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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:

        $74.00

        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:

        $79.00

        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:

        $84.00

        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:

        $78.00

        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:

        $42.95

        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:

        $48.95

        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:

        $43.95

        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:

        $50.00

        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:

        $61.00

        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:

        $49.95

        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:

        $58.00

        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:

        $41.95

        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:

        $52.00

        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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