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Signifying Female Adolescence by Georganne Scheiner
SciFier: $147.40Motion pictures have been one of the forces that have both shaped and reproduced adolescent femininity. Films not only reflect culture-they help to create it. So it is worth looking at films to see... -
Post-Pop Cinema by Jesse Fox Mayshark
SciFier: $88.81Starting in the early 1990s, artists such as Quentin Tarantino, David Foster Wallace, and Kurt Cobain contributed to a swelling cultural tide of pop postmodernism that swept through music, film,... -
Movies and the Modern Psyche by Sharon Packer MD
SciFier: $98.26By looking at the interactions between cinema and psychology, Packer offers readers clear and basic insights into some of the most fundamental reasons why film is such an important influence upon our... -
The Hidden Art of Hollywood by John Fawell
SciFier: $98.26Although we tend to accord our highest praise to films with strong messages, Hollywood is resolutely unserious in its goals, and closer perhaps to music than to literature in this regard. Thus, in... -
The Casting Couch and Other Front Row Seats by Marsha Mccreadie
SciFier: $147.40This collection of film reviews and essays focuses on the role of women in films during the 1970s and 1980s. The author, a widely published film critic, examines the shifting portrayals of women from... -
Intellectual Properties and the Protection of Fictional Characters by Dorothy J. Howell
SciFier: $147.40In this pioneering volume, Howell addresses the extent to which fictional characters are legally recognized and protected as intellectual property. Through a judicious selection of cases chosen for... -
The History of Sex in American Film by Jody Pennington
SciFier: $98.26Although American films, especially Hollywood fare, are often belittled for their one-dimensional portrayal of sex, a close examination of the history of sex in American motion pictures reveals that... -
Financing Your Film by Trisha Curran
SciFier: $68.02This practical guide addresses the needs of aspiring, beginning and veteran independent producers, as well as film students. The author covers such topics as sources of money, ways to structure... -
Hollywood Auteur by Jeffrey Chown
SciFier: $148.35In this extensive, critical survey of Francis Coppola's films, Chown attempts an auteur theory analysis tempered with an interesting overview of the turbulent economic and corporate controversies... -
Korean Film by Eungjun Min
SciFier: $147.40Despite its rise in the global market, recent political progress, and a surging interest worldwide, Korean films are relatively unknown and rarely studied. This new work begins by investigating the... -
The Community of Cinema by James Forsher
SciFier: $117.16The movie theater has in many ways served as a barometer of the evolution of urban America over the past century. The Community of Cinema explores how the growth and decline of the inner city has... -
The Man and His Wings by William Wellman Jr.
SciFier: $69.91William Wild Bill Wellman was not Paramount Pictures' first choice to direct the World War I epic Wings (1927), but as a former aviator and war hero, he was the right choice. Despite months waging... -
Film Directors on Directing by John A. Gallagher
SciFier: $56.68Independent director and screenwriter John Andrew Gallagher, interviews 21 filmmakers on the craft of motion picture directing. Francois Truffaut, the late great French director, as well as Michael... -
The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos Andrew Horton 9780275961190
SciFier: $71.80Theo Angelopoulos is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive contemporary filmmakers and a highly idiosyncratic film stylist. His work, from the early 1970s to The Beekeeper, Landscape in the... -
The Films of Kenneth Branagh by Samuel Crowl
SciFier: $147.40Between the release of Henry V in 1989 and Love's Labour's Lost in 2000, Kenneth Branagh directed eight major films in a wide variety of genres, ranging from film noir to horror to comedy, and... -
Dark Alchemy: The Films of Jan Svankmajer Peter Hames 9780313296987
SciFier: $147.40Czech animator Jan Svankmajer is one of the most distinctive and influential of contemporary filmmakers. As a leading member of the Prague Surrealist Group, his work is linked to a rich avant-garde... -
Making the White Man's Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood Movies Angela Aleiss 9780313361333
SciFier: $56.68The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside... -
How the War Was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam Albert Auster 9780275924799
SciFier: $54.79One way to analyze the intensely conflicting feelings Americans hold toward the Vietnam War is to see how the war has been portrayed through film. How the War Was Remembered is the first book to... -
The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen Jeremy M. Black 9780275968595
SciFier: $69.91The adventures and antics of James Bond have provided the world with many of the most gripping story lines of the last half-century. Fleming's novels were best-sellers in their day, and the Bond... -
Fredric March by Deborah Peterson
SciFier: $148.35Fredric March was one of the foremost actors America produced during the 20th century, holding the distinction of winning Best Actor Awards in two films and two Broadway plays. He consciously chose... -
Projecting Ethnicity and Race by Marsha J. Hamilton
SciFier: $148.35This comprehensive annotated bibliography reviews nearly 500 English-language studies published between 1915 and 2001 that examine the depiction of ethnic, racial, and national groups as portrayed in... -
Drawn to Television by Prof. M. Keith Booker
SciFier: $88.81Since late evening cartoons first aired in 1960, prime-time animated series have had a profound effect on American television and American culture at large. The characters and motifs from such shows... -
Dracula in the Dark by James Craig Holte
SciFier: $147.40One hundred years after his creation by Bram Stoker, Dracula is still fascinating us. This study traces the changing nature of film representations of Dracula, from the early silent adaptations to... -
Orson Welles on Shakespeare by Richard France (Author)
SciFier: $148.35This fascinating work will prove valuable for collections in film, theater history, and Shakespearean production. . . . The book includes fascinating production photos and helpful notes in which the... -
Australian Movies and the American Dream by Glenn Lewis
SciFier: $148.35This book is thorough, well organized, and useful. It establishes background on the Australian understanding of the American dream, Austalian photography, image, and subject matter, and American... -
Before Video by Anthony Slide
SciFier: $147.40The video revolution in the 1980s affected all areas of the American entertainment industry; its impact was most dramatic--ultimately devastating--to the non-theatrical film field. Non-theatrical... -
American Religious and Biblical Spectaculars by Gerald E. Forshey
SciFier: $147.40This intriguing book explores why spectacular films involving Biblical figures or set in Biblical times have been a staple of filmmaking since talkies began. Forshey looks at these films, and... -
Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film Stephen Prince 9780275936617
SciFier: $147.40Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question,... -
The Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age of Electronic (Re) Production Brooks Landon 9780313256875
SciFier: $147.40Brooks Landon's book is wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and near state-of-the-art. It concerns science fiction film and, toward the end, almost becomes SF in its provocative speculations on the... -
Jazz Noir by David Butler
SciFier: $117.16Jazz has been associated with crime and immorality since early forms of the music were heard in the brothels of New Orleans and the gangster-owned clubs of the 1920s. This association encouraged the... -
May Contain Graphic Material by Prof. M. Keith Booker
SciFier: $88.81Since the first Superman film came to the screen in 1978, films adapted from comics have become increasingly important as a film form. But 1978 was also important because it was the year of release... -
The Cinema of Ousmane Sembene, A Pioneer of African Film by Francois Pfaff
SciFier: $98.26The films of Ousmane Sembene are powerful representations of the newly emerging black African cinema. In this interpretive study of his most significant films, Francoise Pfaff examines Sembene's... -
Spike Lee by Jason P. Vest
SciFier: $119.05Spike Lee's journey from guerrilla filmmaker to Hollywood insider is explored in light of his personal background, the cultural influence of his films, and the extensive scholarship his movies have... -
Hollywood's Native Americans by Jan-Christopher Horak
SciFier: $98.26This book highlights the contributions and careers of Native Americans who have carved impressive careers in Hollywood, from the silent film era of the early 1900s to the present, becoming advocates... -
American Film and Society since 1945 Leonard Quart 9781440833212
RRP: $124.74SciFier: $79.87From Steven Spielberg's Lincoln to Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, this fifth edition of this classic film study text adds even more recent films and examines how these movies depict and represent... -
American Film and Society since 1945 Leonard Quart 9781440859458
SciFier: $66.62From Steven Spielberg's Lincoln to Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, this fifth edition of this classic film study text adds even more recent films and examines how these movies depict and represent... -
American Hauntings by Robert E. Bartholomew
SciFier: $88.81This work provides an accurate, in-depth examination and scientific evaluation of the most famous hauntings in American history as depicted in popular films and television programs. Neither a... -
Sacred Profanity by Aubrey Malone
SciFier: $119.05This book offers a history of films with Biblical, spiritual, and supernatural themes.This volume follows the evolution of one of the Hollywood's longest running thematic concerns. From the silent... -
Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels: A History of Graphic Narratives Robert Petersen 9780313363306
SciFier: $90.70This text examines comics, graphic novels, and manga with a broad, international scope that reveals their conceptual origins in antiquity. Graphic narrative art is a fascinating phenomenon that... -
The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures by Vincent LoBrutto
SciFier: $100.15This volume can rightfully be called "a film school in a single book." Investigating and analyzing the elements and concepts of motion picture creation, this book looks closely at 25 films that...