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(Hardback)

By: Professor Wheeler Winston Dixon

ISBN: 9781845204341
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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".


(Paperback)

By: Professor Murray Pomerance

ISBN: 9781845204372
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.


(Hardback)

By: Wes D. Gehring

ISBN: 9780313261848
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Philip Davies

ISBN: 9780719058653
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2002
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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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".


(Hardback, 5th edition)

By: Leonard Quart

ISBN: 9781440833212
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, 5th edition)

By: Leonard Quart

ISBN: 9781440859458
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Robert C. Sickels

ISBN: 9780275998622
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This eclectic, yet comprehensive analytical overview of the cataclysmic changes in the American film industry since 1990 shows how they have collectively resulted in a new era-The Digital Age.


(Hardback)

By: John E. O'Connor

ISBN: 9781474281898
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Hamid Naficy

ISBN: 9780691043913
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Offers an overview of the filmmaking of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced individuals living in the West. This book offers global coverage of the genre of Accented cinema while presenting a framework in which to understand its intricacies.


(Hardback)

By: Robert G. White

ISBN: 9781501385018
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"An Atonal Cinema theorises contemporary Palestinian cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance with which to decentre and respond to texts from Europe, South America and Israel which have co-opted its images"--


(Paperback)

By: Robert G. White

ISBN: 9781501384981
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"An Atonal Cinema theorises contemporary Palestinian cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance with which to decentre and respond to texts from Europe, South America and Israel which have co-opted its images"--


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By: Mary H. Snyder

ISBN: 9781441168184
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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An introduction of an academic means for critical analysis of film adaptations. It signifies an exploration into film adaptation from a novelists' perspective, from the author working with a screenwriter, embarking on a journey to understand the implications of literature-to-film adaptation and the complexities and problems it raises.


(Hardback)

By: Emma Katherine Van Ness

ISBN: 9781785273179
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Anthem Press
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This book re-examines the films of Antonio Pietrangeli, one of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, from a feminist perspective. Of the ten full-length films completed by Antonio Pietrangeli, eight featured a female protagonist. This attention to the female subject is noteworthy today, much less in the 1950s and 1960s.


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By: Dr Gillian McIver

ISBN: 9781501384769
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"An important examination of fine art's impact upon filmmaking that grapples with the question of authenticity"--


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By: Dr Steven Jacobs

ISBN: 9781350357518
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Dr Steven Jacobs

ISBN: 9781788313674
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Geoff King

ISBN: 9798765108154
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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(Paperback)

By: Greg Taylor

ISBN: 9780691089553
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Gone with the Wind an inspiration for the American avant-garde Mickey Mouse a source for the development of cutting-edge intellectual and aesthetic ideas Artists in the Audience shows that film critics turned to the movies as raw material to be molded into a more radical modernism than that offered by any other contemporary artists or thinkers.


(Hardback)

By: Mette Kramer

ISBN: 9781501332975
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Kevin Goetz

ISBN: 9781982186746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th December 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By the the doctor of audience-ology (Los Angeles Times), this memoir/how-to guide to Screening 101with more than 100 candid interviews with some of the industrys most successful directors, producers, and studio executives will show readers how films, and maybe everything else, can be improved by listening and thoughtfully considering the opinions of the paying public.


(Hardback)

By: James Morrison

ISBN: 9781501311758
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: James Morrison

ISBN: 9781501311741
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Karin J. Fowler

ISBN: 9780313267765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book contains a biography of one of the screen's most loved actresses whose career has spanned five decades.


(Hardback)

By: David Forrest

ISBN: 9781784992620
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first full-length critical study of the work of Barry Hines, best know as the author of A Kestrel for a Knave -- .

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