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Unforgettable Helen: A Motion Picture Script for Reading
Phillips Wylly
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• Author(s): Phillips Wylly • Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing • BISAC: Film - ScreenwritingThis is a motion picture script for reading -- the story of Helen Fogel.When Helen was sevent...
View full detailsThe Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry
Maryann Erigha
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• Author(s): Maryann Erigha • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and...
View full detailsThe Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry
Maryann Erigha
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• Author(s): Maryann Erigha • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and...
View full detailsFrancophone Belgian Cinema
Jamie Steele
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• Author(s): Jamie Steele • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionFrancophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-ne...
View full detailsThe Body, the Dance and the Text: Essays on Performance and the Margins of History
Brynn Wein Shiovitz
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• Author(s): Brynn Wein Shiovitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the ...
View full detailsRefocus: The Films of Barbara Kopple
Jeff Jaeckle, Susan Ryan
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• Author(s): Jeff Jaeckle | Susan Ryan • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Individual DirectorAs the first woman to win two Best Documentary Oscars and the recipient of numerous lifetim...
View full detailsThe Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity
Jeffrey Sconce
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Sconce • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismDelusions of electronic persecution have been a preeminent symptom of psychosis for over two hundred ...
View full detailsThe Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity
Jeffrey Sconce
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Sconce • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismDelusions of electronic persecution have been a preeminent symptom of psychosis for over two hundred ...
View full detailsLesbian Cinema After Queer Theory
Clara Bradbury-Rance
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• Author(s): Clara Bradbury-Rance • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismHeadline: A study of spectatorship, desire, identification and identityBlurb: Lesbian...
View full detailsConversations with Cagney: The Early Years
Bill Angelos
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• Author(s): Bill Angelos • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the moment I first entered the room and found myself in his presence, I immediately sensed that this was no or...
View full detailsHenry Darrow: Relampagueando en la Botella
Jan Pippins, Henry Darrow
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• Author(s): Jan Pippins | Henry Darrow • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Film - GeneralHENRY DARROW, (su nombre de pila Enrique Tomás Delgado) catapultado al estrellato internacional como el galán y compl...
View full detailsHenry Darrow: Relampagueando en la Botella (hardback)
Jan Pippins, Henry Darrow
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• Author(s): Jan Pippins | Henry Darrow • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Film - GeneralHENRY DARROW, (su nombre de pila Enrique Tomás Delgado) catapultado al estrellato internacional como el galán y compl...
View full detailsThe Art of American Screen Acting, 1960 to Today
Dan Callahan
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• Author(s): Dan Callahan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Acting & Auditioning Modern screen acting in English is dominated by two key figures: Method acting guru Lee Strasberg--who t...
View full detailsDeath in Modern Theatre: Stages of Mortality
Adrian Curtin
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• Author(s): Adrian Curtin • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismDeath in modern theatre offers a unique account of modern Western theatre, focusing on ...
View full detailsAbbott and Costello on the Home Front: A Critical Study of the Wartime Films
Scott Allen Nollen
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• Author(s): Scott Allen Nollen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism As two of the most popular entertainers of the mid-century film industry, comic greats Bud A...
View full detailsCountry Boy: A Biography of Albert Lee
Derek Watts
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• Author(s): Derek Watts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Best known for his unique musical style and blindingly fast hybrid picking technique, English guitarist Albert Lee is ofte...
View full detailsThe Five Continents of Theatre: Facts and Legends about the Material Culture of the Actor
Eugenio Barba, Nicola Savarese
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• Author(s): Eugenio Barba | Nicola Savarese • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThe Five Continents of Theatre undertakes the exploration of the material culture of the actor, which involves th...
View full detailsShow Business Homicides: An Encyclopedia, 1908-2009
David K. Frasier
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• Author(s): David K. Frasier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General A companion volume to the author's Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Ca...
View full detailsStanislavski in Ireland: Focus at Fifty
Brian McAvera, Steven Dedalus Burch
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• Author(s): Brian McAvera | Steven Dedalus Burch • Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThis book is an insight into...
View full detailsAustria Made in Hollywood
Jacqueline Vansant
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• Author(s): Jacqueline Vansant • Publisher: Camden House (NY) • Publisher Imprint: Camden House (NY) • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismMaria von Trapp, watching the final scene of The Sound of Music for the first time as "her" family escape...
View full detailsPlays for Young Actors
Beatrice Holloway
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• Author(s): Beatrice Holloway • Publisher: Tsl Drama • Publisher Imprint: Tsl Drama • BISAC: GeneralMouse Mansion - 12 performers including young children, the mice family adjust to a new home Mice at Play - 10 performers, can stand alone, mice ...
View full detailsThe Road Almost Taken: The Early Movie Industry in Fremont, California
Donald Burton Parkhurst
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• Author(s): Donald Burton Parkhurst • Publisher: Braughler Books, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Braughler Books, LLC • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis book is a historical account, written in a lively fashion, describing the four-year perio...
View full detailsGreat British Films of the 1940s
Scott V. Palmer
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• Author(s): Scott V. Palmer • Publisher: Cypress Hills Press • Publisher Imprint: Cypress Hills Press • BISAC: Film - ReferenceGreat British Films of the 1940s is a reference work that deals with a comprehensive look at forty motion pictures mad...
View full detailsScreening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema
Steven Jacobs, Susan Felleman, Vito Adriaensens
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• Author(s): Steven Jacobs | Susan Felleman | Vito Adriaensens • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismScreening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema is the first boo...
View full detailsBlood in the Streets: Histories of Violence in Italian Crime Cinema
Austin Fisher
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• Author(s): Austin Fisher • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismBlood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were e...
View full detailsContemporary Musical Film
K. J. Donnelly, Kevin J. Donnelly, Beth Carroll
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• Author(s): K. J. Donnelly | Kevin J. Donnelly | Beth Carroll • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismSince the turn of the millennium, films such as Chicago ...
View full detailsAll on Show: The Circus in Irish Literature and Culture from Joyce to Heaney
Lybeck
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• Author(s): Lybeck • Publisher: Cork University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cork University Press • BISAC: CircusAll on Show takes the circus in literature as its theme. The book introduces readers to the obscure history of the circus and travell...
View full detailsDining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror
Thomas Fahy
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• Author(s): Thomas Fahy • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Film - Genres - HorrorIn Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy ex...
View full detailsDining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror
Thomas Fahy
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• Author(s): Thomas Fahy • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Film - Genres - HorrorIn Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy ex...
View full detailsAnimated Personalities: Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts
David McGowan
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• Author(s): David McGowan • Publisher: University of Texas Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press • BISAC: Film - Genres - AnimatedA CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Felix th...
View full detailsHal Ashby: Interviews
Nick Dawson
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• Author(s): Nick Dawson • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionHal Ashby (1929-1988) is considered to be the lost genius of the New Hollywood ge...
View full detailsFour Star Television Productions: A History of the Business, Series, and Pilots of the Iconic Television Production Company: 1952-1989
Richard Irvin
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• Author(s): Richard Irvin • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Television - ReferenceThe Big Valley, Burke's Law, The Rifleman, Zane Grey Theatre - these are just a few of the iconic series produced by Four ...
View full detailsA Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde: Interviews with 62 Filmmakers
Tom Weaver
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• Author(s): Tom Weaver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In this jam-packed jamboree of conversations, more than 60 movie veterans describe their experiences...
View full detailsTwists and Turns
Stephen Baker
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• Author(s): Stephen Baker • Publisher: Tsl Drama • Publisher Imprint: Tsl Drama • BISAC: GeneralThe author is a huge fan of Alan Bennett's work, having studied Talking Heads at A-level. All the characters in Twists and Turns are fictitious, refl...
View full detailsInside the Swan Tomb
Oliver Bestul
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• Author(s): Oliver Bestul • Publisher: Ten16 Press • Publisher Imprint: Ten16 Press • BISAC: ScreenplaysBury yourself alive with the first published play of Oliver Bestul!First performed on April 27th of 2019.
Aaaaalllviiinnn!: The Story of Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., Liberty Records, Format Films and The Alvin Show (hardback)
Mark Arnold, Danny Solazzi
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• Author(s): Mark Arnold | Danny Solazzi • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: ComedyIn 1958, a down-on-his-luck songwriter with the unlikely name of Ross Bagdasarian (1919-1972), plunged the last of his famil...
View full detailsItalian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989
Roberto Curti
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• Author(s): Roberto Curti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The Italian Gothic horror genre underwent many changes in the 1980s, with masters such as Mario B...
View full detailsThe Mactor's Guide: A How To Guide For Model/Actors
Benz Veal
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• Author(s): Benz Veal • Publisher: Legacy Footprints • Publisher Imprint: Legacy Footprints • BISAC: Acting & AuditioningThe Mactor's guide is a book that teaches aspiring or seasoned models and actors how to boost their chances of signing w...
View full detailsRay Danton: The Epitome of Cool (a career retrospective) (hardback)
Joseph Fusco
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• Author(s): Joseph Fusco • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Television - GeneralRay Danton was an actor who exemplified a particular Hollywood period even though he was not famous. He was a contract player...
View full detailsEk Shaam Prem Chand Ke Naam
Mathura Kalauny
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• Author(s): Mathura Kalauny • Publisher: Notion Press Media Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Notion Press Media Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Theater - PlaywritingEk Shaam Premchand Ke Naam is an anthology of Premchand's short stories and stage adaptations of th...
View full detailsVicious Circuits: Korea's IMF Cinema and the End of the American Century
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon
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• Author(s): Joseph Jonghyun Jeon • Publisher: Stanford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismExamining what it terms "Korea's IMF Cinema," the decade of film-making that following ...
View full detailsVicious Circuits: Korea's IMF Cinema and the End of the American Century
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon
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• Author(s): Joseph Jonghyun Jeon • Publisher: Stanford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn December of 1997, the International Monetary Fund announced the largest bailout pack...
View full detailsThe Exercise of Soft Power - U.S. Self-Imaging in International Broadcasting to Iran
Winfried Herget, Yasmin Djabarian
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• Author(s): Winfried Herget | Yasmin Djabarian • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: Television - GeneralWhile imagological works in the field of Am...
View full detailsFilm Appreciation through Genres
Michael Patrick Gillespie
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• Author(s): Michael Patrick Gillespie • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Our love of films often leads us to discuss them in enthusiastic, if not necessarily ...
View full detailsTV Antiquity: Swords, Sandals, Blood and Sand
Sylvie Magerstädt
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• Author(s): Sylvie Magerstädt • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismTV antiquity explores representations of ancient Greece and Rome throughout tele...
View full detailsThis Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia
Joan Neuberger
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• Author(s): Joan Neuberger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Individual DirectorSergei Eisenstein's unfinished masterpiece, Ivan the Terrible, was no ordinary movie. Commissioned by Jose...
View full detailsThe Trustus Collection
Jon Tuttle
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• Author(s): Jon Tuttle • Publisher: Muddy Ford Press LLC • Publisher Imprint: Muddy Ford Press LLC • BISAC: Theater - PlaywritingIn this collection of six plays written by Jon Tuttle and performed at Columbia, SC's cutting edge Trutus Theatre ov...
View full detailsThe Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination
Greg Burris
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• Author(s): Greg Burris • Publisher: Temple University Press • Publisher Imprint: Temple University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIs there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds...
View full detailsThe Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy
Rolf Giesen
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• Author(s): Rolf Giesen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror Director F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, made in 1921, right after the devastating Spanish F...
View full detailsThe Damned
Nick Riddle
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• Author(s): Nick Riddle • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Damned (1963) is the most intriguing of director Joseph Losey's British "journeyman" films...
View full detailsReading Guide to The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (Unauthorized)
Kevin Mahoney
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• Author(s): Kevin Mahoney • Publisher: Punked Books • Publisher Imprint: Punked Books • BISAC: GeneralThis is an illustrated reading guide to Heather Morris's bestselling novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Although presented as a novel, Lale Soko...
View full detailsThe Many Lives of The Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise
Ron Riekki, Jeffrey A. Sartain
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• Author(s): Ron Riekki | Jeffrey A. Sartain • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror One of the top-grossing independent films of all time, The Evil Dead (1981) sparked a w...
View full detailsFrom Self-Portrait to Selfie: Representing the Self in the Moving Image
Wendy Everett, Fiona Handyside, Muriel Tinel-Temple
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• Author(s): Wendy Everett | Fiona Handyside | Muriel Tinel-Temple • Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • BISAC: Film - GeneralIn the age of the selfie, this...
View full detailsThe Cinema of Lucrecia Martel
Deborah Martin
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• Author(s): Deborah Martin • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe cinema of Lucrecia Martel provides a comprehensive analysis of the work of the acclai...
View full detailsIrish Cinema in the Twenty-First Century
Ruth Barton
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• Author(s): Ruth Barton • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAn accessible, comprehensive overview of contemporary Irish cinema, this book is intended fo...
View full detailsGuillén Landrián o el desconcierto fílmico
Dylon Robbins, Julio Ramos
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• Author(s): Dylon Robbins | Julio Ramos • Publisher: Almenara • Publisher Imprint: Almenara • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismEl cine de Guillén Landrián estremece la percepción habitual de los cuerpos y las cosas. En tanto transforma el ho...
View full detailsTrigger: The Lives and Legend of Roy Rogers' Palomino, 2d ed.
Leo Pando
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• Author(s): Leo Pando • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Westerns Roy Rogers' golden palomino, Trigger, was the perhaps the most famous horse in film--more popular than the ...
View full detailsWhat Grinds My Gears Vol. 2
Kara O'Neill, Kelly Winklbauer
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• Author(s): Kara O'Neill | Kelly Winklbauer • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: Generalwhat grinds my gears is the best book of the century. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise
Cowboy Courage: Westerns and the Portrayal of Bravery
William Hampes
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• Author(s): William Hampes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Westerns Film and television Westerns are most often associated with physical bravery. However, many--especiall...
View full detailsThamar Karsavina
Valerien Svetlov
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• Author(s): Valerien Svetlov • Publisher: David Leonard • Publisher Imprint: David Leonard • BISAC: Dance - Classical & BalletTamara Karsavina, premiere danseuse with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, was one of the greatest dancers of the 20th ce...
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