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The Spaces and Places of Horror (Hardcover): Francesco Pascuzzi The Spaces and Places of Horror (Hardcover)
Francesco Pascuzzi
R1,813 Discovery Miles 18 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nazi Cinema's New Women (Hardcover): Jana F. Bruns Nazi Cinema's New Women (Hardcover)
Jana F. Bruns
R2,407 Discovery Miles 24 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the careers of three of Nazi cinema's preeminent movie actresses, painting a unique portrait of mass entertainment and stardom under Nazi rule. Bruns uses undiscovered sources and a new approach, which integrates visual analysis within a thorough political and social context, to trace how the Nazis tried to use films and stars to build National Socialism. This analysis focuses on female stars - an important but largely unexplored area - because they were mostly responsible for Nazi cinema's spectacular commercial success and political failure. Challenging earlier studies, which view Nazi cinema as an effective propaganda instrument that helped turn Germans into devoted "Aryan" mothers and tough warriors, the book shows that the Nazi regime's liaison with the cinema was ambivalent. Films failed to disseminate a coherent political message and to Nazify German society. However, they helped the regime maintain power by diverting people's attention from the brutality of Hitler's rule and, eventually, from impending defeat.

The Magic of MinaLima (Hardcover): Minalima, Nell Denton The Magic of MinaLima (Hardcover)
Minalima, Nell Denton
R960 R896 Discovery Miles 8 960 Save R64 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A full-colour illustrated compendium chronicling the magical twenty-year journey of acclaimed art and design studio, MinaLima, the creative genius behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film series. "It all started with a letter . . ." Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima began their extraordinary partnership in 2001 when Warner Bros. invited them to realize the imaginative visual universe of the Harry Potter film series. The two artists would never have guessed that the graphic props they designed for the films - including the Hogwarts acceptance letter, Marauder's Map, Daily Prophet newspaper, The Quibbler and Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes - would become cultural icons loved by Wizarding World fans around the world. Eight years later, the pair formed their own design studio, MinaLima, and expanded their work to include the graphics for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade at Universal Orlando Resort and the Fantastic Beasts film series. To showcase their treasury of designs, the studio has opened House of MinaLima, its immersive art galleries and shops in London and across the world. The Magic of MinaLima is an illustrated history and celebration of Mina and Lima's twenty-year evolution and groundbreaking vision. Their wondrous creations illuminate the Wizarding World as never before, and their commentary offers insights into the imaginative thinking that shaped their designs. This collection showcases the very best works from the award-winning studio's two decades and includes interactive elements such as the Marauder's Map, the Black Family Tapestry, and Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. Designed to delight and enchant, The Magic of MinaLima will be an invaluable resource for Wizarding World and graphic art fans alike.

Clipper (September 1905) (Hardcover): New York Clipper Clipper (September 1905) (Hardcover)
New York Clipper
R760 Discovery Miles 7 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
From Despair to Beloved - The Provocative Cinema of on Mark Productions (Hardback) (Hardcover): Scott Kenyon Barker, Mark... From Despair to Beloved - The Provocative Cinema of on Mark Productions (Hardback) (Hardcover)
Scott Kenyon Barker, Mark Baranowski
R623 Discovery Miles 6 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Careers of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas as Referenced in Literature (Hardcover): Henryk Hoffmann The Careers of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas as Referenced in Literature (Hardcover)
Henryk Hoffmann
R1,635 Discovery Miles 16 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
John Hughes and Eighties Cinema - Teenage Hopes and American Dreams (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Thomas A Christie John Hughes and Eighties Cinema - Teenage Hopes and American Dreams (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Thomas A Christie
R1,179 R913 Discovery Miles 9 130 Save R266 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

JOHN HUGHES AND EIGHTIES CINEMA

John Hughes is the acclaimed writer and director of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty In Pink and many other classic movies of the 1980s.

This book is the first full-length analysis of all of John Hughes's films throughout the 1980s; not only the features that he directed, but also those for which he provided the screenplay. By analysing these pictures and discussing their social and cultural significance in the wider context of the decade, Hughes's importance as a filmmaker will be considered, and his prominent contribution to cinema assessed. The book concludes with a detailed analysis of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a film which is considered to be among Hughes's most critically successful works and also one of his most structurally refined.

REVIEW ON AMAZON

If like me, you were fortunate enough to live through and grow up during the 80's and early 90's, you'll remember just how rich comedy was back then. This book on it's own puts most comedies of the modern era to shame as it is a homage to one of the most talented minds in the game. I am of course speaking of none other than the late great John Hughes. This is a great book for getting into the details of how a master of his art came about and created such cinematic gems. Hughes will be sorely missed which is why books like this keep his spirit and work alive

I'd say this book is for people who are nostalgic 20-somethings or cinema buffs, but all-round a good book for just about anyone who would like to know what made one of the funniest minds of Hollywood tick.

EXTRACT FROM THE INTRODUCTION

Today John Hughes is just as well known for the scripts he created for hugely popular family films throughout the 1990s, including Chris Columbus's blockbuster Home Alone (1990), Brian Levant's Beethoven (1992) and Nick Castle's Dennis the Menace (1993), written under his pen-name of Edmond Dantes. But even these accomplishments couldn't compare to the artistic diversity of his output throughout the eighties. Although it is easy to remember Hughes for his meteorically successful teen movies right the way through the including The Breakfast Club (1985) and Ferris Bueller's Day (1986), he was every bit as adroit in his handling of suburban satires such as Mr Mom (1983) and Uncle Buck (1989), his wry observations of the great American holiday in National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) and The Great Outdoors (1988), the trials of an exasperated everyman commuter in Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), and the expectation of anxious new parents in She's Having a Baby (1988). Throughout the course of Hughes's career, there has rarely been a lack of variety in his choice of subject matter.

New York Clipper (August 1895); 43 (Hardcover): New York Clipper New York Clipper (August 1895); 43 (Hardcover)
New York Clipper
R754 Discovery Miles 7 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Oscarmetrics - The Math Behind the Biggest Night in Hollywood (hardback) (Hardcover): Ben Zauzmer Oscarmetrics - The Math Behind the Biggest Night in Hollywood (hardback) (Hardcover)
Ben Zauzmer
R859 Discovery Miles 8 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Peter Mark Richman - I Saw a Molten, White Light...: An Autobiography of My Artistic and Spiritual Journey (Hardback)... Peter Mark Richman - I Saw a Molten, White Light...: An Autobiography of My Artistic and Spiritual Journey (Hardback) (Hardcover)
Peter Mark Richman
R1,029 Discovery Miles 10 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Children's Film Foundation - History and Legacy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Robert Shail The Children's Film Foundation - History and Legacy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Robert Shail
R2,429 Discovery Miles 24 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the 1950s to the 1980s the Children's Film Foundation made films for Saturday morning cinema clubs across the UK - entertaining and educating generations of British children. This first history of this much-loved organisation provides an overview of the CFF's films, interviews with key backstage personnel, and memories of audience members.

Ghost Squad The Series (Hardcover): Scott V Palmer Ghost Squad The Series (Hardcover)
Scott V Palmer
R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lament of an Audience on the Death of an Artist (Hardcover): Cordell Strug Lament of an Audience on the Death of an Artist (Hardcover)
Cordell Strug
R800 R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Save R139 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Visions of England - Class and Culture in Contemporary Cinema (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed): Paul Dave Visions of England - Class and Culture in Contemporary Cinema (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
Paul Dave
R4,260 Discovery Miles 42 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Visions of England is a provocative and original exploration of Englishness, in particular English class, in contemporary cinema. Class has been a central part, whether consciously or not, of much of English social analysis and artistic production for over a century. But as a way of interpreting society, class has found itself sidelined in a postmodern world. Visions of England presents a detailed analysis of the changing landscape of English class and culture. Visions of England explores a wide range of film production - from gangster thrillers like Lock, Stock Two Smoking Barrels to the period cinema of Elizabeth, from cult classics like Performance and Trainspotting to the mainstream romantic comedy of Notting Hill and Bridget Jones, from the social realist drama of Billy Elliot and The Full Monty to the multicultural comedy of Bend it like Beckham, and the experimentalism of films such as London Orbital and Robinson in Space. An extraordinarily wide-ranging and incisive study, Visions of England rewrites the relationship of film and Englishness.

Screening Neoliberalism - Transforming Mexican Cinema, 1988-2012 (Hardcover): Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado Screening Neoliberalism - Transforming Mexican Cinema, 1988-2012 (Hardcover)
Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado
R3,104 R2,362 Discovery Miles 23 620 Save R742 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cavernous, often cold, always dark, with the lingering smell of popcorn in the air: the experience of movie-going is universal. The cinematic experience in Mexico is no less profound, and has evolved in complex ways in recent years. Films like "Y Tu Mama Tambien, El Mariachi, Amores Perros," and the work of icons like Guillermo del Toro and Salma Hayek represent much more than resurgent interest in the cinema of Mexico. In "Screening Neoliberalism," Ignacio Sanchez Prado explores precisely what happened to Mexico's film industry in recent decades. Far from just a history of the period, "Screening Neoliberalism" explores four deep transformations in the Mexican film industry: the decline of nationalism, the new focus on middle-class audiences, the redefinition of political cinema, and the impact of globalization. This analysis considers the directors and films that have found international notoriety as well as those that have been instrumental in building a domestic market. "Screening Neoliberalism" exposes the consequences of a film industry forced to find new audiences in Mexico's middle-class in order to achieve economic and cultural viability.

BOXedMAN - I'm Going To Make A Movie - Why Are You Laughing? (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Nicholas Pasyanos BOXedMAN - I'm Going To Make A Movie - Why Are You Laughing? (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Nicholas Pasyanos
R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Guest Parking 2 - Ian Wolfe, Carl Laemmle Jr., Alan Napier, David Manners (Hardback) (Hardcover): Rick Atkins Guest Parking 2 - Ian Wolfe, Carl Laemmle Jr., Alan Napier, David Manners (Hardback) (Hardcover)
Rick Atkins
R910 Discovery Miles 9 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Howard Hughes Was Bob Hope in Make-Up (Hardcover): Joseph Polillo Howard Hughes Was Bob Hope in Make-Up (Hardcover)
Joseph Polillo
R1,115 Discovery Miles 11 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Adapting Gender - Mexican Feminisms from Literature to Film (Paperback): Ilana Dann Luna Adapting Gender - Mexican Feminisms from Literature to Film (Paperback)
Ilana Dann Luna
R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Echoes of a Queer Messianic - From Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain (Paperback): Richard O. Block Echoes of a Queer Messianic - From Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain (Paperback)
Richard O. Block
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Dream of Hitchcock (Paperback): Murray Pomerance A Dream of Hitchcock (Paperback)
Murray Pomerance
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Immanent Frames - Postsecular Cinema between Malick and von Trier (Paperback): John Caruana, Mark Cauchi Immanent Frames - Postsecular Cinema between Malick and von Trier (Paperback)
John Caruana, Mark Cauchi
R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Martial Culture, Silver Screen - War Movies and the Construction of American Identity (Hardcover): Matthew Christopher Hulbert,... Martial Culture, Silver Screen - War Movies and the Construction of American Identity (Hardcover)
Matthew Christopher Hulbert, Matthew E. Stanley; Contributions by Kylie A. Hulbert, Brian Matthew Jordan, Andrew Graybill, …
R1,953 Discovery Miles 19 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Martial Culture, Silver Screen analyzes war movies, one of the most popular genres in American cinema, for what they reveal about the narratives and ideologies that shape U.S. national identity. Edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and Matthew E. Stanley, this volume explores the extent to which the motion picture industry, particularly Hollywood, has played an outsized role in the construction and evolution of American self-definition. Moving chronologically, eleven essays highlight cinematic versions of military and cultural conflicts spanning from the American Revolution to the War on Terror. Each focuses on a selection of films about a specific war or historical period, often foregrounding recent productions that remain understudied in the critical literature on cinema, history, and cultural memory. Scrutinizing cinema through the lens of nationalism and its "invention of tradition", Martial Culture, Silver Screen considers how movies possess the power to frame ideologies, provide social coherence, betray collective neuroses and fears, construct narratives of victimhood or heroism, forge communities of remembrance, and cement tradition and convention. Hollywood war films routinely present broad, identifiable narratives such as that of the rugged pioneer or the "good war" through which filmmakers invent representations of the past, establishing narratives that advance discrete social and political functions in the present. As a result, cinematic versions of wartime conflicts condition and reinforce popular understandings of American national character as it relates to violence, individualism, democracy, militarism, capitalism, masculinity, race, class, and empire. Approaching war movies as identity-forging apparatuses and tools of social power, Martial Culture, Silver Screen lays bare how cinematic versions of warfare have helped define for audiences what it means to be American.

Neo-Noir as Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Robert Arnett Neo-Noir as Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Robert Arnett
R3,508 Discovery Miles 35 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Neo-Noir as Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema suggests the terms "noir" and "neo-noir" have been rendered almost meaningless by overuse. The book seeks to re-establish a purpose for neo-noir films and re-consider the organization of 60 years of neo-noir films. Using the notion of post-classical, the book establishes how neo-noir breaks into many movements, some based on time and others based on thematic similarities. The combined movements then form a mosaic of neo-noir. The time-based movements examine Transitional Noir (1960s-early 1970s), Hollywood Renaissance Noir in the 1970s, Eighties Noir, Nineties Noir, and Digital Noir of the 2000s. The thematic movements explore Nostalgia Noir, Hybrid Noir, and Remake and Homage Noir. Academics as well as film buffs will find this book appealing as it deconstructs popular films and places them within new contexts.

Secrets of Cinema - 100 Movies That Are Not What They Seem (Hardcover): Daniel Kieckhefer Secrets of Cinema - 100 Movies That Are Not What They Seem (Hardcover)
Daniel Kieckhefer
R3,680 Discovery Miles 36 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ninety-nine years ago, a new form of storytelling emerged from the ruins of World War I. Different in scope and power from theater or literature, and unlike any film that had come before, F. W. Murnau's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari addressed a direct challenge to its audience, demanding to be viewed as something other than what was immediately presented. Unfortunately, criticism has not risen to the challenge. Relegating the film condescendingly to the horror genre, or treating it merely as a case study in style, critics have failed to look at it with due seriousness. On the other hand, the film's ambiguity, structural devices, and psychological depth gave cinema a number of tools that other filmmakers were quick to start using. This book examines a spectrum of narrative films that can be seen in new ways with methods derived and evolved from the techniques of Caligari. The intention is not only to offer new interpretations of classic and neglected films, but to open further discussion and exploration. It is written with optimism that movie lovers will see more in the movies they love, that critics will find new paths of investigation, and that filmmakers will benefit from greater awareness of what movies can do. Secrets of Cinema began in 1994, in discussions among friends after weekly movie nights hosted by the late Lawrence N. Fox on the 73rd floor of the John Hancock Center in Chicago. The movies selected are not necessarily the greatest ever made (although some of them surely are), but rather movies that offer new and useful lessons in how movies work. Among the secrets of cinema revealed in this book are at least three movies that are stealth remakes of The Wizard of Oz, hidden meanings behind films made under political repression, and why Hitchcock's Psycho is a remake of his Vertigo. Persistent enigmas are clarified, including the logic of Persona, the riddle of Last Year at Marienbad, and the endings of Blow-Up and The Shining. More importantly, by showing how much there is to discover in movies, the book encourages its readers to continue in their own ways the quest to see movies whole.

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