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The true tale of an American impresario, Japanese acrobats, and a circus tour adventure; richly illustrated.

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Historical survey of urban images in cinema, from its origins to the present day. This survey of the historic relationship between film and the urban landscape shows how cinematic images have been fundamental to the ways in which cities have been imagined and formulated.

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Produced with the full co-operation of the filmmakers, this book showcases production design art and behind the scenes photos.

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A unique and carefully researched cultural history of UK film, TV and music in the swinging 60s. A time when no film or TV programme was without a group, singer or fantastic soundtrack - and London was briefly the film capital of the world. Containing individual summaries of over 120 films, covering everything from John Barry to Pink...

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Identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay are internationally renowned moving image artists and designers for over thirty years have been in avant-garde of stop-motion puppet animation. This title presents their better known films as well as previously moving image works and including graphic design, drawings, typography and notebooks for films.

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A revealing and affectionate account of the personal and political lives of the left-wing screenwriters, directors and actors behind Hollywood's Golden Age. Featuring rare film stills, it relates the story-behind-the-story of films such as "Casablanca" and "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror".

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A lively and insightful account of 'the second great age of radio'.

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An overview of radio's impact on American culture from the 1920s through the 1940s, incorporating discussion of programmes and their relations to popular cultural understandings of race, ethnicity and gender in the United States of this era.

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Jason Loviglio shows how early network radio produced a new type of community marked by the contradictions and tensions between public and private, mass media and democracy, and nation and family.

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Jason Loviglio shows how early network radio produced a new type of community marked by the contradictions and tensions between public and private, mass media and democracy, and nation and family.

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A sustained theoretical reevaluation of "film languages," both visual and verbal.

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A sustained theoretical reevaluation of "film languages," both visual and verbal.

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This book suggests ways forward for a new series of studies in cinematic realism, and for a new form of film theory based on realism, stressing the importance of the question of realism, both in film studies and in contemporary life. -- .

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Exploring Southeast-Asian Canadian contributions to independent film and video, this collection, originating in the work of the acclaimed Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, highlights the screen as a site for the reflection, projection, and reimagination of identities and communities.

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Establishes the influence of the Black Power movement on black television of the 1960s and 1970s. This book offers a complex reading of this period in television history, illustrating how black actors operated within the constraints of the television industry to resist and ultimately shape the mass media's portrayal of African American life.

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The first critical edition devoted to Foreman's work.

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A critical reappraisal of one of the most significant filmmakers of the post-war era, 'Beatles' director, Richard Lester. -- .

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The second book in the Rocliffe Notes series, A Guide to Low-Budget Filmmaking is a practical, step-by-step guide to getting your film made, taking it all the way from a script to the screen. It covers every aspect of the process, including: budgeting and finance; casting, crewing and scheduling; shooting and...

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