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A lucid and informative account, drawing on unpublished material, of the career of one of the most successful and significant producers in British cinema. It provides discussion of all his films, including The Seventh Veil (1945), and affords an exceptional insight into the workings of the wartime and postwar British film and television industries.

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"Examines key works of the distinguished French animator Sylvain Chomet and their importance for the study of contemporary animation"--

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"Originally published in 2005, the revised edition explores musical free improvisation through the lens of several contemporary sciences"--

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"Originally published in 2005, the revised edition explores musical free improvisation through the lens of several contemporary sciences"--

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A collection of ten interviews with directors of television programmes, each a specialist in a different field, providing a diversity that ranges from Hollywood to New York. Their insights help explain the degree to which the director's involvement is determined by the types of programme required.

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An interrogation of fiction as one of two key categorisations of film, exploring its influence upon audience experience and its broader real-life implications.

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An interrogation of fiction as one of two key categorisations of film, exploring its influence upon audience experience and its broader real-life implications.

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Following the careers and approaches of 14 female theatre directors, this book describes how they strove for success in what was once a male preserve. They discuss their working methods and their most celebrated productions, their influences and their network of support.

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"Methuen Drama in association with The Society for Theatre Research."

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For nearly 25 years, Pauline Kael (1919-2001) was one of America's most respected, controversial, and talked-about film reviewer, yet her film criticism for The New Yorker has never been systematically discussed or analyzed. This collection of essays on Pauline Kael investigat...

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Sex and the City (1998-2004) was one of the most popular programs on HBO, spawned two successful feature films in 2008 and 2010, and continues to do well in syndication. This book explores how Sex and the City represents the conventions of romantic comedy in order to create a ...

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An autobiography of Studs Terkel, an American oral historian, which mirrors the events of our century. From Mahalia Jackson to Bertrand Russell, from Martin Luther King Jr to Federico Fellini, the author captured their voices for posterity.

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A collection of some of Margaret Throsby's most interesting ABC-FM interviews.

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Tallulah Bankhead was an actress whose talents were greatly overshadowed by her antics.

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Reservoir Dogs launched Quentin Tarantino as a pioneering new filmmaker and director - his hip-talking, hypnotically shot, ultraviolent US indie films revolutionised American filmmaking and spawned a number of imitators.

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This guide has been completely updated with all of the latest technological advances to provide an exciting, alternative approach to teaching first-year television production to high school students.

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Critically explores the interactions of comedy and drama within a group of popular and influential British films released during the 90s, demonstrating that this was an innovative period in British film history. Films discussed include: 'Brassed Off', 'The Full Monty', 'East is East', 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' and 'Love Actually'. -- .

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A new history of the genre that surveys the existing body of scholarship and introduces key critical tools for discussing teen film. An introduction to all aspects of this genre of film: movies about adolescents and adolescence.