American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper, Hardcover - Kristopher Woofter

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Reducere. Anarcho-capitalism is the most exciting social philosophy of modern times. But how does it work?This book illuminates the ethical system at the hea...

This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain's most famous living director, Pedro Almod var. It shows how Almod var's films draw...

Reducere. Albert Pyun is a writer/director best known for THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER, Jean-Claude Van Damme's CYBORG and Cannon's infamous CAPTAIN AMERICA......

Reducere. In this first study in English of a master of Polish cinema, Annette Insdorf explores Has's thirteen feature films with the same deep insight of he...

Publisher: Wallflower PressAuthor(s): Stephen KeaneNumber of pages: 144Collection: ShortcutsPublication date: 2006Dimensions: 201 x 149 x 10Cover t...

Reducere. Jerzy Skolimowski is one of the most original Polish directors and one of only a handful who has gained genuine recognition abroad. This is the fir...

An auteur and the creator of multiple cinematic universes, James Wan has become one of the most successful directors in history. Yet there is littl...

Agn s Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, fil...

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Sean RedmondIllustration(s): B&W Illus.: 20, Number of pages: 256Collection: Directors' CutsPublicat...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Cecilia (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) MelloIllustration(s): 35 bw illusNumber of pages: 320Publi...

Over the past fifteen years, writer, producer and director Christopher Nolan has emerged from the margins of independent British cinema to become o...

Reducere. The crosscurrents between the classic Hollywood cinema and France's postwar cinema are rich in producing iconic imagery with philosophical resonanc...

DescriptionThe films of Darren Aronofsky invite emotional engagement by means of affective resonance between the film and the spectator's lived bod...

DescriptionThe Cinema of Ken Loach examines the connection between art and politics that distinguishes the work of this leading British film direct...

Offers the first book-length, English-language examination of three adaptations of Greek tragedy produced by the gay and Marxist Italian filmmaker ...

Reducere. Nocturnal Fabulations is an essay in intercessing. This is not a book that is simply 'about' Apichatpong Weerasethakul, though it does engage his w...

"Oh, Christmas Spirit, where are you?" Kristopher cried out. He left no stone uncovered and wanted to pout.He asked his family "Where is the spirit...

DescriptionUnedited and raw, End of the Thin Blue Line will grab you by the hand and walk you right up to the edge of a very dangerous and often co...

Reducere. DescriptionAndrew Bacevich is a leading American public intellectual, writing in the fields of culture and politics with particular attention to wa...

Matrix groups touch an enormous spectrum of the mathematical arena. This textbook brings them into the undergraduate curriculum. It is concrete and...

This book contends that Hollywood films help illuminate the incongruities of various periods in American diplomacy. From the war film Bataan to the...

Now a major TV series on Prime VideoThe tenth novel in the Wheel of Time series - one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever publis...

Reducere. The book explores the challenges Palestinian filmmakers confront to develop a cinema that gives expression to the national narrative. The research ...

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Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, Hardcover

Reducere. The 2010s might be remembered as a time of increased polarization in American life. The decade contained both the Obama era and the Trump era, and ...

The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner explores the culture and practices of independent filmmaking in the U.S., arguing that during the pa...

DescriptionIn 1998, the Predators joined the NHL as an expansion team, marking the start of what's been a wild ride ever since Tales from the Nashv...

Reducere. An emerging cult classic about America's cultural meltdown--and a surprising solution. A prophetic examination of Western decline, The Twilight of ...

The book uses film theory and insights from object relations theory to examine how recent films address and reflect the state of the 'American Drea...

Reducere. Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema brings together fourteen scholars to analyze Latin American cinema in dialogue with recent theories...

An important read for film studies and the history of marketing, Profit Margins exposes the fascinating truth surrounding the invention of cinema a...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Milton Fernando Gonzalez (KU Leuven, Belgium; University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) RodriguezIll...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Uplift Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like th...

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We know a lot about the directors and stars of Italian cinema's heyday, from Roberto Rossellini to Sophia Loren. But what do we know about the Ital...