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"The first history of cinema's treatment of terrorism from the birth of film to today"--

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Cinesonica: sounding film and video explores previously neglected and under-theorised aspects of film and video sound, drawing on detailed case study analyses of Hollywood cinema, art cinema, animated cartoons, and avant-garde film and video. -- .

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A focused and well-written study of classic Hollywood films which zeroes in on close analysis. -- .

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Demystifies the canon of great Japanese cinema. This book approaches Japanese cinema as an industry closely modeled on Hollywood, focusing on the classical period - those years in which the studio system dominated all film production in Japan, from roughly 1930 to 1960.

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Catherine Russell demystifies the canon of great Japanese cinema, treating it with fewer auteurist and Orientalist assumptions than many other scholars and critics.

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Between 1927 and 1933, the journal "Close Up" championed a European avant-garde in film-making. This volume republishes articles from the journal, with an introduction and a commentary on the lives of, and complex relationships between, its writers and editors.

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This book is an empirico-historical inquiry into the empire cinema made in Hollywood and Britain during the turbulent 1930s and 1940s. It shows how the empire cinema constructed the colonial world, its rationale for doing so, and the manner in which such constructions were received by the colonized people.

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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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A guide to the glorious works and filmmakers who make the world laugh with them. It is suitable for those lovers of enduring, wry, over-the-top, side-splitting humor on film.

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This book looks in detail at twenty key titles, covering every step of the development from comic book panel to feature film frame. Includes interviews with key creative artists about the evolution of the films from the original comics, and speculates about future films.

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An in-depth exploration of how traumatic memories of the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990) have shaped contemporary filmmaking ethics and aesthetics.

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Focusing on a selection of internationally known Latin American films, this title is organized around national categories, grounding the readings not only in the context of social and political conditions, but also in those of each national film industry.

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Presents an introduction to popular French film. This book charts developments in various genres of French cinema with analyzes of over 120 movies, from "Les Valseuses" to "Cache". It reflects the diversity of French film production since the New Wave. It includes chapters on the heritage film, and the thriller and the war movie.

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This study defines the significance of filmmaking and film viewing in Korean society. It covers the introduction of motion pictures in 1903, Korean cinema during the Japanese colonial period (1910-45) and the development of North and South Korean cinema up to the 1990s.

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Intended for students, teachers and fans of Spanish cinema, this text provides an analysis of some of the main trends and issues which have characterized Spanish cinema since the 1970s, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s.

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This book analyses the significant changes in the aesthetics, production and reception of Spanish cinema and genre from 1990 to the present while providing multiple perspectives on the concepts of national cinemas and genre theory. -- .

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"An exciting overview of Costa-Gavras oeuvre, while also attending to the Greek-French filmmaker's life as it weaves through history from his own childhood and adolescence in World War II and Cold War Greece to his last socio-political films"--