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Pilates of the Mediterranean [Paperback]
Joseph Borg (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9789993276081
Published by : Midsea Books
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The book is an analysis of contemporary society with particular emphasis on Maltese society. The book presents a collection of 73 short essays and proposes a vision for local politics based on the concept of Malta as our common home. It discusses ... .... Learn More -
City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures [Paperback]
Bernard F. Dick (Author)
£21.00ISBN: 9780813153445
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Horror films. Deanna Durbin musicals. Francis the talking mule. Ma and Pa Kettle. Ross Hunter weepies. Theme parks. ET. Apollo 13. These are only a few of the many faces of Universal Pictures. In February 1906 Carl Laemmle, German immigrant and fo... .... Learn More -
Street with No Name: A History of the Classic American Film Noir [Paperback]
Andrew Dickos (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780813152196
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Flourishing in the United States during the 1940s and 50s, the bleak, violent genre of filmmaking known as film noir reflected the attitudes of writers and auteur directors influenced by the events of the turbulent mid-twentieth century. Films suc... .... Learn More -
Voice of the Wildcats: Claude Sullivan and the Rise of Modern Sportscasting [Paperback]
Alan Sullivan (Author); Tom Leach (Author); Joe Cox (Author)
£16.50ISBN: 9780813154619
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
As one of the first voices of the University of Kentucky men's basketball program, Claude Sullivan (1924-1967) became a nationally known sportscasting pioneer. His career followed Kentucky's rise to prominence as he announced the first four NCAA c... .... Learn More -
Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio [Paperback]
Bernard F. Dick (Editor)
£21.00ISBN: 9780813152158
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
The recent $3.4 billion purchase of Columbia Pictures by Sony Corporation focused attention on a studio that had survived one of Hollywood's worst scandals under David Begelman, as well as ownership by Coca-Cola and David Puttnam's misguided attem... .... Learn More -
The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row: Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures [Paperback]
Bernard F. Dick (Author)
£19.00ISBN: 9780813152097
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Ben Hecht called him "White Fang," and director Charles Vidor took him to court for verbal abuse. The image of Harry Cohn as vulgarian is such a part of Hollywood lore that it is hard to believe there were other Harry Cohns: the only studio presid... .... Learn More -
Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism [Paperback]
Paula Marantz Cohen (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9780813151892
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
This provocative study traces Alfred Hitchcock's long directorial career from Victorianism to postmodernism. Paula Cohen considers a sampling of Hitchcock's best films - Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho - as well as some of his mor... .... Learn More -
Hitchcock and the Censors [Paperback]
John Billheimer (Author)
£21.00ISBN: 9780813180540
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo, undue violence, toilet humor, religious disrespect, and all forms of indecency, real or imagined. From 1934 ... .... Learn More -
That's Entertainment: Spectacle, Amusement, and Leisure Culture [Paperback]
Michele Fadda (Editor); Sara Pesce (Editor)
£23.00ISBN: 9788869771798
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Out of Series
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The 20th century witnessed the collapse of the traditional separation between the realm of 'official' culture and that of 'popular' entertainment. This event produced dramatic consequences at all levels of social life in the West, especially in th... .... Learn More -
Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood [Paperback]
Bernard F. Dick (Author)
£19.00ISBN: 9780813151359
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Not yet published - available for pre-order
From Double Indemnity to The Godfather, the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale beside the story of the studio that made them. In the golden age of Hollywood, Paramount was one of the Big Five studios. Gulf +... .... Learn More
