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    Seeing the big picture : exploring American cultures on film / by Summerfield, Ellen

    Published 2001
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    Dark directions Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film / by Phillips, Kendall R.

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Craven's gothic form: nightmares, screams, and monsters -- Gothic technologies: Serpent and the rainbow, Deadly friend, Swamp thing, Red eye, Shocker -- Gothic families: The people under the stairs, The hills have eyes, Last house on the left -- Desolate frontiers in the films of John Carpenter. Sites under siege: Dark star, Assault on Precinct 13, The thing, Village of the damned -- Forbidden thresholds: The fog, Ghosts of Mars, Halloween, Prince of darkness, In the mouth of madness -- Drifters in desolation: Big trouble in Little China, Vampires, They live, Escape from New York, Escape from L.A. -- Conclusion.…”
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    Unless the threat of death is behind them hard-boiled fiction and film noir / by Irwin, John T.

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Burnett's High sierra -- Deadline at midnight : Cornell Woolrich's Night has a thousand eyes -- A puzzle of character -- Hard-boiled fiction and film noir -- Hard-boiled fiction and film noir continued.…”
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    Duck and cover civil defense images in film and television from the Cold War to 9/11 / by Matthews, Melvin E.

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Duck and cover: civil defense and government propaganda films -- Doomsday on the big screen: civil defense and Fifties cinema -- Doomsday on the small screen: civil defense and early television -- The Kennedy years: "shelter morality" and survivalism -- "Do you really want to have lived without ever having made love?" …”
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    The battle for the Bs 1950s Hollywood and the rebirth of low-budget cinema / by Davis, Blair, 1975-

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hollywood in transition: the business of 1950s filmmaking -- The battle begins: Hollywood reacts, poverty row collapses -- The rebirth of the B-movie in the 1950s -- Attack of the independent: American international pictures and the B-movie -- Small screen, smaller pictures: new perspectives on 1950s television and B-movies -- Big 'B', little 'B': a case study of three films -- Notes from the underground : the legacy of the 1950s B-movie.…”
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    Empires of entertainment media industries and the politics of deregulation, 1980-1996 / by Holt, Jennifer, 1968-

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the foundation of empires -- 1980-1983 : film vs. cable -- 1983-1985 : broadcast and the blueprints of empires -- 1984-1986 : outsiders moving in : Murdoch and Turner -- 1986-1988 : golden era redux -- 1989-1992 : big media without frontiers -- 1993-1995 : the last mile -- Conclusion : 1996 and beyond : the political economy of transformation.…”
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