Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen
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Muscles, six-pack abs, skin, and sweat fill the screen in the tawdry and tantalizing peplum films...
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A Companion to Film Comedy
Andrew Horton and Joanna E. Rapf
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A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from...
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Abel Gance and the End of Silent Cinema: Sounding Out Utopia: 2016
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This book explores the creation and destruction of Abel Gance's most ambitious film project, and...
The Encyclopedia of Epic Films
Constantine Santas, James M. Wilson, Maria Colavito and Djoymi Baker
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This resource contains reviews of every major production considered to be an epic film. Entries...
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Jesse James and the Movies
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This illustrated filmography analyzes the plots and players of the more than forty motion pictures...
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Cinema: The Whole Story
Christopher Frayling and Philip Kemp
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"Cinema: The Whole Story" takes a close look at the key time periods, genres and key works in world...
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Albert Capellani: Pioneer of the Silent Screen
Christine Leteux and Kevin Brownlow
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In recent years, technology has given films of the silent era and their creators a second life as...
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A Life in Movies: An Autobiography
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Michael Powell lived intimately, and abundantly, with the movies - entering the business at the end...
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Julien Duvivier
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This book is the first ever English-language study of Julien Duvivier (1896-1967), once considered...
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Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars
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Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent...