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Although American films, especially Hollywood fare, are often belittled for their one-dimensional portrayal of sex, a close examination of the history of sex in American motion pictures reveals that American cinema has actually represented sex in myriad ways.

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Was Alfred Hitchcock a cynical trifler with his audience's emotions, as he liked to pretend Or was he a profoundly humane artist This book shows that his movies convey an affectionate, hopeful understanding of human nature and the redemptive possibilities of love.

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The Hollywood family film is one of the most popular, commercially-successful and culturally significant forms of mass entertainment. This book provides the history of the Hollywood family film, tracing its development from its beginnings in the 1930s to its global box-office dominance today.

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Brings together five of the contemporary auteur directors - Francis Ford Coppola, Brian de Palma, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood and Tim Burton - and the directorial team of the Coen brothers. This work features interviews that catch each director at a crucial juncture in their development.

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Brings together five of the contemporary auteur directors - Francis Ford Coppola, Brian de Palma, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood and Tim Burton - and the directorial team of the Coen brothers. This work features interviews that catch each director at a crucial juncture in their development.

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A fascinating examination of 13 key films from one of the most highly regarded and most widely debated periods in American film history.

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A fascinating examination of 13 key films from one of the most highly regarded and most widely debated periods in American film history.

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The Hollywood Trust: Trade Associations and the Rise of the Studio System offers a rare look at the Hollywood trade organizations that rose during the early years of cinema. This book offers a detailed account of three successive trade organizations from 1915 to 1928: the Moti...

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Analyzing the relationship between dramatic action and the controversial art of acting, William Worthen demonstrates that what it means to act, to be an actor, and to communicate through acting embodies both an ethics of acting and a poetics of drama. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand techn

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Interviews with Britain's leading impresarios revealing their personal visions for the future of Britain Theatre.

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An inquiry into the convergences of avant-garde film, trans-cultural media arts, experimental ethnography and curatorial practice in contemporary Mexico

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Following an outline history of the monologue as an independent genre in the theater of Latin America, this bibliography incorporates all published and unpublished, staged and unstaged monologue pieces written in Latin America. The secondary bibliography lists works which deal with the monologue as a literary genre.

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In this study, Rodney Farnsworth identifies a pattern of filmmakers' obsessions with archetypal rituals centred on sacrifice and family in films made between 1977 and 1983, a period of political upheaval on both sides of the Atlantic. He presents an examination of key films of the period.

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This edited volume explores the interiors of Breaking Badits homes and labs, elevators and liminal spaces, pools and ventilation ductsnot only as meaningful, conceptual backdrops to the action of the series but also as unexplored pathways into the characters own interior, mental spaces.

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A comprehensive guide to the key genres, movements, filmmakers, and stars of Italian cinema over the past century. This book brings together the most distinguished scholars, critics and film historians in the field to consider a number of historical, cultural, and theoretical issues, alongside detailed exploration of case studies and key texts.

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A collection of essays that considers the James Bond novels and films in relation to their historical, political, and social contexts from the Cold War period onwards, and also examines the classic Bond canon from an array of theoretical perspectives.