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  • Hedy Lamarr

    The Most Beautiful Woman in Film

    by Ruth Barton ...
    Series series Screen Classics
    This true story of a Hollywood sex symbol's tumultuous life is "a real page-turner. Now, here is a book that would make a great movie" ( London Daily Mail).Hedy Lamarr's life was punctuated by salacious rumors and public scandal, but it was her stunning looks and classic Hollywood glamour that continuously captivated audiences. Born Hedwig Kiesler, she escaped an unhappy marriage with arms dealer ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Music and Sound in Silent Film

    From the Nickelodeon to The Artist

    Edited by Ruth Barton, Simon Trezise ...
    Series series Routledge Music and Screen Media Series
    Despite their name, the silent films of the early cinematic era were frequently accompanied by music and other sound elements of many kinds, including mechanical instruments, live performers, and audience sing-alongs. The 12 chapters in this concise book explore the multitude of functions filled by music in the rapidly changing context of the silent film era, as the concept of cinema itself ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Rex Ingram

    Visionary Director of the Silent Screen

    by Ruth Barton Cremen ...
    Series series Screen Classics
    Noted for his charisma, talent, and striking good looks, director Rex Ingram (18931950) is ranked alongside D. W. Griffith, Marshall Neilan, and Erich von Stroheim as one of the greatest artists of the silent cinema. Ingram briefly studied sculpture at the Yale University School of Art after emigrating from Ireland to the United States in 1911; but he was soon seduced by the new medium of moving ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The X Club

    Power and Authority in Victorian Science

    by Ruth Barton ...
    In 1864, amid headline-grabbing heresy trials, members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science were asked to sign a declaration affirming that science and scripture were in agreement. Many criticized the new test of orthodoxy; nine decided that collaborative action was required. The X Club tells their story.These six ambitious professionals and three wealthy amateurs—J. D. Hooker ... Read more

    $42.49 USD

  • Irish National Cinema

    by Ruth Barton ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    From the international successes of Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan, to the smaller productions of the new generation of Irish filmmakers, this book explores questions of nationalism, gender identities, the representation of the Troubles and of Irish history as well as cinema's response to the so-called Celtic Tiger and its aftermath.Irish National Cinema argues that in order to understand the unique ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Irish cinema in the twenty-first century

    by Ruth Barton ...
    An accessible, comprehensive overview of contemporary Irish cinema, this book is intended for use as a third-level textbook and is designed to appeal to academics in the areas of film studies and Irish studies. Responding to changes in the Irish production environment, it includes chapters on new Irish genres such as creative documentary, animation and horror. It discusses shifting representations ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Politics of Place

    Space and Locality in the European Screen Industries

    Edited by Andrew Spicer, Ruth Barton, Amy Genders ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Profound transformations in the ways media products are produced, distributed and consumed caused by digital technologies that have ‘disrupted’ established business models, markets and relationships, has led to a renewed interest in the industry’s spatial patterning and hence the importance of place in which locality, paradoxically in an era of globalisation, has been seen as having heightened ... Read more

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  • British National Cinema

    by Sarah Street ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    The first substantial overview of the British film industry with emphasis on its genres, stars, and socioeconomic context, British National Cinema by Sarah Street is an important title in Routledge's new National Cinemas series. British National Cinema synthesizes years of scholarship on British film while incorporating the author' fresh perspective and research. Street divides the study of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Beautiful

    The Life of Hedy Lamarr

    by Stephen Michael Shearer ...
    "A fascinating biography that re-creates Hollywood's Golden Age of Glamour" as it recounts the life of the star and inventor ( Publishers Weekly).Hedy Lamarr's exotic beauty was heralded across Europe in the early 1930s. Yet she became infamous for her nude scenes in the scandalous movie Ecstasy. Trapped in a marriage to one of Austria's munitions barons, a friend of Mussolini's who hid his Jewish ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Directory of World Cinema: Britain

    Edited by Emma Bell, Neil Mitchell ...
    Bringing to mind rockers and royals, Buckingham Palace and the Scottish Highlands, Britain holds a special interest for international audiences who have flocked in recent years to quality exports like Fish Tank, Trainspotting and The King's Speech. A series of essays and articles exploring the definitive films of Great Britain, this addition to Intellect's Directory of World Cinema series turns ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Possessed

    The Life of Joan Crawford

    by Donald Spoto ...
    Joan Crawford was one of the most incandescent film stars of all time, yet she was also one of the most misunderstood. In this brilliantlyresearched, thoughtful, and intimate biography, bestselling author Donald Spoto goes beyond the popular caricature—the abusive, unstable mother portrayed in her adopted daughter Christina Crawford's memoir, Mommie Dearest—to give us a three-dimensional portrait ... Read more

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