Film Histories, Paperback

Contributor(s): Author: Elizabeth FreemanTime Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writin...

The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures. Exploring how and why the pontianak found new life in pos...

Chronicles representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer sexualities over one hundred years of American film. This book explores the ever-ch...

Indian Film Stars offers original insights and important reappraisals of film stardom in India from the early talkie era of the 1930s to the contem...

Jones uncovers the fascinating inside story of the making of this film, one of the American Film Institutes's 100 Greatest Thrillers. Every aspect ...

DescriptionCinema is quite simply a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema. Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks ...

Agnes Varda is a prolific film director, photographer, and artist whose cinematic career spans more than six decades. Today she is best known as th...

Reducere. About the AuthorMark Pizzato teaches theatre history, drama, and film at UNC-Charlotte, USA. His books include Edges of Loss (1998), Theatres of Hu...

Latinx representation in the popular imagination has infuriated and befuddled the Latinx community for decades. These misrepresentations and stereo...

Reducere. Over forty legends of the film business recount their first trip to Hollywood. Actors, directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, and editors-half...

Charles Burnett's 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. As a deliberate counterpoint to popular bl...

Reducere. "This is a cool idea for a book." -- Quentin TarantinoMy Best Friend's Birthday: The Making of a Quentin Tarantino Film is the story of a group of ...

Reducere. All histories of Hollywood are wrong. Why? Two words: Colonel Selig. This early pioneer laid the foundation for the movie industry that we know tod...

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...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Jasmine Nadua TriceNumber of pages: 238Collection: Media MattersPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 155...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. California Studies. Film. SAVAGE PAGEANT recounts the history of the defunct zoo, Jungleland, which housed ...

Description Gender in Film and Video tracks changes in gender on screen by documenting trends of the internet age. The jargon-free book focuses on ...

Reducere. Tony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the "structural" film, The Flicker, collabo...

Reducere. One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the imaginations of mod...

Reducere. The poems in The Rinehart Frames seek to exhaust the labyrinths of ekphrasis. By juxtaposing the character of Rinehart from Ralph Ellison's Invisib...

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

Already in the late nineteenth century, electricians, physicists, and telegraph technicians dreamed of inventing televisual communication apparatus...

Reducere. In an age where southern power-holders look north and see only vacant polar landscapes, isolated communities, and exploitable resources, it is impo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William ShakespeareEditor: Jonathan BateEditor: Eric RasmussenSet in a courtly world of masked revels and dances, this play...

Reducere. In Media Primitivism Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that h...

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

Reducere. Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest bl...

Would there have been a Third World without the Second? Perhaps, but it would have looked very different. Although most histories of these geopolit...

The Akunin Project is the first book to study the fiction and popular history of Grigorii Chkhartishvili, one of the most successful writers in pos...

Reducere. Beautiful and lyrical, Chioma Urama's A Body of Water is a poetic exploration of ancestry in the American South. These poems are the result of a co...

Now What? is an innovative exploration of artworks and films that return to radical histories subject to erasure or otherwise lost or occluded over...

Reducere. In Empire's Mistress Vernadette Vicu a Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistres...

Reducere. A quietly brilliant book that warms slowly in the hands. --Dwight Garner, The New York TimesI am not talking about surviving. I am not talking abou...

Reducere. Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas stubbornly refused to be tamed. It was still a place where frontier gun...