A companion to the gangster film / edited by George S. Larke-Walsh.

Table of Contents: “…Petty -- Making of a mobster : from myth to the crystallization of the mafia archetype in 1950s and 1960s Italian and Italian American film / Ryan Calabretta-Sajder -- Moral ambiguities : the Frenchness of new Hollywood gangster families / Isolde Vanhee -- The assassin's economics of killing : money, honour and the market of murder / Fran Mason -- The 90s Hollywood gangster : generic reflections and deflections / Karine Hildenbrand -- "Based on a true story" : public enemies and the biographical gangster film / Stephen Gaunson -- The gangster in Hispanic American cinema / Philip Swanson -- The Jamaican gangster film : badman, rude boys and dons / Imruh Bakari -- When criticism meets gangster films : the Spiv cycle as oppositional aesthetics in post-war Britain / Ana Rodriguez Granell -- The patriarchal figure in the 1950s French gangster film : legendary men from a recent past / Thomas Pillard -- Mafia, mobility, and capitalism in Italy circa 1960 / Luca Peretti -- Gangsters in Turkish cinema / Hülya Önal -- Sun-drenched corruption : organized crime, global capItalism and the Mediterranean coast in recent Spanish cinema / Vicente Rodríguez Ortega -- The Russia they have lost : Russian gangster as a nostalgic hero / Lioudmila Federova -- A hint of lavender : the gay gangster in British crime cinema / Paul Elliott -- The modern British gangster film / Tom Ryall -- Death and duty : the onscreen yakuza / Elayne Chaplin -- Yakuza no onnatachi : women in Japanese gangster cinema / Laura Treglia -- Impotent liberation : post-martial law Taiwanese gangster films / Dominique Liao -- Ruling the men's den : crime, outrage and Indian women gang leaders / Sony Jalarajan Raj, Rohini Sreekumar & Nithin Kalorth -- Tsui Hark's film workshop : political cues in the gangster film 1986-1989 / James Fenwick -- The Godfather legacy : homage and allusion in transnational cinema / George S. …”
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The Solaris effect : art & artifice in contemporary American film / Steven Dillon. by Dillon, Steven, 1960-

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Audiovisual translation through a gender lens. by De Marco, Marcella

Table of Contents: “…2.2.2.1 Women's and men's language2.2.2.2 Feminine and masculine behavioural practices; 2.3 Gender stereotypes; 2.3.1 Gender stereotypes in society; 2.3.2 Gender stereotypes on the screen; 2.3.2.1 Female stereotypes in Western cinema; 2.3.2.2 Male stereotypes in Western cinema; 3 Multiple portrayals of gender in Anglo-American cinema; 3.1 Overview; 3.2 Visual representation; 3.2.1 Images on the screen; 3.2.2 The use of covers; 3.2.2.1 Titles; 3.2.3 The roles; 3.3 Acoustic representation; 4 Representation of gender in speech; 4.1 General considerations; 4.2 Topics in same-sex and mixed talk.…”
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Picturing American modernity : traffic, technology, and the silent cinema / Kristen Whissel. by Whissel, Kristen, 1969-

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Sites of disquiet : the non-space in Spanish American short narratives and their cinematic transformations / Ilka Kressner. by Kressner, Ilka, 1975-

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Doing women's film history : reframing cinemas, past and future / edited by Christine Gledhill, Julia Knight.

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Screening enlightenment : Hollywood and the cultural reconstruction of defeated Japan / Hiroshi Kitamura. by Kitamura, Hiroshi, 1971-

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These amazing shadows / Sundance Selects ; Gravitas Docufilms ; directed by Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton ; produced by Christine O'Malley, Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton ; written by Kurt... by Golub, Peter

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A companion to Luis Buñuel edited by Rob Stone and Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla.

Table of Contents: “…The complicit eye: directorial and ocular paradigms in Luis Buñuel's Mexican films and interdisciplinary visuality (1940s and 1950s) / Erica Segre -- Out of place, out of synch: errant movement and rhythm in Buñuel's Mexican comedies / Tom Whittaker -- Susana, aka Demonio y carne: melodrama and the voluptuosity of destruction / Maria Pilar Rodriguez -- Young outlaws and marginal lives in Latin American cinema: the landmark of Los olvidados / Ana Morana -- Strange passions. …”
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A companion to the war film edited by Douglas A. Cunningham and John C. Nelson.

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A companion to the gangster film / edited by George S. Larke-Walsh.

Table of Contents: “…Petty -- Making of a mobster : from myth to the crystallization of the mafia archetype in 1950s and 1960s Italian and Italian American film / Ryan Calabretta-Sajder -- Moral ambiguities : the Frenchness of new Hollywood gangster families / Isolde Vanhee -- The assassin's economics of killing : money, honour and the market of murder / Fran Mason -- The 90s Hollywood gangster : generic reflections and deflections / Karine Hildenbrand -- "Based on a true story" : public enemies and the biographical gangster film / Stephen Gaunson -- The gangster in Hispanic American cinema / Philip Swanson -- The Jamaican gangster film : badman, rude boys and dons / Imruh Bakari -- When criticism meets gangster films : the Spiv cycle as oppositional aesthetics in post-war Britain / Ana Rodriguez Granell -- The patriarchal figure in the 1950s French gangster film : legendary men from a recent past / Thomas Pillard -- Mafia, mobility, and capitalism in Italy circa 1960 / Luca Peretti -- Gangsters in Turkish cinema / Hülya Önal -- Sun-drenched corruption : organized crime, global capItalism and the Mediterranean coast in recent Spanish cinema / Vicente Rodríguez Ortega -- The Russia they have lost : Russian gangster as a nostalgic hero / Lioudmila Federova -- A hint of lavender : the gay gangster in British crime cinema / Paul Elliott -- The modern British gangster film / Tom Ryall -- Death and duty : the onscreen yakuza / Elayne Chaplin -- Yakuza no onnatachi : women in Japanese gangster cinema / Laura Treglia -- Impotent liberation : post-martial law Taiwanese gangster films / Dominique Liao -- Ruling the men's den : crime, outrage and Indian women gang leaders / Sony Jalarajan Raj, Rohini Sreekumar & Nithin Kalorth -- Tsui Hark's film workshop : political cues in the gangster film 1986-1989 / James Fenwick -- The Godfather legacy : homage and allusion in transnational cinema / George S. …”
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When the levees broke a requiem in four acts / [a Spike Lee film] ; 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks ; HBO Documentary Films ; [director, Spike Lee] ; producers, Sam Pollard, Spike Le...

Cinemachismo : masculinities and sexuality in Mexican film / Sergio de la Mora. by Mora, Sergio de la

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The cinema of Latin America / edited by Alberto Elena & Marina Díaz López.

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L.A. Rebellion : creating a new black cinema / edited by Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart.

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You ain't heard nothin' yet : interviews with stars from Hollywood's golden era / James Bawden and Ron Miller.

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A companion to film comedy / edited by Andrew Horton and Joanna E. Rapf.

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The fruit machine : twenty years of writings on queer cinema / Thomas Waugh ; foreword by John Greyson. by Waugh, Thomas, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The Kiss of the Maricon, or Gay Imagery in Latin American Cinema (1986-87) -- Laws of Desire: Maurice, Law of Desire, and Vera (1987) -- Two Great Gay Filmmakers: Hello and Good-bye (1988) -- Beauty and the Beast, Take Two (1988) -- Whipping Up a Cinema (1989) -- Erotic Self-Images in the Gay Male AIDS Melodrama (1988, 1992) -- In Memoriam: Vito Russo, 1946-1990 (1991) -- We're Talking, Vulva, or, My Body Is Not a Metaphor (1995, 1999) -- Walking on Tippy Toes: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Documentary of the Post-Stonewall Period 1969-1984 (1995-97) -- Archeology and Censorship (1997).…”
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The Slanted screen Asian men in film and television / Smiley Film Distribution & World Sales (Firm).

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Film genre reader IV / edited by Barry Keith Grant. by Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The Idea of Genre in the American Cinema (Edward Buscombe); 3. A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre (Rick altman); 4. …”
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