The American Dream and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema 9781628929010, 9780826428615

American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film 9781474470841

Hollywood has a growing fascination with America's past. This is evidenced in the release of a rash of films of thi

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Home Movies: The American Family in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema 1780761821, 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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Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood : American Hollywood [1 ed.] 9781841505206, 9781841504155

With its sprawling celebrity homes, the Walk of Fame and the iconic sign on the hill, Hollywood is truly the land of sta

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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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American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture 9780748693375

Examines a cycle of postfeminist films that adopt the conventions of romance In light of their tremendous gains in the

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The Death Penalty in American Cinema: Criminality and Retribution in Hollywood Film 9780755694105, 9781780763330

Killing as punishment in the USA, whether ordained by lynch mob or by the courts, reflects a paradox of the American nat

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Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema 9780813587509

Liberating Hollywood examines the professional experiences and creative output of women filmmakers during a unique momen

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Fat on Film: Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema 9781350114586, 9781350114579, 9781350114593

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Hollywood. La mecca del cinema

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Fat on Film: Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema 9781350114586, 9781350119390, 9781350114579

Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in the USA and beyond, presente

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