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Reducere. DescriptionThe only text of its kind to explore central topics in sociology through feature films This one-of-a-kind text takes readers beyond watc...

Reducere. Writer and filmmaker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary feminist cultural theorists. Part of ...

DescriptionOver one hundred years since it premiered on cinema screens, D. W. Griffith's controversial photoplay The Birth of a Nation continues to...

Reducere. Expanded cinema: avant-garde moving image works that claim new territory for the cinematic, beyond the bounds of familiar filmmaking practices and ...

Reducere. Horror's longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism...

Reducere. The Man-eaters of Tsavo is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1907 that recounts his experiences while overseeing the construction of a rail...

Reducere. "The Cannon Film Guide is the greatest book anyone could ever write about the greatest movie studio that ever was. And is."--Mike McPadden, author ...

Bollywood's New Woman examines Bollywood's construction and presentation of the Indian Woman since the 1990s. The groundbreaking collection illumin...

Reducere. Now in its updated and expanded fourth edition, Here's Looking at You: Hollywood, Film & Politics examines how the tangled relationship between Hol...

Reducere. This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in American cinema from the end of World War II to the pres...

For too long the main narratives of motherhood have been oppressive and exclusionary, frequently ignoring issues of female identity--especially reg...

Reducere. The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a rebel leader, has ...

The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers, " historical and contemporary, and also the authors o...

Reducere. Entertainment is big business. Whether it's a favorite television show, an artist at the top of the music charts, a blockbuster film, or a hometown...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Beth a. Haller Ph. D.Towson University journalism professor Beth A. Haller's 20 years of research into disability and mass ...

DescriptionDigital manufacturing has become an intrinsic part of the modelmaking profession, so today's practitioner must be skilled in both tradit...

Riot is an intellectual biography of artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (born 1960), looking at key moments in his career and discussing the influen...

Reducere. SECOND EDITION.In The World of Ted Serios, Jule Eisenbud, a Denver based psychiatrist and psychical researcher, examined anomalous "thoughtographic...

Nine actresses, from Madame Sul-Te-Wan in Birth of a Nation (1915) to Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding (1952), are profiled in African America...

DescriptionAlthough the motion picture industry in India is one of the oldest and largest in the world--with literally thousands of productions rel...

Reducere. Bridging landmark territory in film studies, Psycho-Sexual is the first book to apply Alfred Hitchcock's legacy to three key directors of 1970s Hol...

DescriptionStephanie Day Powell illuminates the myriad forms of persuasion, inducement, discontent, and heartbreak experienced by readers of Ruth. ...

Reducere. Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying he...

The burgeoning film industry in the Weimar Republic was, among other things, a major site of German-Jewish experience, one that provided a sphere f...

This book discusses the use of authorship discourses and author figures in the promotion and marketing of media content, dealing with the U.S. main...

DescriptionHow Jews use media to connect with one another has profound consequences for Jewish identity, community, and culture. This volume explor...

A blend of screenwriting technique and film studies, this work discusses screen stories as they have evolved through the years, focusing on the bas...

DescriptionWith a story that's spanned more than 20 years, the adventures of Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and the gang have captured the hearts of millio...

Reducere. Film noir is a classic genre characterized by visual elements such as tilted camera angles, skewed scene compositions, and an interplay between dar...

Reducere. Indian Summer (Koharu biyori) is the title of a relatively short novel by Kanai Mieko (b. 1947), recognized by critics both inside and outside Japa...

Reducere. Beloved among cult horror devotees for its signature excesses of sex and violence, Italian giallo cinema is marked by switchblades, mysterious kill...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Barbara PaytonLiterary Nonfiction. Memoir. Film. Women's Studies. I AM NOT ASHAMED, first published in 1963, is the absurdi...

DescriptionThis edited collection offers an interdisciplinary study of Twin Peaks: The Return, the third season of a TV program that has attracted ...

Reducere. 2012 Honorable mention for the Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during...

Reducere. Breaking Bad (2008-2013), a remarkable synthesis of the crime film, the sitcom, the western, and the family melodrama, is a foundational example of...

Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary stud...

History, literature, religion, myth, film, psychology, theory, and daily conversation all rely heavily on narrative. Cutting across many discipline...

Description In American Westerns, the main characters are most often gunfighters, lawmen, ranchers and dancehall girls. Civil professionals such a...

Reducere. More in Time is a celebration and tribute to Ted Kooser, two-time U.S. Poet Laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Presidential Pro...

Muslims in the Movies provides an introduction to the subject of Muslims and film for new readers while also serving as new works of critical analy...

The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound provides a comprehensive overview of screen music and sound studies, addressing the ways in which...

Reducere. Bram Stoker's Dracula is the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internati...

A deeply moving memoir that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son. In 1939, Jonathan Lichtens...

DescriptionThe early years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from ...

DescriptionAmateur Media and Participatory Cultures aims to delineate the boundary line between today's amateur media practice and the canons of pr...

Reducere. Random Harvest is a novel written by James Hilton, first published in 1941. Like previous Hilton works, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chi...

The Soundtrack Album: Listening to Media offers the first sustained exploration of the soundtrack album as a distinctive form of media. Soundtrack ...

In 1954, a massive irradiated dinosaur emerged from Tokyo Bay and rained death and destruction on the Japanese capital. Since then Godzilla and oth...

This Companion provides orientation for those embarking on the study of Beethoven's much-discussed Eroica Symphony, as well as providing fresh insi...

DescriptionDigital Media: Human-Technology Connection examines what it is like to be alive in today's technologically textured world and showcases ...

DescriptionSigns and images of Chinese martial arts increasingly circulate through global media cultures. As tropes of martial arts are not restric...

DescriptionDigital Media: Human-Technology Connection examines what it is like to be alive in today s technologically textured world and showcases ...

How the Holocaust is depicted and memorialized is key to our understanding of the atrocity and its impact. Through 18 case studies dating from the ...

DescriptionIn Unruly Visions Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation o...

Brave is Pixar's thirteenth feature film, but it marks two big firsts for the award-winning animation studio. It's Pixar's first feature film drive...

Focus: Popular Music in Contemporary India examines India's musical soundscape beyond the classical and folk traditions of old to consider the cult...

Reducere. A critical reader on culture and society in postwar Central and Eastern EuropeIn Cold Revolution, essayists examine the relationship between visual...

Reducere. In this new scene-by-scene breakdown of Videodrome, John David Ebert illuminates David Cronenberg's 1983 classic film utilizing ideas drawn from th...

Appalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections of race and class in a very particular way, in the tension between deep histori...

John Ford's tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely handled: fulfilled incest b...

Reducere. Winner of theMihajlo Misa Djordjevic Book Prizeawarded by the North American Society for Serbian Studies Metropolitan Belgrade presents a sociocult...

Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Jo...

In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provo...

Reducere. The Master Key System was a source of inspiration for the book and blockbuster film The Secret. Originally published in 1912 as a correspondence co...

Fashion Patternmaking Technique for Children's Clothing is the result of 15 years reprints and corrections based in an everyday teaching praxis, wh...

DescriptionTattoos in crime and detective narratives: Marking and remarking examines representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, tel...

DescriptionBased on a world-class curriculum and cutting-edge industry practices, Stop Motion Filmmaking offers step-by-step instruction in everyth...

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, P...

Reducere. The Man-eaters of Tsavo is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1907 that recounts his experiences while overseeing the construction of a rail...

DescriptionAn official sequel to the cult classic film The Dark Crystal and the bestselling comic series The Power of the Dark Crystal. Kensho and ...