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Censorship and the changing meanings of the video nasties
By Kate Egan
Trash or treasure is a wide-ranging historical study of the British circulation of the video nasties - a term that was originally coined to ban a group of horror videos in Britain in the 1980s ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-7233-8
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£16.99
Buy NowThe Dolby era
Film sound in contemporary Hollywood
By Gianluca Sergi
Since the 1970s Hollywood cinema has been the site of remarkable developments in film sound. New revolutionary sound technologies have been developed, a new generation of filmmakers have learned ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-7067-9
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Buy NowSpanish popular cinema
Edited by Antonio Lazario-Reboll, Andrew Willis and Andy Willis
This is the first collection in English to focus exclusively on the various forms of popular film produced in Spain and to acknowledge the variety, range and depth of Spanish cinema.Contributors ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-6283-4
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Buy NowDefining cult movies
The cultural politics of oppositional taste
Edited by Mark Jancovich, Antonio Lazario-Reboll, Julian Stringer and Andy Willis
Concentrates on the analysis of cult movies, how they are defined, who defines them and the cultural politics of these definitions. Raises issues about the perception of it as an oppositional ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-6631-3
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Buy NowGrowing up with Audrey Hepburn
By Rachel Moseley
The first full length academic study of Hepburn's star persona and films featuring reseach into the experience of British women who have admired her in the 1950s, 1960s and the 1990s. Examines ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-6311-4
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Buy NowHollywood hype and audiences
Selling and watching
By Thomas Austin
A fascinating multi-dimensional investigation of popular film as a commercial, cultural and social phenomenon, focusing on well known and controversial films, and on important - and marketable - ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-5775-5
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By Julia Hallam and Margaret Marshment
This groundbreaking study engages with the theoretical aspects of realism - a long neglected area in film studies.. Contributes to an understanding of how popular films use realist forms to ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-5251-4
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£15.99
Buy NowMonsters in the closet
Homosexuality and the Horror Film
By Harry Benshoff
One of the few books to address the horror film from any kind of critical position.. Unique - The first history of the horror film to approach it from a queer perspective.. Written with detail ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-4473-1
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£19.99
Buy NowInterpreting rock movies
Pop Film and Its Critics in Britain
By Andrew Caine
Andrew Caine details the reaction to British and American pop films during the 1950s and 1960s. By examining the British reception of films such as Rock Around the Clock, Love Me Tender, A Hard ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-6539-2
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Buy NowThe new avengers
By Jacinda Read
A study of the rape-revenge film, in which Jacinda Read suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the primary ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-5905-6
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