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  • Resetting the Scene

    Classical Hollywood Revisited

    Edited by Philippa Gates, Katherine Spring ...
    Series series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
    Showcases cutting-edge work by renowned researchers of classical Hollywood filmmaking.More than a century after its emergence, classical Hollywood cinema remains popular today with cinephiles and scholars alike. Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited, edited by Philippa Gates and Katherine Spring, showcases cutting-edge work by renowned researchers of Hollywood filmmaking of the studio ... Read more

    $36.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Criminalization/Assimilation

    Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film

    by Philippa Gates ...
    Criminalization/Assimilation traces how Classical Hollywood films constructed America’s image of Chinese Americans from their criminalization as unwanted immigrants to their eventual acceptance when assimilated citizens, exploiting both America’s yellow peril fears about Chinese immigration and its fascination with Chinatowns. Philippa Gates examines Hollywood’s responses to social issues in ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Detecting Women

    Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film

    by Philippa Gates ...
    Ambitious and comprehensive history of the female detective in Hollywood film from 1929 to 2009.Finalist for the 2012 Edgar Award in the Best Critical/Biographical Category presented by the Mystery Writers of AmericaIn this extensive and authoritative study of over 300 films, Philippa Gates explores the "woman detective" figure from her pre-cinematic origins in nineteenth century detective fiction ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas

    The Reel Asian Exchange

    Edited by Philippa Gates, Lisa Funnell ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities taking place at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. The authors consider, on the one hand, texts that exhibit what Mette Hjort refers to as, "marked transnationality," and on the other, the polysemic nature of transnational film texts by examining the release and reception of these films. The ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Full Burn

    On the Set, at the Bar, Behind the Wheel, and Over the Edge with Hollywood Stuntmen

    by Kevin Conley ...
    In The Full Burn, acclaimed journalist Kevin Conley goes inside one of the coolest - and most dangerous - jobs in the world. With bravura storytelling and full access to many of the legends of the field, Conley gives a behind-the-scenes view of the stuntman's life: the history, the culture, and the tricks of the trade, showing how-and why-stuntmen do what they do.He even subjects himself to the ... Read more

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  • Storyboarding Essentials

    SCAD Creative Essentials (How to Translate Your Story to the Screen for Film, TV, and Other Media)

    by David Harland Rousseau, Benjamin Reid Phillips ...
    A comprehensive guide to visual storytelling from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), one of the world's leaders in sequential arts instruction. Storyboarding is the process of graphically organizing a project--a motion picture, animation, motion graphic, or interactive media sequence--in order to translate artists' ideas from story to screen. Whether you're a filmmaker, animator, ad ... Read more

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  • Filipinos in Canada

    Disturbing Invisibility

    by Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan, John Paul Catungal, Roland Sintos Coloma, Lisa M. Davidson ...
    The Philippines became Canada’s largest source of short- and long-term migrants in 2010, surpassing China and India, both of which are more than ten times larger. The fourth-largest racialized minority group in the country, the Filipino community is frequently understood by such figures as the victimized nanny, the selfless nurse, and the gangster youth. On one hand, these narratives concentrate ... Read more

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  • Water Tossing Boulders

    How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools inthe Jim Crow South

    by Adrienne Berard ...
    A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never toldOn September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and ... Read more

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  • Giant Creatures in Our World

    Essays on Kaiju and American Popular Culture

    Edited by Camille D.G. Mustachio, Jason Barr ...
    Dismissed as camp by critics but revered by fans, the kaiju or "strange creature" film has become an iconic element of both Japanese and American pop culture. From homage to parody to advertising, references to Godzilla--and to a lesser extent Gamera, Rodan, Ultraman and others--abound in entertainment media. Godzilla in particular is so ubiquitous, his name is synonymous with immensity and ... Read more

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  • World Cinema, Theology, and the Human

    Humanity in Deep Focus

    by Antonio Sison ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion and Film
    Forging an open-minded but reasoned dialogue between nine acclaimed titles of world cinema, and a range of theological perspectives that touch on the theme of human experience, World Cinema, Theology, and the Human offers fresh portals of insight for the interdisciplinary area of Theology and Film. In Sison’s approach, it is the cinematic representation of vivid humanity, not necessarily ... Read more

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  • Hollywood Drive

    What it Takes to Break in, Hang in & Make it in the Entertainment Industry

    by Eve Light Honthaner ...
    Hollywood Drive: What it Takes to Break in, Hang in & Make it in the Entertainment Industry is the essential guide to starting and succeeding at a career in film and TV. The completely updated second edition features new interviews with industry professionals, information about the changing social media landscape, the wide array of distribution platforms that are available to aspiring filmmakers, ... Read more

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