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  • James Cameron

    by Alexandra Keller ...
    Series series Routledge Film Guidebooks
    Featuring excerpts from interviews and frame-by-frame analysis of important scenes from films such as Terminator, Aliens, True Lies, and Titanic, Alexandra Keller provides the first critical study of James Cameron as an auteur.Considering in particular his treatment of gender and preoccupation with capital, both in his films and his filmmaking practice, Keller offers an overview of Cameron's work ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • American Cinema of the 2010s

    Themes and Variations

    by Dennis Bingham, Michele Schreiber, David Greven, Raymond Haberski Jr., Alexandra Keller, Daniel Smith-Rowsey, Lisa Bode, Cynthia Baron, Julie Levinson, Mikal J. Gaines0 ...
    Series series Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema
    The 2010s might be remembered as a time of increased polarization in American life. The decade contained both the Obama era and the Trump era, and as the nation’s political fissures widened, so did the gap between the haves and have-nots. Hollywood reflected these divisions, choosing to concentrate on big franchise blockbusters at the expense of mid-budget films, while new players like Netflix and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Tough Ain't Enough

    New Perspectives on the Films of Clint Eastwood

    by Stephen Prince, Jonathan Kirshner, Diane Carson, David Sterritt, Murray Pomerance, Lucy Bolton, Alexandra Keller, Charity Lofthouse, Lester D. Friedman, David Desser1 ...
    Throughout his lengthy career as both an actor and a director, Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this point in his career, has emerged as one of America’s most popular, recognizable, and respected filmmakers. He also remains a controversial figure in the political landscape, often characterized as the most prominent conservative voice in mostly liberal ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • She Persisted: Patsy Mink

    by Tae Keller, Chelsea Clinton ...
    Illustrated by Alexandra Boiger, Gillian Flint ...
    Series series She Persisted
    Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Patsy Mink!When Patsy Mink won her seat the House of Representatives as a Democrat from Hawaii, she became the first woman of color and the first Asian American woman elected to Congress. A co-author of the Title ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Black Women in Sequence

    Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime

    by Deborah Elizabeth Whaley ...
    Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character “the Butterfly” - the first Black female superheroine in a comic book - to contemporary comic books, graphic novels, film, manga, and video gaming, a growing number of Black women are becoming producers, viewers, and subjects of ... Read more

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  • American Horror Film

    The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium

    Edited by Steffen Hantke ...
    Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the American horror film is a mere ghost of its former self-or so goes the old saw from fans and scholars alike. Taking on this undeserved reputation, the contributors to this collection provide a comprehensive look at a decade of cinematic production, covering a wide variety of material from the last ten years with a clear critical eye.Individual ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh

    by R. Barton Palmer, Steven M. Sanders ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    "Provocative, insightful, and instructive analysis of the cinematic and philosophical significance of Steven Soderbergh's work." —Jason Holt, editor of The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake NewsWidely regarded as a turning point in American independent cinema, Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape launched the career of its twenty-six-year-old director, whose ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Modern Superhero in Film and Television

    Popular Genre and American Culture

    by Jeffrey A. Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
    Hollywood’s live-action superhero films currently dominate the worldwide box-office, with the characters enjoying more notoriety through their feature film and television depictions than they have ever before. This book argues that this immense popularity reveals deep cultural concerns about politics, gender, ethnicity, patriotism and consumerism after the events of 9/11. Superheroes have long ... Read more

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  • Critical Approaches to Comics

    Theories and Methods

    Edited by Matthew J. Smith, Randy Duncan ...
    Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic ... Read more

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  • Blood, Guns, and Testosterone

    Action Films, Audiences, and a Thirst for Violence

    by Barna William Donovan ...
    Since the early days of film, the representation of masculinity has changed considerably. In the beginning, men instinctively knew right from wrong. They rode to the rescue and saved the day in the nick of time to the admiration and gratitude of society. But over the decades, heroes have evolved from being larger than life and infallible to being cynical, washed up, unwanted outsiders. Violent ... Read more

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  • Digital Storytelling

    The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film

    by Shilo T. McClean ...
    How digital visual effects in film can be used to support storytelling: a guide for scriptwriters and students.Computer-generated effects are often blamed for bad Hollywood movies. Yet when a critic complains that "technology swamps storytelling" (in a review of Van Helsing, calling it "an example of everything that is wrong with Hollywood computer-generated effects movies"), it says more about ... Read more

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