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Picturing Peter Bogdanovich: My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director [Hardback]
Peter Tonguette (Author)
£29.00ISBN: 9780813147314
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
Not yet published - available for pre-order
In 1971, Newsweek heralded The Last Picture Show as the “the most impressive work by a young American director since Citizen Kane.” Indeed, few filmmakers rivaled Peter Bogdanovich’s popularity over the next decade. Riding the success of What’s Up... .... Learn More -
What Price Hollywood?: Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor [Hardback]
Elyce Rae Helford (Author)
£41.50ISBN: 9780813179292
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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During the early Hollywood sound era, studio director George Cukor produced nearly fifty films in as many years, famously winning the Best Director Oscar at the 1964 Academy Awards for My Fair Lady. His collaborations with so-called difficult actr... .... Learn More -
CINÉMA&CIE, INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES JOURNAL, VOL. XX, no. 32, SPRING 2019: Cinema and Mid-Century Colour Culture [Paperback]
Elena Gipponi (Editor); Joshua Yumibe (Editor)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869772450
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Cinema&Cie
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Suspended between transparency and naturalness on the one hand, and opacity and artificiality on the other, colour is integral to the cinematic apparatus in an ideological as well as technological sense. This special issue of Cinéma&Cie aims to ad... .... Learn More -
History of Cinema Without Names/4 Exposing the Moving Image: The Cinematic Medium Across World Fairs, Art Museums and Cultural Exhibitions [Paperback]
Diego Cavallotti (Editor); Simone Dotto (Editor); Andrea Mariani (Editor)
£31.00ISBN: 9788869772306
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Udine/Gorizia Conference Proceedings
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The XXV FilmForum Cinematic Medium Across World Fairs, Art Museums, and Cultural Exhibitions conference has been devoted to exploring the interrelations between moving images, the cinematic medium and other arts and media as seen through global ex... .... Learn More -
Literacy in the Mountains: Community, Newspapers, and Writing in Appalachia [Hardback]
Samantha NeCamp (Author)
£41.50ISBN: 9780813178851
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
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After the 2016 presidential election, popular media branded Appalachia as “Trump Country,” decrying its inhabitants as ignorant fearmongers voting against their own interests. And since the 1880s, there have been many, including travel writers and... .... Learn More -
Lewis Milestone: Life and Films [Hardback]
Harlow Robinson (Author)
£41.50ISBN: 9780813178332
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
This comprehensive biography is the first to present Lewis Milestone's remarkable life - a classic rags-to-riches American narrative - in full and explores his many acclaimed films from the silent to the sound era. Creator of All Quiet on the Wes... .... Learn More -
A Uniquely American Epic: Intimacy and Action, Tenderness and Violence in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch [Hardback]
Michael Bliss (Editor); Garner Simmons (Other); Gerard Camy (Other); Jerry Holt (Other); Kathryn Jones (Other)
£37.50ISBN: 9780813178141
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
One of the most innovative films ever made, Sam Peckinpah's motion picture The Wild Bunch was released in 1969. From the outset, the film was considered controversial because of its powerful, graphic, and direct depiction of violence, but it was ... .... Learn More -
That's Entertainment: Spectacle, Amusement, and Leisure Culture [Paperback]
Michele Fadda (Editor); Sara Pesce (Editor)
£23.00ISBN: 9788869771798
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Out of Series
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The 20th century witnessed the collapse of the traditional separation between the realm of 'official' culture and that of 'popular' entertainment. This event produced dramatic consequences at all levels of social life in the West, especially in th... .... Learn More -
CINÉMA&CIE, INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES JOURNAL, VOL. XIX, no. 31, FALL 2018: To Each Their Own Pop. The Mediatization of Popular Music in Europe (1960-1979) [Paperback]
Alessandro Bratus (Editor); Massimo Locatelli (Editor); Miguel Mera (Editor)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869772320
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: CINÉMA&CIE, International Film Studies Journal
Volume: Vol. XIX, no. 31, Fall 2018
Pop music meets the media... This issue is dedicated to a social and cultural phenomenon that we could call the ‘mediatization of pop music’. With a particular focus on the 1960s and 1970s, it is our contention that these two decades significantly... .... Learn More -
The Size Effect: A Journey into Design, Fashion and Media [Paperback]
Roy Menarini (Editor); Antonella Mascio (Editor); Simona Segre Reinach (Editor); Ines Tolic (Editor)
£15.00ISBN: 9788869771743
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Out of Series
At the end of the last century, the so-called "new technologies" started to question the process of design, production, sales and consumption through a radical change, which today re-defines many concepts both in industry and every-day life. The n... .... Learn More
