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  • Arthouse Crime Scenes
    Geoff King
    Arthouse Crime Scenesis the first book to address the relationship between art cinema and crime, contributing to the study of both categories.Case studies are provided of works by celebrated filmmakers including Lucretia Martell, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Bong Joon Ho, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Hirokazu Koreeda, Jia Zhangke, Andrey Zvyagintsez and Lee Chang-dong. How is crime represented...
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    167,18 €

  • The Cinema of Discomfort
    Geoff King
    How do we understand types of cinema that offer experiences of discomfort, awkwardness or disquieting uncertainty? This book examines a number of examples of such work at the heart of contemporary art and indie film. While the commercial mainstream tends to offer comforting viewing experiences - or moments of discomfort that exist largely to be overcome - The Cinema of Discomfo...
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    50,85 €

  • Positioning Art Cinema
    Geoff King
    Art cinema occupies a space in the film landscape that is accorded a particular kind of value. From films that claim the status of harsh realism to others which embody aspects of the tradition of modernism or the poetic, art cinema encompasses a variety of work from across the globe. But how is art cinema positioned in the film marketplace, or by critics and in academic analysi...
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    45,40 €

  • The Cinema of Discomfort
    Geoff King
    How do we understand types of cinema that offer experiences of discomfort, awkwardness or disquieting uncertainty? This book examines a number of examples of such work at the heart of contemporary art and indie film. While the commercial mainstream tends to offer comforting viewing experiences - or moments of discomfort that exist largely to be overcome - The Cinema of Discomfo...
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    167,11 €

  • Nutters
    Geoff King
    They believed them to be primitive, they deemed them immoral, they thought them barbaric? they called them The Nutters. Two hundred years after the collapse of the global economy, most of Britain has become a wild and lawless forest. Safe in Nootopia 18, Cola Domingo witnesses something that causes him to question the apparent perfection of his society. Little does he know, his...
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    17,25 €

  • Positioning Art Cinema
    Geoff King
    Art cinema occupies a space in the film landscape that is accorded a particular kind of value. From films that claim the status of harsh realism to others which embody aspects of the tradition of modernism or the poetic, art cinema encompasses a variety of work from across the globe.But how is art cinema positioned in the film marketplace, or by critics and in academic analysis...
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    153,85 €

  • Quality Hollywood
    Geoff King
    What defines ’quality’ in contemporary Hollywood film? Although often seen as inhospitable to such work, the studios of the blockbuster-franchise era continue to produce features that make claims to higher status. Films such as The Social Network, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Mystic River are marked as distinctive from the mainstream norm. But ...
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    246,69 €

  • Indiewood, USA Where Hollywood Meets Independent Cinema
    Geoff King
    In this book, the author has published extensively on American cinema. It covers a range of well-known films and film-makers. This is the first book to analyse the relationship and interaction between Independent film and Hollywood.Indiewood is the place where Hollywood and the American independent sector meet, where lines blur and two very different kinds of cinema come togeth...
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    41,65 €

  • Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders
    Geoff King / Tanya Krzywinska
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    245,63 €

  • Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders
    Geoff King / Tanya Krzywinska
    Videogames now rival Hollywood cinema in popularity and profits and there are huge followings for titles such as Tomb Raider or The Sims. Exactly what games offer, however, as a distinct form of entertainment, has received scant attention. This book is a valuable contribution to this new field. Its main focus is on key formal aspects of games and the experiences and pleasures o...
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    45,73 €

  • Making sense of the Industrial Revolution
    Geoff Timmins / Geoffrey Timmins / Steve King / Steven King
    Presents a new perspective on the Industrial Revolution providing far more than just an account of industrial change. Looks at the development of the economic structures and includes chapters on financing the revolution, technological change, markets and demand, transport and food. The final section looks at economic change and its impact and includes chapters on demography, th...
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    32,43 €

  • Spectacular Narratives Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster
    Geoff King
    What is the appeal of the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster? The sheer scale and impact of big special effects sequences is part of the attraction of films such as Independence Day, Jurassic Park, Titanic or Mission Impossible. But they also offer other appeals, including the dynamics of narrative. Spectacular Narratives is the first serious book-length treatment of the contem...
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    39,44 €

  • Mapping Reality
    Geoff King
    An original and wide-ranging study of the mappings used to impose meaning on the world. MAPPING REALITY argues that maps create rather than merely represent the ground on which they rest. Distinctions between map and territory, questioned by some theorists of the postmodern, are found always to have been arbitrary. The subordination of one to the other is seen as the outcome...
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    66,75 €