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Western films : a complete guide
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ISBN: 0892562188 030680333X Year: 1982 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Da Capo


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Les grandes "écoles" esthétiques
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ISBN: 2854802489 9782854802481 Year: 1989 Volume: 55 Publisher: Paris Corlet


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L'alliance brisée: le western des années 1920
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ISBN: 2729702660 9782729702663 Year: 1985 Publisher: Lyon Presses universitaires de Lyon

Now you see it : studies on lesbian and gay film
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ISBN: 0415035554 Year: 1990 Publisher: London Routledge

Bio/pics : how Hollywood constructed public history
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ISBN: 0813517559 Year: 1992 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press


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The movie book of film noir
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ISBN: 028980048X 0289801168 Year: 1992 Publisher: London : Studio Vista,

Screening history
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ISBN: 0674795865 Year: 1992 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard university press

Popular film and television comedy
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ISBN: 0415046920 0415046912 Year: 1990 Publisher: London Routledge

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Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik take as their starting point the remarkable diversity of comedy's forms and modes - feature-length narratives, sketches and shorts, sit-com and variety, slapstick and romance. Relating this diversity to the variety of comedy's basic conventions - from happy endings to the presence of gags and the involvement of humour and laughter - they seek both to explain the nature of these forms and conventions and to relate them to their institutional contexts. They propose that all forms and modes of the comic involve deviations from aesthetic and cultural conventions and n

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