David Desser

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Tough Ain't Enough

New Perspectives on the Films of Clint Eastwood

Edited by Lester D. Friedman and David Desser

Rutgers University Press

Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this late point in his career, has emerged as one of America’s most popular and respected—though controversial—filmmakers. Tough Ain’t Enough offers readers a series of original essays by prominent cinema scholars who explore the actor-director’s extensive career.

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From Hanoi to Hollywood

The Vietnam War in American Film

Edited by Linda Dittmar and Gene Michaud

Rutgers University Press

The essays in this volume deal with representations of the Vietnam war in documentary film and television reporting, examining the ways the power of film is used to deliver political messages. There are surprises here, new readings, and important insights on the ways we as a society have attempted to come to terms with the experiences of the Vietnam era. The book also contains two appendixes-a detailed chronology charting the relationship between major historical events and the release of American war films from 1954 through 1988, and a filmography listing information on over four hundred American and foreign films about the Vietnam War.

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Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town

Edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer

Rutgers University Press

The first intensive study of Mervyn LeRoy’s work, as varied in form as it is crucial to an understanding of American cinema and American culture.

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City That Never Sleeps

New York and the Filmic Imagination

Edited by Murray Pomerance

Rutgers University Press

New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place for its tensions and promises, dazzling illumination and fearsome darkness. From Street Scene and Breakfast at Tiffany's to Rosemary's Baby, The Warriors, and 25th Hour, the sixteen essays in this book explore the cinematic representation of New York as a city of experience, as a locus of ideographic characters and spaces, as a city of moves and traps, and as a site of allurement and danger.

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American Cinema of the 1960s

Themes and Variations

Edited by Barry Keith Grant

Rutgers University Press

In ten original essays, American Cinema of the 1960s examines a range of films that characterized the decade, including Hollywood movies, documentaries, and independent and experimental films. Among the films discussed are Elmer Gantry, The Apartment,West Side Story, The Manchurian Candidate, To Kill a Mockingbird, Cape Fear, Bonnie and Clyde, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Midnight Cowboy, and Easy Rider.

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Tough Ain't Enough

New Perspectives on the Films of Clint Eastwood

Edited by Lester D. Friedman and David Desser

Rutgers University Press

More info...

Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town

Edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer

Rutgers University Press

The first intensive study of Mervyn LeRoy’s work, as varied in form as it is crucial to an understanding of American cinema and American culture.

More info...

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