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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806524702Author Andrew J. RauschFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 438gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814319055Author Marc FerroFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University PressWeight(grams) 294g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990530893Author Abbas KiarostamiFormat HardbackPage Count 552Imprint Sticking Place BooksPublisher Sticking Place BooksWeight(grams) 875gDimensions(mm)...

This is the first collection of more than 1,800 films dealing with Hispanic topics, themes, and characters arranged chronologically from 1898 to 1935, with indepth annotations, cross-references and four separate indexes. This is a study of Hollywood's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478329Author James HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Film and literature have long been mined for interesting examples and case studies in order to teach biomedical ethics to students. This volume presents a collection of about 80 very brief, accessible essays written by international experts from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820470566Author Tony MagistraleFormat PaperbackPage Count 213Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 320g

Skinner reveals how the Roman Catholic Church, through its agency, the National Legion of Decency, dominated the American film censorship scene in tandem with the Production Code Administration. In its heyday in the 1930s and 40s, the Legion claimed a...

Actress Anne Baxter made her Broadway debut at age thirteen and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in films at age twenty-three. In a long and successful career on stage, screen, radio, and television, she played her most memorable roles as...

Donna Reed has been called everyone's favorite mother and her recognition as such has stood the test of time. But before she became known as the ultimate mom for her role on The Donna Reed Show, Miss Reed was already a veteran film actress with almost...

Theo Angelopoulos is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive contemporary filmmakers and a highly idiosyncratic film stylist. His work, from the early 1970s to The Beekeeper, Landscape in the Mist, The Suspended Step of the Stalk and the recent...

The Moving Picture World magazine was the industry standard during the silent cinema era. This is the first index compiled for all the films reviewed in the early volumes of this journal. In 1916, the magazine itself began providing an index to film...

McAdams provides the first extensive synthesis of American and world history with the war film genre. He demonstrates how the war film reflects the currents of history of the time with actual events portrayed and in dramatic plot points.Beginning with...

With 26 films to his credit and numerous international prizes, Satyajit Ray is India's most recognized filmmaker--yet, no extended study of his films has previouly been published in English in the West. Ben Nyce examines each of Ray's films in close...

The novel and the film are two modes of representation based on different aesthetic tools, but both are capable of articulating narrative discourses. In Spanish Film and the Postwar Novel, author Norberto Minguez-Arranz offers a comparative analysis of...

When viewers think of film noir, they often picture actors like Humphrey Bogart playing characters like Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, the film based on the book by Dashiell Hammett. Yet film noir is a genre much richer. The authors first examine the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993431418Author Ian DobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Flowmotion PressPublisher Flowmotion PressWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm...

Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385512992Author John HubnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 655g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956507242Author Jamie RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Yellow AntPublisher Yellow AntWeight(grams) 486gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

Given the complexity and expense of making and distributing a film, the process of filmmaking is by its very nature a political process. Moreover, given the power and persuasiveness of the cinema as a medium, film can be a powerful political tool. It...

This volume adds Sweden and Finland to the growing list of countries included in Greenwood Press' Reference Guides to the World's Cinema series. Both well known and other important but less known persons and films are included in the reference work which...

By looking at the interactions between cinema and psychology, Packer offers readers clear and basic insights into some of the most fundamental reasons why film is such an important influence upon our lives today. Movies and the Modern Psyche first...

National Society of Film Critics dares to go where few mainstream critics have gone before-to the heart of what gets the coloured lights going, as they say in A Streetcar Named Desire . Here is their take on the films that quicken their (and our)...

Post World War II America saw a return to prosperity and the rise of a significant youth-culture. Television began to replace movies as the chief source of entertainment for the general public, and adolescents and single young adults began to constitute...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312282738Author Gene ShalitFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)...

From Cecil B. DeMille's production of King of Kings in 1927, to Mel Gibson's recent The Passion of the Christ, films that discuss the meaning of Jesus have provoked interest, discussion, and reevaluation on a large scale. Hollywood films that deal with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930261108Author Michael R. CollingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Starmont House Inc.,U.S.Publisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Traditionally identified with screwball comedies, Frank Capra has seldom been considered a conduit for populist concerns and issues. In this book, Gehring examines the influence of both Will Rogers and Frank Capra on modern populist movies, providing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313246500Author Wes D. GehringFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Peter Valenti presents an objective evaluation of Flynn's impact on both American popular culture and the development of motion pictures. The book begins with a brief biography of the actor, followed by a complete history of his screen, radio, and...

Steven Spielberg is hailed as one of the most influential and commercially successful film directors in motion picture history. Through his role in developing, directing, and driving the special effects of many of the biggest blockbusters in movie...

The first book-length study of the career of the director of such classic films as The Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story, and The Sound of Music, this volume combines thorough cast and crew credits, critical responses, awards and nominations,...

Motion pictures have been one of the forces that have both shaped and reproduced adolescent femininity. Films not only reflect culture-they help to create it. So it is worth looking at films to see what messages they gave girls-and adults-about what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authormsey /f VernaBook InformationISBN 9780313209505Author Academy of Motion Picture Arts & SciencesFormat HardbackPage Count 443Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher...

Derek Jarman was one of the most innovative British filmmakers of his generation. Working largely outside the British film establishment and within tight budgetary constraints, he produced a series of features and shorter films that are highly personal...

Hollywood movies often portray gay people as being in some sense monstrous. This volume focuses on several filmmakers who have used the trope of the homosexual as monster in a way that subverts traditional cinema. Their movies reveal that the monster can...

In this examination of the psychology of terror, Iaccino uses Jungian archetypes to analyze significant works in the horror film genre. In the past, Jungian archetypes have been used to interpret mythologies, to examine great works of literature, and to...

This book explores the varying contexts in which indigenous filmmaking takes place and how they challenge some of the basic assumptions of viewers.Though interest in indigenous feature-length films has expanded greatly in recent years, there is as yet no...

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