Search Results - The Birds (film)

Scripting Hitchcock Psycho, The birds, and Marnie / by Raubicheck, Walter, 1950-

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Film and fairy tales : the birth of modern fantasy / by Moen, Kristian

Table of Contents: “…"A dream we make wide awake": the nineteenth-century féerie -- A cinema of transformations: the film féerie and Georges Méliès -- Fairy-tale aesthetics: early film theory and The blue bird (1918) -- Mary Pickford and the fantasies of stardom -- Sites of enchantment and The thief of Bagdad (1924) -- Delimiting fairy tales: Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1937) -- Afterword: Mutability lessons.…”
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Now a terrifying motion picture! twenty-five classic works of horror adapted from book to film / by Broderick, James F., 1963-

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The cinema of Alexander Sokurov

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Echoes from Dharamsala music in the life of a Tibetan refugee community / by Diehl, Keila

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Theory at home and in the field -- Dharamsala : a resting place to pass through -- "There is a tension in our hearts" : constructing the rich cultural heritage of Tibet -- Taking refuge in (and from) India : film songs, angry mobs, and other exilic pleasures and fears -- The West as surrogate Shangri-La : rock and roll and rangzen as style and ideology -- The nail that sticks up gets hammered down : making modern Tibetan music -- Little jolmo bird in the willow grove : crafting Tibetan song lyrics -- A peek through ragged tent flaps and Heaven's door : concerts that rupture and bond -- Conclusion : Cycles, echoes, and their implications.…”
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Lost and othered children in contemporary cinema

Table of Contents: “…Hockenhull -- Wonka, Freud and the Child Within: (Re) Constructing Lost Childhood in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Adrian Schober -- Representations of Childhood and Conflict in African Fiction Film / Christine Singer and Lindiwe Dovey -- Pity the Child: Exploring Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Gummo (1997) / Sarah E. …”
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Disguise, deception, trompe-l'oeil interdisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…an exploration of Sufism within Farid Attar's "The conference of the birds" / Rebekah Zwanzig -- Deception in Chinese Buddhist thinking : reflections from the Lotus Sūtra and the Vimalakīrti Sūtra / Anna Ghiglione.…”
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Invitation to an execution a history of the death penalty in the United States /

Table of Contents: “…Mallicoat -- Conflicts of interest: business, death, and the bird court / Michael A. Pierson -- Fear, capital punishment, and order: the construction and use of capital punishment statutes in early modern England and seventeenth-century New England / Patrick Callaway -- Murder most foul: Native Americans and the evolution of the death penalty / Vanessa Gunther -- The death penalty in federal law / Lonnie Wilson -- Ovines and bovines / Ion Puschila -- Amnesty International and the death penalty: toward global abolition / Alexander Karn -- The celluloid execution: Hollywood films and capital punishment / Susanne Teepe Gaskins -- The death penalty in the south / Michael A. …”
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The proverbial "Pied piper" a festschrift volume of essays in honor of Wolfgang Mieder on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday /

Table of Contents: “…Anhalt / Stéphane Viellard -- Proverbs and the folk tale in the Russian cinema: the case of Sergei Eisenstein's film classic Aleksandr Nevsky / Kevin J. McKenna.…”
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