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Applying theories from science and technology, this innovative study of Hitchcock's art seeks to explain the extraordinary power of his films.

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This collection focuses on the social forces and ideologiessuch as race, class, gender, religion, and the economythat play a key role in constructing and framing fear, monsters, and the monstrous across a range of films and eras.

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The first sustained analysis of the current oeuvre of film director Darren Aronofsky, examining the many intersections between his filmic work and his philosophical positions--

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Addresses the major gap in film scholarship - the influence of Charles Darwin's theories on the history of the cinema. This title argues that Darwinian ideas influenced the evolution of early film genres such as horror, the detective film, science fiction, film noir and the musical.

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A pioneer of stage naturalism, David Belasco has come to be universally recognized as one of the first important directors in the history of the American stage. Lise-Lone Marker's book is a full-length stylistic analysis and re-evaluation of his scenic art. Based on a rich body of primary sources, among which are Belasco's promptbooks and papers,

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Finally, after building himself a reputation as an antiques dealer to the rich and famous with an eye for treasures, a chance meeting with a TV exec at a barbecue began Davids journey to primetime TV on Bargain Hunt, and in his autobiography David shares some of his experiences of sudden celebrity.

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Film scholar Mark Browning offers the first detailed analysis of the work of David Fincher, director of the critically acclaimed films Se7en, Fight Club, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

David Fincher is one of the most exciting filmmakers working in Hollywood today.

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Comprehensive overview of the director's body of work which yields new insights on the established classics of Lean's career as well as its lesser-known treasures -- .

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A fresh account of one of the cinemas great technicians, making the case for his value as a deep and richly thematic filmmaker.

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Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Eraserhead have turned David Lynch into an American cult figure. This lively book is a uniquely comprehensive account of the only director to have a smash hit TV series in the same year as winning the Golden Palm at Cannes.

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Chronicles the life and career of one of the last of Broadway's independent producers, David Merrick, who produced 88 plays on Broadway during his professional lifetime. This volume includes a chronology of his career, a biographical sketch, and documentation of each of his plays.

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British-born David Niven began his acting career in 1935, appearing in movie classics that have stood the test of time. Other portions of the book offer information on material written by Niven, his various awards, and an annotated bibliography of works about him.

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David Simon's American city examines the work of influential showrunner David Simon, creator of critically acclaimed television serials The Wire, Treme and The Deuce. Situating these television serials in their real world context of twenty-first-century America, the book explores how Simon's work responds to and rearticulates dominant discourses about the state of the American city.

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The life of Hollywoods number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the leading film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Kubrick, Woody Allen and George Lucas.

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Partly a memoir of a working-class way of life that has gone for ever, this work presents a record of the love between mother and son, and a portrait of the artist as a young actor.

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This book analyses representations of death and dying in modern Western theatre from the late nineteenth century onward, examining how and why historically informed conceptions of mortality are dramatized and staged. -- .

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This book analyses representations of death and dying in modern Western theatre from the late nineteenth century onward, examining how and why historically informed conceptions of mortality are dramatized and staged.

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"Robert Mitchum once commented to Arthur Lyons about his movies of the 1940s and 1950s: "Hell, we didn't know what film noir was in those days. We were just making movies. Cary Grant and all the big st"