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A young man leaves his home to look for work in the cinema industry and is not heard of again, disappearing after a first rejection: one hopeful actor of hundreds seeking a route to stardom.

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Exploring cinemagoing and cinema culture, this book considers the 1930s, from Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald to Fred and Ginger. It shows how audiences looked to their screen heroines and heroes for inspiration, and explores the role of cinemagoing in make-believe, friendship and growing up.

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(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

The new, revised and expanded paperback edition of this textbook for film history brings up to date its authors' demonstration of how a close study of films in their historical and cultural settings can enrich our understanding of both cinema and historical events.

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At the outbreak of the WWII, all cinemas in Britain were closed. Ten days later, they were opened again as a way of boosting morale. Over the next six years, some 300 feature films and thousands of short films were produced in what is seen as British cinema's 'finest hour'. This work charts this period through the eyes of thirteen key films.

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Noel Brown celebrates and explores popular children's films from the Harry Potter franchise to Paddington, revealing the industrial, social and cultural history behind cherished classics.

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Offers a comprehensive historical survey of British art direction. This book takes a chronological journey through British film design, starting with the efforts of the film 'primitives' of the silent era and ending with the modern day purveyors of part built/part computer generated 'blended design'.

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Exploring debates about children and how they use and respond to the media, the author researches attempts to control children's viewing, the ideas that supported these approaches and the extent to which they were successful. She develops a proposition that children are agents in the regulation of their own viewing and not passive consumers.

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Where Hollywood and China meet

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Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Hitler and Goebbels regarded cinema as their most important weapon for mass political propaganda. This book examines the ways in which cinema was used for political purposes by two of the most highly politicised societies in 20th-century European history.

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This innovative book offers a startlingly fresh perspective on one of the most iconic figures in American film history.

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The first study to contextualise fully the changes brought about by railways and cinema, and demonstrate the resultant impact on everyday life.

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Investigates Hollywood's ability to appeal to British filmgoers, as well as its ability to alienate, enrage and amuse them across films ranging from The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1922) to The Patriot (2000).

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An account of how popular films in America, just after the close of the Second World War, played out America's mood at that crucial time. This book is also a revisionist challenge to the scholarly understanding of this mood, has tended to be seen as characterized by an abiding pessimism most clearly manifested in the films noir of the period.

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The large literature about politics of Hollywood in the period of McCarthy and the blacklist has largely overlooked political filmmaking during those agitated years. This title examines the vibrant cycle of independently produced political films made while House Committee on Un-American Activities was investigating communists in the film industry.

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Focuses on the Fifties, when Hollywood's interest in the past was at its peak. This book reconstructs how filmmakers understood their treatment of the past, suggesting why many of them saw their work as superior to that of historians. It helps us understand how and why Hollywood blurs the boundaries between fiction and historical reality.