Film, Media, & Performing Arts


Heroes

What They Do and Why We Need Them
$27.95
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Hardback Oct 2010 ISBN13: 9780199739745ISBN10: 0199739749 Using the lens of popular culture, Heroes reveals why our perceptions of heroism affect the way people behave in heroic and villainous ways.
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Opening Bazin

Postwar Film Theory and Its Afterlife
$99.00
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Hardback Apr 2011 ISBN13: 9780199733880ISBN10: 0199733880 Renowned film scholars from four continents assess the influence and legacy of cinema's most significant philosopher-critic, fifty years after his death.
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Opening Bazin

Postwar Film Theory and Its Afterlife
$34.95
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Paperback Apr 2011 ISBN13: 9780199733897ISBN10: 0199733899 Renowned film scholars from four continents assess the influence and legacy of cinema's most significant philosopher-critic, fifty years after his death.
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Filming Fiction

Tagore, Premchand, and Ray
$55.00
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Hardback Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780198075936ISBN10: 0198075936 An examination of the mutual relationship between Indian literature and film
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Hollywood Cartoons

American Animation in Its Golden Age
$29.99
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Paperback Sep 2003 ISBN13: 9780195167290ISBN10: 0195167295 The definitive account of the American animated cartoon in its golden age
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A Song in the Dark

The Birth of the Musical Film
Second Edition
$27.95
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Paperback Oct 2009 ISBN13: 9780195377347ISBN10: 0195377346 Extensively revised, meticulously researched, and more witty and insightful than ever, the new edition of this award-winning book pays fitting tribute to this most turbulent era in the history of movie musicals
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Behind the Curtain

Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios
$99.00
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Hardback Sep 2008 ISBN13: 9780195327632ISBN10: 0195327632 Featuring an extensive companion website with video interviews with the musicians themselves, Behind the Curtain is a powerful, ground-level view of this globally important music industry
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Behind the Curtain

Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios
$24.95
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Paperback Sep 2008 ISBN13: 9780195327649ISBN10: 0195327640 Featuring an extensive companion website with video interviews with the musicians themselves, Behind the Curtain is a powerful, ground-level view of this globally important music industry.
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Modernism: A Very Short Introduction

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Paperback Aug 2010 ISBN13: 9780192804419ISBN10: 0192804413 A compact introduction to modernism--why it began, what it is, and how it has shaped virtually all aspects of 20th and 21st century life

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Laughing Fit to Kill

Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery
$74.00
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Hardback Jun 2008 ISBN13: 9780195304701ISBN10: 0195304705 A brilliant account of how Richard Pryor, Ishmael Reed, and many others have used humor to take up the traumatic legacy of slavery
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