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  • Picnic at Hanging Rock

    by Anna Backman Rogers ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Peter Weir's haunting and allusive Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), set in 1900, tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of three schoolgirls and their teacher on a trip to a local geological formation. The film is widely hailed as a classic of new Australian cinema, seen as exemplary of a peculiarly Australian style of heritage filmmaking.Anna Backman Rogers' study considers Picnic from ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Women and New Hollywood

    Gender, Creative Labor, and 1970s American Cinema

    by Alicia Kozma, Nicholas Forster, Oliver Gruner, Nicholas Godfrey, Maya Montañez Smukler, Karen Pearlman, James Morrison, Abigail Cheever, Virginia Bonner, Anna Backman Rogers, Amelie Hastie, Adrian Garvey, Professor Maria Pramaggiore ...
    The 1970s has often been hailed as a great moment for American film, as a generation of “New Hollywood” directors like Scorsese, Coppola, and Altman offered idiosyncratic visions of what movies could be. Yet the auteurist discourse hailing these directors as the sole authors of their films has obscured the important creative roles women played in the 1970s American film industry.Women and New ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Sofia Coppola

    The Politics of Visual Pleasure

    by Anna Backman Rogers ...
    A feminist study of the mood, texture, tone, and multifaceted meaning of director Sofia Coppola’s aesthetic through her most influential and well-known films.A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019“With this book Rogers has produced a sophisticated and impassioned analysis of Coppola’s work… Rogers’s main argument – that Coppola manipulates pleasurable images to unsettle rather than mollify us – ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • American Independent Cinema

    Rites of Passage and the Crisis Image

    by Anna Backman Rogers ...
    Series series Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality

    $31.99 USD

  • Sofia Coppola

    The Politics of Visual Pleasure

    by Anna Backman Rogers ...
    A feminist study of the mood, texture, tone, and multifaceted meaning of director Sofia Coppola’s aesthetic through her most influential and well-known films.A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019“With this book Rogers has produced a sophisticated and impassioned analysis of Coppola’s work… Rogers’s main argument – that Coppola manipulates pleasurable images to unsettle rather than mollify us – ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Feminisms

    Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures

    Edited by Anna Backman Rogers, Laura Mulvey ...
    Series series The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies
    This collection brings together an exciting group of established and emerging scholars to consider the history of feminist film theory and new developments in the field and in film culture itself. Opening the field up to urgent questions and covering such topics as new experimental film, the digital image, consumerism, activism, and pornography, Feminisms will be essential reading for scholars of ... Read more

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  • Film Theory Goes to the Movies

    Cultural Analysis of Contemporary Film

    Edited by Jim Collins, Ava Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    Film Theory Goes to the Movies fills the gap in film theory literature which has failed to analyze high-grossing blockbusters. The contributors in this volume, however, discuss such popular films as The*Silence of the Lambs, Dances With Wolves, Terminator II,Pretty Woman, Truth or Dare, Mystery Train, and *JungleFever.They employ a variety of critical approaches, from industry analysis to ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Perverse Spectators

    The Practices of Film Reception

    by Janet Staiger ...
    Film and television have never been more prevalent or watched than they are now, yet we still have little understanding of how people process and make use of what they see. And though we acknowledge the enormous role the media plays in our culture, we have only a vague sense of how it actually influences our attitudes and desires.In Perverse Spectators, Janet Staiger argues that studying the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Radical Gestures

    by Jayne Wark ...
    Performance art was finally recognized as an art form in its own right in the 1970s. In Radical Gestures Jayne Wark situates feminist performance art in Canada and the United States in the social context of the feminist movement and avant-garde art from the 1970s to 2000. She shows that artists drew from feminist politics to create works that after a long period of modernist aesthetic detachment ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Pink-Slipped

    What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?

    by Jane M Gaines ...
    Series series Women’s Media History Now!
    Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier, the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script of Ben-Hur. Helen Holmes choreographed her own breathtaking on-camera stunt work. Yet they and the other pioneering filmmaking women vanished from ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Teaching Film

    by Mark Lynn Anderson, Dudley Andrew, Michael Aronson ...
    Series Book 35 - Options for Teaching
    Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of film is dispersed across a range of academic departments, programs, and scholarly organizations, film studies has come to be recognized as a field in its own right. In an era when teaching and scholarship are increasingly interdisciplinary, film studies ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Inventing Film Studies

    by Mark Anderson ...
    Inventing Film Studies offers original and provocative insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. Many scholars have linked the origins of the discipline to late-1960s developments in the academy such as structuralist theory and student protest. Yet this collection reveals the broader material and institutional forces—both inside and outside of the university ... Read more

    $28.79 USD