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Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"An analysis of the depiction of Australia's landscape in its films and literature. Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identify patterns of representation in Australia's cultural landscape, the book presents...
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Examines in a remarkably rich and varied way the construction of otherness and foreignness within this complexly ‘national' cinema tradition." --John MacKay, Yale University Identifying who was "inside" and who was "outside" the Soviet/Russian body politic has been a matter of intense and violent urgency, especially in the high Stalinist and post-Soviet periods. It is a theme encountered prominently in film. Employing a range of interpretive methods...
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2003 Ray and Pat Browne Book Award, given by the Popular Culture Association The contributors to Hollywood's White House examine the historical accuracy of these presidential depictions, illuminate their influence, and uncover how they reflect the concerns of their times and the social and political visions of the filmmakers. The volume, which includes a comprehensive filmography and a bibliography, is ideal for historians and film enthusiasts....
Publisher
J. Libbey Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Essays by prominent scholars examining film distribution in the early years of cinema. This collection of essays explores the complex issue of film distribution from the invention of cinema into the 1910s. From regional distribution networks to international marketing strategies, from the analysis of distribution catalogs to case studies on individual distributors, these essays written by well-known specialists in the field discuss the intriguing...
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Publisher
Oldcastle Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Over the decades, gay cinema has reflected the community's journey from persecution to emancipation to acceptance. Politicized dramas like Victim in the 60s, The Naked Civil Servant in the 70s, and the AIDS cinema of the 80s have given way in recent years to films which celebrate a vast array of gay lifestyles. Gay films have undergone a major shift, from the fringe to the mainstream and 2005's Academy Awards were dubbed "the Gay Oscars" with awards...
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This book exposes the myths surrounding the propaganda films produced during the Third Reich. One, that the Nazis were infallible masters in the use of film propaganda. Two, that everything the Nazis said was a lie. Three, that only the Riefenstahl documentaries are significant to the modern viewer. It reveals the truth, lies, successes and failures of key films designed to arouse hostility against the Nazis' enemies, including Ohm Krüger - the most...
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The classical Hollywood films that were released between the 1930s and 1960s were some of the most famous products of global trade, crisscrossing borders and rising to international dominance. In analyzing a series of Hollywood films that illustrate moments of nuanced transnational engagement with the \"foreign,\" Projecting the World: Representing the \"Foreign\" in Classical Hollywood enriches our understanding of mid-twentieth-century Hollywood...
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Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Through an analysis of contemporary Brazilian cinematic production, “Cannibalizing Queer: Brazilian Cinema from 1970 to 2015” discusses which queer representations are erased and which are acknowledged in the complex processes of cultural translation, adaptation, and "devouring" that defines the Brazilian understanding of sexual dissidents and minorities. João Nemi Neto argues for Brazilian cinema studies to acknowledge the importance of 1920s...
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Publisher
Quarto Publishing Group USA
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
... the definitive guide to what properly messes us upages' ― SFX Magazine 'Glasby anatomises horror's scare tactics with keen, lucid clarity across 34 carefully selected main films – classic and pleasingly obscure. 4 Stars.' ― Total Film The Book of Horror introduces you to the scariest movies ever made and examines what makes them so frightening. Horror movies have never been more critically or commercially successful, but there's only...
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Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Reefer Movie Madness is the perfect follow-up to Halperin and Bloom’s big-selling Pot Culture. It’s the most extensive guide ever to movies for the stoner audience, a real market that has proven its mass appeal with the successful Harold and Kumar franchise and the Judd Apatow library (Pineapple Express, Superbad). In addition to entries on more than 420 films, there are contributions from well known actors, movie directors, musicians,...
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Publisher
Imp Works
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A gang of ambitious kids embark on the adventure of a lifetime-making a movie!"--
Lights! Camera! Action!Join a gang of fearless rebels as they embark on the adventure of a lifetime--making a movie! But this isn't any movie. It's the greatest movie of all time, The Ninjas Fight the Killer Sharks at Bikini Beach! It's going to take a lot of moxie to pull this off, but these upstarts are ready. As they go through the process of raising money, writing...
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Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An informative and amusing look at the close relationship between Golden Age Hollywood and West Coast horse racing. A fascinating read." -- Christina Rice, author of Mean... Moody... Magnificent! Horse racing was so popular and influential between 1930 and 1960 that nearly 150 racing themed films were released, including A Day at the Races, Thoroughbreds Don't Cry, and National Velvet. This fast-paced, gossipy history explores the relationship between...
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Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
“Cinemagritte: René Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice” investigates the dynamic relationship between the Surrealist modernist artist René Magritte (1898—1967) and the cinema-a topic largely ignored in the annals of film and art criticism. Magritte once said that he used cinema as "a trampoline for the imagination," but here author Lucy Fischer reverses that process by using Magritte's work as a stimulus for an...
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
1968 and Global Cinema addresses a notable gap in film studies. Although scholarship exists on the late 1950s and 1960s New Wave films, research that puts cinemas on 1968 into dialogue with one another across national boundaries is surprisingly lacking. Only in recent years have histories of 1968 begun to consider the interplay among social movements globally. The essays in this volume, edited by Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi, cover a breadth...
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Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"When postwar movie directors went looking for a gritty location to shoot their psychological crime thrillers, they found Bunker Hill, a neighborhood of fading Victorians, flophouses, tough bars, stairways and dark alleys in downtown Los Angeles. Novelist Raymond Chandler had already been there exploring the real-life 'mean streets' that his hardboiled detective, Philip Marlowe, prowled in the writer s exacting prose. But the biggest crime was going...
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Send your taste buds to another world with over thirty recipes from your favorite series, TV shows, and video games. Eat like a geek! Minecraft Cookies! Sam Gangee Stew with Nasty Fries and Lembas! Skywalker Verrine! The Geek's Cookbook is the fun and easy geeky recipe book with dishes from all your favorite shows, movies, and video games! It's packed with original and delicious recipes inspired by: Game of Thrones The Big Bang Theory Zelda The Walking...
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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 American cinema. The volume questions the concept of "national cinemas" by examining how Chilean film dialogues with trends in genre-based, political, and art-house cinema around the world, while remaining...
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
African American Cinema through Black Lives Consciousness uses critical race theory to discuss American films that embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class, and gender. Its linear history chronicles black-oriented narrative film from post World War II through the presidential administration of Barack Obama. Editor Mark A. Reid has assembled a stellar list of contributors who approach their film analyses as an intersectional practice that...
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Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This guide offers background information about how contemporary cosplay has developed as well as nuts and bolts practical information for those wishing to start or continue participation in the hobby." -- Booklist Have you ever wanted to escape into a comic book and become your favourite superhero? Or run away into the world of Disney princesses? Well, who says you can't? Maybe it's time you get your cosplay on! Cosplay is a hobby that is sweeping...
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
No film critic has ever been as influentialor as beloved as Roger Ebert. Over more than four decades, he built a reputation writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and, later, arguing onscreen with rival Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel and later Richard Roeper about the movies they loved and loathed. But Ebert went well beyond a mere thumbs up or thumbs down. Readers could always sense the man behind the words, a man with interests beyond film...
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