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Cult cinema an introduction / by Mathijs, Ernest

Table of Contents: “…Cult reception contexts -- The cult cinema marketplace -- Prestige, awards, and festivals -- Censorship and criticism -- Random and subculture -- The cult auteur -- Cult stardom -- Camp and paracinema -- Transgression and freakery -- Gender and sexuality -- Transnationalism and Orientalism -- Religion and utopia -- Themes and genres. Exploitation and B movies -- Underground and avant-garde cinema -- Cult cinema and drugs -- Cult cinema and music -- Classical Hollywood cults -- Cult horror cinema -- Cult science fiction cinema -- Cult blockbusters -- Intertextuality and irony -- Meta-cult.…”
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Cult cinema an introduction / by Mathijs, Ernest

Table of Contents: “…Cult reception contexts -- The cult cinema marketplace -- Prestige, awards, and festivals -- Censorship and criticism -- Random and subculture -- The cult auteur -- Cult stardom -- Camp and paracinema -- Transgression and freakery -- Gender and sexuality -- Transnationalism and Orientalism -- Religion and utopia -- Themes and genres. Exploitation and B movies -- Underground and avant-garde cinema -- Cult cinema and drugs -- Cult cinema and music -- Classical Hollywood cults -- Cult horror cinema -- Cult science fiction cinema -- Cult blockbusters -- Intertextuality and irony -- Meta-cult.…”
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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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The last Jews in Baghdad remembering a lost homeland / by Rejwan, Nissim

Table of Contents: “…In old Baghdad -- The Rejwan tribe -- Mother and the placebo effect -- Naʻīma -- Early initiations -- Schooling -- The great crash and US -- Hesqail Abul ʻAlwa hires a helper -- Living in sexual deprivation -- Idle days -- Distorted visions -- Rashid ʻAli's coup and its aftermath -- Bookshop days -- A deepening friendship -- The start : movies, book reviews -- Out in the cold -- Disposing of a library -- End of a community -- Farewells and reunions.…”
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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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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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Media Resistance Protest, Dislike, Abstention / by Syvertsen, Trine

Table of Contents: “…Media resistance goes to the movies.- Chapter 7. Conclusion: The persistence of media resistance -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Media Resistance Protest, Dislike, Abstention / by Syvertsen, Trine

Table of Contents: “…Media resistance goes to the movies.- Chapter 7. Conclusion: The persistence of media resistance -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Sidney Poitier man, actor, icon / by Goudsouzian, Aram

Table of Contents: “…II. Race man ; Message movies (1949-1952) ; Black lists (1951-1954) ; Threats (1955-1957) ; Noble savages (1956-1957) -- pt. …”
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Make believe in film and fiction visual vs. verbal storytelling / by Kroeber, Karl, 1926-2009

Table of Contents: “…Brutal Beginnings: Imagining Murder/ Watching Murder -- Moving Eyes, Moving Sculptures -- Inside and outside Somebody Else's Fantasy -- Make Believe Is Always a Story -- Single-Handed and Collective Make Believe -- Movies and Hyper-Visual Culture -- La Strada and the Conjecturing Imagination -- Madame Bovary: Linguistic Configurings of Imaginative Corruption -- Rashomon and Wuthering Heights -- Form in Visual Storytelling: Buster Keaton's The General -- Genre and Transforming Sources: High Noon Forenoon -- Seeing and Imagining Ethical Crises: High Noon: Afternoon -- Great Expectations: Insights from the Impossibility of Adaptation -- Magnifying Criminality: Fargo, Film Noir, and A Perfect World -- Innovative Lawfulness: Learning to Read.…”
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Technology and postmodern subjectivity in Don DeLillo's novels by Laist, Randy, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Americana: inventing the primitive -- TV or not TV? -- 28 years in the movies -- The plastic bitch -- Oedison Rex -- America-na-na -- White noise: technology with a human face -- Cable weather: white noise, black magic -- Cable news: entering your code -- Cable nature: postmodern transcendentalism -- Cable health: the televisual body -- Underworld: American misshapens -- October 3, 1951: American apocalypse -- Self-externalization: the made man -- "The mind's own technology" -- Cosmopolis: the concept of disappearance.…”
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Technology and postmodern subjectivity in Don DeLillo's novels by Laist, Randy, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Americana: inventing the primitive -- TV or not TV? -- 28 years in the movies -- The plastic bitch -- Oedison Rex -- America-na-na -- White noise: technology with a human face -- Cable weather: white noise, black magic -- Cable news: entering your code -- Cable nature: postmodern transcendentalism -- Cable health: the televisual body -- Underworld: American misshapens -- October 3, 1951: American apocalypse -- Self-externalization: the made man -- "The mind's own technology" -- Cosmopolis: the concept of disappearance.…”
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Sidney Poitier man, actor, icon / by Goudsouzian, Aram

Table of Contents: “…II. Race man ; Message movies (1949-1952) ; Black lists (1951-1954) ; Threats (1955-1957) ; Noble savages (1956-1957) -- pt. …”
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Make believe in film and fiction visual vs. verbal storytelling / by Kroeber, Karl, 1926-2009

Table of Contents: “…Brutal Beginnings: Imagining Murder/ Watching Murder -- Moving Eyes, Moving Sculptures -- Inside and outside Somebody Else's Fantasy -- Make Believe Is Always a Story -- Single-Handed and Collective Make Believe -- Movies and Hyper-Visual Culture -- La Strada and the Conjecturing Imagination -- Madame Bovary: Linguistic Configurings of Imaginative Corruption -- Rashomon and Wuthering Heights -- Form in Visual Storytelling: Buster Keaton's The General -- Genre and Transforming Sources: High Noon Forenoon -- Seeing and Imagining Ethical Crises: High Noon: Afternoon -- Great Expectations: Insights from the Impossibility of Adaptation -- Magnifying Criminality: Fargo, Film Noir, and A Perfect World -- Innovative Lawfulness: Learning to Read.…”
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A companion to Woody Allen

Table of Contents: “…Polhemus: Comic faith and its discontents: death and the late Woody Allen -- Movies about the movies. Stephen Papson: Critical theory and the cinematic world of Woody Allen -- Gregg Bachman: Crimes and misdemeanors: reflections on reflexivity -- Claire Sisco King: Play it again, Woody: self-reflexive critique in contemporary Woody Allen films -- Christopher Ames: Hollywood endings: Woody Allen on Hollywood, filmmaking, and happy endings -- Allen and his sisters: cultural critiques. …”
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A companion to Woody Allen

Table of Contents: “…Polhemus: Comic faith and its discontents: death and the late Woody Allen -- Movies about the movies. Stephen Papson: Critical theory and the cinematic world of Woody Allen -- Gregg Bachman: Crimes and misdemeanors: reflections on reflexivity -- Claire Sisco King: Play it again, Woody: self-reflexive critique in contemporary Woody Allen films -- Christopher Ames: Hollywood endings: Woody Allen on Hollywood, filmmaking, and happy endings -- Allen and his sisters: cultural critiques. …”
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Steal this file sharing book what they won't tell you about file sharing / by Wang, Wally

Table of Contents: “…Learning about file sharing -- Finding the files -- The peer-to-peer file sharing networks -- Navigating newsgroups -- Instant messaging and online chat rooms -- Finding files on web and ftp sites -- Stealing files -- Protecting yourself and your computer -- The file formats -- Steal this music -- Steal this movie -- Steal this book -- Steal this program -- Steal this video game -- Steal this porn -- Random thievery -- The future -- The legal alternatives -- How the corporations fight back -- Index.…”
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Remade in Hollywood the global Chinese presence in transnational cinemas / by Chan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : remaking Chinese cinemas, Hollywood style -- Visualizing Hong Kong : Hollywood's 1997 response to the Hong Kong handover -- The global return of the Wuxia pian (Chinese sword-fighting movie) -- Enter the triads : American cinema's new racialized criminal other -- Hollywood's Sino-chic : Kung fu parody, mimicry, and play in cross-cultural citationality -- Chinese supernaturalism : mythic ethnography and the mystical other -- Coda : global cinematic technologies of ethnic (un)representation.…”
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Steal this file sharing book what they won't tell you about file sharing / by Wang, Wally

Table of Contents: “…Learning about file sharing -- Finding the files -- The peer-to-peer file sharing networks -- Navigating newsgroups -- Instant messaging and online chat rooms -- Finding files on web and ftp sites -- Stealing files -- Protecting yourself and your computer -- The file formats -- Steal this music -- Steal this movie -- Steal this book -- Steal this program -- Steal this video game -- Steal this porn -- Random thievery -- The future -- The legal alternatives -- How the corporations fight back -- Index.…”
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Remade in Hollywood the global Chinese presence in transnational cinemas / by Chan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : remaking Chinese cinemas, Hollywood style -- Visualizing Hong Kong : Hollywood's 1997 response to the Hong Kong handover -- The global return of the Wuxia pian (Chinese sword-fighting movie) -- Enter the triads : American cinema's new racialized criminal other -- Hollywood's Sino-chic : Kung fu parody, mimicry, and play in cross-cultural citationality -- Chinese supernaturalism : mythic ethnography and the mystical other -- Coda : global cinematic technologies of ethnic (un)representation.…”
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