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Yiddishlands - A Memoir

by David G. Roskies

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 This lively and irreverent memoir explores the settings where Yiddish - a language of song, rebellion, and eternal longing - has thrived: in the cabaret and cafe, the kitchen and classroom, the literary salon and mystical commune, the partisan brigade and on pilgrimage to Poland.
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Invisible Ink

by Guy Stern

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 Tells the story of Guy Stern's remarkable life. This is not a Holocaust memoir; however, Stern makes it clear that the horrors of the Holocaust and his escape from Nazi Germany created the central driving force for his life. If one can name a singular characteristic that gives Stern strength time after time, it is his determination to persevere.
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Justice On Demand - True Crime In The Digital Streaming Era

by Tanya Horeck

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 Offers a theoretical rumination on the question asked in countless blogs and opinion pieces of the last decade: Why are we so obsessed with true crime? Tanya Horeck examines a range of audiovisual true crime texts, and considers the extent to which the genre has come to epitomize participatory media culture.
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Transforming Harry - The Adaptation Of Harry Potter In The Transmedia Age

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 Looks at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation. John Alberti and P. Andrew Miller have gathered scholars to explore and examine the cultural, political, aesthetic, and pedagogical dimensions of this pop culture phenomenon and how it has changed the reception of both the films and books.
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Parables Of The Posthuman - Digital Realities, Gaming, And The Player Experience

by Jonathan Boulter

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 While digital gaming and culture has become a popular field of academic study, there has been a lack of sustained philosophical analysis of this direct gaming experience. In Parables of the Posthuman, Jonathan Boulter addresses this gap by analysing video games and the player experience philosophically.
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Movie-Made Los Angeles

by John Trafton

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 Explores how Hollywood, an industry based on world-building, was the product of photography, painting, and tourist promotion in the land of sunshine. A more complete story of the American film industryâ€™s ascendency in Los Angeles emerges when one considers how the City of Angels cultivated its self-image through pre-cinema narrative art.
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Movie-Made Los Angeles

by John Trafton

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 Explores how Hollywood, an industry based on world-building, was the product of photography, painting, and tourist promotion in the land of sunshine. A more complete story of the American film industryâ€™s ascendency in Los Angeles emerges when one considers how the City of Angels cultivated its self-image through pre-cinema narrative art.
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Recollecting Collecting - A Film And Media Perspective

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 Explores the diverse world of collecting film- and media-related materials. The book interrogates and illustrates the meaning and practical nature of film and media collections while also considering the vast array of personal and professional motivations behind their assemblage.
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Recollecting Collecting - A Film And Media Perspective

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 Explores the diverse world of collecting film- and media-related materials. The book interrogates and illustrates the meaning and practical nature of film and media collections while also considering the vast array of personal and professional motivations behind their assemblage.
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Gene Tierney - Star Of Hollywood'S Home Front

by Will Scheibel

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 Examines Gene Tierneyâ€™s promotion, publicity, and reception as a star and offers an alternative history of the United States wartime efforts demonstrated through the arc of Tierneyâ€™s career as a star working on the home front. The bookâ€™s analysis aims to showcase that Tierney was more than just â€˜the most beautiful woman in movie historyâ€™.
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The Construction Of Testimony - Claude Lanzmann'S Shoah And Its Outtakes

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 Explores how Shoah fundamentally changed the nature and use of filmed testimony and laid the groundwork for how historians and documentarians understand the history of the Holocaust. Contributors reexamine the impact of Shoah through a trove of previously unavailable and unexplored footage.
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Resetting The Scene - Classical Hollywood Revisited

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 More than a century after its emergence, classical Hollywood cinema remains popular today with cinephiles and scholars alike. Resetting the Scene showcases cutting-edge work by renowned researchers of Hollywood filmmaking of the studio era and proposes new directions for classical Hollywood studies in the twenty-first century.
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Starring Tom Cruise

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 Examines how Tom Cruise's star image moves across genres and forms as a type of commercial product that offers viewers certain pleasures and expectations. Cruise reads as an action hero and romantic lead yet finds himself in homoerotic and homosocial relationships that unsettle and undermine these heterosexual scripts.
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Stars And Silhouettes - The History Of The Cameo Role In Hollywood

by Joceline Andersen

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 Traces the history of the cameo as it emerged in twentieth-century cinema. Although the cameo has existed in film culture for over a century, Joceline Andersen explains that this role cannot be strictly defined because it exists as a constellation of interactions between duration and recognition, dependent on who is watching and when.
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Our Blessed Rebel Queen - Essays On Carrie Fisher And Princess Leia

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 Provides the first full-length exploration of Carrie Fisher's career as actress, writer, and advocate. Fisher's entangled relationship with the iconic Princess Leia is a focal point of this volume. The collection engages with the multiple interfaces between Fisher's most famous character and her other life-giving work.
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Chilean Cinema In The Twenty-First-Century World

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 Focusing on films from Chile since 2000 and bringing together scholars from South and North America, Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World is the first English-language book since the 1970s to explore this small, yet significant, Latin American cinema.
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After Happily Ever After - Romantic Comedy In The Post-Romantic Age

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 In defiance of the alleged â€˜death of romantic comedyâ€™, After ""Happily Ever After"": Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age edited by Maria San Filippo attests to rom-com's continuing vitality in new modes and forms that reimagine and rejuvenate the genre in ideologically, artistically, and commercially innovative ways.
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V.F. Perkins On Movies - Collected Shorter Film Criticism

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 Victor Perkins was a foundational figure for the study of film both as a writer and as an educationalist and teacher who played a key role in establishing film within British higher education. This book makes it possible to see his writing as a coherent body of work, and to appreciate its great historical and cultural significance.
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Cinemagritte - Rene Magritte Within The Frame Of Film History, Theory, And Practice

by Lucy Fischer

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 Investigates the dynamic relationship between the Surrealist modernist artist RenÃ© Magritte (1898-1967) and the cinema. Magritte once said that he used cinema as â€œa trampoline for the imagination,â€ but here author Lucy Fischer reverses that process by using Magritte's work as a stimulus for an imaginative examination of film.
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New Approaches To Contemporary Adaptation

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 Defiantly claims that ""all films are adaptations"". The wide-ranging chapters included in this book highlight the growing and evolving relevance of the field of adaptation studies and its many branding subfields.
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Eye Of The Taika - New Zealand Comedy And The Films Of Taika Waititi

by Matthew Bannister

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 The first book-length study of comic film director and media celebrity Taika Waititi. Author Matthew Bannister analyses Waititi's feature films and places his other works and performances-short films, TV series, advertisements, music videos, and media appearances-in the fabric of popular culture.
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The Cinema Of Ettore Scola

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 Offers contemporary perspectives on Ettore Scola (1931-2016), one of the premier filmmakers of Italian cinema. While Scola has received extensive attention from scholars based in Italy and France, RÃ©mi Lanzoni and Edward Bowen's edited volume is the first English-language book on Scola's cinematographic career.
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Mary Lou Williams: Music For The Soul - Music For The Soul

by Deanna Witkowski

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Resetting The Scene - Classical Hollywood Revisited

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 More than a century after its emergence, classical Hollywood cinema remains popular today with cinephiles and scholars alike. Resetting the Scene showcases cutting-edge work by renowned researchers of Hollywood filmmaking of the studio era and proposes new directions for classical Hollywood studies in the twenty-first century.
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