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The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. At the start of the decade, Hollywood, shaking off the Depression launched an wave of production, generating some of its most memorable classics, including "Citizen Kane", "Rebecca", "The Lady Eve", "Sergeant York", and "How Green Was My Valley".

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The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. At the start of the decade, Hollywood - shaking off the Depression - launched an unprecedented wave of production, generating some of its most memorable classics, including "Citizen Kane", "Rebecca", "The Lady Eve", "Sergeant York", and "How Green Was My Valley".

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America in the 1950s was a place of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear fears and conformist politics. Cold war hysteria and anti-communist witch hunts influenced a culture already falling under the spell of suburbia, television and a world of luxury goods.

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The 1970s was a decade if social upheaval that challenged the foundations of American culture. The director-driven movies of the 1970s reflected the turmoil, experimenting with narrative structures, revising traditional genre conventions. This book examines the range of films that marked the decade of 1970.

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During the 1980s, American cinema underwent various transformations. Filmmakers responded to the social, political, and cultural conditions of the time. Hollywood also launched a long-awaited cycle of films about the Vietnam war, but science fiction remained the era's most popular genre. This book examines the films that marked the decade of 1980.

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From Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Gehring presents a compelling theory of the black comedy film genre. Placing the movies he discusses in a historical and literary context, Gehring explores the genre's obession with death and the characters' failure to be shocked by it.

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"Introduces a historicist perspective by placing the disaster movie film genre within the immediate context of the 1970s American high modernity whilst engaging with relevant philosophical, theological and eco-critical ideas on evil, determinism, and human nature"--

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This study covers two decades in American history, when the links between Hollywood and Washington were at their strongest, a period "book-ended" by the political and cinematic figures of Reagan and Clinton. During this period movies became targets of political rhetoric of "family values".

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(Paperback, 5th edition)

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Examining 40 cycles or themes and more than 1,000 silent films, the author attempts to discern how the screen reflected contemporary social, political, and national trends during the silent years.

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This eclectic, yet comprehensive analytical overview of the cataclysmic changes in the American film industry since 1990 shows how they have collectively resulted in a new era-The Digital Age.

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This work provides an accurate, in-depth examination and scientific evaluation of the most famous hauntings in American history as depicted in popular films and television programs.

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(Hardback)

This intriguing book explores why spectacular films involving Biblical figures or set in Biblical times have been a staple of filmmaking since talkies began.

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From the Cold War through to America's War on Terror, science fiction has proved a subtle vehicle for the hopes, fears and preoccupations of a nation at war. This book presents a critical history of late 20th Century SF together with an analysis of the cultural and thematic concerns of this popular genre.

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Science fiction film and television were initially inspired by the classic literature of HG Wells and Jules Verne. This book presents a critical history of late 20th Century SF together with an analysis of the cultural and thematic concerns of this popular genre.

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Offers an overview of the filmmaking of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced individuals living in the West. This book offers global coverage of the genre of Accented cinema while presenting a framework in which to understand its intricacies.

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"An Atonal Cinema theorises contemporary Palestinian cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance with which to decentre and respond to texts from Europe, South America and Israel which have co-opted its images"--

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"An Atonal Cinema theorises contemporary Palestinian cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance with which to decentre and respond to texts from Europe, South America and Israel which have co-opted its images"--

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Presents the story of the bizarre relationship between 1960s teenager Jenny and older man David, after she accepts a lift on her way home from music practice one day.

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The index provides easy access to reviews of theatrical films, news pictorials, series and serials, and early travelogues.

Many of the films included in this index are no longer extant;