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Fifties Television:
The Industry and Its Critics
William Boddy provides a wide-ranging, rigorous analysis of the fledging American television industry during the period of its greatest economic growth, programming changes, and critical controversy. He traces the medium's development from the experimental era through the regulatory battles of the 1940s and the network programming wars of the ......
ISBN-13: 9780252062995 (Paperback)
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
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William Boddy
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Local release date: 15/03/1992
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Categories: Film, TV & radio [AP]

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Unspeakable Images:
Ethnicity and the American Cinema
Could Woody Allen have made the same movies if he weren't Jewish? Would John Ford's pictures have been different if he weren't an Irish Catholic? Is Spike Lee's color an important ingredient in his movie-making? Such engaging issues are considered in Unspeakable Images, a volume that encourages fresh thinking and research about ethnic issues and ......
ISBN-13: 9780252061523 (Paperback)
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Lester D. Friedman
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Local release date: 16/03/1991
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Voices in the Dark:
The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir
The American film noir, the popular genre that focused on urban crime and corruption in the 1940s and 1950s, exhibits the greatest amount of narrative experimentation in the modern American cinema. Spurred by postwar disillusionment, cold war anxieties, and changing social circumstances, these films revealed the dark side of American life and , in ......
ISBN-13: 9780252060564 (Paperback)
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J. P. Telotte
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Local release date: 15/03/1988
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American Horrors:
Essays on the Modern American Horror Film
Since the release of Rosemary's Baby in 1968, the American horror film has become one of the most diverse, commercially successful, widely discussed, and culturally significant film genres. Drawing on a wide range of critical methods---from close textual readings and structuralist genre criticism to psychoanalytical, feminist, and ideological ......
ISBN-13: 9780252014482 (Paperback)
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Gregory A. Waller
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Local release date: 16/03/1987
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Confronting Modern America in the Western Film
''Lenihan's fine study [brings] new levels of scholarship and sophistication to the study of western films.... Should prove useful in the classroom, both for social history and film history courses. It will introduce readers to a new way to view some of the old horse operas that they had once taken for granted as fluffy entertainment.'' -- Western ......
ISBN-13: 9780252012549 (Paperback)
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John H. Lenihan
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Local release date: 15/03/1980
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