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  • THE CINEMA OF HAYAO MIYAZAKI
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    THE CINEMA OF HAYAO MIYAZAKI By Jeremy Mark Robinson Born on January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Hayao Miyazaki is known as the ’Japanese Disney’, a filmmaker as revered - and as popular - as Walt Disney or Steven Spielberg. Miyazaki, in short, is a true phenomenon in contemporary animation and in world cinema.  Hayao Miyazaki's movies include Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl&#...
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    37,48 €

  • THE JAMES BOND MOVIES OF THE 1980s
    Thomas A. Christie / Thomas AChristie
    THE JAMES BOND MOVIES OF THE 1980sBy Thomas A. Christie A survey of the series of James Bond films, which have long been considered among the most popular and successful of British movies, and have also come to be regarded as a useful barometer of Western geopolitical attitudes throughout the series’ long-running duration. This new book from Thomas A. Christie takes a look at ...
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    26,72 €

  • Bob Crane
    Carol M. Ford / Carol MFord / Dee Young / Linda J. Groundwater / Linda JGroundwater
    The Estate of Bob Crane and I both worked closely with Carol and Linda, and immeasurably appreciate all of the hard work and dedication they put into this book. The only truthful and accurate account of my dad’s life. -Scott CraneSince his untimely death on June 29, 1978, Bob Crane’s unofficial biography has become akin to a broken record. Like a skip in the acetate, his murder...
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    32,58 €

  • Seeking Perfection
    Jonathan Melville
    A behind the scenes look at the making of Tremors and its sequels in the 25th anniversary year 'This high-access tell-all...[is] an unexpected treat' - 4/5, Empire Welcome to Perfection, Nevada A throwback to the kind of sci-fi B movies that had long gone out of fashion, Tremors was a box office flop that became a home video phenomenon, spawning multiple sequels and a shor...
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    24,92 €

  • FAT, DRUNK, AND STUPID
    MATTY SIMMONS
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    20,21 €

  • On Location in Blairstown
    David Grove
    On location in Blairstown: The Making of Friday the 13th covers the creation, planning and filming of the iconic 1980 film, Friday the 13th in a way that no other film has been documented before. Through the memories of the cast and crew, many speak for the first (and last) time, as well as previously-undiscovered production information and materials, On location in Blairstown ...
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    35,50 €

  • Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine
    Anthony Slide
    The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as a gateway to the fabled land of Hollywood and its stars, the American fan magazine represents a fascinating and indispensable chapter in journalism and popular culture.Anthony Slide...
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    46,18 €

  • Lloronas, Chupacabras, and Other Creatures
    Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez
    The story of La Llorona--the weeping spirit everyone recognizes but no one wants to face--has been passed down orally for hundreds of years, spanning nearly all of Latin America and tracing its origins to Mesoamerican myths. Yet despite her prevalence, La Llorona is far from the region’s only folkloric monster. Others, such as the Pishtaco, the Qarqacha, or the Curupira, have h...
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    42,90 €

  • Superhero Sexism
    Jeannette H. Ronson
    Representations of lead female characters in superhero film and television often reinforce tropes that portray women, especially those who are non-White and gender non-conforming, as sexually threatening, deceptive, hysterical, or inherently evil. These depictions were created alongside early pulp fiction and comic books that targeted White, working-class, male audiences, wh...
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    71,98 €

  • Orbit
    Michael Frizell
    'Orbit: Movie Magic: The Illustrated History of Film' explores the revolutionary first hundred years of motion pictures from Edison’s whirring kinetoscope to the galaxy-shaking impact of Star Wars. This 22-page comic charts the rise of silent pioneers, the Golden Age studio system, global movements like German Expressionism and Soviet montage, and the audacious auteurs who rede...
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    8,28 €

  • Going to the Movies with C. S. Lewis
    Bryan Mead
    Going to the Movies with C.S. Lewis is an edited collection exploring the thought and theology of C.S. Lewis as it relates to film and media. Lewis’s insights have had a profound effect on Christian life and thought for almost 80 years, and this book is an attempt to take some of those insights and apply them to film and media studies. It makes connections between Lewis’s work ...
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    34,78 €

  • Shooting Eve
    Sam Staggs
    Shooting Eve is Sam Staggs’s dazzling, witty, and deeply researched re-creation of one of the greatest productions in Hollywood history: the making of All About Eve. Written as a screenplay and populated by an unforgettable cast of real-life characters-Bette Davis, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Darryl F. Zanuck, and many more-the book plunge...
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    20,39 €

  • Winsor and Gertie
    Donald Crafton
    New York, 1913. Vaudeville theatre is king, newspapers rule the nation, and motion pictures are little more than a novelty. But cartoonist Winsor McCay dreams of something no one has ever seen before: drawings that live, breathe, and possess a soul. As he embarks on the impossible task of creating Gertie, a 'living' animated dinosaur, he finds himself caught between artistic am...
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    24,25 €

  • Meridian
    Andrei Ujică
    Few filmmakers have reflected on cinema with the breadth, intelligence, and historical perspective of Andrei Ujică. In these searching conversations with Claudia Nedelcu Duca, the acclaimed director of Videograms of a Revolution, Out of the Present, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu, and TWST/Things We Said Today recounts an extraordinary life that stretches from Communist...
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    25,12 €

  • The Hypnotist
    Daniel Titley
    Long considered the most coveted lost film in cinema history, London After Midnight, starring Lon Chaney, has fascinated film historians and cinephiles since its release in 1927. While no known print survives, its legacy endures through production records, still photographs, and an obscure early script that has preserved the story in its original form.In The Hypnotist: The Lost...
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    23,25 €

  • Assayas on Assayas
    Olivier Assayas
    Assayas on Assayas is far more than a career-spanning interview. Beginning with his cosmopolitan childhood and extending through every stage of his artistic development, Olivier Assayas uses a conversation with critic Jean-Michel Frodon as a springboard for an expansive exploration of cinema, memory, literature, politics, travel, and the creative process. Moving freely between ...
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    22,97 €

  • The Last Decade of Cinema
    Scott Ryan
    'I feel like Scott Ryan could have written this directly to me and others in our generation who have basically ’given up’ on movies. It is at once tribute and eulogy, so bittersweet.' - Screenwriter Helen Childress (Reality Bites)'The nineties are lucky to have Scott Ryan.' - Actress Natasha Gregson Wagner (Two Girls and a Guy, Lost Highway)Ah, the nineties. Movies were somethi...
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    19,58 €

  • The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema
    Luca Barattoni
    Explores biopolitical currents in world cinema, paying particular attention to postsocialist and postrevolutionary filmmakers from Iran, Russia, China, and Romania.The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema explores how cinematic form and content understand and represent relationships of power between the state and life itself. Cinema, it argues, is both technical apparatus and aest...
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    50,70 €

  • Victorian Gaslighting
    Reads gaslighting as a term, concept, and form of abuse fundamentally tied to the literature and culture of the Victorian British Empire.Victorian Gaslighting is the first literary-cultural history of gaslighting, a term derived from the haunting neo-Victorian play Gas Light (1938), which tells the story of a sadistic husband who manipulates his wife into believing she’s losing...
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    50,76 €

  • Pink Auteur, Red Outlaw
    William Andrews
    Director.Screenwriter.Painter.International criminal?Adachi Masao is one of the most radical figures in postwar Japanese culture. Once a fugitive from the Japanese state, Adachi forged his filmmaking career amid the upheavals of 1960s and ’70s counterculture, shaped by student uprisings, political violence, and global conflict.This critical biography traces his life and work fr...
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    42,71 €

  • Cheshire on Film
    Alex Winter / Godfrey Cheshire
    For more than four decades, Godfrey Cheshire has been one of America’s most distinctive film critics: a passionate champion of world cinema, an incisive observer of culture, and a writer whose curiosity has carried him from the American South to Cannes, Tehran, Beijing, and beyond. In these expansive conversations with Nicholas Elliott, Cheshire reflects on a life shaped by mov...
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    23,71 €

  • Once Upon a Disney
    Andie Redwine / Larry Brenner
    Discover the storytelling magic behind the movies that shaped our imaginations.Chances are there’s at least one Disney movie that brings smiles to viewers’ faces and puts songs in their hearts. This book engages with these timeless tales, exploring why these favorite stories continue to resonate across generations. What makes Aladdin a compelling protagonist? How does the villa...
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    57,34 €

  • The Kolchak Companion
    Mark Dawidziak
    The Kolchak Companion: 50 Years of Night Stalking is the complete history of one of the most influential characters on horror and television, reporter Carl Kolchak. Written by Edgar-nominated Mark Dawidziak, the planet’s foremost authority on all things Kolchak, the book charts each incarnation of the character first played by Darren McGavin in The Night Stalker, which set the ...
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    23,94 €

  • Abbas Kiarostami and Iranian National Cinema
    Hossein Khosrowjah
    The films of Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) are at once ambiguous and singular, challenging easy categorisation in national, generic, and formal terms. In this insightful study, Hossein Khosrowjah provides an in-depth exploration of Kiarostami’s body of work, considering how his filmmaking confronts questions of cinematic representation, identity, and the myth of national unity.C...
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    53,05 €

  • River Delta Futures
    How are climate change, weather-related disasters, food and water insecurity, and energetic and infrastructural collapse narrated audiovisually in the most environmentally vulnerable areas of the Planet? This book addresses this and related questions by adopting a local and transdisciplinary perspective on river deltas from different areas of the world.River deltas have histori...
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    50,93 €

  • Shakespeare and Seriality
    Encompassing a wide variety of genres, media and art forms across a broad historical scope, this open access book identifies central strategies of serialization in Shakespeare’s plays and their adaptations. Beginning with an introduction that theorizes the method of reading Shakespeare serially on page, stage and screen, the first section investigates Shakespeare himself as a s...
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    51,00 €

  • Ethics of Alterity
    Jörg Sternagel / John R. J. Eyck
    Providing a solid media-philosophical groundwork, the book contributes to the theory of alterity in Performance Philosophy, while stimulating and inspiring future inquiries where studies in media, art, and literature intersect with philosophy. It collects a selective as well as productive diversity of philosophical, literary, and artistic figures of thought, attaining an exacti...
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    50,94 €

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of North Korean Cinema
    This first handbook on North Korean cinema contests the assumption that North Korean film is 'unwatchable,' in terms of both quality and accessibility, refusing to reduce North Korean cinema to political propaganda and focusing on its aesthetic forms and cultural meanings.Since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has played diverse role...
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    72,51 €

  • Beyond the Monoplot
    Chris Neilan
    This book provides a toolkit for unconventional practice-a comprehensive list of unconventional story shapes and the meanings they create, with accompanying case studies, including: one-act structure; two-act structure; passive protagonists; untimely death of the protagonist, and more.Formed from Aristotelian principles and a three-act shape brought to Hollywood by Broadway pla...
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    50,89 €

  • السينما المغربية
    عمر تابنت
    حين يعبر الحبر إلى الضوء: هل تخون الشاشةُ النصَّ أم تمنحه خلودًا آخر؟خلف كل لقطة سينمائية آسرة حكاية تبحث عن جسد، وخلف كل نص روائي متوارٍ رغبة دفينة في أن يُرى. ما الذي يحدث حين تلتقي خشونة الكلمات بحرارة الضوء، وتتحول الذاكرة المكتوبة إلى ظلال وموسيقى ومشاعر تنبض على الشاشة الفضية؟ يأخذك هذا الكتاب في رحلة نقدية واستكشافية عميقة داخل كواليس السينما المغربية، متتبعًا تلك اللحظة...
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    15,85 €