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Blue-collar Hollywood liberalism, democracy, and working people in American film / by Bodnar, John E., 1944-

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Blue-collar Hollywood liberalism, democracy, and working people in American film / by Bodnar, John E., 1944-

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Reel schools schooling and the nation in Australian cinema / by May, Josephine, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the cinematic vernacular of Australian schooling -- The silent era: "a school of sentiment" -- High tide of nationalist portrayal 1930s-1960s -- Nation and the girls' boarding school in the 1970s -- Nation and the boys' school in the 1970s -- State high school blues in the early 1980s -- The school film in the late 1980s -- Multicultural nation at school in the 1980s-1990s -- Private school fantasies in the 2000s -- Conclusion.…”
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Reel schools schooling and the nation in Australian cinema / by May, Josephine, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the cinematic vernacular of Australian schooling -- The silent era: "a school of sentiment" -- High tide of nationalist portrayal 1930s-1960s -- Nation and the girls' boarding school in the 1970s -- Nation and the boys' school in the 1970s -- State high school blues in the early 1980s -- The school film in the late 1980s -- Multicultural nation at school in the 1980s-1990s -- Private school fantasies in the 2000s -- Conclusion.…”
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Siren city sound and source music in classic American noir / by Miklitsch, Robert, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…House sound : reverb, offscreen sound, and voice-over narration in early RKO noir -- Sonic effects : sound and fury in Forties noir -- Audio technologies : intercoms and dictaphones, telephones and radios, phonographs and jukeboxes -- Blues in the night : popular and classical instrumental source music -- Singing detectives and bluesmen, black jazzwomen and torch singers -- The big number (side b) : killing them softly -- The big number (a side) : siren city.…”
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Siren city sound and source music in classic American noir / by Miklitsch, Robert, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…House sound : reverb, offscreen sound, and voice-over narration in early RKO noir -- Sonic effects : sound and fury in Forties noir -- Audio technologies : intercoms and dictaphones, telephones and radios, phonographs and jukeboxes -- Blues in the night : popular and classical instrumental source music -- Singing detectives and bluesmen, black jazzwomen and torch singers -- The big number (side b) : killing them softly -- The big number (a side) : siren city.…”
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Nightmare alley film noir and the American dream / by Osteen, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: film noir and the American dream -- "Someone else's nightmare": exploring noir dreamscapes -- Missing persons: self-erasure and reinvention -- Vet noir: masculinity, memory and trauma -- Framed: forging noir identities -- Noir's cars: automobility and amoral space -- Nocturnes in black and blue: memory, morality and jazz melody -- Femmes vital: film noir and women's work -- Left-handed endeavor: crime, capitalism, and the Hollywood left -- Conclusion: American nightmares.…”
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Nightmare alley film noir and the American dream / by Osteen, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: film noir and the American dream -- "Someone else's nightmare": exploring noir dreamscapes -- Missing persons: self-erasure and reinvention -- Vet noir: masculinity, memory and trauma -- Framed: forging noir identities -- Noir's cars: automobility and amoral space -- Nocturnes in black and blue: memory, morality and jazz melody -- Femmes vital: film noir and women's work -- Left-handed endeavor: crime, capitalism, and the Hollywood left -- Conclusion: American nightmares.…”
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Dangerous dreams : essays on American film and television / by Whitt, Jan

Table of Contents: “…Hyde, and films of the 1980s -- Displaced people and the frailty of words: communication in Ordinary people, On golden pond, and Terms of endearment -- Portrayals of class, race, and sexual orientation. Working man blues: images of the cowboy in American film -- From the wilderness into the closet: Brokeback Mountain and the lost American dream -- What happened to Celie and Idgie?…”
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Dangerous dreams : essays on American film and television / by Whitt, Jan

Table of Contents: “…Hyde, and films of the 1980s -- Displaced people and the frailty of words: communication in Ordinary people, On golden pond, and Terms of endearment -- Portrayals of class, race, and sexual orientation. Working man blues: images of the cowboy in American film -- From the wilderness into the closet: Brokeback Mountain and the lost American dream -- What happened to Celie and Idgie?…”
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Authors on Film /

Table of Contents: “…Bernard Shaw / On cinema -- Heinrich Mann / On The blue angel: Heinrich Mann to Karl Lemke -- The blue angel is shown to me -- Thomas Mann / On the film -- Bertolt Brecht / Concern music for the film -- Graham Greene / Three reviews -- Louis Aragon / What is art, Jean-Luc Godard? …”
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Authors on Film /

Table of Contents: “…Bernard Shaw / On cinema -- Heinrich Mann / On The blue angel: Heinrich Mann to Karl Lemke -- The blue angel is shown to me -- Thomas Mann / On the film -- Bertolt Brecht / Concern music for the film -- Graham Greene / Three reviews -- Louis Aragon / What is art, Jean-Luc Godard? …”
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Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez / by Martin, Adrian, 1959-

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Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez / by Martin, Adrian, 1959-

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