Hollywood Celebrates the Holidays: 1920-1970
Karie Bible and Mary Nan S. Mallory
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Marvelously illustrated with more than 200 rare images from the silent era through the 1970s, this...
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...
The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films
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From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American...
Julien Duvivier
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This book is the first ever English-language study of Julien Duvivier (1896-1967), once considered...
Slapstick Modernism: Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop
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Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls and...
Missing Reels
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New York in the late 1980s. Ceinwen Reilly has just moved from Yazoo City, Mississippi, and she's...
The Great Movies Iv
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No film critic has ever been as influential or as beloved as Roger Ebert. Over more than four...
The Silent Fountain
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'Atmospheric and foreboding this is the perfect contemporary homage to the gothic tradition.' - The...
If the Spirit Moves You: Picador Classic
Justine Picardie and Andrew O'Hagan
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With an introduction by Andrew O'Hagan When I think about her now, which is most of the time, it's...
The Men with the Movie Camera: The Poetics of Visual Style in Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s
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Unlike previous studies of the Soviet avant-garde during the silent era, which have regarded the...