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An Atonal Cinema: Resistance, Counterpoint and Dialogue in Transnational Palestine
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /This is a book about Palestinians elsewhere and Palestinian elsewheres. Articulating an ambiguous right to remain out-of-place as a spatialized res...
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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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Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies: Identity and Play in Chennai's Post-Independence Sabha Theater
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Kristen Rudisill is Professor of Popular Culture and Director of the Asian Studies Program at Bowling Green State University.Product DetailsISBN-13...
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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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Korean Film and History
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is made--a major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history. The re-enactments o...
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Anime Through the Looking Glass: Treasures of Japanese Animation
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The magic and mastery of anime springs to life in this gorgeous celebration of the genre that features more than 150 full-color frames. ANIME GOES ...
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Political Moods: Film Melodrama and the Cold War in the Two Koreas Volume 4
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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Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /How might cinema make revolution and mobilize the masses? In socialist China, the film exhibition network expanded from fewer than six hundred movi...
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Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image
PaperbackOriginal price $44.00 - Original price $44.00Original price $44.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notion...
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Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family: Reviving the Legacy
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family is a critical biography examining the life and work of Ernie McClintock, the founder of the Jazz Acting...
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Object Performance in the Black Atlantic: The United States
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /Given that slaveholders prohibited the creation of African-style performing objects, is there a traceable connection between traditional African pu...
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African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization: Volume 1: Colonial Antecedents, Constituents, Theory, and Articula
PaperbackOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers re...
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African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization: Volume 3: The Documentary Record--Declarations, Resolutions, Manifestos, Speeches
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers re...
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Theatre Revivals for the Anthropocene
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781009282147 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 09-14-2023 Pages: 75 Product Di...
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Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“A vivid page-turner” (NPR) detailing the rise, fall, and redemption of Broadway—its stars, its biggest shows, its producers, and all the drama, ...
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And the Category Is...: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction An Electric Literature "Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022" Selection A love letter to the le...
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Reel Resistance - The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$134.99$134.99 - $134.99Current price $134.99| /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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Kumu Hula: Challenging Journey of a Hula Master
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /There is a persistent myth about hula with its grass shirt and hip movements. But hula tells a story or has a message, and the movements of the han...
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It's Always Loud in the Balcony: A Life in Black Theater, from Harlem to Hollywood and Back
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Richard Wesley was witness to a revolution. As both a celebrated participant and eager student of the Black Theater Movement in the late 1960s, he ...
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Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The "revelatory" (The New Yorker) first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided filmmaker Michael Cimino--and a reevaluation of t...
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Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813198088 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Publication Date: 09-19-2023 Pages: 488 Series:...
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Include Me Out: My Life from Goldwyn to Broadway
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Synonymous with the golden age of Broadway, the dazzling lights of Hollywood, and the rise of television arts, Farley Granger's charm and talent ca...
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Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world--"an essential work in anime scholar...
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