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Cinematic Canines

Dogs and Their Work in the Fiction Film

by Adrienne L. McLean, Joanna E. Rapf, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Jeremy Groskopf, Sara Ross, James Castonguay, Kelly Wolf, Aaron Skabelund, Jane O'Sullivan, Giuliana Lund0, Elizabeth Leane1, Guinevere Narraway2, Murray Pomerance3, Alexandra Horowitz4 ...

Dogs have been part of motion pictures since the movies began. They have been featured onscreen in various capacities, from any number of “man’s best friends” (Rin Tin Tin, Asta, Toto, Lassie, Benji, Uggie, and many, many more) to the psychotic Cujo. The contributors to Cinematic Canines take a close look at Hollywood films and beyond in order to show that the popularity of dogs on the screen ... Read more

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Dogs have been part of motion pictures since the movies began. They have been featured onscreen in various capacities, from any number of “man’s best friends” (Rin Tin Tin, Asta, Toto, Lassie, Benji, Uggie, and many, many more) to the psychotic Cujo. The contributors to Cinematic Canines take a close look at Hollywood films and beyond in order to show that the popularity of dogs on the screen
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Creepy Crawling

Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

by Jeffrey Melnick ...

"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the Family creepy crawled their way through Los Angeles in the sixties and then on through American ... Read more

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"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the Family creepy crawled their way through Los Angeles in the sixties and then on through American
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Bambi vs. Godzilla

On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business

by David Mamet ...

From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and playwright: an exhilaratingly subversive inside look at Hollywood from a filmmaker who’s always played by his own rules.Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like a personals ad? Why are there so many producers listed in movie credits? And what on earth do those producers do anyway? Refreshingly unafraid to offend, ... Read more

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From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and playwright: an exhilaratingly subversive inside look at Hollywood from a filmmaker who’s always played by his own rules.Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like a personals ad? Why are there so many producers listed in movie credits? And what on earth do those producers do anyway? Refreshingly unafraid to offend,
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Trivia-On-Books)

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Trivia-on-Book: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyTake the challenge and share it with friends and family for a time of fun!**You may have read the book, but not have liked it.You may have liked the book, but not be a fan.You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you a fan?**Trivia-on-Books is an independently curated trivia quiz on the book for readers, students, and fans alike. If you're ... Read more

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Trivia-on-Book: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyTake the challenge and share it with friends and family for a time of fun!**You may have read the book, but not have liked it.You may have liked the book, but not be a fan.You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you a fan?**Trivia-on-Books is an independently curated trivia quiz on the book for readers, students, and fans alike. If you're
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American Comics

A History

by Jeremy Dauber ...

The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination.Comics have conquered America. From our multiplexes, where Marvel and DC movies reign supreme, to our television screens, where comics-based shows like The Walking Dead have become among the most popular in cable history, to convention halls, best-seller lists, Pulitzer Prize–winning titles, ... Read more

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The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination.Comics have conquered America. From our multiplexes, where Marvel and DC movies reign supreme, to our television screens, where comics-based shows like The Walking Dead have become among the most popular in cable history, to convention halls, best-seller lists, Pulitzer Prize–winning titles,
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But Have You Read the Book?

52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films

by Kristen Lopez ...

Series series Turner Classic Movies
For film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 52 cinema classics and the literary works that served as their inspiration.“I love that movie!”“But have you read the book?”Within these pages, Turner Classic Movies offers an endlessly fascinating look at 52 beloved screen adaptations and the great reads that inspired them. Some films, like Clueless ... Read more

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For film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 52 cinema classics and the literary works that served as their inspiration.“I love that movie!”“But have you read the book?”Within these pages, Turner Classic Movies offers an endlessly fascinating look at 52 beloved screen adaptations and the great reads that inspired them. Some films, like Clueless
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Rape-Revenge Films

A Critical Study, 2d ed.

by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas ...

Often considered the lowest depth to which cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film is broadly dismissed as fundamentally exploitative and sensational, catering only to a demented, regressive demographic. This second edition, ten years after the first, continues the assessment of these films and the discourse they provoke. Included is a new chapter about women-directed rape-revenge films, a ... Read more

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Often considered the lowest depth to which cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film is broadly dismissed as fundamentally exploitative and sensational, catering only to a demented, regressive demographic. This second edition, ten years after the first, continues the assessment of these films and the discourse they provoke. Included is a new chapter about women-directed rape-revenge films, a
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The Superhero Reader

Edited by Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...

Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture.While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development of the North ... Read more

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Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture.While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development of the North
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Film

A Very Short Introduction

by Michael Wood ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases, and there are very few films, even in ... Read more

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Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases, and there are very few films, even in
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Projections

Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling

by Jared Gardner ...

Series series Post*45
When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by major presses and more comics-based films arriving on the screen each year.Projections argues that the ... Read more

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When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by major presses and more comics-based films arriving on the screen each year.Projections argues that the
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A Cinema of Loneliness

by Robert Kolker ...

An updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film the new edition of A Cinema of Loneliness reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade incorporating discussions of directors like Judd Apatow and David Fincher while offering assessments of the recent and in some cases final work from the filmmakers--Penn Scorsese Stone Altman Kubrick--at the ... Read more

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An updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film the new edition of A Cinema of Loneliness reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade incorporating discussions of directors like Judd Apatow and David Fincher while offering assessments of the recent and in some cases final work from the filmmakers--Penn Scorsese Stone Altman Kubrick--at the
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Nightmare Alley

Film Noir and the American Dream

by Mark Osteen ...

Classic film noir offers more than pesky private eyes and beautiful bad girls—it explores the quest for the not-so-attainable American dream.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLDesperate young lovers on the lam (They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist (Nightmare Alley), a penniless pregnant girl mistaken for a wealthy heiress (No Man of ... Read more

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Classic film noir offers more than pesky private eyes and beautiful bad girls—it explores the quest for the not-so-attainable American dream.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLDesperate young lovers on the lam (They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist (Nightmare Alley), a penniless pregnant girl mistaken for a wealthy heiress (No Man of
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