Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears 0062859013, 9780062859013

The Pop Musical: Sweat, Tears, and Tarnished Utopias 9780231549295

Alberto Mira offers a new account of how pop music revolutionized the Hollywood musical. He shows that while the Hollywo

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Gold Wars 0971038007

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Blood, Sweat & Tears: Becoming a Better Surgeon [1 ed.] 9781910079300, 9781910079270

All surgeons want to be better surgeons... They work hard to be respected by their peers, appreciated by their patients,

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Civil Wars: A History in Ideas 9780300226249

A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient

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Hollywood and Israel: A History 9780231544924

Hollywood has long enjoyed a “special relationship” with Israel. This book offers a groundbreaking account of this relat

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Surf, Sweat and Tears : The Epic Life and Mysterious Death of Edward George William Omar Deerhurst 9781682192337, 9781682192313

This is the true story of Ted, Viscount Deerhurst, the son of the Earl of Coventry and an American ballerina who dedicat

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Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol 9781350047648, 9781859735534

Short-listed for the North American Society for Sport History Book Award 2003. Alcohol is never far from sporting events

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Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars 9780822396345

Since the 1970s film studies has been dominated by a basic paradigm—the concept of classical Hollywood cinema—that is, t

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The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929 9781442659988

Fetherling argues that the gold rushes in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa shared the same cause

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The Endless End of Cinema: A History of Crisis and Survival in Hollywood 9781501348556, 9781501348587, 9781501348570

Film is dead! Three little words that have been heard around the world many times over the life of the cinema. Yet, some

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