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Classic Movie Fight Scenes: 75 Years of Bare Knuckle Brawls, 1914-1989
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Both brawls and elaborate martial arts have kept movie audiences on the edges of their seats since...
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Pumpkin Cinema: The Best Movies for Halloween
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People celebrate the magical holiday of Halloween in a wide variety of ways, but most will, at some...
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100 Shakespeare Films
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From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to...
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Starring Sherlock Holmes
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Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on screen more often than any other character in history. This...
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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...
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...
International Noir
R. Barton Palmer and Homer B Pettey
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Following World War II, film noir became the dominant cinematic expression of Cold War angst,...
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American Showman: Samuel Roxy Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908-1935
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Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel (1882-1936) built an influential and prolific career as film exhibitor, stage...
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Theorizing Art Cinemas: Foreign, Cult, Avant-Garde, and Beyond
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The term "art cinema" has been applied to many cinematic projects, including the film d'art...
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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...