The Cinema of James Wan. Critical Essays, Paperback - ***

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...

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...

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...

Reducere. Tobe Hooper's productions, which often trespassed upon the safety of the family unit, cast a critical eye toward an America in crisis. Often dismis...

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...

As well as essays on The Longest Journey, A Room With a View, Maurice, Howards End and A Passage to India, the volume includes a specially-commissi...

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

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 438Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 140 x 249 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): John ...

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

Reducere. As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the poro...

Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays, published first in 1967 and then in an expanded edition in 1981, was a definitive set of critical stat...

Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary art If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form ... to make histori...

Illuminating the remarkable scope of Nick Cave's achievements, this collection of essays explores his career as a composer of film scores, scriptwr...

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...

Reducere. Africa and the Bible is a collection of essays about the African influence on and presence in the Old Testament, written over Gene Rice's more than...

Reducere. Erou pe Pamant si aparator al adancurilor, Arthur Curry (Momoa) va trebui sa isi dezvaluie adevarata identitate, sa isi foloseasca puterile pentru ...

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Reducere. Madison este paralizata de viziuni socante ale unor crime cumplite, iar chinul ei se inrautateste pe masura ce isi da seama ca visele ei sunt de fa...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Originating from an annual Science Fiction Film Series in Denver, Colorado, this volume of essays examines ten films, with a focus on discerning th...

Drawing together contributions from leading international scholars, this book conceptualizes the history and theory of cinema's century-long relati...

Reducere. Madison este paralizata de viziuni socante ale unor crime cumplite, iar chinul ei se inrautateste pe masura ce isi da seama ca visele ei sunt de fa...

Reducere. Madison este paralizata de viziuni socante ale unor crime cumplite, iar chinul ei se inrautateste pe masura ce isi da seama ca visele ei sunt de fa...

Publisher: ACA Publishing LimitedAuthor(s): Su TongTranslator: Haiwang YuanNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 216 x 17Cove...

Reducere. A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: "The Oresteia" - Aeschylus; "Prometheus Bound" - Aeschylus; "Oedipus...

Reducere. The fifteen Sherlock Holmes stories reprinted in this volume are generally held to be the most significant, innovative and influential tales featur...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Lawrence KramerNumber of pages: 348Collection: Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Serie...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Filmspanism explores the geopolitics of knowledge involved in academic approaches to Spanish cinema.Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Juan ...

DescriptionAn archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlev Before Jacq...

Reducere. Cine a fost cu adevărat Alex. Leo Șerban? De ce sexul ocupă un loc periferic în filmele lui Quentin Tarantino? De ce Nae Caranfil găsește dificilă ...

This book is a passionate rendezvous with cinema, the most collaborative of art forms. The essays here explore the possibilities offered by a close...

In this first ever book-length treatment, 11 scholars with a variety of backgrounds in medieval studies, film studies, and medievalism discuss how ...

DescriptionThis collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multi-volume New York Edition of Henry James's fiction, first appeared in b...

Reducere. „Andrei Gorzo este cel mai important critic – nu doar de cinema – care s-a manifestat in Romania in ultimii 30 de ani. Calitațile lui au fost de la...

Richard Wagner was one of the leading conductors of his time. Through his disciples Hans von B low, Hans Richter, Anton Seidl, Felix Mottl, Arthur ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Association for Asian StudiesAuthor(s): Ronald P. LoftusNumber of pages: 340Collection: Asia Past & PresentPublication date: 2021Dimensi...

When Cone wrote Black Theology and Black Power, he liberated the Gospel of Christ from its institutionalized forms. This book continues Cone's them...

Furious 7 este continuarea seriei de succes in care Vin Diesel si Paul Walker isi reiau rolurile lui Dominic Toretto si Brian O'Conner. Cu cazierul...