Stars and Wars: The Film Memoirs and Photographs of Alan Tomkins
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In Stars and Wars, Oscar-nominated Art Director Alan Tomkins reveals his unpublished film artwork...
Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema: Gender, Sex and the Deviant Body
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Sexuality within mainstream Hollywood cinema features primarily in comedy or rom-com genres, where...
Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, and Patriotism
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Seeking to rebuild the Russian film industry after its post-Soviet collapse, directors and producers...
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...