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A guide to Italian film. It traces the history of filmmaking in Italy, since its origins in the silent era through its golden age in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and its subsequent decline to its resurgence. It covers more than 1,500 films, discussing renowned masters, as well as directors lesser known outside Italy.

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This history aims to strike a mean between the abstruse and the elementary, the scientific and the educational. The first topic is the Gregorian Chant followed by surveys of French, Italian, English, and Russian music.

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"The first comprehensive history of Russian literature on film, analyzing the changing cinematic art and politics of adaptation between 1895 and the present"--

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Although American films, especially Hollywood fare, are often belittled for their one-dimensional portrayal of sex, a close examination of the history of sex in American motion pictures reveals that American cinema has actually represented sex in myriad ways.

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Was Alfred Hitchcock a cynical trifler with his audience's emotions, as he liked to pretend Or was he a profoundly humane artist This book shows that his movies convey an affectionate, hopeful understanding of human nature and the redemptive possibilities of love.

The Hollywood family film is one of the most popular, commercially-successful and culturally significant forms of mass entertainment. This book provides the history of the Hollywood family film, tracing its development from its beginnings in the 1930s to its global box-office dominance today.

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Brings together five of the contemporary auteur directors - Francis Ford Coppola, Brian de Palma, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood and Tim Burton - and the directorial team of the Coen brothers. This work features interviews that catch each director at a crucial juncture in their development.

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Brings together five of the contemporary auteur directors - Francis Ford Coppola, Brian de Palma, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood and Tim Burton - and the directorial team of the Coen brothers. This work features interviews that catch each director at a crucial juncture in their development.

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A fascinating examination of 13 key films from one of the most highly regarded and most widely debated periods in American film history.

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A fascinating examination of 13 key films from one of the most highly regarded and most widely debated periods in American film history.

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The Hollywood Trust: Trade Associations and the Rise of the Studio System offers a rare look at the Hollywood trade organizations that rose during the early years of cinema. This book offers a detailed account of three successive trade organizations from 1915 to 1928: the Moti...

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A mini epic - how a particular set of artistic treasures from the classical world, the horses of St Mark's Basilica, interacted with two thousand years of European history.

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and Muriel Weingrow Collection consists of approximately 4,000 items including original illustrated books, periodicals, exhibition catalogues, pamphlets, posters, manuscripts, letters, and original prints representing most of the major avant-garde movements of the twentieth century.

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Carved for a Roman city prefect who was a newly baptized Christian at his death, the sarcophagus of Junius Bassus is not only a magnificent example of "the fine style" of mid-fourth-century sculpture but also a treasury of early Christian iconography clearly indicating the Christianization of Rome--and the Romanization of Christianity. Whereas most

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