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Richard Dyer
David Fincher's Seven (1995) follows two detectives, David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), as they investigate a series of gruesome murders. One of the most acclaimed films…
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Richard Dyer is a foundational figure for the critical study of cinema and popular culture. Across a career spanning five decades, he has made path breaking contributions to our understanding…
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In the 1940s and ‘50s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most respected folk singers in America. Paul O. Jenkins tells, for the first time, the story…
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This study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, has been revised for a second edition, and features an introduction outlining developments in lesbian and gay cinema since…
The great Italian composer Nino Rota wrote some of the loveliest and most beloved of all film music, including The Godfather trilogy, Zeffirelli’s Shakespeares and Fellini’s masterpieces 8 ½ and…
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From a fantasy adventure about three unique women in New York City who take on the roles of moral avengers as The Amazons in Central Park, to personal reminiscence of…
Richard Dyer’s classic study of movie stars and stardom, updated for a second edition, with a new introduction by the author discussing the rise of celebrity culture and developments in…
Richard Dyer’s ‘In the Space of a Song’ takes an in-depth look at the use of songs in film. Songs take up space and time in film and the way…
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For around a hundred years up to the Stonewall riots, the word for gay men was queers . From screaming queens to sensitive vampires and sad young men, and from…
This revised second edition of The Matter of Images searches through the resonances of the term representation , analysing images in terms of why they matter, what they are made…
Only Entertainment explores entertainment as entertainment, asking how and whether an emphasis on the primacy of pleasure sets it apart from other forms of art. Richard Dyer focuses on the…
This second edition of the study of movie stars and stardom contains a new introduction discussing the rise of celebrity culture and developments in the study of stars since publication…
Investigating a wide range of cultural texts drawn from films, videos, novels, poetry, rap tracks, music and painting, the book explores issues of text, genre, and the use of pastiche…
A study of David Lean’s Brief Encounter . In this personal account of the film, Richard Dyer traces its significance to post-war movie-goers, and the power of its enduring appeal…
With a new introductory essay Looking into the light: Whiteness, racism and regimes of representation by Maxime Cervulle.
Adam Richards
Nithurst by Adam Richards Architects is a much-lauded, multi-award-winning house designed by the architect for his family, and situated in the picturesque South Downs National Park. The building intentionally feels…
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Richard Dyer MacCann
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Contains essays and articles from seventeen noted film studies experts. Chapters provide the reader with a well-rounded view of the societal influences that inspired the films and the techniques that…
Features Thomas Ince, William S. Hart, D.W. Griffith, and Erich von Stroheim.
Here are brief biographies of 176 people who won leading roles plus more dramatic reports on 33 of them-how they reached fame and fortune, ‘some sad and happy endings,’ analyses…
A selective history for those who want to be informed without being overwhelmed, who would like to know enough about the silent era to feel at home there, respect its…
Richard Dyer (King's College London, UK)
La dolce vita has been a phenomenon since before it was made, a scandal in the making and on release and a reference point ever since. This study will consider…
The story of the conflicts and achievements of the founders of the great movie studios.
MacCann features Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Harry Langdon in this guide to the lives and works of the most important silent comedy movie-makers in America.
Through their individual studies, the contributors open up a new area of study, using the medium of film to focus on and celebrate the diversities of popular European culture.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
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Richard N Dyer
Full Title: In the Matter of the Petition of William Pelzer for a Writ of Certiorari to Bring up the Case of Horn & Brannen Manufacturing Company vs. William Pelzer…
The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world’s most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation’s highest court by leading…
Richard H Gibson
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Nettie Mudd
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was a 32-year-old country doctor when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. He treated Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, for a fractured leg without knowing Booth’s true identity…
Stuart Hall,Paddy Whannel
First appearing in 1964, and long since out of print, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel’s landmark book The Popular Arts takes seriously the importance of studying popular culture, thereby opening…
