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Cinema Studies : Key Concepts (3RD 06 Edition) by Susan Hayward Publisher Comments Ranging from Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan to Quentin Tarantino, from auteur theory to the Hollywood Blockbuster," Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts" has firmly established itself as the essential guide for anyone interested in film. Now fully... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality by Neal Gabler Publisher Comments "A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life." --The New York Times Book Review From one of America's most original cultural critics and the author of Winchell, the story of how our... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de La Planete (Film and Culture) by Paula Amad Publisher Comments Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's Archives de la Plan?te (1908-1931). Kahn's vast photo-cinematographic experiment preserved world memory through the privileged lens of everyday life, and... (read more) Your price: $34.50 New - Trade Paper
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Understanding Movies by Louis Giannetti Publisher Comments Helps readers understand how the many languages of film work together to create meaning. Louis Giannetti organizes Understanding Movies around the key elements of filmmaking, including cintematography, Mise en Scène, movement, editing, sound... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture by Peter Kobel Publisher Comments A gorgeous, lavish history of silent movies - with more than 400 amazing images - captures the birth of film and icons like Chaplin, Garbo, Clara Bow, and Valentino. Drawing on the extraordinary collection of The Library of Congress, one of the greatest... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema by James Wierzbicki Publisher Comments Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema is a collection of essays that examine the work of filmmakers whose concern is not just for the eye, but also for the ear. The bulk of the text focuses on the work of directors Wes Anderson, Ingmar... (read more) Your price: $37.50 New - Trade Paper
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Film Theory by Robert Stam Publisher Comments Providing a collection of some of the most provocative and influential writings of film theory in the past thirty years, this anthology aims to provide a polylogue among theorists, deprovincializing the subject. Film Theory multiplies the perspectives... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies by David Bordwell Publisher Comments Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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100 Ideas That Changed Film by David Parkinson Publisher Comments This inspiring book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped film since its inception. Entertaining and intelligent, it is both a concise history and a fascinating resource. Each idea is presented through informed text and arresting visuals... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Hollywood 1938: Motion Pictures' Greatest Year by Catherine Jurca Publisher Comments In Hollywood 1938, Catherine Jurca brings to light a tumultuous year of crisis that has been neglected in histories of the studio era. With attendance in decline, negative publicity about stars that were "poison at the box office," and a spate of bad... (read more) Your price: $28.75 New - Trade Paper
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The End of Cinema as We Know It: American Film in the Nineties by Jon Lewis Publisher Comments Drug addiction is a central component of some of the world's most intractable social problems. As professionals devoted to ameliorating these problems, social workers are in the front line of drug prevention efforts. Yet, social work education rarely... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reel Families (Arts & Politics of the Everyday) by Patricia Zimmermann Publisher Comments Amateur film has been seen as the junkheap of private culture. Yet, music videos recycle home movies as authenticity; commercials copy its style to sell intimacy; documentaries use it to recount history "from below." "Reel Families" is the first... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Magnum Cinema by Alain Bergala Synopsis The photographers associated with Magnum have worked with movie-makers since its creation nearly 50 years ago. Robert Capa, one of the founders of what has become the world's most prestigious picture agency, had many friends in the film business... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Thinking about Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying by Peter Lehman Publisher Comments Thinking about Movies, third edition, is a comprehensive introduction for students and movie lovers who want to learn how to watch movies critically and analytically. Intended for the beginner, the text offers the crucial building blocks required to... (read more) List Price $74.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Projecting Paranoia: Conspiratorial Visions in American Film (Cultureamerica) by Ray Pratt Publisher Comments A lit cigarette glows in the dark. A faceless voice describes sinister forces that are hard at work behind the scenes -- a hidden conspiracy that controls our lives and perhaps even our thoughts. Then, like a ghost in the night, the voice is gone... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Film Analysis: A Reader by Jeffrey Geiger Publisher Comments Written with undergraduate readers in mind, these essays cover the central issues raised in today's cinema courses and provide students with practical models to help them improve their own writing and film-analysis skills. Film Analysis also includes a... (read more) List Price $44.75 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Talk about Cinema by Jean-baptiste Thoret Publisher Comments This fresh, engaging volume provides the key ideas for a better understanding of today’s cinematic style and the reference terms that are crucial to film studies by challenging preconceived ideas and clichés about cinema. It defines the main... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen & the Production Code Administration by Thomas Doherty Publisher Comments From 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office tasked with censoring the American screen. Though little known outside the ranks of the studio system, this former... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Hollywood's Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet (Film and Culture) by Peter Decherney Publisher Comments Copyright law is important to every stage of media production and reception. It helps determine filmmakers' artistic decisions, Hollywood's corporate structure, and the varieties of media consumption. The rise of digital media and the internet has only... (read more) Your price: $34.50 New - Hardcover
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Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies by Robert Sklar Publisher Comments Hailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big business, and shaper... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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