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"The terror film, with puzzling, disturbing, multivalent images, often leads us into regions that are strange, disorienting, yet somehow familiar; and for all the crude and melodramatic and morally qu"

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Capital and popular cinema responds to the need for a more solid academic approach by situating 'low' film genres in their economic and culturally-specific contexts and by exploring the interconnections between those contexts, the immediate industrial-financial interests sustaining the films, and the films' aesthetics.

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A major reconsideration of one of British cinema's finest film directors, offering fresh insight into Carol Reed's distinctive work, and his place in the history of British cinema. -- .

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The never before published Civil Aeronautics Board investigative report of the airplane crash in which she died, fifteen previously unpublished photographs, and detailed examination of many articles, biographies, and film history books that deal with some aspect of her life and/or career make this bio-bibliography an excellent resource.

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This penultimate work in John Lent's series of bibliographies on comic art gathers together an astounding array of citations on American cartoonists and their work.

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This bio-bibliography provides an overview of the life and career of this superstar, and, unlike other biographies, it gives as much weight to Grant the star as it does to Grant the private person.

The book contains several sections that highlight individual aspects of Grant's life and career.

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Compiled as a tool for re-educating the population of the three western zones of Occupation, this catalog lists 395 features, feature-length documentaries, and short films that were forbidden for public exhibition.

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Illustrated with photographs. A must-have for all theatre aficionados.

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The first full-length monograph in English devoted to one of the most acclaimed and controversial directors in contemporary cinema -- .

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This book illuminates the pivotal role film and television played in shaping the popular memory of Australias convict history, and consequently how enduring notions of colonialism and nationhood were established and challenged in a settler society.

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This volume looks at how the new capabilities of Web 2.0 are changing the worlds of celebrity fandom and gossip.

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This study argues that post-1970 Australian film is best described not as exhibiting phenomenal variety but as focused on a conception of heroism characterized by the love of freedom, the resentment of authority, and attachment to the land, along with anti- intellectualism, fatalism, and sexism.

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This easy-to-use guide explores the relationships between film images and the experience of war, showing how films influence war-time behavior and how wars influence films.

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Each entry includes production information, an annotation detailing the film's Hispanic significance, and references to additional materials. The volume concludes with an alphabetical index of film titles, an index of actors and actresses, an index of place names, a general subject index, and an index of songs.

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Filmmaker McLaughlin addresses the need to create platforms for survivors of political violence to tell their stories in order to challenge marginalizing narratives and injustices and as a form of public acknowledgement and personal healing.

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Presents a theoretical and empirical examination of the market for television violence. This book approaches television violence as an example of market failure. It argues that television violence generates negative externalities, defined as costs borne by others than those involved in the production activity.

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This new book on internationally acclaimed film director Chantal Akerman provides an illuminating overview of her filmmaking to date and an in-depth analysis of her multi-faceted film style. -- .

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This book on internationally acclaimed film director Chantal Akerman provides an illuminating overview of her filmmaking and an in-depth analysis of her multi-faceted film style. -- .

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Here finally in a single, exhaustively researched volume, a reader can find the story behind Charlie Chaplin's rise and fall from grace in the public eye, his attempts to redeem his stardom, his twenty-year banishment from the United States, and his qualified rapprochment with the American public.

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Charles Crichton, director of A Fish Called Wanda and several much-loved Ealing comedies, had one of the most remarkable careers in British film history. Featuring interviews with colleagues such as Dame Judi Dench, Petula Clark, John Cleese and Sir Michael Palin, this book provides the first comprehensive study of his work.

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This revealing study looks at the influences and creative impulses that shape one of todays most progressive, thoughtful filmmakers.

Charlie Kaufman got his start in television, but it was his first film, the eccentric Being John Malkovich, that won notice for his unique storytelling style.