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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: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Concepts in Film Theory by Dudley Andrew Publisher Comments A remarkable continuation of Dudley Andrew's classic, The Major Film Theories, this work focuses on the key concepts in film study: perception, representation, signification, narrative structure, adaptation, evaluation, identification, figuration, and... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity by Hilary Radner Book News Annotation Radner (film and media studies, U. of Otago, New Zealand), Fox (English, U. of Otago), and Bessi... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $30.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Seventies British Cinema by Robert Shail Publisher Comments Seventies British Cinema provides a comprehensive re-evaluation of British film in the 1970s. The decade has long been written off in critical discussions as a 'doldrums' period in British cinema, perhaps because the industry, facing near economic... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Artists in the Audience: Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism by Greg Taylor Publisher Comments "Gone with the Wind" an inspiration for the American avant-garde? Mickey Mouse a crucial source for the development of cutting-edge intellectual and aesthetic ideas? As Greg Taylor shows in this witty and provocative book, the idea is not so far-fetched.... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $10.00 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 Featuring exclusive essays, six previously-unpublished reviews, and a foreword by filmmaker...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: $5.63 Used - Trade Paper
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World Cinema's 'Dialogues' with Hollywood by Paul Cooke Publisher Comments World Cinema's 'Dialogues' with Hollywood looks at the way Hollywood has interacted with a range of national and transnational cinemas, from German Expressionism to Bollywood and Chinese film. While Hollywood has had a profound impact upon the history of... (read more) List Price $109.50 Your price: $75.95 Used - Hardcover
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Television #2: TV Creators: Conversations with America's Top Producers of Television Drama by James L Longworth Publisher Comments Meaningful dialogues with twelve of today's top writers and producers of quality television drama.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Movie Medievalism: The Imaginary Middle Ages by Nickolas Haydock Synopsis This work offers a theoretical introduction to the portrayal of medievalism in popular film. The opening two chapters introduce the rapidly burgeoning field of medieval film studies, viewed through the lenses of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the Deleuzian... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $30.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blur Volume 1 by Stephen R Bissette Publisher Comments Welcome to the first of four volumes collecting the complete weekly Video Views columns (1999-2001) by renowned cartoonist, author and film scholar Stephen R. Bissette. Here is the 'blur' of Bissette's comprehensive weekly columns covering the endless... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $13.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Hollywood Beyond the Screen: Design and Material Culture (Materializing Culture) by Anne Massey Publisher Comments Hollywood has exerted a profound influence on British style and design. From its earliest days, Hollywood glamour in the form of make-up, hairstyles, and fashion was mimicked by women throughout Britain. But the influence of Hollywood was more than skin... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $2.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Un-American Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era by Frank Krutnik Book News Annotation Scholars of film and communication in North America and Britain look at particular cases of movies and television programs made by people in the US who were caught up in the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1940s and 1950s. Of major interest is whether... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.50 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: $52.00 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: $13.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View (Film and Culture) by Alison Griffiths Publisher Comments From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum, humans have gained a deeper understanding of the natural world through highly... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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The End of Cinema as We Know It: American Film in the Nineties by Jon Lewis Publisher Comments Almost half a century ago, Jean-Luc Godard famously remarked, I await the end of cinema with optimism. Lots of us have been waiting forand wondering aboutthis prophecy ever since. The way films are made and exhibited has changed significantly. Films... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hollywood Hybrids: Mixing Genres in Contemporary Films by Ira Jaffe Publisher Comments Through close readings of films by U.S. filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Errol Morris, Todd Haynes, and Joel and Ethan Coen, Hollywood Hybrids studies provocative, disorienting strategies of genre mixing in contemporary cinema. The book... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.75 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 $65.00 Your price: $11.53 Used - Hardcover
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Hollywood Androgyny by Rebec Bell Metereau Book News Annotation The subject is cross-dressing, transvestism, and other kinds of gender-bending in Hollywood movies. The first edition was published in 1985; the second includes a new preface and brings film coverage up through the 1990s. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $2.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Film Study an Analytical Bibliography V4 by Frank Manchel Publisher Comments The four volumes of Film Study include a fresh approach to each of the basic categories in the original edition. Volume four contains extensive appendices listing film distributors, sources, and historical information as well as an index of authors... (read more) Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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