Films, cinema
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Films, cinema
Paperback. Features several interviews, giving detailed and personal stories from veteran screenwriters of the seventies and eighties, focusing on their craft, their lives, and their profession. Looking at how movies get made, this work offers a different perspective on many of the great movies, directors, and actors of the seventies and eighties. Editor(s): McGilligan, Patrick. Num Pages: 434 pages, 30 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520245181
- ISBN
- 9780520245181
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Paperback. Analyzes film distribution and exhibition practices in order to reconstruct a context for understanding moviegoing at a time when American cities were coming to grips with new groups of immigrants and women working outside the home. This book talks about the history of the film industry, and about the process of imaging a national community. Num Pages: 391 pages, 61 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; APF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 391
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520247437
- ISBN
- 9780520247437
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Paperback. Covering the tumultuous period of the 1950s, this work explores the divorce of movie studios from their theater chains; the panic of the blacklist era; the explosive emergence of science fiction as the dominant genre; and the rise of television and Hollywood's response with widescreen spectacles. Series: History of the American Cinema S. Num Pages: 396 pages, 110 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; APF; KNTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 253 x 21. Weight in Grams: 836.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520249660
- ISBN
- 9780520249660
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€ 47.99€ 34.35
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Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Movieg...
Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley (Ed.)
Paperback. Presents a picture of how movies entered the American heartland. This book examines the social and cultural changes this form of entertainment brought to towns from Gastonia, North Carolina to Placerville, California, and from Norfolk, Virginia to rural Ontario and beyond. Editor(s): Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn H. Num Pages: 290 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520249738
- ISBN
- 9780520249738
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Paperback. Three-time Academy Award nominee for best director, responsible for such film classics as "A Room with a View" and "The Remains of the Day", James Ivory is a director known for the international scope of his filmmaking on several continents. This title features interviews with James. It comments on the many aspects of his world-traveling career. Num Pages: 350 pages, 70 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520249998
- ISBN
- 9780520249998
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Paperback. Presents an argument that the coming of sound inspired more in the massively influential horror movies than screams, creaking doors, and howling wolves. This book makes a case for understanding film viewing as a force that can powerfully shape both the minutest aspects of individual films and the broadest sweep of film production trends. Num Pages: 202 pages, 28 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: APF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520251229
- ISBN
- 9780520251229
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Paperback. Argues that it was the human form in motion that most profoundly shaped early cinema. Situating his discussion in a political and historical context, the author begins his analysis with films that reveal striking anxieties and preoccupations about persons on public display. It also considers twentieth-century American incarnation of cinema itself. Num Pages: 214 pages, 17 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520252936
- ISBN
- 9780520252936
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Paperback. Seeks to characterize the radical shifts in taste that transformed American film in the jazz age. This book documents the films and film genres that were considered old-fashioned, as well as those dubbed innovative, and looks closely at the works of filmmakers such as Erich von Stroheim, Charlie Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch, and Monta Bell. Num Pages: 374 pages, 40 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 606.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254572
- ISBN
- 9780520254572
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Hardback. A study of the Western that covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as "No Country for Old Men", "There Will Be Blood", "True Grit", and "Cowboys & Aliens". It also examines various forms of genre-revival and genre-revisionism that have recurred over the years. Num Pages: 344 pages, 53 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258662
- ISBN
- 9780520258662
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Hardback. Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W Adorno - affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument - developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores their reflections on cinema and photography from the Weimar period up to the 1960s. Editor(s): Dimendberg, Edward. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520265592
- ISBN
- 9780520265592
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Paperback. A collection of essays that explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom's earliest days through the twentieth century. It analyzes many of the key filmic texts from the studio years that exemplify animated comedy. Editor(s): Goldmark, Daniel; Keil, Charlie. Num Pages: 344 pages, 30 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490. Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood. 344 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Goldmark, Daniel; Keil, Charlie. A collection of essays that explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom's earliest days through the twentieth century. It analyzes many of the key filmic texts from the studio years that exemplify animated comedy. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APFV. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 22. Weight: 480.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520267244
- ISBN
- 9780520267244
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Paperback. Offers a detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. This title guides us through the thirteen Marx Brothers films, from "The Cocoanuts" in 1929 to "Love Happy" in 1950, to focus on Harpo's chief and yet heretofore unexplored attribute - his profound and contradictory corporeality. Num Pages: 336 pages, 388 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 580.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269019
- ISBN
- 9780520269019
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Paperback. Drawing on the records of studio personnel, independent exhibitors, moviegoers, and the motion pictures themselves, this title analyzes what was wrong - and right - with Hollywood at the end of a heralded decade, and how the industry's troubles changed the making and marketing of films in 1938 and beyond. Num Pages: 284 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271807
- ISBN
- 9780520271807
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Paperback. Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. This book assembles essays in cultural criticism, film, literature, and media theory that he wrote during the quarter century he spent in America after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. Editor(s): Von Moltke, Johannes; Rawson, Kristy. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 b/w photograph. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271838
- ISBN
- 9780520271838
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Hardback. Makes a contribution to scholarship on Jean-Luc Godard, especially his films and videos since the late 1980s. Through detailed analyses of extended sequences, technical innovations, and formal experiments, the author provides an original interpretation of a series of several internally related films. Num Pages: 326 pages, 36 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273313
- ISBN
- 9780520273313
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€ 69.87€ 54.08
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Paperback. Makes a contribution to scholarship on Jean-Luc Godard, especially his films and videos since the late 1980s. Through detailed analyses of extended sequences, technical innovations, and formal experiments, the author provides an original interpretation of a series of several internally related films. Num Pages: 326 pages, 36 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273337
- ISBN
- 9780520273337
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Hardback. Through analysis of several key collaborations in American cinema from the silent era to the late twentieth century such as those of D W Griffith and Billy Bitzer, and Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Burks, this book underlines the importance of cinematographers to both the development of cinematic technique and the expression of visual style in film. Num Pages: 248 pages, 35. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284340
- ISBN
- 9780520284340
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€ 94.74€ 73.04
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Hardback. Suitable for scholars and enthusiasts, this book establishes the key role played by the L A Rebellion within the histories of cinema, Black visual culture, and postwar art in Los Angeles. Editor(s): Field, Allyson; Horak, Jan-Christopher; Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma. Num Pages: 488 pages, 110. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284678
- ISBN
- 9780520284678
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Paperback. Gathers together Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock provides an enlivening commentary on a career that spanned decades and transformed the history of the cinema. Editor(s): Gottlieb, Sidney. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 32. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- First Edition, Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520285514
- ISBN
- 9780520285514
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Hardback. What issues, of both form and content, shape the documentary film? What role does visual evidence play in relation to a documentary's arguments about the world in which we live? This book investigates the ways in which documentaries strive for accuracy and truthfulness, but simultaneously fabricate a form that shapes reality. Num Pages: 271 pages, 1. BIC Classification: APFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520290396
- ISBN
- 9780520290396
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€ 94.74€ 73.01
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