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  • Monument Valley or Once Upon a Time at the Movies
    Douglas Brode
    The Last Picture ShowDuring the late 1960s, three men met in Monument Valley, the heart, soul, and brain of our vast southwest. One was John Ford, an aging director who over the past half-century had created the greatest body of cinematic work dealing with the frontier experience; i.e., ’westing.’ His hope was to create one final epic that would serve as an epilogue to all he’d...
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    35,22 €

  • Analyzing the Marvel Universe
    Douglas Brode
    Marvel, like other media 'universes,' is a collection of highly profitable and audience-satisfying products that exist not only as individual items of popular culture but coalesce to form a unique and all-encompassing identity. Within media studies, elements of popular culture once dismissed as low-brow entertainment are now studied with the seriousness that has always been ...
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    71,96 €

  • The DC Comics Universe
    Douglas Brode
    As properties of DC comics continue to sprout over the years, narratives that were once kept sacrosanct now spill over into one another, synergizing into one bona fide creative Universe. Intended for both professional pop culture researchers and general interest readers, this collection of essays covers DC Universe multimedia, including graphic novels, video games, movies an...
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    57,31 €

  • They Went That-A-Way - 101 Forgotten Westerns to Remember
    Douglas Brode
    LOST RIDERS OF THE HOLLYWOOD SAGE . . .   Fans of Western movies have heard of (and likely seen) the key genre classics: Shane, High Noon, The Searchers, Stagecoach, Red River, Tombstone, and Unforgiven, to name a few. But how many armchair cowboys and cowgirls are aware that thirty years previous to Clint Eastwood’s film, a similarly named movie, The Unforgiven, featured two t...
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    37,67 €

  • Midnight Matinees
    Douglas Brode
    From the earliest days of moving pictures, there have been the big blockbusters... Birth of a Nation, The Gold Rush, Sunrise, The Crowd... featured the loftiest stars, most renown directors, largest budgets, garnering the strongest reviews. Most famous of them all? Gone With the Wind (1939). During that classic year for Tinseltown, another film did not fare nearly so well at th...
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    34,69 €

  • Sand
    Douglas Brode
    The birth of the roaring twenties, as young gossip columnist Louella Parsons and aged sportswriter Bat Masterson, meet to cover the ’fight of the century’ in which contender Jack Dempsey hopes to become the next heavyweight champion of the world. 3 ...
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    30,85 €

  • From Hell To Hollywood
    Douglas Brode
    FROM HELL TO HOLLYWOOD: An Encyclopedia of Warld War II Films offers the most comprehensive illustrated guide ever assembled for theatrical motion-pictures, English-language and international, dealing with the conflict that consumed America and the globe during the mid-20th century. Though United States official involvement did not begin until December, 1941, following the bomb...
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    32,54 €

  • From Hell To Hollywood
    Douglas Brode
    FROM HELL TO HOLLYWOOD: An Encyclopedia of Warld War II Films offers the most comprehensive illustrated guide ever assembled for theatrical motion-pictures, English-language and international, dealing with the conflict that consumed America and the globe during the mid-20th century. Though United States official involvement did not begin until December, 1941, following the bomb...
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    37,87 €

  • John Wayne’s Way
    Douglas Brode
    As John Wayne’s character said in The Alamo: “There’s right and there’s wrong. You got to do one or the other.” The ultimate measure of a man is how he chooses to act. From the pithy to the humorous to the profound, the film career of the man known as The Duke is full of life lessons for today. In John Wayne's Way, author Doug Brode explores the film legacy of the Duke and ...
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    17,53 €

  • Deadlier Than the Male
    Douglas Brode
    THEY’LL LOVE YOU TO DEATH! James Bond’s bad girls. Wicked queens of ancient myth. Bisexual vampire women. Teenage temptresses. Deadly dinosaur dames in fanciful fur bikinis. Golden princesses of porn.And many, many more.They were the wicked women of the 1960s and 1970s. While there have always been femme fatales in films, no one had ever believed anything like this pop-culture ...
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    40,23 €

  • Elvis Cinema and Popular Culture
    Douglas Brode
    Though Elvis Presley’s music is widely credited as starting a sea change in American popular culture, his films are often dismissed as superficial. Beyond the formulaic plotlines and the increasingly weaker songs, however, the films are rich with resonance to the changing times in which they were produced (roughly 1955-1970). They were also a means by which Elvis communicate...
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    42,48 €