The Cinema of Things: Globalization and the Posthuman Object
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This book explores the border zones between life and non-life as represented in cinema from the end...
House Full: Indian Cinema and the Active Audience
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India is the largest producer and consumer of feature films in the world, far outstripping Hollywood...
Surveillance in Asian Cinema: Under Eastern Eyes
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Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive...
The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism
Hermann Kappelhoff and Daniel Hendrickson
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Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their...
American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations
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America in the 1950s was a place of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear...
Charlie Chaplin, Director
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Charlie Chaplin was one of the cinema s consummate comic performers, yet he has long been criticized...
Chaplin: His Life And Art
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David Robinson's definitive and monumental biography of Charlie Chaplin, the greatest icon in the...
Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema
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In the past twenty years, we have seen the rise of digital effects cinema in which the human...
Stars in Dior: From Screen to Streets
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A love letter to the cinema from the House of Dior, featuring legendary screen actresses in...
Refocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling
Frances Smith and Timothy Shary
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Refocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling is the first book-length study of the work of Amy Heckerling,...