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Contemporary Romanian Cinema
This book is the first to provide in-depth analyses of essential works in Romanian cinema ranging from the silent period to contemporary productions.
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The Cinema of John Carpenter
John Carpenter is a seminal figure in the history of horror and science fiction filmmaking. His work in these genres has been highly influential in their ongoing development. This book gives Carpenter's output the sustained critical treatment it deserves. It comprises essays that address the whol...
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
In 1974, The Wall Street Journal called this movie "grotesque, sadistic, irrational, obscene, incompetent," while New York Magazine declared it "a catastrophe." Upon its initial release, Sam Peckinpah´s notorious work took a critical and commercial nosedive, but in later years, the work was heral...
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The Cinema of Hal Hartley
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 shiftin...
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The Essay Film
The essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction of the subject, its relationship to the world, and the aesthetic possibilities of cinema. This volume examines the potential of the essayistic to question, investigate, and reflect on all forms of cinema.
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Fantasy Cinema
Often dismissed as escapist tales of sword and sorcery or childish fairytales, fantasy is one of the fundamental impulses in filmmaking, a source of some of the most vivid and memorable films ever made. This volume covers the major genres, stylistic approaches, and exponents of cinematic fantasy,...
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Screen Methods
Screen Methods: Comparative Readings in Film Studies is a collection of essays that explores the progression of film studies, an increasingly popular subject at universities, and how it has been approached theoretically, culturally and historically. In doing so, the contributors provide invaluabl...
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Starved
One woman’s gripping coming-of-age story of how she triumphs over heartbreaking emotional and physical deprivation to become a successful doctor.
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Dark Wine Waters
One woman’s struggle with her husband’s addiction and her path of recovery as a result of the tragic outcome.
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Above and Beyond
A meditation for every day of the year.Ties in with CRP titles A Day without Pain and Pain Recovery.
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Meditations for Pain Recovery
A meditation for every day of the year. Ties in to CRP titles A Day without Pain and Pain Recovery.
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Wisdom from the Couch
A simple yet sophisticated model of personal growth that can lead to lasting change, drawn from the truths of psychoanalysis.
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Never Leave Your Dead
A portrait of how decades of war trauma and the twentieth-century mental health system transformed a man and a family.
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Engage the Group, Engage the Brain
One hundred state-of-the-art experiential activities for use in addiction treatment to facilitate improved client cognitive and behavioral functioning.
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Mommy's Coming Home from Treatment
Parent guide for how to talk to children about addiction and treatment and what happens after a parent/loved one returns.
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Why Is Brian So Fat?
Written in a friendly and welcoming tone; kids will instantly relate to Brian whether or not they are overweight.
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The Jaguar Man
An unorthodox memoir of how one woman’s use of compassion helped her survive a rape and later find peace.
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The Secret of Willow Ridge
Engaging and contemporary story with charming, age-appropriate illustrations. Foreword by Claudia Black, Ph.D. written for the target audience.
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Life on the Rocks
A unique exploration toward an understanding of the nature of recovery from active addiction using the perspective of western philosophy.
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Behavioral Addiction
A reference manual that examines, defines, and presents behavioral addiction in a compelling discussion to practitioners, students, and general public.
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Weightless
Gregg McBride was always determined to make it big -- Although not quite this literally.By the time he was a young adult, Gregg McBride topped the scales at over 450 pounds and wore a sixty-inch belt. Pretending airline seatbelts fit across his belly, eating out of the trash to cheat on his diet...
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Rage
Baseball, addiction, and recovery are chronicled in this story of a gifted athlete who almost had it all.
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Daddy Goes to Meetings
Everything has changed since a child's daddy goes to meetings,” that help him avoid drugs and drinking.
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The Mindful Addict
Illustrates how spiritual connection and the practice of meditation can promote healing and enhance recovery.
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The Cinema of Terrence Malick
With 2005's acclaimed and controversial The New World, one of cinema's most enigmatic filmmakers returned to the screen with only his fourth feature film in a career spanning thirty years. While Terrence Malick's work has always divided opinion, his poetic, transcendent filmic language has unques...
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Storytelling in World Cinemas
Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 1: Forms is an innovative collection of essays that discuss how different cinemas of the world tell stories. The book locates European, Asian, African, and Latin American films within their wider cultural and artistic frameworks, showing how storytelling forms ...
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Reconstructing Strangelove
With rare access to unpublished materials, this volume assesses Dr. Strangelove's narrative accuracy, consulting recently declassified Cold War nuclear-policy documents alongside interviews with Kubrick's collaborators. It focuses on the myths surrounding the film.
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Millennial Cinema
In spite of the overwhelming interest in the study of memory and trauma, no single volume has yet explored the centrality of memory to films of this era in a global context; this volume is the first anthology devoted exclusively to the study of memory in twenty-first-century cinema. Combining ind...
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Storytelling in World Cinemas
Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 2: Contexts addresses the questions of what and why particular stories are told in films around the world, both in terms of the forms of storytelling used, and of the political, religious, historical, and social contexts informing cinematic storytelling. Drawin...
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Disaster Movies
Stephen Keane's history of the disaster genre offers a detailed analysis of films such as The Towering Inferno, Independence Day, Titanic, and The Day After Tomorrow. He looks at the ways in which disaster movies can be read in relation to both contextual considerations and the increasing commerc...
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The Cinema of Christopher Nolan
Contextualizing and closely reading each of Christopher Nolan's films, this collection examines the director’s play with memory, time, trauma, masculinity, and identity.
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The Cinema of Robert Lepage
The Cinema of Robert Lepage is the first critical study of one of the most striking artists of Quebecois and Canadian independent filmmaking. The book examines Lepage's creative methods of filmmaking in their cultural and social context and argues that his work cannot be seen separately from his ...
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Mediating Mobility
Considers the images that circulate with reference to migrants or draw attention to those that accompany, show, or conceal them.
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The Cinema of Latin America
The Cinema of Latin America is the first volume in the new 24 Frames series of studies of national and regional cinema. In taking an explicitly text-centered approach, the books in this series offer a unique way of considering the particular concerns, styles and modes of representation of numerou...
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The Evil Dead
Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981) has been celebrated as a rollercoaster ride of terror and a classic horror hit, a defining example of the tongue-in-cheek, excessively gory horror films of the 1980s. It is also the film that introduced the now-iconic character of Ash (played by Bruce Campbell). T...
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Early Cinema
This book introduces the reader to the study of cinema as a series of aesthetic, technological, cultural, ideological and economic debates while exploring new and challenging approaches to the subject.
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Hitchcock and Twentieth-Century Cinema
Hitchcock and Twentieth-Century Cinema looks at the work, influences, legacy and style of one of cinema's most famous directors. Alfred Hitchcock worked in Britain and America, in silent and sound films, and through and beyond the studio system, all the time appealing to mass audiences while empl...
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The Cinema of Steven Spielberg
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 a...
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I-Docs
Taking a broad view of interactive documentary as any work which engages with ‘the real’ by employing digital interactive technology, this volume addresses a range of platforms and environments, from web-docs and virtual reality to mobile media and live performance.
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The YouTube Reader
YouTube has come to epitomize the possibilities of digital culture. With more than seventy million unique users a month and approximately eighty million videos online, this brand-name video distribution platform holds the richest repository of popular culture on the Internet. As the fastest growi...
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Fast Forward
Investigates a full range of contemporary creative practices dedicated to the future of mediated storytelling and by connecting with a new generation of filmmakers, screenwriters, technologists, media artists, and designers to discover how they work now, and toward what end.
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The Cinema of István Szabó
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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Critical Cinema
Critical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice purges the obstructive line between the making of and the theorising on film, uniting theory and practice in order to move beyond the commercial confines of Hollywood. Opening with an introduction by Bill Nichols, one of the world's leading writers o...
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Chavez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is a powerful film about the charismatic and controversial Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. It charts the attempt to overthrow him in April 2002 and provides an eyewitness account of his extraordinary return to power some forty-eight hours later. This book, w...
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Slow Movies
"In all film there is the desire to capture the motion of life, to refuse immobility," Agnes Varda has noted. But to capture the reality of human experience, cinema must fasten on stillness and inaction as much as motion. Slow Movies investigates movies by acclaimed international directors who in...
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Film Genre
This is a concise evaluation of film genre, discussing genre theory and sample analyses of the western, science fiction, the musical, horror, comedy, and the thriller. Case studies include: 42nd Street, Pennies from Heaven, Red River, All That Heaven Allows, Night of the Living Dead, Die Hard, Li...
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Los Angeles Before Hollywood
This study provides a meticulous account of the reception and regulation of cinema in the United States during a decade of upheaval, transition, and industrial consolidation that affected all aspects of film culture. Written in close dialogue with contemporary journalism, the volume focuses on Lo...
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Filmosophy
Filmosophy is a provocative new manifesto for a radically philosophical way of understanding cinema. It coalesces twentieth-century ideas of film as thought (from Hugo Münsterberg to Gilles Deleuze) into a practical theory of "film-thinking," arguing that film style conveys poetic ideas through a...
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This Is Spinal Tap
A documentary, a mockumentary, indeed a rockumentaryRob Reiner's phony road movie following the exploits of a fictitional heavy metal band has long been celebrated as a comedy landmark. This book is the first attempt to provide a sustained critical appraisal of the film's success, addressing gen...
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Teen Movies
Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen is a detailed look at the depiction of teens on film and its impact throughout film's history. Timothy Shary looks at the development of the teen movie – the rebellion, the romance, the sex and the horror – up to contemporary portrayals of ever-changing youth...
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The Psycho Records
The Psycho Records follows the influence of the primal shower scene within subsequent slasher and splatter films.
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The Cinema of Jan Svankmajer
The Cinema of Jan Svankmajer explores the legacy of this legendary Czech surrealist filmmaker, a key influence on directors such as Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton, and one of the greatest animators in cinema history. This updated second edition – still the only full-length study of his workfeature...
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The Ultimate Stallone Reader
Eleven original essays by internationally-known scholars examine Stallone’s contributions to mainstream cinema, independent film, and television
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Film Performance
Performers make a crucial contribution to the achievement of narrative films. By moving through exemplary sequences, this book closely follows the movement and behaviour of screen performers – Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Stanwyck, Ri...
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Film Theory
Film Theory addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers
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The Matrix Trilogy
The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded is a collection of critical essays on the massive phenomenon that is the three Matrix films, including the subsequent Web sites, computer games and The Animatrix films. Among the topics considered are the new cyberpunk, Baudrillarian simulacra, the politics ...
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For His Eyes Only
The first book-length anthology on femininity and feminism in the Bond series
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Beyond Bruce Lee
In order to understand Bruce Lee, we must look beyond Bruce Lee to the artist's intricate cultural and historical contexts. This work begins by contextualising Lee, examining his films and martial arts work, and his changing cultural status within different times and places. The text examines Bru...
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Reading Hollywood
This book examines the treatment of space and narrative in a selection of classic films including My Darling Clementine, It's a Wonderful Life, and Vertigo. Deborah Thomas employs a variety of arguments in exploring the reading of space and its meaning in Hollywood cinema and film generally. Topi...
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Spectatorship
This book cuts a lucid path through the debate on spectatorship. It revisits the classics of Hollywood; explores films beyond the mainstream, such as Dogme 95; and shows how cinema makes a spectacle of the everyday while turning the spectacular into something commonplace. It also muses on the con...
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The Cinema of Richard Linklater
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 an...
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Documenting Cityscapes
Explores the way the city has been depicted by nonfiction filmmakers since the late 1970s
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Programming the Future
Programming the Future examines how recent speculative television takes on the contradictions of the neoliberal order. Sherryl Vint and Jonathan Alexander consider a range of popular SF narratives of the last two decades, including Battlestar Galactica, Watchmen, Colony, The Man in the High Castl...
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A Search for Belonging
This book focuses on nine of Luis Buñuel’s films made in Mexico in order to show that a concerted focus on space can unlock new philosophical meaning in his rich body of work. The interdisciplinary approach of this book unites the two substrands of his work: the independent movies and the studio ...
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Global Cinematic Cities
Engaging with a rapidly transforming urban world, the contributions to this collection rethink the cinematic city at a global scale. By presenting a global constellation of screen cities, the book encourages juxtapositions and comparisons across the North and South to capture the global city and ...
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Remapping World Cinema
With films such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), Oldboy (2003) and Good Bye Lenin! (2003), the state and popularity of world cinema has rarely been healthier. Remapping World Cinema explores many of the key critical and theoretical approaches and debates, i...
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The Western Genre
The Western Genre: From Lordsburg to Big Whiskey offers close readings of the definitive American film movement as represented by such leading exponents as John Ford, Howard Hawks, and Sam Peckinpah. In his consideration of such iconic motifs as the Outlaw Hero and the Lone Rider, John Saunders t...
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Sex and the Cinema
From the sanctioned to the forbidden, the suggestive to the blatant, evocations of sex have saturated cinema with a heady distillation of fleshly passions. Whether laced in the rapturous rhetorics of romance or seeking to pack a harder erotic punch, cinematic representations of sex and sexual des...
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The Vampire Film
This introductory volume offers an elegant analysis of the enduring appeal of the cinematic vampire. From Georges Méliès' early cinematic experiments to Twilight and Let the Right One In, the history of vampires in cinema can be organized by a handful of governing principles that help make sense ...
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The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East
The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East contains twenty-four essays, each concerning an individual film from Morocco all the way to Iran. The volume explores not only the established film cultures of Turkey, Egypt, and Israel, but also the nascent cinemas of Palestine and Syria. Selected f...
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