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Enviro-toons green themes in animated cinema and television / by PIke, Deidre M., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: ecocriticism and animation -- Simply subversive-Felix the cat -- Fear and loathing in Bambi -- Hand-drawn Homer, a comic hero in The Simpsons movie -- Futurama's ecofeminist reading room -- Farting hybrids in South Park's rainforest -- Tap dance of the penguins -- Hovering humanity in Wall-E -- Waking up from Avatar -- Deep ecologies of Hayao Miyazaki -- Animation energy.…”
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Enviro-toons green themes in animated cinema and television / by PIke, Deidre M., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: ecocriticism and animation -- Simply subversive-Felix the cat -- Fear and loathing in Bambi -- Hand-drawn Homer, a comic hero in The Simpsons movie -- Futurama's ecofeminist reading room -- Farting hybrids in South Park's rainforest -- Tap dance of the penguins -- Hovering humanity in Wall-E -- Waking up from Avatar -- Deep ecologies of Hayao Miyazaki -- Animation energy.…”
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Edward Hopper light and dark / by Souter, Gerry

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Steve McQueen the great escape / by Gehring, Wes D.

Table of Contents: “…Dysfunctional beginnings -- New York, on the road, back to New York -- Neile Adams, Broadway, and beyond -- A John Sturges trilogy -- Between the trilogy pictures -- 1960s stardom, despite some under-the-radar movies -- Another pivotal trilogy: "What the hell happened?" …”
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Edward Hopper light and dark / by Souter, Gerry

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Steve McQueen the great escape / by Gehring, Wes D.

Table of Contents: “…Dysfunctional beginnings -- New York, on the road, back to New York -- Neile Adams, Broadway, and beyond -- A John Sturges trilogy -- Between the trilogy pictures -- 1960s stardom, despite some under-the-radar movies -- Another pivotal trilogy: "What the hell happened?" …”
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Siegfried Kracauer's American writings essays on film and popular culture / by Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966

Table of Contents: “…In Eisenstein's workshop (1943) -- The Russian director (1949) -- The movie colony (1942) -- A lady of valor (1947) -- The Teutonic mind (1948) -- Consciousness, free and spontaneous (1948) -- Indologian holiday (1948) -- Portrait in film (1948) -- Total teaching -- Pictorial deluge (1950) -- Movie mirror (1950) -- Reflexion faite (1952) -- Toward a theory of film. …”
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Siegfried Kracauer's American writings essays on film and popular culture / by Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966

Table of Contents: “…In Eisenstein's workshop (1943) -- The Russian director (1949) -- The movie colony (1942) -- A lady of valor (1947) -- The Teutonic mind (1948) -- Consciousness, free and spontaneous (1948) -- Indologian holiday (1948) -- Portrait in film (1948) -- Total teaching -- Pictorial deluge (1950) -- Movie mirror (1950) -- Reflexion faite (1952) -- Toward a theory of film. …”
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Steven Spielberg a biography / by McBride, Joseph, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…How wondrous are thy works" -- "Mazik" -- "Meshuggeneh" -- "A wimp in a world of jocks" -- "Big spiel" -- "Hell on earth" -- "A hell of a big break" -- "This tremendous meatgrinder" -- "The Steven Spielberg business" -- "A primal scream movie" -- Watch the skies -- "Rehab" -- "Ecstacy and grief" -- "Adult truths" -- "An awfully big adventure" -- Mensch -- Mogul and director -- Mainstream independent -- Light in the darkness -- "400-pound gorilla".…”
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Sitting pretty the life and times of Clifton Webb / by Webb, Clifton, 1893-1966

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The noses have it -- First vision of a name in lights -- Art and opera -- Making progress and moving up -- Dancing into Xanadu -- To Europe in search of adventure -- In love with Jeanne Eagels -- Great plays, then the great war -- The war starts, Blithe spirit leads to Laura -- More movies, more parties, and Garbo -- A top box-office draw -- Stars and stripes forever -- Clifton and Mabelle, together forever.…”
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Windows 8.1 Bible / by Boyce, Jim

Table of Contents: “…Pictures, music, and movies -- part V. Managing your content -- part VI. …”
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Steven Spielberg a biography / by McBride, Joseph, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…How wondrous are thy works" -- "Mazik" -- "Meshuggeneh" -- "A wimp in a world of jocks" -- "Big spiel" -- "Hell on earth" -- "A hell of a big break" -- "This tremendous meatgrinder" -- "The Steven Spielberg business" -- "A primal scream movie" -- Watch the skies -- "Rehab" -- "Ecstacy and grief" -- "Adult truths" -- "An awfully big adventure" -- Mensch -- Mogul and director -- Mainstream independent -- Light in the darkness -- "400-pound gorilla".…”
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Sitting pretty the life and times of Clifton Webb / by Webb, Clifton, 1893-1966

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The noses have it -- First vision of a name in lights -- Art and opera -- Making progress and moving up -- Dancing into Xanadu -- To Europe in search of adventure -- In love with Jeanne Eagels -- Great plays, then the great war -- The war starts, Blithe spirit leads to Laura -- More movies, more parties, and Garbo -- A top box-office draw -- Stars and stripes forever -- Clifton and Mabelle, together forever.…”
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Windows 8.1 Bible / by Boyce, Jim

Table of Contents: “…Pictures, music, and movies -- part V. Managing your content -- part VI. …”
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Writing National Cinema : Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru / by Middents, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…A history of the Peruvian cinematic tradition -- Publication, authority, identity: constructing the film journal -- Shaping Peruvian taste: "good" and "bad" Peruvian movies -- Latin American dis/connections: Peru versus the new Latin American cinema -- For a few minutes: considering the short-film industry -- Creating the "Lombardi generation": the rise of an urban cinematic aesthetic -- The changing of the guard: Peruvian cinema in the twenty-first century.…”
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Writing National Cinema : Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru / by Middents, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…A history of the Peruvian cinematic tradition -- Publication, authority, identity: constructing the film journal -- Shaping Peruvian taste: "good" and "bad" Peruvian movies -- Latin American dis/connections: Peru versus the new Latin American cinema -- For a few minutes: considering the short-film industry -- Creating the "Lombardi generation": the rise of an urban cinematic aesthetic -- The changing of the guard: Peruvian cinema in the twenty-first century.…”
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Roman Catholicism in fantastic film essays on belief, spectacle, ritual and imagery /

Table of Contents: “…Music That sucks and bloody liturgy: Catholicism in vampire movies / Isabella van Elferen -- "The blood is the life": Roman Catholic imagery in vampire films of the 1930s / Ann Kordas -- House of horrors: Brideshead revisited at the movies / Kathleen E. …”
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Roman Catholicism in fantastic film essays on belief, spectacle, ritual and imagery /

Table of Contents: “…Music That sucks and bloody liturgy: Catholicism in vampire movies / Isabella van Elferen -- "The blood is the life": Roman Catholic imagery in vampire films of the 1930s / Ann Kordas -- House of horrors: Brideshead revisited at the movies / Kathleen E. …”
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Fin de millénaire Budapest metamorphoses of urban life / by Bodnaŕ, Judit, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Constructing difference : western versus non-western, capitalist versus socialist urban logic -- "he that hath to him shall be given" : inequalities of housing privatization -- Inner city doubly renewed : global phenomenon, local accents -- Assembling the square : social transformation in public space and the broken mirage of the second economy -- Globalizing art and consumption : art movies and shopping malls -- Urban texture unraveling : fragmentation of the city -- Conclusion.…”
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Cartographic cinema by Conley, Tom

Table of Contents: “…Icarian cinema: Paris qui dort -- Jean Renoir: cartographies in deep focus -- Maps and theaters of torture: Roma, città aperta -- A desperate journey: from Casablanca to Indiana Jones -- Juvenile geographies: Les mistons -- Michelin Tendre: Les amants -- Paris Underground: Les 400 coups -- A roadmap for a road movie: Thelma and Louise -- Cronos, cosmos, and Polis: La haine -- Ptolemy, Gladiator, and empire.…”
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