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  • Charles Bukowski

    Autobiographer, Gender Critic, Iconoclast

    Charles Bukowski disliked academics, as this academic and readable book points out from page one onward of its introduction, "Charles Bukowski vs. American Ways." Begun before Bukowski died in 1994, Charles Bukowski: Autobiographer, Gender Critic, Iconoclast was the first doctoral dissertation on his prose and poetry up to that date, and it is offered now for fans and academics alike-no more need ... Leer más

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  • Southern Illinois University at 150 Years

    Growth, Accomplishments, and Challenges

    Chartered in 1869, Southern Illinois University has been a stalwart presence on the southern Illinois landscape for a century and a half. This book celebrates the 150th anniversary of the university’s founding by exploring in depth its history since 1969, when the last book to celebrate a major anniversary was published.Chapters reflect on SIU’s successful athletics program, the various colleges ... Leer más

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    The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps of planning and preproduction and includes an example of a project proposal for a film that went on to win awards at major festivals. Designed ... Leer más

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  • Superman and Philosophy

    What Would the Man of Steel Do?

    de William Irwin ...
    Series Libro 82 - The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    Go beyond the cape and into the mind of the Man of Steel, in time for release of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel movie and Superman's 75th anniversaryHe has thrilled millions for 75 years, with a legacy that transcends national, cultural, and generational borders, but is there more to the Man of Steel than just your average mythic superhero in a cape? The 20 chapters in this book present a fascinating ... Leer más

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  • Truman Capote and the Legacy of "In Cold Blood"

    de Ralph F. Voss ...
    Truman Capote and the Legacy ofIn Cold Blood is the anatomy of the origins of an American literary landmark and its legacy.Ralph F. Vosswas a high school junior in Plainville, Kansas in mid-November of 1959 when four members of the Herbert Clutter family were murdered in Holcomb, Kansas, by “four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives,” an unimaginable horror in a quiet farm ... Leer más

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  • Movie-Made America

    A Cultural History of American Movies

    de 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, ... Leer más

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  • Elia Kazan

    A Biography

    "No mere page-turner, this is a page-devourer, generating the kind of suspense that is usually the province of the playwright or novelist." — The New York Times Book ReviewFew figures in film and theater history tower like Elia Kazan. Born in 1909 to Greek parents in Istanbul, Turkey, he arrived in America with incomparable vision and drive, and by the 1950s he was the most important and ... Leer más

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  • From Reverence to Rape

    The Treatment of Women in the Movies

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    The "groundbreaking study" of female representation in film, now with a new introduction by the author ( New York Times Book Review).A landmark of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell's From Reverence to Rape remains as insightful, searing, and relevant as it was when it first appeared in 1974. Ranging across time and genres from the golden age of Hollywood to films of the late twentieth ... Leer más

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  • The Superhero Reader

    Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture.While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development of the North ... Leer más

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  • Melodrama

    Genre, Style and Sensibility

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    Melodrama: Genre, Style and Sensibility is designed as an accessible overview of one of the most popular genres at undergraduate Film Studies. The book identifies three distinct but connected concepts through which it is possible to make sense of melodrama; either as a genre, originating in European theatre of the 18th and 19th century, as a specific cinematic style, epitomised by the work of ... Leer más

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  • A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

    Edición de Thomas Leitch, Leland Poague ...
    The most comprehensive volume ever published on Alfred Hitchcock, covering his career and legacy as well as the broader cultural and intellectual contexts of his work.Contains thirty chapters by the leading Hitchcock scholarsCovers his long career, from his earliest contributions to other directors’ silent films to his last uncompleted last filmDetails the enduring legacy he left to filmmakers and ... Leer más

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  • Dancing in the Dark

    A Cultural History of the Great Depression

    **A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award"The definitive book about Depression culture for our time." —San Francisco Chronicle**Hailed as one of the best books of 2009 by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, this vibrant portrait of 1930s culture masterfully explores the anxiety and hope, the despair and surprising optimism of distressed Americans during the Great Depression ... Leer más

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