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Hannibal for Dinner: Essays on America''s Favorite Cannibal on Television
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €28.51Original price €30.99NBC's Hannibal only lasted for three seasons but became a critical darling and quickly inspired a ravenous fanbase. Bryan Fuller's adaptation of...
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Dancing Past the Light: The Life of Tanaquil Le Clercq
Orel ProtopopescuCurrent price €38.27Original price €43.99A world-famous ballerina's rise above a devastating illnessDancing Past the Light cinematically illuminates the glamorous and heartbreaking life of...
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Norman Corwin: His Early Life and Radio Career, 1910-1950
Wayne SoiniCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Called The Poet Laureate of Radio by critics, Norman Corwin was the top writer at CBS when CBS reigned supreme in radio, and when radio itself d...
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Anita Page: A Career Chronicle and Biography
Allan R. EllenbergerCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Anita Page (1910-2008) first captured attention near the end of the silent film era in such classics as While the City Sleeps (1928) with Lon Ch...
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The Definitive Diva: The Life and Career of Maria Callas
John Louis DiGaetaniCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Maria Callas was, perhaps, the greatest opera singer of the 20th century. Hers was a life lived on the world stage, and her fame extended to the pu...
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Rock ''n'' Roll Movies
David SterrittCurrent price €67.85Original price €77.99Rock n Roll Movies presents an eclectic look at the many manifestations of rock in motion pictures, from teen-oriented B-movies to Hollywood blockb...
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Leslie Stevens Goes to Hollywood: Daystar Productions, Kate Manx and the Making of Private Property
Dore PageCurrent price €28.51Original price €30.99The ongoing popularity of Leslie Stevens' 1960s television masterwork The Outer Limits, as well as later series creations Battlestar Galactica a...
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Wax Museum Movies: A Comprehensive Filmography
George HighamCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Spanning over a century of cinema and comprised of 127 films, this book analyzes the cinematic incarnations of the uncanniest place on earth--wa...
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The Nickelodeon ''90s: Cartoons, Game Shows and a Whole Bunch of Slime
Chris MorganCurrent price €25.30Original price €27.50There is an entire generation that grew up on Nickelodeon. The network started to get its footing in the '80s and in the '90s became the definin...
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Heroes Masked and Mythic: Echoes of Ancient Archetypes in Comic Book Characters
Christopher WoodCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakl...
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The Giallo Canvas: Art, Excess and Horror Cinema
Alexandra Heller-NicholasCurrent price €25.30Original price €27.50Beloved among cult horror devotees for its signature excesses of sex and violence, Italian giallo cinema is marked by switchblades, mysterious kill...
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Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019
Harris M. LentzCurrent price €72.89Original price €80.99The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni Morrison, groundbreaking di...
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Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage
Robert S. BaderCurrent price €38.27Original price €43.99An updated paperback version of the book heralded as a new benchmark in Marx scholarship by the Los Angeles Times Before film made them internati...
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Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide
Rich BrownsteinCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Holocaust movies have become an important segment of world cinema and the de-facto Holocaust education for many. One quarter of all American-produc...
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Hollywood and the Military Bureaucracy: Depicting America''s Fighting Forces at Their Best and Worst
Bob HerzbergCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Through a century of movies, the U.S. military held sway over war and service-oriented films. Influenced by the armed forces and their public relat...
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Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study, 2d ed.
Alexandra Heller-NicholasCurrent price €28.51Original price €30.99Often considered the lowest depth to which cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film is broadly dismissed as fundamentally exploitative and sens...
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Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly: A Memoir
Dana Tai Soon BurgessCurrent price €22.83Original price €27.50Renowned Korean American modern-dance choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess shares his deeply personal hyphenated world and how his multifaceted back...
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American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture
Kyle William BishopCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism a...
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Scarlett Johansson: The Life and Films
Kim R. HolstonCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Despite her prominence as an actress, fashionista, social activist and the sexiest woman in the world, Scarlett Johansson has kept her life priv...
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Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Michael D. NicholsCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Breaking box office records, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has achieved an unparalleled level of success with fans across the world, raising the...
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Little Horrors: How Cinema''s Evil Children Play on Our Guilt
T.S. KordCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Zombies, werewolves and chainsaw-wielding maniacs are tried-and-true staples of horror films. But none can match the visceral dread evoked by a ...
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The Annotated Marx Brothers: A Filmgoer''s Guide to In-Jokes, Obscure References and Sly Details
Matthew ConiamCurrent price €29.43Original price €31.99Have you ever watched a Marx Brothers film and wondered what 'habeas Irish rose' is? What is the trial of Mary Dugan with sound? What is a college ...
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Elio Petri: Investigation of a Filmmaker
Roberto CurtiCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Elio Petri (1929-1982) was one of the most commercially successful and critically revered Italian directors ever. A cultured intellectual and a ...
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