The Power of Film, Paperback

This book analyses the power structure of the Hollywood film business and its general modes of behaviour. More specifically, the work analyses how ...

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Lawrence of Arabia is widely considered one of the ten greatest films ever made - though more often by film-goers and film-makers than by critics. ...

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Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Using his own film criticism as a starting point, the author expands outwards, easily...

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Published to rave reviews in hardcover and purchased by DreamWorks in a major film deal, The Big One is a spellbinding and richly atmospheric work ...

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Stanley Kubrick Produces provides the first comprehensive account of Stanley Kubrick's role as a producer, and of the role of the producers he work...

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Taking in a wide range of film, television, and literature, this volume explores 21st century horror and its monsters from an intersectional perspe...

The bestselling comic series that inspired the blockbuster film returns with gruesome hilarity from the showrunner of AMC's Halt and Catch Fire and...

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DescriptionStephanie Clifford (stage name Stormy Daniels) rose from the strip clubs of Baton Rouge to the top of the adult film industry. Today, ho...

As the "Giant of Africa" Nigeria is home to about twenty percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa, serves as Africa's largest producer of oi...

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In the West, Japanese culture comes in the form of Power Rangers, Godzilla movies, and Sanrio products, but of course the indigenous pop culture is...

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DescriptionThe disruptive power of montage has often been regarded as a threat to scholarly representations of the social world. This volume assert...

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