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Explores the films through the biographies and filmographies of key personnel, stories of the films' making, their locations and sets, sources, musical scores, detailed cast information, box office fortunes internationally, with many illustrations, including original posters and stills. This is a guide to the key Spaghetti Westerns.

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The text of the fully annotated playscipts of Orson Welles' celebrated adaptations of three Shakespearean plays. Texts for the "Voodoo" "Macbeth" and the modern dress "Julius Caesar" are stage managers' working copies. The version of "Five Kings" is the oldest surviving text and the most inclusive.

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The reason for the decline of Orson Welles's career is a hotly debated issue, but decline it certainly did. But instead of marking the beginning of a triumphant career in Hollywood, the film still regularly voted the greatest ever made proved to be an exception in Welles's life and work.

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A detailed and annotated study of Welles' career in the arts from early radio days to his final film work, with special attention to the widely various critical and public receptions he received: young genius, spoiled brat, showman, mammoth failure and master of his art.

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Leading scholars and practitioners, Laura Mulvey and writer/director Sue Clayton, bring together journalists and scholars at the cutting edge of research into 1970s radical cinema.

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A study of how the Hollywood film industry has treated the 'Other' throughout its history. It argues that the Hollywood system has been the only national cinema with the resources and inclination to explore images of others through stories set in exotic and faraway places.

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A study of how the Hollywood film industry has treated the 'Other' throughout its history. It argues that the Hollywood system has been the only national cinema with the resources and inclination to explore images of others through stories set in exotic and faraway places. It examines a range of genres from the perspective of otherness.

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In the early 1980s, serious American independent films including Stranger Than Paradise, Blood Simple, and She's Gotta Have It attracted ever-widening audiences, culminating with Steven Soderbergh's award-winning sex, lies, and videotape.

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An original screenplay inspired by Sophocles Antigone, retold through the contemporary Greek crisis and modern European philosophy.

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Part Deux (1993) and Scream (1996).

This examination of parody will appeal to scholars and students of American film and film comedy, as well as those interested in the specific comedians discussed and the Western genre.

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A compelling collection that looks at one of the most famed director-composer collaborations in film history. -- .

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A compelling collection that looks at one of the most famed director-composer collaborations in film history. -- .

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The first English-language book on the work of Viennese artist, film-maker, and writer Ruth Beckermann., addressing all Beckermann's major works and offering innovative critical readings.

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This book traces the key developments and debates in feminist film theory over the past twenty-five years. Beginning with the work on stereotypes of women from the early 1970s and moving to the most recent debates within cultural criticism, it charts the relationship of feminist film theory to the contexts from which it arises.

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A collaborator with Warner Brothers and Paramount in the early days of sound film, the German film director Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) is famous for his sense of ironic detachment. This title focuses on the visual strategies Lubitsch used to convey irony and analyzes his contribution to the rise of classical narrative cinema.

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Lisa Downing's comprehensive study of the films of Patrice Leconte traces lines of continuity and revision through a body of apparently disparate films whose "messages" often appear both contradictory and controversial. -- .

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This book examines the life of the remarkable Paul Newmanan iconic actor, director, race car driver, political activist, businessman, philanthropist, devoted husband, and father.

Paul Leonard Newman was a true Renaissance man who is known worldwide for his performances as an actor and director.

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The first English-language critical study of the films of Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch director of provocative films such as Robocop, Basic Instinct, and Elle.

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The script of the television screenplay, "Natural Strangers" tells the story of a family reunion in a grand London hotel, where Raymond, his wife Esther and his son Daniel, are slowly drawn into their ancestor's family tree. Stephen, appointed "pedigree hunter" and archivist, unravels the past.