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Hitler'S Heroines - Stardom & Womanhood In Nazi Cinema

by Antje Ascheid

39,68€ + 10% CARD

 Features the brightest stars in fascist films.
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Cowboys As Cold Warriors - The Western And U S History

by Stanley Corkin

42,33€ + 10% CARD

 The United States emerged from World War II with superpower status and quickly entered a period of economic prosperity. The same period marked the heyday of the western film. This book examines many of the significant westerns released between 1946 and 1962, analyzing how they responded to and influenced the cultural climate of the country.
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Black City Cinema - African American Urban Experiences In Film

by Paula Massood

37,03€ + 10% CARD

 A title that shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the twentieth century. It offers a unique map of Black representations in film.
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Shadows On The Past - Studies In The Historical Fiction Film

by Leger Grindon

43,66€ + 10% CARD

 Examines how historical fiction films interpret the present through a representation of the past. Utilizing the past as a way of responding to social conflicts in the present, this work shows how the genre promotes a political agenda, superseding the influence of scholarship on the public's perception and interpretation of history.
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Hollywood'S New Deal

by Giulana Muscio

46,31€ + 10% CARD

 Weaving together film and political history, this work traces the connections between Depression Era Hollywood and the popularity of F D Roosevelt, asserting that politics transformed its public into spectators while the movie industry transformed its spectators into a public.
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All Talk - The Talkshow In Media Culture

by Wayne Munson

48,96€ + 10% CARD

 Examines the talkshow as a cultural form whose curious productivity has become vital to America's image economy. This book looks at the talkshow's history, programs, production methods, and the "talk" about it that pervades media culture - the press, broadcasting, and Hollywood.
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Framing Blackness - The African American Image In Film

by Ed Guerrero

46,31€ + 10% CARD

 Arguing that the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society, this book traces an African Americans protesting screen images of blacks as criminals, servants, comics, athletes, and sidekicks. It also looks at the controversies surrounding role choices by stars like Sidney Poitier, Eddie Murphy, and Whoopie Goldberg.
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Inventing Vietnam - The War In Film And Television

by Michael Anderegg

48,96€ + 10% CARD

 The Vietnam War has been depicted by every available medium, each presenting a message, an agenda, of what the filmmakers and producers choose to project about America's involvement in Southeast Asia. This collection of essays analyzes the themes, modes, and stylistic strategies seen in a broad range of films and television programs.
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Hitler'S Heroines - Stardom & Womanhood In Nazi Cinema

by Antje Ascheid

31,08€ + 10% CARD

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 Features the brightest stars in fascist films.
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This Is The Chick

by Wendy Hartmann; Illustration: Joan Rankin

12,16€ + 10% CARD
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The Aleppo Cookbook - Celebrating The Legendary Cuisine Of Syria

by Marlene Matar

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The Aleppo Cookbook - Celebrating The Legendary Cuisine Of Syria

by Marlene Matar

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The New Pearl Harbor - Disturbing Questions About The Bush Administration And 9/11

by David Ray Griffin

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Women And Film - A Sight And Sound Reader

by Pam Cook

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The Magic Hour - Film At Fin De Siecle

by J. Hoberman

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 The "magic hour" is the name film-makers give the pre-dusk late afternoon, when anything photographed can be bathed in a golden light. This tile anthologizes the author's movie reviews, cultural criticism, and political essays, published in magazines during the period bracketed by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Trade Towers.
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Press Box Red - The Story Of Lester Rodney,

by Irwin Silber

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 Long before Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to a Brooklyn Dodger contract in 1945, Lester Rodney, the newly hired and first sports editor of the "Communist Daily Worker", launched the campaign that proved decisive in eventually breaking baseball's color line. This title tells the story of that remarkable 11-year campaign.
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Andy Warhol'S Blow Job

by Roy Grundmann

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 A watershed in gay male culture.
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In Griot Time

by Banning Eyre

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 A narrative of life among the griot musicians of Mali. Born into families where music and the tradition of griot story-telling are heritages and privileges, the musicians live their lives at the intersection of ancient traditions and the modern entertainment industry.
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Voices Of The Religious Left - A Contemporary Sourcebook

by Rebecca T. Alpert

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 What has happened to the religious left? If there is a religious left, why don't we hear more about it? Responding to the needs of and raised by marginalized social groups, this title discusses economic issues and religious politics as they champion equal rights, and promote the teaching of progressive vision.
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Making History Matter

by Robert Dawidoff

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 Drawing together this unlikely cast of characters, this title probes into the role of outsider groups as well as intellectual and political elites in the formation of American culture. It argues for a broad reach when it comes to cultural expression, resisting the polarization of formal intellectual history and folk or commercial popular culture.
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Sisters On Screen

by Eva Rueschmann

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 Explores the sister bond in a range of modernist feature films that depart from the conventional cinematic rendering of women's lives. Drawing on the psychoanalytic concept of intersubjectivity, this book emphasizes the role of a woman's relationship and inner world in her continual quest for self-knowledge.
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The Red Atlantis

by J. Hoberman

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 Both the artistic and political vanguards were spellbound by the Communist promise of a new human era so much so that its political terrors were rationalized as a form of applied evolution and its collapse hailed as the end of history. This work argues that Communism produced a complex culture with a dialectical relation to modernism and itself.
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Honey, Honey, Miss Thang - Being Black, Gay, And On The Streets

by Leon E. Pettiway

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 Many straight Americans would never embrace homosexuals as neighbors, co-workers, or friends. Still less would they accept as equals those transgendered individuals who work the streets to provide themselves with drug money. This book seeks to change that perception.
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Hollywood'S New Deal

by Giulana Muscio

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 Weaving together film and political history, this work traces the connections between Depression Era Hollywood and the popularity of F D Roosevelt, asserting that politics transformed its public into spectators while the movie industry transformed its spectators into a public.
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