The Leading eBooks Store Online
for your Apple or Android device, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
The Public Sphereby Alan McKee
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 27.00In this book Alan McKee provides an introduction to the concept of the public sphere, the history of the term and the philosophical arguments about its function. more...
No Place Like Homeby Johannes von Moltke
University of California Press 2005; US$ 15.95This is the first comprehensive account of Germany's most enduring film genre, the Heimatfilm, which has offered idyllic variations on the idea that "there is no place like home" since cinema's early days. Charting the development of this popular genre over the course of a century in a work informed by film studies, cultural history, and social theory, Johannes von Moltke focuses in particular on its heyday in the 1950s, a period that has been little studied. Questions of what it could possibly mean to call the German nation "home" after the catastrophes of World War II are anxiously present in these films, and von Moltke uses them as a lens through which to view contemporary discourses on German national identity. more...
Hollywood Musicals the Film Readerby Steven Cohan
Routledge 2002; US$ 75.00Articles examine the musical in relation to its generic form and conventions, the relationship between narrative and spectacle, gender and feminism, camp production and reception, stardom, and representations of race and ethnicity. more...
David Cronenbergby Intellect Books
Intellect 2007; US$ 10.00A study on David Cronenberg. Containing the detailed analysis of "eXistenZ" (1999) "Spider" (2003) and "A History of Violence" (2005), This explores how understanding certain written texts, from both underground and mainstream fiction, can help us understand how Cronenberg's films work. more...
No Country for Old Menby Lynnea King; Rick Wallach; Jim Welsh
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2009; US$ 39.99In No Country for Old Men: From Novel to Film, scholars offer varied approaches to both the novel and the award-winning film. Beginning with several essays dedicated entirely to the novel and its place within the McCarthy canon, the anthology offers subsequent essays focusing on the film, the adaptation process, and the Coen Brothers more broadly. The book also features an interview with the Coen brothers' long-time cinematographer Roger Deakins. This entertaining and enriching book for readers interested in the Coen Brothers' films and in McCarthy's fiction is an important contribution to both Literature and Film Studies. more...
The Literary Monster on Filmby Abigail Burnham Bloom
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 35.00Many monsters in Victorian British novels were intimately connected with the protagonist, and representative of both a character's personal failings and the failings of the society in which they lived. By contrast, more recent film adaptations of these novels depict the creatures as arbitrarily engaging in senseless violence, and suggest a modern fear of the uncontrollable. This dichotomy is here analyzed through examinations of the classic novels Frankenstein, Dracula, H. Rider Haggard's She, Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau, and analysis of the 20th century film adaptations of the works. more...
Life: The Movieby Neal Gabler
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 12.99"A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life." -- The New York Times Book Review From one of America's most original cultural critics and the author of Winchell , the story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, glamour, and melodrama has turned everything of importance-from news and politics to religion and high culture-into one vast public entertainment. Neal Gabler calls them "lifies," those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media and the national conversation for weeks, months, even years: the death of Princess Diana, the trial of O.J. Simpson, Kenneth Starr vs. William Jefferson Clinton. Real Life as... more...
Fragmentsby Marilyn Monroe; Stanley Buchthal; Bernard Comment
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010; US$ 14.99Fragments is an event—an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century and that, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe’s humanity. Marilyn’s image is so universal that we can’t help but believe we know all there is to know of her. Every word and gesture made headlines and garnered controversy. Her serious gifts as an actor were sometimes eclipsed by her notoriety—and by the way the camera fell helplessly in love with her. Beyond the headlines—and the too-familiar stories of heartbreak and desolation—was a woman far more curious, searching, witty, and hopeful than the one the world got to know. Now, for the first time,... more...
Reaching Audiencesby Julia Knight; Peter Thomas
Intellect 2012; US$ 20.00With a Foreword by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith From Hollywood blockbusters to artists film and video, distributors play a vitally important role in getting films in front of audiences. As the link between production and exhibition, their acquisition policies, promotional practices, and level of resources determine what is available, and so help shape the very nature of our film culture. Reaching Audiences is centrally concerned with the distribution practices that have been developed to counter Hollywoods traditional dominance of the marketplace, and ensure audiences have access to a more diverse moving image culture. Through a series of case studies, the book tracks the inventive distribution and exhibition initiatives developed over... more...
Italian National Cinema 1896-1996by Pierre Sorlin
Routledge 1996; US$ 37.95The first comprehensive study of Italian cinema since 1886. Sorlin explores the changing relationship of Italian cinema and Italian society and asks whether the national cinema really does represent Italian interests and culture. more...









