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This dictionary covers the history of South American Cinema through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on directors, producers, performers, films, film studios, and genres.

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Focuses on the way that music has infiltrated Hitchcock's thinking as a director, from his earliest silent films to his last works. This title also focuses on how an expanded definition of music influences Hitchcock's conception of cinema.

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Focuses on the way that music has infiltrated Hitchcock's thinking as a director, from his earliest silent films to his last works. This title also focuses on how an expanded definition of music influences Hitchcock's conception of cinema.

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A pioneering book providing a historically nuanced take on US cultural dominance

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"A social history of the baby boom's relationship to popular American cinema, based on interviews with filmmakers and filmgoers"--

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This volume compares films from the late Cold War era with films of the same genre, or of similar themes, from the post-Cold War era, paying particular attention to shifts in narrative that reflect changes in American culture, attitudes, and ideas. It explains how the absence of the Cold War has changed the way we understand and interpret film.

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2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the WWII's end and the beginning of the general public's awareness of Holocaust atrocities. This book offers an important look at Hollywood's ongoing representations of the Holocaust aimed at a general readership not usually addressed by vol...

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Drawing on new archival research into Hollywood production history and detailed textual analysis of individual films, this book assesses the value of British-themed films for the American film industry while placing them in a broader historical context.

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Since the earliest days of cinema the law has influenced the conditions in which Hollywood films are made, sold, circulated or presented from the talent contracts that enable a film to go into production, to the copyright laws that govern its distribution and the censorship laws that may block exhibition.

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He came to America and grew up in Cleveland - stealing cars, rolling drinks, battling priests, nearly going to jail. The rebellion never ended, even as his films went on to gross more than a billion dollars at the box office and he became the most famous - or infamous - screenwriter in Hollywood.

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In this extensive, critical survey of Francis Coppola's films, Chown attempts an auteur theory analysis tempered with an interesting overview of the turbulent economic and corporate controversies that have surrounded Coppola.

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A representative history of East German film culture from 1946 to the present, offering close readings both of DEFA's celebrated classics and of the most acclaimed post-unification films. -- .

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From its earliest days, Hollywood glamour in the form of make-up, hairstyles and fashion was mimicked by women throughout Britain. This is an exploration of the influence of Hollywood on British style and design.

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From its earliest days, Hollywood glamour in the form of make-up, hairstyles and fashion was mimicked by women throughout Britain. This is an exploration of the influence of Hollywood on British style and design.

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This is the only book of its kind to explore biblical epics from an LGBT perspective, studying films from the silent era, to the postwar major studio era, to the present day.

In spite of restrictive Hollywood censorship regulations, filmmakers throughout history have pushed the boundaries of sex and violence when making religious films.

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Analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. With readings of films like D W Griffith's 1915, "The Birth of a Nation" and of key forgotten films and censorship documents, this book argues that dominant fantasies of miscegenation have had a profound impact on the form and content of American cinema.

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