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  • Transnational Cinematography Studies

    by Lindsay Coleman, Daisuke Miyao, Roberto Schaefer, Ceri Higgins, Patrick Keating, Evan Lieberman, Jakob Isak Nielsen, Peter H. Rist0, Carlos Rojas1, Julie Turnock2 ...
    Transnational Cinematography Studies introduces new perspectives to the discipline of film and media studies. First, this volume focuses on a crucial yet largely unexplored area in film and media studies: the substantial communication between critical studies of cinema and film production practices. This book integrates theories and practices of cinematographic technology. Secondly, Transnational ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema

    by Peter H. Rist ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    The Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema covers the long history of cinema in Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the nine Spanish-speaking countries. These films include Los tres berretines, Prisioneros de la tierra, La balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde, La hora de los hornos, El chacal de Nahueltoro, La teta asustada, Abrir puertas y ventanas, El secreto de sus ojos, and NO.This is done ... Read more

    $210.59 USD

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  • Exorcising Terror

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    Renowned author Ariel Dorfman, obsessed for twenty-five years with the malignant shadow General Pinochet cast upon Chile and the world, followed every twist and turn of the four year old trial in Great Britain, Spain and Chile as well as in the U.S., the country that had created Pinochet. Told as a suspense thriller, filled with court-room drama and sudden reversals of fortune, the book at the ... Read more

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  • Mystery, Suspense, Film Noir and Detective Movies On DVD

    by John Howard Reid ...
    As a keen fan, I'm naturally aware that classic movies are often available on two or more DVD labels. Which is the best? This book will tell you. And surprise, surprise! The best is often the least expensive version. Why pay $29.95 when you can buy a superior DVD of exactly the same movie for $2? This book names names and steers you in the right direction every time. But as a real keen fan, I'm ... Read more

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  • Masters of War

    Latin America and U.S. Agression From the Cuban Revolution Through the Clinton Years

    by Clara Nieto ...
    Translated by Chris Brandt ...
    In Masters of War, Clara Nieto adeptly presents the parallel histories of the countries of Latin America, histories that are intertwined, each reflecting the United States’ "coherent policy of intervention" set into motion by the Monroe Doctrine. As the value of this continued policy comes increasingly into question, Nieto argues for the need to evaluate the alarming precedent set in Latin America ... Read more

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  • My First Movie: Take Two

    Ten Celebrated Directors Talk About Their First Film

    by Stephen Lowenstein ...
    A sequel to the critically acclaimed My First Movie, Stephen Lowenstein once again talks to some of our most celebrated filmmakers about their debut films. Lowenstein interviews ten directors about their career-launching film and how they got the movie off the ground: how they raised the finance, found actors, searched for locations, worked with the crew and saw the project through to completion. ... Read more

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  • Son of the 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen

    by Richard Crouse ...
    Fans of offbeat cinema, discriminating renters and collectors, and movie buffs will drool over this checklist of the best overlooked and underappreciated films of the last hundred years. In Son of the 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen, Richard Crouse, Canada AM film critic and host of television's award-winning Reel to Real, presents a follow-up to his 2003 book with another hundred of his ... Read more

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  • Teaching Film

    by Mark Lynn Anderson, Dudley Andrew, Michael Aronson ...
    Series Book 35 - Options for Teaching
    Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of film is dispersed across a range of academic departments, programs, and scholarly organizations, film studies has come to be recognized as a field in its own right. In an era when teaching and scholarship are increasingly interdisciplinary, film studies ... Read more

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  • Race in Another America

    The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil

    by Edward E. Telles ...
    This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key similarities to that of the United States. Brazilians have commonly compared themselves with North Americans, and have traditionally argued that ... Read more

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  • Black and White Cinema

    A Short History

    by Wheeler Winston Dixon ...
    From the glossy monochrome of the classic Hollywood romance, to the gritty greyscale of the gangster picture, to film noir’s moody interplay of light and shadow, black-and-white cinematography has been used to create a remarkably wide array of tones. Yet today, with black-and-white film stock nearly impossible to find, these cinematographic techniques are virtually extinct, and filmgoers’ ... Read more

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  • Global Art Cinema

    New Theories and Histories

    Edited by Rosalind Galt, Karl Schoonover ...
    "Art cinema" has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to the concept since the 1970s. And yet in the last thirty years art cinema has flourished worldwide. The emergence of East Asian and Latin American new waves, the reinvigoration of European film, the success of Iranian directors, and the ... Read more

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