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  • A Practical Treatise On Gesture A Practical Treatise On Gesture
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    A Practical Treatise On Gesture

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
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  • Circus Life and Circus Celebrities Circus Life and Circus Celebrities
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    Circus Life and Circus Celebrities

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
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  • Continental Stagecraft Continental Stagecraft
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    Continental Stagecraft

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
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  • My Theatrical and Musical Recollections My Theatrical and Musical Recollections
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    My Theatrical and Musical Recollections

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
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  • Sundance - A Festival Virgin's Guide (3rd Edition) Sundance - A Festival Virgin's Guide (3rd Edition)
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    Sundance - A Festival Virgin's Guide (3rd Edition)

    Independent film at 7,500 feet! January in Utah - for 10 days, the normally sleepy mountain resort of Park City becomes the focus of the movie world as 50,000 people descent on the town to sample the year's finest independent films, do a little...
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  • The Man Who Made Movies The Man Who Made Movies
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    The Man Who Made Movies

    W.K.L. Dickson was Thomas Edison's assistant in charge of the experimentation that led to the Kinetoscope and Kinetograph-the first commercially successful moving image machines. In 1891-1892, he established what we know today as the 35mm format. Dickson...
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  • Southern by the Grace of God Southern by the Grace of God
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    Southern by the Grace of God

    Like the media coverage of the civil rights era itself, Hollywood dramas have reinforced regional stereotypes of race, class, and gender to cleanse and redeem the wider nation from the implications of systemic racism. As Southern by the Grace of God...
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  • Warriors, Witches, Whores Warriors, Witches, Whores
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    Warriors, Witches, Whores

    Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema is a feminist study of Israel's film industry and the changes that have occurred since the 1990s. Working in feminist film theory, the book adopts a cultural studies approach, considering the...
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  • Speculative Enterprise Speculative Enterprise
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    Speculative Enterprise

    In the wake of the 1688 revolution, England's transition to financial capitalism accelerated dramatically. Londoners witnessed the rise of credit-based currencies, securities markets, speculative bubbles, insurance schemes, and lotteries. Many understood...
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  • The Art of Teaching Ballet The Art of Teaching Ballet
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    The Art of Teaching Ballet

    "What a superb and inspiring book this is! It is a celebration of the art of teaching ballet and it will delight anyone who is interested in classical dancing. . . . It is by a dancer, for dancers, about dancing, and we should be grateful to Gretchen...
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  • Dangerous Innocence Dangerous Innocence
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    Dangerous Innocence

    Dangerous Innocence investigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the U.S. South help feed and reinforce systems of racial inequity. Tracing the rise of the "southern outsider" in literature and on television from 1960 to 2020,...
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  • The Fantastic Made Visible The Fantastic Made Visible
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    The Fantastic Made Visible

    Fantasy and science fiction began in print, and from the first films to the latest blockbusters, print stories have provided the inspirations, the ideas, and in some cases the detailed blueprints. Adaption Studies has long been an area of intense...
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  • Death Rays and the Popular Media, 1876-1939 Death Rays and the Popular Media, 1876-1939
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    Death Rays and the Popular Media, 1876-1939

    Death rays! Absurd idea peddled by con artists and amateurs and promoted by a sensationalist press? Not quite. Government and military leaders and mainstream scientists endorsed the possibility of such a fantastic weapon in the years before World War...
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  • Flamenco and Bullfighting Flamenco and Bullfighting
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    Flamenco and Bullfighting

    Flamenco dance and bullfighting are parallel arts with shared traditions, performance conventions and vocabularies of movement. This volume introduces readers to an ongoing discussion in Spanish scholarship about the links between these two...
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  • Buster Crabbe Buster Crabbe
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    Buster Crabbe

    Buster Crabbe's chief claim to fame, aside from his Olympic gold medal (for the 400-meter freestyle event in 1932), rests in the trio of movie serials in which he played the popular science-fiction hero Flash Gordon. Crabbe was the only actor to play...
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  • How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture
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    How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture

    Since the early 2000s, popular culture has experienced a "Zombie Renaissance," beginning in film and expanding into books, television, video games, theatre productions, phone apps, collectibles and toys. Zombies have become allegorical figures...
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  • A State of Arrested Development A State of Arrested Development
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    A State of Arrested Development

    One of the most critically-acclaimed television series of all time, Arrested Development is widely hailed as a cutting-edge comedy that broke the traditional sitcom mold. The winner of six Emmys, the series was canceled by Fox in 2006, only to be...
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  • Queer in the Choir Room Queer in the Choir Room
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    Queer in the Choir Room

    These new essays examine the many ways that issues of gender and sexuality intersect with other identities and practices--including race, religion, disability, music and education--on the Fox hit program Glee. With gender and sexuality concerns at the...
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  • Psycho, The Birds and Halloween Psycho, The Birds and Halloween
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    Psycho, The Birds and Halloween

    Horror films come in a wide variety of styles and subject matter. Three of the most intimate explorations of terror are examined in this study. Intimate in terms of settings (small towns and an isolated motel) and in the emotional links between the...
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  • Anatole Litvak Anatole Litvak
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    Anatole Litvak

    During his 40-year career, director-producer Anatole Litvak (1902-1974) made films of all genres in Russia, Germany, England, France and the United States. His rootless background was cited by critics lamenting his lack of consistent style, but it...
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  • Roy Huggins Roy Huggins
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    Roy Huggins

    Producer-writer Roy Huggins is best known for creating the TV series, Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive, Run For Your Life and The Rockford Files (with Stephen J. Cannell). This biography details his personal and professional life, aided by...
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  • Two Lenses on the Korean Ethos Two Lenses on the Korean Ethos
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    Two Lenses on the Korean Ethos

    A war-torn country only 60 years ago, South Korea has since achieved prodigious growth and global integration, experiencing rapid industrialization and seeing its cultural exports gain international popularity. Because of this rapid transformation, an...
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  • James Arness James Arness
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    James Arness

    James Arness gives the full story on his early years, his family, his military career and his film work in Hollywood, including appearances in the cult-favorite science fiction movies Them! and The Thing. He had a very long run on television's...
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  • A Fistful of Icons A Fistful of Icons
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    A Fistful of Icons

    After a century of reinvention and, frequently, reinterpretation, Western movies continue to contribute to the cultural understanding of the United States. And Western archetypes remain as important emblems of the American experience, relating a...
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  • Inside the Rise of HBO Inside the Rise of HBO
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    Inside the Rise of HBO

    There are two ages in the history of television: before HBO and after HBO. Before the launch of Home Box Office in 1972, the industry had changed little since the birth of broadcast network television in the late 1940s. The arrival of the premium...
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  • Pamela Tiffin Pamela Tiffin
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    Pamela Tiffin

    Dark-haired 60s cult pop icon Pamela Tiffin debuted in Summer and Smoke (1961) and was a scene-stealing comedienne opposite James Cagney in Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961) before becoming the queen of teenage drive-in movies in State Fair...
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  • Hollywood's Second Sex Hollywood's Second Sex
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    Hollywood's Second Sex

    "Women stars in Hollywood were invariably in two categories," said director Otto Preminger. "One group was of women who were exploited by men, and the other, much smaller group was of women who survived by acting like men." Beginning with silent...
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  • Sold on Radio Sold on Radio
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    Sold on Radio

    How was it that America would fund its nascent national radio services? Government control and a subscription-like model were both considered! Soon an advertising system emerged, leading radio into its golden age from the 1920s to the early 1960s. ...
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  • The Vampire in Science Fiction Film and Literature The Vampire in Science Fiction Film and Literature
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    The Vampire in Science Fiction Film and Literature

    Vampires have been a popular subject for writers since their inception in 19th century Gothic literature and, later, became popular with filmmakers. Now the classical vampire is extinct, and in its place are new vampires who embrace the hi-tech worlds...
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  • Robert Pierpoint Robert Pierpoint
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    Robert Pierpoint

    This is the first biography of journalist Robert Pierpoint, a contemporary of Edward R. Murrow, hired by him to cover the Korean War for CBS. He went on to cover the White House, through six presidents. In more than 40 years with the network, he...
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  • Postmodern Auteurs Postmodern Auteurs
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    Postmodern Auteurs

    The five directors studied here embody postmodernism--the erosion of the earlier 20th century distinction between "high culture" and so-called mass or popular culture that began in the 1950s and 1960s. Comprised of repetition, pastiche, parody and...
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  • Miyazaki's Animism Abroad Miyazaki's Animism Abroad
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    Miyazaki's Animism Abroad

    After winning an Oscar for Spirited Away, the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's animated films were dubbed into many languages. Some of the films are saturated with religious themes distinctive to Japanese culture. How were these themes, or what...
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  • The Becoming of Age The Becoming of Age
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    The Becoming of Age

    The Becoming of Age is an examination of the ways that aging and old age are represented in popular film. Arguing that the ideas behind cinematic depictions of aging are historical and open to revision, the author looks at how movies both promote...
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  • Terror and the Cinematic Sublime Terror and the Cinematic Sublime
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    Terror and the Cinematic Sublime

    This collection considers film in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Eleven essayists address Hollywood movies, indie film, and post-cinematic media, including theatrical films by directors such as Steven Spielberg, Darren Aronofsky, Quentin...
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  • Extras of Early Hollywood Extras of Early Hollywood
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    Extras of Early Hollywood

    Pity the "extras." Mostly overlooked and forgotten. Especially those in the major Hollywood films 1913 to 1945--right through the dream factory's golden era. The struggles of extras to unionize were followed by internal struggles as the extras fought...
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  • June Cleaver Was a Feminist! June Cleaver Was a Feminist!
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    June Cleaver Was a Feminist!

    Long dismissed as ciphers, sycophants and "Stepford Wives," women characters of primetime television during the 1950s through the 1980s are overdue for this careful reassessment. From smart, savvy wives and resilient mothers (including the...
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  • Charles McGraw Charles McGraw
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    Charles McGraw

    The iconic actor Charles McGraw appeared in over 140 roles on films and television, including the classic noir pictures The Killers (1946) and The Narrow Margin (1952). Whether portraying tough cops or sadistic killers, McGraw brought a unique...
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  • Visconti and the German Dream Visconti and the German Dream
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    Visconti and the German Dream

    Luchino Visconti's trilogy of films Ludwig, Death in Venice and The Damned explore the complex relationship between the themes and ideals of German Romanticism and their impact on the catastrophe of the Third Reich. The personality and works of...
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  • Remaking Horror Remaking Horror
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    Remaking Horror

    This book chronicles the American horror film genre in its development of remakes from the 1930s into the 21st century. Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) is investigated as the watershed moment when the genre opened its...
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  • Bullies and Mean Girls in Popular Culture Bullies and Mean Girls in Popular Culture
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    Bullies and Mean Girls in Popular Culture

    The numerous anti-bullying programs in schools across the United States have done little to reduce the number of reported bullying instances. One reason for this is that little attention has been paid to the role of the media and popular culture in...
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  • Tom Mix Tom Mix
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    Tom Mix

    Tom Mix became a major star in the 1920s, earning over $900,000 for his movie work in 1921. Fox refused, however, to renew his contract in 1927, and that, coupled with the stock market crash of 1929, left him virtually penniless. In 1932 Mix resumed...
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  • Beowulf on Film Beowulf on Film
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    Beowulf on Film

    Why did the most read work in English literature go without cinematic adaptation for so long? And why did five major film treatments appear between 1999 and 2008? This book explores the growing number of films based on the Old English epic poem...
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  • Hollywood in the Holy Land Hollywood in the Holy Land
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    Hollywood in the Holy Land

    This collection of essays analyzes film representations of the Crusades, other medieval East/West encounters, and the modern inheritance of encounters between orientalist fantasy and apocalyptic conspiracy. From studies of the filmic representations...
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  • Movie Medievalism Movie Medievalism
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    Movie Medievalism

    This work offers a theoretical introduction to the portrayal of medievalism in popular film. Employing the techniques of film criticism and theory, it moves beyond the simple identification of error toward a poetics of this type of film, sensitive to...
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