Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil
Author: Jonathan Munby
A study of Hollywood gangster films. This book examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure. Combining film analysis with archival material, the study shows how t ... |
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Teachable Movie Moments from 75 Modern Film Classics
Author: Doug Fields & Eddie James
Hollywood has become our culture's dominant storyteller. So turn Hollywood to your own purposes. With Videos That Teach you can use clips from 75 of the best recent movies on video--already collected an organized by topi ... |
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Author: Deanne Schultz
Global in scope and a practical tool for students and teachers of history, "Filmography of World History" includes description and analysis of over 300 historical films. This critical reference selects movies that repres ... |
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The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns
Author: Howard Hughes
This is the true story of the American West on film, through its shooting stars and the directors who shot them...Howard Hughes explores the Western, running from John Ford's Stagecoach to the revisionary Tombstone. Writ ... |
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Derek Malcolm's Personal Best
Author: Derek Malcolm
nvited by the _Guardian_ newspaper to explore his choice of one hundred films in a weekly column over the two years spanning the millenium, film writer and critic Derek Malcolm set out on a project which has attracted m ... |
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A Guide to Watching Together
Author: Ty Burr
If a child can watch Barney, can't that same child also enjoy watching Charlie Chaplin or the Marx Brothers? And as they get older, wouldn't they grow to like screwball comedies (His Girl Friday), women's weepies (Imitat ... |
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Recommended Viewing for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Author: Maitland McDonagh
Just as Book Lust and Music Lust supplied thousands of new reading and listening recommendations, Movie Lust continues the Lust series tradition, offering more than 1,000 film recommendations for the discerning filmgoer ... |
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A Shot by Shot Analysis of Nine Modern Classics
Author: Richard Raskin
This work is the first of its kind to single out individual short fiction films for comprehensive presentation and close study. Two Men and a Wardrobe (Roman Polanski, Poland, 1958, 15 min.), Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim J ... |
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A Philosopher's Guide to 75 Thought-provoking Movies
Author: William G. Smith
Many believe there is nothing like seeing a good movie, one that is enjoyable both in itself and for the thought processes it stimulates. From The Usual Suspects and When Harry Met Sally to Gandhi and The Color Purple, t ... |
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A History and Filmography of the Dead End Kids, Little Tough Guys, East Side Kids and Bowery Boys Films, with Cast Biographies
Author: Leonard Getz
In 1935, Sidney Kingsley's play about streetwise urban kids, Dead End, opened on Broadway featuring 14 adolescent actors. For two years on Broadway and then on tour, Kingsley's play delivered its social commentary contra ... |
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Essays on the Two Trilogies
Author: Carl Silvio & Tony M. Vinci
Released in May 1977, the original Star Wars movie inaugurated the age of the movie blockbuster. It also redefined the use of cinematic special effects, creating a new textual universe that now stretches through three de ... |
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A Complete Filmography
Author: Gene Blottner
Wild Bill Elliott was a major western star for over 15 years. Known, and proclaimed by himself and others as a peaceable man, his screen persona met evil head-on and emerged victorious. Elliott's gunplay and unusual styl ... |
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A Lower East Side Film and Video History
Author: Paul Bartlett & Urania Mylonas Clayton Patterson
New York's Lower East Side has been a fountain of creativity and art since the early 1950s, a free-wheeling bazaar of ideas and artists that has challenged and shaped mainstream culture. Captured tells the story of fi ... |
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European Actors in Hollywood - A Critical Companion
Author: Alastair Phillips & Ginette Vincendeau
Journeys of Desire is the first comprehensive critical guide to European actors in American film, bringing together fifteen overview chapters with A-Z entries on over 900 individuals in one accessible volume. Since the e ... |
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Author: BFI Modern Classics
Inspired by an alleged real case of demonic possession in 1949, The Exorcist became an international phenomenon. A blockbusting adaptation of a best-selling novel, it was praised as deeply spiritual by the Catholic Churc ... |
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Author: David Gritten & John Walker
With more entries than any other guide and over one hundred years of entertainment and cinema information at your fingertips, Halliwell's is widely recognised as the biggest and the best film guide available. This is the ... |
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Essential Guide to the Force
Author: Ryder Wyndam
This latest entry in the extremely successful series of full-color "Star Wars" Essential Guides focuses on the most popular topics in all of "Star Wars": the Jedi, the Sith, and the Force. |
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Full References or Reviews for Over 8000 Videotapes from 1998-1999
Author: Patrick Riley
With thousands of new releases to choose from, Patrick Riley offers expert advice on what's hot and what's not in this jam-packed eighth edition of the bestselling X-Rated Videotape Guide series. This expansive new editi ... |
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743 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Author: Michael F. Keaney
The term film noir was first applied by French critics to a number of American films that made their way to France over a period of six weeks at the end of World War II. These films, such as The Maltese Falcon, Murder, M ... |
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Spaces and Meanings in American Film
Author: Deborah Thomas
This book examines the treatment of space and narrative in a selection of classic films including My Darling Clementine, It's a Wonderful Life, and Vertigo. Deborah Thomas employs a variety of arguments in exploring t ... |
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