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This book uses an intercultural communication lens to analyze six cross-cultural films and their depictions of migration, mobility, and the resulting intercultural communications. It argues that the results of these complex and stressful moments of conflict include personal growth, oppression, familial or social separation, and loss of identity.

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Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. Written with the co-operation of Leigh himself, this book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for television. -- .

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This is the most comprehensive study to date of the work of Milos Forman, best known for his Academy Award winning direction of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Amadeus (1984).

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Beyond giving a view of the life and worth of cinema in France, this book contributes to our knowledge of how films are dealt with in history. It stresses the dialogue of culture and cinema.

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Examines racial issues onscreen by charting and analysing the rise of mixed-race characters in American and French cinema.

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The gangster is perhaps the most potent figure in American cinema. Yet film criticism has focused almost entirely on a few canonical films such as Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, and The Godfather trilogy, resulting in a limited and distorted understanding of the compelling presence and persistence of the gangster.

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The gangster is perhaps the most potent figure in American cinema. Yet film criticism has focused almost entirely on a few canonical films such as Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, and The Godfather trilogy, resulting in a limited and distorted understanding of the compelling presence and persistence of the gangster.

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Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors working from the 1950s onwards whose films contain stories about and reflections on romantic love and marriage.

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Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors working from the 1950s onwards whose films contain stories about and reflections on romantic love and marriage.

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The first book devoted to the study of horror film and adaptation. Comprised of essays by top scholars in the field, this anthology includes analyses of such under-examined films as Thomas Edisons Frankenstein, John Barrymores Jekyll and Hyde, Jean Epsteins La Chute de la maison Usher, Gus van Sants Psycho and Guillermo de Toros Cronos

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Montage is an informed and highly original study in the styles and histories of film editing. Drawing on a wide range of directors and films, the book demonstrates the fundamental importance of montage aesthetics to the art of cinema and the practice of film criticism. -- .

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Montage is an informed and highly original study in the styles and histories of film editing. Drawing on a wide range of directors and films, the book demonstrates the fundamental importance of montage aesthetics to the art of cinema and the practice of film criticism. -- .

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Questions how cinema is ranked and, in doing so, uncovers a history of critical conflict, with different aesthetic positions battling for dominance. This book contains chapters which provide a summary of the film's plot and discuss the historical context, the individuals who made the film, and initial and subsequent popular and critical responses.

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Examines women's films and filmgoing in the 1910s, a period when female patronage was energetically courted by the industry for the first time. This title looks closely at how women were invited to participate in movie culture, the films they were offered, and the visual pleasures they enjoyed.

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Psychology and cinema are cousins, born at the same time and developing together, so that each influences the other. This work begins by describing the basic concepts of psychoanalysis, experimental psychology, behavioural conditioning, and hypnosis, which have all played major roles in the histories of both film and psychiatry.

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This collection of essays looks at how films in the last few years have reflected and juxtaposed the ascent of Barack Obama and his administration. The films examined here include The Help, Django Unchained, Lincoln, The Mist, Invictus, Black Dynamite, and The Great Gatsby.