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  • Male Icons and Identity in 1960s Britain

    Revolt into Style

    Edited by Caroline Langhorst, Robert Shail ...
    Male Icons and Identity in 1960s Britain: Revolt into Style explores the profound social and cultural transformations of the 1960s through the lens of masculinity.This collection of essays delves into how male identity, often resistant to change, serves as a barometer for the broader societal shifts of the era. Contributors from diverse academic backgrounds examine iconic figures from popular ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Children's Film Foundation

    History and Legacy

    by Robert Shail ...
    From the 1950s to the 1980s the Children's Film Foundation made films for Saturday morning cinema clubs across the UK - entertaining and educating generations of British children. This first history of this much-loved organisation provides an overview of the CFF's films, interviews with key backstage personnel, and memories of audience members. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Seventies British Cinema

    Edited by Robert Shail ...
    Seventies British Cinema provides a comprehensive re-evaluation of British film in the 1970s. The decade has long been written off in critical discussions as a 'doldrums' period in British cinema, perhaps because the industry, facing near economic collapse, turned to 'unacceptable' low culture genres such as sexploitation comedies or extreme horror.The contributors to this new collection argue ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Crank it up

    Jason Statham: star!

    Edited by Steven Gerrard, Robert Shail ...
    Jason Statham has risen from street seller through championship diving and modelling to become arguably thebiggest British male film star of the twenty-first century. This is the first book to offer a critical analysis of his work across a variety of media, including film, television, video games and music videos. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of Statham’s career, from his ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia

    Edited by Robert Shail, Samantha Holland, Steven Gerrard ...
    Series series Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender
    Contemporary popular media has been marked by its startling ability to morph into a wide variety of formats, fed by the ongoing revolution in digital technology. Despite these significant changes, the horror genre has retained its attraction for audiences, and the representation of gender has been crucial to that appeal.Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comic, Games and Transmedia examines the ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Gender and Contemporary Horror in Television

    Edited by Steven Gerrard, Samantha Holland, Robert Shail ...
    Series series Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender
    The successful return of horror to our television screens in the post-millennial years, and across a multi-media range of platforms, demonstrates that this previously moribund genre is once again vibrant, challenging and long-lasting. The traditional TV audience of the past would have watched very few horror TV shows, because not many were made. But that has changed. Programme makers have tapped ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film

    Edited by Samantha Holland, Robert Shail, Steven Gerrard ...
    Series series Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender
    The horror genre will always remain current because it reflects our anxieties, shining a light onto our worst fears whilst creating worlds defined by darkness. Horror as a genre has always engaged with era-specific societal mores and moral panics, often about isolation or abandonment, changing family values and the role of women. It is often specifically about how gender is constructed in everyday ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

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  • British Comics

    A Cultural History

    by James Chapman ...
    Now in paperback, this book examines comic publishing and reading in Britain, from the late-Victorian era to the present. Cultural historian James Chapman explores the origins and evolution of these beloved publications, tracing the rise of characters such as lovable rogue Ally Sloper. From the heyday in the 1950s and ’60s with titles like Eagle to the controversial era of violent comics in the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Introduction to Film Studies

    Edited by Jill Nelmes ...
    I**ntroduction to Film Studies is a comprehensive textbook for students of cinema.This completely revised and updated fifth edition guides students through the key issues and concepts in film studies, traces the historical development of film and introduces some of the worlds key national cinemas. A range of theories and theorists are presented from Formalism to Feminism, from Eisenstein to ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction

    by Michael Moorcock ...
    Voted by the London Times as one of the best writers since 1945, Michael Moorcock was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Prize. He has won almost all the major Science Fiction, Fantasy, and lifetime achievement awards including the “Howie,” the Prix Utopiales and the Stoker. Best known for his rule-breaking SF and Fantasy, including the classic Elric and Hawkmoon ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A New History of Documentary Film

    Second Edition

    by Betsy A. McLane ...
    A New History of Documentary Film, Second Edition offers a much-needed resource, considering the very rapid changes taking place within documentary media. Building upon the best-selling 2005 edition, Betsy McLane keeps the same chronological examination, factual reliability, ease of use and accessible prose style as before, while also weaving three new threads - Experimental Documentary, Visual ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The History of Cinema

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Cinema was the first, and is arguably still the greatest, of the industrialized art forms that came to dominate the cultural life of the twentieth century. Today, it continues to adapt and grow as new technologies and viewing platforms become available, and remains an integral cultural and aesthetic entertainment experience for people the world over. Cinema developed against the backdrop of the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD