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Frankly, My Dear "Gone With the Wind" Revisited

Haskell Molly

ISBN: PB: 9780300164374, Yale University Press, March 2010
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 15 black&white illus.

How and why has the saga of Scarlett O'Hara kept such a tenacious hold on the American imagination for almost three-quarters of a century? In the first book ever to deal simultaneously with Margaret Mitchell's beloved novel and David Selznick's spect...

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Bowery to Broadway The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema

Shannon Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781589662001, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, March 2010
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

Before Johnny Depp and "Public Enemies", there was "The Public Enemy". James Cagney's 1931 portrayal of the Irish American gangster, Tommy Powers, set the standard for the Hollywood gangster and helped to launch a golden age of Irish American cinema....

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Adventure of the Real Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema

Henley Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226327150, ISBN: HB: 9780226327143, University of Chicago Press, February 2010
536 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 maps, 2 tables, 161 halftones

Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he completed over one hundred films, both documentary and fictional, and exerted an i...

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Alice Guy Blache Cinema Pioneer

Simon Joan, Gaines Jane, McMahan Alison, Musser Charles, Tomadjoglou Kim, Williams Alan

ISBN: HB: 9780300152500, Yale University Press, November 2009
168 pp., 16.3x23.4 cm, 8 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.

This book celebrates the achievements of Alice Guy Blache (1873-1968), the first woman motion picture director and producer. From 1896 to 1907, Guy Blache created films for Gaumont in Paris. In 1907, she moved to the United States and established her...

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Film, Video, and New Media at the Art Institute of Chicago, with the Howard and Donna Stone Gift

Dorin Lisa B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300146905, Yale University Press, June 2009
112 pp., 26x24.2 cm, 70 colour illus.

During the past four decades, the accessibility of videotape, along with that of 8- and 16-millimetre film, has revolutionized artistic production, and moving-image technologies ranging from the filmic to the digital have attained mainstream status....

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From Rajahs and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond Images of India in International Films of the 20th Century

Mulay Vijaya

ISBN: PB: 9781905422968, ISBN: HB: 9781905422951, Seagull Books, March 2009
554 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm

Brahmins named Iftikar, Buddhist rites in Hindu Shiva temples, Indian maidens dressed like Arabian harem girls – right from the birth of cinema, international movies have been wildly inventive in their fantastical imagining of India. In fact, images...

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Hitchcock's Music

Sullivan Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780300136180, Yale University Press, May 2008
384 pp., 15.6x23.4 cm, 30 black&white illus.

For half a century Alfred Hitchcock created films full of gripping and memorable music. Over his long career he presided over more musical styles than any director in history and ultimately changed how we think about film music. This book is the firs...

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City Flicks Indian Cinema and the Urban Experience

Kaarsholm Preben

ISBN: PB: 9781905422364, ISBN: HB: 9781905422357, Seagull Books, October 2006
240 pp., 23x15.6 cm

The relationship between cinema and modernity in the Indian context is both complex and multifaceted. In this volume, some of the leading names in film and cultural studies explore its many dimensions. The essays range from discussions of urbanity...

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Apu and After Re-visiting Ray's Cinema

Biswas Moinak

ISBN: PB: 9781905422265, ISBN: HB: 9781905422258, Seagull Books, June 2006
260 pp., 23.1x16 cm, 25 halftones

Satyajit Ray's very first film, "Pather Panchali", established him as a leading presence in Indian cinema, and fifty years later he is still a major icon for filmmakers, viewers and scholars. This collection takes a fresh look at the major films of R...

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Vsevolod Pudovkin Selected Essays

Taylor Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781905422241, ISBN: HB: 9781905422234, Seagull Books, June 2006
816 pp., 22.9x15.7 cm, 42 halftones

Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893-1953) was one of the leading Soviet film directors in the "golden age" of silent cinema in the 1920s. His films – especially "The Mother", "The End of St Petersburg" and "Storm over Asia" – are classics of silent cinema. Li...

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