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Campaign films are usually overlooked by campaign scholars, yet they provide the fullest available visual portrait of a candidate during a campaign, they encapsulate persuasive appeals and strategies, and they illustrate Republican and Democratic candidates' different approaches to mediated communication.

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Campaign films are usually overlooked by campaign scholars, yet they provide the fullest available visual portrait of a candidate during a campaign, they encapsulate persuasive appeals and strategies, and they illustrate Republican and Democratic candidates' different approaches to mediated communication.

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"This book focuses on the representation of time in cinema, by focusing on four filmmakers: Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, Adrian Lyne, and Michael Bay"--

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"This book focuses on the representation of time in cinema, by focusing on four filmmakers: Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, Adrian Lyne, and Michael Bay"--

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In formulating a notion of filmic reality, The Reality of Film offers a novel way of understanding our relationship to cinema. It argues that cinema need not be understood in terms of its capacities to refer to, reproduce or represent reality, but should be understood in terms of the kinds of realities it has the ability to create. -- .

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The secret life of romantic comedy offers a fresh approach to one of the most popular Hollywood genres in recent years and analyses the cultural impact of generic conventions in the construction of issues of intimacy and sexuality. -- .

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The secret life of romantic comedy offers a fresh approach to one of the most popular Hollywood genres in recent years and analyses the cultural impact of generic conventions in the construction of issues of intimacy and sexuality. -- .

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"An exploration of non-verbal communication, shown primarily through the acting of Ryan Gosling, to provide an expressive space in which audience viewing - an inherently passive experience - is made far more active by removing the expository signifier of dialogue"--

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This is first English-language study of cine quinqui, a cycle of Spanish delinquent-themed films made in the 1970s and 1980s. Exploring how the films reflected the auditory experience of marginal youth cultures during this period, the book casts new light on the criminological, economic and political fault lines of Spains transition to democracy.

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This is first English-language study of cine quinqui, a cycle of Spanish delinquent-themed films made in the 1970s and 1980s. Exploring how the films reflected the auditory experience of marginal youth cultures during this period, the book casts new light on the criminological, economic and political fault lines of Spains transition to democracy.

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By isolating elements of vaudeville within works that have previously been considered "classical", Knopf reevaluates Keaton's films and how they function.

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This is the first book to examine the various uses of the Arthurian legend in Hollywood film, covering films from the 1920s to the present. This fascinating study shows us how the legend has been adapted and how through the popular medium of Hollywood films, the Arthurian legend has survived and flourished.

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This collection of essays examines the war body on screen by drawing upon multiple and diverging view points, differing academic backgrounds and methodological approaches.

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Students and Lecturers and intelligent readers interested in the Spanish Civil War and the representation of history in cinema -- .

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Offers the study of changes in Soviet cinema that have been taking place since 1985. This title examines a variety of films from "BOMZH" (initials standing for homeless drifter) through Taxi Blues and the glasnost blockbuster "Little Vera" to the Latvian documentary "Is It Easy to Be Young" and the "new wave" productions of "Wild Kazakh boys."