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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...

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...

Chick flicks. Brokeback Mountain. Bollywood. Superhero movies. Sophie's Choice. Sandra Bullock. Avant-garde musicals... If this sort of stuff is your cup of tea, then this isn't the book for you. Blokey film enthusiast Dave Franklin instead concentrates...

From Peckinpah and Schwarzenegger to Ulzana's Raid and Switchblade Sisters, Dave Franklin takes a politically incorrect look at the glories of twentieth century cinema.In this second volume of his Baby Ice Dog Movie Guide, he offers eight Fucked-Up...

Ingrid Bergman's engaging screen performance as Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary's made the film nun a star and her character a shining standard of comparison. She represented the religious life as the happy and rewarding choice of a...

The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking　is an accessible and comprehensive 'how to' guide about the craft of making documentaries for TV, online or social media. Filmmaker Tony Stark distils a long career at the BBC and as an independent producer to...

Focusing on films from Chile since 2000 and bringing together scholars from South and North America, Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World is the first English-language book since the 1970s to explore this small, yet significant, Latin...

Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths explores connections and discontinuities between lies and truths in fairy-tale films to directly address the current politics of fairy tale and reality. Since the Enlightenment, notions of magic and...

Over the past several decades, the prevailing attitude toward Judaism in Israeli society has undergone a meaningful shift; where the national ethos had once deemed Judaic traditions a vestige of an arcane past incompatible with the culture of a modern...

Martial Culture, Silver Screen analyzes war movies, one of the most popular genres in American cinema, for what they reveal about the narratives and ideologies that shape U.S. national identity. Edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and Matthew E...

In recent decades historians and film scholars have intensified their study of colonial cinema in Africa. Yet the vastness of the continent, the number of European powers involved and irregular record keeping has made uncovering the connections...

While Woody Allen is generally considered to be a master of the comic genre he created, his serious films are very important in understanding his role as one of this generation's more influential filmmakers. In this work such Allen films as Annie Hall...

Beginning in 1948 with Paramount's Saigon and Universal's Rogue's Regiment, Hollywood has produced hundreds of features and made-for-television films about Vietnam and the ensuing conflict. With the exception of The Green Berets (1968), few were...

In 1935 Sidney Kingsley's play about streetwise urban kids, Dead End, opened on Broadway featuring 14 adolescent actors. For two years on Broadway and then on tour, Kingsley's play delivered its social commentary contrasting affluent neighborhoods and...

Mel Brooks is often regarded as one of Hollywood's funniest men, thanks to such highly successful films as The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein. His films do have a tendency to turn out much like the jokes that comprise...

Paring a novel into a two-hour film is an arduous task for even the best screenwriters and directors. Often the resulting movies are far removed from the novel, sometimes to the point of being unrecognizable. Stanley Kubrick's adaptations have...

Many believe there is nothing like seeing a good movie, one that is enjoyable both in itself and for the thought processes it stimulates. From The Usual Suspects and When Harry Met Sally to Gandhi and The Color Purple, this handbook functions as a...

This book is a comprehensive study of one of the most popular genres in the cinema. From a perspective sympathetic to popular culture, this study analyzes a large number of primarily American and European films by a variety of distinguished directors,...

This study looks at the preservation process: newsreel, television, and color preservation; the often controversial issue of colorization; and commercial film archives. It provides detailed histories of the major players in the preservation battle...

How do political conflicts shape popular culture? This book explores that question by analyzing how the Planet of the Apes films functioned both as entertaining adventures and as apocalyptic political commentary. Informative and thought provoking, the...

Visual politics and the aesthetic turn in international relations have emphasized the power of the image in world politics. Postcolonial and decolonial feminist theory shows the urgent need to rethink research and teaching methods. What happens when...

Addressing for the first time Shakespeare's place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20th and early 21st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies,...

Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most renowned film directors of recent years. Talk to Her is one of the most discussed and controversial of all his films. Dealing principally with the issue of rape, it also offers profound insights into the nature of love...

About Raymond Williams represents the overdue critical acclaim of Williams' lasting influence and unbroken repercussions in critical thought. His writings have effectively shaped the ways in which people understand the complexity of the notion of...

Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film advances a methodological line of inquiry based on a fresh insight into the ways in which cinematic meaning is generated and can be ascertained. Premised on a critical reading strategy...

This is the first edited volume on new independent Indian cinema. It aims to be a comprehensive compendium of diverse theoretical, philosophical, epistemological and practice-based perspectives, featuring contributions from multidisciplinary scholars and...

New Argentine Film is the most complete text to be published on the new Argentine cinema. While anchored in critical discourse and written by an academic, it also has the virtue of using clear and accessible language. In addition, the book is more than a...

Far from the least deployed weapons in America's fighting the Cold War were Hollywood movies, Elvis Presley and rock & roll. The paradox of socially sanctioned rebellion was especially evident in the Hollywood propaganda for the new music and its...

At the turn of the millennium Canadian cinema appeared to have reached an apex of aesthetic and commercial transformation. Domestic filmmaking has since declined in visibility: the sense of celebrity once associated with independent directors has...

Si la devise du Québec sombre parfois dans l'oubli, ce livre s'impose tel un véritable devoir de mémoire envers les pionniers du cinéma de fiction LGBTQ+ québécois : Je me souviens de ce premier et courageux aveu queer de Claude Jutra dans À tout...

Drawn into the circuit of men cruising for sex in and around a train station, restless adolescent Henri begins a frenzied pursuit of a dangerously charismatic older man, with sometimes violent and ultimately tragic consequences. Premiering at Cannes in...

Il Turco in Italia ����� un'opera buffa scritta dal compositore italiano Gioacchino Rossini nel 1826. La trama segue le vicende di un poeta, Prosdocimo, che cerca ispirazione per la sua opera. Durante la sua ricerca incontra un turco, Selim, che si...

Il Poliuto: I martiri (1859) di Donizetti, Gaetano ����� un'opera lirica in tre atti basata sulla tragedia francese Polyeucte di Pierre Corneille. La trama si svolge nell'antica Armenia e segue la storia del cristiano Poliuto, che viene perseguitato per...

""Estudios Est�����ticos y Entretenimientos Literarios"" es un libro escrito por Manuel Sales Cepeda en el a�����o 1896. En esta obra, el autor presenta una serie de estudios y ensayos sobre temas relacionados con la est�����tica y la literatura. El...

Das Buch ""Die Gudrunsage: Drei Vortr�����ge �����ber ihre erste Gestalt und ihre Wiederbelebung, gehalten in Schleswig im Januar 1867"" von Karl Heinrich Keck aus dem Jahr 1867 besch�����ftigt sich mit der nordischen Gudrunsage und deren verschiedenen...

Das Buch ""Die Festtage Wiens Vom 22 Bis 30 April 1854"" wurde von Anton Werner im Jahr 1854 ver������ffentlicht. Es beschreibt die Feierlichkeiten, die in Wien vom 22. bis zum 30. April 1854 stattfanden. Diese Festtage waren ein wichtiger Anlass f�����r...

La Colecci������n de las Obras Sueltas V2: As������ en Prosa, Como en Verso (1776) es un libro escrito por Lope de Vega. Esta obra es una recopilaci������n de diversos escritos del autor, tanto en prosa como en verso. El libro fue publicado en 1776 y es...

Das Buch ""B������hmische Nationalt�����nze: Culturstudie (1860)"" von Alfred Waldau ist eine kulturhistorische Untersuchung der b������hmischen Volksmusik und ihrer traditionellen T�����nze. Der Autor beschreibt die verschiedenen T�����nze und ihre...

The Norwich Spectator V1: January To December, 1862 (1863) is a book that compiles the issues of the Norwich Spectator newspaper for the year 1862. It was edited by Cundall Miller and Leavins. The Norwich Spectator was a popular newspaper in the 19th...

""The Northern Crown V1-2, April, 1904 To June, 1906"" is a two-volume monthly periodical that was published between April 1904 and June 1906. The book features a collection of literary works, including short stories, poems, and essays, from various...

The Meister V5-6: The Quarterly Journal Of The London Branch Of The Wagner Society (1892) is a book edited by William Ashton Ellis. It is a collection of articles, essays, and reviews related to the works of German composer Richard Wagner. The book is...

The Georgia Historical Quarterly V1-2: March, 1917 To December, 1918 (1917) is a book written by William Harden. The book contains a comprehensive collection of historical articles and essays about the state of Georgia, spanning from March 1917 to...

The Covenant V1, 1842 is a monthly periodical and the official magazine of the Grand Lodge of the United States I.O.O.F. (Independent Order of Odd Fellows) written by James L. Ridgely. The book is a collection of articles, essays, and news related to the...

The North American Review V112 (1841) is a literary journal published by the North American Review Corporation. The journal features a collection of essays, articles, and reviews on a wide range of topics including politics, literature, history, and...

This accessible and informative textbook provides a guide to the craft of screenwriting with an emphasis on diverse perspectives, underrepresented groups, and their screen stories. Readers will learn to master writing a feature-length screenplay in a...

Volume 3 of A History of Early Film examines critical responses to early cinema, including the impassioned thoughts of one of the first film critics, the American poet Vachel Lindsay and considers some contemporary judgements of the social aspects of...