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The hidden meaning of mass communications : cinema, books, and television in the age of computers.
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ISBN: 0275969967 0313002711 9780313002717 9780275969967 9780313002711 9798400663246 Year: 2000 Publisher: Westport (Conn.) Praeger

Textual analysis : a beginner's guide.
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ISBN: 0761949933 0761949925 9786610369263 0857020013 1446232506 1280369264 1412932904 9781412932905 9780857020017 9780761949930 9780761949923 9781280369261 9781446232507 Year: 2005 Publisher: London Sage

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Providing an introduction to textual analysis, starting from the most basic philosophical foundations that underlie the practice Alan McKee works through the core issues step-by-step, drawing on examples from advertising, films, novels, comic books television and videos.

Local contexts of Islamism in popular media.
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ISBN: 1280958235 9786610958238 9048503949 1423785258 9781423785255 9781280958236 9053568247 9789053568248 9053568247 9789053568248 Year: 2006 Publisher: Amsterdam Amsterdam university press


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Euro-visions : Europe in contemporary cinema
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ISBN: 9781628923025 9781628923018 9781628922998 9781628922974 1628923016 1628923024 1628922974 9781501304774 1501304771 1628922990 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Bloomsbury Academic, an Imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc


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Exotisch Hollywood : de verbeelding van andere culturen in recente succesfilms
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ISBN: 908506080X 9789085060802 Year: 2006 Publisher: Amsterdam Boom

Implications of the sacred in (post) mxodern media
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ISBN: 9189471342 Year: 2006 Publisher: Nordicom-Sweden,

Film and television after 9/11.
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ISBN: 1429417498 9781429417495 0809325551 9780809325559 080932556X 9780809325566 Year: 2004 Publisher: Carbondale Southern Illinois university press

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In Film and Television After 9/11, editor Wheeler Winston Dixon and eleven other distinguished film scholars discuss the production, reception, and distribution of Hollywood and foreign films after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and examine how moviemaking has changed to reflect the new world climate.While some contemporary films offer escapism, much of mainstream American cinema since 9/11 is centered on the desire for a "just war" in which military reprisals and escalation of warfare appear to be both inevitable and justified. Films of 2002 such as Black Hawk Down, Collateral Damage, and We Were Soldiers demonstrate a renewed audience appetite for narratives of conflict, reminiscent of the wave of filmmaking that surrounded American involvement in World War II.The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon galvanized the American public initially, yet film critics wonder how this will play out over time. Film and Television After 9/11 is the first book to provide original insights into topics ranging from the international reception of post-9/11 American cinema, re-viewing films of our shared cinematic past in light of the attacks, and exploring parallels between post-9/11 cinema and World War II-era productions.

The road movie book.
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ISBN: 0415149371 0415149363 1134824351 9786612777844 113482436X 0203137426 128277784X 9780203137420 9781134824366 9780415149365 9780415149372 9781134824311 1134824319 9781134824359 9781282777842 6612777842 Year: 1997 Publisher: London Routledge

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The Road Movie Book is the first comprehensive study of an enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre, its place in American culture, and its legacy to world cinema. The road and the cinema both flourished in the twentieth century, as technological advances brought motion pictures to a mass audience and the mass produced automobile opened up the road to the ordinary American. When Jean Baudrillard equated modern American culture with 'space, speed, cinema, technology' he could just as easily have added that the road movie is its supreme emblem. The contributors explore how the road movie has confronted and represented issues of nationhood, sexuality, gender, class and race. They map the generic terrain of the road movie, trace its evolution on American television as well as on the big screen from the 1930s through the 1980s, and, finally, consider road movies that go off the road, departing from the US landscape or travelling on the margins of contemporary American culture. Movies discussed include: * Road classics such as It Happened One Night, The Grapes of Wrath, The Wizard of Oz and the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby Road to films * 1960's reworkings of the road movie in Easy Rider and Bonnie and Clyde * Russ Meyer's road movies: from Motorpsycho! to Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! * Contemporary hits such as Paris Texas, Rain Man, Natural Born Killers and Thelma and Louise * The road movie, Australian style, from Mad Max to the Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

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