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The Wizard of Oz
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Salman Rushdie, Melvyn Bragg (Editor), Richard Maltby (Editor)
For Rushdie The Wizard of Oz is more than a children's film, and more than a fantasy. It's a story 'whose driving force is the inadequacy of adults', in which the 'weakness of grown-ups forces children to take control of their own destinies'.
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Hollywood Cinema
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Richard Maltby
This comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema provides a fascinating account of the world's most powerful film industry and examines its cultural and aesthetic significance. Taking a wide-ranging approach, and spotlighting such films as A Star is Born, Singing in the Rain, Forrest Gump, and Titanic, it explores and interprets Hollywood ...
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Identifying Hollywood's Audiences: Cultural Identity and the Movies
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Richard Maltby (Editor), Melvyn Stokes (Editor)
Examines what Hoolywood knew about its audiences between the 1920s and 1990s. This book looks at the methods the American motion picture industry has used to identify and understand its customers, and the ways in which that understanding has shaped the movies it produced. The authors reassess what is known about the social composition of classical ...
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American Movie Audiences
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Melvyn Stokes (Editor), Richard Maltby (Editor)
This text examines the place of Hollywood cinema in the everyday life of its spectators from its beginnings to the arrival of sound. Previously, little has been known of early audiences and their response to the films of the day and this book brings together an array of research on some of the key issues in the field. These include the social ...
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Miss Potter: The Novel
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Richard Maltby
A novel based on the upcoming motion picture on Beatrix Potteras life, starring RenA(c)e Zellweger as Beatrix Potter and Ewan McGregor as the man she loved. Written by the filmas screenwriter, the novel expands the plotline of his script, blending historical fact and imaginative interpretation to tell a moving story of a Victorian woman who ...
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The Beginnings of the Cinema in England 1894-1901: Volume One: 1894-1896
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John Barnes, Richard Maltby (Editor), David Robinson (Foreword by)
On 17 October 1894 there occurred an event in London which marks the true beginning of the cinema in England: the first Kinetoscope parlour in England was opened at 70 Oxford Street. By the end of 1896 the parlour had become a main attraction. This book covers this period of cinematic history.
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Beginnings of Cinema in England, 1894-1901: Volume 5: 1900
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John Barnes, Richard Maltby (Editor)
This is the fifth and final volume of "Beginnings of the Cinema in England, 1894-1901". Covering the year 1900, it details the ways in which the cinema of other countries affected the English industry, and particular attention is paid to the impact of French and American companies on the English market. Rescued from oblivion are are numerous ...
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Hollywood Cinema an Introduction
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Richard Maltby
This comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema provides students with a fascinating account of the world's most powerful film industry and its cultural and aesthetic significance. Taking a broad-ranging approach, it explores and interprets Hollywood cinema, in history and in the present, in theory and in practice. Examining films as diverse ...
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Communicating War: Memory, Media & Military
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Sarah Maltby (Editor), Richard Keeble (Editor)
Wars are now mediated in unprecedented ways and through a variety of communicative forms. Correspondingly, there is an increasing awareness among those involved in war of the need to gauge and manage what is communicated. Communicating War: Media, Memory and Military contextualises these developments by locating the emergence of recent wars and ...
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Hollywood Spectatorship, Changing Perceptions of Cinema Audi
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Melvyn Stokes (Editor), Richard Maltby (Editor)
Theoretical notions of the cinema spectator have been at the center of film studies and criticism over the last two decades. This book re-examines concepts of spectatorship in the light of historical accounts of audience reception exploring how historical audiences have talked about Hollywood movies, and the ways in which this word-of-mouth ...
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Dreams for Sale: Popular Culture in the 20th Century
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Richard Maltby
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Hollywood Abroad: Audiences and Cultural Exchange
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Richard Maltby (Editor), Melvyn Stokes (Editor)
Hollywood Abroad is the first book to examine the reception of Hollywood movies by non-American audiences. Although numerous books on film history have analyzed the ways in which American films came to dominate world markets, there has so far been very little published work on how audiences outside the United States have responded to Hollywood ...
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Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of the Cinema
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Richard Maltby (Editor), Melvyn Stokes (Editor), Robert C Allen (Editor)
This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern suburban megaplex, and from provincial, small-town or rural America to the shanty towns of South Africa."Going to the Movies" studies the social and ...
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Passing Parade: A History of Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century
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Richard Maltby (Editor)
The Passing Parade presents a fascinating survey of the ways in which popular culture has been created, packaged, sold, and consumed since 1900. The movies, fashion, design, media and advertising, popular music and dance, sports, television, the popular press, fads--all the myriad manifestations of popular culture are treated in this lavishly ...
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Popular Culture in the 20th Century
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Richard Maltby
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Starting Here, Starting Now (Vocal Selections): Piano/Vocal/Chords
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Richard Maltby, David Shire (Composer), Warner Bros Publications (Creator)
Titles include: Autumn * Barbara * Crossword Puzzle * Flair * I Don't Remember Christmas * I Hear Bells * I Think I May Want to Remember Today * A Little Bit Off * One Step * Song of Me * Starting Here, Starting Now * Travel * What About Today? and more.
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Canterbury
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Pevensey Heritage Guides, Richard Maltby
A guide to Canterbury, with photographs and text sketching its history from Roman times to the present and highlighting the splendours of the city and cathedral. Two routes taken by pilgrims through the city provide a context to the sites, and other places of interest in the area are also covered.
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Baby (Vocal Selections): Piano/Vocal/Chords
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Richard Maltby, David Shire (Composer), Carol Cuellar (Editor)
Titles are: Baby, Baby, Baby * At Night She Comes Home to Me * Fatherhood Blues * I Chose Right * The Story Goes On * Patterns * Easier to Love * Two People in Love * With You * And What If We Had Loved Like That * I Want It All.
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Film Europe' and 'Film America': Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange 1920-1939
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Ruchard Maltby, Andrew Higson (Editor), Richard Maltby (Editor)
This work offers a volume of specially-commissioned essays dealing with the attempts to create a pan-European film production movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and the reaction of the American industry to these plans to rival its hegemony.
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American Movie Audiences: From the Turn of the Century to the Early Sound Era
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Melvyn Stokes (Editor), Richard Maltby (Editor)
This text examines the place of Hollywood cinema in the everyday life of its spectators from its beginnings to the arrival of sound. Previously, little has been known of early audiences and their response to the films of the day and this book brings together an array of research on some of the key issues in the field. These include the social ...
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Harmless Entertainment
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Richard Maltby
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Film Europe' and 'Film America': Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange 1920-1939
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Andrew Higson (Editor), Richard Maltby (Editor)
This work offers a volume of specially-commissioned essays dealing with the attempts to create a pan-European film production movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and the reaction of the American industry to these plans to rival its hegemony.
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Closer Than Ever (Vocal Selections): Piano/Vocal
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Richard Maltby, David Shire (Composer), Sy Feldman
Titles are: Back on Base * Closer Than Ever * If I Sing * Life Story * Miss Byrd * One of the Good Guys.
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Hollywood Abroad: Audiences and Cultural Exchange
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Melvyn Stokes (Editor), Richard Maltby (Editor)
Hollywood Abroad is the first book to examine the reception of Hollywood movies by non-American audiences. Although numerous books on film history have analyzed the ways in which American films came to dominate world markets, there has so far been very little published work on how audiences outside the United States have responded to Hollywood ...
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Kentucky Through the Centuries: A Collection of Documents and Essays
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Doug Cantrell, Richard Holl, Lorie Maltby
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