Hollywood Heroines. Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film, Paperback - Helen (University of Exeter, UK) Hanson

The endangered and dangerous female figures of "Rebecca", of "Jagged Edge" and "What Lies Beneath" have a deserved and endures fascination. This wo...

A call to arms from Empire magazine's 'geek queen', Helen O'Hara, that explores women's roles - both in front of and behind the camera - since the ...

The first edition of 'Women in Film Noir' (1978) assembled a group of scholars and critics committed to understanding the cinema in terms of gender...

Reducere. For a tour of noir cinema this handbook is the perfect companion and Barry Gifford is an ideal guide. His choice selection of films exposes the men...

DescriptionCovers the equipment needed, including the cameras, lenses, and the accessories that are essential to creating high-quality film noir im...

With new chapters covering Zero Dark Thirty, Homeland, and Argo, this critically acclaimed book interrogates the nature and extent of the CIA's inf...

Examines and explores distinctive traditions of landscape writing. This book explores 'landscape' theories and writings, allowing students of geogr...

This book is one of the first to study the role of women in public and professional life from a regional point of view. It breaks new ground in con...

Reducere. A drifter with no name and no past, driven purely by desire, is convinced by a beautiful woman to murder her husband. A hard-drinking detective dow...

James Naremore introduces film noir, highlighting key themes, films, and styles, and exploring why the genre is so difficult to categorize. First a...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat's your impression of the CIA? A bumbling agency that can't protect its own spies? A rogue organization prone to covert operations a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert B. PippinThe crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unu...

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

This book is one of the first to study the role of women in public and professional life from a regional point of view. It breaks new ground in con...

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Cy Endfield (1914-1995) was a filmmaker who was also fascinated by the worlds of close-up magic, science, and invention. After directing several di...

DescriptionThis work traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-centu...

An entertaining and highly illuminating account of Commedia's origins as a popular theatrical form, plus a practical and timely step-by-step guide ...

Reducere. Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German Expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interw...

Reducere. It comes as little surprise that Hollywood films have traditionally stereotyped Arab Americans, but how are Arab Americans portrayed in Arab films,...

This book combines urban theory with film studies and cultural theory to explore how twentieth century Los Angeles is configured through the lens o...

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

This book offers 25 profiles of some of the most popular female action heroes throughout the history of film, television, comic books, and video ga...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis IncAuthor(s): Mike (University of Exeter, UK) MichaelNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 235 x ...

Traces how Classical Hollywood films constructed America's image of Chinese Americans from their criminalization as unwanted immigrants to their ev...

Since the movie industry's earliest days, Hollywood has mythologized itself through stories of stardom. In the first book to focus exclusively on t...

Romanul lui Nathanael West despre decadenta hollywoodiana de la sfarsitul anilor '30 constituie un excelent material pentru cinematografie.O creati...

Reducere. Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood, regizat de Quentin Tarantino are actiunea plasata in anul 1969 in Los Angeles, un an al schimbarilor, in care ved...

This volume reports on the encounters between hikers and wildlife on The Appalachian Trail. Based on narratives provided by trail hikers, it explor...

Description'The authors draw on an impressive array of contemporary literature and critical studies to provide original and illuminating analyses o...

Reducere. DescriptionLike no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark, and mysterious undertones hidden in Tinsel town's biggest films. Eso...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Derek SculthorpeOne of the most versatile actors of his generation, Edmond O'Brien made a series of iconic noir films. From...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Andrew (Newcastle University, UK) ShailIllustration(s): 99 bw illusNumber of pages: 424Publication d...

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Reducere. A revised and updated edition of the definitive study of film noir--the most original genre of American cinema--with a new afterword by the authorS...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Kristin CelelloNumber of pages: 250Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 19Cover type: Paperb...

The term 'film noir' still conjures images of a uniquely American malaise: hard-boiled detectives, fatal women, and the shadowy hells of urban life...

Publisher: British Film InstituteAuthor(s): Yvonne (University of Leeds, UK) TaskerNumber of pages: 104Collection: BFI Film ClassicsPublication dat...

Napoli/New York/Hollywood investigates the work of Italian immigrant performers and the impact of the traditions of the Italian stage within the hi...

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Reducere. (FAQ). Film Noir FAQ celebrates and reappraises some 200 noir thrillers representing 20 years of Hollywood's Golden Age. Noir pulls us close to bru...

#1 New Release on Amazon Backwards and in Heels ─ women in film and their struggle against bias ..".but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everyth...