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Bambi VS. Godzilla : on the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business (07 Edition)
by David Mamet  Publisher Comments A subversive, inside glimpse of the complex world of the film industry provides candid descriptions of every aspect of filmmaking, from initial concept, to script, to screen, covering topics that range from "How Scripts Got So Bad" to "Hollywood Manners,"...
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Hollywood on Trial: McCarthyism's War Against the Movies
by Michael Freedland Publisher Comments This is the true story of how J. Parnell Thomas, chairman of the UnAmerican Activities Committee made a national name for himself by ruining the lives of hundreds of people in the movie industry. Two years later, Thomas would be jailed for embezzling...
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The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image
by Kerry Brougher Publisher Comments This volume offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary moving-image art, examining the ways in which the cinematic has blurred cultural distinctions between reality and illusion. Cinema was the unrivaled art form of the twentieth century; in the art...
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Independent Cinema
by D. K. Holm Publisher Comments Just what is "independent" cinema? D. K. Holm, columnist for Kevin Smith's website and author of Robert Crumb and Quentin Tarantino, aims to define a term that can be difficult to distinguish from categories such as avant-garde, underground, experimental,...
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In Front of the Children
by Cary Bazalgette and David Buckingham Publisher Comments These essays by British and American writers, including Jack Zipes, Martin Barker and Maire Messenger Davies, explore such questions as: what is the appeal of "Ninja Turtles" or "My Little Pony"? What are the "Home Alone" movies really about? And does...
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: The Generation That Transformed Hollywood
by Peter Biskind Publisher Comments In 1969, a low-budget biker movie, Easy Rider, shocked Hollywood with its stunning success. An unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (onscreen and off), Easy Rider heralded a heady decade in which a rebellious wave of talented young...
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Special Effects: An Oral History
by Pascal Pinteau Publisher Comments Spanning a century of screen wizardry-from the early innovations of the pioneering French fantasist Georges Méliès to the first synthetic TRON images to the cutting-edge technology used in the most recent Star Wars and The Matrix-this fabulous volume...
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History of Narrative Film 4TH Edition
by David A Cook Publisher Comments Sophisticated in its analytical content, current and comprehensive in its coverage of all aspects of film and filmmaking, and informed throughout by fascinating historical and cultural contexts, A History of Narrative Film is widely acknowledged to be...
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A History of the Hal Roach Studios
by Richard Lewis Ward Publisher Comments Once labeled the “lot that laugher built,” the Hal Roach Studios launched the comedic careers of such screen icons as Harold Lloyd, Our Gang, and Laurel and Hardy. With this stable of stars, the Roach enterprise operated for forty-six years...
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Short Guide To Writing About Film 4TH Edition
by Timothy Corrigan Publisher Comments "A Short Guide to Writing about Film" walks the reader through the process of converting the fun and pleasure of watching a movie into the satisfaction of articulating ideas about that movie. Drawing on the readers' love and knowledge of films ranging...
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Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies
by Mark Carnes Publisher Comments In this widely-acclaimed volume, some of our greatest historians address the facts—and fiction—as seen in Hollywood’s often epic recreations of historical events. Distinghuished historians such as Stephen Ambrose, Antonia Fraser, James...
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The Oxford Guide to Film Studies
by John Hill Publisher Comments Comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date, The Oxford Guide to Film Studies is an indispensable guide to the study of film. Top international contributors provide an overview of the main disciplinary approaches to film studies, an explanation of the...
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Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form (Film and Culture)
by Lucy Fischer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-272) and index....
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Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1968
by Stephen Prince Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-324) and index....
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Movies & Methods an Anthology Volume 1
by Bill Nichols Publisher Comments Film teachers and students will welcome this new anthology, which makes available in one source a comprehensive selection of recent theoretical work on film, including many articles difficult to locate in the scattered literature. The contents are drawn...
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Golden Age Cinema: Hollywood 1929-1945 (07 Edition)
by Jewell Publisher Comments This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and exciting period in American film, a time when the studio system was at its peak and movies played a critical role in elevating the spirits of the public. Richard B. Jewell offers a highly readable...
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Hollywood Goes to High School Cinema, Schools, and American Culture (Contemporary Social Issues)
by Robert C. Bulman Publisher Comments In this brief supplemental book, Robert Bulman separates high school films into three analytical categories and explores how they reflect America's preoccupation with individualism and its ambivalent feelings about wealth and inequality. By looking at...
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Big Tomorrow (00 Edition)
by Lary May Publisher Comments In this daring reexamination of the connections between national politics and Hollywood movies, Lary May offers a fresh interpretation of American culture from the New Deal through the Cold War—one in which a populist, egalitarian ethos found...
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Shakespeare, the Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video and DVD
by Richard Burt Publisher Comments Examines the impact of post-colonialism, globalization and digital film on recent adaptations of ShakespeareTakes in not only US and UK films but adaptations of Shakespeare in Europe and the Asian...
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Cinema Studies the Key Concepts 2ND Edition
by Susan Hayward Synopsis This text has been revised to meet the needs of students and film enthusiasts. Some 150 key genres, movements, theories and production terms are explained and analyzed. Entries include: auteur theory; Blaxploitation; British New Wave; feminist film...
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