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The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses by Mick Lasalle Publisher Comments Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talent—a Golden Age unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, and Garbo. In France, the joy of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Life on Mars: From Manchester to New York (Contemporary Landmark Television) by Stephen Lacey Publisher Comments This collection is the first book-length study dedicated to the British television series Life on Mars, the American remake, and its sequel, Ashes to Ashes. Stephen Lacey and Ruth McElroy bring together experts to engage critically with the series... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hollywood Vs. America by Michael Medved Publisher Comments Why does our popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values that most Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride patriotism? In this explosive book, one of the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mechademia #4: Mechademia, Volume 4: War/Time by Frenchy Lunning Publisher Comments The themes of war and time are intertwined in unique ways in Japanese culture, freighted as that nation is with the multiple legacies of World War II: the country's militarization, its victories and defeats, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the uneasy... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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New Face of Political Cinema by Martin Oshaughnessy Book News Annotation Despite the whispers in the background that profit is the most important goal of cinema, recent French films have managed to connect with politics and social issues as closely as it did in the days following the uprisings of 1968. O'Shaughnessy... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People by Jack G. Shaheen Publisher Comments A groundbreaking book that dissects a slanderous history dating from cinema's earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters that feature bedouin bandits, sinister sheikhs, machine-gun wielding and bomb blowing 'evil' Arabs'.... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Film Freak Central 2006 Annual by Bill Chambers Publisher Comments In their second volume of film criticism, Walter Chaw, Travis Mackenzie Hoover, Bill Chambers, and Alex Jackson look back on the cinematic year that was, 2005. Featuring exclusive essays, six previously-unpublished reviews, and a foreword by filmmaker... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $5.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Cultural Control and Globalization in Asia: Copyright, Piracy, and Cinema by Laikwan Pang Synopsis This is a succint and well-written book introducing a truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of copyright and related issues in contemporary popular culture in relation to the current development of Asian cinema, and questions how copyright is... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $22.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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When Women Call the Shots the Developing by Linda Seger Review "A powerful, infuriating, illuminating, inspiring, and insightful book. I'm recommending it to everyone-both men and women. "-Pamela Wallace, Academy Award winning writer, Witness... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cinema, Theory, & Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture by Patrick Mcgee Publisher Comments Explores the political significance of aesthetic analysis in the context of film and cultural studies.... (read more) List Price $144.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Life the movie :how entertainment conquered reality by Neal Gabler Publisher Comments The conversion of life itself into an entertainment medium -- life the Movie is the subject of the new book by the author of Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity and An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, winner of the... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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On Message: Television Advertising by the Presidential Candidates in Election 2008 by E D Dover Publisher Comments On Message explores how the twelve leading presidential candidates of Election 2008, six in each party, used the major Themes of televised political advertising-images, issues, and attacks-to create campaign narratives justifying their election. Each... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $29.00 Used - Hardcover
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Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film by Michael Ryan Synopsis ... a modern mythography, a study of contemporary Hollywood films based on the tools offered by feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxist cultural theory, and deconstruction. --Village Voice Solidly thought-out observation of the films of the 70's and 80's that... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Indelible Images: New Perspectives on Classic Films by Bert Cardullo List Price $55.50 Your price: $53.42 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Spectator, Volume 19, Number 2, Spring and Summer: Sex Scenes, Legacies of the Sexual Revolution by Christie Milliken Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Screen: Summer 1979 Volume 20, Number 2 Your price: $3.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Platos Cave Television & Its Discontents by John Oneill Your price: $9.75 Used - Hardcover
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How To Appreciate Motion Pictures by Edgar Dale Your price: $4.75 Used - Hardcover
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American Scenarios: The Uses of Film Genre Signed by Joseph Reed Your price: $7.98 Used - Hardcover
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Hollywood and the American image by Tony Thomas List Price $22.95 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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