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  • Screening #MeToo

    Rape Culture in Hollywood

    Edited by Lisa Funnell, Ralph Beliveau ...
    Considers how Hollywood films since the 1960s have both reflected and shaped attitudes toward rape and sexual violence.2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleScreening #MeToo offers an important and timely discussion of the pervasive nature of rape culture in Hollywood. Essays in the collection examine films released from the 1960s onward, a broad period that coincides with the end of the M... ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • For His Eyes Only

    The Women of James Bond

    Edited by Lisa Funnell ...
    The release of Skyfall in 2012 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the James Bond film franchise. It earned over one billion dollars in the worldwide box office and won two Academy Awards. Amid popular and critical acclaim, some have questioned the representation of women in the film. From an aging M to the limited role of the Bond Girl and the characterization of Miss Moneypenny as a defunct field ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Warrior Women

    Gender, Race, and the Transnational Chinese Action Star

    by Lisa Funnell ...
    Considers the significance of female Chinese action stars in national and transnational contexts.Finalist for the 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Women's Studies CategoryBronze Medalist, 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women Issues CategoryWinnerof the 2015 Emily Toth Award presented by the Popular Culture Association & <str... ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond

    by Lisa Funnell, Klaus Dodds ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book discusses the representational geographies of the Bond film franchise and how they inform our reading of 007 as a hero. Offering a new and interdisciplinary lens through which the franchise can be analyzed, Funnell and Dodds explore a range of topics that have been largely, if not entirely, overlooked in Bond film scholarship. These topics include: the shifting and gendering of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Global James Bond

    (Re)Imagining and Transplanting a Popular Culture Icon

    by Lisa Funnell, Klaus Dodds, Swarnavel Eswaran, Monica Germanà, Paul Michael Johnson, Antti Korpisaari, James Page, Jessica Siu-yin Yeung0, David Wilt1, Rea Amit2, Aaron D. Horton3 ...
    Global James Bond: (Re) Imagining and Transplanting a Popular Culture Icon focuses on the ambivalent yet fascinating interplay between the global and the local in the longest running film franchise in history. It explores how James Bond established itself as a global standard for action-spy film making and even as a minor global cinema (i.e. imagining), and hot the franchise subsequently inspired ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Resisting James Bond

    Power and Privilege in the Daniel Craig Era

    Edited by Christoph Lindner, Lisa Funnell ...
    Beginning with Casino Royale (2006) and ending with No Time to Die (2021), the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films coincides with the rise of various justice movements challenging deeply entrenched systems of inequality and oppression, ranging from sexism, racism, and immigration to 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive justice and climate change. While focus is often placed on individual actions and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • American and Chinese-Language Cinemas

    Examining Cultural Flows

    Edited by Lisa Funnell, Man-Fung Yip ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    Critics frequently describe the influence of "America," through Hollywood and other cultural industries, as a form of cultural imperialism. This unidirectional model of interaction does not address, however, the counter-flows of Chinese-language films into the American film market or the influence of Chinese filmmakers, film stars, and aesthetics in Hollywood.The aim of this collection is to (re ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas

    The Reel Asian Exchange

    Edited by Philippa Gates, Lisa Funnell ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities taking place at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. The authors consider, on the one hand, texts that exhibit what Mette Hjort refers to as, "marked transnationality," and on the other, the polysemic nature of transnational film texts by examining the release and reception of these films. The ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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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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  • Action Movies

    The Cinema of Striking Back

    by Harvey O'Brien ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back is a study of action cinema, exploring the ethics and aesthetics of the genre with reference to its relatively short history. It moves from seminal classics like Bullitt (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971) through epoch-defining films like Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Die Hard (1988) to revisions, reboots, and renewals in films like Kill Bill Vol. 1 ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots

    Multiplicities in Film and Television

    Edited by Amanda Ann Klein, R. Barton Palmer ...
    With sequels, prequels, remakes, spin-offs, or copies of successful films or franchises dominating film and television production, it sometimes seems as if Hollywood is incapable of making an original film or TV show. These textual pluralities or multiplicities—while loved by fans who flock to them in droves—tend to be dismissed by critics and scholars as markers of the death of high culture. ... Read more

    $28.49 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