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  • Funny How?

    Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor

    de Alex Clayton ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    Uses comedy skits, from Monty Python to Key and Peele**, to probe how humor works.**What makes something funny? This book shows how humor can be analyzed without killing the joke. Alex Clayton argues that the brevity of a sketch or skit and its typical rejection of narrative development make it comedy-concentrate, providing a rich field for exploring how humor works. Focusing on a dozen or so skit ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Television Performance

    de Jonathan Bignell, Tom Brown, Sarah Cardwell, Alex Clayton, Dr Amy Holdsworth, Simone Knox, Elliott Logan, Professor Karen Lury, James Zborowski, Lydia Buckingham, Gary Cassidy, Timotheus Vermeulen ...
    This innovative and timely collection offers a wide-reaching critical evaluation of performance in television, mapping out key conventions, practices and concerns while introducing performance theory and criticism to the established field of television studies. Chapters from leading scholars move through a range of examples from different styles and genres, from Game of Thrones to America's Next ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Thinking in the Dark

    Cinema, Theory, Practice

    de Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Jeremy T. Blatter, Tom Gunning, Steven Woodward, Johannes von Moltke, Colin Williamson, Sarah Keller, Matthew Solomon0, Dominic Lennard1, Nathan Holmes2, William Brown3, William Rothman4, Dudley Andrew5, Will Scheibel6, Daniel Morgan7, Tom Conley8, Steven Rybin9, Alex Clayton0, Gilberto Perez1, Jonah Corne2, Kristen Hatch3 ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Language and Style of Film Criticism

    Edición de Andrew Klevan, Alex Clayton ...
    The Language and Style of Film Criticism brings together original essays from an international range of academics and film critics highlighting the achievements, complexities and potential of film criticism.In recent years, in contrast to the theoretical, historical and cultural study of film, film criticism has been relatively marginalised, especially within the academy. This book highlights the ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

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  • David Cronenberg

    Author or Filmmaker?

    de Mark Browning ...
    For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as Scanners and A History of Violence which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences. He has also repeatedly drawn on literary fiction for inspiration, adapting themes from authors like William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and Patrick McGrath for the big screen; David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker? is the first ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Melodrama

    Genre, Style and Sensibility

    de John Mercer, Martin Shingler ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    Melodrama: Genre, Style and Sensibility is designed as an accessible overview of one of the most popular genres at undergraduate Film Studies. The book identifies three distinct but connected concepts through which it is possible to make sense of melodrama; either as a genre, originating in European theatre of the 18th and 19th century, as a specific cinematic style, epitomised by the work of ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

    Edición de Thomas Leitch, Leland Poague ...
    The most comprehensive volume ever published on Alfred Hitchcock, covering his career and legacy as well as the broader cultural and intellectual contexts of his work.Contains thirty chapters by the leading Hitchcock scholarsCovers his long career, from his earliest contributions to other directors’ silent films to his last uncompleted last filmDetails the enduring legacy he left to filmmakers and ... Leer más

    $46.00 USD

  • Adaptation and Appropriation

    de Julie Sanders ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    From the apparently simple adaptation of a text into film, theatre or a new literary work, to the more complex appropriation of style or meaning, it is arguable that all texts are somehow connected to a network of existing texts and art forms. In this new edition Adaptation and Appropriation explores:multiple definitions and practices of adaptation and appropriationthe cultural and aesthetic ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • The Cinema of Michael Haneke

    Europe Utopia

    Edición de Ben McCann, David Sorfa ...
    Series series Directors' Cuts
    Michael Haneke is one of the most important directors working in Europe today, with films such as Funny Games (1997), Code Unknown (2000), and Hidden (2005) interrogating modern ethical dilemmas with forensic clarity and merciless insight. Haneke's films frequently implicate both the protagonists and the audience in the making of their misfortunes, yet even in the barren nihilism of The Seventh ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Mise-en-scène

    Film Style and Interpretation

    de John Gibbs ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    Mise-en-scène: Film Style and Interpretation explores and elucidates constructions of this fundamental concept in thinking about film. In uncovering the history of mise-en-scène within film criticism, and through the detailed exploration of scenes from films as Imitation of Life and Lone Star, John Gibbs makes the case for the importance of a sensitive understanding of film style, and provides an ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Essay Film

    From Montaigne, After Marker

    de Timothy Corrigan ...
    Why have certain kinds of documentary and non-narrative films emerged as the most interesting, exciting, and provocative movies made in the last twenty years? Ranging from the films of Ross McElwee (Bright Leaves) and Agnès Varda (The Gleaners and I) to those of Abbas Kiarostami (Close Up) and Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), such films have intrigued viewers who at the same time have struggled to ... Leer más

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  • Understanding Animation

    de Paul Wells ...
    First Published in 1998. Understanding Animation is a comprehensive introduction to animated film, from cartoons to computer animation. Paul Wells' insightful account of a critically neglected but increasingly popular medium:* explains the defining characteristics of animation as a cinematic form* outlines different models and methods which can be used to interpret and evaluate animated films* ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD