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This is the first book-length study of the most prolific and most critically acclaimed director working in British cinema today. Michael Winterbottom has established himself, and his company, Revolution Films, as a dynamic force in world cinema. -- .

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Derived from the Latin verb 'gerere'-to carry, act, or do-'gesture' has accrued critical currency but has remained undertheorized. Migrations of Gesture addresses this absence and provides a complex theory on the value of gesture for understanding human sign production.

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Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. Written with the co-operation of Leigh himself, this book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for television. -- .

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"How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences"--

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A Canadian cult classic made in 1974 about queer, intergenerational love.

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A one-stop guide to the major movements that have shaped our sense of what cinema is and can be. It covers the founding concepts in Film Studies such as authorship and genre, technological impacts, the rise of digital cinema, social influences and notions of the avant-garde, and cinema as a major art form that reflects and shapes the world.

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Law professor and movie aficionado Anthony Chase sorts out some of the complex and often contradictory notions Americans have about the legal system. He uses movies to investigate many of our deepest beliefs about law and politics.

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Joss Whedon's new adaptation of Shakespeare's classic comedy has already been acclaimed as "a masterpiece". This book features an introduction by Joss, his full screenplay, and a gallery of photos from the set. It also includes an extended interview with the director, discussing his approach to the play, and the production of the film.

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This volume offers readers a comprehensive survey of the varied contributions feminist scholars have been making to film study over the past two decades. In its scope, it presents the range of theoretical, critical, and educational directions open to feminist students of film.

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The Winnipeg of Guy Maddin, the world's foremost cinaste planant, is far from the Winnipeg you'll find in tourist brochures.

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In these analyses of 20th century cinema , Russell reveals an uneasy relationship between death and closure, which she traces to anxieties about identity, gender, and national-cultural myths, and also to the persistence of desire.

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Intended for students and researchers in cultural studies/cinema, this book provides an historical account of actors' labour struggles in 1930s Hollywood.

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A world-weary detective, a seductive femme fatale, a mysterious murder - these elements of classic film noir live again in more recent hardboiled detective films from Chinatown to Sin City. But the themes and styles of noir have also spilled over into contemporary films about gangsters, cops and serial killers...

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This book includes academic studies from established scholars and early career researchers, as well as fans of horror cinema. It is written for its own constituency, as well as for journalists, critics, industry specialists and students.

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This engaging and original work argues that modern Hollywood was forged in the fires of class struggle and economic inequality

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This anthology of essays studies the form, aesthetics and representations of LGBTQ+ identities in a new subgenre of film and television we call 'New Queer Horror'.

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Explores the history of the many New Waves in cinema, including their forebears such as the German Expressionists, the French New Wave's contemporaries and heirs, such as the Czech New Wave, the British New Wave, and other new waves, such as those of Greece, Hungary, documentary, animation, avant garde and the so-called No Wave filmmakers.

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"A look at the United States' conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel."--

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"A look at the United States' conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel."--

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