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Jonathan Rigby brings his incisive scrutiny to bear on more than 100 Continental horror films, ranging from the early years of the 20th century to the video revolution of the 1980s.

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Artist and writer Steve Reinke is best known for his video work. This titles features videos that comprises of original and found footage (from home movies, training films, and porn flicks), that are typically diaristic, often philosophical, and even elegaic. It contains Reinke's scripts from 1996 onwards, along with illustrative stills.

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A major new exploration of the dramatic arts

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Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention is not the narrative but the spectacle.

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Offers a range for theoretical approaches for illuminating the affective force of cinema. Concentrating on the work of important figures such as Welles, Cassavetes, Scorsese, Chaplin, Keaton and Streisand, these essays will also be read for their inventive and persuasive readings of particular films and performers.

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In Fassbinder, Christian Thomsen, a close friend of the director, illuminates Fassbinder's body of work while revealing his insider views of a man who, despite a furious temper, manic working habits, and rampant drug addiction, supported an extended family- including his mother, a string of male lovers, lovelorn women, and even a pair.

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Presents an ambitious young writer's hilarious journey inside the adult film industry. This book tells the story of Eric Spitznagel who moves to LA with dreams of becoming a highly respected screenwriter. When Hollywood fails to notice him, he settles for the next best thing: writing scripts for adult films.

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In Fiery Cinema, Weihong Bao traces the permutations of cinema as an affective medium in China from the early through the mid-twentieth century, exploring its role in aesthetics, politics, and social institutions.

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A fresh, important intervention into understanding our post-9/11 world

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Film studies meets philosophy as never before

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Film studies meets philosophy as never before

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At a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching filmexamining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures) at which story, image, and writing appear to be at odds with one another.

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A wide-ranging, informative, stimulating and inventive study of an essential element of cinema. -- .

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Film and music belong together; classics like Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927) and Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" (1967) are renowned for their brilliant soundtracks. But what exactly is film music This title traces the history of music in film and discusses central theoretical questions concerning its narrative and psychological functions.

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Explores the lesbian film that ignited a homophobic rampage in India.

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This in-depth look at the psychological effects of being a former child star includes an examination of the life of Dana Plato, and includes interviews with former child actors who appeared on various television shows. Color and b&w photos.

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This is a brief, but handy book outlining the task of viewing theatrical performances and evaluating them. Although aimed primarily at the festival-level respondent, it is a book that can enhance the ability to evaluate and respond to the theatre experience, creating at the broadest level a sensitive and enriched audience.

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"Francisco Nieva and Postmodernist Theatre" should engage with and advance the debate on the viability of postmodernist theatre in general by presenting the works of Francisco Nieva as a bona-fide postmodernist theatre formulated on avant-garde foundations.

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This is the first study of the films of Francois Ozon, and places the precocious French auteur in a lucid critical framework, highlighting Ozon's importance for a thoroughly postmodern film-going generation. -- .