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  • The Ned Kelly Films

    A Cultural History of Kelly History

    by Stephen Gaunson ...
    Irish Australian outlaw Ned Kelly led one of the most spectacular outbreaks the tradition has ever experienced, culminating in a siege at Glenrowan on June 28, 1880. Donned in homemade metal armor and a helmet, he was captured and sentenced to hang at the Melbourne Gaol in November. Immortalized in a series of onscreen productions, he has since become one of the most resilient screen presences in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • American–Australian Cinema

    Transnational Connections

    Edited by Peter C. Kunze, Adrian Danks, Stephen Gaunson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited collection assesses the complex historical and contemporary relationships between US and Australian cinema by tapping directly into discussions of national cinema, transnationalism and global Hollywood. While most equivalent studies aim to define national cinema as independent from or in competition with Hollywood, this collection explores a more porous set of relationships through the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Wake in Fright

    by Tina Kaufman ...
    Based on Kenneth Cook's classic novel, this film about bored schoolteacher John Grant getting caught in an outback nightmare of booze, racism, misogyny and bloodlust was made in 1971 and lost until 2004. In this insightful monograph, Tina Kaufman discusses what lies behind Wake in Fright: the genesis of the film, how it was made, how it was allowed to get lost, and the long path of its rediscovery ... Read more

    $9.29 USD

  • British National Cinema

    by Sarah Street ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    The first substantial overview of the British film industry with emphasis on its genres, stars, and socioeconomic context, British National Cinema by Sarah Street is an important title in Routledge's new National Cinemas series. British National Cinema synthesizes years of scholarship on British film while incorporating the author' fresh perspective and research. Street divides the study of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Hollywood Family Film

    A History, from Shirley Temple to Harry Potter

    by Noel Brown ...
    Series series Cinema and Society
    The Hollywood family film is one of the most popular, commercially-successful and culturally significant forms of mass entertainment. This book is the first in-depth history of the Hollywood family film, tracing its development from its beginnings in the 1930s to its global box-office dominance today. Noel Brown shows how, far from being an innocuous amusement for children, the family film has ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Mad Men

    Dream Come True TV

    Edited by Gary R. Edgerton ...
    Series series Reading Contemporary Television
    Don and Betty Draper live in a picture-perfect world. He is a hard-living advertising executive - a 'mad man' - on the fast track. She's a Bryn Mawr graduate and former fashion model, now a suburban princess, mother of three children. If they've everything, why are they so unhappy? Why is their dream come true not enough? This book explores, analyses, celebrates the world of "Mad Men" in all its ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Directory of World Cinema: Britain

    Edited by Emma Bell, Neil Mitchell ...
    Bringing to mind rockers and royals, Buckingham Palace and the Scottish Highlands, Britain holds a special interest for international audiences who have flocked in recent years to quality exports like Fish Tank, Trainspotting and The King's Speech. A series of essays and articles exploring the definitive films of Great Britain, this addition to Intellect's Directory of World Cinema series turns ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The New Hollywood

    From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars

    by Peter Krämer ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    On December 8, 1967 Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and announced, "The New Cinema: Violence … Sex … Art." The following decade has long been celebrated as a golden age in American film history. In this innovative study, Peter Krämer offers a systematic discussion of the biggest hits of the period (including The Graduate [1967], The Exorcist [1973] and Jaws [1975]). He relates the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Film England

    Culturally English Filmmaking Since the 1990s

    by Andrew Higson ...
    In a film business increasingly transnational in its production arrangements and global in its scope, what space is there for culturally English filmmaking? In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Higson demonstrates how a variety of Englishnesses have appeared on screen since 1990, and surveys the genres and production modes that have captured those representations. He looks at the industrial ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Detecting Canada

    Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film

    Edited by Jeannette Sloniowski, Marilyn Rose ...
    Series Book 16 - Film and Media Studies
    The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka.Genres examined range from the well-loved police procedural and the amateur sleuth to those less well known, such as anti-detection and contemporary noir novels. The ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Fifty Key American Films

    Edited by John White, Sabine Haenni ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Fifty Key American Films explores and contextualises some of the most important films ever made in the United States. With case studies from the early years of cinema to the present day, this comprehensive Key Guide provides accessible analyses from a range of theoretical perspectives.This chronologically ordered volume includes coverage of:Citizen KaneCasablancaPsycho</e... ... Read more

    $45.99 USD