The Origins of the Film Star System: Persona, Publicity and Economics in Early Cinema, Hardcover - Andrew Shail

DescriptionDrawing on a wide range of archival sources, Andrew Shail traces the emergence of film stardom in Europe and North America in the early ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Andrew (Newcastle University, UK) ShailIllustration(s): 99 bw illusNumber of pages: 424Publication d...

A panoramic reinterpretation of global history, this title traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twent...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Cecilia (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) MelloIllustration(s): 35 bw illusNumber of pages: 320Publi...

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This book examines how the reformers' conceptual and theological frameworks pertaining to the role of the arts influenced the rise of realistic the...

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Rochona Majumdar examines key works of Indian art cinema to demonstrate how film emerged as a mode of doing history and that, in so doing, it antic...

This is the first English translation of Alain Bergala's seminal text on the potentials, possibilities, and problems of bringing film to schools an...

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DescriptionIn Queer Timing, Susan Potter offers a counter-history that reorients accepted views of lesbian representation and spectatorship in earl...

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An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history

DescriptionThe Caped Crusader. The Dark Knight. The World's Greatest Detective. Bats. Since his 1939 debut in the pages of Detective Comics, Batman...

Reducere. Expanded cinema: avant-garde moving image works that claim new territory for the cinematic, beyond the bounds of familiar filmmaking practices and ...

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Reducere. Cinematografia, prin definiție o arta pentru mase, a ocupat un rol important in mașinaria propagandistica a regimului comunist din Romania. Sesizin...

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Reducere. The history of the Sabbath is fascinating: beginning with its origins in the Biblical Old Testament, we are taken through millennia of changing tra...

This informative but playful guide to gastronomy includes real shopping advice, meal plans, appetizing recipes, and rules for being the world's bes...

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Reducere. DescriptionThis volume contains a comprehensive exposition of the cinema writings of V. I. Pudovkin, being a detailed treatise on film technique an...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joe Keith BickettOn a September night in 1978, Muhammad Ali would attempt to reclaim his title from Leon Spinks in one of t...

An inside look at parole board decision making and its consequences.

Reducere. In Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a represen...

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Acclaimed for its breakthrough approach and its combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, this is the standard work on the classi...

Publisher: Alfred A. KnopfAuthor(s): Jan CarrIllustration(s): Full colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 40Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 254 x 2...

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Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics examines filmmakers' 'return to work' by the late 1990s, focusing on how they positioned the practice as ...

Highly original and magnificent in scope, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination discovers the roots of English cultural history in the Ang...

About eighty million people today can trace their descent back to the occupants of Ireland. But where did the occupants of the island themselves co...

Most mountains on Earth occur within relatively well-defined, narrow belts separated by wide expanses of much lower-lying ground. Their distributio...

Metals, Culture and Capitalism: An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World - Jack Goody