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The Value Gap

Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere

University of Texas Press

How female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood.

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Hollywood in San Francisco

Location Shooting and the Aesthetics of Urban Decline

University of Texas Press

This pioneering study of postwar feature films set in San Francisco tracks the transformation of Hollywood filmmaking as location shooting became the dominant production method in an era of urban anxiety.

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Connecting The Wire

Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore

University of Texas Press

The first comprehensive, season-by-season analysis of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire, this book explicates the complex narrative arc of the entire series and its sweeping vision of institutional failure in the postindustrial United States.

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Independent Stardom

Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System

University of Texas Press

Bringing to light an often-ignored aspect of Hollywood studio system history, this book focuses on female stars who broke the mold of a male-dominated, often manipulative industry to dictate the path of their own careers through freelancing.

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The Classical Mexican Cinema

The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films

University of Texas Press

In one of the first systematic studies of style in Mexican filmmaking, a preeminent film scholar explores the creation of a Golden Age cinema that was uniquely Mexican in its themes, styles, and ideology.

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Selling the Silver Bullet

The Lone Ranger and Transmedia Brand Licensing

University of Texas Press

Using the Lone Ranger as a case study, this book investigates the transmedia licensing, merchandizing, and brand management of iconic characters from the 1930s through the era of media conglomeration and convergence.

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The Dread of Difference

Gender and the Horror Film

University of Texas Press

Now updated to include contemporary developments in the horror film genre and the critical thinking about it, Barry Keith Grant’s groundbreaking exploration of the cinema of fear has sold over 8,000 copies.

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Indie, Inc.

Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s

University of Texas Press

Pioneering the field of media industry studies, Indie, Inc. explores how Miramax changed the landscape not only of independent filmmaking but of Hollywood itself during the 1990s.

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Edna Ferber's Hollywood

American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History

By J. E. Smyth; Introduction by Thomas Schatz
University of Texas Press

A history of the remarkable partnership forged between the author of such classics as Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant and the Hollywood moguls who brought her often controversial messages to the silver screen.

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Cinema of Solitude

A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983

University of Texas Press

A study of el Nuevo Cine (the New Cinema) and its films presenting alienated characters caught in a painful transition period in which old family, gender, and social roles have ceased to function without being replaced by viable new ones.

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Coming Attractions

Reading American Movie Trailers

University of Texas Press

Starting from the premise that movie trailers can be considered a film genre, this pioneering book explores the genre’s conventions and offers a primer for reading the rhetoric of movie trailers.

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Cinema and the Sandinistas

Filmmaking in Revolutionary Nicaragua

University of Texas Press

This book examines the INCINE film project and assesses its achievements in recovering a Nicaraguan national identity through the creation of a national cinema.

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The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States

Revolution or Evolution?

University of Texas Press

A study of the first half-century of cable television and why it never achieved its promise as a radically different means of communication.

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Television Talk

A History of the TV Talk Show

University of Texas Press

A comprehensive history of the first fifty years of television talk, replete with memorable moments from a wide range of classic talk shows, as well as many of today's most popular programs.

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Latino Images in Film

Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance

University of Texas Press

In this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for the persistence of images of Latinos in U.S. popular culture

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