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  • Film, Cinema, Genre

    The Steve Neale Reader

    by Prof. Steve Neale ...
    Series series Exeter Studies in Film History
    This book brings together key works by pioneering film studies scholar Steve Neale. From the 1970s to the 2010s Neale’s vital and unparalleled contribution to the subject has shaped many of the critical agendas that helped to confirm film studies’ position as an innovative discipline within the humanities.Although known primarily for his work on genre, Neale has written on a far wider range of ... Read more

    $118.79 USD

  • Silent Features

    The Development of Silent Feature Films 1914 - 1934

    Edited by Prof. Steve Neale ...
    Series series Exeter Studies in Film History
    A collection of essays on fifteen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features. The aims of the collection are threefold: to provide detailed accounts of a wide array of films produced between the early 1910s and the early 1930s; to focus principally on films that may be well-known but that have rarely been discussed in detail; and hence to appeal to those interested in film style ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Poetics of Cinema

    by David Bordwell ...
    Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are made things, existing within historical contexts, and aim to create determinate effects. Beginning ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • 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

  • Film Noir

    From Berlin to Sin City

    by Mark Bould ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    Film Noir explores the murky world of a genre responsible for many of film's most enduring images. Mark Bould discusses problems of definition and the often ambiguous nature of film noir and looks at modern films that could be called neo-noir. Iconic and enduring, film noir attracted great stars (Bogart, Bacall, Mitchum, Lancaster), many of the best directors of the era (Wilder, Lang, Preminger, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel

    Edited by Stephen E. Tabachnick ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Since the graphic novel rose to prominence half a century ago, it has become one of the fastest growing literary/artistic genres, generating interest from readers globally. The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel examines the evolution of comic books into graphic novels and the distinct development of this art form both in America and around the world. This Companion also explores the diverse ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation

    Edited by Deborah Cartmell ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    This is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena. Featuring a range of theoretical approaches, and chapters on the historical, ideological and economic aspects of adaptation, the volume reflects today’s acceptance of intertextuality as a vital and ... Read more

    $52.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen

    Edited by Deborah Cartmell, Imelda Whelehan ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel ... Read more

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  • Neo-Noir

    Edited by Mark Bould, Kathrina Glitre, Greg Tuck ...
    Neo-noir knows its past. It knows the rules of the game – and how to break them. From Point Blank (1998) to Oldboy (2003), from Get Carter (2000) to 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004), from Catherine Tramell to Max Payne, neo-noir is a transnational global phenomenon. This wide-ranging collection maps out the terrain, combining genre, stylistic and textual analysis with Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Deadline at Dawn

    Film Criticism 1980-1990

    by Judith Williamson ...
    Judith Williamson takes herself to the movies, and this book contains the reviews she wrote as film critic for Time Out, City Limits, the radical alternative London weekly listings paper, and the New Statesman. This book contains her journalism, analysis of those times and her career as a journalist in a turbulent England with fierce labour relations raging, both in the NUJ, and during the Miner's ... Read more

    $14.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Companion to Film Comedy

    Edited by Andrew Horton, Joanna E. Rapf ...
    A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ days to the present, this authoritative guide offers an international perspective on the popular genre that explores all facets of its formative social, cultural and political contextA wide-ranging collection of 24 essays exploring film comedy from the silent era to the ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Hitchcock

    Past and Future

    Edited by Richard Allen, Sam Ishii-Gonzales ...
    This new collection of writings on Alfred Hitchcock considers Hitchcock both in his time and as a continuing influence on filmmakers, films and film theory. The contributions, who include leading scholars such as Slavoj Zizek, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, and James Naremore, discuss canonical films such as Notorious and The Birds alongside lesser-known works including Juno and the Paycock and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD