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Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Celluloid Activist is the biography of gay-rights giant Vito Russo, the man who wrote The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, commonly r...
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Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating be...
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Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating be...
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Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements
PaperbackOriginal price $40.95 - Original price $40.95Original price $40.95$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /The words "Asian American film" might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film fes...
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Japanese No Masks: With 300 Illustrations of Authentic Historical Examples
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Combining elements of dance, drama, music and poetry, the performances of Japanese No theater are a highly stylized form of entertainment. Accomp...
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Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Anna May Wong was the best known Chinese American actress during Hollywood’s golden age, a free spirit and embodiment of the flapper era much lik...
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Hitchcock Annual: Volume 20
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Hitchcock Annual: Volume 20 contains essays on Hitchcock and C. A. Lejeune; Easy Virtue in context; the West coast setting of and cultural anxiety ...
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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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Creolizing the Metropole: Migrant Caribbean Identities in Literature and Film
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Creolizing the Metropole is a comparative study of postwar West Indian migration to the former colonial capitals of Paris and London. It studies th...
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Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Elizabeth B. Schwall aligns culture and politics by focusing on an art form that became a darling of the Cuban revolution: dance. In this history o...
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The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema? Comprising 15 essays and a critical introduction, The Film Ar...
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Transatlantic Cinephilia: Film Culture Between Latin America and France, 1945-1965 Volume 6
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780520391437 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of California Press Publication Date: 11-07-2023 Pages: 326 Serie...
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Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History
PaperbackOriginal price $41.95 - Original price $41.95Original price $41.95$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /This book charts a comparative history of Latin America's national cinemas through ten chapters that cover every major cinematic period in the regi...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Drag: A British History Volume 23
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A rich and provocative history of drag's importance in modern British culture. Drag: A British History is a groundbreaking study of the sustained ...
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Camp!: The Story of the Attitude That Conquered the World
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /By the bestselling author of Fabulosa! and Outrageous!, this reappraisal of camp across time and in all its glorious forms shows how this inescapab...
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The New Gay for Pay: The Sexual Politics of American Television Production
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /Television conveys powerful messages about sexual identities, and popular shows such as Will & Grace, Ellen, Glee, Modern Family, and The Fos...
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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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