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  1. Contemporary Marathi Cinema
    1. Hrishikesh Sudhakar Ingle

    Contemporary Marathi Cinema

    Space, Marginality, and Aspiration

    This book provides the first comprehensive inquiry of post-millennial Marathi cinema. It explores the interconnections of textual, industrial, and cultural aspects of contemporary films to understand what constitutes the ‘new-ness’ of Marathi cinema.

    € 63,95
  2. To Catch a Cheater
    1. Nicholas Vern

    To Catch a Cheater

    A Greek Italian Comedy
    € 16,50
  3. To Catch a Cheater
    1. Nicholas Vern

    To Catch a Cheater

    A Greek Italian Comedy
    € 24,95
  4. Women and Polish Cinema

    Women and Polish Cinema

    Reclaiming the Frame

    An in-depth exploration of the vital, yet often overlooked, contributions of women across Polish film history.

    € 117,95
  5. American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast
    1. Allison R. Neal

    American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast

    Mass Vernacular

    American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast situates American poetry within a world of global media to reveal the broad institutional, technological, and cultural resonances of poetic voice.

    € 88,95
  6. Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures

    Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures

    Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality

    This book examines the monsters and sinister creatures that spawn from folk horror, Gothic fiction, and from various sectors of media cultures. The collection illuminates how folk monsters form across different art and media traditions, and interrogates the 21C revitalization of folk as both a cultural formation and aesthetic mode.

    € 63,95
  7. Dark Film, Blood Money
    1. Vernon Shetley

    Dark Film, Blood Money

    The Economic Unconscious of American Neo-Noir Cinema

    A thought-provoking interpretation of neo-noir filmmaking, from the 1970s to the 2020s, through the lens of the economic, encompassing issues of trust, professionalism, race, artistic influence, and the relation between business and family. 14 b&w; illus.

    € 138,50
  8. In the Mood for Texture
    1. Arnika Fuhrmann

    In the Mood for Texture

    The Revival of Bangkok As a Chinese City

    “Grounded by Wong Kar-wai’s 2000 film, Fuhrmann explores the linkages between Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Bangkok. This expansive study considers the different ways movies, social media, literary texts, and architecture engage in Chinese revivalism to create a site of fantasy that makes possible a variety of spatial-temporal experiments. In the Mood for Texture is an outstanding, tour-de-force of investigation into Chinese Thai history and visual culture.”—Nguyen Tan Hoang, author of A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation“A book of stunning originality and eloquence that advances a radical reimaging of region, diaspora, and the postcolonial. In the Mood for Texture is a uniquely structured study that is ambitious in scope. It is a study of Chinese colonial modernity that breaks free of geographical limitations and national boundaries. Fuhrmann brings into focus a textured aesthetics of Chinese colonial modernity—in all its sumptuous detail and affective vibrancy.”—Jean Ma, author of Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema

    € 33,50
  9. In the Mood for Texture
    1. Arnika Fuhrmann

    In the Mood for Texture

    The Revival of Bangkok As a Chinese City

    “Grounded by Wong Kar-wai’s 2000 film, Fuhrmann explores the linkages between Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Bangkok. This expansive study considers the different ways movies, social media, literary texts, and architecture engage in Chinese revivalism to create a site of fantasy that makes possible a variety of spatial-temporal experiments.In the Mood for Texture is an outstanding, tour-de-force of investigation into Chinese Thai history and visual culture.”—Nguyen Tan Hoang, author of A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation“A book of stunning originality and eloquence that advances a radical reimaging of region, diaspora, and the postcolonial. In the Mood for Texture is a uniquely structured study that is ambitious in scope. It is a study of Chinese colonial modernity that breaks free of geographical limitations and national boundaries. Fuhrmann brings into focus a textured aesthetics of Chinese colonial modernity—in all its sumptuous detail and affective vibrancy.”—Jean Ma, author of Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema

    € 132,95
  10. Realism, Myth, and the Vernacular in Pasolini's Film and Philosophy
    1. Max Ryynänen

    Realism, Myth, and the Vernacular in Pasolini's Film and Philosophy

    Beyond the Middle-Class Matrix
    € 152,50
  11. A Cultural History of Vertigo
    1. Anindya Raychaudhuri

    A Cultural History of Vertigo

    Unbalanced

    The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, this book covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present, testimonies of lived experience, and literary and cultural representations of vertigo.

    € 117,95
  12. The Cinema of Stephen Chow

    The Cinema of Stephen Chow

    This is a ground-breaking study of Stephen Chow’s cinematic authorship and the role he plays in Hong Kong and global cinemas from angles including industrial conditions, his career, genres, and intertextual exchanges. It also offers an examination, through Chow, of Hong Kong television and cinema at large.

    € 39,95