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This is the first scholarly collection to focus on the special importance of British cinema to folk horror. The chapters consider the artistic styles, historical contexts, cultural tensions and cinematic fears that distinguish folk horror from other forms of horror and from traditional ways of viewing the folk.

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This is the first scholarly collection to focus on the special importance of British cinema to folk horror. The chapters consider the artistic styles, historical contexts, cultural tensions and cinematic fears that distinguish folk horror from other forms of horror and from traditional ways of viewing the folk.

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This collection addresses the relative scarcity of work relating to food-film studies, showcasing innovative viewpoints about a popular, yet understudied, subject in film. The volume asks provocative questions about food and its relationship with work, urban life, sexual orientation, the family, race, morality, and a wide range of appetites.

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Alex Stone, part of the underground magic circuit, is determined to take his lifelong hobby to the professional level, to reach the pinnacle of this bizarre world and become a master magician.

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An account of the life of TV presenter Anthea Turner.

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"An interdisciplinary exploration of the forms, implications, and potentials of cinematic thinking"--

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Forward Soviet! is the first comprehensive account of Soviet documentary output during the years between the 'Great October Socialist Revolution' and the 'Great Patriotic War'. Drawing on previously closed State archives, Graham Roberts re-views the great examples of Soviet, and world, non-fiction cinema, and uncovers many little-known films.

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This book opens up innovative ways of reading philosophy 'theatrically', contributing to a new articulation of theatre and its relation to critical thought. -- .

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This book opens up innovative ways of reading philosophy 'theatrically', contributing to a new articulation of theatre and its relation to critical thought. -- .

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This is a book for those who love British cinema and want to know more about its rise to popularity in the 1940s. The 'quality' films of the decade have been thoroughly explored already, but this book looks at the films the public actually went to see, and provides detailed information on the directors behind them. -- .

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An analysis of "Thelma and Louise," "Terminator 2: Judgement Day," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Dances with Wolves" provides tips on writing scripts for original productions, sequels, novel adaptations, and adaptations by original authors.

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Argues that interwar documentary film made a substantial contribution to the rewriting of the French national narrative

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Scholars of French film state that the French made no significant contribution to documentary film prior to the Vichy period. This title refutes this misconception and shows that the French were early and active believers in the uses of documentary film for social change.

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This work introduces the reader to the rich film production of the French-speaking countries outside France, commonly called Francophonia. The book brings together films that might otherwise be divided by questions of race, gender, genre, period or nation.

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The authoritative biography of Britain's most subversive twentieth-century clown from celebrated biographer Graham McCann, author of Dads Army and Morecambe & Wise.

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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. -- .

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Presents detailed information for all of Astaire's performances along with a biography and annotated bibliography.

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Fredric March was one of the foremost actors America produced during the 20th century, holding the distinction of winning Best Actor Awards in two films and two Broadway plays.

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