Cinema History Books

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A History of Narrative Film
A History of Narrative Film 4.12 avg rating — 621 ratings
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The Complete Gone with the Wind Trivia Book
The Complete Gone with the Wind Trivia Book 4.01 avg rating — 141 ratings
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The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History 4.18 avg rating — 3,185 ratings
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Baseball: The Movie
Baseball: The Movie 3.89 avg rating — 236 ratings
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பாம்பின் கண் - தமிழ் சினிமா ஓர் அறிமுகம்
பாம்பின் கண் - தமிழ் சினிமா ஓர் அறிமுகம் 3.92 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Adventures of a Suburban Boy
Adventures of a Suburban Boy 4.09 avg rating — 74 ratings
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West Side Story: The Jets, the Sharks, and the Making of a Classic
West Side Story: The Jets, the Sharks, and the Making of a Classic 4.19 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film
Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film 3.98 avg rating — 1,861 ratings
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Polish Cinema: A History
Polish Cinema: A History 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Women in Mass Communication
Women in Mass Communication really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Cannon Film Guide (Volume I, 1980-1984)
The Cannon Film Guide (Volume I, 1980-1984) 4.37 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Ethnographic Film
Ethnographic Film 3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings
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An Illustrated History of Filmmaking
An Illustrated History of Filmmaking 3.75 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made
Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made 3.49 avg rating — 568 ratings
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Digital Film-Making
Digital Film-Making 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst
The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst 3.64 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life
Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life 4.41 avg rating — 406 ratings
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Lotte's Magical Paper Puppets: The Woman Behind the First Animated Feature Film
Lotte's Magical Paper Puppets: The Woman Behind the First Animated Feature Film 3.92 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Filming Shakespeare's Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa
Filming Shakespeare's Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
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In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing 4.21 avg rating — 8,135 ratings
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Underexposed!: The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made
Underexposed!: The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made 3.68 avg rating — 182 ratings
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The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968
The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968 4.03 avg rating — 537 ratings
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Shakespeare on Film: Such Things as Dreams Are Made Of
Shakespeare on Film: Such Things as Dreams Are Made Of 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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McQuail′s Mass Communication Theory
McQuail′s Mass Communication Theory 3.71 avg rating — 369 ratings
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Must-See Musicals: 50 Show-Stopping Movies We Can't Forget
Must-See Musicals: 50 Show-Stopping Movies We Can't Forget 4.05 avg rating — 73 ratings
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What is Cinema? Volume I
What is Cinema? Volume I 4.13 avg rating — 1,861 ratings
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Shakespeare and Film: A Norton Guide
Shakespeare and Film: A Norton Guide 3.58 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood
Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood 4.03 avg rating — 671 ratings
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Death by Umbrella! The 100 Weirdest Horror Movie Weapons
Death by Umbrella! The 100 Weirdest Horror Movie Weapons 3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Great Art Of Light And Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema
The Great Art Of Light And Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Shakespeare and the Moving Image: The Plays on Film and Television
Shakespeare and the Moving Image: The Plays on Film and Television 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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American Film Comedy
American Film Comedy 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman, King of the B-Movie
Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman, King of the B-Movie 4.29 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema
Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema 3.58 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Akira Kurosawa: Interviews
Akira Kurosawa: Interviews 3.74 avg rating — 73 ratings
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CHRONICLE OF THE CINEMA
CHRONICLE OF THE CINEMA 4.33 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema (Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center)
Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema (Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema
Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema 4.11 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Stuck on VHS: A Visual History of Video Store Stickers
Stuck on VHS: A Visual History of Video Store Stickers 4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Hope for Film: From the Frontline of the Independent Cinema Revolutions
Hope for Film: From the Frontline of the Independent Cinema Revolutions
by: Ted Hope
3.96 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Perspectives on Akira Kurosawa
Perspectives on Akira Kurosawa really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Film Yearbook: Volume 6
The Film Yearbook: Volume 6 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Travels in Greeneland: The Cinema of Graham Greene
Travels in Greeneland: The Cinema of Graham Greene 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Ridley Scott: Interviews
Ridley Scott: Interviews 3.91 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Mondo Macabro : Weird & Wonderful Cinema Around the World
Mondo Macabro : Weird & Wonderful Cinema Around the World 4.40 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life
Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews
Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Michael Caine's Moving Picture Show: Or Not Many People Know This Is The Movies
Michael Caine's Moving Picture Show: Or Not Many People Know This Is The Movies 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Burning Passions: Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema
Burning Passions: Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Steven Spielberg: Interviews
Steven Spielberg: Interviews 4.06 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Censoring Hollywood: Sex and Violence in Film and on the Cutting Room Floor
Censoring Hollywood: Sex and Violence in Film and on the Cutting Room Floor 2.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Fight That Started the Movies: The World Heavyweight Championship, the Birth of Cinema and the First Feature Film
The Fight That Started the Movies: The World Heavyweight Championship, the Birth of Cinema and the First Feature Film 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Hero and the Perennial Journey Home in American Film
The Hero and the Perennial Journey Home in American Film really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror
Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror 3.86 avg rating — 2,603 ratings
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Opening Wednesday at a Theater Or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American '70s
Opening Wednesday at a Theater Or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American '70s 3.67 avg rating — 327 ratings
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British Queer Cinema
British Queer Cinema 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The ABC Movie of the Week: Big Movies for the Small Screen
The ABC Movie of the Week: Big Movies for the Small Screen 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Cinematic Challenge: Filming Colonial America
The Cinematic Challenge: Filming Colonial America 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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French Queer Cinema
French Queer Cinema 1.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978 to 1986
Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978 to 1986 3.97 avg rating — 258 ratings
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ROCK DOCS: A Fifty-Year Cinematic Journey, 1964-2014
ROCK DOCS: A Fifty-Year Cinematic Journey, 1964-2014 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys
Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys 3.67 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Tales From Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made?
Tales From Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made? 3.60 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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Apocalypse Then: American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951-1967
Apocalypse Then: American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951-1967 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Queer Cinema, The Film Reader
Queer Cinema, The Film Reader 4.02 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Sideshow Cinema
Sideshow Cinema really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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New Queer Cinema: Beyond the Celluloid Closet
New Queer Cinema: Beyond the Celluloid Closet 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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SHOCK! HORROR!
SHOCK! HORROR! 4.42 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Talking Pictures: Screenwriters in the American Cinema
Talking Pictures: Screenwriters in the American Cinema 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut
New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut 4.08 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Video Nasties Moment: Examining The Films Behind The Scare
The Video Nasties Moment: Examining The Films Behind The Scare liked it 3.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934
Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 222 ratings
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New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader
New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader 3.71 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema
Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema 4.26 avg rating — 515 ratings
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Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979
Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film
Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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You Won't Believe Your Eyes: A Front Row Look at the Sci-Fi/Horror Films of the 1950s
You Won't Believe Your Eyes: A Front Row Look at the Sci-Fi/Horror Films of the 1950s 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Hick Flicks: The Rise and Fall of Redneck Cinema
Hick Flicks: The Rise and Fall of Redneck Cinema 4.12 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Gus Van Sant: His Own Private Cinema
Gus Van Sant: His Own Private Cinema 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959
Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959 4.28 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Image in Early Cinema: Form and Material
The Image in Early Cinema: Form and Material liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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American Independent Cinema: An Introduction
American Independent Cinema: An Introduction 3.44 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made 4.29 avg rating — 34,393 ratings
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Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era
Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era 3.88 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology
Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology 3.36 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Killing for Culture: Death Film from Mondo to Snuff
Killing for Culture: Death Film from Mondo to Snuff 4.23 avg rating — 289 ratings
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The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907
The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 4.45 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The 21st Century Superhero: Essays on Gender, Genre and Globalization in Film
The 21st Century Superhero: Essays on Gender, Genre and Globalization in Film 3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The XXX Filmography, 1968-1988
The XXX Filmography, 1968-1988 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Teen Film: A Critical Introduction
Teen Film: A Critical Introduction 3.61 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Cannibal Holocaust and the Savage Cinema of Ruggero Deodato
Cannibal Holocaust and the Savage Cinema of Ruggero Deodato 3.91 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century 4.19 avg rating — 1,581 ratings
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Kings of the Jungle: An Illustrated Reference to "Tarzan" on Screen and Television
Kings of the Jungle: An Illustrated Reference to "Tarzan" on Screen and Television 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square
Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square 4.15 avg rating — 381 ratings
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The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931
The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931 4.16 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen
Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen 3.45 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents
Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents 4.68 avg rating — 338 ratings
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The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt
The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt 4.17 avg rating — 460 ratings
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A History of Narrative Film
A History of Narrative Film 4.12 avg rating — 621 ratings
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Blood & Black Lace
Blood & Black Lace 4.26 avg rating — 43 ratings
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