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Schaubühne, Band 1
De Gruyter 1840; US$ 126.00Arnim, Achim; Grimm, Wilhelm: Ludwig Achim's Von Arnim Sämmtliche Werke: Schaubühne, Band 1: Band 5 more...
Making the White Man's Indian
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 66.00The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside those of hostile Indians in the silent films of D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, and flourished during the early 1930s with Hollywood's cycle of pro-Indian... more...
Reel Black Talk
ABC-CLIO 1997; US$ 182.00As evidenced in interviews included in this volume, many African American filmmakers consider themselves artists first, their ethnicity being only part of what influences their work. This is the first book by an African American on contemporary African American filmmakers. Here directors and producers speak for themselves, posing challenges to current... more...
George Raft
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 45.00In the early 1930s, George Raft, an actor and dancer from New York City's Hell's Kitchen, gained a name for himself playing stylish and charismatic gangsters in films like 1932's original Scarface. Raft's own real-life connection to the New York mob added frightening authenticity to his portrayals, and his star quality coincided with... more...
Grace is Enough
B&H Publishing Group 2007; US$ 19.99Television star Willie Aames and his wife Maylo Upton recount their Hollywood highs and lows and the grace they’ve found by moving to small-town Kansas. more...
The Acting Book
Nick Hern Books 2012; US$ 16.03A ?fast-forward? acting course covering all the essential techniques an actor needs to know and use ? with a suite of exercises to put each technique into practice. The Acting Book offers various ways to analyse a text and to create character, using not only the established processes of Stanislavsky and Meisner, but also new ones developed by the... more...
TV Goes to Hell
ECW Press 2011; US$ 10.95As a natural heir to the hit television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Supernatural has risen to prominence with a strong cult following, and this series of essays from contributors around the globe investigates the genre-bending series’ cultural footprint both in the United States and abroad. The writings explore topics such as folklore,... more...
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95This encyclopedia presents a wealth of information on early cinema history, with coverage of the techniques and equipment of film production, profiles of the pioneering directors and producers, analysis of individual films and the rapid growth of distinct film genres, and the emergence of something the world had never seen before - the movie star.... more...
The Sounds of Early Cinema
Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 18.35The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent, but the sheer diversity of sound(s) and sound/image relations characterizing the first 20 years of moving ... more...









