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An incisive, witty and comprehensive textbook that looks at the many genres of comedy from silent film onwards. Covering film, televison and radio it is not only up-to-date but also provides full historical context. It focuses on all of the key issues studied on university courses. -- .

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Part of the "Stage by Stage" series, this work is the study of theatre in the 'Age of Baroque', the exciting period from the last decades of the seventeenth century to the early years of the nineteenth. It offers an account of what happened on stage above the sputtering, smoky footlights - a mere two rows of candles - and behind the scenes.

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An insightful look at Pedro Almodovar's gay melodrama classic. Part of the Queer Film Classic series.

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Through its analyses of twenty notable and representative French films that have appeared since 1980, Le Cinma franais contemporain: Manuel de classe offers an eagle-eyed view of recent French cinema that will delight advanced students of French as well as Francophone students of French film.

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Collection of writings about the influence of film on the cultural and individual imagination.

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The first full-length study of British horror radio -- .

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In time for the 40th anniversary of Local Hero, Jonathan Melville checks into Urquharts Hotel watching out for motorbikes and examines director Bill Forsyths early career before spending time with the cast and crew to find out how this classic film was made.

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Looks at how the Comic Strip began, straight from the mouths of the stars who built their careers on its stage. In this title, the author and a wealth of comics open their hearts and souls to share their intimate memories in order to paint an all-encompassing, behind-the-scenes history of this iconic club.

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An illustrated volume that offers a behind-the-scenes look at Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee's most ambitious film, an adaptation of Yann Martel's international bestseller and Man Booker Prize-winning novel. It includes a foreword by Martel and an introduction by Lee.

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Shows film artists how to free their imaginations, and explore, innovate and experiment in poetic and visual ways through shooting, editing, adding sound, developing a story, and adding special effects. This title is accompanied by a DVD of 30 films that offers a mini film festival of short, artful, and meaningful films made mostly by beginners.

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Everything you need, from getting the script right, to the edit being tight, is laid out in an informal and easily digestible style. Making Your First Blockbuster covers not only all the major components but delves deep into the nuances that make the big blockbusters really deliver. T

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This volume in the French Film Directors series has been long-awaited by students and academics of French and European cinema in particular and by Film Studies students in general. -- .

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First and only comprehensive overview of Pagnol's career in English, and the only book in any language to link Pagnol's early career as a playwright with his controversial theories of cinema and his work as a film director. -- .

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This no-nonsense guide will prepare the actor for the perfect part in theater, on the web, or anything in...

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"Allison Page examines U.S. media from the 1960s to today and delivers vital new ideas about how our feelings about race are governed and normalized by our media landscape. Media and the Affective Life of Slavery argues that visual culture works through emotion, a powerful lever for shaping and managing racialized subjectivity"--

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"Allison Page examines U.S. media from the 1960s to today and delivers vital new ideas about how our feelings about race are governed and normalized by our media landscape. Media and the Affective Life of Slavery argues that visual culture works through emotion, a powerful lever for shaping and managing racialized subjectivity"--

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"With no known cause or cure despite a century of research, Alzheimer's disease is a true medical mystery. Scott Selberg examines the nature of this enduring national health crisis by looking at the disease's relationship to media and representation, showing how collective investments in different kinds of media have historically shaped how we understand, treat, and live with this disease"--