Western History And Culture – Bücher, Blu-ray Discs, CDs und mehr, Seite 7

Daniel Martin
Kiki's Delivery Service

The 1989 anime Kiki's Delivery Service, the story of a young witch struggling to find her place in society, is one of the richest of Hiyao Miyazaki's films, and one of the first to enjoy distribution in t…

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Cathy Lomax
Making Up the Star

This book examines the integral role that makeup plays in the construction and promotion of female stardom, focusing on the transitional Hollywood period, between 1950 and 1970, a time of great change in …

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Kristen Lopez
Popcorn Disabilities

You can learn a lot from the movies-about sex and relationships, about business, about history. Sure, there's a fair amount of fantasy, wish fulfillment, and glorious hair to exaggerate everything, but fo…

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Andrew J Rausch
Generation Tarantino

Who were the hip, young maverick filmmakers who were allowed entry into Hollywood (many via indie films) in the mid- to late-1990s following the emergence of Quentin Tarantino?

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Jonathan Weber
City on the Edge

By one of San Francisco's foremost chroniclers, the story of the city's meteoric transformation into a global capital of technology, and how the same creative and political forces that gave rise to its bo…

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Tao Leigh Goffe
Dark Laboratory

A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that i…

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Robert W Cherny
A Short History of San Francisco

When British explorer George Vancouver arrived at the San Francisco presidio in 1792, he described it as resembling a "compound for cattle"---hardly the opulent outpost he had expected of Spanis…

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Nathaniel P Langford
Vigilante Days & Ways

Riders, Outlaws & Rope The True Story of Montana's Vigilantes Step into the perilous gold rush days of Montana, where lawlessness reigned and justice came at the end of a rope. In this updated edition…

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S S Prawer
Nosferatu

Werner Herzog's Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht (1979) is one of the masterpieces of the New German Cinema of the 1960s and 70s. Adapted from Bram Stoker's Dracula, and mindful too of F. W. Murnau's earlier…

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Lucy Fischer
The Cinema of Converging Lives

What happens when strangers meet in film? In this book, Lucy Fischer analyzes films by a diverse and international group of directors which portray the seemingly random intersection of separate lives. Exp…

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Cathy Lomax
Making Up the Star

This book examines the integral role that makeup plays in the construction and promotion of female stardom, focusing on the transitional Hollywood period, between 1950 and 1970, a time of great change in …

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A Century in 16mm

When the small cameras and portable projectors that used 16mm film stock emerged in 1923, they allowed--for the first time in history--the possibility that anyone could make, show, and watch movies. A fou…

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Revolution in 35mm

Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960--1990 examines how political violence and resistance was represented in arthouse and cult films fr…

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Julian Preece
Adapting Sex on Screen

Sex has always been cinema's most contested territory.Adapting Sex on Screen traces that battle through three once scandalous source texts: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs (1870), Arthur Schnitz…

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Transnational Arab Stardom

"A richly illustrated collection, structured along chronological, geographical and thematic lines, this book offers a significant new approach to Arab film studies and to star studies by expanding bo…

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Justine Atkinson
Collaborative Curation

This is the first exploration of the model of collaborative curation, a non-hierarchical decision-making process that requires a decentering of the individual, to reimagine curatorial practice in film fro…

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Geoff King
Arthouse Crime Scenes

How is crime represented in art cinema? And how can this be understood in the context of global sociopolitical and film-industrial trends? Crime might be shown or lurk only at the edges. It might be left …

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Lucy Fischer
The Cinema of Converging Lives

What happens when strangers meet in film? In this book, Lucy Fischer analyzes films by a diverse and international group of directors which portray the seemingly random intersection of separate lives. Exp…

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Stephen Rebello
Hitchcockian Thrillers

During Alfred Hitchcock's five-decade reign as the screen's internationally celebrated Master of Suspense, he directed 53 motion pictures. In such Hitchcock gold standard classics as The 39 Steps, Rear Wi…

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David Thomson
A Sudden Flicker of Light

From cinema's most distinguished historian and critic comes a masterful one volume look at the whole sweep of movie history ---perfect for fans of iconic films and modern classics, from Citizen Kane to An…

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