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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".

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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.

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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.

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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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"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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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.

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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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"An important examination of fine art's impact upon filmmaking that grapples with the question of authenticity"--

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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.

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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.

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This book contains a biography of one of the screen's most loved actresses whose career has spanned five decades.

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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 -- .