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Paperback. A study of horror movies, which discusses individual movies in detail and seeks to identify the main traditions of the genre, such as the mad scientist, the monster and the psychotic killer, and to show the various strategies and techniques behind their creation. Num Pages: 248 pages, Index. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631169925
- ISBN
- 9780631169925
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.19
€ 51.19
Hardback. Draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine modes of animation storytelling that address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and socio-cultural change. Num Pages: 255 pages, 24 b/w. BIC Classification: APFV; JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520292550
- ISBN
- 9780520292550
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.64€ 72.77
€ 94.64
€ 72.77
Hardback. What issues, of both form and content, shape the documentary film? What role does visual evidence play in relation to a documentary's arguments about the world in which we live? This book investigates the ways in which documentaries strive for accuracy and truthfulness, but simultaneously fabricate a form that shapes reality. Num Pages: 271 pages, 1. BIC Classification: APFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520290396
- ISBN
- 9780520290396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.64€ 73.01
€ 94.64
€ 73.01
Hardback. examines the influence of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on two major nineteenth-century composers, Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann. During 1845 46 the compositional styles of Schumann and Wagner changed in a common direction, toward a style that was more contrapuntal, more densely motivic, and engaged in processes of thematic transformation. Num Pages: 232 pages, 116. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVGC5; AVGC9; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520285569
- ISBN
- 9780520285569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.07€ 51.06
€ 65.07
€ 51.06
Paperback. Gathers together Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock provides an enlivening commentary on a career that spanned decades and transformed the history of the cinema. Editor(s): Gottlieb, Sidney. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 32. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- First Edition, Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520285514
- ISBN
- 9780520285514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.35
€ 40.99
€ 29.35
Paperback. Examines one of the most important, yet understudied, media authors of all time - Norman Corwin - using him as a critical lens to consider the history of multimedia authorship, particularly in the realm of sound. Editor(s): Smith, Jacob; Verma, Neil. Num Pages: 265 pages, 12. BIC Classification: APB; APW; BGF; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520285323
- ISBN
- 9780520285323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
Hardback. Suitable for scholars and enthusiasts, this book establishes the key role played by the L A Rebellion within the histories of cinema, Black visual culture, and postwar art in Los Angeles. Editor(s): Field, Allyson; Horak, Jan-Christopher; Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma. Num Pages: 488 pages, 110. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284678
- ISBN
- 9780520284678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.80€ 54.68
€ 69.80
€ 54.68
Hardback. Through analysis of several key collaborations in American cinema from the silent era to the late twentieth century such as those of D W Griffith and Billy Bitzer, and Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Burks, this book underlines the importance of cinematographers to both the development of cinematic technique and the expression of visual style in film. Num Pages: 248 pages, 35. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284340
- ISBN
- 9780520284340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.64€ 73.04
€ 94.64
€ 73.04
Hardback. An exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. This book shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political. Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures. Num Pages: 496 pages, 45 musical examples, 75 b/w photos. BIC Classification: AVGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 38. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520279490
- ISBN
- 9780520279490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.15€ 46.67
€ 59.15
€ 46.67
Paperback. Presents an examination of the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. This title discusses the origins of surfing in Hawai'i, its central role in Hawaiian society, and the mele (chants) and hula (dance or visual poetry) about surfing. Num Pages: 240 pages, 38 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AV; JHBS; WSSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276642
- ISBN
- 9780520276642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: AVA; CF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276536
- ISBN
- 9780520276536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
Hardback. What do we mean when we identify a composer as the creator of a piece of music? Does a printed piece of music embody the work, even if the composer is not the person who puts the work on paper? In this cultural history of Western music's adaptation to print, this title looks at how the concept of musical authorship took root. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 8 tables, 4 music examples. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; 3JB; AVGC2; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276505
- ISBN
- 9780520276505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.15€ 46.67
€ 59.15
€ 46.67
Hardback. The tonadilla, a satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has played a significant role in the history of music in Spain. This book examines the musical, theatrical, and social worlds that the tonadilla brought together, and their lasting influence the historiography of Spanish music. Num Pages: 408 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 8 tables, 24 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DSE; AVGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276307
- ISBN
- 9780520276307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.80€ 54.67
€ 69.80
€ 54.67
Hardback. In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. This title restores this earlier musical history and explores the role that women played in the development of classical music. Num Pages: 350 pages, 14 b/w photographs, 8 tables, 49 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; AVGC4; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 151 x 32. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273849
- ISBN
- 9780520273849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.99€ 65.15
€ 83.99
€ 65.15
Paperback. Makes a contribution to scholarship on Jean-Luc Godard, especially his films and videos since the late 1980s. Through detailed analyses of extended sequences, technical innovations, and formal experiments, the author provides an original interpretation of a series of several internally related films. Num Pages: 326 pages, 36 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273337
- ISBN
- 9780520273337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.35
€ 40.99
€ 29.35
Hardback. Makes a contribution to scholarship on Jean-Luc Godard, especially his films and videos since the late 1980s. Through detailed analyses of extended sequences, technical innovations, and formal experiments, the author provides an original interpretation of a series of several internally related films. Num Pages: 326 pages, 36 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273313
- ISBN
- 9780520273313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.80€ 54.49
€ 69.80
€ 54.49
Paperback. Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. This book assembles essays in cultural criticism, film, literature, and media theory that he wrote during the quarter century he spent in America after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. Editor(s): Von Moltke, Johannes; Rawson, Kristy. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 b/w photograph. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271838
- ISBN
- 9780520271838
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.22
€ 40.99
€ 29.22
Paperback. Drawing on the records of studio personnel, independent exhibitors, moviegoers, and the motion pictures themselves, this title analyzes what was wrong - and right - with Hollywood at the end of a heralded decade, and how the industry's troubles changed the making and marketing of films in 1938 and beyond. Num Pages: 284 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271807
- ISBN
- 9780520271807
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
Paperback. Examines radio's central place in the history of twentieth-century critical theory. This title considers how the radio came to matter, especially politically, to phenomenology, existentialism, Hegelian Marxism, anticolonialism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies. It offers a fresh perspective on the role this technology plays today. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270503
- ISBN
- 9780520270503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.24
€ 40.99
€ 29.24
Paperback. From risque cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, this title offers a look inside the secretive subculture of modern magicians. It follows the day-to-day lives of some of France's most renowned performers, revealing not only how secrets are created and shared, but also how they are stolen and destroyed. Num Pages: 308 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; APB; ASZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434. Inside the Magician's Craft. 308 pages, illustrations. From risque cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, this title offers a look inside the secretive subculture of modern magicians. It follows the day-to-day lives of some of France's most renowned performers, revealing not only how secrets are created and shared, but also how they are stolen and destroyed. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DDF; APB; ASZG. Dimension: 161 x 229 x 20. Weight: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270473
- ISBN
- 9780520270473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Paperback. From Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong to Ornette Coleman and Quincy Jones, this title explores the jazz greats, and traces their art to gospel, blues, and many other forms of American music. Num Pages: 272 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: AVGJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269811
- ISBN
- 9780520269811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Paperback. Ben Fong-Torres was torn between an alluring American lifestyle - including Elvis and rock 'n' roll - and the traditional cultural heritage his proud immigrant parents struggled to instill in their five children. This title tells of growing up with a double identity - Chinese and American. Num Pages: 296 pages, 28 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; AVGP; BGFA; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition,Revised
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269682
- ISBN
- 9780520269682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.43
€ 27.99
€ 21.43
Paperback. Offers a detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. This title guides us through the thirteen Marx Brothers films, from "The Cocoanuts" in 1929 to "Love Happy" in 1950, to focus on Harpo's chief and yet heretofore unexplored attribute - his profound and contradictory corporeality. Num Pages: 336 pages, 388 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269019
- ISBN
- 9780520269019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.22
€ 40.99
€ 29.22
Paperback. In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into general strike. This title examines the social, political, and cultural effects of May '68 on a variety of music in France, from the initial shock of 1968 through the 'long' 1970s and the election of Mitterrand and the socialists in 1981. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 368 pages, 8 b/w photographs, 10 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268975
- ISBN
- 9780520268975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.31
€ 40.99
€ 29.31