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Paperback. Offers a perspective on American film by tying the growth of spectatorship to the historical transformation of the public sphere. Focusing on silent films, this text examines how the spectator concept evolved, integrating ethnically, socially and sexually differentiated audiences. Num Pages: 390 pages, 57 halftones, 2 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674058316
- ISBN
- 9780674058316
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Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.18
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Paperback. With this book, the author provides a history of film criticism and an analysis of how critics interpret film as well as a proposal for an alternative programme of film studies. Series: Harvard Film Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 line illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674543362
- ISBN
- 9780674543362
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Condition: New
€ 52.24€ 48.00
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€ 48.00
Paperback. Was Alfred Hitchcock a cynical trifler with his audience's emotions, as he liked to pretend? Or was he a profoundly humane artist? This book shows that his movies convey an affectionate, hopeful understanding of human nature and the redemptive possibilities of love. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691002866
- ISBN
- 9780691002866
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Condition: New
€ 53.49€ 42.00
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€ 42.00
Paperback. Famous for their stunts, gags, and images, Buster Keaton's silent films have enticed everyone from Hollywood movie fans to the surrealists, such as Dali and Bunuel. This book looks at the appeal of Keaton's genius, considering his vaudeville roots and his ability to integrate this aesthetic into the techniques of classical Hollywood cinema. Num Pages: 232 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691004426
- ISBN
- 9780691004426
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.64
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€ 33.64
Paperback. Looks at the social and artistic forces behind this film auteur's personal cinema. Tracing Saura's career over three decades, this book discusses each work from "Hooligans" (1959), a film about a Madrid street-gang member trying to become a bullfighter, to "The Dark Night" (1989), a film dealing with the persecution of a religious reformer. Num Pages: 264 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691008554
- ISBN
- 9780691008554
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Condition: New
€ 53.49€ 42.11
€ 53.49
€ 42.11
Paperback. A biography of Federico Fellini that shows how his exuberant imagination has been shaped by popular culture, literature, and his encounter with the ideas of C G Jung, especially Jungian dream interpretation. It links his mature accomplishments to his first employment as a cartoonist, gagman, and sketch-artist during the Fascist era. Num Pages: 392 pages, 46 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DST; APFA; APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691008752
- ISBN
- 9780691008752
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Condition: New
€ 53.49€ 42.23
€ 53.49
€ 42.23
Paperback. Beyond giving a view of the life and worth of cinema in France, this book contributes to our knowledge of how films are dealt with in history. It stresses the dialogue of culture and cinema. Num Pages: 384 pages, 132 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJG; APF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691008837
- ISBN
- 9780691008837
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Condition: New
€ 71.32€ 55.08
€ 71.32
€ 55.08
Paperback. Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world, yet his films are still largely unknown to the American public. This title provides a contextual study that attempts to demonstrate the quintessentially Greek nature of the director's work. Series: Princeton Modern Greek Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVG; APFA; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691010052
- ISBN
- 9780691010052
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
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Paperback. Reveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film. This book tells the story of filmmaking in the first three decades of the twentieth century, a time when going to the movies could transform lives and when the cinema was a battleground for control of American consciousness. Num Pages: 392 pages, 38 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; APFA; HBTB; JFSC; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- 58713th
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691024646
- ISBN
- 9780691024646
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Condition: New
€ 53.49€ 42.28
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Paperback. How does film construct a historical world? What are the rules, codes, and strategies by which it brings the past to life? What does that historical construction mean to us? This book grapples with these questions, and looks at an example of New History cinema. Editor(s): Rosenstone, Robert A. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 264 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: APFA; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691025346
- ISBN
- 9780691025346
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Condition: New
€ 53.49€ 42.14
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Paperback. Explores how intellectual media professionals struggle with the institutional and cultural forces surrounding television that promote entertainment at the expense of education. This book provides a glimpse behind the scenes of a major documentary and demonstrates the value of an ethnographic approach to the study of media production. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 charts 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691044675
- ISBN
- 9780691044675
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Condition: New
€ 59.43€ 46.32
€ 59.43
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Paperback. Explores the relationship between aesthetics and anti-Semitism in two controversial landmarks in German culture. This book argues that Richard Wagner's opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen" and Fritz Lang's 1920s film "Die Nibelungen" exploits contrasts between good and bad aesthetics to address the question of what is German and what is not. Series: Princeton Studies in Opera. Num Pages: 224 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; APFA; AVGC9; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691049717
- ISBN
- 9780691049717
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.89
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paperback. Siegfried Kracauer has been misunderstood as a naive realist, appreciated as an astute critic of early German film, and noticed as the interesting exile who exchanged letters with Erwin Panofsky. This work presents an analysis, which covers both Kracauer's best-known publications and previously underexamined texts. Translator(s): Gaines, Jeremy. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; APFA; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691049922
- ISBN
- 9780691049922
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.49
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Paperback. An analysis of the ideologies and artistic conventions of American movies includes examinations of films such as Casablanca, Taxi Driver, and The Godfather. Num Pages: 424 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691101743
- ISBN
- 9780691101743
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Condition: New
€ 53.49€ 42.15
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Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 28. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691102085
- ISBN
- 9780691102085
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Condition: New
€ 53.49€ 42.00
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Paperback. Analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. With readings of films like D W Griffith's 1915, "The Birth of a Nation" and of key forgotten films and censorship documents, this book argues that dominant fantasies of miscegenation have had a profound impact on the form and content of American cinema. Num Pages: 400 pages, 142 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APFA; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 571.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691113050
- ISBN
- 9780691113050
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Condition: New
€ 53.49€ 42.28
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Hardback. Grover-Friedlander argues that filmed operas such as Zeffirelli's Otello and Friedrich's Falstaff show the impossibility of a direct transformation of the operatic into the cinematic. Series: Princeton Studies in Opera. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10 line illus. 24 halftones. BIC Classification: APF; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 240 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691120089
- ISBN
- 9780691120089
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Condition: New
€ 84.14
€ 84.14
Hardback. In the movie "The Godfather", Don Corleone, head of New York's powerful organized-crime family, is gunned down in daylight, leaving his sons Sonny and Michael, along with his adopted son, consigliere Tom Hagen, to chart a new course for the family. This book shows how the aging don is emblematic of cold-war American power on the decline. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; JPF; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 109 x 13. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141473
- ISBN
- 9780691141473
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.05
€ 10.99
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Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691612300
- ISBN
- 9780691612300
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.69
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Paperback. Analyses the production and reception of recent Iraq war films, asking why they have become known as a 'Toxic Genre'. Num Pages: 216 pages, 16 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JMC; APFN; HBWS5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745331294
- ISBN
- 9780745331294
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.40
€ 40.99
€ 31.40