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Introduction to Documentary by Bill Nichols Publisher Comments Introduction to Documentary provides a one-of-a-kind overview of the most important topics and issues in documentary history and criticism. Designed for students in any field that makes use of visual evidence and persuasive strategies, from the law to... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Documentary a History 2ND Rev Edition by Erik Barnouw Synopsis Now brought completely up to date, the new edition of this classic work on documentary films and filmmaking surveys the history of the genre from 1895 to the present day. With the myriad social upheavals over the past decade, documentaries have enjoyed... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir by Foster Hirsch Publisher Comments Since The Dark Side of the Screen first appeared two decades ago, when film noir was still a little-known group of dark, brooding postwar B-movies, it has become the essential take on what has become one of today’s most pervasive screen influences... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film by Gregg Mitman Publisher Comments yearnings of Americans to be both close to nature and yet distinctly apart.... (read more) List Price $31.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Film Noir Reader by Alain (edt) Silver Synopsis This bountiful anthology combines all the key early writings on film noir with many newer essays, including some published here for the first time. The collection is assembled by the editors of the Third Edition of Film Noir: An Enclyclopedic Reference... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia by Wheeler Winston Dixon Publisher Comments Noir. A shadow looms. The blow, a sharp surprise. Waking and sleeping, the fear is with us and cannot be contained. Paranoia. Wheeler Winston Dixonas comprehensive work engages readers in an overview of noir and fatalist film from the mid-twentieth... (read more) Your price: $24.50 New - Trade Paper
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Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil by Jonathan Munby Publisher Comments In this study of Hollywood gangster films, Jonathan Munby examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure. Beginning in the early 1930s, these films told compelling stories about ethnic urban lower... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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War Movies: Journeys to Vietnam: Scenes and Out-Takes by Wayne Karlin Publisher Comments "Karlin is one of the most gifted, passionate and powerful writers of his generation."-George Garrett Wayne Karlin's memoir War Moviesrecounts his return to Vietnam as scriptwriter and actor in the award-winning Vietnamese film Song of the Stork. On his... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in Modern Horror Film by Carol J Clover Publisher Comments Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these films work mainly to engage the viewer in the plight of the victim-hero, who... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Change Your Underwear Twice a Week: Lessons from the Golden Age of Classroom Filmstrips by Danny Gregory Publisher Comments With simple illustrations and quaint photographs that evoke a more innocent era--presented in Technicolor or rich black-and-white in a broad range of illustration styles--Change Your Underwear Twice a Week is a chronicle of the classroom filmstrip... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Sexy Thrills: Undressing the Erotic Thriller by Nina Martin Synopsis How erotic thrillers impact contemporary ideas about feminism and femininity Unlike the bulk of soft-core pornography, direct-to-video erotic thriller films are made specifically to appeal to women. Nina K. Martin argues that this makes them a valuable... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.80 Sale - Trade Paper
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Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide by Glenn Kay Publisher Comments Featuring chronological reviews of more than 300 zombie films—from 1932's White Zombie to George A. Romero's 2008 release Diary of the Dead—this thorough, uproarious guide traces the evolution of one of... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to Lovecraftian Cinema by Andrew Migliore Publisher Comments The definitive guide to film and television influenced by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. From Alien to Hellboy to Rough Magik it's all here. Coverage of feature films, television shows, independent films, interviews with Guillermo del Toro, John... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia by Peter Dendle Publisher Comments The exhumation of zombie films from obscurity is accomplished in terrifying detail in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia. The first exhaustive overview of the subject, this book evaluates over 200 movies from 16 countries over a 65-year period starting from... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Film Noir: From Fritz Lang to Fight Club by Mark Bould Publisher Comments "Film Noir: From Fritz Lang to Fight Club" explores the murky world of a genre responsible for many of film's most enduring images. Mark Bould discusses problems of definition and the often ambiguous nature of film noir and looks at modern films that... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Comedy/Cinema/Theory by Andrew Horton Publisher Comments The nature of comedy has interested many thinkers, from Plato to Freud, but film comedy has not received much theoretical attention in recent years. The essays in "Comedy/Cinema/Theory" use a range of critical and theoretical approaches to explore this... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics) by Gregg Mitman Publisher Comments Americans have had a long-standing love affair with the wilderness. As cities grew and frontiers disappeared, film emerged to feed an insatiable curiosity about wildlife. The camera promised to bring us into contact with the animal world, undetected and... (read more) Your price: $22.50 New - Trade Paper
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Westerns: Films Through History (AFI Film Readers) by Janet Walker Publisher Comments The "cowboys and Indians," sheriffs and outlaws, schoolmarms and barkeeps of Western films have wholly transformed our ideas about the reality of the American frontier." Westerns" is the first book to consider seriously the historical meanings and... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sound Design and Science Fiction by Willlia Whittington Publisher Comments Setting itself apart from other works, the book illustrates through accessible detail and compelling examples how swiftly such advancements in film sound aesthetics and technology have influenced recent science fiction cinema, and examines how these... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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100 Shakespeare Films (BFI Screen Guides) by Daniel Rosenthal Publisher Comments From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to Bollywood thrillers, Shakespeare has inspired an almost infinite variety of films. Spanning a century of cinema, from a silent short of The Tempest (1907) to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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