![Mapping Movie Magazines]( "Mapping Movie Magazines")
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Biltereyst, D. (Ed), Van de Vijver, L. (Ed) (2020)
Movie magazines are crucial but widely underused sources for writing the history of films and cinema. This volume brings together for the first time a wide variety of historic …
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![New Perspectives on the War Film]( "New Perspectives on the War Film")
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Tholas, C. (Ed), Goldie, J. L. (Ed), Ritzenhoff, K. A. (Ed) (2019)
New Perspectives on the War Film addresses the gap in the representation of many forgotten faces of war in mainstream movies and global mass media. The authors concentrate on the …
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![Biography and History in Film]( "Biography and History in Film")
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Freeman, T. S. (Ed), Smith, D. L. (Ed) (2019)
The essays in this volume seek to analyze biographical films as representations of historical individuals and the times in which they lived. To do this, contributors examine the …
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![The Brighton School and the Birth of British Film]( "The Brighton School and the Birth of British Film")
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Gray, F. (2019)
This study is devoted to the work of two early British filmmakers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the films that they made around 1900. Internationally, they are …
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![In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s]( "In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s")
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Larkin, T. L. (2019)
In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s follows Austrian biographer Stefan Zweig, American producer Irving Thalberg, and Canadian-American actress Norma Shearer as they attempt …
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![East Asian Transwar Popular Culture]( "East Asian Transwar Popular Culture")
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Lin, P. (Ed), Kim, S. Y. (Ed) (2019)
This collection examines literature and film studies from the late colonial and early postcolonial periods in Taiwan and Korea, and highlights the similarities and differences of …
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![Jews, Cinema and Public Life in Interwar Britain]( "Jews, Cinema and Public Life in Interwar Britain")
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Toffell, G. (2018)
This book investigates a Jewish orientation to film culture in interwar Britain. It explores how pleasure, politics and communal solidarity intermingled in the cinemas of Jewish …
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![Digital Humanities and Film Studies]( "Digital Humanities and Film Studies")
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Heftberger, A. (2018)
This book highlights the quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization and explores their use in relation to the films and writings of the Russian director, …
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![Researching Newsreels]( "Researching Newsreels")
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Chambers, C. (Ed), Jönsson, M. (Ed), Vande Winkel, R. (Ed) (2018)
This volume addresses the underscrutinised topic of cinema newsreels. These short, multi-themed newsfilms, usually accompanied by explanatory intertitles or voiceovers, were a …
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![Cecil B. DeMille, Classical Hollywood, and Modern American Mass Culture]( "Cecil B. DeMille, Classical Hollywood, and Modern American Mass Culture")
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Blanke, D. (2018)
This book uses the long and profitable career of Cecil B. DeMille to track the evolution of Classical Hollywood and its influence on emerging mass commercial culture in the US. …
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![Cinematic Representations of Alzheimer’s Disease]( "Cinematic Representations of Alzheimer’s Disease")
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Medina, R. (2018)
This book offers a cross-cultural approach to cinematic representations of Alzheimer’s disease in non-mainstream cinema. Even though Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of …
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![La Mamma]( "La Mamma")
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Morris, P. (Ed), Willson, P. (Ed) (2018)
The idea of the “mamma italiana” is one of the most widespread and recognizable stereotypes in perceptions of Italian national character both within and beyond Italy. This figure …
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![The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema]( "The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema")
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Leeder, M. (2017)
This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema’s first years. The book takes up the familiar notion of cinema as a “ghostly,” “spectral” …
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![Domestic Imaginaries]( "Domestic Imaginaries")
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Harper, B. (Ed), Price, H. (Ed) (2017)
This book examines representations of home in literary and visual cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection brings together scholars working on literature, film, and …
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![Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral]( "Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral")
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Belton, R. J. (2017)
This book offers a new approach to film studies by showing how our brains use our interpretations of various other films in order to understand Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. …
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![A Brief History of Comic Book Movies]( "A Brief History of Comic Book Movies")
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Dixon, W. W., Graham, R. (2017)
A Brief History of Comic Book Movies traces the meteoric rise of the hybrid art form of the comic book film. These films trace their origins back to the early 1940s, when the …
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![Formations of Masculinity in Post-Communist Hungarian Cinema]( "Formations of Masculinity in Post-Communist Hungarian Cinema")
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Kalmár, G. (2017)
This book investigates the formations of masculinity in Hungarian cinema after the fall of communism and explores some of the cultural phenomena of the years following the 1989 …
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![Chinese Film Festivals]( "Chinese Film Festivals")
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Berry, C. (Ed), Robinson, L. (Ed) (2017)
This book is the first anthology of research devoted to the booming world of Chinese film festivals, covering both mainstream and independent films. It also explores festivals in …
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![Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature]( "Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature")
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Conrich, I., Sedgwick, L. (2017)
This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and …
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![Cinematic Urban Geographies]( "Cinematic Urban Geographies")
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Penz, F. (Ed), Koeck, R. (Ed) (2017)
This book proposes new methodological tools and approaches in order to tease out and elicit the different facets of urban fragmentation through the medium of cinema and the moving …
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