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Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleChinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 is an essential guide to the first golden age of Chinese cinema. O...
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Gay Directors, Gay Films?: Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors, this book develops a framework for interpreting what ...
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A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An Amazon Best of The Year Nonfiction SelectionLibrary Journal Top Ten Book of the Year!The Extraordinary True Story of Kim Jong-Il’s kidnapping ...
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The Haumana Hula Handbook for Students of Hawaiian Dance: A Manual for the Student of Hawaiian Dance
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A great resource for students of traditional Hawaiian dance, this beautiful handbook filled with archival photographs covers the origins, languag...
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What Is Japanese Cinema?: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /What might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu’s sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful worlds of anim...
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Theatre of the Oppressed
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Boal and his work are marvelous examples of the post-modern situation-its problems and its opportunities. Twice exiled, Boal is 'at home' now wh...
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Grave of the Fireflies
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /On its release in 1988, Grave of the Fireflies riveted audiences with its uncompromising drama. Directed by Isao Takahata at Studio Ghibli and ba...
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The Inheritance
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Inspired by E. M. Forster’s novel Howards End, and set in New York three decades after the height of the AIDS epidemic, The Inheritance wrestles ...
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Beyond Blaxploitation
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Beyond Blaxploitation is a groundbreaking scholarly anthology devoted to examining canonical and lesser-known films of the blaxploitation movemen...
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Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian is the real-life tale of a teenage Armenian girl who was caught up in the 1915 Armenian geno...
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Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Stealing the Show is a study of African American actors in Hollywood during the 1930s, a decade that saw the consolidation of stardom as a potent...
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A History of Japanese Theatre
PaperbackOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Japan boasts one of the world's oldest, most vibrant and most influential performance traditions. This accessible and complete history provides a...
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Queer Screams: A History of LGBTQ+ Survival Through the Lens of American Horror Cinema
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The horror genre mirrors the American queer experience, both positively and negatively, overtly and subtextually, from the lumbering, flower-pick...
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The Apology
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /I exist now. Don't tell me that I didn't existbefore.How should a nation apologise for the crimes of its past?Seoul, 1991. She kept her silence for...
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The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /"A valuable reference guide for film collections and LGBTQIA+ studies." -- Library Journal, Starred Review This reference explores both the best of...
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The Gay Who Turned Kaiju
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Bullied for being gay, teenager Takashi Arashiro wishes he could just be somebody else--but who could predict he'd morph into a giant-headed sci-f...
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Wolf Play
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A Korean boy is ushered into a new house by his adopted American father. This new house belongs to an American boxer and her wife. American father ...
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Distancing Representations in Transgender Film: Identification, Affect, and the Audience
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Argues that transgender representations in film make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and...
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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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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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Sonic Strategies: Performing Mexico's War on Drugs, Mourning, and Feminicide
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /In Sonic Strategies, author Christina Baker highlights the tactics employed by contemporary performance artists in Mexico in response to the violen...
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Sonic Strategies: Performing Mexico's War on Drugs, Mourning, and Feminicide
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In Sonic Strategies, author Christina Baker highlights the tactics employed by contemporary performance artists in Mexico in response to the violen...
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Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship
HardcoverOriginal price $94.99 - Original price $94.99Original price $94.99$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /How do we identify the "queer auteur" and their queer imaginings? Is it possible to account for such a figure when the very terms "queer" and "aute...
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Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship
PaperbackOriginal price $42.99 - Original price $42.99Original price $42.99$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /How do we identify the "queer auteur" and their queer imaginings? Is it possible to account for such a figure when the very terms "queer" and "aute...
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