Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934): When Sin Ruled the Movies [Illustrated] 0762466774, 9780762466771

When the Movies Mattered: The New Hollywood Revisited 9781501736117

Contributors: Molly Haskell, Heather Hendershot, J. Hoberman, George Kouvaros, Phillip Lopate, Robert Pippin, David Ster

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21st-Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation 9780813551982

They are shot on high-definition digital cameras—with computer-generated effects added in postproduction—and transmitted

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When Giants Ruled the Earth

Giants ruled the earth thousands of years ago. The evidence is astounding. Here it is. Around the world we find evidence

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Hollywood English. Learning the Language through Movies

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Hollywood: Mecca of the Movies [Reprint 2019 ed.] 9780520340527

Blaise Cendrars, one of twentieth-century France's most gifted men of letters, came to Hollywood in 1936 for the ne

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The Hollywood Brand: Movies and American Modernity 1351183249, 9781351183246

The Hollywood Brand traces the development of the moving picture from its humble roots as an object of mass amusement to

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Hollywood Blockbusters: The Anthropology of Popular Movies 1847884865, 9781847884862, 9781847884855

Why do Jaws, Field of Dreams, The Big Lebowski, and The Godfather remain strikingly popular in this age of fragmented au

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Home Movies: The American Family in Contemporary Hollywood 9780755693788, 9781780761824

The American family has long been at the centre of the typical Hollywood narrative. But the depiction of the nuclear fam

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Showmen, Sell It Hot!: Movies as Merchandise in Golden Era Hollywood 9780996274012, 9780971168596

A noted Hollywood historian takes a first-ever marketing look at the selling of classic motion pictures generated by Hol

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When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405–1433 1504007360, 9781504007368

One hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began their voyages of discovery, fleets of giant junks comma

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