The Hollywood Brand: Movies and American Modernity 1351183249, 9781351183246

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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Hollywood English. Learning the Language through Movies

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Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American 9780231508513

Peter Decherney explores how the concerns of intellectuals and the needs of Hollywood studio heads led to the developmen

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Hollywood and the culture elite: how the movies became american 9780231133760, 9780231508513, 9780231133777

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Hollywood and the Culture Elite : How the Movies Became American 9780231508513, 9780231133777, 0231133766, 2004061786

Peter Decherney is assistant professor of cinema studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania.

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American Disaster Movies of the 1970s: Crisis, Spectacle and Modernity 9781501336850, 9781501336836, 9781501336843, 1501336851

American Disaster Movies of the 1970s is the first scholarly book dedicated to the disaster cycle that dominated America

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American Disaster Movies of the 1970s: Crisis, Spectacle and Modernity 9781501336836, 9781501336843, 9781501336850, 1501336835

American Disaster Movies of the 1970s is the first scholarly book dedicated to the disaster cycle that dominated America

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Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity 9780520936409

The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migr

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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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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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