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• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 26 January 2012

Offers a wealth of insight into the paradoxical nature of film, considering its role and impact on society in the 20th century as well as its future in the digital

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 28 November 2007

Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 04 May 2024

"Film Music: A Very Short Introduction focuses on the most central issues in the practice of film music. What is film music? How is it composed? How does film music

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 04 May 2024

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith defines the field of cinema, and explores its fascinating history within the cultural and aesthetic sphere. Considering the influences of the other art forms from which it arose,

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 01 September 2020

Encompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema's silent era

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 20 July 2016

One film out of every five made anywhere on earth comes from India. From its beginnings under colonial rule through to the heights of Bollywood , Indian Cinema has challenged social

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 04 May 2024

"Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires. Using well-known movies, stars, and directors, the book shows that the elements

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 21 February 2019

Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Hollywood thrillers from the 1940s and 50

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 26 September 2023

It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 23 June 2011

David Seed examines how science fiction has emerged as a popular genre of literature in the 20th century, and discusses it in relation to themes such as science and technology,