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“john cline”

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  • THE LAST TRAIN

    by John Cline ...
    "The Last Train" is a harrowing journey seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old girl as she flees New York in a time of chaos and violent anarchy in America. Her undying will and incredible courage propel her on a journey north up the Hudson River Valley, hoping to find trains that have been ferrying people to safe zones. Helped by some, hunted by others, buffeted by a series of shattering ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Improving the quality of apples

    by Prof Kate Evans, Dr Luigi Manfrini, Dr Alessandro Bonora, Prof John Cline, Prof Zora Singh, Dr Vijay Yadav Tokala, Dr Mahmood Ul Hasan, Dr Andrew Woodward, Dr Masoumeh Bejaei, Dr Jennifer Arthur, Dr Margaret A. Cliff, Dr Hilde Nybom, Dr Matteo Scampicchio, Dr Soon Li Teh, Dr Sarah Kostick, Dr Gabriela Ploscutanu ...
    Apples are one of the most highly consumed fruits globally, with estimations that almost 88 million tonnes of apples are produced worldwide each year. As a result of this popularity, consumers have extremely high expectations of the sensory quality of the apples they consume.Improving the quality of apples provides a comprehensive review of the wealth of research on the processes which determine ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse

    Highbrow and Lowbrow Transgression in Cinema's First Century

    Edited by John Cline, Robert G. Weiner ...
    While there are numerous books on art and exploitation cinema, very few attempt to examine both. Covering the first 100 years of cinematic transgressions, From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse is a collection of numerous essays representing key contributions to overlooked, forgotten, or under-analyzed parts of film history. From cult favorites like Arch Hall Jr. to revered but under-documented ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • A Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Early Modern Conversion, Mission, and the Construction of Identity

    by Robert John Clines ...
    In A Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean, Robert Clines retraces the conversion and missionary career of Giovanni Battista Eliano, the only Jewish-born member of the Society of Jesus. He highlights the lived experience of conversion, and how converts dealt with others' skepticism of their motives. Clines uses primary sources, including Eliano's personal letters, missionary reports, and ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Cinema Inferno

    Celluloid Explosions from the Cultural Margins

    Edited by Robert G. Weiner, John Cline ...
    Cinema Inferno: Celluloid Explosions from the Cultural Margins addresses significant areas (and eras) of "transgressive" filmmaking, including many subgenres and styles that have not yet received much critical attention. This collection of essays covers both contemporary films and those produced in the last 50 years to provide a theoretical framework for looking at transgressive cinema and what ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    by Noam Chomsky ...
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  • Film

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Wood ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases, and there are very few films, even in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Comics Versus Art

    by Bart Beaty ...
    On the surface, the relationship between comics and the ‘high’ arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art objects. Though this traditional distinction has begun to erode, the worlds of comics and art continue to occupy vastly different social spaces.Comics Versus Art examines the relationship between comics and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Cult Cinema

    An Introduction

    by Ernest Mathijs, Jamie Sexton ...
    Cult Cinema: an Introduction presents the first in-depth academic examination of all aspects of the field of cult cinema, including audiences, genres, and theoretical perspectives.Represents the first exhaustive introduction to cult cinemaOffers a scholarly treatment of a hotly contested topic at the center of current academic debateCovers audience reactions, aesthetics, genres, theories of cult ... Read more

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  • Horror Film

    A Critical Introduction

    by Murray Leeder ...
    Series series Film Genres
    Throughout the history of cinema, horror has proven to be a genre of consistent popularity, which adapts to different cultural contexts while retaining a recognizable core. Horror Film: A Critical Introduction, the newest in Bloomsbury's Film Genre series, balances the discussions of horror's history, theory, and aesthetics as no introductory book ever has. Featuring studies of films both obscure ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg

    by Darren Wershler ...
    Series series Canadian Cinema
    Guy Maddin is Canada's most iconoclastic filmmaker. Through his reinvention of half-forgotten film genres, his remobilization of abandoned techniques from the early history of cinema, and his unique editing style, Maddin has created a critically successful body of work that looks like nothing else in Canadian film. My Winnipeg (2008), which Roger Ebert called one of the ten best films of the first ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Underground U.S.A.

    Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon

    Edited by Xavier Mendik, Steven Jay Schneider ...
    Whether defined by the carnivalesque excesses of Troma studios (The Toxic Avenger), the arthouse erotica of Radley Metzger and Doris Wishman, or the narrative experimentations of Abel Ferrara, Melvin Van Peebles, Jack Smith, or Harmony Korine, underground cinema has achieved an important position within American film culture. Often defined as "cult" and "exploitation" or "alternative" and ... Read more

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