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Offering a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, this text also brings new material into the broader field of television studies. It surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing assumptions and misconceptions, and explores the problems of previous approaches.

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Includes a list of movies in back of book.

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Includes a list of movies in back of book.

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Presents ways in which "The Matrix Trilogy" adapts Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation". This book draws on adaptation theory and feminist philosophy in order to create a fresh methodology for interlinking philosophical and filmic texts.

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Presents ways in which "The Matrix Trilogy" adapts Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation". This book draws on adaptation theory and feminist philosophy in order to create a fresh methodology for interlinking philosophical and filmic texts.

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William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac were three of the most significant figures of the Beat Generation, whose writings have been adapted and appropriated for graphic novels, feature-length films, and other media. Adapting the Beat Poets looks at film versions...

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"Explores films of the long 60s that were assigned an "X" certificate by the British Board of Film Censors alongside new and emerging social and sexual practices of the time"--

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Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative examines the manner in which disparate Aesthetic traditions inform the conception, creation and reception of cinematic narrative while placing film, as an art form, in a wider historical and aesthetic context.

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Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative examines the manner in which disparate Aesthetic traditions inform the conception, creation and reception of cinematic narrative while placing film, as an art form, in a wider historical and aesthetic context.

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On September 3, 2001, the movies and those who love them lost one of their greatest friends - a friend who never tired of championing the best that the movies could offer and didn't shrink from speaking her mind. This is a biography of the ascerbic and witty film critic Pauline Kael.

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This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s.

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Across three decades and four films, Lt. Ellen Ripley's struggle wtih the fierce and terrible Alien and the powers that desire it traces the arc of women's struggles in America.

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A guide to the newest 50 films, chosen by the National Film Registry, from 2009/10. It is suitable for those who love American movies and who wants to learn more about them.

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The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. At the start of the decade, Hollywood - shaking off the Depression - launched an unprecedented wave of production, generating some of its most memorable classics, including "Citizen Kane", "Rebecca", "The Lady Eve", "Sergeant York", and "How Green Was My Valley".

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The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. At the start of the decade, Hollywood, shaking off the Depression launched an wave of production, generating some of its most memorable classics, including "Citizen Kane", "Rebecca", "The Lady Eve", "Sergeant York", and "How Green Was My Valley".

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America in the 1950s was a place of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear fears and conformist politics. Cold war hysteria and anti-communist witch hunts influenced a culture already falling under the spell of suburbia, television and a world of luxury goods.

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From Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Gehring presents a compelling theory of the black comedy film genre. Placing the movies he discusses in a historical and literary context, Gehring explores the genre's obession with death and the characters' failure to be shocked by it.

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This study covers two decades in American history, when the links between Hollywood and Washington were at their strongest, a period "book-ended" by the political and cinematic figures of Reagan and Clinton. During this period movies became targets of political rhetoric of "family values".