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Hollywood in Havana US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959
ISBN: PB: 9780226593692, ISBN: HB: 9780226593555, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones
In the 1940s and '50s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Marlon Brando. In fact, Hollywood was seemingly everywhere in pre-Castro Havana, with movies theaters t...
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£27,00
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£79,00
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Hitler and Film The Fuhrer's Hidden Passion
ISBN: HB: 9780300200362, Yale University Press, March 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
A presence in Third Reich cinema, Adolf Hitler also personally financed, ordered, and censored films and newsreels and engaged in complex relationships with their stars and directors. Here, Bill Niven offers a powerful argument for reconsidering Hitl...
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£25,00
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Hidden Hitchcock
ISBN: PB: 9780226514345, ISBN: HB: 9780226374673, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 54 halftones
No filmmaker has more successfully courted mass-audience understanding than Alfred Hitchcock, and none has been studied more intensively by scholars.  In "Hidden Hitchcock", D. A. Miller does what seems impossible: he discovers what has remained unse...
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£17,00
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£22,00
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Herzog by Ebert
ISBN: HB: 9780226500423, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about the films he loved for the Chicago Sun-Times, his vast cinematic knowledge mat...
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£19,00
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House Full Indian Cinema and the Active Audience
ISBN: PB: 9780226361567, ISBN: HB: 9780226361420, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 1 table
India is the largest producer and consumer of feature films in the world, far outstripping Hollywood in the number of movies released and tickets sold every year. Cinema quite simply dominates Indian popular culture, and has for many decades exerted...
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£30,00
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£84,50
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Hollywood Westerns and American Myth The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy
ISBN: PB: 9780300172065, Yale University Press, September 2011
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 colour images, 52 black&white illus.
In this pathbreaking book one of America's most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks' "Red Rive...
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£25,00
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Hitchcock's Music
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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£18,00
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