Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood 9781631490705, 2022009212, 9781631490699, 1631490702

Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle Over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry 9780814744956

An intriguing look at how the American film industry imposed the rating system upon itself to control competition from f

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The Immaterial Book: Reading and Romance in Early Modern England

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The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance 9780804767446

This book offers a new reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and s

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The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World - and Could Destroy It 9781786074249, 1786074249

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The Scene Stealer: A Hollywood Romance

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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It 9780292735798

The world runs on the U.S. dollar. From Washington to Beijing, governments, businesses, and individuals rely on the doll

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Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World 9780748675654

The epic glitter and glamour of Hollywood’s Golden Age In the period 1916-1966, during its so-called Golden Age, Hollyw

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Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World 9780812290349

Lavishly illustrated and impressively interdisciplinary, Inventing Exoticism narrates a vital chapter in the history of

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Romance and Power in the Hollywood Eastern 3030609936, 9783030609931

This book asserts the existence of the "Eastern" as an analytically significant genre of film. Positioned in c

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We Alone: How Humans Have Conquered the Planet and Can Also Save It 0300251165, 9780300251166

A thoughtful exploration of how humans have endangered the Earth but can pull it back from the brink, as told by a renow

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