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Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia Film Culture in Transition
ISBN: PB: 9780226726656, ISBN: HB: 9780226726649, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The esteemed film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has brought global cinema to American audiences for the last four decades. His incisive writings on individual filmmakers define film culture as a diverse and ever-evolving practice, unpredictable yet subje...
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£20,00
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La Rencontre Du Cinema Francais Analyse, Genre, Histoire
ISBN: PB: 9780300158717, Yale University Press, August 2010
336 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 26 black&white illus.
"A la rencontre du cinema francais: analyse, genre, histoire" is intended to serve as the core textbook in a wide variety of upper-level undergraduate and graduate French cinema courses. In contrast to content-, theme-, or issue-based approaches to f...
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£64,00
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Typhus
ISBN: HB: 9781906497422, Seagull Books, August 2010
212 pp., 20.1x23 cm
Set in Malaya during the British protectorate, Sartre's "Typhus" centres on the improbable couple formed by the disgraced former doctor Georges, who has sunk to the lowest depths of a highly stratified colonial society, and Nellie, a down-at-heel nig...
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Conversations with Mohsen Makhmalbaf
ISBN: PB: 9780857425942, Seagull Books, May 2010
188 pp., 20.8x14.5 cm
Born in Tehran in 1957, filmmaker Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf grew up in the religious and politically charged atmosphere of the 1960s, and the June 1963 uprising of Ayatollah Khomeini constitutes one of his earliest memories. In 1972, Makhmalbaf for...
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Frankly, My Dear "Gone With the Wind" Revisited
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
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
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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£34,50
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£88,50
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