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Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational StardomCarmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going. Filming an appearance on The Jimmy Durante Show on August 4, 1955, the "ambassadress of samba" suddenly took a knee during a dance number, clearly in distress. Durante covered without missing a beat, and Miranda was...
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Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde CinemaIn Visitation, Jennifer DeClue shows how Black feminist avant-garde filmmakers draw from historical archives in order to visualize and reckon with violence suffered by Black women in the United States. DeClue argues that these filmmakers-including Kara Walker, Kara Lynch, Tourmaline, and Ja'Tovia Gary-create spaces...
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The Films of Judy GarlandJudy Garland was an entertainment icon whose performances on stage, screen and television had a tremendous impact across decades and media. This film-by-film study of her work follows her progression from pig-tailed child to a top motion picture star, with such timeless classics as...
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Picnic at Hanging RockPeter Weir's haunting and allusive Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), set in 1900, tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of three schoolgirls and their teacher on a trip to a local geological formation. The film is widely hailed as a classic of new...
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Jean Simmons: Her Life and CareerArriving in Hollywood in 1950 to launch her American film career, Jean Simmons (1929-2010) had already appeared in 18 British films and was best known for her portrayal of Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet. She soon became a favorite female face working with some...
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Zendaya: Hollywood SuperstarZendaya can do it all: dance, act, and sing. Fans will love reading about how she got her start on Disney Channel, her latest blockbuster movies, her personal life, and moreAuthor: Heather E. SchwartzPublisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)Published: 08/01/2022Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 8.79h x...
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Zendaya: Hollywood SuperstarZendaya can do it all: dance, act, and sing. Fans will love reading about how she got her start on Disney Channel, her latest blockbuster movies, her personal life, and moreAuthor: Heather E. SchwartzPublisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)Published: 08/01/2022Pages: 24Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.11h...
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Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving PicturesBlondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Picturesis the first monograph dedicated to the pivotal work of African American choreographer and video artist Blondell Cummings. The book accompanies an exhibition of the same name co-organized by the Getty Research Institute and Art + Practice, on view...
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No Jurisdiction: Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre CinemaNo Jurisdiction interweaves autobiography and analysis to explore how a disabled American of French-Arab descent justifies his love for the (super)heroes who destroy brown people like himself. Framing Hollywood genre films as a key to understanding a crisis-filled world shaped by the global War...
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The Sad and Tragic Ending of Lucille Ball: Volume Two (1961-1989) of a Two-Part BiographyIn the mid-1950s, Lucille Ball rose to the top of the Gallup Poll as the most famous woman on Earth. Today, she's one of the best examples of a celebrity who succeeded at crafting an influential "Second Act" after I Love Lucy and her...
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Sense8: Transcending TelevisionThis collection explores the many ways in which the Netflix series Sense8 transcends television. As its characters transcend physical and psychological borders of gender and geography, so the series itself transcends those between television, new media platforms and new screen technologies, while dissolving those...
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Boys Don't CryHailed as groundbreaking upon its original release, the Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America, one that many simultaneously celebrated and rejected. More than two decades after its original release, the film has become a...
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Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd StreetAt the dawn of the 1980s, there was one serious name in horror and exploitation film criticism: Bill Landis. While other magazines were concerned with behind-the-scenes information, tributes, and SFX tutorials, Landis' Sleazoid Express was one part film journal and one part anthropological study,...
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Brainstorm: An Investigation of the Mysterious Death of Film Star Natalie WoodBrainstorm is an amazing five-year probe into the mysterious death of beloved movie star Natalie Wood by a real-life criminal law authority who determinedly pursued the truth in the face of Los Angeles County officials hell-bent on keeping it buried forever. "After four decades,...
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Streaming Mental Health and Illness: Essays on Representation in Netflix Original ProgramsFrom mindfulness in schools to meditation apps, mental health is bursting out of the psychiatrist's chair and into our everyday conversations. As awareness of mental health increases, so does its predominance in popular culture, which makes for a particularly interesting investigation into the representation...
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Being There and the Evolution of a Screenplay: 3 Draft Scripts with CommentaryBeing There and the Evolution of a Screenplay provides an insightful look at the drafting of one of Hollywood history's greatest scripts. Being There (1979) is generally considered the final film in Hal Ashby's triumphant 1970s career, which included the likes of Harold and...
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Gothic Film: An Edinburgh CompanionExplores Gothic and horror film from early cinema to the present Offers essays exploring Gothic film in the widest possible range of contexts Extends the field of Gothic film by spanning diverse historical periods, international contexts and (sub)genres Structured into 3 sections on History,...
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The SearchersJohn Ford's masterpiece The Searchers (1956) was voted the seventh greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound's most recent poll of critics. Its influence on many of America's most distinguished contemporary filmmakers, among them Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, and John Milius, is...
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100 Películas de la Década de 1980From Aliens to Amadeus, get your fill of 1980s nostalgia with this movie bible of all things bold, bizarre, and boisterous. We've diligently compiled a list of the most influential films of the 1980s that's sure to please popcorn gobblers and highbrow chin-strokers alike....
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A Sense of Dread: Getting Under the Skin of Horror ScreenwritingA Sense of Dread features three main sections. 1) A detailed examination of the biological, psychological, and cultural bases of fear. What fears do we share with animals? What fears are uniquely human? What fears have we learned from our culture? From our families?...
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