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  • On Disney

    Deconstructing Images, Tropes and Narratives

    Edited by Ute Dettmar, Ingrid Tomkowiak ...
    Series series J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
    Disney – This name stands not only for a company that has had global reach from its early days, but also for a successful aesthetic programme and ideological positions that have had great commercial success but at the same time have been frequently criticised. Straddling traditionalism and modernism, Disney productions have proven adaptable to social discourses and technical and media developments ... Read more

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    Edited by Jill Nelmes ...
    I**ntroduction to Film Studies is a comprehensive textbook for students of cinema.This completely revised and updated fifth edition guides students through the key issues and concepts in film studies, traces the historical development of film and introduces some of the worlds key national cinemas. A range of theories and theorists are presented from Formalism to Feminism, from Eisenstein to ... Read more

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  • The Fan Fiction Studies Reader

    Edited by Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse ...
    An essential introduction to a rapidly growing field of study, The Fan Fiction Studies Reader gathers in one place the key foundational texts of the fan studies corpus, with a focus on fan fiction. Collected here are important texts by scholars whose groundbreaking work established the field and outlined some of its enduring questions. Editors Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse provide cogent ... Read more

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  • Special Effects

    Still in Search of Wonder

    by Michele Pierson ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Designed to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), as seen in Hollywood blockbusters like Star Wars, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men in Black, and The Matrix, is just the latest advance in the evolution of special effects. Even as special effects have ... Read more

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  • Bring on the Books for Everybody

    How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture

    by Jim Collins ...
    Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah’s Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore bookshops ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Writing Creative Writing

    Essays from the Field

    Edited by Rishma Dunlop, Daniel Scott Tysdal, Priscila Uppal ...
    Essential and engaging essays about the joys and challenges of creative writing and teaching creative writing by a host of Canada’s leading writers.Writing Creative Writing is filled with thoughtful and entertaining essays on the joys and challenges of creative writing, the complexities of the creative writing classroom, the place of writing programs in the twenty-first century, and exciting ... Read more

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  • Film and Comic Books

    Edited by Ian Gordon, Mark Jancovich, Matthew P. McAllister ...
    In Film and Comic Books contributors analyze the problems of adapting one medium to another; the translation of comics aesthetics into film; audience expectations, reception, and reaction to comic book-based films; and the adaptation of films into comics.A wide range of comic/film adaptations are explored, including superheroes (Spider-Man), comic strips (Dick Tracy), realist and autobiographical ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Beginning film studies

    Second edition

    by Andrew Dix ...
    Beginning film studies offers the ideal introduction to this vibrant subject. Written accessibly and with verve, it ranges across the key topics and manifold approaches to film studies. Andrew Dix has thoroughly updated the first edition, and this new volume includes new case studies, overviews of recent developments in the discipline, and up-to-the-minute suggestions for further reading.The book ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • From Mouse to Mermaid

    The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture

    Edited by Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells ...
    A collection of essays that explicate Disney ideology through fifty-five years of feature films, including Bambi, Beauty and the Beast, Pinocchio, and more.From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing children's classics as well as the Disney affiliates' more recent attempts to capture adult ... Read more

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  • Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies

    Edited by Warren Buckland ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    Film theory no longer gets top billing or plays a starring role in film studies today, as critics proclaim that theory is dead and we are living in a post-theory moment. While theory may be out of the limelight, it remains an essential key to understanding the full complexity of cinema, one that should not be so easily discounted or discarded.In this volume, contributors explore recent popular ... Read more

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  • Film Theory

    Creating a Cinematic Grammar

    by Felicity Colman ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    Film Theory addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers, including the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane, Miriam Hansen, bell hooks, Siegfried Kracauer, Raul Ruiz, P. Adams Sitney, Bernard Stiegler, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. This volume takes the position that film theory is a form of writing that produces a ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Film Programming

    Curating for Cinemas, Festivals, Archives

    by Peter Bosma ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    This study explores artistic choices in cinema exhibition, focusing on film theaters, film festivals, and film archives and situating film-curating issues within an international context. Artistic and commercial film availability has increased overwhelmingly as a result of the digitization of the infrastructure of distribution and exhibition. The film trade's conventional structures are ... Read more

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