The Harlem Renaissance : an annotated reference guide for student research by Rodgers, Marie E.

Table of Contents: “…Historical overview -- Cultural and biographical references --Major influences -- Political activists -- Women of the Harlem Renaissance -- Literature -- Periodicals -- Quotations -- Art -- Films and film companies -- Photography -- Blues -- Jazz -- Classical and concert music -- Dance and dancers -- Theatre -- Sports -- Apollo Theatre -- Cotton Club -- Entertainers.…”


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The Harlem Renaissance : an annotated reference guide for student research by Rodgers, Marie E.

Table of Contents: “…Historical overview -- Cultural and biographical references --Major influences -- Political activists -- Women of the Harlem Renaissance -- Literature -- Periodicals -- Quotations -- Art -- Films and film companies -- Photography -- Blues -- Jazz -- Classical and concert music -- Dance and dancers -- Theatre -- Sports -- Apollo Theatre -- Cotton Club -- Entertainers.…”
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Remediation : understanding new media by Bolter, J. David, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Theory -- Immediacy, hypermediacy, and remediation -- Mediation and remediation -- Networks of remediation -- Media -- Computer games -- Digital photography -- Photorealistic graphics -- Digital arts -- Film -- Virtual reality -- Mediated spaces -- Television -- World Wide Web -- Ubiquitous computing -- Convergence -- Self -- Remediated self -- Virtual self -- Networked self.…”


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Television drama : realism, modernism, and British culture by Caughie, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : 'serious drama' -- Early television and television drama -- The making of the 'golden age' -- The rush of the real : an aesthetic of immediacy -- Art television : authorship and irony -- Modernism, or, not 'non-naturalism' -- Television drama and the art film : the logic of convergence -- Small pleasures : adaptation and the past in the classic serial -- Epilogue : the return of value.…”


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Framing pictures : film and the visual arts by Jacobs, Steven, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Camera and canvas: Emmer, Storck, Resnais and the post-war art film -- Vasari in Hollywood: artists and biopics -- Galleries of the gaze: the museum in Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia and Hitchcock's Vertigo -- Tableaux vivants 1: painting, film, death and passion plays in Pasolini and Godard -- Tableaux vivants 2: film stills and contemporary photography -- The video that knew too much: Hitchcock, contemporary art and post-cinema.…”


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Film as insight. by Fischer, Edward

Table of Contents: “…Technique reveals meaning -- The power of technique -- Symbols -- Recurring motifs -- Juxtapositions -- Subjective camera -- Picture composition says things -- Equipment says things -- Money and the medium -- The home grown product -- The art film -- Foreign films -- British films -- The big screen -- Documentary films -- Television documentaries -- Short subjects -- Student films -- Humor in film -- Religion reflected in films -- The audience influences the medium.…”


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Hollywood's censor : Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration by Doherty, Thomas Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Hollywood, 1954 -- The Victorian Irishman -- Bluenoses Against the Screen -- Hollywood Shot to Pieces -- The Breen Office -- Decoding Classical Hollywood Cinema -- Confessional -- Intermission at RKO -- At War with the Breen Office -- In His Sacerdotalism -- "Our Semitic Brethren" -- Social Problems, Existential Dilemmas, and Outsized Anatomies -- Invasion of the Art Films -- Amending the Ten Commandments -- Not the Breen Office -- Final Cut: Joseph I. …”


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The films of Federico Fellini by Bondanella, Peter, 1943-2017

Table of Contents: “…La strada: The Cinema of Poetry and the Road beyond Neorealism -- 3. La dolce vita: The Art Film Spectacular -- 4. 8 1/2: The Celebration of Artistic Creativity -- 5. …”
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The films of Federico Fellini by Bondanella, Peter, 1943-2017

Table of Contents: “…La strada: The Cinema of Poetry and the Road beyond Neorealism -- 3. La dolce vita: The Art Film Spectacular -- 4. 8 1/2: The Celebration of Artistic Creativity -- 5. …”


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Hollywood's censor : Joseph I. Breen & the Production Code Administration by Doherty, Thomas Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Hollywood, 1954 -- The Victorian Irishman -- Bluenoses against the screen -- Hollywood shot to pieces -- The Breen office -- Decoding classical Hollywood cinema -- Confessional -- Intermission at RKO -- At war with the Breen office -- In his sacerdotalism -- "Our semitic brethren" -- Social problems, existential dilemmas, and outsized anatomies -- Invasion of the art films -- Amending the Ten Commandments -- Not the Breen office -- Final cut: Joseph I. …”
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Walt before Mickey Disney's early years, 1919-1928 by Susanin, Timothy S.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue the road to the first studios: commercial art, film -- Ads, and "home experimenting," 1919-1921 -- Kaycee Studios, 1921-1922 -- Laugh-o-gram Films, Inc., 1922-1923 -- Book two: Los Angeles. …”
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Walt before Mickey : Disney's early years, 1919-1928 by Susanin, Timothy S.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue the road to the first studios: commercial art, film -- Ads, and "home experimenting," 1919-1921 -- Kaycee Studios, 1921-1922 -- Laugh-o-gram Films, Inc., 1922-1923 -- Book two: Los Angeles. …”
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Philosophy of the film : epistemology, ontology, aesthetics by Jarvie, I. C. (Ian Charles), 1937-

Table of Contents: “…On the very idea of a philosophy of the film: Casablanca -- Philosophy of the film -- Film as philosophy -- Casablanca as philosophy -- Knowledge and existence -- Plato and the cave -- The golden mountain, USDA approval and realism -- Films and academic philosophy -- Art and science -- Aesthetics and essentialism -- Arguments against films as art -- Films as art -- Philosophy -- Popular philosophy -- On interpretation -- Citizen Kane and the essence of a person -- Rashomon: is truth relative? …”


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Walt before Mickey : Disney's early years, 1919-1928 by Susanin, Timothy S.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue the road to the first studios: commercial art, film, ads, and "home experimenting," 1919-1921 -- Kaycee Studios, 1921-1922 -- Laugh-o-gram Films, Inc., 1922-1923 -- Book two: Los Angeles. …”


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Crime and fantasy in Scandinavia : fiction, film, and social change by Nestingen, Andrew K.

Table of Contents: “…CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Popular and Social Transformation in Scandinavian Fictions -- 1 THE NEW POPULAR CULTURE: Popular Fictions and Their Publics -- 2 MEDIUM CONCEPT: Scandinavian Genre and Art Film Hybrids -- 3 THE MELODRAMA OF DEMAND: Cultural Politics of the Scandinavian Melodrama -- 4 JOHANNA SINISALO'S MONSTERS: Popular Culture and Heterogeneous Publics -- 5 AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND THE POLICE: Life Writing and Its Publics -- 6 THE BURNED-OUT POLICEMAN: Henning Mankell's Transnational Police Procedural -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- FILMOGRAPHY…”
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American artists on art from 1940 to 1980

Table of Contents: “…ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; 1 Abstract Expressionism; 2 Other Art of the Forties and Fifties; 3 Color Field Painting; 4 Happenings and Other Pre-Pop Art; 5 Pop Art; 6 Minimal Art; 7 Systemic and Conceptual Art; 8 Photo-Realist Painting and Super-Realist Sculpture; 9 Earth and Process Art; 10 Site and Architectural Sculpture; 11 Performance Art, Film, and Video; 12 Decorative, Narrative, and Popular Image Painting and Installations; ILLUSTRATIONS; INDEX.…”
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American artists on art from 1940 to 1980

Table of Contents: “…ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; 1 Abstract Expressionism; 2 Other Art of the Forties and Fifties; 3 Color Field Painting; 4 Happenings and Other Pre-Pop Art; 5 Pop Art; 6 Minimal Art; 7 Systemic and Conceptual Art; 8 Photo-Realist Painting and Super-Realist Sculpture; 9 Earth and Process Art; 10 Site and Architectural Sculpture; 11 Performance Art, Film, and Video; 12 Decorative, Narrative, and Popular Image Painting and Installations; ILLUSTRATIONS; INDEX.…”
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Embodied visions : evolution, emotion, culture, and film by Grodal, Torben Kragh

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: evolution, biology, culture, and film -- Universalism, cultural variation, and children's film -- Love and desire in the cinema -- Screaming lambs and lusty wolves: moral attitudes and evolution -- Undead ghosts and living prey: fantasy and horror -- Sadness, melodrama, and rituals of loss and death -- Stories for eyes, ears, and muscles: the evolution of embodied simulations -- Character simulation and emotion -- Art film, the transient body, and the permanent soul -- Subjective aesthetics in film -- The experience of audiovisual realism -- Conclusion: the gene-culture stream and bioculturalism.…”


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Kenji Mizoguchi and the art of Japanese cinema by Satō, Tadao, 1930-2022

Table of Contents: “…Art Imitates Life -- 7. Three Traditional Art Films (Geidomono) -- 8. Difficult Woman -- 9. Recreating the Classics -- 10. …”


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Malaysian cinema, Asian film : border crossings and national cultures by Van der Heide, William

Table of Contents: “…Border crossings -- National cinema and genre -- Cross-cultural analysis -- Transtextuality -- The hamburger western -- The samurai film and the noodle western -- The samurai film and the hamburger western -- The sword film and the spaghetti western -- The spaghetti western -- The martial arts film and the chop suey western -- The stunt film and the curry western -- Malaysian society and culture -- Identity -- National identity and national culture -- Malaysian identity -- Pre-colonial Malaysia : foundation narratives -- Colonial Malaysia : Parsee theatre and Bangsawan -- Postcolonial Malaysia : the national cultural policy and its consequences.…”


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