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Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 29.00An up-to-date illustrated survey of the important films based on, or inspired by, nineteenth-century American fiction. more...
Twentieth-Century American Fiction on Screen
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 30.00The essays in this collection analyse major adaptations of twentieth-century American fiction, with production stills and full filmographies. more...
The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh
The University Press of Kentucky 2010; US$ 35.00Widely regarded as a turning point in American independent cinema, Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape (1989) launched the career of its twenty-six-year-old director, whose debut film was nominated for an Academy Award and went on to win the Cannes Film Festival's top award, the Palme d'Or. The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh breaks new ground... more...
Larger Than Life
Rutgers University Press 2010; US$ 24.95The constellation of Hollywood stars burned brightly in the 1950s, even as the industry fell on hard economic times. Major artists of the 1940s continued to exert a magical appeal but the younger generation of moviegoers was soon enthralled by an emerging cast, led by James Dean and Marlon Brando. They, among others, ushered in a provocative acting... more...
A Little Solitaire
Rutgers University Press 2011; US$ 27.95Little Solitaire offers the only multidisciplinary critical account of Frankenheimer's oeuvre. Especially emphasized is his deep and passionate engagement with national politics and the irrepressible need of human beings to assert their rights and individuality in the face of organizations that would reduce them to silence and anonymity. more...
PRETTY PEOPLE
Rutgers University Press 2012; US$ 26.95In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. Pretty People examines a wide range of Hollywood icons who reflect how stardom in that decade was transformed as the nation itself, signaling significant changes to familiar ideas about gender, race,... more...
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