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Global in scope and a practical tool for students and teachers of history, Filmography of World History: A Select, Critical Guide To Feature Films That Engage The Past includes description and analysis of over 300 historical films.

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This book examines ways in which the cinema has defined, mythified and disseminated British national identity during the twentieth century. It takes the form of a series of linked essays which examine studies of films, stars and genres the complexities and ambiguities in the process of evolution and definition of the national identity.

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'Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema' explores gender, race and place in selected Australian films in various phases of Australian cinema: from Charles Chauvels 'Jedda' (1955), to the period films of the New Wave in the 1970s, to the Indigenous filmmakers since the 1990s, and the contemporary era of transnational productions in Australia.

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In this book the author finds a Paul who is a stranger to our questions and ideologies. As Paul does not appear often in films, the ones that this book brings into dialogue with Paul have only metaphorical connections with the Paul of Christian and academic discourse. It has four topics distributed in an equal number of chapters.

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This is a screenplay about a recently retired insurance manager who is ill. He decides to combat his illness by walking from Land's End to John O'Groats and in doing so becomes a healthier and more aware human being. It is a gentle comedy with serious overtones by the author of "Clockwise".

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Profiles dancers who represent the pinnacle of their art. This collective biography introduces readers to dancers both with household names (Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev) and those known mostly to ballet aficinados.

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This overview of folk dancing in the United States showcases an important historical movement and explains how folk dance communities evolved to fulfill the needs of specific groups of people over time.

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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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A whole new kind of movie tie-in--the first in a series--goes behind the scenes and deeper into the issues and ideas raised by a provocative documentary on the contemporary way of eating

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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.