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Picturing Peter Bogdanovich: My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director [Hardback]
Peter Tonguette (Author)
£32.00ISBN: 9780813147314
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
In 1971, Newsweek heralded The Last Picture Show as "the most impressive work by a young American director since Citizen Kane." Indeed, few filmmakers rivaled Peter Bogdanovich's popularity over the next decade. Riding the success of What's Up... .... Learn More -
What Price Hollywood?: Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor [Hardback]
Elyce Rae Helford (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780813179292
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
During the early Hollywood sound era, studio director George Cukor produced nearly fifty films in as many years, famously winning the
Best Director Oscar at the 1964 Academy Awards for My Fair Lady. His collaborations with so-called diffi... .... Learn More -
CINÉMA&CIE, INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES JOURNAL, VOL. XX, no. 32, SPRING 2019: Cinema and Mid-Century Colour Culture [Paperback]
Elena Gipponi (Editor); Joshua Yumibe (Editor)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869772450
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Cinema&Cie
Suspended between transparency and naturalness on the one hand, and opacity and artificiality on the other, colour is integral to the cinematic apparatus in an ideological as well as technological sense. This special issue of Cinéma&Cie aims to ad... .... Learn More -
Literacy in the Mountains: Community, Newspapers, and Writing in Appalachia [Hardback]
Samantha NeCamp (Author)
£36.00ISBN: 9780813178851
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
After the 2016 presidential election, popular media branded Appalachia as "Trump Country," decrying its inhabitants as ignorant fearmongers voting against their own interests. And since the 1880s, there have been many, including travel writers and... .... Learn More -
History of Cinema Without Names/4 Exposing the Moving Image: The Cinematic Medium Across World Fairs, Art Museums and Cultural Exhibitions [Paperback]
Diego Cavallotti (Editor); Simone Dotto (Editor); Andrea Mariani (Editor)
£31.00ISBN: 9788869772306
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Udine/Gorizia Conference Proceedings
The XXV FilmForum Cinematic Medium Across World Fairs, Art Museums, and Cultural Exhibitions conference has been devoted to exploring the interrelations between moving images, the cinematic medium and other arts and media as seen through global ex... .... Learn More -
A Uniquely American Epic: Intimacy and Action, Tenderness and Violence in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch [Hardback]
Michael Bliss (Editor); Garner Simmons (Contributor); Gerard Camy (Contributor); Jerry Holt (Contributor); Kathryn Jones (Contributor)
£32.00ISBN: 9780813178141
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
One of the most innovative films ever made, Sam Peckinpah's motion picture The Wild Bunch was released in 1969. From the outset, the film was considered controversial because of its powerful, graphic, and direct depiction of violence, but it was ... .... Learn More -
Lewis Milestone: Life and Films [Hardback]
Harlow Robinson (Author)
£32.00ISBN: 9780813178332
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
This comprehensive biography is the first to present Lewis Milestone's remarkable life -- a classic rags-to-riches American narrative -- in full and explores his many acclaimed films from the silent to the sound era. Creator of All Quiet on the W... .... Learn More -
Aquí and Allá: Transnational Dominican Theater and Performance [Hardback]
Camilla Stevens (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780822945864
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Latinx and Latin American Profiles
Aquí and Allá: Transnational Dominican Theater and Performance explores how contemporary Dominican theater and performance artists portray a sense of collective belonging shaped by the transnational connections between the homeland and the diaspor... .... Learn More -
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Children, Television, and Fred Rogers [Paperback]
Mark Collins (Editor); Margaret Mary Kimmel (Editor)
£15.50ISBN: 9780822966166
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Updated edition featuring a new foreword by David "Mr. McFeely" Newell.
Born in 1928 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Fred Rogers began his television career in 1951 at NBC. In 1954, he became program director for the newly founded WQED-TV in Pi... .... Learn More -
CINÉMA&CIE, INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES JOURNAL, VOL. XIX, no. 31, FALL 2018: To Each Their Own Pop. The Mediatization of Popular Music in Europe (1960-1979) [Paperback]
Alessandro Bratus (Editor); Massimo Locatelli (Editor); Miguel Mera (Editor)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869772320
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: CINÉMA&CIE, International Film Studies Journal
Volume: Vol. XIX, no. 31, Fall 2018
Pop music meets the media... This issue is dedicated to a social and cultural phenomenon that we could call the ‘mediatization of pop music’. With a particular focus on the 1960s and 1970s, it is our contention that these two decades significantly... .... Learn More
