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Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968
Paperback,
25/03/2004,
£23.99
£21.59
Presents the history of horror films and the horror film industry in the 1950s and 1960s. This book reveals how the monsters that frightened audiences in the 1950s and 1960s - and the movies they crawled and staggered through - reflected fundamental changes in the film industry, and in the production, distribution, and exhibition of horror movies.
Comedy Movies
Paperback,
29/09/2005,
£9.99
£8.99
The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies uncovers cinema's funniest and most varied genre, from silent slapstick, to 90s gross-out and the dark indie humour of today.
Philosophy of Film Noir
Hardback,
01/12/2005,
£31.50
£28.35
Explores philosophical themes and ideas inherent in classic noir and neo-noir films, establishing connections to diverse thinkers ranging from Camus to the Frankfurt School. The authors, each focusing on a different aspect of the genre, explores the philosophical underpinnings of classic films.
Gaslight Melodrama
Paperback,
01/06/2001,
£22.99
£20.69
In 1945, a reviewer remarked on the emergence of a "cycle of mystery and horror pictures (that were) placed in the gaslight era of the turn of the century". This title examines these films and looks to explain what prompted film-makers to look to the gaslight era at the time they did.
Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema
7,
11/12/1999,
£23.99
£21.59
This revised guide to silent film studies contains two new chapters that present an analysis of colour technology and aesthetics and look at how silent films are saved, restored and made accessible via archives. Aided by new material, it is a survey of the first 30 years in the history of film.
Britpop Cinema: From Trainspotting to This Is England
Paperback,
15/06/2019,
£18.00
£16.20
Featuring exclusive interviews with key players such as Simon Pegg, Irvine Welsh, Michael Winterbottom and Edgar Wright, Britpop Cinema combines eyewitness accounts, close analysis and social history to celebrate a golden age for UK film.
Science of Marvel: From Infinity Stones to Iron Man's Armor, the Real Science Behind the MCU Revealed!
Paperback,
09/04/2019,
£10.99
£9.89
British Children's Cinema: From the Thief of Bagdad to Wallace and Gromit
Paperback,
29/07/2021,
£29.99
£26.99
Explodobook: The World of 80s Action Movies According to Smersh Pod
Hardback,
07/10/2021,
£16.99
£15.29
Join John Rain, the author of the critically-acclaimed Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod, as he examines a choice selection of the greatest action movies from the decade when the explosion was king. A must have for the action movie aficionado!
Fashioning James Bond: Costume, Gender and Identity in the World of 007
Paperback,
21/10/2021,
£21.99
£19.79
The Art of the Observer: A Personal View of Documentary
Paperback,
25/10/2022,
£24.99
£22.49
A personal perspective on documentary filmmaking, based on the author's own experiences and reflections on the genre, with a particular emphasis on observational cinema. It includes both practical insights into filmmaking methods and discussions of the intellectual, ethical and emotional challenges of attempting to portray others on film. -- .
Blumhouse Productions: The New House of Horror
Paperback,
15/05/2022,
£45.00
£40.50
Blumhouse Productions is the first academic book to examine one of the film industry's most successful producers of horror cinema. Individual chapters offer readers a deeper appreciation of how Blumhouse makes its films with an unusual, but successful, business model.
Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches
Paperback,
15/06/2022,
£45.00
£40.50
Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches is a comprehensive study of the teenage witch as a cultural trope. The book explores the changing representation of adolescent witches in film, literature and other media from the 1940s to the present.
High Comedy in American Movies: Class and Humor from the 1920s to the Present
Paperback,
17/01/2005,
£38.00
£24.50
Silent Cinema Reader
Paperback,
27/11/2003,
£46.99
£42.29
A comprehensive resource of key writings on early cinema, addressing filmmaking practice, film form, style and content, and the ways in which silent films were exhibited and understood by their audiences, from the beginnings of film in the late 19th century to the coming of sound in the late 1920s.
Alien Chic
Paperback,
23/09/2004,
£34.99
£31.49
Alien Chic sets out to provide a cultural history of the alien since the 1950s, asking why our attitudes to aliens have changed from fear to affection, and what this can tell us about how we now see ourselves and others.
Classic Novel: From Page to Screen
Paperback,
30/12/1999,
£15.99
£11.19
A critical examination of the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen. It is historically wide-ranging, encompassing novelists from Jane Austen to Michael Ondaatje.
Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video
Paperback,
31/12/1998,
£28.50
£22.05
Documenting the Documentary features essays on important documentaries by 27 film scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives.
50 Greatest Westerns
Paperback,
04/08/2016,
£8.99
£8.09
Intrigued by the idea of frontier wilderness, of law and order vs lawlessness, and a firm belief that 'the better the bad guy, the better the film', Barry Stone goes beyond the American south-west to pay homage to the Italian and even Australian western - and, after much deliberation, he ranks them in order...
Film Sequels
Paperback,
17/02/2012,
£17.99
£16.19
A study of sequel production within recent Hollywood and beyond in terms of its industrial, cultural and global implications.
Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film
Paperback,
17/10/2005,
£28.00
£25.20
Explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. This book shows that through allegorical representations these directors' films confronted and challenged comforting historical narratives and notions of national identity.
Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture
Paperback,
30/04/2005,
£15.00
£13.50
Examines ten key horror films in an attempt to answer the question of why they remain such a powerful force in American culture.
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
Paperback,
05/05/2015,
£16.99
£15.29
From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditiona
Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film
Paperback,
19/06/1997,
£16.99
£15.29
This history of the horror film explores the genre's relationship to the social and cultural history of homosexuality in America. The text draws on a wide variety of films and primary sources including censorship files, critical reviews, promotional materials, fanzines and popular news weeklies.
Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity
Paperback,
01/03/2012,
£16.99
£15.29
Explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in a manner that has serious implications for the ways in which we conceive of ourselves both as gendered individuals and as members of a particular nation-state.
After Dracula: The 1930s Horror Film
Paperback,
30/07/2013,
£21.99
£19.79
Tells of films set in London music halls and Yorkshire coal mines, South Sea islands and Hungarian modernist houses of horror, with narrators that travel in space and time from Paris to ancient Egypt. This title reveals disparities across horror filmmaking in 1930s and brings to light a cycle of films of which many have been forgotten and unloved.
Anime: A History
Paperback,
28/11/2013,
£27.99
£25.19
This comprehensive history of Japanese animation draws on Japanese primary sources and testimony from industry professionals to explore the production and reception of anime, from its early faltering steps, to the international successes of Spirited Away and Pokemon.
Mob Culture: Hidden Histories of the American Gangster Film
Paperback,
01/06/2005,
£23.99
£21.59
The gangster is perhaps the most potent figure in American cinema. Yet film criticism has focused almost entirely on a few canonical films such as Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, and The Godfather trilogy, resulting in a limited and distorted understanding of the compelling presence and persistence of the gangster.
Horror, the Film Reader
Paperback,
13/12/2001,
£39.99
£35.99
The Horror Film Reader introduces students to key debates over the definition of the horror film as a genre, its sexual politics, and its conditions of production and consumption.
Hollywood Horror Film 1931-1941
Paperback,
24/07/2006,
£63.00
£56.70
In The Hollywood Horror Film, 1931-1941: Madness in a Social Landscape, Reynold Humphries analyzes representative films of this era and discusses their impact upon audiences at the time. He evaluates what their success says about the society that consumed them and about the filmmakers who produced them_particularly the unconscious dimension of the
Horror Film
Paperback,
10/10/2006,
£29.95
£26.96
Combining historical narrative with close readings of several significant horror films, this brief volume offers a broad and lively introduction to cinematic horror. In doing so, it outlines and investigates important issues in the production, consumption, and cultural interpretation of the genre.
From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western
Paperback,
28/04/2006,
£31.95
£28.76
From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is an original and compelling critical history of the American Western film.
Dickens & the dream of cinema
Paperback,
31/07/2003,
£15.99
£14.39
An original blending of literary and film studies which seeks to dissolve barriers between the two disciplines. Offers a new reading of Dickens from the perspective of film, technology and visuality. Proposes a new reading of the emergence of film in the light of social and industrial transformations.
Faking It
Paperback,
22/11/2001,
£14.99
£13.49
Examines the mock-documentary through the specific relationship which the form constructs with documentary. The analysis includes detailed discussions of a number of key mock-documentary texts ranging from "Zelig" and "The Falls" through to examples like "Bob Roberts" and "This is Spinal Tap".
Aliens R Us
Paperback,
08/02/2002,
£28.99
£26.09
Looks at the global culture of sci-fi-- covering European, American and Asian films--to ask what it reveals about international culture and society
Novels into Film
Paperback,
01/03/2003,
£25.00
£22.50
First published in 1957, this work of film theory analyses the process by which novels are transformed into films. Beginning with a discussion of the aesthetic limits of both the novel and the film, the author goes on to offer readings of six films based on novels of serious literary merit.
Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker
Paperback,
11/08/2011,
£34.49
£31.04
The definitive study of a seminal genre of nonfiction cinema, The Essay Film examines the form's origins, literary precursors, and works by its greatest practitioners, like Chris Marker, Agnes Varda, Errol Morris, Chantal Akerman, Werner Herzog, and others.
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