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  • Ansichten und Absichten [German-language edition]
    Ansichten und Absichten [German-language edition]

    Ansichten und absichten [german-language edition]

    Drehli Robnik, Alexander Horwath, Alexander Horwath

    This volume collects some of Drehli Robnik's most significant scholarly essays, contributions to pop music magazines and film journals, and samples from his work as a philosophical "edutainer."

    $30.00
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  • Film Genre
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    Film genre

    Barry Keith Grant

    This is a concise evaluation of film genre, discussing genre theory and sample analyses of the western, science fiction, the musical, horror, comedy, and the thriller. Case studies include: 42nd Street, Pennies from Heaven, Red River, All That Heaven Allows, Night of the Living Dead, Die Hard, Li...

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    $23.00
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  • How Did Lubitsch Do It?
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    How did lubitsch do it?

    Joseph McBride

    Joseph McBride analyzes Ernst Lubitsch’s films in rich detail in the first in-depth critical study to consider the full scope of his work in both his native and adopted lands. McBride explains the “Lubitsch Touch,” shows how the director challenged American attitudes toward romance and sex, and o...

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    $22.00
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  • Melodrama
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    Melodrama

    John Mercer, Martin Shingler

    Melodrama: Genre, Style and Sensibility is designed as an accessible overview of one of the most popular genres at undergraduate Film Studies. The book identifies three distinct but connected concepts through which it is possible to make sense of melodrama; either as a genre, originating in Europ...

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    $21.00
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  • Melodrama Unbound
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    Melodrama unbound

    Christine Gledhill, Linda Williams

    Drawing on new scholarship in transnational theatrical, film, and cultural histories, this collection demonstrates that melodrama speaks to fundamental aspects of modern life and feeling. Contributors articulate new ways of thinking about melodrama that underscore its pervasiveness across nationa...

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    $42.00
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  • Teen Movies
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    Teen movies

    Timothy Shary

    This book is a comprehensive and accessible history of the depiction of teenagers in American film, from the silent era to the twenty-first century.

    $22.00
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  • The Pop Musical
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    The pop musical

    Alberto Mira

    Alberto Mira offers a new account of how pop music revolutionized the Hollywood musical. He shows that while the Hollywood system ceased producing large-scale traditional musicals, different pop strains—disco, rock ’n’ roll, doo-wop, glam, and hip-hop—renewed the genre, giving it a new life.

    $22.00
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  • The Stardom Film
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    The stardom film

    Karen McNally

    Since the movie industry’s earliest days, Hollywood has mythologized itself through stories of stardom. In the first book to focus exclusively on these modern fairy tales, Karen McNally traces the history of this genre from silent cinema to contemporary film and television to show its significanc...

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    $22.00
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  • War Cinema
    War Cinema

    War cinema

    Guy Westwell

    An introduction to and overview of the Hollywood war movie, a linchpin in American cultural imagination. The book considers the history of this genre, one of continuing significance, from All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) to We Were Soldiers (2002). Guy Westwell focuses in particular on repre...

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    $21.00
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