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An innovative study of the neglected topic of cinematic representations of the countryside, through historical analysis, theoretical critique and explorations of genre, national cinema and urban representations -- .

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Explores the connection between film and popular history.

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Accessible and inventive in its approach, Colour is the first monograph to deal with the close criticism of film colour across decades and countries. -- .

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Movies have constantly pushed at the boundaries of sexual representation, outraging censors, transgressing taboos and opening up formerly forbidden realms of sensual pleasure. Whether through an exploration of our dreamiest fantasies or our darkest desires, films have expanded our repertoire of erotic images and challenged who we are as...

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This bookoffers a detailed look at recent French cinema through its analyses of twenty notable and representative French films that have appeared since 1980. Sure to delight Anglophone fans of French film, it can be used with equal success in English-language courses and, when paired with its companion volume, dual-language ones.

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One of the first books to explore Russian cinema in the new millennium, this volume captures the emergence of a new cinematic sensibility and interprets it through the framework of the symbolic mode.

This guide presents real-life experiences and worst-case scenarios for every stage of the independent film-making process. Areas addressed include: developing an idea; writing the script; finding the financing; acquiring locations; hiring a top-notch crew; and making the film.

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"A critical figure in queer Sinophone cinema, Tsai Ming-liang is a major force in Taiwan cinema and global moving image art. Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy offers a fascinating, systematic method for analyzing the queerness of Tsai's films, drawing on extensive interviews with the director while also offering a complete reappraisal of Tsai's body of work"--

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When "Friday the 13th" premiered in 1980, the film introduced moviegoers to a new kind of cinematic terror - shocking, visceral, and graphic. Spawning ten popular sequels, the series has become the most successful horror franchise. Illustrated with nearly 600 photos, archives and production materials, this volume is a visual memoir of the series.

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The main films discussed in detail are Y Chwarelwr, Yr Etifeddiaeth, Noson Lawen, Today We Live, Eastern Valley, Our Country, The Three Weird Sisters, The Citadel, The Proud Valley, How Green was My Valley, The Corn is Green, The Last Days of Dolwyn, Blue Scar and David.

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Salvador Dali is one of the most widely recognised and controversial artists of the twentieth century. He was also an avant-garde filmmaker, collaborating with Luis Bunuel, Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock. This book gives Dali's fascination with film, the attention it merits, surveying Dali's activities with cinema.

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The stylistic and bloody excesses of the films of Dario Argento are instantly recognisable. Vivid, baroque and nightmarish, his films lock violent deaths in a twisted embrace with an almost sexual beauty. Narrative and logic are often lost in a constant bombardment of atmosphere, technical mastery and provocative imagery. It's a body of...

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Rekindling Deleuze's opposition to what is intolerable about this world

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Horror films revel in taking viewers into shadowy places where evil resides, whether it is a house, a graveyard or a dark forest. This title leads us inside these haunted spaces to explore them and the monstrous antagonists who dwell there.