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Un Chien Andalou, the most influential of all surrealist films, has shocked, provoked and puzzled audiences and critics since its release in 1929. Luis Bunuel's first film was a collaboration with his fellow Spaniard, the 24-year-old Salvador Dali.

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In this work, Edward Buscombe explores the ways in which 'Unforgiven', sticking surprisingly close to the original script by David Webb Peoples, moves between the requirements of the traditional Western, with its generic conventions of revenge and male bravado, and more modern sensitivities.

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The first and definitive cultural history of screen icon Uttam Kumar's life, work and glorious legacy.

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Vampyr is a problematic film, partly because some of it is lost. But in what remains, there are problems too. In a reading as passionate as it is analytic, a veteran dramatist and film-author reveals how, image by image, this difficult film systematically binds the spectator - spatially, and morally - into its unique world of the Undead.

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Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the film's release, John Coldstream's study of 'Victim' (1961) addresses the film's importance in the campaign to decriminalise homosexuality, the contribution of its stars Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms to its emotional impact, and the risk Bogarde took in taking on the central role.

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The film script, based on the extraordinary true story of Queen Victoria's relationship with Abdul Karim, her Muslim manservant.

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Offers what every game designer needs to know - how to produce strong characters, addictive game play and challenging level design. Using psychology, aesthetics and usability testing, budding game designers will learn to produce their own unique projects that gamers will love to play.

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Brimming with more than 140 dramatic images, the stunning, visual companion to Steven Spielberg's epic adventure set in rural England and Europe about a young man and his horse and their separate journeys through the battlefields of the First World War

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A collection of ten original essays on the cinema of Andy Warhol by leading scholars of film, art and culture. Drawing on research from the Warhol archives and new interviews with Factory denizens, this unique volume casts light on Warhol's filmmaking career and offers insight into both acknowledged classics and sorely neglected titles.

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A collection of ten original essays on the cinema of Andy Warhol by leading scholars of film, art and culture. Drawing on research from the Warhol archives and new interviews with Factory denizens, this unique volume casts light on Warhol's filmmaking career and offers insight into both acknowledged classics and sorely neglected titles.

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In this collection of essays (which accompanied a BBC-TV series presented by the author), Thomas Sutcliffe looks past the dazzling surface of the movies at the ways in which they work their magic: be they Hollywood blockbusters or European 'arthouse' films.

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The story of how Casablanca was made and how it became the most beloved of Hollywood movies.

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Considers the broad spectrum of influential German films made between the world wars. This title investigates important themes in films from this period, including the portrayal of women and the role of sound.

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Went the Day Well is one of the most unusual Ealing Studios pictures, a distinctly unsentimental war film made in the darkest days of WWII. Houston studies why the film avoids the cosy Ealing trademark. This Film Classics 20th anniversary edition comes with a new foreword by Geoff Brown, and a stunning new jacket design by Mark Swan.

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Tells the story of Hollywood. This book takes us from the discovery of oil in the Twenties with the story of the tycoon Edward Doheny and traces the growth of corruption through the syndicates, the mob, and the movie studios - from the beginnings of the film industry to the end, with News Corp and Rupert Murdoch.

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From Peter Bogdanovich - director, screenwriter, actor, and cinema scholar - 26 fascinating portraits of Hollywood's most acclaimed movie actors and actresses: stars whom he has known, admired, and occasionally worked with

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Edited by Sheena C. Howard, an award-winning author, filmmaker, and scholar, this book features a collection of essays offering an in-depth analysis of Black Panther under the lens of the latest psychological concepts--as well as delving into the lasting cultural impact of this unforgettable story.

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