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  • Deanna Durbin in Hollywood
    Barry Lowe
    Known as the first film teenager, Deanna Durbin was one of the most popular actresses of the 1930s and 1940s. From starring alongside legends like Judy Garland to playing the lead role in classic film musicals, her rise to fame seemed almost like fantasy. But her life behind the scenes was anything but glamorous. Though Durbin was a princess to the public, she was a puppet t...
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    60,18 €

  • 'Sluts' on the Small Screen
    Libbie Searcy
    Viewers spend years laughing, crying, celebrating, and mourning with their favorite TV characters, but when those characters are promiscuous women, different viewers may have very different reactions. Both sexual freedom and sexual shame run deep in the cultural waters, so as TV’s promiscuous female characters navigate those choppy waters, what unfolds onscreen reflects--and...
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    79,24 €

  • Tom Cruise
    chris wade
    Chris Wade explores the film career of TOM CRUISE, the most popular movie star of our time and one of the most celebrated actors in cinema history. In a series of essays, Wade celebrates Cruise’s work over the past four decades; his first movie parts of the early 80s, including The Outsiders and Taps; his star making turns in such films as Risky Business, Top Gun and Cocktail; ...
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    18,17 €

  • Accent in North American Film and Television
    Charles Boberg
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    35,15 €

  • Bay Lodyans
    Cécile Accilien
    Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges. ...
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    44,69 €

  • The Biggest Thing in Show Business
    Matthew Solomon / Murray Pomerance
    A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956. ...
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    126,42 €

  • Elephant of Silence
    John Barger
    'A poem is an act of faith because the poet believes in it,' contends John Wall Barger in The Elephant of Silence, a collection of essays exploring forms of knowing (and not knowing) that awaken a poetic mind. By considering poetry, film, and the intersections among aesthetic moments and our lives, Barger illuminates the foundations of poetic craft but also probes how to be al...
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    22,22 €

  • The Animated Dad
    The Homer Simpson-esque stereotype has been a persistent trope in cartoons since programming aimed directly at children and adolescents began. Young viewers are exposed to the incapable and incompetent 'hapless father' archetype on a regular basis, causing both boys and girls to expect the bare minimum of fathers while mothers hold the responsibility for all domestic and par...
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    94,11 €

  • Isn’t She Great
    Elizabeth Teets
    A love letter to women-led comedies. Based on Elizabeth Teets’s program series called 'Isn’t She Great' at the Hollywood Theater, this anthology is a collection of the most beloved female-centric comedies and the audiences who adore them. From 9 to 5 to Romy and Michelle to the iconic Elle Woods, the essays in this collection build on our devotion to these films and continue th...
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    14,58 €

  • Bill Murray
    chris wade
    Chris Wade celebrates the film career of the legendary Bill Murray. Tracing his journey from SNL star to highly acclaimed actor, he starts with the early madcap comedies like Caddyshack and Meatballs, through the blockbuster era of Ghostbusters and Scrooged, 90s classics What About Bob?, Groundhog Day and Rushmore, to his 21st century work, which includes such standouts as Lost...
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    18,51 €

  • Hollywood Enigma
    Carl Rollyson
    Dana Andrews (1909-1992) worked with distinguished directors such as John Ford, Lewis Milestone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Mervyn Le Roy, Jean Renoir, and Elia Kazan. He played romantic leads alongside the great beauties of the modern screen, including Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Greer Garson, Merle Oberon, Linda Darnell, Susan Hayward,...
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    42,42 €

  • Torturous Etiquettes
    Daniel Varndell
    Explores the 'torture' of mannered behavior and the prevalence of etiquette as a theme in classical and contemporary Hollywood and European cinema. ...
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    44,47 €

  • Charlie Chaplin and the Nazis
    Norbert Aping
    Until recently, it was assumed that the Nazis agitated against Chaplin from 1931 to 1933, and then again from 1938, when his plan to make The Great Dictator became public. This book demonstrates that Nazi agitation against Chaplin was in fact a constant from 1926 through the Third Reich. When The Gold Rush was released in the Weimar Republic in 1926, the Nazis began to fight...
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    77,23 €

  • God on the Planet of the Apes
    Dann Michalski
    'Somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man. Has to be.' -Col. Taylor. Join the search for a higher power as the Planet of the Apes films are examined from a Christian perspective-from the 1968 classic to the Tim Burton remake to the modern reboots. Discover the moral lessons of this madhouse and how God reveals Himself in an upside down world in God on...
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    16,75 €

  • Bombs Away
    John Vetto
    To movie critics, a bomb is unequivocally bad-something that failed artistically, failed at the box office, or both. John Vetto, who describes himself as a cinephile but (most assuredly) NOT a professional movie critic, defines the term more broadly. To Vetto, a bomb may have bombed at the box office or become a cult classic. It may be genuinely terrible or merely silly. The on...
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    15,09 €

  • De-centering queer theory
    Bogdan Popa
    This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies. ...
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    44,28 €

  • Accidental Genius
    Andrew J. Rausch
    Accidental Genius features intimate and laugh-out-loud commentary from The Room cast and crew, including interviews from its star Greg Sestero. What a story indeed! A rollicking recollection of experiences from the legendary 'so bad it’s good' film. This comprehensively chronicled book offers a fascinating glimpse into the cultural phenomenon that brings together die-hard fans ...
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    16,37 €

  • The HATERS’ Guide to New Who
    Mike Sivier
    '’The stories don’t work, you know.’'That’s all it took to set me off. Someone I knew - not a friend - an acquaintance had the nerve, the temerity, the-the-the audacity to tell me that the stories told in each episode of my beloved Doctor Who since the show returned to our TV screens in 2005 ... don’t stand up to scrutiny.'That is how Mike Sivier embarked on a quest to cast a c...
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    14,46 €

  • Live from the Underground
    Katherine Rye Jewell
    Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and their DJs on musical culture since the 1970s was anything but inevitable. As media deregulation and political conflict over obscenity and censorship transformed the business and politics of culture, students and community DJs turned ...
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    126,10 €

  • Television Show Trends, 2016-2020
    Nicholas J. Natalicchio / Yvonne D. Leach
    What do Euphoria, Normal People, Atlanta, Ramy, Vida, I May Destroy You, Stranger Things, and Lovecraft Country have in common? In the 2016-2020 time period they were created, these TV shows exemplified one (or more) of four noteworthy trends: authenticity, diversity, sexual candor, and retrospection. This is the first book to examine live action, fictional television sho...
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    57,38 €

  • Acting On Camera The Australian Way
    Paul Parker
    Acting On Camera The Australian Way is your complete guide to developing your skills to become a working actor in film and television.·     Do you know how to act in front of the camera?·     Do you know how to make impact on screen?·     Do you know how to make an impact in your auditions?·     Do you know how to make an impact in your self-tapes for auditions?·     Do you kno...
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    18,95 €

  • Acting On Camera The Australian Way
    Paul Parker
    Acting On Camera The Australian Way is your complete guide to developing your skills to become a working actor in film and television.·     Do you know how to act in front of the camera?·     Do you know how to make impact on screen?·     Do you know how to make an impact in your auditions?·     Do you know how to make an impact in your self-tapes for auditions?·     Do you kno...
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    18,62 €

  • Eleanor Roosevelt on Screen
    Angela S. Beauchamp
    Eleanor Roosevelt recognized the power of film and television, especially as educational tools to reach young people. She hosted three political talk shows in the 1950s and early 1960s, often appearing in guest spots to promote the United Nations, Democratic candidates, and progressive issues with Ed Sullivan, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Mike Wallace, and Edward R. Murrow. In t...
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    109,92 €

  • Lights, Camera, Action
    Helena Koskinen
    Lights, Camera, Action: A Student’s Handbook to Film Production and DirectingLights, Camera, Action: A Student’s Handbook to Film Production and Directing is a comprehensive guide for students interested in pursuing a career in film and media studies. This subchapter, titled 'The Benefits of Studying Film Production and Directing,' aims to highlight the advantages that come wit...
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    26,83 €

  • The Devil Inside
    Acevedo Carlos
    'At a time when critics are expected to be publicists, and anything famous is ‘classic’ or ‘iconic,’ Carlos Acevedo has managed to hold the line. The Devil Inside is a sharp, hard-nosed aesthetic and cultural investigation into what everybody was throwing up about fifty years ago. It succeeds as criticism, history, and social analysis.'-Charles Taylor, film critic at Esquire, a...
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    19,20 €

  • THE GHOST IN THE SHELL BOOK
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    THE GHOST IN THE SHELL BOOKVOLUME 2: ANIMÉA Critical Study by Jeremy Mark RobinsonThis is a study of the adaptations of Ghost In the Shell by Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, born in 1961, Kobe, Japan). Shirow is a Japanese artist best known for Ghost In the Shell, Appleseed and Dominion: Tank Police. Masamune Shirow is one of the great creators in the world of Japanese...
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    63,56 €

  • Steve Buscemi
    chris wade
    A look at Steve Buscemi’s film career, focusing on his finest work. Written by Chris Wade. ...
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    21,31 €

  • The Classic Film Series
    chris wade
    The Classic Film Series highlights movies from the past, forgotten, overlooked and cherished alike, selected for their influence, relevance and worth.Following on from the controversial success of If...., director Lindsay Anderson, writer David Sherwin and actor Malcolm McDowell teamed up again in 1973 for O Lucky Man! Epic, savage, sharp, wicked, satirical, andfunny, O Lucky M...
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    15,57 €

  • TSUI HARK
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    TSUI HARK: THE DRAGON MASTER OF CHINESE CINEMA: A Critical Study••••• By Jeremy Mark Robinson ••••• Tsui Hark is the dragon master of Chinese cinema (Stephen Teo calls Tsui a ’lion dancer among film directors’). Yes - a master, a lion dancer, a sifu, a wizard, a dragon. ••••• Tsui Hark is a one-man film industry - as a glance as his list of credits will show, along with setting...
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    74,83 €

  • THE GHOST IN THE SHELL BOOK
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    THE GHOST IN THE SHELL BOOKVOLUME 2: ANIMÉA Critical Study Color Editionby Jeremy Mark RobinsonThis is a study of the adaptations of Ghost In the Shell by Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, born in 1961, Kobe, Japan). Shirow is a Japanese artist best known for Ghost In the Shell, Appleseed and Dominion: Tank Police. Masamune Shirow is one of the great creators in the worl...
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    80,62 €