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From 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...
View full detailsGreat British Films of the 1950s
Scott V. Palmer
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• Author(s): Scott V. Palmer • Publisher: Cypress Hills Press • Publisher Imprint: Cypress Hills Press • BISAC: Film - ReferenceBritish Films of the 1950s provides over 40 productions, representing a wide range of motion pictures made in England ...
View full detailsTopografie Des Laiendarsteller-Diskurses: Zur Konstruktion Von Laiendarstellerinnen Und Laiendarstellern Im Kinospielfilm
Anna Luise Kiss
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• Author(s): Anna Luise Kiss • Publisher: Springer vs • Publisher Imprint: Springer vs • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismDie Besetzung von Laien im Kinospielfilm hat eine lange Geschichte und ist bis heute verbreitet. Anna Luise Kiss analysi...
View full detailsText & Presentation, 2018
Jay Malarcher
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• Author(s): Jay Malarcher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism The 15th in a series drawn from scholarship presented at the annual Comparative Drama Conferen...
View full detailsRestoration Comedy, 1671-1682: A Catalogue
María José Mora
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• Author(s): María José Mora • Publisher: Teneo Press • Publisher Imprint: Teneo Press • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism The Restoration Comedy Project is the first attempt to provide a detailed catalogue of all English comedies produce...
View full detailsChantal Akerman: Afterlives
Marion Schmid, Emma Wilson
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• Author(s): Marion Schmid | Emma Wilson • Publisher: Legenda • Publisher Imprint: Legenda • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismChantal Akerman was one of the most significant directors of our times. A radical innovator of cinematic forms, she ...
View full detailsBela Lugosi and the Monogram Nine (hardback)
Gary D. Rhodes, Robert Guffey
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• Author(s): Gary D. Rhodes | Robert Guffey • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Film - Genres - HorrorBetween 1941 and 1944, Bela Lugosi starred in a series of low-budget films released by Monogram Pictures....
View full detailsComplete Book of 1920s Broadway Musicals
Dan Dietz
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• Author(s): Dan Dietz • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Theater - Broadway & MusicalsThis volume examines every book musical that opened on Broadway during the ...
View full detailsThe Harry Potter Generation: Essays on Growing Up with the Series
Emily Lauer, Balaka Basu
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• Author(s): Emily Lauer | Balaka Basu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The generation of readers most heavily impacted by J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series--those who grew...
View full detailsAn Examination of Characters and Spaces in Film Narratives in the Context of Panopticon and Chronotope Within the Framework of Narratology Theory
Berceste Gülcin Özdemir
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• Author(s): Berceste Gülcin Özdemir • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis study aims at analyzing the characters and spaces in fi...
View full detailsThe Cleansing Of Constance Brown: with It's Your Film and Simple Maths
James Yarker, Stan's Cafe
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• Author(s): James Yarker | Stan's Cafe • Publisher: Stan's Cafe • Publisher Imprint: Stan's Cafe • BISAC: Theater - PlaywritingThis volume brings together the original and unusual scripts for three key plays without words by radical British thea...
View full detailsOthello: an edit
William Shakespeare, James Yarker
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare | James Yarker • Publisher: Stan's Cafe • Publisher Imprint: Stan's Cafe • BISAC: Theater - GeneralHere Shakespeare's orignal script is edited down for performance in under an hour. This compression increases prod...
View full detailsThe Jean Harlow Films
James L. Neibaur
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• Author(s): James L. Neibaur • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism One of the powerful icons of 1930s Hollywood film, Jean Harlow died a tragically early death i...
View full detailsThe Psychology of Moviegoing: Choosing, Viewing and Being Influenced by Films
Ashton D. Trice, Hunter W. Greer
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• Author(s): Ashton D. Trice | Hunter W. Greer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General How do we choose what movies to go see? How do we process the sounds and images of those film...
View full detailsNavigating Ireland's Theatre Archive: Theory, Practice, Performance
Eamon Maher, Barry Houlihan
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• Author(s): Eamon Maher | Barry Houlihan • Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThe historiography of Irish theatre ...
View full detailsMemos from a Theatre Lab: Immersive Theatre & Time
Nandita Dinesh
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• Author(s): Nandita Dinesh • Publisher: Vernon Press • Publisher Imprint: Vernon Press • BISAC: Theater - Direction & ProductionDrawing from Dinesh's findings in Memos from a Theatre Lab: Exploring What Immersive Theatre "Does" and Memos fro...
View full detailsBlanchot and the Moving Image: Fascination and Spectatorship
Calum Watt
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• Author(s): Calum Watt • Publisher: Legenda • Publisher Imprint: Legenda • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe French writer and philosopher Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) was a notoriously reclusive figure who wrote that his life was entirel...
View full detailsForeign Parts: German and Austrian Actors on the British Stage 1933-1960
Richard Dove
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• Author(s): Richard Dove • Publisher: Legenda • Publisher Imprint: Legenda • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismForeign Parts offers a case study in Anglo-German relations in the theatre. How British was the British theatre during and after...
View full detailsOver There - Hollywood in Britain (hardback)
Alan Frank
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• Author(s): Alan Frank • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsOVER THERE - Hollywood In Britain is the first comprehensive record of made-in-Britain B-films featuring Americans on bo...
View full detailsOver There - Hollywood in Britain
Alan Frank
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• Author(s): Alan Frank • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsOVER THERE - Hollywood In Britain is the first comprehensive record of made-in-Britain B-films featuring Americans on bo...
View full detailsFilms of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions
Tom Ryan
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• Author(s): Tom Ryan • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionBest known for powerful 1950s melodramas like All That Heaven Allows, Written on the...
View full detailsJohn Waters FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Provocateur of Bad Taste
Dale Sherman
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• Author(s): Dale Sherman • Publisher: Applause Books • Publisher Imprint: Applause Books • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionA reader-friendly account of the life of John Waters--bad boy auteur of Pink Flamingos and Hairspray.
Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions
Tom Ryan
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• Author(s): Tom Ryan • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionBest known for powerful 1950s melodramas like All That Heaven Allows, Written on the...
View full detailsJafar Panahi: Interviews
Drew Todd
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• Author(s): Drew Todd • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Individual DirectorIranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi (b. 1960) is as famous for his remarkable films as for his courage...
View full detailsPulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit
Ross Anderson
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• Author(s): Ross Anderson • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Animation (See Also Film - Genres - Animated)Who Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, a...
View full detailsExorcism in Your Daily Life - The Psychedelic Firesign Theatre At The Magic Mushroom - 1967 (hardback)
Firesign Theatre
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• Author(s): Firesign Theatre • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Comedy The Firesign Theatre began their long comedy career in 1966 as radio satirists based in Los Angeles. Before their debut LP "Waiting Fo...
View full detailsJafar Panahi: Interviews
Drew Todd
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• Author(s): Drew Todd • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Individual DirectorIranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi (b. 1960) is as famous for his remarkable films as for his courage...
View full detailsPrimal Roots of Horror Cinema: Evolutionary Psychology and Narratives of Fear
Carrol L. Fry
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• Author(s): Carrol L. Fry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror Why is horror in film and literature so popular? Why do viewers and readers enjoy feeling fearful? Expert...
View full detailsThe Great Monster Magazines: A Critical Study of the Black and White Publications of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
Robert Michael Bobb Cotter
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• Author(s): Robert Michael Bobb Cotter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This is a critical overview of monster magazines from the 1950s through the 1970s. "Monster magazine...
View full detailsPyramids - For Strong Men, Gymnasts, &c.
F. J. Harvey
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• Author(s): F. J. Harvey • Publisher: Macha Press • Publisher Imprint: Macha Press • BISAC: CircusThis vintage book contains pictorial instructions for performing various different styles of human pyramids. A human pyramid is an formation in acr...
View full detailsThe Franchise Era: Managing Media in the Digital Economy
James Fleury, Bryan Hikari Hartzheim, Stephen Mamber
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• Author(s): James Fleury | Bryan Hikari Hartzheim | Stephen Mamber • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAs Hollywood shifts towards the digital era, the ro...
View full detailsHorror Films of the 1990s
John Kenneth Muir
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• Author(s): John Kenneth Muir • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews This filmography covers more than 300 horror films released from 1990 through 1999. The horror g...
View full detailsThe Gilded Cage: A Full-Length Dramatic Film
J'Tone
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• Author(s): J'Tone • Publisher: Authorhouse • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse • BISAC: Film - ScreenwritingThe Gilded Cage is inspired on J'Tone's childhood and coming of age in South Philly. Shared in six parts and written as a screenplay, this ...
View full detailsBreaking Boundaries: An Anthology of Original Plays from The Focus Theatre
Steven Dedalus Burch
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• Author(s): Steven Dedalus Burch • Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • BISAC: Theater - PlaywritingThis collection of seven plays show that there is no sin...
View full detailsToo Funny for Words: A Contrarian History of American Screen Comedy from Silent Slapstick to Screwball
David Kalat
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• Author(s): David Kalat • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Comedy American silent film comedies were dominated by sight gags, stunts and comic violence. With the advent of s...
View full detailsEen gids voor Theatresports(TM) van Keith Johnstone: (Theatersport)
Keith Johnstone, Patti Stiles, Jan Verlinden
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• Author(s): Keith Johnstone | Patti Stiles | Jan Verlinden • Publisher: International Theatresports Institute • Publisher Imprint: International Theatresports Institute • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThis guide is for all those wishing to train in an...
View full detailsRemembering Monty Hall: Let's Make a Deal
Ken Rotcop, Kimberly Kaplan
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• Author(s): Ken Rotcop | Kimberly Kaplan • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Television - Genres - Reality, Game Shows & Talk ShowsRemember the show when Monty...It was the end of one of the Let's Make ...
View full detailsRemembering Monty Hall: Let's Make a Deal (hardback)
Ken Rotcop, Kimberly Kaplan
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• Author(s): Ken Rotcop | Kimberly Kaplan • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Television - Genres - Reality, Game Shows & Talk ShowsRemember the show when Monty...It was the end of one of the Let's Make ...
View full detailsMindfulness for Dancers
Corinne Haas
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• Author(s): Corinne Haas • Publisher: Corinne Haas • Publisher Imprint: Corinne Haas • BISAC: Dance - Classical & BalletThe dance world is a rigorous environment that requires a strict focus at an early age. Drawing on her own experience as ...
View full detailsTakashi Shimura: Chameleon of Japanese Cinema
Scott Allen Nollen
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• Author(s): Scott Allen Nollen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Considered one of the finest performers in world cinema, Japanese actor Takashi Shimura (190...
View full detailsDirecting the Narrative and Shot Design: The Art and Craft of Directing (Paperback Premium Color)
Lubomir Kocka
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• Author(s): Lubomir Kocka • Publisher: Vernon Press • Publisher Imprint: Vernon Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionThis book is a "directing-altering book" as it provides high-quality learning resources that encourage and challenge ...
View full detailsInterior Landscapes of Breaking Bad
Erin Bell, Cheryl D. Edelson, Will Gray
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• Author(s): Erin Bell | Cheryl D. Edelson | Will Gray • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismThis edited volume explores the interiors of Breaking Bad--its homes and labs, e...
View full detailsCamp TV: Trans Gender Queer Sitcom History
Quinlan Miller
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• Author(s): Quinlan Miller • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismSitcoms of the 1950s and 1960s are widely considered conformist in their depictions of gender r...
View full detailsTransformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema
Richard Farmer, Laura Mayne, Duncan Petrie
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• Author(s): Richard Farmer | Laura Mayne | Duncan Petrie • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismOver half a century on, the 1960s continue to generate strong...
View full detailsEdward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator
David Crespy
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• Author(s): David Crespy • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismEdward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator explores this three-time Pulitzer prize-winning playwright's innovations as a dram...
View full detailsCine Político En México (1968-2017)
James Ramey, Maricruz Castro Ricalde, Lauro Zavala
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• Author(s): James Ramey | Maricruz Castro Ricalde | Lauro Zavala • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • BISAC: Film - GeneralCine pol�tico en M�xico (1968-2...
View full detailsRadio Daze: Piano-Vocal Score
Amy Shojai, Frank Steele
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• Author(s): Amy Shojai | Frank Steele • Publisher: Shojai & Steele Plays • Publisher Imprint: Shojai & Steele Plays • BISAC: Theater - Broadway & MusicalsFAMILY FRIENDLY MUSICAL THEATER RADIO DAZE is a funny and often touching homag...
View full detailsDouglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity
Victoria L. Evans
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• Author(s): Victoria L. Evans • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthe...
View full detailsKillers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura
Lindsay Coleman, David Desser
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• Author(s): Lindsay Coleman | David Desser • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionThe only Japanese director to have won the Palme d'Or from Cannes more t...
View full detailsRobert Taylor: Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom in Hollywood
Gillian Kelly
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• Author(s): Gillian Kelly • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismBecause of his lengthy screen resume that includes almost eighty appearances in su...
View full detailsStan Brakhage: Interviews
Suranjan Ganguly
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• Author(s): Suranjan Ganguly • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionIn this volume, editor Suranjan Ganguly collects eight of Stan Brakhage's mo...
View full detailsFrench Literature on Screen
Homer B. Pettey, R. Barton Palmer
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• Author(s): Homer B. Pettey | R. Barton Palmer • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis collection presents new essays in the complex field of French li...
View full detailsAudition Psych 101: A Refreshing Approach to the Dreaded Process
Michael Kostroff
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• Author(s): Michael Kostroff • Publisher: Gatekeeper Press • Publisher Imprint: Gatekeeper Press • BISAC: Acting & AuditioningBased on the popular workshop of the same name, Audition Psych 101 takes a detailed, unvarnished look at the mental...
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