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There are over fifty Chan films and an additional three Spanish language Chan films. Each film is given a star rating, and several appendices provide additional information such as the lost films of Charlie Chan, actors who played Chan, and Chan on television.

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It opens with eight short essays, discussing the appeal of the war film genre, government and filmmaker cooperation, the isolation of Korean War films from other war films, why John Wayne didn't make a Korean War film, the other actors who did, the plots of Korean War films, television and Korean War films, and the myths resulting from films.

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Designed as a practical reference guide for professional pianists and piano teachers, A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers, Volume I, is an annotated catalogue of the available piano music in print composed by 144 women born before the 20th century.

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A guide to locating information on popular music and the people who create it, this volume is designed as a desk referenceto locate answers to specific questions and to direct library users to key resources.

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These are among the more than 3,000 pseudonyms unearthed by Allan Sutton in his pioneering guide to pseudonyms used on American recordings between 1892 and 1942.

Organized into sections dealing with vocal artists and instrumental groups, the volume has indexes for legal names, label groups, and vocal and instrumental names.

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This comprehensive film guide lists the screen credits and provides synopses of more than 5,400 silent western features, documentaries, shorts and serials released from the 1890s through 1930. These westerns came from both the major and lesser known American film studios, many long defunct.

The term western is hard to define;

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The history of Greek cinema is a rather obscure and unexamined affair. Greek cinema started slowly and then collapsed; for several years it struggled to reinvent itself, produced its first mature works, then collapsed completely and almost vanished. This book presents a survey of Greek cinema from its very beginning (1905) until today (2010).

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Provides a historical survey of Greek cinema from its very beginning (1905) until today (2010). This title focuses on the attempts to establish a national cinema useful to social cohesion and national identity. It analyses the problems and the dilemmas that many Greek directors faced in order to establish a distinct Greek cinema language.

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The only comprehensive and up-to-date book on the subject of Italian cinema available anywhere, in any language.

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This book provides the first history of the television news parody genre, analyzing how these shows have functioned as critiques of television news, politics, culture, and American society, while entertaining and informing audiences. Each chapter features a case study and discussion of the genre during a particular decade.

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This text looks at the smallest and simplest of dwellings in order to explore some of the largest questions that can be posed about architecture. What begins where architecture ends What was before architecture

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A Journey Through Ladakh chronicles a honeymoon vacation made by Jan and her then husband, John Blaustein, to the territory of Ladakh.

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The complete, collected lyrics of one of country music's most prolific and original stars.

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Here is a comprehensive development plan written as if vital communities, indigenous peoples, women, and the environment really mattered.

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Here is a comprehensive development plan written as if vital communities, indigenous peoples, women, and the environment really mattered.

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Tawa considers the musical and social ramifications influencing the American composer between 1950 and 1985. Insightful commentaries and a highly readable text combine to focus on all contemporary musical styles from the most traditional to the most experimental in relation to modern American life.