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Shots to the Heart: For the Love of Film Performance
Steven Rybin
This book continues the author’s project, begun in the 2017 monograph Gestures of Love, of exploring the place of film actors in an emotional and thoughtful reception of movies. Shots to the Heart aims to provide both concrete critical engagements with moments of performance as well as philosophical explorations of and reflections on the implications of a love for performance in viewing cinema.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839985911
March 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95This book continues the author’s project, begun in the 2017 monograph Gestures of Love, of exploring the place of film actors in an emotional and thoughtful reception of movies. Shots to the Heart aims to provide both concrete critical engagements with moments of performance as well as philosophical explorations of and reflections on the implications of a love for performance in viewing cinema.
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The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers
Joseph McBride
A groundbreaking, incisive critical study of the Coen Bros., the quirky team of filmmaking brothers who delight in unsettling cinematic conventions and confounding audiences while raising disturbing questions about human nature.
Anthem Press
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9781839983313
March 2022
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£16.95 / $16.95A groundbreaking, incisive critical study of the Coen Bros., the quirky team of filmmaking brothers who delight in unsettling cinematic conventions and confounding audiences while raising disturbing questions about human nature.
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The Films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan
A Cinema of Emancipation
Suranjan Ganguly
The first comprehensive study of the feature films of India’s most distinguished contemporary filmmaker. This work offers a compelling analysis of the director’s treatment of guilt, redemption and hope within their socio-historical contexts.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084098
May 2015
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£115.00 / $115.00The first comprehensive study of the feature films of India’s most distinguished contemporary filmmaker. This work offers a compelling analysis of the director’s treatment of guilt, redemption and hope within their socio-historical contexts.
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Unhomely Cinema
Home and Place in Global Cinema
Dwayne Avery
Representations of troubled and inhospitable domestic places are a common feature of many cinematic narratives. “Unhomely Cinema” explores how the unhomely nature of contemporary film narrative provides an insight into what it means to dwell in today’s global societies.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783083022
October 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00Representations of troubled and inhospitable domestic places are a common feature of many cinematic narratives. “Unhomely Cinema” explores how the unhomely nature of contemporary film narrative provides an insight into what it means to dwell in today’s global societies.
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Cinema at the Margins
Wheeler Dixon
“Cinema at the Margins” is a collection that aims to highlight some of the lesser-known films and filmmakers of the past that are being marginalized and forgotten in today’s reductive popular memory of movie history.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781783080168
December 2013
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£40.00 / $40.00“Cinema at the Margins” is a collection that aims to highlight some of the lesser-known films and filmmakers of the past that are being marginalized and forgotten in today’s reductive popular memory of movie history.
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Cinema at the Margins
Wheeler Dixon
“Cinema at the Margins” is a collection that aims to highlight some of the lesser-known films and filmmakers of the past that are being marginalized and forgotten in today’s reductive popular memory of movie history.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857281869
December 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00“Cinema at the Margins” is a collection that aims to highlight some of the lesser-known films and filmmakers of the past that are being marginalized and forgotten in today’s reductive popular memory of movie history.
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Selected Film Essays and Interviews
Bruce F. Kawin
foreword by Howie MovshovitzA collection of Bruce F. Kawin’s most engaging and important essays on film, accompanied by his interviews with Lillian Gish and Howard Hawks.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857283047
February 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00A collection of Bruce F. Kawin’s most engaging and important essays on film, accompanied by his interviews with Lillian Gish and Howard Hawks.
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The “Slumdog” Phenomenon
A Critical Anthology
Edited by Ajay Gehlawat
Featuring a dynamic combination of landmark essays by leading critics and theorists, “The ‘Slumdog’ Phenomenon: A Critical Anthology” addresses multiple issues relating to “Slumdog Millionaire,” providing new ways of looking at this controversial film.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857280015
February 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00Featuring a dynamic combination of landmark essays by leading critics and theorists, “The ‘Slumdog’ Phenomenon: A Critical Anthology” addresses multiple issues relating to “Slumdog Millionaire,” providing new ways of looking at this controversial film.
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From Happy Homemaker to Desperate Housewives
Motherhood and Popular Television
Rebecca Feasey
‘Motherhood and Popular Television’ is designed to introduce readers to key debates concerning the representations of motherhood and the maternal role in contemporary television programming.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9780857285614
November 2012
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£39.00 / $39.00‘Motherhood and Popular Television’ is designed to introduce readers to key debates concerning the representations of motherhood and the maternal role in contemporary television programming.
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Horror and the Horror Film
Bruce F. Kawin
‘Horror and the Horror Film’ is a vivid, compelling, insightful and well-written study of the horror film and its subgenres from 1896 to the present, concentrating on the nature of horror in reality and on film.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284495
June 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Horror and the Horror Film’ is a vivid, compelling, insightful and well-written study of the horror film and its subgenres from 1896 to the present, concentrating on the nature of horror in reality and on film.
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World Cinema and the Visual Arts
Edited by David Gallagher
‘World Cinema and the Visual Arts’ combines new analyses of two subjects of ongoing research in the field of humanities: cinema and the visual arts. The films analysed encompass a wide geographical base, and have been drawn from a diverse array of cultural traditions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284389
February 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00‘World Cinema and the Visual Arts’ combines new analyses of two subjects of ongoing research in the field of humanities: cinema and the visual arts. The films analysed encompass a wide geographical base, and have been drawn from a diverse array of cultural traditions.
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Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity
Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments
Robert Dixon
This volume is an account of the stage and screen practice of Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley, in the context of early twentieth-century mass media.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857287953
January 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume is an account of the stage and screen practice of Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley, in the context of early twentieth-century mass media.
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The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941
Edited by Robert Dixon, Christopher Lee
This is the first illustrated edition of the diaries kept by Australian-born photographer and film maker Frank Hurley about his work on the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, his two expeditions to Papua in the 1920s, and his experiences during the First and Second World Wars.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857287748
April 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This is the first illustrated edition of the diaries kept by Australian-born photographer and film maker Frank Hurley about his work on the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, his two expeditions to Papua in the 1920s, and his experiences during the First and Second World Wars.
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Screen Writings
Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary
Bert Cardullo
'Screen Writings: Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary' offers close readings of individual films intended to explain how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex and significant humanistic goals.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318798
March 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Screen Writings: Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary’ offers close readings of individual films intended to explain how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex and significant humanistic goals.
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Screen Writings
Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics
Bert Cardullo
'Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics' offers close readings of genre films and acknowledged film classics in an attempt to explore both the aesthetics of genre and the definition of 'classic' - as well as the changing perception of so-called classic movies over time.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318378
March 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics’ offers close readings of genre films and acknowledged film classics in an attempt to explore both the aesthetics of genre and the definition of ‘classic’ – as well as the changing perception of so-called classic movies over time.
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Bollywood and Globalization
Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora
Edited by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande
This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318330
January 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.
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Action!
Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran
Edited by Gary Morris
foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum
introduction by Bert Cardullo‘Action!’ draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the ‘Bright Lights Film Journal’, and contains many gems, including the last ever interview given by Francois Truffaut, four months before he died.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843313120
February 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Action!’ draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the ‘Bright Lights Film Journal’, and contains many gems, including the last ever interview given by Francois Truffaut, four months before he died.