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Hidden in Plain Sight: An Archaeology of Magic and the Cinema (Techniq...

Colin Williamson

Hardcover. Series: Techniques of the Moving Image. Num Pages: 224 pages, 26 photographs. BIC Classification: APFX; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 825.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Condition: New
SKU: V9780813572543
ISBN: 9780813572543

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€ 159.45

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Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture (Knowledge: Disciplinari...

Schwarz

Paperback. This diverse collection of essays argues for and demonstrates the effort to redefine the methods, goals and scope of musical scholarship. Influenced by ongoing debates about disciplinarity, it explores the emerging and receding paradigms in the field. Editor(s): Schwarz, David; etc.; Kassabian, Anahid (Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University, USA); Siegel, Lawrence. Series: Knowledge: Disciplinarity & Beyond. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations, music. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1997
Publisher: University of Virginia Press Virginia
Edition: First Edition
Number of pages: 384
Condition: New
SKU: V9780813917009
ISBN: 9780813917009

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€ 39.06

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At the Picture Show: Small-Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fa...

Kathryn H. Fuller

Paperback. In this social history of the cinema during the silent-film era, Kathryn H. Fuller charts the gradual homogenization of a diverse American movie audience as itinerant shows gave way first to nickelodeon theatres and then to more luxurious picture palaces. Num Pages: 272 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; HBT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 372.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Edition: New edition
Condition: New
SKU: V9780813920825
ISBN: 9780813920825

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€ 36.12

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The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social History of an American Pheno...

Melvin Patrick Ely

Paperback. Focusing on "Amos 'n' Andy", a nightly American radio comedy in the 1930s, this text unveils a tale of America's shifting colour line, in which two professional directors of blackface minstrel shows produced a series so complex that it won admirers ranging from ultra-racists to racial egalitarians. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APW; HBJK; HBLW; JFD; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Edition: 10th ed.
Condition: New
SKU: V9780813920924
ISBN: 9780813920924

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€ 37.38

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Spirituality as Ideology in Black Women's Film and Literature

Judylyn S. Ryan

Paperback. Given the ways in which spirituality functions in the work of Black women writers and filmmakers, the author proposes that what these women embrace in their narrative construction and characterization is the responsibility of the priestess, bearing and distributing "life-force" to sustain the community of people who read and view their work. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 381.

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Publication date: 2005
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Condition: New
SKU: V9780813923703
ISBN: 9780813923703

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€ 29.46

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African Americans and the Culture of Pain (Cultural Frames, Framing Cu...

Debra Walker King

Paperback. Considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a rhetorical device and as political strategy. This book investigates America's love-hate relationship with black bodies in pain. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.

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Publication date: 2008
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Condition: New
SKU: V9780813926810
ISBN: 9780813926810

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€ 32.53

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American Road Narratives: Reimagining Mobility in Literature and Film ...

Ann Brigham

Hardcover. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Condition: New
SKU: V9780813937243
ISBN: 9780813937243

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€ 85.97

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Holocaust in American Film, Second Edition (Judaic Traditions in Liter...

Judith Doneson

Paperback. This work offers insights into how specific films influenced the Americanization of the Holocaust and how the medium per se helped seed that event into the public consciousness. It provides an analysis of "Schindler's List" and the debate over the merit of Spielberg's vision of the Holocaust. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 272 pages, 37 photographs, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: APFA; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Edition: 2nd Edition
Condition: New
SKU: V9780815629269
ISBN: 9780815629269

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€ 27.95

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Simultaneous Worlds

. Ed(S): Feeley, Jennifer L.; Wells, Sarah An...

Paperback. Editor(s): Feeley, Jennifer L.; Wells, Sarah Ann. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 408.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages: 344
Condition: New
SKU: V9780816693184
ISBN: 9780816693184

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€ 32.99
€ 29.67

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First Films of the Holocaust

Jeremy Hicks

Paperback. Num Pages: 330 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJH; APFA; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 540.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press United States
Edition: 1st Edition
Number of pages: 330
Condition: New
SKU: V9780822962243
ISBN: 9780822962243

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€ 67.15

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The Hell-Bound Train. A Cowboy Songbook.

Ohrlin, Glenn. Ed(S): Seemann, Charlie

Paperback. Glenn Ohrlin (1926-2015) was a cowboy singer, working cowboy, rodeo rider, storyteller, and illustrator. In The Hell-Bound Train he has gathered dozens of his favourite songs, which chronicle the range and rodeo life he lived. Most of his repertoire comes from the period of 1875 to 1925. Editor(s): Seemann, Charlie. Series: Voice in the American West. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 halftones, 75 music scores. BIC Classification: AVGL; AVQS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 524.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Edition: 2 Rev ed
Number of pages: 288
Condition: New
SKU: V9780896729629
ISBN: 9780896729629