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  • Back to the Future

    de Robin Stoate, Andrew Shail ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    This compelling study places 'Back to the Future' in the context of Reaganite America, discusses Robert Zemeckis's film-making technique and its relationship to the 'New New Hollywood', explores the film's attitudes to teen culture of the 1950s and 1980s and its representation of science, atomic power and time travel. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Origins of the Film Star System

    Persona, Publicity and Economics in Early Cinema

    de Andrew Shail ...
    Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Andrew Shail traces the emergence of film stardom in Europe and North America in the early 20th century. Modifying and supplementing Richard deCordova's account of the birth of the US star system, Shail describes the complex set of economic circumstances that led film studios and actors to consent to the adoption of a star system. He then explores the ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism

    de Andrew Shail ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major historical context for literary practice. Treating cinema as a historical rather than an aesthetic influence, this book analyzes the role of early British film culture in literature, thus providing the first account of cinema as a cause for modernism ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

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  • Experimental British television

    Edición de Jamie Sexton, Laura Mulvey ...
    Throughout its history, British television has found a place, if only in its margins, for programmes that consciously worked to expand the boundaries of television aesthetics. Even in the present climate of increased academic interest in television history, its experimental tradition has generally either been approached generically or been lost within the assumption that television is simply a ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction

    Edición de David Glover, Scott McCracken ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Popular commercial fiction emerged in the nineteenth century, with serialised novels and sensational penny dreadfuls. Today it remains a multi-million dollar industry giving pleasure to many, but it is also a field of growing interest for scholars and students of literature. This Companion covers the major developments in the history of popular fiction, with specially commissioned chapters on pulp ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde

    de Paul Fortunato ...
    Series series Studies in Major Literary Authors
    Oscar Wilde was a consumer modernist. His modernist aesthetics drove him into the heart of the mass culture industries of 1890s London, particularly the journalism and popular theatre industries.Wilde was extremely active in these industries: as a journalist at the Pall Mall Gazette; as magazine editor of the Women’s World; as commentator on dress and design through both of these; and finally as a ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock

    An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense

    de Edward White ...
    **Winner of the 2022 Edgar Award for Best BiographyAn Economist Best Book of 2021A fresh, innovative biography of the twentieth century’s most iconic filmmaker.**In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon—what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world.The book’s ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Literature into Film

    Theory and Practical Approaches

    de Linda Costanzo Cahir ...
    For most people, film adaptation of literature can be summed up in one sentence: "The movie wasn't as good as the book." This volume undertakes to show the reader that not only is this evaluation not always true but sometimes it is intrinsically unfair. Movies based on literary works, while often billed as adaptations, are more correctly termed translations. A director and his actors translate the ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

    Edición de Susan Sellers ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Virginia Woolf's writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels - challenging, moving, and always deeply intelligent - remain as popular with readers as they are with students and academics. The highly successful Cambridge Companion has been fully revised to take account of new departures in scholarship since it first appeared. The second edition includes ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • On Reading

    Notes on the literary landscape, 1995-2012

    de Robert McCrum ...
    We read for all sorts of reasons: pleasure, education, escapism, intellectual stimulation. The act of reading is a private, personal one that we love to share with our friends and families. Reading and books form a world rich in detail, memory and emotion.In On Reading, Robert McCrum draws together his Observer columns to reflect on what reading brings us, how to best go about it and how what we ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • The Historical Novel

    de Jerome de Groot ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focused guide, Jerome de Groot offers an accessible introduction to the genre and critical debates that surround it, including:the development of the historical novel from early eighteenth-century works ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Adult Comics

    de Roger Sabin ...
    Series series New Accents
    In a society where a comic equates with knockabout amusement for children, the sudden pre-eminence of adult comics, on everything from political satire to erotic fantasy, has predictably attracted an enormous amount of attention.Adult comics are part of the cultural landscape in a way that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. In this first survey of its kind, Roger Sabin traces the history ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD