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The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson
American Apocrypha
Ethan Warren
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This book provides the most complete account of Paul Thomas Anderson’s career to date, encompassing his evolution from a self-anointed auteur to one of his generation’s most distinctive voices. It is at once an unconventional primer on Anderson’s films and a provocative reframing of what makes his work so essential.
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2020
The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino
Commitment to Style
Russell Kilbourn
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Paolo Sorrentino has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first-century European film. This book is a critical examination of Sorrentino’s work, focusing on his emergence as a preeminent transnational auteur.
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https://doi.org/10.7312/kilb18992
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9780231548625
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The Cinema of Richard Linklater
Walk, Don't Run
Rob Stone
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In this second edition of
The Cinema of Richard Linklater
, Rob Stone shows how Linklater’s latest films have redefined our understanding of his work, offering critical analysis of films including
Before Midnight
(2013) and
Everybody Wants Some!!
(2016), as well as new interviews with Linklater and a chapter on
Boyhood
(2014).
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/ston17920
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9780231851244
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2018
The Cinema of Louis Malle
Transatlantic Auteur
Philippe Met
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A pioneer of the French New Wave, Louis Malle went on to an acclaimed transatlantic career. This collection of essays reassesses his eclectic and subversive oeuvre to redress the critical neglect it has suffered. The volume features contributions from playwright John Guare and filmmakers Volker Schlöndorff and Wes Anderson.
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https://doi.org/10.7312/met-18870
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9780231851268
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The Cinema of Wes Anderson
Bringing Nostalgia to Life
Whitney Crothers Dilley
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Wes Anderson is considered one of the most important directors of the post-Baby Boom generation, making films such as
Rushmore
(1998) and
The Royal Tenenbaums
(2001) in a style so distinctive that his films are often recognizable from a single frame. Through the travelogue
The Darjeeling Limited
(2007) and the stop-motion animation of
Fantastic Mr. Fox
(2009), his films examine issues of gender, race, and class through dysfunctional family dynamics, with particular focus on masculinity and male bonding. Anderson's auteur status is enriched by his fascination with Truffaut and the French New Wave, as well as his authorship of every one of his screenplays, drawing on influences as diverse as Mark Twain, J. D. Salinger, Roald Dahl, and Stefan Zweig. Works such as
Moonrise Kingdom
(2012) and
The Grand Budapest Hotel
(2014) continue to fascinate with their postmodern, hyper-nostalgic attention to detail. This book explores the filmic and literary influences that have helped make Anderson a major voice in 21st century "indie" culture, and reveals why Wes Anderson is one of the most inventive filmmakers working in cinema today.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/dill18068
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9780231543200
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The Cinema of Tom DiCillo
Include Me Out
Wayne Byrne, Steve Buscemi
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This volume considers this acclaimed director's entire oeuvre, analyzing themes such as identity, family, and masculinity and DiCillo's distinctive and influential film style. Detailed chapters on each of DiCillo's films offer a candid look at both the American independent film industry and the Hollywood studio system.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/byrn18534
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9780231851206
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2016
The Cinema of Hal Hartley
Flirting with Formalism
Steven Rybin
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Featuring new essays on this important director and his films, this collection explores Hartley’s work from a variety of aesthetic, cultural, and economic contexts, while also looking closely at his collaborations with actors, his reworking of the romantic comedy and other genres, and the shifting economics of his filmmaking.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/rybi17616
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9780231850841
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2016
The Cinema of Robert Altman
Hollywood Maverick
Robert Niemi
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Surveys all of Robert Altman's major films in their sociohistorical context to reposition the director as a trenchant satirist and social critic of postmodern America
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/niem17626
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9780231850865
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The Cinema of Sean Penn
In and Out of Place
Deane Williams
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Sean Penn’s directorial works consist of some of the most interesting and singular films made in the United States over the past twenty years.
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https://doi.org/10.7312/will17624
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9780231176255
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9780231850858
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The Cinema of Christopher Nolan
Imagining the Impossible
Jacqueline Furby, Stuart Joy
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Contextualizing and closely reading each of Christopher Nolan's films, this collection examines the director’s play with memory, time, trauma, masculinity, and identity.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/furb17396
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9780231173977
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9780231850766
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The Cinema of the Coen Brothers
Hard-Boiled Entertainments
Jeffrey Adams
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Surveys Oscar-winning films, such as Fargo (1996) and No Country for Old Men (2007), as well as cult favorites, including O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and The Big Lebowski (1998)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/adam17460
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9780231174619
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9780231850810
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The Cinema of George A. Romero
Knight of the Living Dead, Second Edition
Tony Williams
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Explores the relevance of Romero's films within American cultural traditions and explains the potency of such work beyond 'splatter movie' models.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/will17354
ISBN:
9780231173544
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9780231850759
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The Cinema of Ang Lee
The Other Side of the Screen
Whitney Crothers Dilley
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Suggestive readings of gender and identity explore the international appeal of Ang Lee
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https://doi.org/10.7312/dill16772
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9780231538497
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9780231538497
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The Cinema of Clint Eastwood
Chronicles of America
David Sterritt
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From A Fistful of Dollars and Dirty Harry to Million Dollar Baby and beyond, takes a close-up look at one of the screen’s most influential and charismatic stars.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/ster17200
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9780231172004
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9780231850711
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The Cinema of István Szabó
Visions of Europe
John Cunningham
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The first English-language study of all Szabó's feature films and uses material from interviews with him and his collaborators
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https://doi.org/10.7312/cunn17198
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9780231171984
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9780231850704
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The Cinema of James Cameron
Bodies in Heroic Motion
James Clarke
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Explores the massively popular cinema of writer-director James Cameron
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https://doi.org/10.7312/clar16976
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9780231169769
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9780231850629
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The Cinema of Agnès Varda
Resistance and Eclecticism
Delphine Benezet
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Agnès Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, filmmakers, and audiences alike, as audacious, seminal, and unforgettable. This volume considers her production as a whole, revisiting overlooked films like
Mur, Murs/Documenteur
(1980–81), and connecting her cinema to recent installation work. This study demonstrates how Varda has resisted norms of representation and diktats of production. It also shows how she has elaborated a personal repertoire of images, characters, and settings, which all provide insight on their cultural and political contexts. The book thus offers new readings of this director's multifaceted rêveries, arguing that her work should be seen as an aesthetically influential and ethically-driven production where cinema is both a political and collaborative practice, and a synesthetic art form.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/bene16974
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9780231169745
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9780231850612
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The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov
Figures of Paradox
Jeremi Szaniawski
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Through contextualization and close readings of each of his feature fiction films, this volume unearths a vision of Sokurov's film.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/szan16734
ISBN:
9780231167345
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9780231850520
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2013
The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom
Borders, Intimacy, Terror
Bruce Bennett
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Explores the thematic, stylistic, and intellectual consistencies running through Michael Winterbottom's eclectic and controversial body of work.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/benn16736
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9780231167376
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9780231850537
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The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz
Impossible Cartographies
Michael Goddard
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This volume maps Ruiz's cinematic trajectory across more than five decades of prolific work
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/godd16730
ISBN:
9780231167314
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9780231850506
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The Cinema of Michael Mann
Vice and Vindication
Jonathan Rayner
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Michael Mann is one of the most important American filmmakers of the past forty years. His films exhibit the existential concerns of art cinema, articulated through a conspicuous and recognizable visual style and yet integrated within classical Hollywood narrative and genre frameworks. Since his beginnings as a screenwriter in the 1970s, Mann has become a key figure within contemporary American popular culture as writer, director, and producer for film and television. This volume offers a detailed study of Mann's feature films, from
The Jericho Mile
(1979) to
Public Enemies
(2009), with consideration also being given to parallels in the production, style, and characterization in his television work. It explores Mann's relationship with classical genres, his thematic concentration on issues of morality and masculinity, his film adaptations from literature, and the development and significance of his trademark visual style within modern American cinema.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/rayn16728
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9780231167291
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9780231850490
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The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki
Contrarian Stories
Andrew Nestingen
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Aki Kaurismäki is an enigma, an eminent auteur who claims his films are a joke. Since 1983, Kaurismäki has produced classically-styled films filled with cinephilic references to film history. He has earned an international art-house audience and many prizes, influencing such directors as Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, and Wes Anderson. Yet Kaurismäki is often depicted as the loneliest, most nostalgic of Finns (except when he promotes his films, makes political statements, and runs his many businesses). He is also depicted as a bohemian known for outlandish actions and statements.
The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki
is the first comprehensive English-language study of this eccentric director. Drawing on revisionist approaches to film authorship, the text links the filmmaker and his films to the stories and issues animating film aesthetics and history, nostalgia, late modernity, politics, commerce, film festivals, and national cinema.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/nest16558
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9780231150705
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9780231850414
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The Cinema of Béla Tarr
The Circle Closes
András Kovács
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The Cinema of Béla Tarr
is a critical analysis of the work of Hungary's most prominent and internationally best known film director, written by a scholar who has followed Bela Tarr's career through a close personal and professional relationship for more than twenty-five years. András Bálint Kovács traces the development of Tarr's themes, characters, and style, showing that almost all of his major stylistic and narrative innovations were already present in his early films and that through a conscious and meticulous recombination of and experimentation with these elements, Tarr arrived at his unique style. The significance of these films is that, beyond their aesthetic and historical value, they provide the most powerful vision of an entire region and its historical situation. Tarr's films express, in their universalistic language, the shared feelings of millions of Eastern Europeans.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/kova16530
ISBN:
9780231165310
ISBN:
9780231850377
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The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh
Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape
Andrew deWaard, R. Colin Tait, Thomas Schatz
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The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme d'or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This volume considers its slippery subject from several perspectives, analyzing Soderbergh as an expressive auteur of art cinema and genre fare, as a politically-motivated guerrilla filmmaker, and as a Hollywood insider. Combining a detective's approach to investigating the truth with a criminal's alternative value system, Soderbergh's films tackle social justice in a corporate world, embodying dozens of cinematic trends and forms advanced in the past twenty-five years. His career demonstrates the richness of contemporary American cinema, and this study gives his complex oeuvre the in-depth analysis it deserves.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/dewa16550
ISBN:
9780231165518
ISBN:
9780231850391
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The Cinema of Richard Linklater
Walk, Don't Run
Rob Stone
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In this second edition of
The Cinema of Richard Linklater
, Rob Stone shows how Linklater’s latest films have redefined our understanding of his work, offering critical analysis of films including
Before Midnight
(2013) and
Everybody Wants Some!!
(2016), as well as new interviews with Linklater and a chapter on
Boyhood
(2014).
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/ston16552
ISBN:
9780231165532
ISBN:
9780231850407
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The Cinema of Terry Gilliam
It's a Mad World
Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, Karen Randell
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Terry Gilliam has been making movies for more than forty years, and this volume analyzes a selection of his thrilling directorial work, from his early films with Monty Python to
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnussus
(2009). The frenetic genius, auteur, and social critic continues to create indelible images on screen--if, that is, he can get funding for his next project. Featuring eleven original essays from an international group of scholars, this collection argues that when Gilliam makes a movie, he goes to war: against Hollywood caution and convention, against American hyper-consumerism and imperial militarism, against narrative vapidity and spoon-fed mediocrity, and against the brutalizing notion and cruel vision of the "American Dream."
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/birk16534
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9780231165358
ISBN:
9780231850384
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The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano
Flowering Blood
Sean Redmond
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The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood
is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The volume uniquely explores Kitano's oeuvre through the tropes of stillness and movement, becoming animal, melancholy and loss, intensity, schizophrenia, and radical alterity; and through the aesthetic temperatures of color, light, camera movement, performance and urban and oceanic space. In this highly original monograph, all of Kitano's films are given due consideration, including
A Scene at the Sea
(1991),
Sonatine
(1993),
Dolls
(2002), and
Outrage
(2010).
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/redm16332
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9780231163330
ISBN:
9780231850230
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The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers
Responsible Realism
Philip Mosley
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The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liège-Seraing, a former industrial hub of French-speaking southern Belgium, they have crafted a series of fiction films that blends acute observation of life on the social margins with moral fables for the postmodern age. This volume analyses the brothers' career from their leftist video documentaries of the 1970s and 1980s through their debut as directors of fiction films in the late 1980s and early 1990s to their six major achievements from The Promise (1996) to The Kid with a Bike (2011), an oeuvre that includes two Golden Palms at the Cannes film festival, for Rosetta (1999) and The Child (2005). It argues that the ethical dimension of the Dardennes' work complements rather than precludes their sustained expression of a fundamental political sensibility.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/mosl16328
ISBN:
9780231113144
ISBN:
9780231850216
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The Cinema of Steven Spielberg
Empire of Light
Nigel Morris
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Cinema's most successful director is a commercial and cultural force demanding serious consideration. Not just triumphant marketing, this international popularity is partly a function of the movies themselves. Polarised critical attitudes largely overlook this, and evidence either unquestioning adulation or vilificationoften vitriolicfor epitomising contemporary Hollywood. Detailed textual analyses reveal that alongside conventional commercial appeal, Spielberg's movies function consistently as a self-reflexive commentary on cinema. Rather than straightforwardly consumed realism or fantasy, they invite divergent readings and self-conscious spectatorship which contradict assumptions about their ideological tendencies. Exercising powerful emotional appeal, their ambiguities are profitably advantageous in maximising audiences and generating media attention.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/morr476489
ISBN:
9780231163293
ISBN:
9780231503457
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The Cinema of George A. Romero
Knight of the Living Dead
Tony Williams
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Explores the relevance of Romero's films within American cultural traditions and explains the potency of such work beyond 'splatter movie' models.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7312/will336462
ISBN:
9780231364734
ISBN:
9780231850308
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Arts
Subject:
Genres
Subject:
Genres, other
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
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