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Excellent and entertaining advice for aspiring directors from a veteran Sundance programmer.

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One way to analyze the intensely conflicting feelings Americans hold toward the Vietnam War is to see how the war has been portrayed through film. Communication Booknotes

One way to analyze the intensely conflicting feelings Americans hold toward the Vietnam War is to see how the war has been portrayed through film.

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One way to analyze the intensely conflicting feelings Americans hold toward the Vietnam War is to see how the war has been portrayed through film. Communication Booknotes

One way to analyze the intensely conflicting feelings Americans hold toward the Vietnam War is to see how the war has been portrayed through film.

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Leading international scholars consider the films and legacy of Howard Hawks. Diverse contributions consider Hawks' work in relation to issues of gender, genre and relationships between the sexes, discuss key films including Rio Bravo, The Big Sleep and Red River, and address Hawks' visual style and the importance of musicality in his film-making.

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More than forty years after his death, Humphrey Bogart remains a symbol of the Golden Age of Hollywood and a popular culture icon.

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Based on the extensive experiences of veteran Director John Badham, as well as no-holds-barred, out-of-school tales from such celebrated directors and actors as Sydney Pollock, Michael Mann, John Frankenheimer, Mel Gibson, James Woods, Jenna Elfman, and more. This is an insightful read for directors at all levels of their craft.

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This book provides an extensive overview of the British actors who achieved their greatest stardom during the 1950s. This was a transitional period for the British cinema, when the major studios faced growing competition from television and Hollywood increasingly dominated the UK film industry. -- .

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Examines different uses and consequences of the cinematic trope of the homosexual as monster.

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In this fascinating, entertaining and illuminating book Francine Stock takes us on a personal journey through a glorious century of cinema, from the Lumiere brothers' flickering train to the 3D excesses of Avatar, showing in vivid detail how film both reflects and remakes our world.

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Film, a latecomer to the realm of artistic media, alludes to, absorbs, and undermines the discourses of the other arts--literature and painting especially--in order to carve out a position for itself among them. Exposing the anxiety in film's relation to its rival arts, Brigitte Peucker analyzes central issues involved in generic boundary crossing

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An in-depth exploration of how 20th century Indian art cinema shaped class identity and its often overlooked place in film studies, eclipsed by the popularity of Bollywood.

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"The book critically reviews the portrayal of indigenous characters in Latin American films produced after the turn of the century (2000-2018)"--

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"The book critically reviews the portrayal of indigenous characters in Latin American films produced after the turn of the century (2000-2018)"--

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The longtime editor in chief of Variety takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most iconic films of the '60s and '70s and details his own whirlwind journey to the forefront of a Hollywood revolution.

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"Offers new and insightful perspectives on Ingmar Bergman's work as a film and theatre director as well as writer of fiction, through the coming together of an internationally prominent group of academic scholars and artistic practitioners who have worked on and/or with Bergman"--

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This book brings specialists in religious studies, African-American studies, history, and political science, together with a media librarian to examine violence as it is presented in films and how instructors can use films to teach about violence.