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John Williams’s Film Music
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John Williams’s Film Music
Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the Return of the Classical Hollywood Music Style
Emilio Audissino
Spring 2014

Theo
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Theo
An Autobiography
Theodore Bikel
Spring 2014

Masked
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Masked
The Life of Anna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam
Alfred Habegger
Spring 2014

The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov
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The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov
James Steffen
Fall 2013

The Last Laugh
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The Last Laugh
Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age
Trevor J. Blank
Spring 2013

Channeling the Past
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Channeling the Past
Politicizing History in Postwar America
Erik Christiansen
Fall 2012

Liberals under Autocracy
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Liberals under Autocracy
Modernization and Civil Society in Russia, 1866–1904
Anton A. Fedyashin
Spring 2012

Screen Nazis
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Screen Nazis
Cinema, History, and Democracy
Sabine Hake
Spring 2012

Luis Buñuel
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Luis Buñuel
The Red Years, 1929–1939
Román Gubern and Paul Hammond
Fall 2011

Film and Genocide
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Film and Genocide
Edited by Kristi M. Wilson and Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli
Fall 2011

Tough as Nails
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Tough as Nails
The Life and Films of Richard Brooks
Douglass K. Daniel
Spring 2011

Glenn Ford
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Glenn Ford
A Life
Peter Ford
Spring 2011

Celluloid Activist
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Celluloid Activist
The Life and Times of Vito Russo
Michael Schiavi
Spring 2011

Creating the College Man
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Creating the College Man
American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood, 1890–1915
Daniel A. Clark
Spring 2010

Responses to Oliver Stone’s <em>Alexander</em>
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Responses to Oliver Stone’s Alexander
Film, History, and Cultural Studies
Edited by Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose Greenland
Fall 2009

Fast Forward
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Fast Forward
The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910–1930
Tim Harte
Fall 2009

United Artists, Volume 1, 1919–1950
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United Artists, Volume 1, 1919–1950
The Company Built by the Stars
Tino Balio
Spring 2009

United Artists, Volume 2, 1951–1978
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United Artists, Volume 2, 1951–1978
The Company That Changed the Film Industry
Tino Balio
Spring 2009

Democracy in Print
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Democracy in Print
The Best of The Progressive Magazine, 1909–2009
Edited by Matthew Rothschild
Spring 2009

The Presidents We Imagine
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The Presidents We Imagine
Two Centuries of White House Fictions on the Page, on the Stage, Onscreen, and Online
Jeff Smith
Spring 2009

Escape Artist
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Escape Artist
The Life and Films of John Sturges
Glenn Lovell
Fall 2008

I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History
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I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History
Walter Mirisch, Forewords by Sidney Poitier and Elmore Leonard
Spring 2008

Before, Between, and Beyond
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Before, Between, and Beyond
Three Decades of Dance Writing
Sally Banes, Edited and with an introduction by Andrea Harris
Spring 2007

Cannibal Fictions
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Cannibal Fictions
American Explorations of Colonialism, Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Jeff Berglund
Spring 2006

Depth of Field
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Depth of Field
Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History
Edited by Geoffrey Cocks, James Diedrick, and Glenn Perusek
Spring 2006

King of the Cowboys, Queen of the West
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King of the Cowboys, Queen of the West
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Raymond E. White
Spring 2006

Marked Women
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Marked Women
Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema
Russell Campbell
Fall 2005

Profiles of Popular Culture
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Profiles of Popular Culture
A Reader
Edited by Ray B. Browne
Spring 2005

Giant
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Giant
George Stevens, a Life on Film
Marilyn Ann Moss
Fall 2004

Murder in Hollywood
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Murder in Hollywood
Solving a Silent Screen Mystery
Charles Higham
Fall 2004

Walking Shadows
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Walking Shadows
Orson Welles, William Randolph Hearst, and Citizen Kane
John Evangelist Walsh
Fall 2004

Goddesses and Monsters
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Goddesses and Monsters
Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture
Jane Caputi
Spring 2004

Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture
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Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture
John G. Cawelti
Spring 2004

Images of the Corpse
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Images of the Corpse
From the Renaissance to Cyberspace
Edited by Elizabeth Klaver
Spring 2004

Salome
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Salome
A Filipino Filmscript by Ricardo Lee
Ricardo Lee, Translated by Rofel Brion
Spring 2004

Nowhere in Africa
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Nowhere in Africa
An Autobiographical Novel
Stefanie Zweig, Translated by Marlies Comjean
Spring 2004

Baseball and Country Music
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Baseball and Country Music
Don Cusic
Fall 2003

Voices Made Flesh
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Voices Made Flesh
Performing Women’s Autobiography
Edited by Lynn C. Miller, Jacqueline Taylor, and M. Heather Carver
Fall 2003

Voices from the Federal Theatre
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Voices from the Federal Theatre
Bonnie Nelson Schwartz and the Educational Film Center, Foreword by Robert Brustein
Fall 2003

Remote
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Remote
Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
David Shields, New foreword by Phillip Lopate
Fall 2003

GenXegesis
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GenXegesis
Essays on Alternative Youth (Sub)Culture
Edited by John M. Ulrich and Andrea L. Harris
Fall 2003

The Imperial Screen
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The Imperial Screen
Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years’ War, 1931–1945
Peter B. High
Spring 2003

A Fiddler’s Tale
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A Fiddler’s Tale
How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me
Louis Kaufman with Annette Kaufman
Spring 2003

A History of the French New Wave Cinema
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A History of the French New Wave Cinema
Richard Neupert
Fall 2002

Early American Cinema in Transition
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Early American Cinema in Transition
Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907–1913
Charlie Keil
Fall 2001

Memory and Representation
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Memory and Representation
Constructed Truths and Competing Realities
Edited by Dena Elisabeth Eber and Arthur G. Neal
2001

Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest
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Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest
Bad Boys and Bad Girls in the Badlands
Edited by Steve Glassman and Maurice O’Sullivan
2001

I Was a Cold War Monster
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I Was a Cold War Monster
Horror Films, Eroticism, and the Cold War Imagination
Cyndy Hendershot
2001

Beatrice of Bayou Têche
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Beatrice of Bayou Têche
Alice Ilgenfritz Jones, Introduction by Thomas H. Fick and Eva Gold
2001

Stars in My Eyes
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Stars in My Eyes
Don Bachardy
Fall 2000

Widescreen Dreams
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Widescreen Dreams
Growing Up Gay at the Movies
Patrick E. Horrigan
Spring 1999

The Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 2
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The Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 2
Six Plays
Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Skloot
Spring 1999

The Magic Mirror
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The Magic Mirror
Moviemaking in Russia, 1908–1918
Denise J. Youngblood
Spring 1999

Reel Rituals
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Reel Rituals
Ritual Occasions from Baptisms to Funerals in Hollywood Films, 1945–1995
Parley Ann Boswell, Paul Loukides
1998

Of Men and Monsters
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Of Men and Monsters
Jeffrey Dahmer and the Construction of the Serial Killer
Richard Tithecott , With a Foreword by James R. Kincaid
Fall 1997

Film Essays and Criticism
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Film Essays and Criticism
Rudolf Arnheim, Translated by Brenda Benthien
Spring 1997

Reel Patriotism
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Reel Patriotism
The Movies and World War I
Leslie Midkiff DeBauche
Spring 1997

Retrofitting <em>Blade Runner</em>
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Retrofitting Blade Runner
Issues in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Edited by Judith B. Kerman
1997

Dramatizing Dementia
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Dramatizing Dementia
Madness in the Plays of Tennessee Williams
Jacqueline O’Connor
1997

In the Zone
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In the Zone
The Twilight World of Rod Serling
Peter Wolfe
1997

The Great American Blow-Up
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The Great American Blow-Up
Puffery in Advertising and Selling
Ivan L. Preston
Fall 1996

Post-Theory
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Post-Theory
Reconstructing Film Studies
Edited by David Bordwell and Noël Carroll
Spring 1996

Vision/Re-Vision
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Vision/Re-Vision
Adapting Contemporary American Fiction by Women to Film
Edited by Barbara Tepa Lupack
1996

Lovers of Cinema
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Lovers of Cinema
The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919–1945
Edited by Jan-Christopher Horak
Fall 1995

Outsiders in Nineteenth-century Press History
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Outsiders in 19th-Century Press History
Multicultural Perspectives
Edited by Frankie Hutton and Barbara Straus Reed
1995

Beyond the Stars 5
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Beyond the Stars 5
Themes and Ideologies in American Popular Film
Edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
1995

The Tangled Web They Weave
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The Tangled Web They Weave
Truth, Falsity, & Advertisers
Ivan L. Preston
Fall 1994

No One Knows Their Names
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No One Knows Their Names
Screenwriters in Hollywood
Jorja Prover
1994

Picking Up the Tab
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Picking Up the Tab
The Life and Movies of Martin Ritt
Carlton Jackson
1993

Take Two
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Take Two
Adapting the Contemporary American Novel to Film
Edited by Barbara Tepa Lupack
1993

Dionysus in Literature
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Dionysus in Literature
Essays on Literary Madness
Edited by Branimir M. Rieger
1993

Settling the Score
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Settling the Score
Music and the Classical Hollywood Film
Kathryn Kalinak
Fall 1992

The Terrible Fitzball
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The Terrible Fitzball
The Melodramatist of the Macabre
Larry Stephen Clifton
1992

Advertising and Popular Culture
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Advertising and Popular Culture
Studies in Variety and Versatility
Sammy R. Danna
1992

Daytime Television Gameshows and the Celebration of Merchandise
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Daytime Television Gameshows and the Celebration of Merchandise
The Price Is Right
Morris B. Holbrook
1992

Beyond the Stars 3
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Beyond the Stars 3
The Material World in American Popular Film
Edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
1992

Beyond the Stars 4
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Beyond the Stars 4
Locales in American Popular Film
Edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
1992

Popular Arthurian Traditions
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Popular Arthurian Traditions
Edited by Sally K. Slocum
1991

Beyond the Stars 2
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Beyond the Stars 2
Plot Conventions in American Popular Film
Edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
1990

Hardboiled in Hollywood
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Hardboiled in Hollywood
Five Black Mask Writers and the Movies
David Wilt
1990

Beyond the Stars 1
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Beyond the Stars 1
Stock Characters in American Popular Film
Edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
1989

The Politics of Glamour
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The Politics of Glamour
Ideology and Democracy in the Screen Actors Guild
David F. Prindle
Fall 1988

Narration in the Fiction Film
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Narration in the Fiction Film
David Bordwell
Fall 1985

Now, Voyager
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Now, Voyager
Edited by Jeanne Allen
Fall 1984

White Heat
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White Heat
Edited, with an Introduction by Patrick McGilligan
Spring 1984

The American Theatrical Film
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The American Theatrical Film
Stages in Development
John C. Tibbetts
1984

Air Force
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Air Force
Edited with an Introduction by Lawrence Suid
Fall 1983

Juárez
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Juárez
Edited, with an Introduction by Paul J. Vanderwood
Spring 1983

Henry L. Brunk and Brunk’s Comedians
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Henry L. Brunk and Brunk’s Comedians
Tent Repertoire Empire of the Southwest
Jerry L. Martin
1983

The Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 1
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The Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 1
Four Plays
Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Skloot
Fall 1982

The Sea Hawk
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The Sea Hawk
Edited by Rudy Behlmer
Spring 1982

Dark Victory
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Dark Victory
Edited, with an Introduction by Bernard F. Dick
Fall 1981

I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
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I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
Edited, with an Introduction by John E. O'Connor
Fall 1981

The Public Enemy
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The Public Enemy
Edited by Henry Cohen
Spring 1981

Yankee Doodle Dandy
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
Edited by Patrick McGilligan
Spring 1981

Little Caesar
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Little Caesar
Edited by Gerald Peary
Spring 1981

Mission to Moscow
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Mission to Moscow
Edited by David Culbert
Fall 1980

42nd Street
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42nd Street
Edited by Rocco Fumento
Fall 1980

Mildred Pierce
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Mildred Pierce
Edited by Albert J. La Valley
Fall 1980

Gold Diggers of 1933
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Gold Diggers of 1933
Edited, with an Introduction by Arthur Hove
Spring 1980

To Have and Have Not
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To Have and Have Not
Edited by Bruce F. Kawin
Spring 1980

Form and the Art of Theatre
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Form and the Art of Theatre
Paul Newell Campbell
1980

The Adventures of Robin Hood
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
Edited, with an Introduction by Rudy Behlmer
Fall 1979

The Green Pastures
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The Green Pastures
Edited, with an Introduction by Thomas Cripps
Fall 1979

High Sierra
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High Sierra
Edited, with an Introduction by Douglas Gomery
Fall 1979

The Jazz Singer
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The Jazz Singer
Edited, with an Introduction by Robert L. Carringer
Spring 1979

Mystery of the Wax Museum
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
Edited, with an Introduction by Richard Koszarski
Spring 1979

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Edited with an Introduction by James Naremore, Foreword by Tino Balio
Spring 1979

The American Film Industry
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The American Film Industry
Edited by Tino Balio
Spring 1976