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Ginger Rogers: A Bio-Bibliography by Jocelyn Faris 9780313291777
Booksplease Price: €84.65Though chiefly remembered as the dance partner of Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers had many other significant achievements in the entertainment world. She was a dancer, singer, comedienne, and Academy... -
Guide to African Cinema by Sharon A. Russell 9780313296215
Booksplease Price: €70.44Intended as a guide to the filmmakers and films of the African cinema, this reference book also provides the framework for understanding the history and development of African film with respect to... -
George Sidney: A Bio-Bibliography by Eric Monder 9780313284571
Booksplease Price: €84.65George Sidney directed a number of popular Hollywood films, such as Anchors Aweigh, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and Bye Bye Birdie. His revisions of traditional Hollywood product resulted in films that... -
Jayne Mansfield: A Bio-Bibliography by Jocelyn Faris 9780313285448
Booksplease Price: €84.65People today remember Jayne Mansfield as a famous Hollywood movie star. However, she starred in only three American movies before moving to low-budget European films. She was a master of publicity... -
Hollywood's Image of the South: A Century of Southern Films by David Ebner 9780313318863
Booksplease Price: €70.44From the 1920s and 1930s, when American cinema depicted the South as a demi-paradise populated by wealthy landowners, glamorous belles, and happy slaves, through later, more realistic depictions of... -
Montgomery Clift: A Bio-Bibliography by Mary C. Kalfatovic 9780313286032
Booksplease Price: €84.65Post 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... -
Harold Lloyd: A Bio-Bibliography by Annette M. D'Agostino 9780313289866
Booksplease Price: €84.65One of the most significant contributors to the early years of the motion picture industry, Harold Lloyd was also a shrewd businessman and became the wealthiest man in Hollywood at the peak of his... -
Robert Mitchum: A Bio-Bibliography by Jerry Roberts 9780313275470
Booksplease Price: €84.65Robert Mitchum's bad boy reputation that colors his public profile has been both earned and undeserved. Jerry Roberts discusses the actor's career, his cult status, his under-appreciated talent, his... -
Italian Cinema and Modern European Literatures: 1945-2000 by Carlo Testa 9780275975227
Booksplease Price: €96.40The history of cinema, and notably that of post-war Italian cinema, can only be understood adequately in the context of other contiguous cultural disciplines. World literature, including that of... -
David Niven: A Bio-Bibliography by Karin J. Fowler 9780313280443
Booksplease Price: €84.65British-born David Niven began his acting career in 1935, appearing in movie classics that have stood the test of time. Immensely popular with moviemakers and fans alike, Niven's urbane wittiness and... -
Joan Fontaine: A Bio-Bibliography by Marsha Lynn Beeman 9780313284090
Booksplease Price: €84.65Always in competition with her older, more famous sister, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine had a varied and successful career of her own. She eventually attained stardom for her work in the film... -
Gregory Peck: A Bio-Bibliography by Gerard Molyneaux 9780313286681
Booksplease Price: €84.65Born in 1916 in La Jolla, California, Gregory Peck took up acting in college on a lark that would lead to a career. In his early years, he appeared in a series of summer stock engagements and... -
Woody, From Antz to Zelig: A Reference Guide to Woody Allen's Creative Work, 1964-1998 by Richard Alan Schwartz 9780313311338
Booksplease Price: €84.65Alphabetically arranged, the entries in this encyclopedic study cover Woody Allen's movies, plays, fiction, television shows, and stand-up comedy from 1964 through 1998. Film entries begin with basic... -
Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers by Linda Allen 9780313298301
Booksplease Price: €84.65As evidenced in interviews included in this volume, many African American filmmakers consider themselves artists first, their ethnicity being only part of what influences their work. This is the... -
Celeb 2.0: How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture by Kelli S. Burns 9780313356889
Booksplease Price: €54.37This volume looks at how the new capabilities of Web 2.0 are changing the worlds of celebrity fandom and gossip. With Ashton Kutcher's record-breaking "tweeting" more famous than his films, and Perez... -
Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction by Gary Westfahl 9780313308468
Booksplease Price: €96.40Although the exploration of space has long preoccupied authors and filmmakers, the development of an actual space program, discoveries about the true nature of space, and critical reconsiderations of... -
The Cowboy Way: The Western Leader in Film, 1945-1995 by Ralph Lamar Turner 9780313308710
Booksplease Price: €97.01Analyzing a sample of 25 films, including such notables as Red River, Shane, Unforgiven, The Wild Bunch, Wyatt Earp, and Dances with Wolves, this work examines traditional leadership theories as... -
Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound by Vincent Lobrutto 9780275944421
Booksplease Price: €97.01Sound-On-Film contains interviews with 27 prominent men and women who discuss their careers and the art and craft of film sound. These sound creators represent many of the crafts working in film... -
The Essential Guide to Overcoming Avoidant Personality Disorder by Martin Kantor 9780313377525
Booksplease Price: €55.55Emphasizing diagnosis, causality, and holistic treatment, this is the only book offering a full discussion of Avoidant Personality Disorder for therapists and sufferers. Avoidant Personality Disorder... -
Psychological Issues in Adoption: Research and Practice by David M. Brodzinsky 9780275979706
Booksplease Price: €134.92In this book, leading researchers spotlight how dramatically the practice of adoption has changed both in North America and Europe in recent decades due to, among other factors, a falling rate of... -
Movie Musicals on Record: A Directory of Recordings of Motion Picture Musicals, 1927-1987 by Richard Lynch 9780313265402
Booksplease Price: €84.65This discography provides a comprehensive listing of the songs from motion picture musicals, and the singers who performed them on commercially available albums. Covering the period from The Jazz... -
Queen of the 'B's: Ida Lupino Behind the Camera by Annette Kuhn 9780313297328
Booksplease Price: €96.40Although Ida Lupino is best known as a leading actress in many Hollywood B movies, her work as a filmmaker has been neglected by critics, historians, and audiences. In the late 1940s, Lupino turned... -
Parody as Film Genre: Never Give a Saga an Even Break by Wes D. Gehring 9780313261862
Booksplease Price: €96.40Parody is the least appreciated of all film comedy genres and receives little serious attention, even among film fans. This study elevates parody to mainstream significance. A historical overview... -
International Business Taxation: A Study in the Internationalization of Business Regulation by Sol Picciotto 9780899307770
Booksplease Price: €134.92In the twentieth century the application of national taxes to income from international business has created complex yet fascinating issues. The co-ordination of national jurisdiction to tax... -
Mae West: A Bio-Bibliography by Carol M. Ward 9780313247163
Booksplease Price: €71.68This provocative work analyzes Mae West's long life and productive career in three major phases: the early theater years, her meteoric film career in the thirties, and her subsequent life as a... -
How the War Was Remembered: Hollywood & Vietnam by Albert Auster 9780275924799
Booksplease Price: €35.83One way to analyze the intensely conflicting feelings Americans hold toward the Vietnam War is to see how the war has been portrayed through film. How the War Was Remembered is the first book to... -
The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory by Ranjit S. Dighe 9780275974190
Booksplease Price: €35.46The Historian's Wizard of Oz synthesizes four decades of scholarly interpretations of L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel as an allegory of the Gilded Age political economy and a comment on the... -
Invisible Veterans: What Happens When Military Women Become Civilians Again by Kate Hendricks Thomas 9781440866425
Booksplease Price: €55.55Spotlights the challenges faced by our increasing cadre of military women when their service ends and they become civilians. Combining research with narrative, this book exposes common threads of... -
How the War Was Remembered: Hollywood & Vietnam by Albert Auster 9780275923839
Booksplease Price: €64.26One way to analyze the intensely conflicting feelings Americans hold toward the Vietnam War is to see how the war has been portrayed through film. How the War Was Remembered is the first book to... -
Bigger Than Blockbusters: Movies That Defined America by James Roman 9780313339950
Booksplease Price: €78.47Whether it's the hum drum existence of Marion Crane and her illicit love affair, the psychotic antics of Norman Bates, the sudden irrational migration of birds, a crop duster swooping down on Roger... -
Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film by Stephen Prince 9780275936624
Booksplease Price: €46.96Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question,... -
Marguerite Duras: A Bio-Bibliography by Robert Harvey 9780313288982
Booksplease Price: €70.44Born in a northern suburb of Saigon in 1914, Marguerite Duras became one of the most prolific and analyzed figures in 20th-century French literature and film. She earned initial fame with her novel,... -
Female Action Heroes: A Guide to Women in Comics, Video Games, Film, and Television by Gladys L. Knight 9780313376122
Booksplease Price: €103.19This book offers 25 profiles of some of the most popular female action heroes throughout the history of film, television, comic books, and video games. Female action heroes, like other fictional... -
Spike Lee: Finding the Story and Forcing the Issue by Jason P. Vest 9780313392269
Booksplease Price: €77.86Spike Lee's journey from guerrilla filmmaker to Hollywood insider is explored in light of his personal background, the cultural influence of his films, and the extensive scholarship his movies have... -
Dystopian States of America: Apocalyptic Visions and Warnings in Literature and Film by Matthew B. Hill 9781440873386
Booksplease Price: €109.37Dystopian States of America is a crucial resource that studies the impact of dystopian works on American society-including ways in which they reflect our deep and persistent fears about environmental... -
![Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers, and the Civil War: "A Trial of Principle and Faith" by William C. Kashatus 9781440833199](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/11066935/12082116/9781440833199__62038.1794355174.jpg?c=1 "Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers, and the Civil War: "A Trial of Principle and Faith" by William C. Kashatus 9781440833199")
Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers, and the Civil War: "A Trial of Principle and Faith" by William C. Kashatus 9781440833199
Booksplease Price: €55.55This unique addition to Civil War literature examines the extensive influence Quaker belief and practice had on Lincoln's decisions relative to slavery, including his choice to emancipate the slaves... -
Cary Grant: A Bio-Bibliography by Beverley Bare Buehrer 9780313264436
Booksplease Price: €70.44Cary Grant, one of the most enduring stars in the history of Hollywood history, is the subject of this unique bio-bibliography that places equal emphasis on the actor's professional and private lives... -
Radio: The Life Story of a Technology by Brian Regal 9780313331671
Booksplease Price: €55.55This book chronicles the history of radio as technology and as media. Radio grew from a clumsy, temperamental form of wireless telegraph to a system that is so ubiquitous and easy to use that it has... -
Security-First Compliance for Small Businesses by Karen Walsh 9781032550725
RRP: €61.19Booksplease Price: €57.82Organizations of all sizes struggle to secure their data in a constantly evolving digital landscape. Expanding digital footprints and the rapid expansion of cloud strategies arising from the COVID-19... -
Post-Pop Cinema: The Search for Meaning in New American Film by Jesse Fox Mayshark 9780275990800
Booksplease Price: €58.08Starting in the early 1990s, artists such as Quentin Tarantino, David Foster Wallace, and Kurt Cobain contributed to a swelling cultural tide of pop postmodernism that swept through music, film,...