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An interdisciplinary study of 'medieval film' and its cultural functions -- .

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'The Passion' has sparked debate everywhere. This timely collection of essays explores the film's questions in depth and expands on its themes. Topics covered include why Christ was killed; whether moral responsibility is possible when God knows; the relationship between film, antisemitism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and more.

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After scouring obscure educational films for nine years, the author offers a fascinating stroll down memory lane via the hundreds of films designed to keep public school children on the straight and narrow track between 1945 and 1970. 200 photos.

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This is the first book-length study of the most prolific and most critically acclaimed director working in British cinema today. Michael Winterbottom has established himself, and his company, Revolution Films, as a dynamic force in world cinema. -- .

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Derived from the Latin verb 'gerere'-to carry, act, or do-'gesture' has accrued critical currency but has remained undertheorized. Migrations of Gesture addresses this absence and provides a complex theory on the value of gesture for understanding human sign production.

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Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. Written with the co-operation of Leigh himself, this book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for television. -- .

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Offers an exploration of anime, manga, and Japanese popular culture.

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"How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences"--

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A collection of 64 monologues categorized by gender for use in the audition process, be it professional audition or audition course.

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A Canadian cult classic made in 1974 about queer, intergenerational love.

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A resource for actors, movement teachers and directors, exploring the physical skills needed for the stage and the screen. The contributors, who are from diverse performance traditions, explain how their particular disciplines came into being and why the skills involved are valuable to actors.

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A one-stop guide to the major movements that have shaped our sense of what cinema is and can be. It covers the founding concepts in Film Studies such as authorship and genre, technological impacts, the rise of digital cinema, social influences and notions of the avant-garde, and cinema as a major art form that reflects and shapes the world.

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Law professor and movie aficionado Anthony Chase sorts out some of the complex and often contradictory notions Americans have about the legal system. He uses movies to investigate many of our deepest beliefs about law and politics.

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Joss Whedon's new adaptation of Shakespeare's classic comedy has already been acclaimed as "a masterpiece". This book features an introduction by Joss, his full screenplay, and a gallery of photos from the set. It also includes an extended interview with the director, discussing his approach to the play, and the production of the film.

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Based on observations of the American Players Theatre production of Shakespeare's Much ado about nothing in the summer of 2014.

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This volume offers readers a comprehensive survey of the varied contributions feminist scholars have been making to film study over the past two decades. In its scope, it presents the range of theoretical, critical, and educational directions open to feminist students of film.

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The Winnipeg of Guy Maddin, the world's foremost cinaste planant, is far from the Winnipeg you'll find in tourist brochures.

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In these analyses of 20th century cinema , Russell reveals an uneasy relationship between death and closure, which she traces to anxieties about identity, gender, and national-cultural myths, and also to the persistence of desire.

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Investigates the drive to create a national theatre as an aspect of the cultural, social and political life of modern Wales. Efforts to establish a National Theatre are discussed as a struggle to define the national identity in a volatile world. This work focuses on how national theatre helps in creation of the modern European Welsh man or woman.

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Intended for students and researchers in cultural studies/cinema, this book provides an historical account of actors' labour struggles in 1930s Hollywood.

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A world-weary detective, a seductive femme fatale, a mysterious murder - these elements of classic film noir live again in more recent hardboiled detective films from Chinatown to Sin City. But the themes and styles of noir have also spilled over into contemporary films about gangsters, cops and serial killers...