Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
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Film noir showcased hard-boiled men and dangerous femmes fatales, rain-slicked city streets, pools...
Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen
Bjorn Heile, Peter Elsdon and Jenny Doctor
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Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on...
Screen Nazis: Cinema, History, and Democracy
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From the late 1930s to the early twenty-first century, European and American filmmakers have...
A Kind of Magic: Art Deco Vanity Cases
Sarah Hue-Williams and Peter Edwards
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After 1918, post-war euphoria spread across Europe and America. Technology was changing the pace of...
And Furthermore
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The SUNDAY TIMES bestselling memoir of Britain's best-loved actress, Dame Judi Dench. From the...
Mary in America
Gwynedd Rae and Clara Vulliamy
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Mary Plain is off on another adventure with her friend, Owl Man - this time to America! Join her as...
Preserving the Spell: Basile's the Tale of Tales and its Afterlife in the Fairy-Tale Tradition
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Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to...
Postcards from the Edge
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When we first meet the extraordinary young actress Suzanne Vale, she's feeling like 'something on...
Arthur Penn
Robin Wood, Richard Lippe and Barry Keith Grant
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Arthur Penn - director of The Miracle Worker , Bonnie and Clyde , Alice's Restaurant and Little Big...
Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film
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Horror films revel in taking viewers into shadowy places where evil resides, whether it is a house,...
