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1	The Movies That Changed Us: Reflections on the Screen more books like this by Nick Clooney There are movies we love, but only one movie in a thousand actually changes the way we live, the way we look at life, or the way we define entertainment. Broadcast journalist Nick Clooney, best known as the silver-haired movie host on the cable channel American Movie Classics, has selected twenty movies that changed us, some for the better, some ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Desire to Desire: The Womans Film of the 1940s more books like this by Mary Anne Doane The Desire to Desire is a study of the symptoms of ideological stress in the genre of the Hollywood woman's film of the 1940s. The book traces the way in which female spectatorship is specified by its lapses or failures, arguing that the woman's film asserts and denies female desire, attributing to the woman only an impossible gaze. see all copies from $7.00! first editions
3	Movie Crazy: Fans, Stars, and the Cult of Celebrity more books like this by Samantha Barbas While the impact that legendary actors and actresses have had on the development of the Hollywood film industry is well known, few have recognized the power of movie fans on shaping the industry. This book redresses that balance. It is a study of Hollywood's golden era which examines the period from the viewpoint of the fans. Using fan club ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.69! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film more books like this by Miriam Hansen Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a decade more before the concept of a "film spectator" emerged. As the cinema began to separate itself from the commercial entertainments in whose context films initially had been shown--vaudeville, dime museums, fairgrounds--a particular concept of its spectator was developed on the level of ... see all copies from $15.48! new only from $27.00! \| first editions
5	At the Picture Show: Small-Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture more books like this by Kathryn H Fuller Beginning around the time of the First World War, in crowded theatres, storefronts, and back rooms across the United States, people from all walks of life were drawn to the otherworldly visions that movies offered. It was, Fuller argues, the beginning of the end for small-town isolation. In her illuminating study she highlights an aspect of both ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Betrayed by Rita Hayworth more books like this by Manuel Puig This novel dissects the despair of small-town life where nothing ever happens, the future is often the same as the present and the past all but forgotten. The women talk about the actresses they'd like to be and the actors they'd like to love, and one young man plans how he'd handle Rita Hayworth. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Some Like It Hot-Buttered more books like this by Jeffrey Cohen Elliot Freed socked all his savings--and the alimony from his ex-wife--into the Comedy Tonight movie theater, never suspecting it would become a crime scene. Poisoned popcorn has killed a patron, and to the chagrin of the local police, Elliot starts his own investigation, in this first entry of a new series that includes movie trivia. Original. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.07! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Transparency of Spectacle: Meditations on the Moving Image more books like this by Wheeler Winston Dixon While agreeing that the "digitization" of the cinema is inevitable, and even a necessary adjustment to the economic realities of end-of-the-millennium cinema production, Dixon argues that it represents a fundamental representational shift in the relationship between the spectator and the image-production apparatus of the cinematograph. More than ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.61! \| first editions
9	George Gallup in Hollywood more books like this by Professor Susan Ohmer "George Gallup in Hollywood" is a fascinating look at the film industry's use of opinion polling in the 1930s and '40s. George Gallup's polling techniques first achieved fame when he accurately predicted that Franklin D. Roosevelt would be reelected president in 1936. Gallup had devised an extremely effective sampling method that took households ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $8.01! \| first editions \| SVS
10	A Cinema Without Walls: Movies and Culture After Vietnam more books like this by Timothy Corrigan Drawing on a wide variety of American and European films and on many theoretical models, Timothy Corrigan investigates what he calls a "cinema of excess", taking a close look at such films as "Blue Velvet", "My Beautiful Launderette", "The King of Comedy" and "Paris, Texas", in order to see how we read film differently in the post-modern world. He ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $9.93! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Betrayed Rita Hay V659 more books like this by Manuel Puig, Suzanne J Levine (Translator) This novel began as a film script but turned into a novel. Published in 1968, it was considered a risky book, potentially censorable because of its gay hero and its critique of Argentinean society. According to Puig, "95% of the story is real." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Spectacular Passions-PB more books like this by Brett Farmer The image of the movie-obsessed gay man is a widely circulating and readily recognisable element of the contemporary cultural landscape. Using psychoanalytic theory as his guide while inflecting it with insights from both film theory and queer theory, Brett Farmer moves beyond this cliche to develop an innovative exploration of gay spectatorship. ... see all copies from $3.12! new only from $6.66!
13 view cover	Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child more books like this by Lisa Cartwright In "Moral Spectatorship", Lisa Cartwright rethinks the politics of spectatorship in film studies. At the same time, she offers a new theory of the human subject that takes into account affective relationships and technologies that facilitate human agency. Seeking to expand concepts of representation beyond the visual, Cartwright develops her ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $22.26! \| SVS
14 view cover	Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity more books like this by Jacqueline Najuma Stewart The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the urban "land of hope" in the North. This richly illustrated book, discussing many early films and illuminating black urban life in this period, is the first ... see all copies from $14.74! new only from $22.41! \| SVS
15 view cover	Cinema and Spectatorship more books like this by Judith Mayne One of the most significant areas of concern in contemporary film studies is spectatorship, a recently developed but now central and extremely controversial issue. Analysis of spectatorship involves examination of the ways in which filmmakers, by the institutions of the cinema and of the culture in which it exists, and by viewers themselves. In ... see all copies from $5.43! new only from $37.62! \| SVS
16	The Cult Film Experience: Beyond All Reason more books like this by J P Telotte (Editor) see all copies from $17.95! first editions
17 view cover	Identifying Hollywood's Audiences: Cultural Identity and the Movies more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $34.74! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship more books like this by Jackie Stacey Star Gazing puts female spectators back into theories of spectatorship. Combining film theory with a rich body of ethnographic research, Jackie Stacey investigates the place of movie stars - Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Deanna Durbin - in women's memories of wartime and postwar Britain, when cinema-going ... see all copies from $17.78! new only from $38.89! \| first editions
19 view cover	Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film more books like this by Linda Williams (Editor) How do films affect people? People of different sexes and ages - at different times and in different places? The essays in this book consider these and other questions of human subjectivity and the sociology of audiences in relation to the viewing of films of different styles and genres. see all copies from $14.45! new only from $26.95! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing more books like this by Isabel Cristina Pinedo In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. She challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence, and contends instead that the contemporary ... see all copies from $5.36! new only from $18.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	American Audiences on Movies and Moviegoing more books like this by Tom Stempel This text provides a perspective on half a century of American cinema from the audience's point of view. Going beyond comments of professional reviewers, Tom Stempel concentrates on the opinions of ordinary people. Avoiding statistical summary, he presents the results of a survey on movies and moviegoing in the respondents' own words. What brings ... see all copies from $4.25! new only from $43.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
22	Female Spectators: Looking at Film & Television more books like this by E Deidre Pribram (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	British Cinemas and Their Audiences more books like this by J P Mayer Text extracted from opening pages of book: British inemas and their Audiences Sociological Studies by J. P. Mayer London DENNIS DOBSON LTD From Ivan the Terrible ( see Introduction page 9) First published in Great Britain in 1948 by Dennis Dobson Ltd., 12 Park Place, St. James's, London, S. W. i. All rights reserved. Printed in Great Britain by ... see all copies from $20.50! new only from $35.81! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Passionate Views: Thinking about Film and Emotion more books like this by Carl R Plantinga (Editor), Mr. Greg M Smith (Editor) In this study, editors Carl Plantinga and Greg M. Smith bring together 13 scholars from the disciplines of film studies, philosophy and psychology to explore the emotional appeal of the cinema. Employing a cognitive perspective, it is divided into three sections: first, investigating the relationship between genre and emotion; second, studying how ... see all copies from $8.48! new only from $14.81! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India more books like this by Sara Dickey This study of the Indian cinema is concerned particularly with cinema-goers in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu, South India. Sara Dickey reviews the history of Tamil film, explains the structure of the industry, and presents the perspective of the filmmakers. However, the core of the book is an analysis of the films themselves and the place they ... see all copies from $24.62! new only from $38.55! \| SVS

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