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  • Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town

    Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town is the first book devoted to the career of one of the director/producers who in the early years of sound cinema was instrumental in establishing the Hollywood model of production that would endure for more than half a century. As a director and producer, LeRoy was responsible for turning out more than sixty feature films in a career that spanned five decades; as a studio ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Paul Verhoeven’s Cinema of Violence

    by Steven Rybin ...
    The first English-language critical study of the films of Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch director of provocative and vividly imagined films such as Turkish Delight (1973), Robocop (1987), Basic Instinct (1992), Showgirls (1995), Starship Troopers (1997), Black Book (2006), and Elle (2016).Where some audiences find in Paul Verhoeven little more than empty provocation (or, even worse, immoral scandal), ... Read more

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  • Playful Frames

    Styles of Widescreen Cinema

    by Steven Rybin ...
    Series series Techniques of the Moving Image
    A widescreen frame in cinema beckons the eye to playfully, creatively roam. Such technology also gives inventive filmmakers room to disrupt and redirect audience expectations, surprising viewers through the use of a wider, more expansive screen. Playful Frames: Styles of Widescreen Cinema studies the poetics of the auteur-driven widescreen image, offering nimble, expansive analyses of the work of ... Read more

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  • Thinking in the Dark

    Cinema, Theory, Practice

    Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has ... Read more

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  • Stellar Transformations

    Movie Stars of the 2010s

    Series series Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema
    Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s circles around questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade. A salient idea that guides much of the collection is the one of transformation, expressed in these pages as ... Read more

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  • Gestures of Love

    Romancing Performance in Classical Hollywood Cinema

    by Steven Rybin ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.Gestures of Love considers the viewer's enchantment with charismatic actors in film as the starting point for closely analyzing the performance of love in movies. Written with a thoughtful adoration for the actors who move us, Steven Rybin examines several of cinema's most beloved on-screen movie couples, ... Read more

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  • Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film

    by Steven Rybin ...
    As the director of Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, and The New World, Terrence Malick has created a remarkable body of work that enables imaginative acts of philosophical interpretation. Steven Rybin's Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film looks closely at the dialogue between Malick's films and our powers of thinking, showing how his work casts the philosophy of thinkers such as ... Read more

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  • Shots to the Heart: For the Love of Film Performance

    by Steven Rybin ...
    Series Book 2 - Anthem Impact
    Shots to the Heart explores how the work of the film actor inspires, provokes, and refigures our feelings and thoughts about the cinema. The book closely considers the art of film performance, the combined effect of actors’ gestures, movements, and expressions, in relation to the viewer’s sensitive and creative eye. As discrete moments of performative incarnation on-screen slowly accumulate, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Cinema of Michael Mann

    by Steven Rybin ...
    Series series Genre Film Auteurs
    Few other contemporary Hollywood filmmakers fit the category of 'genre stylist' as well as Michael Mann, the director of such films as Heat, The Insider, Ali, Collateral, Manhunter, Thief, and Miami Vice. Mann's film style marks him as a director who chooses the iconographic backdrop of a genre as a canvas upon which he and his collaborators can craft a unique cinematic vision. The Cinema of ... Read more

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  • Michael Mann

    Crime Auteur

    by Steven Rybin ...
    Michael Mann first made his mark as a writer for such television programs as Starsky and Hutch, Police Story, and Vegas. In 1981 he made his feature film directing debut with the James Caan thriller Thief, and in the 1980s he served as a writer and executive producer for the groundbreaking programs Miami Vice and Crime Story. Though he has delved into other genres, Mann’s career as a writer, ... Read more

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  • Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground

    Nicholas Ray in American Cinema

    Edited by Steven Rybin, Will Scheibel ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    A range of approaches to the director's life and work.The director of such classic Hollywood films as In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, and Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray nevertheless remained on the margins of the American studio system throughout his career, and despite his cult status among auteurist critics and cinephiles, he has also remained at the margins of film scholarship. Lonely ... Read more

    $35.09 USD