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This, the first book-length study of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem in English, contains profound analysis of his life and films in the context of contemporary Spain and World cinema and is based on original interviews with Medem and many of his collaborators by the author, an establish expert on Spanish cinema. -- .

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Collection of writings about the influence of film on the cultural and individual imagination.

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In time for the 40th anniversary of Local Hero, Jonathan Melville checks into Urquharts Hotel watching out for motorbikes and examines director Bill Forsyths early career before spending time with the cast and crew to find out how this classic film was made.

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"Allison Page examines U.S. media from the 1960s to today and delivers vital new ideas about how our feelings about race are governed and normalized by our media landscape. Media and the Affective Life of Slavery argues that visual culture works through emotion, a powerful lever for shaping and managing racialized subjectivity"--

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"Allison Page examines U.S. media from the 1960s to today and delivers vital new ideas about how our feelings about race are governed and normalized by our media landscape. Media and the Affective Life of Slavery argues that visual culture works through emotion, a powerful lever for shaping and managing racialized subjectivity"--

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An interdisciplinary study of 'medieval film' and its cultural functions -- .

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'The Passion' has sparked debate everywhere. This timely collection of essays explores the film's questions in depth and expands on its themes. Topics covered include why Christ was killed; whether moral responsibility is possible when God knows; the relationship between film, antisemitism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and more.

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This is the first book-length study of the most prolific and most critically acclaimed director working in British cinema today. Michael Winterbottom has established himself, and his company, Revolution Films, as a dynamic force in world cinema. -- .

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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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A one-stop guide to the major movements that have shaped our sense of what cinema is and can be. It covers the founding concepts in Film Studies such as authorship and genre, technological impacts, the rise of digital cinema, social influences and notions of the avant-garde, and cinema as a major art form that reflects and shapes the world.

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This volume offers readers a comprehensive survey of the varied contributions feminist scholars have been making to film study over the past two decades. In its scope, it presents the range of theoretical, critical, and educational directions open to feminist students of film.

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In these analyses of 20th century cinema , Russell reveals an uneasy relationship between death and closure, which she traces to anxieties about identity, gender, and national-cultural myths, and also to the persistence of desire.

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This engaging and original work argues that modern Hollywood was forged in the fires of class struggle and economic inequality

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"A look at the United States' conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel."--

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"A look at the United States' conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel."--

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Cinema and photography are both intimately associated with timecinema with time in passing, the photograph with the lost moment. In Photography, Cinema, Memory, Damian Sutton explores time in both media to present a radical new understanding of the photographic image as always coming into being.

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