Blood in the Streets: Histories of Violence in Italian Crime Cinema, Paperback - Austin Fisher

Blood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political conte...

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...

Ever more popular in the age of DVDs, eBay and online fandom, the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s have undergone a mainstream renaissance which has...

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Reducere. Six-year-old Randy conducts bloody wars in the sandtray, calling them "World War One, " World War Two, and "The War of the Ancient Dragon." He burn...

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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...

Demonstrates how and why the transnational figure of the vampire was appropriated by Italian genre filmmakers between 1956 and 1975

Demonstrates how and why the transnational figure of the vampire was appropriated by Italian genre filmmakers between 1956 and 1975Publisher: Edinb...

This book offers a new interpretation of Ozu Yasujiro's career, from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death in 1963, focusing on Ozu's depi...

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Reducere. In Medication Madness, psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D., describes how people taking psychiatric medication can experience abnormal behavioral r...

Sheriff Mike Walker has no clue that his retirement from the police department is about to be put on hold when a would-be victim, Sheri Brooks, lea...

DescriptionThe previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil WarIn The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers...

Over the last three decades, Italian crime fiction has demonstrated a trend toward a much higher level of realism and complexity. The origins of th...

London. A snowy December, 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, is languishing and back on cocaine after a disastrous Ripper investigation. Watson can neither...

Through multiple perspectives from both sides of the border, the collected essays in These Ragged Edges argue that rapidly changing conditions alon...

C.T. Ferguson is shot and left for dead.Will he live to solve his own attempted murder?After wrapping up a routine case, C.T. is gunned down and le...

Reducere. What does it mean to resist? Throughout our nation's history, discrimination and unjust treatment of all kinds have prompted people to make their o...

Gregory knew he was different from a very early age. They say that experiencing certain factors, while growing up, can affect us in a positive or n...

From The Curse of Frankenstein to The Horror of Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera to The Mummy, and The Curse of the Werewolf to The Devil Rides Ou...

Alaskan investigator Kate Shugak is hired by a daughter to clear her mother of a twenty year-old crime.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Dana Stabe...

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

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Karen Elizabeth VillaniIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 78Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x...

In its heyday from the 1950s until the 1980s Italian horror cinema was characterised by an excess of gore and often-incoherent plot-lines. This col...

During a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and refugees across borders, Migrant Anxieties explores how filmmake...

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Reducere. What does it mean to resist? Throughout our nation's history, discrimination and unjust treatment of all kinds have prompted people to make their o...

The third gripping investigation for Rosie Gilmour, investigative reporter

Reducere. "Simply put, Harry Mathias has done it again. "The Death & Rebirth of Cinema" solidifies Mathias's standing as THE great translator of film-to-digi...

Reducere. In April 1998, legendary southern jam band Widespread Panic held a free open-air record release show in downtown Athens, Georgia, its homebase. No ...

Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration o...

Reducere. An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in part...

A Phryne Fisher mysteryPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Kerry GreenwoodNumber of pages: 256Collection: Phryne FisherPublication date: ...

DescriptionThe 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi was the signature moral horror of the late 20th century. Andrew Wallis reveals, for the firs...

Reducere. Pink Higgins was a rugged Texan who lived a life of classic Western adventure. He was a cowboy, Indian fighter, trail driver, stock detective, ranc...

A cold grey January morning, a woman with a gun in her hand bending over a corpse on an abandoned golf course. Is she a killer? Horton doesn't thin...