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Production Managers are responsible for all the organisational aspects of a TV or film production such as scheduling and budgeting. Linda Stradling is a highly experienced production manager and trainer. Her book is based on her training handouts and notes and offers a complete professional 'manual' to the role.

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By tracing the production history, contemporary audience response, and lasting cultural influence of each picture, Phillips offers a unique new approach to thinking about the popular attraction to horror films, and the ways in which they reflect both cultural and individual fears.

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By tracing the production history, contemporary audience response, and lasting cultural influence of each picture, Phillips offers a unique new approach to thinking about the popular attraction to horror films, and the ways in which they reflect both cultural and individual fears.

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Projecting 9/11 looks at how the themes of race, gender, and citizenship are treated in more than 20 recent movies. The book highlights racial and gender stereotypes and shows how characters are portrayed as un-American or other. The book illustrates how films both reflect social realities in America and also help create them.

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This provocative book reveals how Hollywood films reflect our deepest fears and anxieties as a country, often recording our political beliefs and cultural conditions while underscoring the darker side of the American way of life.

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A study of one scene in one movie: the shower scene from "Psycho". It shows how it may be the most significant and influential scene of all and substantiates this claim by providing chapters on the evolution of the scene in Hitchcock's career, with particular focus on his methods for creating suspense and terror in the audience.

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"Psychoanalytic Film Theory and The Rules of the Game offers a concise introduction to psychoanalytic film theory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret Jean Renoir's classic film"--

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"Psychoanalytic Film Theory and The Rules of the Game offers a concise introduction to psychoanalytic film theory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret Jean Renoir's classic film"--

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In this examination of the psychology of terror, Iaccino uses Jungian archetypes to analyze significant works in the horror film genre.

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The book explores the full catalogue of the films produced by the Empire Marketing Board, General Post Office and Crown Film Units between 1930 and 1952. It identifies themes which both reflect the sponsors demands and the anxieties of the time as well as providing the foundations for the post-war Public Information Film.

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Explores how film spectatorship is understood as a model for ethical attention that engages the audience in an affective relationship with characters and their values.

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The continuation of that directorial career in television throughout the 1960s strengthens the claim that Lupino is the most prolific and creatively powerful woman director ever to have worked in the moving image industry.

This book is the first extensive critical study of Ida Lupino's work as a director in both film and television.

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The continuation of that directorial career in television throughout the 1960s strengthens the claim that Lupino is the most prolific and creatively powerful woman director ever to have worked in the moving image industry.

This book is the first extensive critical study of Ida Lupino's work as a director in both film and television.

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Explore queer cinema over time with this comprehensive encyclopedia, helping readers understand films, directors, actors, themes, and other topics related to LGBTQ cinema history.

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Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across five French directors careers, from their earliest, often unknown films to their later, major films with international release.

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Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across five French directors careers, from their earliest, often unknown films to their later, major films with international release.

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An examination of the field of queer theory and its relevance to the film Brokeback Mountain

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An examination of the field of queer theory and its relevance to the film Brokeback Mountain

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Queering the Terminator: Sexuality and Cyborg Cinema considers the sexual politics and queer implications of the Terminator films, from the first 1984 film to the 2015 reboot.