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  • The Happy Runner

    Love the Process, Get Faster, Run Longer

    by David Roche, Megan Roche ...
    Is your daily run starting to drag you down? Has running become a chore rather than the delight it once was? Then The Happy Runner is the answer for you.Authors David and Megan Roche believe that you can’t reach your running potential without consistency and joyful daily adventures that lead to long-term health and happiness. Guided by their personal experiences and coaching expertise, they point ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Standing at the Back Door of Happiness

    And How I Unlocked It

    by David Roche ...
    Popular motivational speaker and entertainer David Roche’s latest essay collection explores the beauty found in unusual places with elegant humour and compassion.David Roche was born with vascular malformation of the face, which he sees as an “incredible gift” that has forced him to look inside for beauty and self-worth. It has also helped him to see the beauty in others, despite their flaws, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Zombie Politics

    The Art of George A. Romero’s Cinema

    Edited by Adrienne Boutang, Claire Cornillon, David Roche ...
    Series series Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series
    Contributions by Julien Achemchame, Julie Assouly, David Church, Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, Hélène Frazik, Pierre Jailloux, Nicolas Labarre, Sophie Lécole-Solnychkine, Janice Loreck, Stella Louis, Kingsley Marshall, Krista Mitchell, Karen D. Thornton, and Arnaud WidendaëleBest known for Night of the Living Dead (1968) and its sequels, George A. Romero (1940–2017) was a writer, editor, director, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Consequences

    The Rise of a Fractured World Order

    by William W. Priest, David Roche, Alex Michailoff ...
    An engrossing and practical discussion of how to deal with contemporary challenges to democracy and civilization.In Consequences: The Rise of a Fractured World Order, William Priest, David Roche, and Alex Michailoff deliver an engaging, timely, and insightful analysis of identifying the sources and challenges facing liberal democracies and their ability to confront autocracies and autocratic ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

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  • Arrival

    by David Roche ...
    Series series 21st Century Film Essentials
    A study of Denis Villeneuve’s genre-transcendent film.In Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival (2016), scientists must decipher the language of and peacefully communicate with aliens who have landed on Earth before the world’s military attacks. In this first book-length study of the film, scholar David Roche argues that it is one of the most important films of this century, and the most brilliant science ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Steven Spielberg

    Hollywood WunderKind & Humanist

    Edited by David Roche ...
    Series series Horizons anglophones
    Steven Spielberg: Hollywood Wunderkind and Humanist focuses on the most commercialy successful American director of his generation, from his early career at Universal Television to the Oscar-winning Lincoln (2013). The fourteen chapters deal as much with his major hits as with films that have received little critical attention like The Sugarland Express (1974), 1941 (1979) and The Terminal (2004). ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Transnationalism and Imperialism

    Endurance of the Global Western Film

    by Hervé Mayer, David Roche, Patrick Adamson, Costanza Salvi, Marine Soubeille, Dragan Batančev, Hadrien Fontanaud, Marek Paryż, Jesús Ángel González, Alessandra Magrin Haas, Lee Broughton, Mike Phillips, Jenny Barrett, Vivian P. Y. Lee, Claire Dutriaux, Annael Le Poullennec, Emma Hamilton ...
    Series series New Directions in National Cinemas
    While Western films can be seen as a mode of American exceptionalism, they have also become a global genre. Around the world, Westerns exemplify colonial cinema, driven by the exploration of racial and gender hierarchies and the progress and violence shaped by imperialism.Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film traces the Western from the silent era to present day as ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Women Who Kill

    Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era

    Edited by Cristelle Maury, Dr David Roche ...
    Series series Library of Gender and Popular Culture
    Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or the lack thereof); and the paradox whereby a crime can be both an act of destruction and a creative assertion of agency. In doing so, the contributors assess the influence of feminist, queer and gender ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Intimacy in Cinema

    Critical Essays on English Language Films

    Edited by David Roche, Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot ...
    Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of new essays investigates both the potential intimacy of cinema as a medium and the possibility of a cinema of intimacy where it is least expected.As a notion defined by binaries--inside and outside, surface and depth, public and private, self and other--intimacy, ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Comics and Adaptation

    Edited by David Roche, Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot, Benoît Mitaine ...
    Contributions by Jan Baetens, Alain Boillat, Philippe Bourdier, Laura Cecilia Caraballo, Thomas Faye, Pierre Floquet, Jean-Paul Gabilliet, Christophe Gelly, Nicolas Labarre, Benoît Mitaine, David Roche, Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot, Dick Tomasovic, and Shannon Wells-LassagneBoth comics studies and adaptation studies have grown separately over the past twenty years. Yet there are few in-depth studies of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Quentin Tarantino

    Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction

    by David Roche ...
    Quentin Tarantino’s films beg to be considered metafiction: metacommentaries that engage with the history of cultural representations and exalt the aesthetic, ethical, and political potential of creation as re-re-creation and resignification.Covering all eight of Quentin Tarantino’s films according to certain themes, David Roche combines cultural studies and neoformalist approaches to highlight ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s

    Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To?

    by David Roche ...
    In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more “disturbing,” and thus better than the remakes. He assesses the qualities of movies, old and recast, according to criteria that include subtext, originality, and cohesion. With a methodology that combines a formalist and cultural ... Read more

    $21.59 USD