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All Kinds of Scary: Diversity in Contemporary Horror
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Horror fictions display a wealth of potential, and appeal to a variety of diverse audiences. However, the trope of "the black man always dies firs...
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Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: "the shaman" o...
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Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Jordan Peele’s celebrated screenplay combines horror and dark humor to reveal the terrifying realities of being Black in America "Blending race-s...
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Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema--the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre--from a distinctive voice in film hi...
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Lumumba in the Arts
PaperbackOriginal price $79.00 - Original price $79.00Original price $79.00$99.99$99.99 - $99.99Current price $99.99| /It is no coincidence that a historical figure such as Patrice Emery Lumumba, independent Congo's first prime minister, who was killed in 1961, has ...
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Spirituality as Ideology in Black Women's Film and Literature / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $19.50 - Original price $19.50Original price $19.50$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Arguing that spirituality functions as a life-affirming ideology on Black women's art, Ryan (English, Ohio Wesleyan U.) shows how Black women fil...
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The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /At the dawn of the modern civil rights movement, Monroe Trotter, a journalist agitator, and D.W. Griffith, a technically brilliant filmmaker, inc...
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Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema in Colonial West Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /Many studies focus on film in Africa. Few, however, study cinema as a leisure activity: one that has influenced several generations and opened up...
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Reel Resistance - The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Weaving together critical analysis and a filmic conversation, this book journeys through the multiple layers of Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Te...
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Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /From Donald Bogle, the award-winning author of Hollywood Black and leading authority on Black cinema history, this is a first-of-its-kind comprehen...
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It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated thei...
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Politics and Poetics of Black Film: Nothing But a Man
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter tur...
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Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Palestinian cinema arose during the political cinema movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, yet it was unique as an institutionalized, thou...
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Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Selected for Arab America's Best Arab American Books of 2020 list. It comes as little surprise that Hollywood films have traditionally stereotype...
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Reel to Real: Race, Class and Sex at the Movies / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Movies matter – that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks’ classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing...
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Hidden Light: Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema
HardcoverOriginal price $94.99 - Original price $94.99Original price $94.99$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Over the past several decades, the prevailing attitude toward Judaism in Israeli society has undergone a meaningful shift; where the national ethos...
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Hidden Light: Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Over the past several decades, the prevailing attitude toward Judaism in Israeli society has undergone a meaningful shift; where the national ethos...
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Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Palestinian cinema arose during the political cinema movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, yet it was unique as an institutionalized, though...
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Gaza on Screen
HardcoverOriginal price $104.95 - Original price $104.95Original price $104.95$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /Gaza's long association with resistance and humanitarian need has generated a complex and ever shifting range of visual material, comprising not ju...
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Gaza on Screen
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Gaza's long association with resistance and humanitarian need has generated a complex and ever shifting range of visual material, comprising not ju...
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The Ghastly One: The 42nd Street Netherworld of Director Andy Milligan
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /One of the most acclaimed film director biographies ever published. The Ghastly One: The 42nd Street Netherworld of Director Andy Milligan is back ...
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We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-moment and in-demand culture reporter. WE SEE EACH ...
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A Critical Companion to Wes Craven
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /In A Critical Companion to Wes Craven, contributors use a variety of theoretical frameworks to analyze distinct areas of Craven's work, including e...
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Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905-1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood...
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