Edgar G. Ulmer : essays on the king of the B's

Table of Contents: “…Ulmer's films / Stefan Grissemann -- The ordinary life of ordinary people: Menschen am Sonntag / Petra Löffler -- Ulmer's anti-syphilis film: Damaged lives and its novelization / Marcel Arbeit -- The black cat / Gregory William Mank -- In search of Jewish identity / Sharon Pucker Rivo -- Moon of Alabama/Moon over Harlem: African American culture and German imaginations from Brecht to Ulmer / Frank Mehring -- Detour's history/history's Detour / Dana Polan -- The strange woman: an analysis with Gilles Deleuze's notion of the impulse-image / Julia Meier -- The logic of contradiction and the politics of desire in Ruthless / Reynold Humphries -- The man from Planet X / Matthew Sweney -- Camp, art film, classical Hollywood cinema and Babes of Baghdad / Herbert Schwaab -- The pleasures of the "not-quite movie": Murder is my beat and Daughter of Dr. …”


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Style and meaning : studies in the detailed analysis of film

Table of Contents: “…Wilson -- The dandy and the magdelen: interpreting the long take in Hitchcock's Under capricorn (1949) / Ed Gallafent -- Character interiority: space, point of view and performance in Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) / Neill Potts -- Narration, point of view and patterns in the soundtrack of Letter from an unknown woman (Max Ophuls, 1948) / Steve Neale -- Revisiting Preminger: Bonjour tristesse (1958) and close reading / John Gibbs, Douglas Pye -- Meaning and value in The jazz singer (Alan Crosland, 1927) Corin Willis -- A Hollywood art film: Liebestraum (Mike Figgis, 1991) / Michael Walker -- Swimming and sinking: form and meaning in an avant-garde film / Jim Hillier -- Knowing one's place: frame-breaking, embarrassment and irony in La ceremonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995) / Deborah Thomas -- Television aesthetics and close analysis: style, mood and engagement in Perfect strangers (Stephen Poliakoff, 2001) / Sarah Cardwell -- How cinematography creates meaning in Happy together (Wong Kar-Wai, 1997) / Cathy Greenhalgh -- Notes on teaching film style / Andrew Klevan -- Repetition and return: textual analysis and Douglas Sirk in the twenty-first century / Laura Mulvey.…”


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Searching for Mr. Rugoff.

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FILM MUSIC IN THE SOUND ERA : a research and information guide, volume 1. by LEE, JONATHAN RHODES

Table of Contents: “…Experimental Film -- Film Musicals -- Film Noir -- Heimatfilm -- Historical Films -- Horror and Thriller -- Martial Arts Films -- Melodrama -- Opera Film/Opera and Film -- Pornography and Erotica -- Road Movies -- Sci-Fi and Fantasy -- Shorts -- Sports Films -- Titles and Trailers -- War and Combat Films -- Westerns -- Woman's Film -- V Case Studies of Individual Films -- Note on the Indexes -- Names Index -- Film Titles Index…”
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Genre in Asian film and television : new approaches

Table of Contents: “…Vitali -- From Genre Flick to Art Film: Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill and Pistol Opera / T. …”


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Cinema's military industrial complex

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the American military and cinema / Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson -- Experimental viewing protocols : film projection and the American military / Haidee Wasson -- Mobilizing the moving image : movie machines at US military bases and veteran hospitals during World War II / Andrea Kelley -- Through America's eyes : cinerama and the Cold War / Rebecca Prime -- An army of theaters : military, technological, and industrial change in US army motion picture exhibition / Ross Melnick -- War in peace : the American Legion and the continuing service of film / Tom Rice -- Managing the trauma of labor : films in the military psychiatric apparatus of the second World War / Kaia Scott -- The cinema intelligence apparatus : Gregory Bateson, the Museum of Modern Art Film Library, and the intelligence work of film studies during World War II / Nathaniel Brennan -- Epistemology of the checkpoint : Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers and the doctrine of counterinsurgency / Vinzenz Hediger -- Between the frontlines : military training films, machine guns, and the Great War / Florian Hoof -- From wartime instruction to superpower cinema : maintaining the industrial documentary / Noah Tsika -- Framing the bomb in the West : the view from Lookout Mountain / Susan Courtney -- Occupation, diplomacy, and the moving image : the US army as cultural interlocutor in Korea, 1945-1948 / S. …”


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Trading culture : global traffic and local cultures in film and television

Table of Contents: “…Section 1 Rethinking the Trade in Culture Trade wars, culture wars / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith -- Media policy-making in the free trade era: the impact of the GATS negotiations on audiovisual industries / Des Freedman -- The 'wrong type' of Television: New Labour, British broadcasting and the rise and fall of an exports 'problem' / Simon Blanchard -- Indigenous culture and the politics of place: regulation for regionalism in British broadcasting / Sylvia Harvey Section 2 National Industries: Global Currents -- Ahead of the bandwagon: Lebanon's free media market / Dima Dabbous-Sensenig -- Trading genie out of the bottle: global currents in India's film and television industries / Manjunath Pendakur -- Going global: the Brazilian scripted film / Lucia Nagib -- Copycat TV and new trade routes in Asia and the Pacific / Albert Moran and Michael Keane -- From Latin Americans to Lations: Spanish-language television and its audiences in the United States / John Sinclair -- National cinema as cultural exchange: the international circuit of Scottish films / Duncan Petrie Section Three: National Cultures in a Transatlantic Context -- Special Relatinships: Anglo - American screen romance and nationality / Sarah Street -- American production in Britain during the 1950s: culture, economics and geography / Tom Ryall -- Adventure, exchange and identity: British, American, and Un-American involvement in costume adventure TV series and films in the postwar era / Steve Neale -- Brigitte Bardot and Hollywood's takeover of the US art film market in the 1960s / Tino Balio -- Crossing over: exporting indigenous heritage to the USA / Andrew Higson Afterword -- Trading cultural commodities or promoting cultural diversity? …”


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Queen of Diamonds.

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The liveliest art : a panoramic history of the movies by Knight, Arthur, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Fields -- Integration and style : Astaire and Hitchcock -- The script and the stars -- The art of the sound film -- International trends -- France : uncertainty and despair -- Germany : films for propaganda -- Russia and the satellites -- England and the documentary tradition -- The course of Italian neo-realism -- The classic art of the Japanese film -- International glimpses -- Changing trends in the American film -- The rise of documentary -- Art films and the new avant-garde -- The stamp of the studio -- The challenge of television -- The shape of things to come.…”


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Ecologies of the moving image : cinema, affect, nature by Ivakhiv, Adrian J.

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Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film 1894-1941.

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On film : unpopular essays on a popular art by Young, Vernon, 1912-1986

Table of Contents: “…Our local idioms -- Footnote to a cinematic primer -- Adventures in film-watching -- "Hardly a man is now alive": Monologue on a Nazi film -- Fugue of faces: A Danish film and some photographs -- The Japanese film: Inquiries and inferences -- La Strada: Cinematic intersections -- A festival of art films -- Love, death, and the "foreign" film--1957 -- Long voyage home with John Ford -- International film scene: Asia, Italy, and Mexico -- A condemned man escapes: Five films on the subject -- The hidden fortress: Kurosawa's comic mode -- From The sound of silence -- The moral cinema: Notes on some recent Italian films -- European film notebook -- Eisenstein's third eye: "The Swede" -- Of night, fire, and water -- Kinds of loving in the international film -- Program notes for two classics -- Nostalgia of the infinite: Notes on Chirico, Antonioni, Resnais -- After Bergman ... -- Films to confirm the poets -- One man's film festival -- The Italian film: Left hand, right hand --- The wilderness art of Arne Sucksdorff -- Some Obiter Dicta on recent French films -- Films from the perimeter -- The verge and after: Film by 1966 -- Three film-makers revisit themselves -- International film: Tensions and pretensions -- Poetry, politics, and pornography -- London film chronicle: Variation on a personal theme -- I've been reading these film critics -- Children and fools -- War games: Work in progress -- Film chronicle: Notes on the compulsive revolution -- Films from Hungary and Brazil -- Parentheses for reviews never written. …”


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Larry Rivers.

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Jane Campion : interviews by Campion, Jane, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Urban -- Jane Campion directs on instinct / David Sterritt -- Jane Campion's lunatic women / Mary Cantwell -- The arts/film / Sandra Hall -- Jane Campion, the classical romantic / Jay Carr -- Campion takes on Spielberg at his game / Vicky Roach -- A light on the dark secrets of depression / Sue Williams -- A voyage to discover herself / Michel Ciment -- Jane Campion / Rachel Abramowitz -- Portrait of a director / Kennedy Fraser -- Portrait of a lady and her films / Susan Saccoccia -- Jane Campion is called the best female director in the world. …”


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Chinese connections : critical perspectives on film, identity and diaspora

Table of Contents: “…Feng -- The par-Asian cinematic imaginary in Olivier Assayas's Irma Vep / Grace An -- The HK venture: the Francophone cine-logocentric nexus / Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park -- Wong Fei-Hung in da house: Hong Kong martial-arts films and hip-hop culture / Frances Gateward -- Same difference: racial masculinity in Hong Kong and cop-buddy "hybrids" / Gayle Wald -- American popular music and neocolonialism in the films of Edward Yang / Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh -- Hollywood and Taiwan: connections, countercurrents, and Ang Lee's Hulk / Gina Marchetti -- Becoming Hollywood? …”


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Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks ; an interpretive history of Blacks in American films. by Bogle, Donald

Table of Contents: “…Bojangles: the cool-eyed Tom -- Clarence Muse: the inhibited, humanized Tom standing in a corner by himself -- Imitation of life: mother knows best -- Iridescent Fredi: black girl in search of a black role -- Louise Beavers: the black guardian angel -- The green pastures -- Rex Ingram: first of the freed black men -- Stepin's step-chillun -- Rochester: the gentleman's gentleman -- Hi-hat Hattie -- Gone with the wind: black realities and the end of a tradition -- Paul Robeson: the black colossus -- The interlude: black-market cinema -- Oscar Micheaux -- The 1940s: the entertainers, the new negroes, and the problem people -- The entertainers -- Hazel Scott: miss proper middle-class -- Lena Horne: black beauty in residence -- Cabin in the sky -- Stormy weather -- Bits and pieces of black action -- Song of the south -- The new Negroes: an interim -- The problem people -- Home of the brave and the postwar good sensitive negro -- Lost boundaries' tragic mulattoes -- Pinky's tragic mulatto and its strong black woman -- Intruder in the dust and the defiantly proud black man -- The 1950s: black stars -- Ethel Waters: Earth mother for an alienated age -- Dorothy Dandridge: apotheosis of the mulatto -- Sidney Poitier: hero for an integrationist age -- Black odds and ends -- The 1960s: problem people into militants -- Steps forward -- Black art films -- A step backward: Ossie Davis and Gone are the days -- Along the road, in Harlem, and on the subway -- Way down in de new ole south with Tom-Tom, Miss Bronze Barbie doll, and Ms. …”


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Screening sex by Williams, Linda, 1946-

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The Pompidou Center (Beauborg) : design and construction

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Cinema inferno : celluloid explosions from the cultural margins

Table of Contents: “…The neorealist transgressions of Pier Paolo Pasolini / Bill Landis -- From Chicago to Watts by way of Paris and Hollywood: art-film influence on Melvin Van Peebles' early features / Jonathan Hartmann -- At the heart of The heart of the world: Guy Maddin in the 21st century / John Bloomfield -- Italian Horror/Gialli. …”


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