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"Offers a fresh take on the controversial binational film project The Samurai's Daughter and New Earth, where the two directors Arnold Fanck and Itami Mansaku produced one version each in 1937 - a key wartime axis collaboration for German-Japanese relations"--

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The only comprehensive guide to the crime films of the forties and fifties, this volume focuses on the major events that shaped and molded the genre: war, alienation, drugs, and organized crime.

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Recent crime films such as Scarface, the Dirty Harry series, and The Godfather have captured the American imagination, but they owe a large debt to the early crime talkies such as The Public Enemy, Paul Muni's Scarface, and Little Caesar.

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The immense popularity of movies has its roots in the silent films of the early 1900s, this being especially true of the crime genre.

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This examination and comprehensive assessment of apocalyptic film studies fifty films that illustrate the variety, range and different categories of the genre.

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There are over fifty Chan films and an additional three Spanish language Chan films. Each film is given a star rating, and several appendices provide additional information such as the lost films of Charlie Chan, actors who played Chan, and Chan on television.

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It opens with eight short essays, discussing the appeal of the war film genre, government and filmmaker cooperation, the isolation of Korean War films from other war films, why John Wayne didn't make a Korean War film, the other actors who did, the plots of Korean War films, television and Korean War films, and the myths resulting from films.

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This comprehensive film guide lists the screen credits and provides synopses of more than 5,400 silent western features, documentaries, shorts and serials released from the 1890s through 1930. These westerns came from both the major and lesser known American film studios, many long defunct.

The term western is hard to define;

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The history of Greek cinema is a rather obscure and unexamined affair. Greek cinema started slowly and then collapsed; for several years it struggled to reinvent itself, produced its first mature works, then collapsed completely and almost vanished. This book presents a survey of Greek cinema from its very beginning (1905) until today (2010).

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Provides a historical survey of Greek cinema from its very beginning (1905) until today (2010). This title focuses on the attempts to establish a national cinema useful to social cohesion and national identity. It analyses the problems and the dilemmas that many Greek directors faced in order to establish a distinct Greek cinema language.

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The only comprehensive and up-to-date book on the subject of Italian cinema available anywhere, in any language.

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In Russia, cinema has become genuinely independent, as a commercial as well as an artistic medium. This book presents the history of Russian cinema from the beginning of film onwards and presents a narrative of both the industry and its key films in the context of Russia's social and political history.

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This book provides the first history of the television news parody genre, analyzing how these shows have functioned as critiques of television news, politics, culture, and American society, while entertaining and informing audiences. Each chapter features a case study and discussion of the genre during a particular decade.

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Investigates the history of film in New Zealand. This volume looks at the very beginning of the NZ film industry, in the early years of the twentieth century, rather than concentrating on the renaissance in the 1970s. It covers various major directors, who have had international success, including Geoff Murphy, Roger Donaldson, and Lee Tamahori.

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A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema chronicles 3-D cinema from its origins in 19th-century stereoscopic photography through anaglyphic/digital stereoscopic cinema in the 20th century to the promise of Virtual Reality in the 21st century.

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A play that "charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun"--Amazon.com.

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