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Gene Tierney
Star of Hollywood's Home Front
Hollywood’s Gene Tierney, the lasting impact of her wartime and postwar films, and her continuing legacy.
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American Television during a Television Presidency
Explores the ways television documents, satirizes, and critiques the political era of the Trump presidency.
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ISBN: 9780814349366
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ISBN: 9780814349359
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ISBN: 9780814349373
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Our Blessed Rebel Queen
Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia
Exploration of Carrie Fisher as star, author, comedian, and iconic personification of Princess Leia.
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ISBN: 9780814346853
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ISBN: 9780814346860
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ISBN: 9780814346877
Resetting the Scene
Classical Hollywood Revisited
Showcases cutting-edge work by renowned researchers of classical Hollywood filmmaking.
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ISBN: 9780814347805
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ISBN: 9780814347799
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ISBN: 9780814347812
Starring Tom Cruise
Interdisciplinary star study of one of the most iconic Hollywood celebrities of the last thirty-five years.
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ISBN: 9780814347171
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ISBN: 9780814347188
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ISBN: 9780814347195
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Stars and Silhouettes
The History of the Cameo Role in Hollywood
Extensive account of the cameo’s production history and how audiences affirm their mastery of celebrity culture.
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ISBN: 9780814346907
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ISBN: 9780814346914
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ISBN: 9780814346921
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Embodying Hebrew Culture
Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine
Details the creation of a Hebrew cultural aesthetic that was intentionally and distinctly physical.
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ISBN: 9780814348031
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ISBN: 9780814336366
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ISBN: 9780814336373
Beyond Method
Stella Adler and the Male Actor
Explores the methodologies and influence of acting teacher Stella Adler on her male students.
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ISBN: 9780814344897
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ISBN: 9780814342916
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ISBN: 9780814342923
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Three Plays
The translations collected here-Death and the Fool, Electra, and The Tower represent different periods and interests in his career as a dramatist.
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ISBN: 9780814312865
Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering
Examines how psychological and physical suffering, as portrayed on screen and experienced in personal lives, has affected the images, performances, and fortunes of stars from the 1940s to the present.
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ISBN: 9780814339398
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ISBN: 9780814339404
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
Examines the reception, formal strategies, production history, and ideological underpinnings of the groundbreaking comedy-variety show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In.
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ISBN: 9780814338223
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ISBN: 9780814338230
Montgomery Clift, Queer Star
Considers Montgomery Clift's star persona, film roles, and performances through the lens of queer theory.
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ISBN: 9780814335147
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ISBN: 9780814339244
Hollywood's Chosen People
The Jewish Experience in American Cinema
Investigates the relationship between Jewish identity and American film from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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ISBN: 9780814334829
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ISBN: 9780814338070
Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage
Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business
Collects leading scholars’ insight on the plays, production, music, audiences, and political and aesthetic concerns of modern Yiddish theater.
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ISBN: 9780814335048
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ISBN: 9780814337196
Gilligan's Island
An analysis of the under-studied sitcom Gilligan’s Island that addresses key questions about American social life in the 1960s.
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ISBN: 9780814333723
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ISBN: 9780814336472
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Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance
A comprehensive survey of historical and contemporary Jewish dance.
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ISBN: 9780814333303
From Bourgeois to Boojie
Black Middle-Class Performances
Examines how generations of African Americans perceive, proclaim, and name the combined performance of race and class across genres.
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ISBN: 9780814334683
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ISBN: 9780814336427
Hollywood Goes Oriental
CaucAsian Performance in American Film
An in-depth look at the portrayal of Asian characters by non-Asian actors in classical Hollywood film.
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ISBN: 9780814334676
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ISBN: 9780814335383
I Love Lucy
An analysis of I Love Lucy, one of the best loved sitcoms in the history of American television.
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ISBN: 9780814332610
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ISBN: 9780814335734
The Flip Wilson Show
Analyzes the social, political, and institutional context of The Flip Wilson Show, which ran on NBC between 1970 and 1974.
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ISBN: 9780814332528
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ISBN: 9780814335758