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Heavenly Bodies
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 35.95Richard Dyer's classic study of movie stars and stardom has been updated, with a new introduction by the author discussing the rise of celebrity culture and developments in the study of stars since publication of the first edition in 1986. Dyer's illuminating study is based around case studies of three major stars: Marilyn Monroe, Paul Robeson and... more...
Indelible Shadows
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 28.00The third edition of Indelible Shadows includes five new chapters. It addresses the treatment of rescuers, as in 'Schindler's List'; the controversial use of humor, as in 'Life is Beautiful'; the distorted image of survivors, and the growing genre of documentaries that return to the scene of the crime or rescue. more...
Cinema's Conversion to Sound
Indiana University Press 2005; US$ 15.95The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to Sound offers an alternative assessment of synchronous sound's impact on world cinema through a shift in critical focus:... more...
Romantic Comedy
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 17.99Romantic Comedy offers an introduction to the analysis of a popular but overlooked film genre. The book provides an overview of Hollywood's romantic comedy conventions, examining iconography, narrative patterns, and ideology. Chapters discuss important subgroupings within the genre: screwball sex comedy and the radical romantic comedy of the 1970s.... more...
The Cinema Makers
Intellect 2013; US$ 20.00The Cinema Makers investigates how cinema spectators in south-eastern and central European cities became cinema makers through such practices as squatting in existing cinema spaces, organizing cinema events, writing about film and making films themselves. Drawing on a corpus of interviews with cinema activists in Germany, Austria and the... more...
So You Want to Be a Producer
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 14.95Few jobs in Hollywood are as shrouded in mystery as the role of the producer. What does it take to be a producer, how does one get started, and what on earth does one actually do? In So You Want to Be a Producer Lawrence Turman, the producer of more than forty films, including The Graduate , The River Wild , Short Circuit , and American History... more...
World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 37.95SCMS Award Winner "Best Edited Collection" The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This anthology examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders... more...
The Battleship Potemkin
I.B.Tauris 2007; US$ 26.00The KINO Russian Cinema series has been expanding to provide students and general readers with readable, companion handbooks to important and interesting films of Russian cinema from its beginnings to the late 1990s. This volume investigates the production, context and reception of the film "Battleship Potemkin", the people who made it, and... more...
Film Structure and the Emotion System
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 44.00Films evoke broad moods and cue particular emotions that can be broadly shared as well as individually experienced. Film Structure and the Emotion System synthesizes recent research on emotion in cognitive psychology and neurology in an effort to provide a more nuanced understanding of how film evokes emotion. more...









