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A century of Australian cinema revealed through an anthology of anecdotes.
p style="text-align: center;">b style="text-align: center;">i>span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">"The ideal treat for movie fans who love to discover the rare and unseen treasures of world cinema, their makers and the culture that spawned them."br />
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span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Utilizing the resources of Australia's National Film & Sound Archive where the aut/span>/b>span style="color: rg | |  | | Film Tags: Promoting the Movies in the Age of DVD
The first ever anthology of movie taglines.
p style="text-align: justify">Until now, there has been no guide to taglines, no collection dedicated to celebrating this peripheral art of the movies./b>
p style="text-align: justify">Film taglines are everywhere. They appear on posters, on promotion and are often marketed so that they become a part of the movie itself. "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" is an example of a tagline that has both become so identified with a popular movie (i>Star Wars/i> in case you actually needed a reminder) and yet so catchily distinctive as to take on a life beyond | |  | | Film Tales: Movie Anecdotes in the Age of DVD
A collection of movie anecdotes, behind the scenes tales and trivia concerning the main movie genres.
p style="text-align: justify">Beyond trivia, i>Film Tales/i> is dedicated thoroughly to the time-honoured art and craft of the movie anecdote. /b>
p style="text-align: justify">DVDs have enabled the 'average' person to experience movies deeper and more intimately than before. The home entertainment revolution indeed has made the movie fan into the true connoisseur. In his first mass market work of film non-fiction, film scholar and analyst Robert Cettl collects a century's worth of previously un-anthologized backstage stories concerning the major movie genres.&nb | |  | | Film Talk: Quoting the Movies in the Age of DVD
An anthology of classic quotes and dialogue from a century of cinema.
p style="text-align: justify">Compiling classic and contemporary quotes from the movies is the latest anthology of movie talk./b>
p style="text-align: justify">Classic lines from classic - and not so classic - movies. i>Film Talk/i> is for those who not only find fun and pleasure in movie quotes but also satisfaction and enjoyment in discovering just a little bit more about the movies, both those they love and those they are perhaps yet to see. Quoting the movies is what this book is all about: "are you talking to me?" All motion pictures referenced in | |  | | Hollywood and the Killer Lesbian
How Hollywood developed the "killer lesbian" stereotype to counter the moral upheavals of "the sexual revolution".
Amidst the socio-sexual upheavals of the 1970s, Hollywood used a re-envisioning of the detective character from traditional film noir to essay the threat to heterosexual patriarchy posed by transgressive homosexuality./b> br />
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Thus, in one 1972 film emerged American cinema's way of dealing with that threat - the archetype of the Killer Lesbian was cemented! Starring James Garner as the detective and Hollywood veteran June Allyson as the killer lesbian, the film was buried in a wave of detective movies that included such as i>Harper/i>, i>The Long Goodbye/i>, i>Shamus/ | |  | | King of the Turkeys: Michael Caine in America
British actor Michael Caine's career in American film.
p style="text-align: center;">Michael Caine is acclaimed as a great actor./b>
He is an international star and two-time Academy Award Winner (for i>Hannah and Her Sisters/i> and i>The Cider House Rules/i>) whose filmmaking career spans over fifty years and many nations. His classic films spring to mind immediately at the mention of his name - i>Alfie/i>, i>The Italian Job/i>, i>The Ipcress File/i>, i>The Man Who Would be King/i>, i>Get Carter/i>, i>Hannah and her Sisters/i>, i>Harry Brown/i>. However, although Caine has immense standing as a serious actor, followi | |  | | Serial Killer Cinema
An introduction to the Serial Killer genre, with an analytical filmography.
The first complete reference work dedicated to the serial killer film as a distinct genre/b>.
i>Serial Killer Cinema/i> begins with a detailed analysis and chronological contextualization of the development of the genre and is followed by a comprehensive analytical filmography of some 500+ films from the silent era to the beginning of the C21st and the popularization of the Hannibal Lector movies. Included in the analysis is the evolution of the genre in tandem to important developments in criminological science and forensic investigation as they centered increasin | |  | | Terrorism in American Cinema
Genre history and analytical filmography of terrorist films from the Cold War through the post 9/11 wave.
p style="text-align: justify">The first reference work to examine terrorist cinema as a complete and intertextual body of work, a sub-genre unto itself./b>
p style="text-align: justify">Beginning by defining terrorism as it pertains to film and politics, i>Terrorism in American Cinema/i> comprises analytical history, genre analysis and thematic contextualization of representations of terrorism in American film (including select international films given US release). A detailed introduction chronicling the development of terrorist themes in film from the Cold War t |
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