Hollywood Wants to Kill You: The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies 1786496925, 9781786496928

Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World 9780231512398

In this book, a scientist and dedicated film enthusiast discusses the portrayal of science in more than one hundred film

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21st-Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation 9780813551982

They are shot on high-definition digital cameras—with computer-generated effects added in postproduction—and transmitted

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Hollywood English. Learning the Language through Movies

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Hollywood: Mecca of the Movies [Reprint 2019 ed.] 9780520340527

Blaise Cendrars, one of twentieth-century France's most gifted men of letters, came to Hollywood in 1936 for the ne

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Home Movies: The American Family in Contemporary Hollywood 9780755693788, 9781780761824

The American family has long been at the centre of the typical Hollywood narrative. But the depiction of the nuclear fam

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Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies 0190865784, 9780190865788

The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the si

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Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies 0190865784, 9780190865788

The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the si

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Representing Talent: Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies 9780226487137

Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legi

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Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood 9780813553788

Death of the Moguls is a detailed assessment of the last days of the “rulers of film.” Wheeler Winston Dixon examines th

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Dressed to Kill: Death and Meaning in Zaya's Desengaños 9781442696242

Dressed to Kill reconciles Zayas's Desengaños with the age in which it was written, contextualizing the book in bar

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