Biography - Polan, Dana: An article from: Contemporary ...
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Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study ...
Polan's book offers the first pedagogical history of the emergence of film studies courses within the American university system prior to World War II, based on an amazing wealth of little known or even unknown material. It also offers an equally [... more]
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Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in ...
'Entertaining the Third Reich offers a trenchant approach to Nazi cinema and, in reading the complexities of this specific cinema, it puts a number of important theoretical concepts to the test. Providing new and exciting insights, Schulte-Sasse goes [... more]
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Painting with Light
Painting with Light remains one of the few truly canonical statements on the art of motion-picture photography, an unrivaled historical document on the workings of postwar American cinema. In simple, nontechnical language. Alton explains the job of the [... more]
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Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study ...
This engaging book chronicles the first classes on the art and industry of cinema and the colorful pioneers who taught, wrote, and advocated on behalf of the new art form. Using extensive archival research, Dana Polan looks at, for example, Columbia [... more]
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Pulp Fiction
DIVIn this book, Dana Polan sets out to unlock the style and technique ofIPulp Fiction/I. He shows how broad Tarantino's points of reference are, and analyzes the narrative accomplishment and complexity. In addition, Polan argues that macho attitudes [... more]
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Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s
A history and assessment of the volatile decade of the 40s--prewar, war and postwar--when the movie industry experienced great success and fought bitter battles over antitrust violations, over unAmerican activities, and with labor unions and theater [... more]
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Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from ...
Reveals the invention of the readymade as a critical point in contemporary art.Beginning with the instance in 1912 when Marcel Duchamp wrote in a note to himself, No more painting, get a job, Thierry de Duve reviews in Pictorial Nominalism the [... more]
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Comedy/Cinema/Theory
The nature of comedy has interested many thinkers, from Plato to Freud, but film comedy has not received much theoretical attention in recent years. The essays in Comedy/Cinema/Theory use a range of critical and theoretical approaches to explore this [... more]
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Gender On Ice: American Ideologies Of Polar Expeditions ...
'In this book, Bloom takes what might seem a very localized subject and shows how it opens up to all the central questions today in cultural studies around gender, nationhood, the politics of imperialism, race, male homosocial behavior, and the sociality [... more]
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Hollywood Quarterly
A collection of essays from the Hollywood Quarterly, the first long running film and media journal in the United States which was founded in 1947 by lefty Hollywood filmmakers and Southern California intellectuals.The Hollywood Quarterly was so far ahead [... more]
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Pulp Fiction (BFI Modern Classics)
Book Description: In this book, Dana Polan sets out to unlock the style and technique of Pulp Fiction. He shows how broad Tarantino's points of reference are, and analyzes the narrative accomplishment and complexity. In addition, Polan argues that macho [... more]
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