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Abbott, Stacey, Angel. Wayne State.
Alexander, Geoff. Academic Films for the Classroom. McFarland
Alia, Valerie. The New Media Nation: Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication. Berghahn Books.
Baker, Aaron. Steven Soderbergh. University of Illinois Press.
Barker, Martin. A ‘Toxic Genre': The Iraq War Films. Pluto Press.
Barrios, Nayibe Bermudez (ed.). Latin American Cinemas. Local Views and Transnational Connections. University of Calgary Press.
Barton, Ruth. Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film. The University Press of Kentucky.
Baxter, John. Von Sternberg. Kentucky.
Benyahia, Sarah Casey, Freddie Gaffney and John White. Film Studies A2: The Essential Introduction. Routledge.
Berghahn, Daniela and Claudia Sternberg (eds.) European Cinema in Motion. Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.
Bertellini, Giorgio. Italy in Early American Cinema: race, landscape, and the picturesque , Indiana University Press.
Berrettini, Mark L. Hal Hartley. Illinois.
Bildhauer, Bettina. Filming The Middle Ages. Reaktion Books.
Bociurkiw, Marusya. Feeling Canadian. Television, Nationalism, and Affect. Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Bolton, Lucy. Film and Female Consciousness. Irigaray, Cinema and Thinking Women. Palgrave Macmillan.
Booker, Keith M. Historical Dictionary of American Cinema. Scarecrow Press.
Bourne, Stephen, Butterfly McQueen Remembered, Scarecrow Press.
Braester, Yomi. Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract, Duke University Press.
Braester, Yomi and James Tweedie. Cinema at the City's Edge. Film and Urban Networks in East Asia. Hong Kong UP.
Buchan, Suzanne. The Quay Brothers. Into a Metaphysical Playroom. Minnesota.
Burger, Alissa (ed.). The Television World of Pushing Daisies. Critical Essays on the Bryan Fuller Series. McFarland.
Butler, Jeremy G. Television Style. Routledge.
Carrol, Hamilton. Affirmative Reaction. New Formations of White Masculinity. Duke.
Casper, Drew. Hollywood Film 1963-1976. Wiley-Blackwell.
Cheung, Esther M.K., Gina Marchetti and Tan See-Kam (eds.) Hong Kong Screenscapes. From the New Wave to the Digital Frontier. Hong Kong UP.
Chi Hyun Park, Jane. Yellow Future. Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema. Minnesota.
Chivers, Sally and Nicole Markotic. (eds.) The Problem Body. Projecting Disability on Film. Ohio State.
Clarke, James. Movie Movements . Kamera Books.
Cohan, Steven, The Sound of Musicals. BFI.
Columpar, Corinn. Upsetting Sights: The Fourth World on Film, Southern Illinois University Press.
Cook, Pam. Baz Luhrmann. BFI.
Corber, Robert J. Cold War Femme. Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema. Duke.
Del Mar Azcona, Maria. The Multi-Protaginist Film. Wiley-Blackwell
Deleyto, Celestino and Maria del Mar Azcona. Alejandro González Iñárritu. Illinois.
Doll, Susan and Morrow, David, Florida on Film: The Essential Guide to Sunshine State Cinema and Locations, University Press of Florida.
Dover, Bruce, Rupert's Adventures in China: How Murdoch Lost a Fortune and Found a Wife, Mainstream Publishing.
Downing, Lisa and Sue Harris (eds.). From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom of Catherine Deneuve. Manchester University Press.
Elbeshlawy, Ahmed. America in Literature and Film. Modernist Perceptions, Postmodernist Representations. Ashgate
Elder, Kathryn. The Films of Jack Chambers. Toronto International Film Festival Group.
Eleftheriotis, Dimitris. Cinematic Journeys: Film and Movement, Edinburgh University Press.
Emenyonu, Ernest N. Film in African Literature Today. James Currey.
Evans, Peter William. Top Hat. Wiley-Blackwell.
Feldman, Seth, (ed.), Alan King: Filmmaker, Toronto International Film Festival Group.
Ferreira, Carolin Overhoff (ed.). Dekalog 2 on Manoel de Oliveira. Wallflower.
Finney, Angus. The International Film Business: A Market Guide to Hollywood, Routledge.
Fujiwara, Chris. Jerry Lewis , University of Illinois Press.
Gadjigo, Samba. Ousmane Sembene. The Making of a Militant Artist. Indiana
Gardner, Colin. Karel Reisz. Manchester University Press.
Gehring, Wes D., Irene Dunne: First Lady of Hollywood. The Scarecrow Press.
Geiger, Jeffrey. American Documentary Film. Projecting the Nation. Edinburgh University Press.
Gerstner, David A. Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic. Illinois.
Gill, John. Far from Heaven. Palgrave Macmillan.
Grindon, Leger. The Hollywood Romantic Comedy. Wiley-Blackwell.
Grunes, Dennis. A Short Chronology of World Cinema. Sands Films Cinema Club.
Hallas, Roger. Reframing Bodies. AIDS, Bearing Witness, and the Queer Moving Image. Duke.
Harcourt, Peter, (ed.), Jean Pierre Lefebvre: Videaste, Toronto International Film Festival Group.
Heller, Dana. Hairspray. Wiley-Blackwell
Hight, Craig. Television Mocumentary. Reflexivity, Satire and a Call to Play. Manchester.
Higson, Andrew. Film England. Culturally English Filmmaking since the 1990s. I.B. Tauris.
Hill, John. Ken Loach. The Politics of Film and Television . Palgrave Macmillan.
Himpele, Jeffrey D., Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes (Visible Evidence), University of Minnesota Press.
Hjort, Mette. Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners. University of Washington Press.
Hodgin, Nick. Screening the East. Heimat , Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989. Berghahn Books.
Iordanova, Dina, David Martin-Jones and Belen Vidal. Cinema at the Periphery. Wayne State UP.
Iordanova, Dina and Ruby Cheung. Film Festival Yearbook 3: Film Festivals and East Asia. St Andrews.
Joe, Jeongwon and Sander L. Gilman. Wagner and Cinema, Indiana University Press.
Johnston, Cristina. French Minority Cinema. Contemporary Cinema 6.
Karlyn, Kathleen Rowe. Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers. Redefining Feminism on Screen. Texas.
Kalinak, Kathryn. Film Music. A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press
Kamin, Dan. The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin. Artistry in Motion. Scarecrow Press.
Keating, Patrick. Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir, Columbia University Press.
Simonton, Dean Keith. Great Flicks. Scientific Studies of Cinematic Creativity and Aesthetics. Oxford.
Kemper, Tom. Hidden Talent. The Emergence of Hollywood Agents. University of California Press.
Koskinen, Maaret. Ingmar Bergman's The Silence: Pictures in the Typewriter, Writings on the Screen, University of Washington Press, Museum Tusculanem Press.
Kosta, Barbara. Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture, Berghahn Books.
Koven, Mikel J. Blaxploitation Films. Kamera Books.
Lamarre, Thomas . The Anime Machine. A Media Theory of Animation. Minnesota.
Lane, Christina. Magnolia. Wiley-Blackwell.
Langford, Michelle, Allegorical Images: Tableau, Time and Gesture in the Cinema of Werner Schroeter, Intellect.
Lavery, David, Douglas L. Howard and Paul Levinson (eds.). The Essential Sopranos Reader. Kentucky.
Lee, Lance. The Death and Life of Drama. University of Texas Press.
Lee, Vivian P. Y. Hong Kong Cinema since 1997. The Post-Nostalgic Imagination. Palgrave.
Lee, Vivian P. Y. East Asian Cinemas. Regional Flows and Global Transformations. Palgrave
Lehman, Christopher P. The Colored Cartoon. Black Representation in American Animated Short Films, 1907-1954. Massachusetts.
Leonard, Suzanne, Fatal Attraction, Wiley Blackwell.
Lindner, Christopher (ed.). The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader, Manchester University Press.
Litvack, Joseph. The Un-Americans. Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture, Duke University Press.
Lloyd, Matthew. How the Movie Brats Took Over Edinburgh. St Andrews.
Loiselle, Andre. Cinema as History: Michel Brault and Modern Quebec, Cinemateque.
Ma, Jean. Melancholy Drift. Marking Time in Chinese Cinema. Hong Kong UP.
Mai, Joseph. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Contemporary Film Directors Series), University of Illinois Press.
Marill, Alvin. Television Western. Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders. Scarecrow.
Marlow-Mann, Alex. The New Neapolitan Cinema. Edinburgh.
Martin, Fran. Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary, Duke University Press.
Martin-Jones, David. Scotland: Global Cinema. Edinburgh.
Martin, Sean. Andrei Tarkovsky. Kamera Books
Mayer, Geoff. Roy Ward Baker. Manchester University Press.
Mazierska, Ewa and Ostrowska, Elzbieta, Women in Polish Cinema, Berghahn Books.
Mazierska, Ewa. Jerzy Skolimowski. The Cinema of a Nonconformist. Berghahn.
McCluskey, Audrey Thomas, The Devil You Dance With: Film Culture in the New South Africa, Illinois.
McDonagh, Maitland. Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds. The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento. Minnesota.
McElhaney, Joe, Albert Maysles, Illinois.
McMahon, Jennifer L and B. Steve Csaki (eds.). The Philosophy of the Western. Kentucky.
McSorley, Tom. Atom Egoyan's The Adjuster. University of Toronto Press.
Mimura, Glen M., Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video, Minnesota.
Moss, Marilyn Ann. Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director. University Press of Kentucky.
Naficy, Hamid. A Social History of Iranian Cinema. Vol. 1. The Artisanal Era, 1897-1941. Duke University Press.
Naficy, Hamid. A Social History of Iranian Cinema. Vol. 2. The Industrializing Years, 1941-1978. Duke University Press.
Nordfjord, Bjorn. Dagur Kari's Noi the Albino. University of Washington Press.
Oddham Stokes, Lisa, Peter Ho-Sun chan's He's a Woman, She's a Man, Hong Kong.
O'Sullivan, Carol. Translating Popular Film. Palgrave Macmillan.
O'Sullivan, Sean. Mike Leigh. University of Illinois Press.
Paget, Derek. No Other Way to Tell It: Docudrama on Film and Television. Manchester University Press.
Palmer, R. Barton and Steven M. Sanders, The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh. Kentucky.
Peacock, Steven. Colour. Manchester.
Peberdy, Donna. Masculinity and Film Performance. Male Angst in Contemporary American Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan.
Pegley, Kip, Coming to You Wherever You Are: Much Music, MTV, and Youth Identities, Wesleyan University Press.
Petley, Julian. Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain. Edinburgh University Press.
Pramaggiore and Tom Wallis. Film. A Critical Introduction. Laurence King.
Rawle, Steven. Performance in the Cinema of Hal Hartley . Cambria Press.
Regester, Charlene. African American Actresses. The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960. Indiana.
Renga, Dana (ed). Mafia Movies: A Reader. University of Toronto.
Rippy, Marguerite H. Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects. A Postmodern Perspective. Southern Illinois UP.
Ryall, Tom. Anthony Asquith. Manchester University Press.
Ruoff, Jeffrey , Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel, Duke University Press.
Sadlier. Darlene (ed.). Latin American Melodrama. Illinois.
Saks, Lucia . Cinema in a Democratic South Africa. The Race for Representation. Indiana UP.
Santos, Marlisa. The Dark Mirror: Psychiatry and Film Noir. Lexington Books.
Saul, Mahir and Ralph A. Austen (eds.). Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century. Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution. Ohio University Press.
Schilt, Thibaut. Francois Ozon. Illinois.
Schmid, Marion, Chantal Akerman. Manchester.
Schwartz, Louis George. Mechanical Witness: A History of Motion Picture Evidence in US Courts, Oxford University Press USA.
Smith, Ian Haydn, TCM International Film Guide: The Definitive Annual Review of World Cinema, Wallflower Press.
Smith, Ian Haydn, International Film Guide 2010: The Definitive Annual Review of World Cinema, Wallflower Press.
Smith, Jacob. Spoken Word. Postwar American Phonograph Cultures. University of California Press.
Solomon, Matthew. Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century, University of Illinois Press.
Spicer, Andrew. Sydney Box. Manchester University Press.
Srinivas, S. V. Megastar: Chiranjeevi and Telugu Cinema After N. T. Rama Rao. Oxford.
Sturtevant, Victoria, A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler, Illinois.
Szeto, Kin-Yan. The Martial Arts Cinema of The Chinese Diaspora. Ang Lee, John Woo, and Jackie Chan in Hollywood. Southern Illinois University Press.
Talbot, Mary, Media Discourse: Representation and Interaction, Edinburgh University Press.
Talmon, Miri, and Yaaron Peleg (eds.). Israel Cinema. Identities in Motion. University of Texas Press.
Tasker, Yvonne. Soldiers' Stories. Military Women in Cinema and Television Since World War I. Duke University Press.
Tay, Sharon Lin. Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices, Palgrave Macmillan.
Tcheuyap, Alexie. Postnationalist African Cinemas. Manchester.
Temple, Michael. Jean Vigo. Manchester University Press.
Tibbetts, John C. All My Loving? The Films of Tony Palmer, Chrome Dreams.
Tzioumakis, Yannis. The Spanish Prisoner. Edinburgh.
Utterson, Andrew. From IBM to MGM. Cinema at the Dawn of the Digital Age. BFI.
Varga, Darrell (ed.). Rain/Drizzle/Fog. Film and Television in Atlantic Canada. University of Calgary Press.
Verstraten, Peter. Translated by Stefan van der Lecq. Film Narratology. University of Toronto Press.
Vice, Sue, Jack Rosenthal, Manchester University Press.
Wayne, Mike, Petley, Julian, et al. Television News, Politics and Young People, Palgrave.
Whittington, William. Sound Design & Science Fiction. Texas.
Wilderson III, Frank B. Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, Duke University Press.
Williams, James S. Jean Cocteau, Manchester University Press.
Wilson, Emma. Atom Egoyan. Illinois.
Williams, Tony, John Woo's Bullet in the Head, Hong Kong.
Zhu, Ying, Michael Keane and Ruoyun Bai. (eds). TV Drama in China. Hong Kong UP.