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ISBN: 9780199967599 - Composing for the Red Screen Composing for the Red Screen
Kevin Bartig

ISBN10: 0199967598  ISBN13: 9780199967599
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Jun 2013
Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions. Drawing on newly available sources... More

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ISBN: 9780199975532 - Hollywood Left and Right Hollywood Left and Right
Steven J Ross

ISBN10: 0199975531  ISBN13: 9780199975532
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Jun 2013
In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells an important story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that movie stars have played in shaping the course of... More

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ISBN: 9780253008855 - The B Word The B Word
Maria San Filippo

ISBN10: 0253008859  ISBN13: 9780253008855
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Jun 2013
Maintains that the entertainment industry both exploits and effaces bisexuality in its appeal to diverse audiences The B Word explores the ways bisexual fantasy opens a space for "bi-curious" engagement, creating a fluid range of identifications... More

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ISBN: 9780253007513 - Trash Trash
Kenneth W Harrow

ISBN10: 0253007518  ISBN13: 9780253007513
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Jun 2013
Uses trash as the unlikely metaphor to show how African films have depicted the globalized world Highlighting what is melodramatic, flashy, low, and gritty in the characters, images, and plots of African cinema, Kenneth W. Harrow uses trash as the... More

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ISBN: 9780500516898 - Sirens and Sinners Sirens and Sinners
Hans Helmut Prinzler, Rainer Rother

ISBN10: 0500516898  ISBN13: 9780500516898
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 17 Jun 2013
Between the first and second World Wars, Germany under the Weimar Republic became the scene for one of the most creative periods in film history. This title gives an overview of Weimar cinema at its finest. It sets the historical scene and gives... More

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ISBN: 9781780036199 - Unique But Similar Unique But Similar
Andrew K Shenton

ISBN10: 1780036191  ISBN13: 9781780036199
Publisher: Indepenpress Publishing Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 17 Jun 2013
Focusing on the period of TV history up to 1987 - the year of The Prisoner's 20th anniversary - it scrutinises programmes that were made in an era before the series gained the kind of critical acclaim it enjoys today, and before it exerted the... More

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ISBN: 9780822354536 - Education in the School of Dreams Education in the School of Dreams
Jennifer Lynn Peterson

ISBN10: 0822354535  ISBN13: 9780822354536
Publisher: Duke University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Jun 2013
In Education in the School of Dreams, Jennifer Lynn Peterson describes the travelogue's characteristic form and style and demonstrates how imperialist ideologies were realized and reshaped through the moving image. In the earliest years of cinema... More

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ISBN: 9780231165310 - The Cinema of Bela Tarr The Cinema of Bela Tarr
Andras Kovacs

ISBN10: 0231165315  ISBN13: 9780231165310
Publisher: Columbia University Press Wallflower Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Jun 2013
The Cinema of Bela Tarr is a critical analysis of the work of Hungary's most prominent and internationally best known film director, written by a scholar who has followed Bela Tarr's career through a close personal and professional relationship... More

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ISBN: 9780826416674 - A History of Spanish Film A History of Spanish Film
Sally Faulkner

ISBN10: 0826416675  ISBN13: 9780826416674
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Jun 2013
A History of Spanish Film explores Spanish film from the beginnings of the industry to the present day by combining some of the most exciting work taking place in film studies with some of the most urgent questions that have preoccupied twentieth... More

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ISBN: 9780230313842 - The Writer on Film The Writer on Film
Judith Buchanan

ISBN10: 0230313841  ISBN13: 9780230313842
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 Jun 2013
Examining films about writers and acts of writing, The Writer on Film brilliantly refreshes some of the well-worn 'adaptation' debates by inviting film and literature to engage with each other trenchantly and anew - through acts of explicit... More