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The Long Century’s Long Shadow

The Long Century’s Long Shadow

Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern

by Kenneth S. Calhoon

Price: $70.00

ISBN: 9781487526955

Pub Date: June 2021

The Long Century’s Long Shadow explores what is cinematic about the developments in literature, art, and aesthetic thinking that emerged in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Men Out of Focus

Men Out of Focus

The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties

by Marko Dumančić

Price: $75.00

ISBN: 9781487505257

Pub Date: January 2021

Men Out of Focus examines how and why the Soviet public came to worry openly about the state of masculinity during the 1950s and 1960s – and how a perceived crisis really stood in for broader fears.

Confessional Cinema

Confessional Cinema

Religion, Film, and Modernity in Spain’s Development Years, 1960–1975

by Jorge Pérez

Price: $80.00

ISBN: 9781487501082

Pub Date: May 2017

In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Pérez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship.

Ghostly Landscapes

Ghostly Landscapes

Film, Photography, and the Aesthetics of Haunting in Contemporary Spanish Culture

by Patricia M. Keller

Price: $74.00

ISBN: 9781442648883

Pub Date: January 2016

Patricia Keller analyses the aesthetics of haunting and the relationship between ideology and image production by revisiting twentieth-century Spanish history through the camera’s lens.

The Canadian Horror Film

The Canadian Horror Film

Terror of the Soul

Edited by Gina Freitag and André Loiselle

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9781442628502

Pub Date: October 2015

Featuring chapters on Pontypool, Ginger Snaps, 1970s slasher films, Quebec horror, and the work of David Cronenberg, among many others, The Canadian Horror Film unearths the terrors hidden in the recesses of the Canadian psyche.

Schooling in Modernity

Schooling in Modernity

The Politics of Sponsored Films in Postwar Italy

by Paola Bonifazio

Price: $45.95

ISBN: 9781442615984

Pub Date: May 2014

Paola Bonifazio investigates the ways in which films sponsored by Italian and American government agencies promoted a particular vision of modernization and industry and functioned as tools to govern the Italian people.

From Plato to Lumière

From Plato to Lumière

Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema

by Andre Gaudreault

Translated by Timothy Barnard

Price: $40.95

ISBN: 9780802095862

Pub Date: March 2009

With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, André Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time.

Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema

Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema

Edited by Janine Marchessault and Susan Lord

Price: $47.95

ISBN: 9780802096449

Pub Date: June 2008

Using Gene Youngblood's 1970 book Expanded Cinema as an anchor for the volume, Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema understands the digital not simply as a technological form, but also as an experience of space and time that is tied to capitalism.

Film Histories

Film Histories

An Introduction and Reader

Edited by Paul Grainge, Mark Jancovich and Sharon Montieth

Price: $58.00

ISBN: 9780802095084

Pub Date: February 2007

Arranged chronologically, Film Histories is a wide-ranging anthology that covers the history of film from 1885 to the present.

Candid Eyes

Candid Eyes

Essays on Canadian Documentaries

Edited by Jim Leach and Jeannette Sloniowski

Price: $46.95

ISBN: 9780802082992

Pub Date: December 2003

Documentaries have dominated Canada's film production and have been crucial to the formation of Canada's cinematic identity. This volume will be an indispensable companion for anyone seriously interested in Canadian film studies.

The Girl from God’s Country

The Girl from God's Country

Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema

by Kay Armatage

Price: $55.00

ISBN: 9780802085429

Pub Date: June 2003

Armatage reintroduces film studies scholars to Nell Shipman, a pioneer in both Canadian and American film, and one of proportionately numerous women from Hollywood’s silent era who wrote, directed, produced, and acted in motion pictures.

So Close to the State/s

So Close to the State/s

The Emergence of Canadian Feature Film Policy, 1952-1976

by Michael Dorland

Price: $38.95

ISBN: 9780802080431

Pub Date: June 1998

Examines the formation of feature film policy in the Canadian context of the 1950s through to the present, paying special attention to the role played by producers, filmmakers and government agencies.

In the National Interest

In the National Interest

A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989

by Gary Evans

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9780802068330

Pub Date: September 1991

Gary Evans traces the development of the postwar NFB, picking up the story where he left it at the end of his earlier work, John Grierson and the National Film Board: The Politics of Wartime Propaganda.

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