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Professor risley and the imperial japanese troupe
Frederik l. schodtThe true tale of an American impresario, Japanese acrobats, and a circus tour adventure; richly illustrated.
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Platform jazz
Benjamin burkhartThe first empirical study of the production logics of popular jazz musicians on TikTok.
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Hitchcock annual
Sidney gottliebHitchcock Annual volume 29 Features essays on I Confess, Catholic contexts for Hitchcock's visuality, and Hitchcock as an entertainer, and reviews of recent critical books on Hitchcock.
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How film became history
Thomas dohertyThomas Doherty tells the story of the archival documentary, spotlighting the first films that set out deliberately to preserve history on screen.
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Subarnarekha
Ira bhaskar , Shampa banerjeeThe concluding volume of the Partition Quartet Screenplays of Ritwik Ghatak, Subarnarekha is a devastating critique of the fallout of the partition.
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Film diplomacy
Ayşehan jülide etemAyşehan Jülide Etem offers a powerful new account of how film shaped international relations and national identity, demonstrating how the United States and Turkey used educational films to align institutional agendas and geopolitical interests.
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Documentary theatre in india
Anuja ghosalkar , Kai tuchmannAn exploration of the political significance of documentary theatre in India – blending history, creative insights, and exercises.
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The cinema of jonathan demme
Louis black , Steven foreThis book offers an in-depth look at Jonathan Demme’s four decades of filmmaking, tracing the core elements that unite the disparate strands of his work.
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Rethinking jewishness in weimar cinema
Barbara hales , Valerie weinsteinThe film industry in the Weimar Republic was a major site for German-Jewish experience that provided a sphere for Jewish "outsiders" to shape mainstream culture. The essays in Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema offer new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the signific...
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Girl head
Genevieve yueGirl Head shows how gender has had a surprising and persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen.For decades, feminist film criticism has focused on issues of representation: images of women in film. But what are the feminist implications of the mate...
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She animates
Lora mjolsness , Michele leighThis book showcases the accomplishments and triumphs of women in Russian animation and reveals their past contributions to not only animation, but also world cinema. Through archival research, historical analysis, and close readings of animated films this book recuperates the often-overlooked con...
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Dream state
Mick lasalleAn eminent film writer looks behind the curtain of the California dream It hardly needs to be argued: nothing has contributed more to the mythology of California than the movies. Fed by the film industry, the California dream is instantly recognizable to people everywhere yet remains evasive fo...
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The stardom film
Karen mcnallySince the movie industry’s earliest days, Hollywood has mythologized itself through stories of stardom. In the first book to focus exclusively on these modern fairy tales, Karen McNally traces the history of this genre from silent cinema to contemporary film and television to show its significanc...
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William greaves
Scott macdonald , Jacqueline najuma stewartWilliam Greaves is one of the most significant and compelling American filmmakers of the past century. This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of Greaves’s remarkable career.
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Parallel lines
Guy westwellDescribes how post-9/11 cinema, from Spike Lee’s 25th Hour (2002) to Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty (2012), relates to different, and competing, versions of US national identity in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks
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Ingmar bergman revisited
Maaret koskinen , Liv ullmanIngmar Bergman Revisited is a collection of new essays based on a major international symposium held in Stockholm in 2005 on the legacy of one of cinema's most towering figures. Moving beyond simple auteurist readings of Bergman as a cinematic artist, the writings here evaluate the theatrical and...
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The cinema of clint eastwood
David sterrittFrom A Fistful of Dollars and Dirty Harry to Million Dollar Baby and beyond, takes a close-up look at one of the screen’s most influential and charismatic stars.
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Hungarian cinema
John cunninghamHungarian cinema has often been forced to tread a precarious and difficult path. Through the failed 1919 revolution to the defeat of the 1956 Uprising and its aftermath, Hungarian film-makers and their audiences have had to contend with a multiplicity of problems. In the 1960s, however, Hungary e...
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The cinema of david cronenberg
Ernest mathijsDavid Cronenberg as moved from the depths of low-budget exploitation horror to become one of North America's most respected movie directors. Since the early 1970s, the soft-spoken 'Baron of Blood' has attracted widespread controversies with a steady stream of shocks - sec-crazed parasites in Shiv...
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The red and the white
Paul coatesRegular price $24.00Sale price $24.00 Regular price $24.00Unit price / per -
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Hollywood's censor
Thomas dohertyFrom 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office tasked with censoring the American screen. Though little known outside the ranks of the studio system, this former journalist and public relations agent was o...
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Feminist film studies
Janet mccabeAn introduction to feminist film theory as a discourse from the early seventies to the present. McCabe traces the broad ranging theories produced by feminist film scholarship, from formalist readings and psychoanalytical approaches to debates initiated by cultural studies, race and queer theory.
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Herstories on screen
Kathleen cumminsHerstories on Screen is a transnational study of feature narrative films from Australia, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand/Aotearoa that deconstruct settler-colonial myths. Kathleen Cummins offers in-depth readings of ten works by a diverse range of women filmmakers, revealing how they s...
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Film studies, second edition
Ed sikovFilm Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. The second edition to this best-selling textbook adds two new chapters: “Film and Ideology” and “Film Studies in the Age of Digital Cinema.”
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Faster, pussycat! kill! kill!
Dean definoRuss Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) is an enigma. A box-office failure when initially released on the grindhouse circuit, it has since been embraced by art-house audiences, and referenced in countless films, television series, and songs. A riot of styles and story clichés lifted fro...
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Contemporary performemory
Layla zamiThis book looks at dance works created in the twenty-first century by choreographers identifying as Afro-European, Jewish, Black, Palestinian, and Taiwanese-Chinese-American. It explores how contemporary dance-makers engage with historical traumas to reimagine how the past is remembered and how t...
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Theatre and evolution from ibsen to beckett
Kirsten e. shepherd-barrReveals the deep, transformative entanglement among science, art, and culture in modern times
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Lady in the dark
Robert sittonIris Barry (1895–1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. Although she had the bearing of an aristocrat, she was the self-educated daughter of a brass founder and a palm-reader from the ...
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The making of modern subjects
Sung un gangA book about Korean female spectators of the colonial era, which argues that public discourse aimed to mold them into a male-driven and top-down modernization project.
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The celluloid madonna
Catherine o'brienThe Celluloid Madonna is the first book to analyze the life of the Virgin Mary on screen from the silent era through to the present. For decades, Mary has caught the imagination of filmmakers from a range of religious backgrounds, whether Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Marxist, or atheist, and fil...
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Signs of life
Graeme harper , Andrew moor , Sir kenneth calmanRegular price $24.00Sale price $24.00 Regular price $24.00Unit price / per -
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Critical cinema
Clive myer , Bill nicholsCritical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice purges the obstructive line between the making of and the theorising on film, uniting theory and practice in order to move beyond the commercial confines of Hollywood. Opening with an introduction by Bill Nichols, one of the world's leading writers o...
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Beyond bruce lee
Paul bowmanIn order to understand Bruce Lee, we must look beyond Bruce Lee to the artist's intricate cultural and historical contexts. This work begins by contextualising Lee, examining his films and martial arts work, and his changing cultural status within different times and places. The text examines Bru...
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Must we kill the thing we love?
William rothmanA new view of the master’s oeuvre, focusing on his ambivalence toward the Emersonian way of thinking he longed to embrace but resisted for the sake of his art.
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Independent theatre in contemporary europe
Manfred brauneckOver the past 20 years European theatre underwent fundamental changes in terms of aesthetic focus, institutional structure and in its position in society. The impetus for these changes was provided by a new generation in the independent theatre scene.This book brings together studies on the state...
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Cinema in the digital age
Nicholas rombesThis updated edition of Cinema in the Digital Age takes a fresh look at the state of digital cinema. It pays special attention to the ways in which nostalgia for the look and feel of analogue disrupts the aesthetics of the digital image and examines how recent films have disguised and erased thei...
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Ascendant peace in the four seas
Xiaoqing yeRelying on materials uncovered by in the First Historical Archives in Beijing, the author investigates the development of imperial drama and its influence on Peking Opera, as well as the function and system of the Nanfu (later Shengpingshu)an organization responsible for drama in the Qing dynast...
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Disaster movies
Stephen keaneStephen Keane's history of the disaster genre offers a detailed analysis of films such as The Towering Inferno, Independence Day, Titanic, and The Day After Tomorrow. He looks at the ways in which disaster movies can be read in relation to both contextual considerations and the increasing commerc...
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The new european cinema
Rosalind galtNew European Cinema offers a compelling response to the changing cultural shapes of Europe, charting political, aesthetic, and historical developments through innovative readings of some of the most popular and influential European films of the 1990s. Made around the time of the revolutions of 19...
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Love in motion
Reidar dueThis is a book about how film encountered love in the course of its history. It is also a book about the philosophy of love. Since Plato, erotic love has been praised for leading the soul to knowledge. The vast tradition of poetry devoted to love has emphasized that love is a feeling. Love in Mot...
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Laughing hysterically
Ed sikovRegular price $36.00Sale price $36.00 Regular price $36.00Unit price / per -
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Queerbeograd cabaret
Ivana marjanovićThis book demonstrates how staging QueerBeograd contributed to the advancement of the intersectionality perspective beyond identity.
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The evil dead
Kate eganSam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981) has been celebrated as a rollercoaster ride of terror and a classic horror hit, a defining example of the tongue-in-cheek, excessively gory horror films of the 1980s. It is also the film that introduced the now-iconic character of Ash (played by Bruce Campbell). T...
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This mad masquerade
Gaylyn studlarRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price / per -
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The holocaust in czechoslovak and czech feature films
Šárka sladovníková , Jiří holý , Nicholas orsilloŠárka Sladovníková analyzes the depiction of the Holocaust in Czechoslovak and Czech feature films and the relevant literary pretexts. While she charts the social and cultural framework in which the films were made and how this framework changed, she also focuses on the cinematic language, the co...
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Reflexivity in film and culture
Robert stamRegular price $36.00Sale price $36.00 Regular price $36.00Unit price / per -
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Documents of utopia
Paolo magagnoliThis timely volume discusses the experimental documentary projects of some of the most significant artists working in the world today: Hito Steyerl, Joachim Koester, Tacita Dean, Matthew Buckingham, Zoe Leonard, Jean-Luc Moulène, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead, and Anri...
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Theatre in transformation
Wolfgang schneider , Lebogang l. nawaThis collection brings together analyses of cultural policy in post-apartheid South Africa and actors of the performing arts discussing political theater and cultural activism. Case studies grant inside views of the State Theatre in Pretoria, the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, and the Baxter The...
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The cinema of hal hartley
Steven rybinFeaturing new essays on this important director and his films, this collection explores Hartley’s work from a variety of aesthetic, cultural, and economic contexts, while also looking closely at his collaborations with actors, his reworking of the romantic comedy and other genres, and the shiftin...
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