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Spike Lee's journey from guerrilla filmmaker to Hollywood insider is explored in light of his personal background, the cultural influence of his films, and the extensive scholarship his movies have inspired.

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This insightful account analyzes and provides context for the films and careers of directors who have made Latin American film an important force in Hollywood and in world cinema.

In this insightful account, R.

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Explores the Western, running from John Ford's "Stagecoach" to the revisionary "Tombstone". This work researches 27 key films, and draws on production notes, cast and crew biographies, and the films' box-office success, to reveal their place in western history. It also examines comedy westerns, and the depiction of Native Americans on screen.

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Explores how cinema influenced leading American philosopher Stanley Cavells moral and social philosophy and thinking on everyday language.

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Complete account of one of the most original and stimulating film-makers of the post-war years

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The second edition of Mario Falsetto's extensive analysis of Kubrick's films carefully examines the filmmaker's oeuvre in its entirety--from smaller, early films (The Killing) through mid-career masterpieces (Dr. Strangelove;

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The second edition of Mario Falsetto's extensive analysis of Kubrick's films carefully examines the filmmaker's oeuvre in its entirety--from smaller, early films (The Killing) through mid-career masterpieces (Dr. Strangelove;

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An analysis of the phenomenon of French film stardom. It provides in-depth studies of the major popular stars of French cinema, including Max Linder, Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau and Gerard Depardieu. It explores the stars' images and performance, as well as French culture and society.

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Guy Austin's lucid and engaging account charts the making (and in some cases breaking) of the icons of French cinema, including such famous names as Catherine Deneuve, Grard Depardieu and Brigitte Bardot.

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This collection of 20 essays on the fantastic in the arts covers fantasists and their work, contemporary fantastic theory and practice, studies in the British and European fantastic, studies in American fantasy and science fiction, and sex and techno-horror in fantastic literature and film.

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This HOME film dossier revisits a key decade in European film history. The 1970s was a period of great social upheaval and these are the films that reflect it.

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This HOME film dossier revisits a key decade in European film history. The 1970s was a period of great social upheaval and these are the films that reflect it.

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This book analyzes the 500 top-grossing films of the last 20 years to show how speakers of traditionally stigmatized dialects are represented, underrepresented, misrepresented, and mocked. Ultimately, the author demonstrates how Hollywood reinforces long-standing negative beliefs about the languages of marginalized communities.

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An in-depth exploration of the double plot within Hindi cinema, examining its prevalence, various manifestations, and cultural relevance in post-Independence India.

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Emphasizing the importance of cultural theory for film history, this book guides readers on a series of "inferential walks" through Italian culture in the first decades of the 21st century. It draws a cultural history that persuasively argues for a spatial, corporal interpretation of film language.

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This book takes an innovative approach to film analysis: each chapter examines the assumptions behind one traditional theory of film, distills a method of analysis from it, and then analyses a contemporary American movie. It then goes beyond the traditional theory by analysing the same movie using a more current theory and method.

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