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During the first fifty years of the American cinema, the act of going to the movies was a risky process, fraught with a number of possible physical and moral dangers. This title recaptures the lost history of the physical and moral perils that faced audiences at American movie theatres during the first fifty years of the cinema.

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During the first fifty years of the American cinema, the act of going to the movies was a risky process, fraught with a number of possible physical and moral dangers. This title recaptures the lost history of the physical and moral perils that faced audiences at American movie theatres during the first fifty years of the cinema.

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This book looks at the creative output of one of the world's greatest filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman, through the prism of his personal life, in particular his interpersonal and internal conflicts. The author-a practicing psychiatrist as well as a professor emeritus of psychiatry-...

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It's Plato, it's Hume, Baudrillard and the concept of the Nietzschean superman!' Keanu Reeves on The Matrix

The Philosopher at the End of the Universe allows anyone to understand basic philosophical concepts from the comfort of their armchair, through the plots and characters of spectacular blockbusting science-fiction movies.

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This exploration of horror fictions, literary, cinematic and televisual, looks at the emotions they engender in their audiences. It examines how horror is valued and devalued in different cultural fields; the cultural politics of the contemporary horror film; and horror fandom.

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This exploration of horror fictions, literary, cinematic and televisual, looks at the emotions they engender in their audiences. It examines how horror is valued and devalued in different cultural fields; the cultural politics of the contemporary horror film; and horror fandom.

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Canadian film director David Cronenberg has long been a figure of artistic acclaim and public controversy. This title explores Cronenberg's films, placing them in context by examining his relationship to his audience and the wider film industry within which he works.

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An exploration of Cronenberg's films, placing them in context by examining his relationship to his audience and the wider film industry within which he works.

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This book on Syrian television drama manifests how gender roles are negotiated in the context of dominant Islamic and secular nationalist discourses, which at times overlap and challenge simple binaries of traditional versus secular approaches in new configurations of national identity.

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Campaign films are usually overlooked by campaign scholars, yet they provide the fullest available visual portrait of a candidate during a campaign, they encapsulate persuasive appeals and strategies, and they illustrate Republican and Democratic candidates' different approaches to mediated communication.

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Campaign films are usually overlooked by campaign scholars, yet they provide the fullest available visual portrait of a candidate during a campaign, they encapsulate persuasive appeals and strategies, and they illustrate Republican and Democratic candidates' different approaches to mediated communication.

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"This book focuses on the representation of time in cinema, by focusing on four filmmakers: Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, Adrian Lyne, and Michael Bay"--

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"This book focuses on the representation of time in cinema, by focusing on four filmmakers: Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, Adrian Lyne, and Michael Bay"--

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Focuses on the lives and works of the producers, this book is about people whose job is to dominate every facet of the film-making process, from conception, to script, and after. Through the interviews of Michael Douglas, it explains the history of some of the successful films and looks at the skill and experience to survive in this business.

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In formulating a notion of filmic reality, The Reality of Film offers a novel way of understanding our relationship to cinema. It argues that cinema need not be understood in terms of its capacities to refer to, reproduce or represent reality, but should be understood in terms of the kinds of realities it has the ability to create. -- .