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Hollywood Musicals Steven Cohan 9781138497450
SciFier: £27.99Hollywood Musicals offers an insightful account of a genre that was once a mainstay of twentieth-century film production and continues to draw audiences today.What is a film musical? How do musicals... -
The Sound of Musicals Steven Cohan 9781844573462
SciFier: £38.98D?espite having had its obituary written many times, the movie musical remains a flourishing twenty-first century form, and as this volume demonstrates, one that exists far beyond the confines of... -
Sunset Boulevard by Steven Cohan (Syracuse University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.35Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood. Both its... -
Some Like It Hot by Steven Cohan (Syracuse University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.35Billy Wilder's classic screwball comedy Some Like it Hot (1959), starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, tells the story of two struggling Jazz musicians who accidentally witness a mob... -
Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader Steven Cohan (University of Maryland, USA) 9780415235600
SciFier: £46.33Articles examine the musical in relation to its generic form and conventions, the relationship between narrative and spectacle, gender and feminist analysis, camp production and reception, stardom,... -
Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical Steven Cohan 9780822335955
SciFier: £25.68Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our... -
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Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical Steven Cohan 9780822335573 [USED COPY]
RRP: £103.00SciFier: £11.40With their lavish costumes and sets, ebullient song and dance numbers, and iconic movie stars, the musicals that mgm produced in the 1940s seem today to epitomize camp. Yet they were originally made... -
On Audrey Hepburn: An Opinionated Guide Steven Cohan (Dean's Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Dean's Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University) 9780197668283
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.35Why should Audrey Hepburn matter today? This lively and engaging book revises the contemporary view of Hepburn that sees her primarily as a fashion icon and style guru, frozen in images from... -
Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies Steven Cohan (Professor Emeritus of Film, Professor Emeritus of Film, Syracuse University) 9780190865788
SciFier: £109.91The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day. What gives backstudios their... -
Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies Steven Cohan (Professor Emeritus of Film, Professor Emeritus of Film, Syracuse University) 9780190865771
SciFier: £35.33The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day. What gives backstudios their... -
Exhibition, The Film Reader Ina Rae Hark 9780415235181
SciFier: £39.39From the kinetoscope, used by one viewer at a time, to the lavish movie palaces of Hollywood's golden era, the experience of watching films has varied enormously across film. Exhibition, The Film... -
Working Like a Homosexual by Matthew Tinkcom
SciFier: £20.99What does camp have to do with capitalism? How have queer men created a philosophy of commodity culture? Why is cinema central to camp? With chapters on the films of Vincente Minnelli, Andy Warhol,... -
Duck Soup J. Hoberman (film critic, journalist and author, New York, USA) 9781839022258
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.64The Marx Brothers are universally considered to be classic Hollywood's preeminent comedy team and Duck Soup is generally regarded as their quintessential film. A topical satire of dictatorship and... -
Gender Meets Genre in Postwar Cinemas by Christine Gledhill
SciFier: £38.29This remarkable collection uses genre as a fresh way to analyze the issues of gender representation in film theory, film production, spectatorship, and the contexts of reception. With a uniquely... -
The Movie Musical Desiree J. Garcia 9781978803787
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.15Putting Asian and European musicals into conversation with Hollywood classics like Singin' in the Rain and La La Land, this study demonstrates the flexibility and durability of the genre. It explores... -
The Movie Musical Desiree J. Garcia 9781978803794
RRP: £59.00SciFier: £51.14Putting Asian and European musicals into conversation with Hollywood classics like Singin' in the Rain and La La Land, this study demonstrates the flexibility and durability of the genre. It explores... -
The Stardom Film by Karen McNally
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £15.89Since the earliest days of the movie industry, Hollywood has mythologized itself through stories of stardom. A female protagonist escapes the confines of rural America in search of freedom in a... -
Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom: James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves Michael DeAngelis 9780822327387
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £22.56Why and how does the appeal of certain male Hollywood stars cross over from straight to gay audiences? Do stars lose their cachet with straight audiences when they cross over? In Gay Fandom and... -
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Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom: James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves Michael DeAngelis 9780822327288 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £6.63Why and how does the appeal of certain male Hollywood stars cross over from straight to gay audiences? Do stars lose their cachet with straight audiences when they cross over? In Gay Fandom and... -
Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the American West and South Susan Courtney 9780190459970
SciFier: £35.50Split Screen Nation traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was unstable and dramatically shifting in the decades after WWII, and has marked popular ways of... -
In The Space Of A Song: The Uses of Song in Film Richard Dyer 9780415223744
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £39.39Songs take up space and time in films. Richard Dyer's In the Space of a Song takes off from this perception, arguing that the way songs take up space indicates a great deal about the songs...