Category - History
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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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Cleveland TV Tales: Stories from the Golden Age of Local Television
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Remember when TV was just three channels and the biggest celebrities in Cleveland were an outrageous movie host named Ghoulardi, a gentle elf nam...
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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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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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Historic Photos of Broadway: New York Theater 1850-1970
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The history of theater in New York is captured in the images of the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing A...
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Gays on Broadway
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A fascinating look at the gay and lesbian influence on the American stage by an internationally-recognized authority on the topic From the genteel ...
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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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Microhistories of Memory: Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar West Germany
HardcoverOriginal price $145.00 - Original price $145.00Original price $145.00$167.99$167.99 - $167.99Current price $167.99| /The West German novel, radio play, and television series Through the Night (Am grünen Strand der Spree, 1955-1960), which depicts the mass shooti...
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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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Theatre on the American Frontier
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /For two centuries, nearly all historical accounts of American theatre have focused on New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. As a result, the story ...
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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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All Play and No Work: American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Many of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) plays Paul Gagliardi analyzes in All Play and No Work feature complex portrayals of labor and work relief...
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All Play and No Work: American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project
HardcoverOriginal price $110.50 - Original price $110.50Original price $110.50$110.99$110.99 - $110.99Current price $110.99| /Many of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) plays Paul Gagliardi analyzes in All Play and No Work feature complex portrayals of labor and work relief...
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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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Under the Greenwood Tree: A Celebration of Kentucky Shakespeare
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In the summer of 1960, director C. Douglas Ramey took his Carriage House Players theater company down the street from their Old Louisville venue ...
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Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"In this thrilling debut, television producer and filmmaker Rogoff recounts her mission to bring Sesame Street to Russian audiences.... The resul...
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Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and ...
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