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The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (Texas Film Studies Series) by Barry Keith Grant Publisher Comments The Dread of Difference demonstrates that horror is hardly a uniformly masculine discourse. As these essays persuasively show, not only are horror movies about patriarchy and its fear of the feminine, but they also offer feminist critique and pleasure.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze by E Ann Kaplan Publisher Comments What happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned? "Looking for the Other" responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of issues to do with race. It focuses... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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I See Black People: The Rise and Fall of African Amercian Owned Television and Radio Minority Owned Television and Radio by Kristal Zook Publisher Comments Why are so few radio and television stations currently owned by African Americans? The airwaves are public resources; they belong to the people. And yet minorities, who form 33 percent of the population, control only 3 percent of the broadcast... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Romance & the Yellow Peril: Race, Sex, & Discursive Strat by Gina Marchetti Publisher Comments Hollywood films about Asians and interracial sexuality are the focus of Gina Marchetti's provocative new work. While miscegenation might seem an unlikely theme for Hollywood, Marchetti shows how fantasy-dramas of interracial rape, lynching, tragic love... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction by Gina Marchetti Publisher Comments Hollywood films about Asians and interracial sexuality are the focus of Gina Marchetti's provocative new work. While miscegenation might seem an unlikely theme for Hollywood, Marchetti shows how fantasy-dramas of interracial rape, lynching, tragic love... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $23.92 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema (Theories of Representation & Difference) by Judith Mayne Publisher Comments The Woman at the Keyhole is one] of the most significant contributions to feminist film theory sin ce the 1970s. --SubStance ... this intelligent, eminently readable volume puts women's filmmaking on the main stage.... serves at once as introduction and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood's Russians: Biography of an Image by Harlow Robinson Publisher Comments This book is the first look at the colorful yet largely unknown story of Russian emigres who worked in the American film industry, and the representation of Russians and Soviets in Hollywood movies. Among the artists who gravitated towards Hollywood in... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Bent Lens: 2nd Edition: A World Guide to Gay & Lesbian Film by Lisa Daniel Publisher Comments Spanning gay and lesbian filmmaking from 1914 through present day, The Bent Lensshowcases 2300 titles from 45 countries, including feature films, documentaries and short films. In addition to a synopsis of each film, other details included are cast... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Passionate Detachments: An Introduction to Feminist Film Theory by Sue Thornham Publisher Comments Sue Thornham is Professor of Media and Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Passionate Detachments traces the key developments and debates in feminist film theory over the past twenty-five years. Beginning with the work on stereotypes of women... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fast-Talking Dames by Maria Dibattista Publisher Comments Witty and brash, the fast-talking dames in film comedies of the 1930s and '40s offered moviegoers a new, independent version of American womanhood. In this widely acclaimed book, Maria DiBattista paints vivid portraits of the grandest fast-talking dames... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Sexual Subject: Screen Reader in Sexuality by Screen Publisher Comments The Sexual Subject brings together writing on sexuality which has appeared in DEGREESScreen over the past two decades. It reflects the journal's continuing engagement with questions of sexuality and signification in the cinema, an engagement which has... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Native Features: Indigenous Films from Around the World by Houston Wood Publisher Comments Native Features is the first book to look at feature films made by Indigenous people, one of the world's newest and fastest growing categories of cinema. The book provides easy to understand guidelines to help viewers appreciate the more than 50... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The ST. James Women Filmmakers Encyclopedia by Amy L. (edt) Unterburger Book News Annotation An amended version of (1998, St. James Press), this trade edition focuses solely on the filmmakers and expands their entries. Entries for 200 film directors, producers, screenwriters, editors, cinematographers, art directors, costume designers, and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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White Gypsies: Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals by Woods Peir Publisher Comments Little has been written about the Spanish film musical, a genre usually associated with the early Franco dictatorship and dismissed by critics as reactionary, escapist fare. A timely and valuable corrective, White Gypsies shows how the Spanish folkloric... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.75 New - Trade Paper
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Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood by Mick Lasalle Publisher Comments In the pre-Code Hollywood era, between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, led unapologetic careers, and, in general, acted the way many think women only... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Jews of Prime Time (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Lif) by David Zurawik Publisher Comments An examination of Jewish television characters from the last fifty years, along with a backstage look at the Jewish insiders who created the strange history of Jewish identity in prime time... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Films (Film and Culture) by Robert Lang Publisher Comments Until "Masculine Interests" not much had been written about men "as men" in the cinema. Using nine Hollywood genre films from 1932 to the late 1990s, Lang shows how Hollywood's chief function to define, codify, valorize and critique varieties of... (read more) List Price $41.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America's Black Female Superstars by Donald Bogle Publisher Comments And we can't forget the others: Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Katherine Dunham, Hazel Scott, Marian Anderson, Dinah Washington, Pearl Bailey, Dorothy Dandridge, Leontyne Price, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Tina Tuner...Brown Sugar... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation : Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race (05 Edition) by Susan Courtney Publisher Comments "This could be the most important book published on film and race in America. It contains superior film analysis, a strong sense of film history, and breathtaking insights."--Thomas Gunning, University of Chicago "This was an exciting book to read... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era by Thomas Cripps Publisher Comments This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood. It covers the period from World War II through the civil rights movement of the 1960s, examining this period through the prism of popular culture. Making... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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