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  • Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters

    A Hollywood History

    by Sheldon Hall, Steve Neale ...
    Series series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
    Considers the history of the American blockbuster—the large-scale, high-cost film—as it evolved from the 1890s to today.The pantheon of big-budget, commercially successful films encompasses a range of genres, including biblical films, war films, romances, comic-book adaptations, animated features, and historical epics. In Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History authors Sheldon ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Genre and Contemporary Hollywood

    Edited by Steve Neale ...
    This wide-ranging text is one of the first to look in detail at some of the principal genres, cycles and trends in Hollywood's output during the last two decades. It includes analysis of such films as Sense and Sensibility, Grifters, The Mask, When Harry Met Sally, Pocahontas, Titanic, Basic Instinct, Coppola's Dracula, and Malcolm X. ... Read more

    $38.99 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

  • Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

    Edited by STEVE NEALE, Murray Smith ...
    A comprehensive overview of the film industry in Hollywood today, Contemporary Hollywood Cinema brings together leading international cinema scholars to explore the technology, institutions, film makers and movies of contemporary American film making. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Genre and Hollywood

    by Steve Neale ...
    Series series Sightlines
    Genre and Hollywood provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of genre. In this important new book, Steve Neale discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, as well as the key genres which theorists have written about, from horror to the Western. He also puts forward new arguments about the importance of genre in understanding Hollywood cinema. Neale ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Popular Film and Television Comedy

    by Frank Krutnik, Steve Neale ...
    Series series Popular Fictions Series
    Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik take as their starting point the remarkable diversity of comedy's forms and modes - feature-length narratives, sketches and shorts, sit-com and variety, slapstick and romance. Relating this diversity to the variety of comedy's basic conventions - from happy endings to the presence of gags and the involvement of humour and laughter - they seek both to explain the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Classical Hollywood Reader

    Edited by Steve Neale ...
    The Classical Hollywood Reader brings together essential readings to provide a history of Hollywood from the 1910s to the mid 1960s.Following on from a Prologue that discusses the aesthetic characteristics of Classical Hollywood films, Part 1 covers the period between the 1910s and the mid-to-late 1920s. It deals with the advent of feature-length films in the US and the growing national and ... Read more

    $78.99 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

  • Comics Versus Art

    by Bart Beaty ...
    On the surface, the relationship between comics and the ‘high’ arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art objects. Though this traditional distinction has begun to erode, the worlds of comics and art continue to occupy vastly different social spaces.Comics Versus Art examines the relationship between comics and ... Read more

    $40.49 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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