Category - History
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The Buchenwald Child: Truth, Fiction, and Propaganda
PaperbackOriginal price $37.95 - Original price $37.95Original price $37.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The dramatic story of a Jewish child's rescue at Buchenwald and its use as propaganda in both East and united Germany.At the notorious Buchenwald...
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Hollywood's Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Finalist, Celebrate 350 Award in American Jewish StudiesTells the remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who established the first an...
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Paramount Studios: 1940-2000
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The fascinating tale of Hollywood powerhouse Paramount Pictures—beginning with its birth in the 1910s through the turbulent decade of the 1930s—w...
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Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /In 1947, the Cold War came to Hollywood. Over nine tumultuous days in October, the House Un-American Activities Committee held a notorious round ...
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Battle of Britain The Movie: The Men and Machines of one of the Greatest War Films Ever Made
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95Original price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Released in 1969, the film Battle of Britain went on to become one of the most iconic war movies ever produced. The film drew many respected Brit...
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Beyond Nightingale: Nursing on the Crimean War battlefields
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Beyond Nightingale is the first book to explore the inception of modern nursing from a transnational perspective, studying the development of the...
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Ancient Rome on the Silver Screen: Myth versus Reality
HardcoverOriginal price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /An unparalleled exploration of films set in Ancient Rome, from the silent Cleopatra to the modern rendition of Ben-Hur. No sooner had the dazzlin...
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Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A must-read for any activist or reader in search for a piece of inspiration." --Liz Shuler, president, AFL-CIO 2022 Sarton Awards Finalist for Mem...
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Melody in the Dark: British Musical Films, 1946-1972
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A comprehensive reassessment of British musical films 1946-1972 including King's Rhapsody, Beat Girl, The Tommy Steele Story, Rock You Sinners, The...
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Hollywood in the Klondike: Dawson City's Great Film Find
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In this exciting first-hand account of an unexpected cinematic discovery, Michael Gates delves into the history behind a hoard of silent films foun...
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No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of a League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /National Bestseller The inside story of how A League of Their Own--one of the most beloved baseball movies of all time--developed from an unherald...
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Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher--Te
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A fascinating look at Hollywood's most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system--set against the boom of the post-World War II years, t...
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Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Bestselling author of Capote's Women Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic director Alfred Hitchcock that finally puts the ...
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Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...
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Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran's Cinematic Archive
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Rethinking the history of African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens of Iranian cinema From the East African and Red Se...
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East German Film and the Holocaust
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /East Germany’s ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed in Germany’s name during the Third Reich. Inste...
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The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /“A marvelous bombshell of a book, by one of our most formidably knowledgeable and insightful writers on film, it is filled with surprises and wit...
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Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths,...
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Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the...
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Film History for the Anthropocene: The Ecological Archive of German Cinema
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$140.99$140.99 - $140.99Current price $140.99| /From its beginnings, some of German film's most prominent genres and directors have focused on the natural world and its transformations by humans....
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Charlie Chaplin and the Nazis: The Long German Campaign Against the Artist
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Until recently, it was assumed that the Nazis agitated against Chaplin from 1931 to 1933, and then again from 1938, when his plan to make The Grea...
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Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life: Workers of the Manchuria Film Association
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Following the Japanese invasion of northeast China in 1931, the occupying authorities established the Manchuria Film Association to promote film pr...
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Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture: Envisioning the Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Honourable Mention, Best Monograph Award, BAFTSS Publication Awards 2022Sheldon Lu's wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual a...
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Cinema of Discontent: Representations of Japan's High-Speed Growth
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Tomoyuki Sasaki is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at the College of William & Mary. He is the author of Japan's Postwar Military and C...
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