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Moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products - even some blockbusters - to be legitimate works of art. This title tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves.

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Austin presents a multi-dimensional investigation of popular film as a commercial, cultural and social phenomenon, focusing on "Basic Instinct", "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Natural Born Killers"; and on important - and marketable - issues such as sex and violence.

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"Provides a historical account of motion picture websites from 1993 to 2008 and their marketing function as industrial advertisements for films and other media in the digital age"--

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Explores the changing representation of the couple in romantic comedy, focusing on the key themes of marriage, equality and desire. This work analyses the discourses around heterosexuality, gender, romance and love; and, includes discussion of Myrna Loy and William Powell, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and Doris Day and Rock Hudson.

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Translation of: La comedie screwball hollywoodienne: 1934-1945: sexe, amour et ideaux democratiques.

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The technical crafts of sound in classical Hollywood cinema have, until recently, remained largely `unsung by histories of the studio era. Yet film sound voice, music and sound effects is a crucial aspect of film style and has been key to engaging and holding audiences since the transition to sound by Hollywoods major studios in 1929.

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Hollywood's obsession with the tale of American greed, justice, religion and sexual hypocrisy stretches across the history of cinema. This title studies this extraordinary sequence of adaptations. It reveals a history of Hollywood of American culture and the difficulty of telling an American tragedy in the land of the American dream.

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Hollywood's obsession with the tale of American greed, justice, religion and sexual hypocrisy stretches across the history of cinema. This title studies this extraordinary sequence of adaptations. It reveals a history of Hollywood of American culture and the difficulty of telling an American tragedy in the land of the American dream.

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Tells the history of the Ancient World epic from the silent screen successes of "Intolerance" and "The King of Kings" through the 'golden age of the epic' in the 1950s through to the 1990s revival with "Gladiator", its successors in cinema. This book also seeks to tease out the hidden messages concealed in the narrative.

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From the 1920s, Hollywood's view of the American South has been as changing as the place itself. This guide to southern films offers credits, plots, and analyses of how the stereotypes and characterizations in each film contribute to our understanding of a contentious American time and place.

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Provides an insightful take on modern American cinema's relations with, and influence on Reagan, Clinton, and Bush administrations. The author tells the story of the corporate take-over of the movies in the 1970s, and the subsequent transformation of Hollywood into the dominant force in the global media industry.

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They're fan filmmakers, creating the cinema of tomorrow: quick, bite-sized movies, starring world-famous characters from Superman to Captain Kirk to Lara Croft. The flicks are fun, free and totally illegal. This book is about fan films, covering the secret history of the movement creating the cinema of tomorrow.

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They're fan filmmakers, creating the cinema of tomorrow: quick, bite-sized movies, starring world-famous characters from Superman to Captain Kirk to Lara Croft. The flicks are fun, free and totally illegal. This book is about fan films, covering the secret history of the movement creating the cinema of tomorrow.

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An introduction to the horror film genre.

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An introduction to the horror film genre.