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Silent Vignettes (hardback) - Stars, Studios and Stories from the Silent Movie Era (Hardcover): Tim Lussier Silent Vignettes (hardback) - Stars, Studios and Stories from the Silent Movie Era (Hardcover)
Tim Lussier; Foreword by Lon Davis
R1,005 Discovery Miles 10 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom - Pier Paolo Pasolini: Pocket Movie Guide (Hardcover): Jeremy Mark Robinson Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom - Pier Paolo Pasolini: Pocket Movie Guide (Hardcover)
Jeremy Mark Robinson
R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Immoral Tales - Walerian Borowczyk: Pocket Movie Guide (Hardcover): Jeremy Mark Robinson Immoral Tales - Walerian Borowczyk: Pocket Movie Guide (Hardcover)
Jeremy Mark Robinson
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents - The 100 Greatest Science-Fiction Films (Hardcover): Douglas Brode Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents - The 100 Greatest Science-Fiction Films (Hardcover)
Douglas Brode
R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Whether you judge by box office receipts, industry awards, or critical accolades, science fiction films are the most popular movies now being produced and distributed around the world. Nor is this phenomenon new. Sci-fi filmmakers and audiences have been exploring fantastic planets, forbidden zones, and lost continents ever since George Melies' 1902 film A Trip to the Moon. In this highly entertaining and knowledgeable book, film historian and pop culture expert Douglas Brode picks the one hundred greatest sci-fi films of all time. Brode's list ranges from today's blockbusters to forgotten gems, with surprises for even the most informed fans and scholars. He presents the movies in chronological order, which effectively makes this book a concise history of the sci-fi film genre. A striking (and in many cases rare) photograph accompanies each entry, for which Brode provides a numerical rating, key credits and cast members, brief plot summary, background on the film's creation, elements of the moviemaking process, analysis of the major theme(s), and trivia. He also includes fun outtakes, including his top ten lists of Fifties sci-fi movies, cult sci-fi, least necessary movie remakes, and "so bad they're great" classics-as well as the ten worst sci-fi movies ("those highly ambitious films that promised much and delivered nil"). So climb aboard spaceship Brode and journey to strange new worlds from Metropolis (1927) to Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).

Walerian Borowczyk - Cinema of Erotic Dreams (Hardcover, 4th ed.): Jeremy Mark Robinson Walerian Borowczyk - Cinema of Erotic Dreams (Hardcover, 4th ed.)
Jeremy Mark Robinson
R1,363 Discovery Miles 13 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Lame Brains and Lunatics 2 (hardback) - More Good, Bad and Forgotten of Silent Comedy (Hardcover): Steve Massa Lame Brains and Lunatics 2 (hardback) - More Good, Bad and Forgotten of Silent Comedy (Hardcover)
Steve Massa
R1,384 Discovery Miles 13 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beyond the Silver Screen - A History of Women, Filmmaking and Film Culture in Australia 1920-1990 (Paperback): Mary Tomsic Beyond the Silver Screen - A History of Women, Filmmaking and Film Culture in Australia 1920-1990 (Paperback)
Mary Tomsic
R1,304 Discovery Miles 13 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Beyond the Silver Screen tells the history of women's engagement with filmmaking and film culture in twentieth-century Australia. In doing so, it explores an array of often hidden ways women in Australia have creatively worked with film. Beyond the Silver Screen examines film in a broad sense, considering feature filmmaking alongside government documentaries and political films. It also focuses on women's work regulating films and supporting film culture through organising film societies and workshops to encourage female filmmakers. As such, it tells a new narrative of Australian film history. Beyond the Silver Screen reveals the variety of roles film has in Australian society. It presents film as a medium of creative and political expression, which women have engaged with in diverse ways throughout the twentieth century. Gender roles and gendered ideologies operating within society at large have influenced women's opportunities to work with film and how their filmwork is recognised. Beyond the Silver Screen shows women's sustained involvement with film is best understood as political and cultural action.

Screening American Nostalgia - Essays on Pop Culture Constructions of Past Times (Paperback): Susan Flynn, Antonia Mackay Screening American Nostalgia - Essays on Pop Culture Constructions of Past Times (Paperback)
Susan Flynn, Antonia Mackay
R1,219 Discovery Miles 12 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colors the visions of American life, essays explore contemporary American ideology as it is created and sustained by the screen. Nostalgia is omnipresent, selling a version of America that arguably never existed. Current socio-cultural challenges are played out onscreen and placed within the historical milieu through a nostalgic lens which is tempered by contemporary conservatism. Essays reveal not only the visual catalog of recognizable motifs but also how these are used to temper the uncertainty of contemporary crises. Media covered spans from 1939's Gone with the Wind, to Stranger Things, The Americans, Twin Peaks, the Fallout franchise and more.

Reality, Magic, and Other Lies - Fairy-Tale Film Truths (Hardcover): Pauline Greenhill Reality, Magic, and Other Lies - Fairy-Tale Film Truths (Hardcover)
Pauline Greenhill
R2,467 Discovery Miles 24 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths explores connections and discontinuities between lies and truths in fairy-tale films to directly address the current politics of fairy tale and reality. Since the Enlightenment, notions of magic and wonder have been relegated to the realm of the fanciful, with science and reality understood as objective and true. But the skepticism associated with postmodern thought and critiques from diverse perspectives - including but not limited to anti-racist, decolonial, disability, and feminist theorizing - renders this binary distinction questionable. Further, the precise content of magic and science has shifted through history and across location. Pauline Greenhill offers the idea that fairy tales, particularly through the medium of film, often address those distinctions by making magic real and reality magical. Reality, Magic, and Other Lies consists of an introduction, two sections, and a conclusion, with the first section, "Studio, Director, and Writer Oeuvres", addressing how fairy-tale films engage with and challenge scientific or factual approaches to truth and reality, drawing on films from the stop-motion animation company LAIKA, the independent filmmaker Tarsem, and the storyteller and writer Fred Pellerin. The second section, "Themes and Issues from Three Fairy Tales", shows fairy-tale film magic exploring real-life issues and experiences using the stories of "Hansel and Gretel", "The Juniper Tree\2, and "Cinderella". The concluding section, "Moving Forward?" suggests that the key to facing the reality of contemporary issues is to invest in fairy tales as a guide, rather than a means of escape, by gathering your community and never forgetting to believe. Reality, Magic, and Other Lies-which will be of interest to film and fairy-tale scholars and students-considers the ways in which fairy tales in their mediated forms deconstruct the world and offer alternative views for peaceful, appropriate, just, and intersectionally multifaceted encounters with humans, non-human animals, and the rest of the environment.

Classic Monsters Unmade - The Lost Films of Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, and Other Monsters (Volume 1: 1899-1955)... Classic Monsters Unmade - The Lost Films of Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, and Other Monsters (Volume 1: 1899-1955) (Hardcover)
John Lemay
R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World (Hardcover): Carl Fischer, Vania Barraza Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World (Hardcover)
Carl Fischer, Vania Barraza; Contributions by Mar?!a Paz Peirano, Carolina Urrutia, Camilo Trumper, …
R2,511 Discovery Miles 25 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Focusing on films from Chile since 2000 and bringing together scholars from South and North America, Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World is the first English-language book since the 1970s to explore this small, yet significant, Latin American cinema. The volume questions the concept of "national cinemas" by examining how Chilean film dialogues with trends in genre-based, political, and art-house cinema around the world, while remaining true to local identities. Contributors place current Chilean cinema in a historical context and expand the debate concerning the artistic representation of recent political and economic transformations in contemporary Chile. Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World opens up points of comparison between Chile and the ways in which other national cinemas are negotiating their place on the world stage. The book is divided into five parts. "Mapping Theories of Chilean Cinema in the Worl"" examines Chilean filmmakers at international film festivals, and political and affective shifts in the contemporary Chilean documentary. "On the Margins of Hollywood: Chilean Genre Flicks" explores on the emergence of Chilean horror cinema and the performance of martial arts in Chilean films. "Other Texts and Other Lands: Intermediality and Adaptation Beyond Chile(an Cinema)" covers the intermedial transfer from Chilean literature to transnational film and from music video to film. "Migrations of Gender and Genre" contrasts films depicting transgender people in Chile and beyond. "Politicized Intimacies, Transnational Affects: Debating (Post)memory and History" analyzes representations of Chile's traumatic past in contemporary documentary and approaches mourning as a politicized act in postdictatorship cultural production. Intended for scholars, students, and researchers of film and Latin American studies, Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World evaluates an active and emergent film movement that has yet to receive sufficient attention in global cinema studies.

The Trilogy of Life Movies - The Decameron - The Canterbury Tales - The Arabian Nights: Pier Paolo Pasolini: Pocket Movie Guide... The Trilogy of Life Movies - The Decameron - The Canterbury Tales - The Arabian Nights: Pier Paolo Pasolini: Pocket Movie Guide (Hardcover)
Jeremy Mark Robinson
R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Indecent Exposure - A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street (Paperback, 1st HarperBusiness pbk. ed): David McClintick Indecent Exposure - A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street (Paperback, 1st HarperBusiness pbk. ed)
David McClintick
R471 Discovery Miles 4 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When the head of Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, got caught forging Cliff Robertson's name on a $10,000 check, it seemed, at first, like a simple case of embezzlement. It wasn't. The incident was the tip of the iceberg, the first hint of a scandal that shook Hollywood and rattled Wall Street. Soon powerful studio executives were engulfed in controversy; careers derailed; reputations died; and a ruthless, take-no-prisoners corporate power struggle for the world-famous Hollywood dream factory began.

First published in 1982, this now classic story of greed and lies in Tinseltown appears here with a stunning final chapter on Begelman's post-Columbia career as he continued to dazzle and defraud...until his last hours in a Hollywood hotel room, where his story dramatically and poignantly would end.

The Cannon Film Guide - Volume I, 1980-1984 (hardback) (Hardcover): Austin Trunick The Cannon Film Guide - Volume I, 1980-1984 (hardback) (Hardcover)
Austin Trunick; Foreword by Sam Firstenberg
R1,214 Discovery Miles 12 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Judy Garland, Lost on the Yellow Brick Road - The true story of how Judy Garland lost her way. (Hardcover): Michael Lee... Judy Garland, Lost on the Yellow Brick Road - The true story of how Judy Garland lost her way. (Hardcover)
Michael Lee Simpson, Michael Selsman
R629 R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hollywood Hates Hitler! - Jew-Baiting, Anti-Nazism, and the Senate Investigation into Warmongering in Motion Pictures... Hollywood Hates Hitler! - Jew-Baiting, Anti-Nazism, and the Senate Investigation into Warmongering in Motion Pictures (Hardcover)
Chris Yogerst
R3,178 Discovery Miles 31 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In September 1941, a handful of isolationist senators set out to tarnish Hollywood for warmongering. The United States was largely divided on the possibility of entering the European War, yet the immigrant moguls in Hollywood were acutely aware of the conditions in Europe. After Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass), the gloves came off. Warner Bros. released the first directly anti-Nazi film in 1939 with Confessions of a Nazi Spy. Other studios followed with such films as The Mortal Storm (MGM), Man Hunt (Fox), The Man I Married (Fox), and The Great Dictator (United Artists). While these films represented a small percentage of Hollywood's output, senators took aim at the Jews in Hollywood who were supposedly "agitating us for war" and launched an investigation that resulted in Senate Resolution 152. The resolution was aimed at both radio and movies that "have been extensively used for propaganda purposes designed to influence the public mind in the direction of participation in the European War". When the Senate approved a subcommittee to investigate the intentions of these films, studio bosses were ready and willing to stand up against the government to defend their beloved industry. What followed was a complete embarrassment of the United States Senate and a large victory for Hollywood as well as freedom of speech. Many works of American film history only skim the surface of the 1941 investigation of Hollywood. In Hollywood Hates Hitler! Jew-Baiting, Anti-Nazism, and the Senate Investigation into Warmongering in Motion Pictures, author Chris Yogerst examines the years leading up to and through the Senate Investigation into Motion Picture War Propaganda, detailing the isolationist senators' relationship with the America First movement. Through his use of primary documents and lengthy congressional records, Yogerst paints a picture of the investigation's daily events both on Capitol Hill and in the national press.

Mothers Of Invention - Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor (Hardcover): So Mayer, Corinn Columpar Mothers Of Invention - Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor (Hardcover)
So Mayer, Corinn Columpar
R2,740 Discovery Miles 27 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in film and media cultures. Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor constructs a feminist genealogy that foregrounds the relationship between acts of production on the one hand and reproduction on the other. In this interdisciplinary collection, editors So Mayer and Corinn Columpar bring together film and media studies with parenting studies to stake out a field, or at least a conversation, that is thick with historical and theoretical dimension and invested in cultural and methodological plurality. In four sections and sixteen contributions, the manuscript reflects on how caregiving shapes the work of filmmakers, how parenting is portrayed on screen, and how media contributes to radical new forms of care and expansive definitions of mothering. Featuring an exciting array of approaches-including textual analysis, industry studies, ethnographic research, production histories, and personal reflection-Mothers of Invention is a multifaceted collection of feminist work that draws on the methods of both the humanities and the social sciences, as well as the insights borne of both scholarship and lived experience. Grounding this inquiry is analysis of a broad range of texts with global reach-from the films Bashu, The Little Stranger (Bahram Beyzai, 1989), Prevenge (Alice Lowe, 2016), and A Deal with the Universe (Jason Barker, 2018) to the television series Top of the Lake(2013-2017) and Jane the Virgin (2014-2019), among others-as well as discussion of the creative practices, be they related to production, pedagogy, curation, or critique, employed by a wide variety of film and media artists and/or scholars. Mothers of Invention demonstrates how the discourse of parenting and caregiving allows the discipline to expand its discursive frameworks to address, and redress, current theoretical, political, and social debates about the interlinked futures of work and the world. This collection belongs on the bookshelves of students and scholars of cinema and media studies, feminist and queer media studies, labor studies, filmmaking and production, and cultural studies.

Hollywood Tiki - Film in the Era of the Pineapple Cocktail (Paperback): Adam Foshko, Jason Henderson Hollywood Tiki - Film in the Era of the Pineapple Cocktail (Paperback)
Adam Foshko, Jason Henderson
R615 R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Save R51 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hell Hath No Fury Like Her - The Making of Christine (hardback) (Hardcover): Lee Gambin Hell Hath No Fury Like Her - The Making of Christine (hardback) (Hardcover)
Lee Gambin
R952 Discovery Miles 9 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Underground Homosexualities - Resituating the Early Sixties Cinema of Kenneth Anger Jack Smith and Andy Warhol (Hardcover):... Underground Homosexualities - Resituating the Early Sixties Cinema of Kenneth Anger Jack Smith and Andy Warhol (Hardcover)
Patrick Brennan
R2,244 Discovery Miles 22 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mario Bava - The Artisan as Italian Horror Auteur (Hardcover): Leon Hunt Mario Bava - The Artisan as Italian Horror Auteur (Hardcover)
Leon Hunt
R3,370 Discovery Miles 33 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How do we approach a figure like Mario Bava, a once obscure figure promoted to cult status? This book takes a new look at Italy's 'maestro of horror' but also uses his films to address a broader set of concerns. What issues do his films raise for film authorship, given that several of them were released in different versions and his contributions to others were not always credited? How might he be understood in relation to genre, one of which he is sometimes credited with having pioneered? This volume addresses these questions through a thorough analysis of Bava's shifting reputation as a stylist and genre pioneer and also discusses the formal and narrative properties of a filmography marked by an emphasis on spectacle and atmosphere over narrative coherence and the ways in which his lauded cinematic style intersects with different production contexts. Featuring new analysis of cult classics like Kill, Baby ... Kill (1966) and Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970), Mario Bava: The Artisan as Italian Horror Auteur sheds light on a body of films that were designed to be ephemeral but continue to fascinate us today.

His World Never Dies - The Evolution of James Bond (Hardcover): Dave Holcomb His World Never Dies - The Evolution of James Bond (Hardcover)
Dave Holcomb
R741 R657 Discovery Miles 6 570 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Classic Monsters Unmade - The Lost Films of Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, and Other Monsters (Volume 2: 1956-2000)... Classic Monsters Unmade - The Lost Films of Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, and Other Monsters (Volume 2: 1956-2000) (Hardcover)
John Lemay
R671 Discovery Miles 6 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Durational Cinema - A Short History of Long Films (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Michael Walsh Durational Cinema - A Short History of Long Films (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Michael Walsh
R3,379 Discovery Miles 33 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book argues for a durational cinema that is distinct from slow cinema, and outlines the history of its three main waves: the New York avant-garde of the 1960s, the European art cinema in the years after 1968, and the international cinema of gallery spaces as well as film festivals since the 1990s. Figures studied include Andy Warhol, Ken Jacobs, Chantal Akerman, Marguerite Duras, Claude Lanzmann, James Benning, Kevin Jerome Everson, Lav Diaz, and Wang Bing.Durational cinema is predominantly minimal, but has from the beginning also included a more encompassing or encyclopedic kind of filmmaking. Durational cinema is characteristically representational, and converges on certain topics (the Holocaust, deindustrialization, the experience of the working class and other marginalized people), but has no one meaning, signifying differently at different moments and in different hands. Warhol's durational cinema of subtraction is quite different from Jacobs's durational cinema of social disgust, while Lav Diaz' durational sublime is quite different from Kevin Jerome Everson's unblinking studies of African-American working people.

Framing the Sex Scene: A New Take on Israeli Film History (Hardcover): Naomi Rolef Framing the Sex Scene: A New Take on Israeli Film History (Hardcover)
Naomi Rolef
R2,597 Discovery Miles 25 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book retells the history of Israeli film in the 1960s and 1970s in sex scenes. Through close readings of the first sex scenes in mainstream Israeli movies from this period, it explores the cultural and social contexts in which these movies were made. More specifically, it discusses how notions of collective identity, individual agency, and the public and private spheres are inscribed into and negotiated in sex scenes, especially in light of the historical events that marked these decades. This study thus pushes away from the traditional academic perception of Israeli film and opens up new ways of understanding how it has developed in recent decades. It draws on a growing international body of academic literature on the cinematic representation of sex in order to illuminate the particularities of the Israeli context in the 1960s and 1970s. Apart from film scholars and scholars of Israeli film, this study also addresses readers interested in Israeli cultural history more broadly.

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