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A guide to countries around the world, including facts, travel essentials, and extensive coverage of culture, history, and language.
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To celebrate the 75th anniversary of this inspiration holiday classic, here comes a new and expanded 75th anniversary edition of The Essential It's a Wonderful Life. Packed with fresh insights, this comprehensive guidebook walks you through It's a Wonderful Life scene by scene. It's a Wonderful Life fans will be thrilled by the guidebook's assortment of intriguing insights, cool cast and film anecdotes, closer looks at scene details, historical tie-ins,...
5) The Columbia companion to American history on film: how the movies have portrayed the American past
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Columbia University Press
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[2003]
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English
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American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans sense of the past likely comes more from Hollywood than from the works of historians. In important films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), -Roots (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), and -Saving Private Ryan (1998), how much is entertainment and how much is rooted in historical fact? In The Columbia Companion to American...
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2011.
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Allegedly found in the ruins of a bombed-out dog kennel in France during World War I, then brought to Los Angeles by Lee Duncan, the soldier who found and trained him, by 1927 Rin Tin Tin had become Hollywood's number one box-office star. Susan Orlean's book--about the dog and the legend--is a poignant exploration of the enduring bond between humans and animals. It is also a richly textured history of twentieth-century entertainment and entrepreneurship....
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Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures volume 40
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Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
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English
20) The movie book
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DK Publishing
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2016.
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English
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More than a century after the Lumière brothers made their first movie, the magic of the silver screen refuses to fade. Even silent era classics, such as the futuristic Metropolis, still retain the power to astonish. The talkies introduced new genres-- among them the special-effects blockbuster, first seen in King Kong and reinvented in the 1980s with Steven Spielberg's Jaws-- that continue to inspire and enthrall. In more recent years, technological...