|
Film and Television
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror by Jason Zinoman Publisher Comments Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but at the same time that Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorcese were producing their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern horror film. Shock... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper 
add to wish list |
|
Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen (08 Edition) by Douglas E. Cowan Publisher Comments ...both entertaining and important! -John... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema (Film and Culture) by Angela Smith Publisher Comments Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most critics have interpreted these traits as symptoms of... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
No Focus: Punk on Film by Chris Barber Publisher Comments Punk has been analyzed as social phenomena, as musical renaissance, as youth subculture and even as an economic force. But never in relation to film.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror by Jason Zinoman Publisher Comments Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but at the same time as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola were making their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Movie Monsters by David Baird Synopsis An unforgettable collection of the scariest and most intriguing monsters the world of film has ever produced. Old favourites such as Frankenstein, Dracula, Godzilla and King Kong appear alongside more modern versions of the monstrous-from Norman Bates to... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $2.25 Sale - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
When Eagles Dared: The Filmgoers' History of World War II by Howard Hughes Publisher Comments When Eagles Dared tells the stories of the historical events of World War II and the films that have depicted these events on cinema screens, presenting a guide to history through cinema that compares the cinematic myth with the historical reality... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System by Thomas Schatz Publisher Comments The central thesis of this book is that a genre approach provides the most effective means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating the Hollywood cinema. Taking into account not only the formal and aesthetic aspects of feature filmmaking, but... (read more) List Price $71.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Patrici Aufderheide Publisher Comments Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Playing to the Camera: Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema (Nonfictions) by Thomas Cohen Synopsis "Playing to the Camera" is the first full-length study devoted to the musical performance documentary. Its scope ranges from music education films to punk rock concert films to experimental video art featuring modernist music. Unlike the 'music under... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Action Speaks Louder: Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action Movie (Wesleyan Film) by Eric Lichtenfeld Publisher Comments For more than 30 years, the action movie has been the film genre that most represents Hollywood to the world, and represents the world to American audiences. Still, the action film has never received the critical attention it deserves. Studying its... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Psychotronic Video Guide to Film by Psychotronic Video Publisher Comments How to know a Psychotronic Movie: These films can commonly be identified by their use of exploitation elements and their interest in humanity's lower common demoninators. They occur throughout the world, but are particuarly common at midnight movie... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema by Blair Davis Publisher Comments The emergence of the double-bill in the 1930s created a divide between A-pictures and B-pictures as theaters typically screened packages featuring one of each. With the former considered more prestigious because of their larger budgets and more popular... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Another Fine Mess (10 Edition) by Saul Austerlitz Publisher Comments From City Lights to Knocked Up, this history examines American film from the perspective of its unwanted stepbrother, the comedy, and puts the comic titans of the present in the context of their predecessors. The 30 chapters and 100 essays ... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Flesh and Blood Volume 2 (Flesh and Blood) by Harvey Fenton Publisher Comments The widely acclaimed journal of cinema and video for adults returns with this uncompromising collection of cutting-edge features and interviews.Flesh And Blood is the Cult Movie Journal from FAB Press, lovingly crafted for everyone who is interested in... (read more) Your price: $11.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Horror Cinema (25) by Jonathan Penner Synopsis The best scary movies of all time Horror is both the most perennially popular and geographically diverse of all film genres; arguably, every country that makes movies makes horror movies of one kind or another. Depicting deep-rooted, even... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
It's a Bitter Little World: The Smartest, Toughest, Nastiest Quotes from Film Noir by Charles Pappas Publisher Comments Learn Life's Hard Lessons from Film Noir If you want to know the meaning of life, don't study Shakespeare, don't peruse Plato. Everything you need to know in life you can learn from film noir. And everything you can learn from film noir, you can find in... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Sleaze Creatures: An Illustrated Guide to Obscure Hollywood by David Earl Worth Synopsis This book captures the true essence of obscure Hollywood horror and science fiction movies of the 1950's. Worth examines fifty of the most obscure anti WORST Hollywood movies ever made, with emphasis on production history and director/producer/star... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
For Documentary: Twelve Essays by Dai Vaughan Publisher Comments A collection of twelve essays, spanning a period of 25 years, on documentary film and cinematic representation, written by one of the most important and respected documentary editors in the UK, in a style accessible not only to specialists but to anyone... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $23.92 Google eBooks - Electronic
add to wish list |
|
San Francisco Noir by Nathaniel Rich Publisher Comments All cities have their secrets, but none are so dark as San Francisco's, the city that Ambrose Bierce famously described as "a point upon a map of fog." With its reputation as a shadowy land of easy vice and hard virtue, San Francisco provided... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
