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  • Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm

    Cinema, Television, and the Archive

    Edited by Mark Garrett Cooper, Sara Beth Levavy, Ross Melnick, Mark Williams ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    The twentieth century generated tens of thousands of hours of American newsfilm but not the scholarly apparatus necessary to analyze and contextualize them. Assembling new approaches to the study of U.S. newsfilm in cinema and television, this book makes a long overdue critical intervention in the field of film and media studies by addressing the format’s inherent intermediality; its mediation of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Documentary Film

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Patricia Aufderheide ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes readers along the diverse ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Life: The Movie

    How Entertainment Conquered Reality

    by Neal Gabler ...
    The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything—news, politics, religion, high culture—into one vast public entertainment.Neal Gabler calls them "lifies," those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media and the national conversation for weeks, months, even years: the death of Princess Diana, the trial of O.J. Simpson, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Anarchy Comics

    The Complete Collection

    Edited by Jay Kinney ...
    Anarchy Comics: The Complete Collection brings together the legendary four issues of Anarchy Comics (1978–1986), the underground comic that melded anarchist politics with a punk sensibility, producing a riveting mix of satire, revolt, and artistic experimentation. This international anthology collects the comic stories of all thirty contributors from the U.S., Great Britain, France, Germany, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hollywood

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Decherney ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this engaging and readable book, Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires. He recounts how the studio system rose out of the ashes of Thomas Edison's trust to create the handful of companies that have dominated global screens and imaginations for more than 100 years. Throughout, he reveals that the elements we ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Magic Kingdom

    Walt Disney and the American Way of Life

    by Steven Watts ...
    The Magic Kingdom sheds new light on the cultural icon of "Uncle Walt." Watts digs deeply into Disney's private life, investigating his roles as husband, father, and brother and providing fresh insight into his peculiar psyche-his genuine folksiness and warmth, his domineering treatment of colleagues and friends, his deepest prejudices and passions. Full of colorful sketches of daily life at the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Movie-Made America

    A Cultural History of American Movies

    by Robert Sklar ...
    Hailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big business, and shaper of American values.Ever since Edison's peep shows first captivated urban audiences, film has had a revolutionary impact on American society, ... Read more

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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

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A New History of Documentary Film

    Second Edition

    by Betsy A. McLane ...
    A New History of Documentary Film, Second Edition offers a much-needed resource, considering the very rapid changes taking place within documentary media. Building upon the best-selling 2005 edition, Betsy McLane keeps the same chronological examination, factual reliability, ease of use and accessible prose style as before, while also weaving three new threads - Experimental Documentary, Visual ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Of Comics and Men

    A Cultural History of American Comic Books

    by Jean-Paul Gabilliet ...
    Translated by Bart Beaty, Nick Nguyen ...
    Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the American comic book industry from the 1930s to the present. The book intertwines aesthetic issues and critical biographies with the concerns of production, distribution, and audience reception, making it ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • History and Film

    Moving Pictures and the Study of the Past

    by Maarten Pereboom ...
    The ability to view recorded moving pictures has had a major impact on human culture since the development of the necessary technologies over a century ago. For most of this time people have gone to the movies to be entertained and perhaps edified, but in the meantime television, the videocassette recorder (VCR), the digital versatile disk (DVD) player, the personal computer (desktop and laptop), ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Disney's Most Notorious Film

    Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South

    by Jason Sperb ...
    The Walt Disney Company offers a vast universe of movies, television shows, theme parks, and merchandise, all carefully crafted to present an image of wholesome family entertainment. Yet Disney also produced one of the most infamous Hollywood films, Song of the South. Using cartoon characters and live actors to retell the stories of Joel Chandler Harris, SotS portrays a kindly black Uncle Remus ... Read more

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