filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images - through how our looking selves develop over the course of a lifetime, and the ways that looking has changed through the centuries. From great works of art to tourist photographs, from cityscapes to cinema, through science and protest, propaganda and refusals to...
Looking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or express it. And from the blurry, edgeless world we inhabit as infants to the ...
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125,80 |
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The Importance of James Bond
ISBN: 9781940933078 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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148,59 |
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The Importance of James Bond
ISBN: 9781940933085 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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84,90 |
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Animating the Science Fiction Imagination
ISBN: 9780190695262 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From twentieth-century animations and comic strips to advertising, Animating the Science Fiction Film unearths a significant body of cartoon science fiction from the pre-World War II era that appeared at approximately the same time the genre was itself struggling to find an identity, an audience, and even a name.
From twentieth-century animations and comic strips to advertising, Animating the Science Fiction Film unearths a significant body of cartoon science f...
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537,73 |
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Animating the Science Fiction Imagination
ISBN: 9780190695279 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From twentieth-century animations and comic strips to advertising, Animating the Science Fiction Imagination unearths a significant body of cartoon science fiction from the pre-World War II era that appeared at approximately the same time the genre was itself struggling to find an identity, an audience, and even a name.
From twentieth-century animations and comic strips to advertising, Animating the Science Fiction Imagination unearths a significant body of cartoon sc...
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163,37 |
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Shakespeare on Screen: Othello
ISBN: 9781107525238 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An up-to-date survey of the key themes and debates surrounding screen adaptations and productions of Shakespeare's Othello.
An up-to-date survey of the key themes and debates surrounding screen adaptations and productions of Shakespeare's Othello.
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154,17 |
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Terror in the Desert: Dark Cinema of the American Southwest
ISBN: 9781476672410 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set in the American Southwest, "desert terror" films combine elements from horror, film noir and road movies to tell stories of isolation and violence. For more than half a century, these diverse and troubling films have eluded critical classification and analysis. Highlighting pioneering filmmakers and bizarre production stories, the author traces the genre's origins and development, from cult exploitation (The Hills Have Eyes, The Hitcher) to crowd-pleasing franchises (Tremors, From Dusk Till Dawn) to quirky auteurist fare (Natural Born Killers, Lost Highway) to more...
Set in the American Southwest, "desert terror" films combine elements from horror, film noir and road movies to tell stories of isolation and violence...
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165,24 |
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Espionage in British Fiction and Film Since 1900: The Changing Enemy
ISBN: 9781498504836 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the role of the spy novel and film in twentieth and twenty-first century British culture, discussing their origins, literary and political significance, and central authors of the genre. It examines the intimate connections between the fictional treatment of espionage and the historical developments of intelligence operations.
This book explores the role of the spy novel and film in twentieth and twenty-first century British culture, discussing their origins, literary and po...
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229,26 |
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Showing and Telling: Film Heritage Institutes and Their Performance of Public Accountability
ISBN: 9781622732401 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Showing and Telling is the first academic work to explore how publicly funded film heritage institutes account for their mandate in their public activities. It does that by inspecting and evaluating public presentations and visitor information about these presentations. The research was done by juxtaposing two complementary approaches. The first is grounded in the author's experience as a collection researcher and curator and makes a case for the richness of archival objects usually ignored for their lack of aesthetic qualities. The second is a survey of the public activities of 24... Showing and Telling is the first academic work to explore how publicly funded film heritage institutes account for their mandate in their public ac... |
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208,03 |
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Silent Films in St. Augustine
ISBN: 9780813054537 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This richly detailed book tells the story of early filmmakers' adventures in St. Augustine and captures the excitement of their moviemaking escapades."--Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, coauthor of One Thousand Nights at the Movies: An Illustrated History of Motion Pictures 1895-1915 "Very few people have any idea that St. Augustine played any role in early film history. This book brings St. Augustine into a much larger film conversation."--Christina Lane, author of Magnolia "Through rich and entertaining stories of how St. Augustine lured studios and enriched filmmaking with Henry Flagler's railroad...
"This richly detailed book tells the story of early filmmakers' adventures in St. Augustine and captures the excitement of their moviemaking escapades...
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94,57 |
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Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis
ISBN: 9781783743285 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its attendant zeitgeists of anxiety, alienation, disconnection and disenfranchisement. They... Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscev... |
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105,92 |
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Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis
ISBN: 9781783743292 / Angielski / Twarda / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its attendant zeitgeists of anxiety, alienation, disconnection and disenfranchisement. They... Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscev... |
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186,59 |
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Domestic Imaginaries: Navigating the Home in Global Literary and Visual Cultures
ISBN: 9783319664897 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the issue of representing the home in literary and visual cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection brings together scholars working on literature, film, and photography with the aim of showcasing new research in a burgeoning field focusing on representations of domesticity. The chapters span a diverse range of contexts from across the world and use a variety of approaches to exploring representations of home including studies of space, material culture, sexuality, gender, multiculturalism, diaspora, memory and archival practice. They include explorations of...
This book examines the issue of representing the home in literary and visual cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection brings together s...
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563,56 |
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Film Stardom and the Ancient Past: Idols, Artefacts and Epics
ISBN: 9781137390011 / Angielski / Twarda / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of how the ancient past has shaped screen stardom in Hollywood since the silent era. It engages with debates on historical reception, gender and sexuality, nostalgia, authenticity and the uses of the past. Michael Williams gives fresh insights into 'divinized stardom', a highly influential and yet understudied phenomenon that predates Hollywood and continues into the digital age.
Case studies include Greta Garbo and Mata Hari (1931); Buster Crabbe and the 1930s Olympian body; the marketing of Rita Hayworth as Venus in the 1940s;... This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of how the ancient past has shaped screen stardom in Hollywood since the silent era. It engages w...
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442,79 |
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Apocalyptic Visions in 21st Century Films
ISBN: 9781476672731 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The apocalypse on the big screen has expanded beyond familiar end-of-the-world movies. Romantic comedies, teen adventures, even children's films often feature apocalyptic imagery--disintegrating cities, extreme weather events, extinctions, rogue military forces, epidemics, zombie armies and colliding worlds. Using sophisticated CGI effects, filmmakers are depicting the end of the world with ever more stunning realism. In this collection of new essays, contributors explore the phenomenon of the cinematic apocalypse and its origins in both our anxieties and real-world events, and identify some...
The apocalypse on the big screen has expanded beyond familiar end-of-the-world movies. Romantic comedies, teen adventures, even children's films often...
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271,37 |
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The Andy Clyde Columbia Comedies
ISBN: 9781476668604 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a film-by-film look at the short subjects Andy Clyde starred in for Columbia Pictures from 1934-1956. There are also introductory chapters on Clyde's early life, stage work, silent films, and early talkies. A concluding chapter discusses his appearances in feature films, including several Hopalong Cassidy westerns, and his work in television on such shows as Lassie and The Real McCoys.
Presents a film-by-film look at the short subjects Andy Clyde starred in for Columbia Pictures from 1934-1956. There are also introductory chapters on...
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165,24 |
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