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  • A Prankster In Paradise

    by Geoff King ...
    I have written this book to record my experiences at a few of the places that I have worked around the World, and to make some kind of official record of my working life. I am an engineer and specialist industrial welding is my trade. I have lived and worked all over the World, with the primitive tribes of Papua New Guinea, the rough and tough lumberjacks of Canada, the oil rich but war torn ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cinema of Discomfort

    Disquieting, Awkward and Uncomfortable Experiences in Contemporary Art and Indie Film

    by Geoff King ...
    How do we understand types of cinema that offer experiences of discomfort, awkwardness or disquieting uncertainty? This book examines a number of examples of such work at the heart of contemporary art and indie film. While the commercial mainstream tends to offer comforting viewing experiences – or moments of discomfort that exist largely to be overcome – The Cinema of Discomfort analyses films in ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Arthouse Crime Scenes

    Art Film, Genre and Crime in Contemporary World Cinema

    by Geoff King ...
    How is crime represented in art cinema? And how can this be understood in the context of global sociopolitical and film-industrial trends? Crime might be shown or lurk only at the edges. It might be left unresolved or unexplained. Arthouse crimes can be petty and small scale or raise big questions associated with the arthouse sector: political issues, the nature of humanity, truth and knowability ... Read more

    Was $105.99 USD Now $32.39 USD

  • The Rabbit Hole

    Weird Stories, #1

    by Jon Michael Kelley, erik bergstrom, Anthony Engebretson, Jenny Terpsichore Abeles, art lasky, Tom Wolosz, stephen a. fox, John Bukowski, paul stansbury, geoff king, kelsey dean, daniel link, barry rosen, victor acquista, dana hammer, Boris Glikman, tina kirchner, leigh ward-smith, marc sorondo, CB droege, atthys j. gage, melinda giordano, Stephen McQuiggan, deborah whittam, mimi speike, kim michelle ross, debra liu, s.t. ranscht, tom bont, mitchell grabois, andrew hogan, b. david larson, Paul Lewellan, perry palin, kimberly cunningham ...
    Series Book 1 - Weird Stories
    How do you like your weirdness? A subtle nudge towards the untoward? A quick zap of zany? Or a full-on assault of aberration? Whatever your taste, you'll find it here, and many more strains of strange that you didn't suspect existed. From magic rain to a talking (severed) head, extraordinary eggs to belligerent birds, the stories in this collection enter the rabbit hole to explore its hidden ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • New Hollywood Cinema

    An Introduction

    by Geoff King ...
    New Hollywood extends from the radical gestures of the 'Hollywood Renaissance' of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the current dominance of the corporate blockbuster. Geoff King covers new Hollywood dynamically and accessibly in this thoroughly modern introductory text. He discusses diverse films as well as the film-makers and film companies, focusing on the interactions between the film texts, ... Read more

    $31.29 USD

  • The Spectacle of the Real

    From Hollywood to Reality TV and Beyond

    by Geoff King ...
    Hollywood special effects offer spectacular creations or re-creations that make claims to our attention on the grounds of their ‘incredible-seeming reality’. They can appear both ‘incredible’ and ‘real’, their appeal based on their ability to ‘convince’—to appear real in terms such as detail and texture—and on their status as fabricated spectacle, to be admired as such. At a seemingly very ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Positioning Art Cinema

    Film and Cultural Value

    by Geoff King ...
    Art cinema occupies a space in the film landscape that is accorded a particular kind of value. From films that claim the status of harsh realism to others which embody aspects of the tradition of modernism or the poetic, art cinema encompasses a variety of work from across the globe. But how is art cinema positioned in the film marketplace, or by critics and in academic analysis? Exactly what ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Secrets of Selling, The

    How To Win In Any Sales Situation

    by Geoff King ...
    Geoff King started at the bottom of the sales ladder—selling pest control products on the streets of South London. After this inauspicious start, he climbed steadily through the ranks of professional service organisations until he reached the top of the ladder. By the end of his in-house career, he was routinely selling multi-million pound deals in outsourcing services for multinationals. He now ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Quality Hollywood

    Markers of Distinction in Contemporary Studio Film

    by Geoff King ...
    What defines 'quality' in contemporary Hollywood film? Although often seen as inhospitable to such work, the studios of the blockbuster-franchise era continue to produce features that make claims to higher status. Films such as The Social Network, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Mystic River are marked as distinctive from the mainstream norm. But how exactly, and how ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • American Independent Cinema

    by Geoff King ...
    The independent sector has produced many of the most distinctive films to have appeared in the US in recent decades. From 'Sex, Lies and Videotape' in the 1980s to 'The Blair Witch Project' and New Queer Cinema in the 1990s and the ultra-low budget digital video features of the 2000s, indie films have thrived, creating a body of work that stands out from the dominant Hollywood mainstream. But what ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • A Companion to American Indie Film

    Edited by Geoff King ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
    A Companion to American Indie Film features a comprehensive collection of newly commissioned essays that represent a state-of-the-art resource for understanding key aspects of the field of indie films produced in the United States.Takes a comprehensive and fresh new look at the topic of American indie filmFeatures newly commissioned essays from top film experts and emerging scholars that represent ... Read more

    $175.00 USD

  • American Independent Cinema

    indie, indiewood and beyond

    Edited by Geoff King, Claire Molloy, Yannis Tzioumakis ...
    The American independent sector has attracted much attention in recent years, an upsurge of academic work on the subject being accompanied by wider public debate. But many questions remain about how exactly independence should be defined and how its relationship might be understood with other parts of the cinematic landscape, most notably the Hollywood studios. Edited and written by leading ... Read more

    $65.99 USD