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A History of Narrative Film
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Ethnographic Film
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Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life
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The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968
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What is Cinema? Volume I
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The Great Art Of Light And Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema
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Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema
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Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema (Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center)
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Hope for Film: From the Frontline of the Independent Cinema Revolutions
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Travels in Greeneland: The Cinema of Graham Greene
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Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life
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Burning Passions: Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema
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The Fight That Started the Movies: The World Heavyweight Championship, the Birth of Cinema and the First Feature Film
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Opening Wednesday at a Theater Or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American '70s
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The Cinematic Challenge: Filming Colonial America
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ROCK DOCS: A Fifty-Year Cinematic Journey, 1964-2014
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Apocalypse Then: American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951-1967
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Sideshow Cinema
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Talking Pictures: Screenwriters in the American Cinema
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Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934
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Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979
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Hick Flicks: The Rise and Fall of Redneck Cinema
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The Image in Early Cinema: Form and Material
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Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era
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The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907
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The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
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Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
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The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931
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The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt
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Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building: National Sentiments, Transnational Realities, 1897-1940
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Danger on the Silver Screen: 50 Films Celebrating Cinema's Greatest Stunts
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Baseball: The Movie
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Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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The Magic Lantern: How Movies Got to Move
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Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip: Movies, Memory, and World War II
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The Best Film You've Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or Critically Savaged Movies They Love
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Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan
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I Was a Teenage Movie Maker: The Book
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Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire
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These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World
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Film Makers: 15 Groundbreaking Women Directors
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Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director
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Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition
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Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors
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Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu (Orson Welles, #1)
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Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era
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The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films With a Foreword by John Akomfrah
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Cinema Speculation: An Entertaining Dive into Film History from the Legendary Writer and Director
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The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power
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Writing History with Lightning: Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America
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Medicine's Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television (Rochester Studies in Medical History, 10)
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My Affair with Art House Cinema: Essays and Reviews
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The Myth of Colorblindness: Race and Ethnicity in American Cinema
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The Social Architecture of French Cinema: 1929–1939 (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 34)
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The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg―and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
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Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores that Changed Cinema
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Reflections: On Cinematography
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Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction
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Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy (Cappella Books (Paperback))
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Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and Method
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"You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet": The American Talking Film: History and Memory 1927-1949
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Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings
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Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction
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Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898-1928
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The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929
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Hollywood and the American Historical Film
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Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History
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Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
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D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time
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Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film
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The Documentary Film Reader: History, Theory, Criticism
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Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons
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Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age
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The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney
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Fox Theatre
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White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan
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Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision
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Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio
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The South Never Plays Itself: A Film Buff’s Journey Through the South on Screen
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Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America
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Black Film: A History of Black Representation and Participation in the Movies
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Movie-Made Appalachia: History, Hollywood, and the Highland South
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Drawing the Line: What to Do with the Work of Immoral Artists from Museums to the Movies
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Rock on Film: The Movies That Rocked the Big Screen
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How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood And Never Lost A Dime
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Asheville Movies Volume 1: The Silent Era
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The Men Who Made the Movies
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Into the Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950
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The American Drive-In Movie Theatre
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Making Movies
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Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture
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