New Books in Film
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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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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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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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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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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
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Kunio Hara, "Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My N...
Hara explores the collaboration between Hisaishi and Miyazaki Hayao, the film’s creator and director...
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Kristen Hoerl, "Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories...
Hoerl explores the construction of “the sixties” in Hollywood media, from Family Ties and The Wonder Years to Law and Order, arguing that these texts have proved dismissive, if not adversarial, to the role of dissent in fostering progressive social change...
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Joshua Foa Dienstag, "Cinema Pessimism: A Polit...
Dienstag considers the interaction between our experiences in watching films and our positions as citizens in a representative democracy...
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Áine O'Healy, "Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinem...
O'Healy explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country’s shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades...
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Erika Engstrom, "Feminism, Gender, and Politics...
Engstrom analyzes the various ways the series presented feminism as a positive force, such as the satirical portrayal of patriarchy...
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
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Carol Dyhouse, "Hearthrobs: A History of Women ...
What can a cultural history of the heartthrob teach us about women, desire, and social change?
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Jennifer Cazenave, "An Archive of the Catastrop...
Cazenave offers a fascinating analysis of the 220 hours of outtakes edited out of the final nine and a half-hour 1985 film with which listeners and readers might be familiar...
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