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(Hardback, 2nd edition)

By: Robert J. Niemi

ISBN: 9781610691970
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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


(Hardback)

By: Dorothy J. Howell

ISBN: 9780899305066
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this pioneering volume, Howell addresses the extent to which fictional characters are legally recognized and protected as intellectual property.


(Hardback)

By: Tricia Jenkins

ISBN: 9781788310901
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A wide-ranging collection of innovative and leading scholarship on the international film festival.


(Paperback)

By: Tricia Jenkins

ISBN: 9780755607327
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Anthony Slide

ISBN: 9780313237591
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1985
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Janet Staiger

ISBN: 9780691006161
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 1992
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Andrew Caine

ISBN: 9780719065392
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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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. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Miles Booy

ISBN: 9781501364747
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Miles Booy

ISBN: 9781501364754
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Sam Rohdie

ISBN: 9780719086922
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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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.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Patrick Fuery

ISBN: 9781501376351
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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"--


(Hardback)

By: Michael Bliss

ISBN: 9781442236516
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.


(Hardback)

By: Aylish Wood

ISBN: 9781501390906
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Aylish Wood

ISBN: 9781501390876
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Explores software and shows how moving image studies contribute to the wider and growing debates about algorithmic culture"--


(Hardback)

By: Ruth Barton

ISBN: 9781526138378
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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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. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Ruth Barton

ISBN: 9781526124449
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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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. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Douglas Brode

ISBN: 9781442266063
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Mary Wood

ISBN: 9781845201623
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Outlining the artistic, cultural, technical and commercial context of film, 'Italian Cinema' presents a history from silent to contemporary film.


(Hardback)

By: Mary Wood

ISBN: 9781845201616
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Outlining the artistic, cultural, technical and commercial context of film, 'Italian Cinema' presents a history from silent to contemporary film.


(Hardback)

By: Carlo Testa

ISBN: 9780275975227
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.


(Hardback)

By: Daniela Treveri Gennari

ISBN: 9781501347689
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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"--


(Paperback)

By: Daniela Treveri Gennari

ISBN: 9781501369339
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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"--


(Paperback)

By: Millicent Marcus

ISBN: 9780691102085
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 1987
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)

By: Professor Eugenia Paulicelli

ISBN: 9781441189158
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.

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