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An up-to-date and indispensable guide for film history buffs of all kind, this book surveys more than 500 major films based on true stories and historical subject matter.

When a film is described as "based on a true story" or "inspired by true events," exactly how "true" is it

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In this pioneering volume, Howell addresses the extent to which fictional characters are legally recognized and protected as intellectual property.

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A wide-ranging collection of innovative and leading scholarship on the international film festival.

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Argues that a historical examination of spectators' responses to films can make a valuable contribution to the history, criticism, and philosophy of cultural products. This title gives special attention to how questions of class, gender, sexual preference, race, and ethnicity enter into film viewers' interpretations.

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Andrew Caine details the reaction to British and American pop films during the 1950s and 1960s to provide a valuable insight into British film criticism, teenage culture during the 1950s and 1960s and the generic status of rock films/teen movies and cultural hierarchies. -- .

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A penetrating and illuminating series of essays that looks at some of the most distinctive directors in world cinema. Sam Rohdie is one of the most distinguished film scholars currently writing. He moves from the very well known Hitchcock, Truffaut, Visconti, Welles to those that he feels need more attention Painlev, Vigo and Franju.

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"Combining two distinct philosophical fields to the study of cinema, Patrick Fuery proposes the first study showing how phenomenology and psychoanalysis are explored through their commonalities rather than differences"--

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Of the twenty or so science fiction films produced in America during the 1950s, there is a fascinating subset of nine films that do more than portray an invasion. These films use the invasions as metaphors for assaults against the integrity of various things, such as the self, marriage, and notions involving the supremacy of the human race.

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"Explores software and shows how moving image studies contribute to the wider and growing debates about algorithmic culture"--

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This book provides an accessible, comprehensive discussion of how a small national cinema can remain relevant in the wider environment of globalisation. It includes chapters on the creative documentary, animation and the horror film, as well as Irish history on screen and the depiction of the countryside and the city. -- .

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This book provides an accessible, comprehensive discussion of how a small national cinema can remain relevant in the wider environment of globalisation. It includes chapters on the creative documentary, animation and the horror film, as well as Irish history on screen and the depiction of the countryside and the city. -- .

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This collection of essays examine how the Disney studio has re-interpretedfor better or worseclassic literature into films both treasured and disdained. The films discussed in this volume include Bambi, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Tarzan.

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Outlining the artistic, cultural, technical and commercial context of film, 'Italian Cinema' presents a history from silent to contemporary film.

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Outlining the artistic, cultural, technical and commercial context of film, 'Italian Cinema' presents a history from silent to contemporary film.

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The history of cinema, and notably that of post-war Italian cinema, can only be understood adequately in the context of other contiguous cultural disciplines.

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"Investigates the importance of cinema-going to social life in post-war Italy, and unpacks the complex relations between film texts and their consumption, individual and collective memory, and national, regional, and gendered identities"--

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"Investigates the importance of cinema-going to social life in post-war Italy, and unpacks the complex relations between film texts and their consumption, individual and collective memory, and national, regional, and gendered identities"--

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Provides an historical and theoretical framework to understand the different typologies and meanings of costume in film, going beyond content and identity of a character.