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Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties (Arts & Politics of the Everyday)
by Steven Cohan  Synopsis Author Steven Cohan draws on popular publicity to link narratives of masculinity and the personae of Hollywood's leading men like John Wayne, Cary Grant, Marlon Brando, Rock Hudson, and others. Cohan analyzes the gender and sexual masquerades of their...
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Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions (99 Edition)
by Michelle Citron Synopsis Two decades ago, a father gave his daughter shoeboxes stuffed with old home movies. The daughter, a filmmaker, appropriated these family images, folding them into a film about mothers and daughters. The film, in turn, infiltrated the life of the family...
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Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942
by Thomas Cripps Publisher Comments Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film — both before and behind the camera — from the earliest movies through World War II. As he...
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Feminist Film Theory: A Classical Reader
by Sue Thornham Publisher Comments "Feminist Film Theory . . .collects many of the most important contributions to feminist debates about film on both sides of the Atlantic into a well-organized anthology . . ."—Resources for Feminist Research For the past twenty-five years, cinema...
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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 I See Black People is a narrative history of the behind-the-scenes politics of black television and radio ownership, including the stories of the failure of the Black Famlly Channel, The World African Network, and Russell Simmons Fabulous TV, as well as...
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Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene
by Celine Parr Shimizu Synopsis "I find "The Hypersexuality of Race" nothing short of brilliant, a rigorous and galvanizing scholarly endeavor that promises to make an immediate impact on the fields of Asian American studies, feminist theory, theater and performance studies, and film...
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Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans #3: Asian America Through the Lens: History, Representations, and Identities: History, Representations, and Identities
by Chun Hsing Synopsis In Asian America Through the Lens, Jun Xing surveys Asian American cinema, allowing its aesthetic, cultural, and political diversity and continuities to emerge....
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Alice Doesnt: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema
by Teresa De Lauretis Synopsis The title seems appropriate, for not only is the book intended in the same sense as the placard, but both are signs of the same struggle, both are texts of the women's movement. The images or references suggested by the name 'Alice' are many and will...
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Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History
by Amelie Hastie Synopsis ""Cupboards of Curiosity "is an enormously significant and important study. Amelie Hastie's reevaluations of female authorship are brilliant, and her approach to the 'archive' encourages just the kind of rethinking of established ideas that one...
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Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism
by Diane Carson Synopsis Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism offers a comprehensive survey of the rich and varied contributions feminist scholars have made to film studies over the past two decades. Individual chapters present a range of perspectives, from psychoanalytic,...
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Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?: The Truth about Female Power in Hollywood
by Rachel Abramowitz Publisher Comments Ten years ago, Rachel Abramowitz began interviewing the most powerful women in the movie-making business in an effort to discover how they had infiltrated this male-dominated world. From superstar actors to independent directors, women in all arenas...
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Frightening the Horses: Gay Icons of the Cinema
by Eric Braun Publisher Comments Now fully updated, a sweeping illustrated survey of gay and gay-themed cinema, with 150 photos and posters and a comprehensive filmography. Frightening the Horses is a celebration of gay cinema, from the "undercover" icons of the 40s and 50s, and...
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Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley
by Jason Smith Synopsis Examines the construction of sex and gender in the four science-fiction films comprising the Alien saga (starring Sigourney Weaver). This book focuses on how the writers and directors have re-written Ripley and how each revision informs our understanding...
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Celluloid Gaze
by Boze Hadleigh Synopsis Interviews with six men from the world of film and entertainment - actors Sal Mineo and Rock Hudson; directors George Cukor, Luchino Visconti, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder; and designer, photographer, and author Cecil Beaton. Their remarkably frank...
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Teaching Men and Film (Teaching Film and Media Studies)
by Matthew Hall Synopsis Examining the changes in male roles, and how these changes are explored in cinema, this book includes frameworks for teaching the topic, and accessible explanations of the cultural and critical background to changes in male roles. It provides in-depth...
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Evil Arabs in American Popular Film : Orientalist Fear (06 Edition)
by Tim Jon Semmerling Publisher Comments The evil Arab has become a stock character in American popular films, playing the villain opposite American good guys who fight for the American way. It's not surprising that this stereotype has entered American popular culture, given the real-world...
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Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical
by Steven Cohan Publisher Comments With their lavish costumes and sets, ebullient song and dance numbers, and iconic movie stars, the musicals that mgm produced in the 1940s seem today to epitomize camp. Yet they were originally made to appeal to broad, mainstream audiences. In this...
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The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood
by Diana Mclellan Publisher Comments Diana McLellan reveals the complex and intimate connections that roiled behind the public personae of Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, and the women who loved them. Private correspondence, long-secret FBI files, and troves of unpublished...
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The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle
by Fatimah Tobing Rony Publisher Comments Charting the intersection of technology and ideology, cultural production and social science, Fatimah Tobing Rony explores early-twentieth-century representations of non-Western indigenous peoples in films ranging from the documentary to the spectacular...
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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
by Vito Russo Publisher Comments Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "an impressive study" and written with incisive wit and searing perception--the definitive, highly acclaimed landmark work on the portrayal of homosexuality in film....
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