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  • Reappraising Cult Horror Films

    From Carnival of Souls to Last Night in Soho

    Edited by Dr Lee Broughton ...
    Identifies key – and in some cases previously overlooked – cult horror films from around the world and reappraises them by approaching and interrogating them in new ways.New productions in the horror genre occupy a prominent space within the cinematic landscape of the 21st century, but the genre's back catalogue of older films refuses to be consigned to the motion picture graveyard just yet. ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Euro-Western

    Reframing Gender, Race and the 'Other' in Film

    by Dr Lee Broughton ...
    The Western has always been inextricably linked to the USA, and studies have continually sought to connect its historical development to changes in American society and Hollywood innovations. Focusing new critical attention on films produced in Germany, Italy and Britain, this timely book offers a radical rereading of the evolutionary history of the Western and brings a vital international ... Read more

    $36.49 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

  • Reframing Cult Westerns

    From The Magnificent Seven to The Hateful Eight

    Edited by Dr Lee Broughton ...
    Once one of the most popular film genres and a key player in the birth of early narrative cinema, the Western has experienced a rebirth in the era of post-classical filmmaking with a small but noteworthy selection of Westerns being produced long after the genre's 1950s heyday. Thanks to regular repertory cinema and television screenings, home video releases and critical reappraisals by cultural ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on the Western

    From A Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained

    by Lee Broughton ...
    Series series Film and History
    For decades, the Western film has been considered a dying breed of cinema, yet filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Ethan and Joel Coen find new ways to reinvigorate the genre. As Westerns continue to be produced for contemporary audiences, scholars have taken a renewed interest in the relevance of this enduring genre.In Critical Perspectives on the Western: From A Fistful of Dollars to Django ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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    by Dr. Ruth Doughty, Christine Etherington-Wright ...
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  • What Kind of Creatures Are We?

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy
    The renowned philosopher and political theorist presents a summation of his influential work in this series of Columbia University lectures.A pioneer in the fields of modern linguistics and cognitive science, Noam Chomsky is also one of the most avidly read political theorist of our time. In this series of lectures, Chomsky presents more than half a century of philosophical reflection on all three ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition

    by Bill Nichols ...
    The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps of planning and preproduction and includes an example of a project proposal for a film that went on to win awards at major festivals. Designed ... Read more

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  • Corpses, Fools and Monsters

    The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

    by Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner ...
    A radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future.In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order — relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters.In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Rape-Revenge Films

    A Critical Study, 2d ed.

    by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas ...
    Often considered the lowest depth to which cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film is broadly dismissed as fundamentally exploitative and sensational, catering only to a demented, regressive demographic. This second edition, ten years after the first, continues the assessment of these films and the discourse they provoke. Included is a new chapter about women-directed rape-revenge films, a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • A Comics Studies Reader

    Edited by Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...
    A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels.The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Pretentiousness

    Why It Matters: An Essay

    by Dan Fox ...
    “A nimble case for pretentiousness as a willingness to take risks.” —The New York Times Book Review Pretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that’s making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone else. Pretentiousness is an essential ingredient in pop music and high art. Why do we choose ... Read more

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