Film, TV & Music & Entertainment
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Film, TV & Music & Entertainment
Paperback. This broad-ranging survey considers the importance of the Western in American history. It explores the interconnections between the Western (in literature, film and history) and America in the 20th century Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; APFA; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748621415
- ISBN
- 9780748621415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.06
€ 41.99
€ 37.06
Hardback. This broad-ranging survey considers the importance of the Western in American history. It explores the interconnections between the Western (in literature, film and history) and America in the 20th century Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APFA; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748621408
- ISBN
- 9780748621408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.49€ 117.30
€ 123.49
€ 117.30
Paperback. The American Success Myth on Film examines the enduring appeal that rags-to-riches stories and other success narratives exert on our collective imagination. It highlights how Hollywood movies have illuminated - if not resolved - the ideological contradictions at the heart of the American idea of success. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFB; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482525
- ISBN
- 9781137482525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.91
€ 53.91
Paperback. This is the first overview of the popular genre of American horror film. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748614165
- ISBN
- 9780748614165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.57
€ 41.99
€ 36.57
Paperback. Presents a study of American film musical. This book combines genre theory with film criticism and history. It is suitable for film enthusiasts and scholars of film, theater, popular culture and communications. Num Pages: 400 pages, 91 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 258 x 205 x 23. Weight in Grams: 880.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253205148
- ISBN
- 9780253205148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.64
€ 36.99
€ 35.64
Paperback. "The auteur theory, of which film criticAndrew Sarris was the leading American proponent, holds that artistry in cinema can be largely attributed to film directors, who, while often working against the" Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The Perseus Books Group United States
- Edition
- 1st Da Capo Press ed
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306807282
- ISBN
- 9780306807282
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.26
€ 18.99
€ 17.26
Hardback. Enchanted by the Hollywood movies she watched while growing up in affluent Tehran, Shohreh Aghdashloo dreamed of becoming an actress, despite her parents more practical plans. When she fell in love with her husband, Aydin, a painter thirteen years her senior, she made him promise he'd allow her to follow her passion. This title tells her story. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8-Page Color and Black and White Photo Insert. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062009807
- ISBN
- 9780062009807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.61
€ 27.99
€ 23.61
Paperback. Translator(s): Lary, Nikita; Leyda, Jay. Series: Cinema and Modernity. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; APFB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226296272
- ISBN
- 9780226296272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 31.90
€ 41.99
€ 31.90
Paperback. A discussion of television and changes in the media over the last two decades of the 20th century. Having spent most of his career working with the British Broadcasting Corporation, Martin Esslin appraises American television with the eyes of both a detached outsider and a concerned insider. Num Pages: 156 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; APT; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 239.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Transaction Publishers
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780765808882
- ISBN
- 9780765808882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.30
€ 58.30
Hardcover. The aesthetics of television concerns the medium's means of expression, its forms, conventions and 'styles', and also the content and the relationship between content and expression, as well as the relationship between programme and genre, programme and audience etc. This book aims to describe and analyse television as an aesthetic phenomenon. Editor(s): Agger, Gunhild; Jensen, Jens F. Series: Media & Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 396 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; HPN; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 175 x 31. Weight in Grams: 896.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788773076231
- ISBN
- 9788773076231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.28
€ 17.99
€ 14.28
hardcover. By exploring the "aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century and treating cinematographers and lighting designers as essential collaborators in moviemaking, Daisuke Miyao reinterprets Japanese film history. Num Pages: 400 pages, 64 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AJRD; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822354079
- ISBN
- 9780822354079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.98
€ 123.98
Paperback. In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 400 pages, 64 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AJRD; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 172 x 29. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822354222
- ISBN
- 9780822354222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 32.34
€ 32.99
€ 32.34
Paperback. Focusing on "Amos 'n' Andy", a nightly American radio comedy in the 1930s, this text unveils a tale of America's shifting colour line, in which two professional directors of blackface minstrel shows produced a series so complex that it won admirers ranging from ultra-racists to racial egalitarians. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APW; HBJK; HBLW; JFD; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 10th ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920924
- ISBN
- 9780813920924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.90
€ 36.90
hardcover. Grab your friends and get cooking in the land of Ooo with Adventure Time: The Official Cookbook, featuring recipes from all your favourite characters and kingdoms. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: APT; YNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile; (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 254 x 203. .
- Publisher
- Titan Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785655913
- ISBN
- 9781785655913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 20.20
€ 31.99
€ 20.20
Paperback. Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. This book analyses his practical filmmaking methods. Num Pages: 536 pages, 161 halftones, 3 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 254 x 30. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226327150
- ISBN
- 9780226327150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.25
€ 52.99
€ 40.25
Paperback. Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making subject. This title challenges basic assumptions of current film theory that reduce film to an object of vision and the spectator to a victim of a deterministic cinematic apparatus. Num Pages: 354 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press Princton, NJ
- Number of pages
- 356
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691008745
- ISBN
- 9780691008745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.92€ 41.35
€ 52.92
€ 41.35
Hardcover. Port Talbot has an undisputed claim to be called the actors' capital of Wales, producing a remarkable number of actors since the inter-war years including Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Sheen. This book surveys the careers of 50 actors from Port Talbot and considers what its most famous stars have put back into their community. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKWS; APB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910409947
- ISBN
- 9781910409947
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.30
€ 19.99
€ 18.30
Paperback. The town of Port Talbot has long been seen (quite literally) as synonymous with the steel industry. Yet it also has another claim to fame as the actors' capital of Wales. It has produced a remarkable number of actors since the inter-war years. BIC Classification: 1DBKWS; ANB; APB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910901687
- ISBN
- 9781910901687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.25
€ 13.99
€ 13.25
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501309175
- ISBN
- 9781501309175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.54
€ 46.99
€ 41.54
Paperback. Attempts to do for the sound-track what feminist film theory has done for the image-track - to locate the points at which it is productive of sexual difference. This work focuses on the female voice understood not merely as spoken dialogue, narration, and commentary, but as a fantasmatic projection, and as a metaphor for authorship. Series: Theories of Representation and Difference. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSJ1; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 270
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- Fifth or Later Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253204745
- ISBN
- 9780253204745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.74
€ 21.99
€ 21.74
Paperback. Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university's entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: APFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Media tie-in
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099551232
- ISBN
- 9780099551232
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
€ 14.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. A commercial flop in its initial release in 1998, "The Big Lebowski" has since emerged as a cult phenomenon. This guide to living life like the Dude, the main character from the movie, features lifestyle tips on how to be more laid back, inspirational lessons from the Dude, and facts about the movie. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: APFD; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Ulysses Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781569759769
- ISBN
- 9781569759769
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.36
€ 15.99
€ 14.36
Paperback. Intrigued by the idea of frontier wilderness, of law and order vs lawlessness, and a firm belief that 'the better the bad guy, the better the film', Barry Stone goes beyond the American south-west to pay homage to the Italian and even Australian western - and, after much deliberation, he ranks them in order.. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: APFG; APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781785780981
- ISBN
- 9781785780981
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.23
€ 6.23
Paperback. Editor(s): Gray, Richard J.; Kaklamanidou, Betty. Num Pages: 212 pages, notes, filmography, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- McFarland & Co Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780786463459
- ISBN
- 9780786463459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.46
€ 44.46