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  • ShockDecember
    Charles Roxburgh
    21 horror movies in 48 hours. Had anything comparable ever been attempted? Would it be possible to absorb such a volume of madness and stupidity? Could WE maintain our sanity after such a barrage of bad taste? Out of these questions an experiment was born an experiment that will forever by known as ShockDecember. 3 ...
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    24,03 €

  • How TV Changed America’s Mind
    Edward Wakin
    A prize-winning journalist and widely published professor of communications examines how TV coverage shaped the way Americans viewed pivotal events over a 50-year span. Mixing the drama of what happened with insights into why TV has such great impact, the author looks beyond the images and analyzes the power of the medium. Leading media professionals praised the book for going ...
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    20,81 €

  • Arthur Kennedy, Man of Characters
    ''Basically, all parts are character parts. The problem of the actor is to protect the differences in a character: to identify that the character being portrayed has his own personality traits. He has to find things within himself to establish these differences. I’m best when I portray not good guys, or bad guys, but human guys. These are the people I understand.'' Arthur Ken...
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    57,58 €

  • Words at War
    Howard Blue
    Simultaneously as they worked on the war effort, many radio writers and actors advanced a progressive agenda to fight the enemy within: racism, poverty, and other social ills. When the war ended, many of these people paid for their idealism by suffering blacklisting. Veterans’ groups, the FBI, right-wing politicians, and other reactionaries mounted an assault on them to drive t...
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    96,90 €

  • The Beverly Hillbillies
    Stephen Cox
    Come and listen to the story ’bout a man named Jed' and the rest of the colorful Clampett family, perhaps television’s most unlikely phenomenon to spring from the sixties. Hated by the critics but enthusiastically embraced by audiences around the world, to this day The Beverly Hillbillies still holds the Nielsen record for the highest rated half-hour show in the history of tele...
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    17,90 €

  • In All His Glory
    Sally Bedell Smith
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    24,62 €

  • Pier Angeli
    Jane Allen
    ''In Pier Angeli, a nineteen-year-old Italian girl, Hollywood has found an actress who eludes the town’s traditional classifications and whose unvarnished beauty and instinctive talent have already caused her to be called ’Little Garbo’''--Theodore Strauss in Collier’s, April 1952. This work is the first full-length biography of actress Anna Maria Pierangeli, from her early l...
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    44,01 €

  • Redeeming the Dial
    Tona J. Hangen / Tona JHangen
    Blending cultural, religious, and media history, Tona Hangen offers a richly detailed look into the world of religious radio. She uses recordings, sermons, fan mail, and other sources to tell the stories of the determined broadcasters and devoted listeners who, together, transformed American radio evangelism from an on-air novelty in the 1920s into a profitable and wide-reachin...
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    54,63 €

  • The Making of Casablanca
    Aljean Harmetz
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    29,06 €

  • The Films of Derek Jarman
    William Pencak
    Derek Jarman’s films explore the possibilities and limitations of same-sex love and self-expression during various historical eras, ranging from ancient Egypt to present times. His work covers a millennium of sexual repression and efforts to escape it. Jarman provides us with a cinematic history of people whose homoerotic passions had a major impact on western civilization in r...
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    57,52 €

  • America on Film
    Sam B. Girgus / Sam BGirgus
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    43,17 €

  • America on Film
    Sam B. Girgus / Sam BGirgus
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    110,69 €

  • The Films of Steven Spielberg
    Charles LPSilet
    The Films of Steven Spielberg provides for the first time a collection of critical writings by professional film critics about the director and his films, bringing together many articles and reviews scattered in often inaccessible specialist publications and professional journals. The opinions vary from complimentary to critical, but they definitely provide a well-rounded view ...
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    135,75 €

  • Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy
    Steve Bell / Wes D Gehring / Wes D. Gehring / Wes DGehring
    Including over 60 titles each of romantic and screwball comedy dating from the 1930’s to the present, this research tool not only demonstrates how screwball and romantic comedy are two distinct genres, but also highlights pivotal social and artistic changes which impacted both genres. Includes 16 black and white movie stills, countless quotations from selected films, an annotat...
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    91,77 €

  • White Horse, Black Hat
    CJack Lewis / Jack C Lewis / Jack C. Lewis / Jack CLewis
    Author C. Jack Lewis spent 25 years in this world of low-budget Westerns, and here he portrays the human side of the industry through the many people with whom he came into contact as he worked his way from film to film. Highly personal, filled with rare glimpses of a life that lives only in the memory of a few, this narrative is a nostalgic memoir of a bygone time, of those wh...
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    120,42 €

  • Worms in the Winecup
    John Bright
    An extraordinarily hard-hitting autobiography of John Bright, a screenplay writer who gained a major reputation with his first Hollywood script, Public Enemy, the classic gangster drama starring James Cagney. The book provides a vivid, often savage, commentary on Hollywood and the motion picture industry, with uncompromising portraits of Darryl F. Zanuck, Mae West, Errol Flynn,...
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    120,65 €

  • Montgomery Clift
    Michelangelo Capua
    At the peak of his career in the 1950s, Montgomery Clift was the symbol of a very talented yet rebellious generation of movie stars. His acting combined the personal and the professional, and his seventeen movies show his superb craft and extraordinary sensitivity. Yet there was much more to his life than his talents as an actor--more than most people knew. This book is a bio...
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    42,99 €

  • The Films of Steven Spielberg
    Charles LPSilet
    The Films of Steven Spielberg provides for the first time a collection of critical writings by professional film critics about the director and his films, bringing together many articles and reviews scattered in often inaccessible specialist publications and professional journals. The opinions vary from complimentary to critical, but they definitely provide a well-rounded view ...
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    85,91 €

  • Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen
    Robert Mayer
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    43,31 €

  • Appraising Moving Images
    Association of Moving Image Archives / Sam Kula
    Written by an archivist with forty years of experience in England, the United States, and Canada, Appraising Moving Images is a practical guide to archival and monetary appraisal of moving images for anyone who has responsibility for moving image collections. ...
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    107,30 €

  • Playing the Race Card
    Linda Williams
    The black man suffering at the hands of whites, the white woman sexually threatened by the black man. Both images have long been burned into the American conscience through popular entertainment, and today they exert a powerful and disturbing influence on Americans’ understanding of race. So argues Linda Williams in this boldly inquisitive book, where she probes the bitterly di...
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    56,43 €

  • Broadway Musicals
    David H. Lewis
    Musicals have been a major part of American theater for many years, and nowhere have they been more loved and celebrated than Broadway, the theater capital of the world. The music of such composers as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Berlin, the Gershwin brothers, Lerner and Loewe, Steven Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber continues to run through people’s minds, and such productions as...
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    73,27 €

  • The Triumph of the Ordinary
    Joshua Feinstein
    Were movies in the East Bloc propaganda or carefully veiled dissent? In the first major study in English of East German film, Joshua Feinstein argues that the answer to this question is decidedly complex. Drawing on newly opened archives as well as interviews with East German directors, actors, and state officials, Feinstein traces how the cinematic depiction of East Germany ch...
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    70,49 €

  • An Askew View
    John Kenneth Muir / John Muir / Kenneth John Muir
    AN ASKEW VIEW: THE FILMS OF KEVIN SMITH ...
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    16,38 €

  • Framing Hitchcock
    Sidney Gottlieb
    In its ten-year history, the Hitchcock Annual has established itself as a key source of historical information and critical commentary on one of the central figures in film history and arguably one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Fans of Alfred Hitchcock—both scholars and general readers alike—will be entertained and informed by this selection of writing...
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    46,23 €

  • The Star Trek
    David Mack
    As the brave men and women of Starfleet carry out their duties -- mapping countless solar systems, greeting new species and establishing ties with civilizations large and small -- they live, work, and face the possibility that they could die in space. How do Starfleet’s finest survive the countless dangers to be discovered as they boldly go where no one has gone before? Find ou...
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    13,09 €

  • Genre and Contemporary Hollywood
    Steve Neale
    This wide-ranging text is one of the first to look in detail at some of the principal genres, cycles and trends in Hollywood’s output during the last two decades. It includes analysis of such films as Sense and Sensibility, Grifters, The Mask, When Harry Met Sally, Pocahontas, Titanic, Basic Instinct, Coppola’s Dracula, and Malcolm X. ...
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    57,22 €

  • Adaptation revisited
    Sarah Cardwell
    Offers a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, as well as bringing new material into the broader field of Television Studies. Surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing the unspoken assumptions and common misconceptions that underlie them and explores the problems inherent in previous approaches, developing an original perspective that consi...
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    28,33 €

  • The Frankenstein Archive
    Donald F. Glut
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, started a phenomeon that has survived the years and permeated many aspects of popular culture. It has spawned numerous films, television programs, books, comics, stage presentations, and the like, and continues to do so today. Like the Frankenstein Monster, this work ...
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    42,84 €

  • Hans Conried
    Suzanne Gargiulo
    Hans Conried was once described by the well-known Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as ''a high-strung, droll fellow, plagued by a multitude of talents.'' Conried was indeed a talented and versatile actor, but his versatility often worked against him. A complex individual who yearned to perform Shakespeare on the stage, he achieved success playing low comedy in films and ...
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    58,59 €


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