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This new volume in the Greenwood Press series Reference Guides to the World's Cinema discusses the films and personalities of the Canadian cinema.

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A guide to silent films, focusing on American actors, directors, and screenwriters, with an emphasis on the 1910's through the 1920s.

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A critical study of the work of the Mexican director and producer Guillermo del Toro.

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The second edition of Peter Hutchingss landmark work on British horror cinema, featuring later writings by Hutchings and a new introduction by film historian Johnny Walker.

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This book outlines the film achievements in the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, East Germany, Romania, and Bulgaria, and how their people responded to the films they were allowed to see.

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This bookexamines the interactions between ghosts and families in three recent horror films from the Spanish-speaking world. It explores the ways in which horror films can serve to reinscribe or subvert hegemonic epistemologies of race and sexuality by manipulating the temporal framework in which intersectional subjectivities are articulated.

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Providing a historical account of cinema in Nigeria, this book explores the transcultural transfer of media from India to Africa in Hausa cinema

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Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzots achievement, situating his life and work in the wider context of French cinema and society, and providing detailed analysis of his major films.

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The life and career of Henry Fonda, one of Hollywood's greatest stars, are detailed in this bio-bibliography that places equal emphasis on the actor's professional and private lives.

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Despite the increasing variety of heroic women portrayed in film, television, and other popular culture channels, much of the understanding of heroines has been limited to females as versions of male heroes or simple stereotypes of overly weak/strong (and even violent) women. ...

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Hollywood decadence, greed, hypocrisy and hysteria in the 80s and 90s, focusing on the life of bad boy Don Simpson.

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The entrepreneur of phonograph concerts and motion-picture programs Lyman H. Howe was the leading traveling exhibitor of his time and the exemplar of an important but until now little examined aspect of American popular culture. This work, with its numerous and lively illustrations, uses his career to explore the world of itinerant showmen, who exh

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This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about African American cinema.

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The Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on individual authors, stories, films, filmmakers, television shows and the various sub-genres of the British spy story.

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The Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema traces the development of the genre from its beginnings to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries.

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Through a chronology; an introductory essay; appendixes, a bibliography; and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on films, directors, actors, producers, and film institutions, a balanced picture of the richness of Polish cinema is presented.

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This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on directors, performers, cinematographers, composers, designers, producers, and studios.