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So many movies, and you don't want to watch any of the, but help is here. Just have Marc Fennell's That Movie Book in your hand in the DVD shop, and never again will you be at a loss for what to watch.

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This book ranks the top 100 silent film stars based on a scale that considers creativity, originality, chemistry with fellow performers, and other factors. The author also promotes some lesser-known performers, singles out each artists best works, and identifies key films available on DVD.

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The 1960s on Film tells the narrative of the 1960s through the lens of the movie camera, analyzing 10 films that focus on the people, events, and issues of the decade.

Films create both an impression of and at times for younger audiences a primary definition of events, people, and issues of an era.

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The 100 essential films of all time (you might be surprised what they are) and why they matter (you might be surprised about that, too).

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This detailed reference provides a complete record of Academy Award winners and nominees through 1991. Part I lists Academy Award winners and nominees by award categories, with sections devoted to annual awards, other awards, and discontinued categories.

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This collection is made up of "The Granton Star Cause", "The Acid House" and "A Soft Touch". All three stories come from the badlands of the schemes of north Edinburgh and take us into a dark world of drugs, deviant sex and football hooliganism.

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A critical review of documentary in the 21st century.

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A critical review of documentary in the 21st century.

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Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making subject. This title challenges basic assumptions of current film theory that reduce film to an object of vision and the spectator to a victim of a deterministic cinematic apparatus.

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Explore how Hollywood teen girl films made in the 21st century are designed to feel fun and offer a practical model for a new methodological approach to film and pleasure with The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film.

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This study argues that most criticism of science fiction film has been inadequate because it is based on literary rather than film-specific standards, and also that SF film will soon become either obsolete or be totally transformed through new computer technology.

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In 1952, Elia Kazan testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigating alleged communist infiltration of the entertainment industry. The cloud of this cooperation, which assured that the filmmaker would avoid the blacklist, plagued Kazan throughou...

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"Expands our understanding of the complex relationship between the American and European metropoles in the postwar period - a period of simultaneous European colonial devolution and American colonial expansion"--

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Providing an indispensable resource for students and general readers, this book serves as an entry point for a conversation on America's favorite pastime, focusing in on generational differences and the evolution of American identity.

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In The American Civil War on Film and TV: Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color, Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller bring together nineteen essays by a diverse array of scholars to explore issues of morality, race, gender, nation, and history in films and television shows featuring the American Civil War.

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While the myth of a classless America endures in the American Dream, the very stratification that it denies unfairly affects the majority of Americans. Studies show that it's difficult for working class people to achieve upward mobility in the US. This book shows that the American Dream's glorification in Hollywood cinema should not be ignored.

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Following the successful, The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 1995), this new encyclopedia reviews in-depth individual songs written for the American musical film over the past seventy years.