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  • Horror Film and Otherness

    by Adam Lowenstein ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    What do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and deranged killers are metaphors for society’s fear of the “others” that threaten the “normal.” The monstrous other might represent women, Jews, or Blacks, as well as Indigenous, queer, poor, elderly, or ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Horror Film and Otherness

    by Adam Lowenstein ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    What do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and deranged killers are metaphors for society’s fear of the “others” that threaten the “normal.” The monstrous other might represent women, Jews, or Blacks, as well as Indigenous, queer, poor, elderly, or ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Shocking Representation

    Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film

    by Adam Lowenstein ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking Representation around readings of films by Georges Franju, Michael Powell, Shindo Kaneto, Wes Craven, and David Cronenberg. He shows that through ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Dreaming of Cinema

    Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media

    by Adam Lowenstein ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many worry film's capacity to record the real is fundamentally changing. Yet the Surrealist movement never treated cinema as a realist medium and understood our perceptions of the real itself to be a mirage. ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

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    by Bill Nichols ...
    The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps of planning and preproduction and includes an example of a project proposal for a film that went on to win awards at major festivals. Designed ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • David Cronenberg

    Author or Filmmaker?

    by Mark Browning ...
    For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as Scanners and A History of Violence which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences. He has also repeatedly drawn on literary fiction for inspiration, adapting themes from authors like William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and Patrick McGrath for the big screen; David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker? is the first ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A Comics Studies Reader

    Edited by Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...
    A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels.The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Essay Film

    From Montaigne, After Marker

    by Timothy Corrigan ...
    Why have certain kinds of documentary and non-narrative films emerged as the most interesting, exciting, and provocative movies made in the last twenty years? Ranging from the films of Ross McElwee (Bright Leaves) and Agnès Varda (The Gleaners and I) to those of Abbas Kiarostami (Close Up) and Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), such films have intrigued viewers who at the same time have struggled to ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction

    Edited by Paula Geyh ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Few previous periods in the history of American literature could rival the richness of the postmodern era - the diversity of its authors, the complexity of its ideas and visions, and the multiplicity of its subjects and forms. This volume offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the American fiction of this remarkable period. It traces the development of postmodern American ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Theorizing Documentary

    Edited by Michael Renov ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    A key collection of essays that looks at the specific issues related to the documentary form. Questions addressed include `What is documentary?' and `How fictional is nonfiction?' ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Film Genre Reader IV

    Edited by Barry Keith Grant ...
    From reviews of the third edition:“Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology’s consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as its inclusion of various film genres and methodological approaches, presents a pedagogically useful overview.” ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Cinematic Flashes

    Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood

    by Rashna Wadia Richards ...
    Cinematic Flashes challenges popular notions of a uniform Hollywood style by disclosing uncanny networks of incongruities, coincidences, and contingencies at the margins of the cinematic frame. In an agile demonstration of "cinephiliac" historiography, Rashna Wadia Richards extracts intriguing film fragments from their seemingly ordinary narratives in order to explore what these unexpected moments ... Read more

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