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In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness through a close study of film cycles from five distinct historical moments that show characters as unhomed and placeless,...

With nearly 400 scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific and influential film composers working today. He has collaborated with many significant directors, and his scores for such films as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Once...

Harry Langdon was a silent screen comedian unlike any other. Slower in pace, more studied in movement, and quirkier in nature, Langdon challenged the comic norm by offering comedies that were frequently edgy and often surreal. After a successful run of...

The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age, by Rama Venkatasawmy, analyzes how the Hollywood cinema industry's visual effects applications have not only motivated the expansion of filmmaking praxis, they have also influenced...

From its early focus on documentary film and nation building to its more recent spotlight on contemporary culture and feature filmmaking, Moroccan cinema has undergone tremendous change since the country's independence in 1956. In What Moroccan Cinema? A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781411666108Author John, Howard ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 620gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814139097Author William V. CostanzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 329Imprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312487119Author Associate Professor Bernard F DickFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Bedford BooksPublisher Bedford BooksWeight(grams)...

American International released a tide of low-budget, sensationalistic films aimed at the teenage audience, finding its greatest success in the horror genre. This is a comprehensive alphabetical guide to AIP movies that are or have been available in home...

For many years, conspiracy theories have been among the most popular story elements in Hollywood films. According to the ""conspiracy culture,"" Government, Big Business, the Church, even aliens--all of which, bundled together, comprise the ubiquitous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398447189Author Philip CaudreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820452104Author Jane HendlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 400g

It's a cinematic image as familiar as John Wayne's face: a wagon train circling as a defensive maneuver against Indian attacks. This book examines actual and fictional wagon-train battles and compares them for realism. It also describes how fledgling...

This work details over 900 films and TV series made from the 1890s through 2003 in which a religious figure plays a prominent or recurring role, or in which a character poses as a religious figure. For each motion picture, full filmographic data are...

Since 1903, presidents have been featured in no less than 407 commercial films. This examines how filmmakers and their public have viewed the presidents and the presidency over the past 100 years. It presents an all-inclusive list of commercial...

This analysis of how filmmakers have portrayed England's Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), and the audience's perception of Elizabeth based upon these portrayals, examines key representations of the Tudor monarch in various motion pictures and television...

This chronologically arranged work analyzes the stereotypical image of librarians, male and female, in primarily American and British motion pictures from the silent era to the 21st century. The work briefly describes each film, offering some critical...

The western genre touched on ideals of honor, conquest, and freedom of spirit, and its stories packed cinemas of the early sound era. This volume covers 30 western film series produced from the mid 1930s to the early 1950s. Included are such long-running...

Vladimir Nabokov claimed, speaking of Laughter in the Dark: ""I wanted to write the entire book as if it were a film."" The relevance of film to the novelist's art remains a preoccupying question in recent American fiction: writers must decide whether to...

Refugees, migrants, and minorities of migrant origin frequently appear in European mainstream news in emergency situations: victims of human trafficking, suspects of terrorism, "bogus" asylum seekers. Through analysis of work by established filmmakers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995648043Author Mike KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Stochastic PressPublisher Stochastic PressWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

This book describes the technologies that enable real-world robots and drones to be effective killers, including an overview of how artificial intelligence and nanotechnology relate to the topic. It also examines social controversies swirling around the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999530504Author Alexandra BoylanFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Mirrortree ProductionsPublisher Mirrortree ProductionsWeight(grams)...

Anime, hand-drawn or computer-animated Japanese cartoons, appears in television series, films, video, video games, and commercials, and represents most genres of fiction. This critical study explores anime's relationship with art from a twofold...

This study examines the history of the Japanese period film and proposes that a powerful relationship exists between the past and present in Japan's narrative tradition. The first section of the book analyzes the form and function of the Japanese period...

Beloved, controversial, influential, the creator of such fascinating and award-winning films as My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, Elephant, and Milk, Gus Van Sant stands among the great international directors, equally at home in Hollywood and...

The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing, as a work of analysis and vision. Over fifty years ago Lindsay saw the hunger that still obsesses the film enthusiast. Sculpture-in-motion, painting-in-motion, architecture-in-motion are nuggets out of which...

A provocative re-reading of Stanley Kubrick's work and its focus on masculine desire The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future. The persistent theme of his filmmaking is less violence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087855332Author Steven CapozzolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Steven CapozzolaPublisher Steven CapozzolaWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This book takes an ecrocritical approach to analytical readings of animated feature films, short subjects and television shows. Beginning with the ""simply subversive"" environmental messages in the Felix the Cat cartoons of the 1920s, the author...

Focusing on the first 10 years following the events of 9/11, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the various means through which stereotypical characteristics of Muslim identities and their worlds have been realised in U.S cinema. In the course of...

From his first appearance as Mork from Ork on the 1970s sitcom Happy Days, comedian/actor Robin Williams was heralded as a singular talent. In the pre-cable television era, Williams was one of the few actors who made the successful transition from...

This work is stitched together using many individual parts. They vary in theme, but all relate to the story of Frankenstein. They consider the untold true story of Frankenstein, Glenn Strange's portrayals of the monster, the portrayals of lesser-known...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013295324Author Benoit TurquetyFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

For many, the Westerns of 1930 to 1955 were a defining part of American culture. Those Westerns were one of the vehicles by which viewers learned the values and norms of a wide range of social relationships and behavior. By 1955, however, Westerns began...

No delicate ingenues, these. In the middle of the twentieth century, the Mary Pickfords of the movie world were replaced by a different sort of woman - drop-dead gorgeous, witty, not afraid to speak their minds, they could slay you with a look - and if...

A chronological listing of the creative output and other antics of the members of the British comedy group Monty Python, both as a group and individually. Coverage spans between 1969 (the year Monty Python's Flying Circus debuted) and 2012. Entries...

Although nearly every other television form or genre has undergone a massive critical and popular reassessment or resurgence in the past twenty years, the game show's reputation has remained both remarkably stagnant and remarkably low. Scholarship on...

Film noir is a particularly American stylistic phenomenon (although named by French film critics) that permeated nearly every major, minor and independent Hollywood studio production from 1940 through the early 1960s. The author examines his personal...

The success of low-budget independent films like The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity clearly demonstrated that successful movies can be made with very small budgets. Still, working on a tight budget requires both skill and ingenuity, and is...