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There are over fifty Chan films and an additional three Spanish language Chan films. Each film is given a star rating, and several appendices provide additional information such as the lost films of Charlie Chan, actors who played Chan, and Chan on television.

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It opens with eight short essays, discussing the appeal of the war film genre, government and filmmaker cooperation, the isolation of Korean War films from other war films, why John Wayne didn't make a Korean War film, the other actors who did, the plots of Korean War films, television and Korean War films, and the myths resulting from films.

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This comprehensive film guide lists the screen credits and provides synopses of more than 5,400 silent western features, documentaries, shorts and serials released from the 1890s through 1930. These westerns came from both the major and lesser known American film studios, many long defunct.

The term western is hard to define;

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The history of Greek cinema is a rather obscure and unexamined affair. Greek cinema started slowly and then collapsed; for several years it struggled to reinvent itself, produced its first mature works, then collapsed completely and almost vanished. This book presents a survey of Greek cinema from its very beginning (1905) until today (2010).

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Provides a historical survey of Greek cinema from its very beginning (1905) until today (2010). This title focuses on the attempts to establish a national cinema useful to social cohesion and national identity. It analyses the problems and the dilemmas that many Greek directors faced in order to establish a distinct Greek cinema language.

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The only comprehensive and up-to-date book on the subject of Italian cinema available anywhere, in any language.

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In Russia, cinema has become genuinely independent, as a commercial as well as an artistic medium. This book presents the history of Russian cinema from the beginning of film onwards and presents a narrative of both the industry and its key films in the context of Russia's social and political history.

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Investigates the history of film in New Zealand. This volume looks at the very beginning of the NZ film industry, in the early years of the twentieth century, rather than concentrating on the renaissance in the 1970s. It covers various major directors, who have had international success, including Geoff Murphy, Roger Donaldson, and Lee Tamahori.

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A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema chronicles 3-D cinema from its origins in 19th-century stereoscopic photography through anaglyphic/digital stereoscopic cinema in the 20th century to the promise of Virtual Reality in the 21st century.

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The essays in A Moving Picture Feast discuss every Hollywood film made from a Hemingway work and represent the most diverse response yet to the Hemingway-Hollywood relationship.

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A "historical overview of documentary history, the role of women in documentary history, and consideration of newest trends and global filmmaking"--

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Presents the history of Japanese cinema which has had an international influence. Drawing upon Japanese film scholarship that has never been published outside Japan, this book provides a chronological survey of a range of films and sheds light on films and directors that are not so famous on the international stage, as well as on those who are.

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This book lists 365 films, one for each day of the year, organized by the date on which at least one scene in the movie occurs on that date. For example, The Longest Day, a movie about the 1944 Normandy invasion, is the entry for June 6. For some films the scene that occurred...

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A young man leaves his home to look for work in the cinema industry and is not heard of again, disappearing after a first rejection: one hopeful actor of hundreds seeking a route to stardom.

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It is a compelling, personal story that takes in over half a century of acting, but also his colourful personal life - growing up next to the mental asylum run by his father, the women in his life, his on-stage breakdown (which led to a prolonged absence from the stage), and his battle with cancer.

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'Action!' draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the 'Bright Lights Film Journal', and contains many gems, including the last ever interview given by Francois Truffaut, four months before he died.