ReFocus: The Films of Preston Sturges
Jeff Jaeckle and Sarah Kozloff
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How can it be that more people aren't talking about, studying and revering Preston Sturges, the...
The Penguin Dictionary of Jokes
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Looking for a good joke? Searching for an ice-breaker for that after-dinner speech? Or are you just...
Spielberg, Steven
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Steven Spielberg (USA, b. 1946) was the boy wonder of the new Hollywood of the 1970s. Taking Orson...
America's Mistress: Eartha Kitt, Her Life and Times
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Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white...
Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary Aesthetics During World War II
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As the Second World War raged throughout Europe, modernist writers often became crucial voices in...
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir
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POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION refers to a form of navigation Gore Vidal resorted to as a first mate in...
On Cinema
Glauber Rocha, Ismail Xavier, Stepanie Dennison and Charlotte Smith
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Glauber Rocha is known as the visionary Brazilian director of landmark films, Black God, White...
Performing Authorship: Self-inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema
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The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist...
100 Shakespeare Films
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From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to...
Hopper: A Savage American Journey
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The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. The hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The crazed...