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A hands-on study skills guide that explores how film and moving image can be used as sources. -- .

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This study of fandom at its most intense looks at the Star Wars phenomenon from the audience's perspective, finding that the saga exerts a powerful influence on the social, cultural and spiritual lives of those drawn to its myth, and unearthing an almost endless array of fans who use it creatively.

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One of the first academic books devoted to vampires in silent cinema.

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"Critically engages fifty years of theoretical and artistic reflection on video-its technical and social implications, from the magnetic tape to mobile online streaming, from pioneering experimentation to today's ubiquitous presence of the medium"--

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"Critically engages fifty years of theoretical and artistic reflection on video-its technical and social implications, from the magnetic tape to mobile online streaming, from pioneering experimentation to today's ubiquitous presence of the medium"--

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Following a plot summary, a critical analysis provides the similarities and differences of the play and film, including character and plot changes, setting, missing or added scenes, special film techniques, and behind-the-scenes information such as who turned down or lost particular parts when the play was adapted to film.

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"This book scans six decades of videographic cinema from the point of view of its shifting conditions of existence"--

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Investigates 'time' as a defining factor which influences how events real and imagined are represented in films, employing the metaphor of cinema as time machine.

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Contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen Kings work, ranging from his earliest movies to the most recent, through a variety of lenses.

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Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question, or critique established social values underlying American attitudes toward historical, social, and political events.

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Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question, or critique established social values underlying American attitudes toward historical, social, and political events.

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An exploration of Englishness, in particular English class, in contemporary cinema. It explores a wide range of film production - from gangster thrillers like "Lock, Stock, Two Smoking Barrels" to the period cinema of "Elizabeth", from cult classics like "Performance and Trainspotting" to the mainstream romantic comedy of "Notting Hill".

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Presents an analysis of the changing landscape of English class and culture. This book explores a range of film production - from thrillers like "Lock", "Stock Two Smoking Barrels" to the period cinema of "Elizabeth", from classics like "Performance" and "Trainspotting" to the mainstream romantic comedy of "Notting Hill" and "Bridget Jones".

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Just to say the name Vivien Leigh invokes two quick images to anyone familiar with motion pictures--Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche DuBois.

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Grover-Friedlander argues that filmed operas such as Zeffirelli's Otello and Friedrich's Falstaff show the impossibility of a direct transformation of the operatic into the cinematic.

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"Examines the way that (human and other) voices in documentary not only serve rhetorical and political purposes, but also create meaning by engaging the audience through affective and aesthetic registers"--

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This volume on Vsevolod Pudovkin explores the style and production circumstances of his films and their reception, as well as his writings and theories, all within the Soviet political context.

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"All students of the Great Man's'career will have to rely on this work. . . . Perhaps Gehring's greatest contributio here is his discussion of 23 sketches that Fields copyrighted that are now in the Library of Congress." Choice

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Explores the evolving relationship between cinema and reality through the close study of Barry Levinson's film, Wag the dog (New Line Cinema, 1997).

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