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A Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 175.00This examination and comprehensive assessment of apocalyptic film studies fifty films that illustrate the variety, range and different categories of the genre. Apocalyptic films are those that depict, on screen as part of the story, an event threatening the extinction of mankind. A brief overview identifies seven major categories of apocalyptic films:... more...
Bigger Than Blockbusters
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 84.00Spanning all genres, including horror and drama, adventure, comedy, musicals, science fiction, and more, Bigger Than Blockbusters: Movies That Defined America tells the stories behind the most significant and influential films in American culture, movies that had a profound influence on the literary, cinematic, and popular culture of our time. more...
Schlock Value
Hyperion 2005; US$ 11.95Check back soon to read more details about Schlock Value by Richard Roeper. more...
They Thought it was a Marvel
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 55.00In a world obsessed with 'firsts', this fascinating book with its accompanying DVD analyses the stop-motion films made by the British pioneer filmmaker Arthur Melbourne-Cooper, arguably the maker of the first ever animation. more...
Mapping the Moving Image
Amsterdam University Press 2010; US$ 83.00A compelling study of how the medium of film came to shape our experience and thinking of the world and ourselves. more...
The Cinema of Preston Sturges
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 38.00Most published works on writer-director Preston Sturges (1898-1959) have focused on the elements that made him a symbol of classic Hollywood comedy or his contributions to the genre via such 1940s classics as The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels and Miracle of Morgan's Creek. In contrast, this critical study asserts that there are enough unexplained... more...
A History of American Movies
Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 49.99A History of American Movies provides a survey of the narrative feature film from the 1920s to the present. The book focuses on 170 of the most highly regarded and recognized feature films selected by the Hollywood establishment: each Oscar winner for Best Picture, as well as those voted the greatest by members of the American Film Institute.... more...
American Film in the Digital Age
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 35.00Prior to being broken up by the Supreme Court in 1946, the movie industry was a vertical monopoly controlled primarily by eight studios. Ironically, today just six vertically and horizontally integrated companies have a world-wide monopoly on all forms of media. How did this vast power become so concentratedÑand where do we go from here? more...
Photography and Cinema
Reaktion Books 2008; US$ 33.95What did the arrival of cinema do for photography? How did the moving image change our relation to the still image? Why have cinema and photography been so drawn to each other? Close-ups, freeze frames and the countless portrayals of photographers on scre more...
Born to Be Hurt
St. Martin's Press 2009; US$ 7.99In a passionate and witty behind-the-scenes expose, the author of All About "All About Eve" takes on the classic 1959 Douglas Sirk film starring Lana Turner Few films inspire the devotion of Imitation of Life , one of the most popular films of the '50s--a split personality drama that's both an irresistible women's picture and a dark commentary... more...









