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Felicia's Journey
by Stephanie Mcbride  Synopsis Felicia's Journey explores the 1999 film adaptation by Director, Atom Egoyan, of Irish writer William Trevor's novel of 1994.Issues addressed include Hitchcockian influences, the sense of place in the visual discourse, and the characterization of the...
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock-N-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
by Peter Biskind 
Powells.com Staff Pick I don't know much about film, but I can keep up with the best Hollywood gossipers. In an attempt to elevate and justify my shameful interest in the lives of celebrities, I found a terrific book. Easy Riders Raging Bulls begins with Hollywood in bad...
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Pierluigi on Cinema
by Praturlon And Scacchi Synopsis Pierluigi Praturion was born in Rome in 1924, and grew up to become a photographer in the city's cinematic golden age, the prime of la, dolce vita. As Fellini's on set collaborator--shooting both stills and proto-paparazzi candids--legend has it that...
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The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
by Deborah Cartmell Publisher Comments A collection of essays covering many different aspects of literature on screen....
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The Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films: Dark Parades
by Carl Royer Synopsis The Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films: Dark Parades examines the work of several of the genre's most influential directors and investigates how traditional themes of isolation, alienation, death, and transformation have helped build the foundation...
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New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics (92 Edition)
by Robert Stam Synopsis New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts, defining over 500 critical terms. The authors address key aspects of contemporary semiotic and cultural debate--for example Metz's semiotics, Genette's narratology,...
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The New Face of Political Cinema; Commitment in French Film Since 1995.
by Martin O'shaughnessy 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...
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Pasolini, Chaucer and Boccaccio: Two Medieval Texts and Their Translation to Film
by Agnes Blandeau Synopsis Pier Pasolini's ?trilogy of life? is a series of film adaptations of major texts of the past: The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, and One Thousand and One Nights. The movies demonstrate his aesthetic sensibility through a highly original cinematic...
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Film As Art
by Rudolf Arnheim Synopsis Delineates the first thirty years of films, contextually analyzing their aesthetic value as mediums of expression and their relation to other forms of art....
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Vishnu in Hollywood
by David I Grossvogel Synopsis By examining the icons that drew millions to the box office, this study offers an historical overview, a psychological and sociological analysis of the American man reflected on the silver screen....
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Screening Party
by Dennis Hensley Publisher Comments Mare's still P.O.-ed at Rob in the next scene, in which the gang shows up at St. Elmo's on Halloween night sporting Groucho Marx-style nose glasses. "This is the one night a year where Judd Nelson feels normal," says Tony. In this scene, Rob's sax...
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Hillbillyland (95 Edition)
by J. W. Williamson Publisher Comments The stereotypical hillbilly figure in popular culture provokes a range of responses, from bemused affection for Ma and Pa Kettle to outright fear of the mountain men in Deliverance. In Hillbillyland, J. W. Williamson investigates why hillbilly images are...
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Onscreen and Undercover: The Ultimate Book of Movie Espionage
by Wesley Britton Publisher Comments Wes Britton's Spy Television (2004) was an overview of espionage on the small screen from 1951 to 2002. His Beyond Bond: Spies in Fiction and Film (2004) wove spy literature, movies, radio, comics, and other popular media together with what the public...
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Playing to the Camera: Film Actors Discuss Their Craft
by Bert Cardullo Synopsis The book has been edited by four leading film and theater historians, who have brought together selections from periodicals and books (some no longer in print), had some statements or conversations translated into English for the first time, and...
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The Film Freak Central 2006 Annual
by Bill Chambers Synopsis 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...
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Growing Up with Audrey Hepburn: Text, Audience, Resonance (Inside Popular Film)
by Rachel Moseley Publisher Comments Filmography: p. [232]-239. Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-251) and index....
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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...
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Framed Time: Toward a Postfilmic Cinema (Cinema and Modernity)
by Garrett Stewart Publisher Comments Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni claimed, three decades ago, that different conceptions of time helped define the split in film between European humanism and American science fiction. And as Garrett Stewart argues here, this transatlantic division...
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Gone With the Glory (06 Edition)
by Wills Synopsis Historian Brian Wills takes readers on a journey through the portrayal of the war in film, exploring what Hollywood got right and wrong, how the films influenced each other, and, ultimately, how the movies reflect America's changing understandings of the...
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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....
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