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The Long Century’s Long Shadow
Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern
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
The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties
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
Religion, Film, and Modernity in Spain’s Development Years, 1960–1975
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
Film, Photography, and the Aesthetics of Haunting in Contemporary Spanish Culture
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
Terror of the Soul
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
The Politics of Sponsored Films in Postwar Italy
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
Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema
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
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
An Introduction and Reader
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
Essays on Canadian Documentaries
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
Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema
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
The Emergence of Canadian Feature Film Policy, 1952-1976
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
A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989
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.

The Long Century’s Long Shadow
Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern
$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
The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties
$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
Religion, Film, and Modernity in Spain’s Development Years, 1960–1975
$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
Film, Photography, and the Aesthetics of Haunting in Contemporary Spanish Culture
$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
Terror of the Soul
$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
The Politics of Sponsored Films in Postwar Italy
$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
Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema
$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
$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
An Introduction and Reader
$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
Essays on Canadian Documentaries
$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
Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema
$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
The Emergence of Canadian Feature Film Policy, 1952-1976
$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
A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989
$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.