Quick view Wallflower Press Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945 his second title in the AlterImage series that investigates previously under-explored areas of popular and cult cinema (Underground U.S.A. being the first volume) features over 20 essays from an... $35.62 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Animation: Genre and Authorship "Animation: Genre and Authorship" is an overview of the distinctive language of animation, its production processes, and the particular questions about who makes it, under what conditions and with... $28.72 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film at a level appropriate for undergraduate study. It... $28.72 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia In 1974, The Wall Street Journal called this movie "grotesque, sadistic, irrational, obscene, incompetent," while New York Magazine declared it "a catastrophe." Upon its initial release, Sam... $21.83 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch is the first title to fully explore the work and legacy of French documentary-maker Jean Rouch. A figure as comfortable in front of the camera as behind it,... $41.37 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Chavez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: A Case Study of Politics and the Media [With DVD] The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is a powerful film about the charismatic and controversial Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. It charts the attempt to overthrow him in April 2002 and provides an... $41.37 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Crime Films: Investigating the Scene Crime Films: Investigating the Scene analyzes the wide body of films that fall under the rubric of crime, from the gangster film to the film noir to classic whodunit television series like Law and... $29.87 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe Stephen Keane's history of the disaster genre offers a detailed analysis of films such as The Towering Inferno, Independence Day, Titanic, and The Day After Tomorrow. He looks at the ways in which... $31.02 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Documentary: The Margins of Reality In using case studies such as Touching the Void (2003) and the films of Nick Broomfield, this timely introduction to the growing field of documentary explores the definition and understanding of the... $28.72 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Donnie Darko With its gothic tale of a troubled teen haunted by visions of a figure in a Halloween rabbit suit, Donnie Darko was among the first cult movie phenomena of the twenty-first century, making debut... $21.83 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory This book introduces the reader to the study of cinema as a series of aesthetic, technological, cultural, ideological and economic debates while exploring new and challenging approaches to the... $28.72 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press East-West Encounters: Franco-Asian Cinema and Literature East-West Encounters: Franco-Asian Cinema and Literature is the first book of its kind to examine Franco-Asian film and literary productions in the context of France's postcolonial history. It covers... $29.87 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Fantasy Cinema: Impossible Worlds on Screen Often dismissed as escapist tales of sword and sorcery or childish fairytales, fantasy is one of the fundamental impulses in filmmaking, a source of some of the most vivid and memorable films ever... $28.72 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Feminist Auteurs: Reading Women's Films Feminist Auteurs examines a rich and diverse body of work that has received insufficient attention both in film studies and in feminist theory on film. Looking at individual films within the context... $34.47 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Feminist Film Studies: Writing the Woman Into Cinema An introduction to feminist film theory as a discourse from the early seventies to the present. McCabe traces the broad ranging theories produced by feminist film scholarship, from formalist readings... $28.72 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Film and Philosophy: Taking Movies Seriously This introductory volume presents an overview of the philosophy of film, a burgeoning sub-discipline of Aesthetics. It offers a sampling of paradigmatic instances of philosophers and philosophical... $31.02 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Film Authorship: Auteurs and Other Myths Few topics in the study of film produce as much controversy as authorship. Critics, historians, and theoreticians heatedly debate film authors, arguing vociferously about the nature of film... $28.72 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Film Comedy What exactly is film comedy and what is the basis for its widespread appeal? Film Comedy uses formal, socio-historical and industrial perspectives to answer this question. What, for example, is the... $28.72 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive Film Editing provides an introduction to the craft of editing in the non-silent film. In clear and accessible language, Valerie Orpen considers editing as an expressive strategy rather than a mere... $28.72 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology This is a concise evaluation of film genre, discussing genre theory and sample analyses of the western, science fiction, the musical, horror, comedy, and the thriller. It introduces the topic in an... $31.02 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City Film Noir explores the murky world of a genre responsible for many of film's most enduring images. Mark Bould discusses problems of definition and the often ambiguous nature of film noir and looks at... $28.72 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Filmosophy Filmosophy is a provocative new manifesto for a radically philosophical way of understanding cinema. It coalesces twentieth-century ideas of film as thought (from Hugo M?nsterberg to Gilles Deleuze)... $113.78 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism Fires Were Started is a provocative analysis of the responses of British film to the policies and political ideology of the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher and it represents an original... $34.47 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press German Expressionist Cinema: The World of Light and Shadow Before Hollywood's golden age, German expressionist film was arguably the most important cinematic movement in the medium's history. These 'symphonies of... iridescent movement' of Weimar cinema... $31.02 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Introduction to Documentary Production: A Guide for Media Students Introduction to Documentary Production is designed for students who are approaching documentary production for the first time. The book is written in an accessible style by media staff at the... $31.02 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City is a valuable introduction to one of the most influential of film movements. Exploring the roots and causes of neorealism, particularly the effects... $28.72 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Kung Fu Cult Masters: From Bruce Lee to Crouching Tiger From the balletic intensity of Bruce Lee to the gravity-defying swordplay of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Chinese martial arts film has captured audiences' imaginations around the world while... $33.32 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader Liquid Metal brings together 'seminal' essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. Eight distinct sections cover such topics as the cyborg in science... $33.32 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Melodrama: Genre, Style, Sensibility Melodrama: Genre, Style and Sensibility is designed as an accessible overview of one of the most popular genres at undergraduate Film Studies. The book identifies three distinct but connected... $28.72 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Wallflower Press Mise-En-Sc??e: Film Style and Interpretation Mise-en-sc?ne: Film Style and Interpretation explores and elucidates constructions of this fundamental concept in thinking about film. In uncovering the history of mise-en-sc?ne within film... $28.72 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart