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Abjection Incorporated (2020)
Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence
Dir. Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Sociology
Beyond observation (2020)
A history of authorship in ethnographic film
by Paul Henley
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Design in Motion (2020)
Applying Design Principles to Filmmaking
by Penny Hilton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Technique > Set Design
Anything You Can Imagine (2019)
Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth
by Ian Nathan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Subject: One Film > The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Long Shadow of the Past (2020)
Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture
Publisher: Camden House
The History of Genocide in Cinema (2020)
Atrocities on Screen
Dir. Jonathan Friedman and William Hewitt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Films of Lenny Abrahamson (2020)
A Filmmaking of Philosophy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Director > Lenny Abrahamson
Cinema and Unconventional Warfare in the Twentieth Century (2020)
Insurgency, Terrorism and Special Operations
by Paul B. Rich
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
The Lady from the Black Lagoon (2019)
Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Subject: Others persons > Milicent Patrick
Mission (2016)
Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe
Publisher: GoodKnight Books
Subject: Actor > James Stewart
Art History for Filmmakers (2020)
The Art of Visual Storytelling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Technique > Aesthetics
The Films of Aki Kaurismäki (2020)
Ludic Engagements
Dir. Thomas Austin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Director > Aki Kaurismäki
Movie Baking (2020)
The Indie Work-At-Home-Parent Filmmaker
Publisher: LSE Cinema Books
Subject: Genre > Independent cinema
The Filmmaker's Eye (2019)
The Language of the Lens: The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Technique > Cinematography
Inferno (2020)
A Genealogy of 1960s Trash Culture
by Ken Hollings
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Chinese Independent Animation (2020)
Renegotiating Identity in Modern China
by Wenhai Zhou
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Norma Jean (2020)
The Life of Marilyn Monroe
Publisher: Turner Publishing
Subject: Actress > Marilyn Monroe
Loner at the Ball (2022)
The Life of Andy Warhol
Publisher: Turner Publishing
Subject: Director > Andy Warhol
Filming the Fantastic with Virtual Technology (2020)
Filmmaking on the Digital Backlot
by Mark Sawicki and Juniko Moody
Publisher: Routledge
Searching for Wisdom In Movies (2016)
From the Book of Job to Sublime Conversations
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Theory
The Shawshank Experience (2018)
Tracking the History of the World's Favorite Movie
by Maura Grady and Tony Magistrale
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: One Film > The Shawshank Redemption
Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show (2017)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > United States
Hollyweird Science (2017)
The Next Generation: From Spaceships to Microchips
by Kevin R. Grazier and Stephen Cass
Publisher: Springer
Subject: General
Cinematic Urban Geographies (2017)
Dir. François Penz and Richard Koeck
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Technique > Set Design
Tragic Time in Drama, Film, and Videogames (2016)
The Future in the Instant
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Comedies of Nihilism (2018)
The Representation of Tragedy Onscreen
by Amir Khan
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Zizek's Theory of Film (2012)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
American–Australian Cinema (2018)
Transnational Connections
Dir. Adrian Danks, Stephen Gaunson and Peter C. Kunze
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness (2017)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > United States
Virtual Weaponry (2017)
The Militarized Internet in Hollywood War Films
by Aaron Tucker
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Filmurbia (2017)
Screening the Suburbs
Dir. David Forrest, Graeme Harper and Jonathan Rayner
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
Disney and the Dialectic of Desire (2018)
Fantasy as Social Practice
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Studio > Disney Studios
Poison and Poisoning in Science, Fiction and Cinema (2017)
Precarious Identities
Dir. Heike Klippel, Bettina Wahrig and Anke Zechner
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity (2008)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Black Children in Hollywood Cinema (2017)
Cast in Shadow
by Debbie Olson
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > United States
Male Anxiety and Psychopathology in Film (2015)
Comedy Italian Style
by Andrea Bini
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Neo-Victorianism on Screen (2017)
Postfeminism and Contemporary Adaptations of Victorian Women
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Philosophy and the Patience of Film in Cavell and Nancy (2016)
by Daniele Rugo
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Theory
Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral (2017)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
The American Civil War and the Hollywood War Film (2016)
by John Trafton
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Visual Music Film (2015)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Globalization and Contemporary Chinese Cinema (2017)
Zhang Yimou's Genre Films
by Xuelin Zhou
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Director > Zhang Yimou
Death, Image, Memory (2017)
The Genocide in Rwanda and its Aftermath in Photography and Documentary Film
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Latin American Documentary Film in the New Millennium (2016)
Dir. María Guadalupe Arenillas and Michael J. Lazzara
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media (2008)
Dir. Richard Burt
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Economics
Women in European Holocaust Films (2018)
Perpetrators, Victims and Resisters
by Ingrid Lewis
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Globalization and Latin American Cinema (2018)
Toward a New Critical Paradigm
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema (2017)
Dir. Antônio Márcio da Silva and Mariana Cunha
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Surrealism, Cinema, and the Search for a New Myth (2017)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Documentary Film Festivals (2016)
Transformative Learning, Community Building & Solidarity
by Carole Roy
Publisher: Brill
Subject: Festivals
Digital Platforms and Feminist Film Discourse (2017)
Women's Cinema 2.0
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
The Introspective Realist Crime Film (2016)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Affect and Belonging in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film (2017)
Crossroads Visions
by Jesse Barker
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema (2017)
Film Theory at the Fringes of Contemporary Art Cinema
by Troy Bordun
Publisher: Springer
Subject: Theory
Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing (2017)
by Jared Sexton
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
This Film Is Dangerous (2002)
A Celebration of Nitrate Film
Dir. Roger Smither and Catherine A. Surowiec
Publisher: FIAF
Subject: Economics
Terrence Malick's Unseeing Cinema (2018)
Memory, Time and Audibility
by James Batcho
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Director > Terrence Malick
Homosexuality and Italian Cinema (2017)
From the Fall of Fascism to the Years of Lead
by Mauro Giori
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Fans, Blockbusterisation, and the Transformation of Cinematic Desire (2017)
Global Receptions of The Hobbit Film Trilogy
by Carolyn Michelle, Charles H. Davis, Ann L. Hardy and Craig Hight
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: One Film > The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture (2016)
Top Hat, Gladstone Bag and Fog
by Clare Smith
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
James Bond Uncovered (2018)
Dir. Jeremy Strong
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: One Film > James Bond
Documentary and Disability (2017)
Dir. Catalin Brylla and Helen Hughes
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (2018)
Dir. Geoffrey Maguire and Rachel Randall
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Storytelling Industries (2018)
Narrative Production in the 21st Century
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema (2018)
Screening the Repeating Island
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > Latin America
The Cinema of Muhammad Malas (2018)
Visions of a Syrian Auteur
by Samirah Alkassim and Nezar Andary
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > Middle East
DVD, Blu-ray and Beyond (2017)
Navigating Formats and Platforms within Media Consumption
Dir. Jonathan Wroot and Andy Willis
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Economics
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, the Film Director as Critical Thinker (2017)
Publisher: Brill
Subject: Director > Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Screen Society (2018)
by Ellis Cashmore, Jamie Cleland and Kevin Dixon
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
Dialogue Writing for Dubbing (2019)
An Insider's Perspective
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
2001 (2018)
A Space Odyssey and Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: One Film > 2001: A Space Odyssey
Subversive Adaptations (2017)
Czech Literature on Screen behind the Iron Curtain
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Nationalism in Contemporary Western European Cinema (2018)
Dir. James Harvey
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2018)
From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Silent Cinema
The British School Film (2016)
From Tom Brown to Harry Potter
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Media and the Cold War in the 1980s (2018)
Between Star Wars and Glasnost
Dir. Henrik G. Bastiansen, Martin Klimke and Rolf Werenskjold
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
Australian Screen in the 2000s (2018)
Dir. Mark David Ryan and Ben Goldsmith
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
EMI Films and the Limits of British Cinema (2018)
by Paul Moody
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Cognitive Approaches to German Historical Film (2016)
Seeing is Not Believing
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The British Cinema Boom, 1909–1914 (2017)
A Commercial History
by Jon Burrows
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Silent Cinema
Queer/Adaptation (2019)
A Collection of Critical Essays
Dir. Pamela Demory
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood (2018)
Transforming Children's Literature into Film
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
The British Official Film in South-East Asia (2016)
Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong
by Ian Aitken
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > Southeast Asia