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Celluloid Vampires : Life After Death in the Modern World
Stacey Abbott
Hardcover - $117.95
In 1896, French magician and filmmaker George Mé liè s brought forth the first celluloid vampire in his film Le manoir du diable. The vampire continues to be one of film's most popular gothic monsters and in fact, today more people beco ...
Celluloid Vampires : Life After Death in the Modern World
Stacey Abbott
Paperback - $54.95
In 1896, French magician and filmmaker George Mé liè s brought forth the first celluloid vampire in his film Le manoir du diable. The vampire continues to be one of film's most popular gothic monsters and in fact, today more people beco ...
Beat Takeshi Vs. Takeshi Kitano
Casio Abe
Paperback - $36.95
Called "the world's most original action auteur" by the "Village Voice, Takeshi Kitano is already legendary in Japan, where he is known both for his inventive films and for his legendarily caustic alter ego, comedian Beat Takeshi. In the United State ...
Americanizing the Movies and "Movie-Mad" Audiences, 1910-1914
Richard Abel
Paperback - $64.95
"Like all of Richard Abel's previous works, this book is characterized by careful marshalling of data and the exploration of new sources. There is a wealth of extremely important, instructive information, and the book provides an encyclopedic treatme ...
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema
Richard Abel
Hardcover - $632.95
In this major A-Z work, 'early cinema' refers to the first 20 or 25 years of the cinema's emergence at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, that is from the early 1890s to the middle 1910s. Coverage of the pre-cinema pe ...
French Film Theory and Criticism : A History - Anthology, 1907-1929
Richard Abel
Paperback - $112.95
These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andre Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly sy ...
French Film Theory and Criticism : A History/Anthology 1907-1939
Richard Abel
Paperback - $81.95
These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andre Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly sy ...
The Red Rooster Scare
Richard Abel
Paperback - $71.95
"This outstanding work offers a new description of the evolution of American cinema in the nickelodeon period. . . . With his usual groundbreaking research, Abel demonstrates the key role Pathe films played in this transformation. . . . Although clea ...
Pedro Almodovar
Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz
Paperback - $52.95
The book provides a detailed introduction to the essential themes, style, and aesthetics of Pedro Almodó var's films, put in the context of Spain's profound cultural transitions since 1980. With precise and close analysis, the book covers the ...