New Books in Film
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Joseph Clark, "News Parade: The American Newsre...
When weekly newsreels launched in the early twentieth century, they offered the U.S. public the first weekly record of events that symbolized “indisputable evidence” of the news...
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Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, "NeuroScience Fiction" (...
Quiroga shows how the outlandish premises of many seminal science fiction movies are being made possible by new discoveries and technological advances in neuroscience and related fields.
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Chris Yogerst, "Hollywood Hates Hitler!: Jew-ba...
In September 1941, a handful of isolationist senators set out to tarnish Hollywood for warmongering...
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Steven C. Smith, "Music by Max Steiner: The Epi...
During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to introduce and establish the language of film music....
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Waleed Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From Hol...
Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of the portrayals of Arab Americans in film and interrogates how such representations have been, and continue to be, disrupted and challenged...
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Russell J. A. Kilbourn, "The Cinema of Paolo So...
KIlbourn offers the first comprehensive study published in the English-speaking world on one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first century European film...
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The Joker: How a “Typical Hoodlum” Character of...
An interview with Joel West
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Kevin J. Bryne, "Minstrel Traditions: Mediated ...
Bryne examines the technologically-mediated interactions that developed between live performances and their circulating images during this fraught period...
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Justin Gomer, "White Balance: How Hollywood Sha...
Gomer illustrates the myriad of ways that Hollywood relied on and helped solidify an emerging ideology of colorblindness in the wake of the civil rights movement...
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Telory Arendell, "The Autistic Stage: How Cogni...
Arendell creates a revolutionary fusion of disability studies and performance studies...
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Greg Mitchell, "The Beginning or the End: How H...
A movie that began as a cautionary tale inspired by atomic scientists aiming to warn the world against a nuclear arms race would be drained of all impact due to revisions and retakes ordered by President Truman and the military..,.
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Kendra Preston Leonard, "Music for the Kingdom ...
Leonard examines the music and musicians that accompanied silent movies that she calls “spirit films”...
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Creshema R. Murray, "Leadership Through the Len...
The book examines how TV impacts our expectations of leadership, organizational life, and pedagogy.
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Greg Burris, "The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media...
Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds?
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Adam Brown, "Judging 'Privileged' Jews: Holocau...
Brown engages with issues that are fundamental to present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to reflections on human nature...
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Greg Garrett, "A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Un...
Garrett brings his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism to bear on this history...
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David Slucki et al., "Laughter After: Humor and...
This book examines what is at stake in deploying humor in representing the Holocaust...
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Clifford Mason, "Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theat...
Mason offers a sweeping history of Black theatre from the early nineteenth century through 1959...
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Jeremy Black, "The World of James Bond: The Liv...
Black presents an insightful and hugely entertaining exploration of the political and cultural context of the Bond books and films...
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Robert Pippin, "Filmed Thought: Cinema as Refle...
Each chapter in Filmed Thought treats a film in-depth, including works by Hitchcock, Ray, Malick, Sirk, Almodovar, Polanski, and the Dardenne brothers...
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Jon Wilkman, "Screening Reality: How Documentar...
Wilkman offers a a widescreen view of how American “truth” has been discovered, defined, projected, televised, and streamed,,,
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
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Brian Crim, "Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Repres...
Crim explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing on notable contributions from the last fifty years...
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
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Joseph Rex Young, "George R.R. Martin and the F...
“In the game of thrones you either win or you die."
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