Seeing Symphonically: Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planning, and the Utopian Image of New York (SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema) 9781438486642, 9781438486635, 1438486642

Seeing Symphonically: Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planning, and the Utopian Image of New York (The Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema) 9781438486635, 9781438486642, 1438486634

Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning

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Torturous Etiquettes: Film Performance and Social Form (The Suny Series Horizons of Cinema) 9781438493510, 9781438493497, 1438493517

Explores the "torture" of mannered behavior and the prevalence of etiquette as a theme in classical and contem

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Action, Action, Action: The Early Cinema of Raoul Walsh (SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema) 1438488858, 9781438488851

Director of over 150 films from 1912 to 1964, Raoul Walsh was a core figure in Hollywood from its beginnings to the end

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Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication (Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema) 9781438494210, 9781438494197, 1438494211

Jonah Corne is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media at the University of Manitoba.

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Writ on Water: The Sources and Reach of Film Imagination (The Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema) 9781438488097, 9781438488110, 1438488092

A powerful and original statement on the nature of film and the intimate relation of "film imagination" to our

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Distancing Representations in Transgender Film: Identification, Affect, and the Audience (The Suny Series Horizons of Cinema) 9781438491998, 9781438492018, 1438491999

Argues that transgender representations in film make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experience

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The Hard Sell of Paradise: Hawai'i, Hollywood, Tourism (The Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema) 1438487738, 9781438487731

Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai'i in popular film and television programs from the 19

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The Hard Sell of Paradise: Hawai'i, Hollywood, Tourism (The Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema) 1438487738, 9781438487731

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The Cinematographer's Voice: Insights into the World of Visual Storytelling (SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema) 1438486413, 9781438486413

A unique exploration of contemporary filmmaking from cinema's ultimate insiders.

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Through a Nuclear Lens: France, Japan, and Cinema from Hiroshima to Fukushima (Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema) 1438497849, 9781438497846

Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear is

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