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Stage to Studio : Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950 / by Kraft, James P.

Table of Contents: “…Boom and Bust in Early Movie Theaters -- 3. Encountering Records and Radio -- 4. …”
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Stage to Studio : Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950 / by Kraft, James P.

Table of Contents: “…Boom and Bust in Early Movie Theaters -- 3. Encountering Records and Radio -- 4. …”
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Surfing about music / by Cooley, Timothy J., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Trouble in paradise : the history and reinvention of surfing -- "Surf music" and the California surfing boom : new surfing gets a sound -- Music in surf movies -- Two festivals and three genres of music -- The pro surfer sings -- The soul surfer sings -- Playing together and solitary play : why surfers need music.…”
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Surfing about music / by Cooley, Timothy J., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Trouble in paradise : the history and reinvention of surfing -- "Surf music" and the California surfing boom : new surfing gets a sound -- Music in surf movies -- Two festivals and three genres of music -- The pro surfer sings -- The soul surfer sings -- Playing together and solitary play : why surfers need music.…”
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That's all folks? ecocritical readings of American animated features / by Murray, Robin L.

Table of Contents: “…-- Rankin/Bass Studios, nature, and the supernatural: where technology serves and destroys -- Disney in the 1960s and 1970s: blurring boundaries between human and nonhuman nature -- Dinosaurs return: evolution outplays Disney's binaries -- DreamWorks and human and nonhuman ecology: escape or interdependence in Over the Hedge and Bee Movie -- Pixar and the case of WALL-E: moving between environmental adaptation and sentimental nostalgia -- The Simpsons Movie, Happy Feet, and Avatar: the continuing influence of human, organismic, economic, and chaotic approaches to ecology -- Conclusion: Animation's movement to green?.…”
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That's all folks? ecocritical readings of American animated features / by Murray, Robin L.

Table of Contents: “…-- Rankin/Bass Studios, nature, and the supernatural: where technology serves and destroys -- Disney in the 1960s and 1970s: blurring boundaries between human and nonhuman nature -- Dinosaurs return: evolution outplays Disney's binaries -- DreamWorks and human and nonhuman ecology: escape or interdependence in Over the Hedge and Bee Movie -- Pixar and the case of WALL-E: moving between environmental adaptation and sentimental nostalgia -- The Simpsons Movie, Happy Feet, and Avatar: the continuing influence of human, organismic, economic, and chaotic approaches to ecology -- Conclusion: Animation's movement to green?.…”
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Body double the author incarnate in the cinema / by Fischer, Lucy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the screen author wanted: dead or alive -- Typecasting the author -- Beyond adaptation: the writer as filmmaker -- The author at the dream factory: the screenwriter and the movies -- The authoress: textuality as sexuality -- Writing pain: the infirm author -- Word and image -- Corpus and oeuvre: authorship and the body -- Stealing beauty: the reader, the critic, and the appropriation of the authorial voice -- Afterword: Signs and meaning in the cinema.…”
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Body double the author incarnate in the cinema / by Fischer, Lucy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the screen author wanted: dead or alive -- Typecasting the author -- Beyond adaptation: the writer as filmmaker -- The author at the dream factory: the screenwriter and the movies -- The authoress: textuality as sexuality -- Writing pain: the infirm author -- Word and image -- Corpus and oeuvre: authorship and the body -- Stealing beauty: the reader, the critic, and the appropriation of the authorial voice -- Afterword: Signs and meaning in the cinema.…”
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Erotic grotesque nonsense the mass culture of Japanese modern times / by Silverberg, Miriam Rom, 1951-2008

Table of Contents: “…Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from Ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa--honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense.…”
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Erotic grotesque nonsense the mass culture of Japanese modern times / by Silverberg, Miriam Rom, 1951-2008

Table of Contents: “…Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from Ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa--honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense.…”
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Bring on the Books for Everybody : How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture / by Collins, Jim, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The end of civilization (or at least civilized reading) as you know it : Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and self-cultivation -- Book clubs, book lust, and national librarians : literary connoisseurship as popular entertainment -- The movie was better : the rise of the cine-literary -- "Miramaxing" : beyond mere adaptation -- Sex and the post-literary city -- The devoutly literary bestseller.…”
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Bring on the Books for Everybody : How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture / by Collins, Jim, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The end of civilization (or at least civilized reading) as you know it : Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and self-cultivation -- Book clubs, book lust, and national librarians : literary connoisseurship as popular entertainment -- The movie was better : the rise of the cine-literary -- "Miramaxing" : beyond mere adaptation -- Sex and the post-literary city -- The devoutly literary bestseller.…”
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American showman Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the birth of the entertainment industry, 1908-1935 / by Melnick, Ross

Table of Contents: “…A new art for a new art form: Roxy and the development of motion picture exhibition (1908-1913) -- Broadway melody: Roxy, Riesenfeld, and the deluxe theater movement (1913-1917) -- The movie house as recruiting center: Roxy, World War I documentaries, and the engineering of consent (1917-1918) -- "The man who gave the movies a college education": Roxy, Rapee, and motion pictures at the Capitol Theatre (1919-1922) -- Roxy and the birth of media convergence (1922-1936). …”
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American showman Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the birth of the entertainment industry, 1908-1935 / by Melnick, Ross

Table of Contents: “…A new art for a new art form: Roxy and the development of motion picture exhibition (1908-1913) -- Broadway melody: Roxy, Riesenfeld, and the deluxe theater movement (1913-1917) -- The movie house as recruiting center: Roxy, World War I documentaries, and the engineering of consent (1917-1918) -- "The man who gave the movies a college education": Roxy, Rapee, and motion pictures at the Capitol Theatre (1919-1922) -- Roxy and the birth of media convergence (1922-1936). …”
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Cinemachismo masculinities and sexuality in Mexican film / by Mora, Sergio de la

Table of Contents: “…"Midnight virgin": melodramas of prostitution in literature and film -- Pedro Infante unveiled: masculinities in the Mexican "buddy movie" -- The last dance: (homo)sexuality and representation in Arturo Ripstein's El lugar sin límites and the fichera subgenre -- Mexico's third-wave new cinema and the cultural politics of film -- Epilogue. …”
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Art deco San Francisco the architecture of Timothy Pflueger / by Poletti, Therese, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Origins amid a devastated city -- An apprentice with a trace of genius -- From nickelodeons to movie palaces -- Skyscrapers for the Jazz Age -- Monument to the Crash -- Paradise found at the Paramount -- Finding work during the Great Depression -- Trials and tribulations: the Bay Bridge -- Cocktail lounges and a world's fair -- Feminine mystique -- Epilog: a legacy continues -- List of works.…”
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Windows 8.1 for dummies / by Rathbone, Andy

Table of Contents: “…Customizing and upgrading Windows 8.1 -- part V. Music, photos, and movies -- part VI. Help! -- part VII. The part of tens.…”
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Art deco San Francisco the architecture of Timothy Pflueger / by Poletti, Therese, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Origins amid a devastated city -- An apprentice with a trace of genius -- From nickelodeons to movie palaces -- Skyscrapers for the Jazz Age -- Monument to the Crash -- Paradise found at the Paramount -- Finding work during the Great Depression -- Trials and tribulations: the Bay Bridge -- Cocktail lounges and a world's fair -- Feminine mystique -- Epilog: a legacy continues -- List of works.…”
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Windows 8.1 for dummies / by Rathbone, Andy

Table of Contents: “…Customizing and upgrading Windows 8.1 -- part V. Music, photos, and movies -- part VI. Help! -- part VII. The part of tens.…”
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Cinemachismo masculinities and sexuality in Mexican film / by Mora, Sergio de la

Table of Contents: “…"Midnight virgin": melodramas of prostitution in literature and film -- Pedro Infante unveiled: masculinities in the Mexican "buddy movie" -- The last dance: (homo)sexuality and representation in Arturo Ripstein's El lugar sin límites and the fichera subgenre -- Mexico's third-wave new cinema and the cultural politics of film -- Epilogue. …”
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