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The men with the movie camera : the poetics of visual style in Soviet avant-garde cinema of the 1920s / by Cavendish, Philip

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The men with the movie camera : the poetics of visual style in Soviet avant-garde cinema of the 1920s / by Cavendish, Philip

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Christians in the movies a century of saints and sinners / by Dans, Peter E.

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Christians in the movies a century of saints and sinners / by Dans, Peter E.

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Catholics in the movies

Table of Contents: “…Why the movies? why religion? / Colleen McDannell -- The silent social problem film : regeneration (1915) / Judith Weisenfeld -- Boys to men : Angels with dirty faces (1938) / Thomas J. …”
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Catholics in the movies

Table of Contents: “…Why the movies? why religion? / Colleen McDannell -- The silent social problem film : regeneration (1915) / Judith Weisenfeld -- Boys to men : Angels with dirty faces (1938) / Thomas J. …”
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Jesse James and the movies by Boggs, Johnny D.

Table of Contents: “…Jesse James, 1847-1882 -- Jesse James in pop culture, 1875-1903 -- The silent era, 1908-1927 -- A-list Jesse, 1939-1940 -- Jesse in the Bs, 1939-1949 -- The proliferation of Jesse James, 1950-1960 -- Oddball Jesse (1965-1969) -- Revisionist Jesse, 1972-2007 -- Euro westerns, 1964-2009 -- Made-for-television movies, 1970-1999 -- Television series appearances, 1953-2001.…”
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Jesse James and the movies by Boggs, Johnny D.

Table of Contents: “…Jesse James, 1847-1882 -- Jesse James in pop culture, 1875-1903 -- The silent era, 1908-1927 -- A-list Jesse, 1939-1940 -- Jesse in the Bs, 1939-1949 -- The proliferation of Jesse James, 1950-1960 -- Oddball Jesse (1965-1969) -- Revisionist Jesse, 1972-2007 -- Euro westerns, 1964-2009 -- Made-for-television movies, 1970-1999 -- Television series appearances, 1953-2001.…”
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The golden age of Indianapolis theaters by Caldwell, Howard, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Birth of a theater buff -- Theater one and what happened before -- A war's effect and another theater is born -- Theater count briefly jumps to three -- English's opera house and its impact -- The 1890s and its seeds of change -- Theater enhancement and the gentle intrusion of moving pictures -- English's and The Grand lead the growing theater parade -- The Shuberts come to town as the theater competition grows -- City's first movie palace enhances respectability of going to the movies -- The 1920s and the birth of new challenges -- The silent film era's finale -- Sound moves in with a vengeance -- The 1930s and its challenges -- The 1930s and its challenges II -- The rest of the 1930s survivors -- The 1940s, a decade of success and sadness -- The 1950s bring changes and new competition -- A brief look at what happened next.…”
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The golden age of Indianapolis theaters by Caldwell, Howard, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Birth of a theater buff -- Theater one and what happened before -- A war's effect and another theater is born -- Theater count briefly jumps to three -- English's opera house and its impact -- The 1890s and its seeds of change -- Theater enhancement and the gentle intrusion of moving pictures -- English's and The Grand lead the growing theater parade -- The Shuberts come to town as the theater competition grows -- City's first movie palace enhances respectability of going to the movies -- The 1920s and the birth of new challenges -- The silent film era's finale -- Sound moves in with a vengeance -- The 1930s and its challenges -- The 1930s and its challenges II -- The rest of the 1930s survivors -- The 1940s, a decade of success and sadness -- The 1950s bring changes and new competition -- A brief look at what happened next.…”
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American showman Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the birth of the entertainment industry, 1908-1935 / by Melnick, Ross

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Roxy and silent film exhibition (1908-1922). 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: “…Introduction -- Roxy and silent film exhibition (1908-1922). 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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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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Neuroscience in science fiction films / by Packer, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Iron man, "extremis" and analysis -- Neuroscience fiction film in post-psychoanalytic society -- Movies and the mind (and the rebirth of the brain) -- The legacy of 19th century literature -- Automatons, androids, replicants and robocops -- Human-ape brain exchanges, Darwinian debates and the "monkey gland man" -- Sputnik, space aliens and brains from outer space -- Science fiction in social problems films -- Brain drains, brain chips and brain machines -- Flashbacks, flash-forwards and flash drives -- Memory, mentation and medication: before birth and after Alzheimer's -- Dream scenes: from silent cinema to Salvador Dali to CGI -- Video games, virtual reality and "reality testing" -- Drugs, dystopias and utopias -- Computers, consciousness and control -- Conclusion: Hive minds, herds and Jung's collective unconscious.…”
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Neuroscience in science fiction films / by Packer, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Iron man, "extremis" and analysis -- Neuroscience fiction film in post-psychoanalytic society -- Movies and the mind (and the rebirth of the brain) -- The legacy of 19th century literature -- Automatons, androids, replicants and robocops -- Human-ape brain exchanges, Darwinian debates and the "monkey gland man" -- Sputnik, space aliens and brains from outer space -- Science fiction in social problems films -- Brain drains, brain chips and brain machines -- Flashbacks, flash-forwards and flash drives -- Memory, mentation and medication: before birth and after Alzheimer's -- Dream scenes: from silent cinema to Salvador Dali to CGI -- Video games, virtual reality and "reality testing" -- Drugs, dystopias and utopias -- Computers, consciousness and control -- Conclusion: Hive minds, herds and Jung's collective unconscious.…”
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Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans : The Lure of the Local Film Economy / by Mayer, Vicki, 1971-

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Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans : The Lure of the Local Film Economy / by Mayer, Vicki, 1971-

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