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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.
The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States
Revolution or Evolution?
By Megan Mullen
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.
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.
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
Veni, Vidi, Video
The Hollywood Empire and the VCR
University of Texas Press
The history of the rise of home video as a mass medium.
Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist
University of Texas Press
In this highly readable memoir, Bernard Gordon tells a engrossing insider’s story of what it was like to be blacklisted and how he and others continued to work uncredited behind the scenes, writing and producing many box office hits of the era.
Selznick's Vision
Gone with the Wind and Hollywood Filmmaking
By Alan David Vertrees; Introduction by Thomas Schatz
University of Texas Press
Alan David Vertrees challenges the popular image of Selznick as a megalomaniacal meddler whose hiring and firing of directors and screenwriters created a patchwork film that succeeded despite his interference.
Living Room Lectures
The Fifties Family in Film and Television
University of Texas Press
Nina Leibman analyzes many feature films and dozens of TV situation comedy episodes from 1954 to 1963 to find surprising commonalities in their representations of the family.
The Unruly Woman
Gender and the Genres of Laughter
University of Texas Press
How the unruly woman uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority.
High Concept
Movies and Marketing in Hollywood
By Justin Wyatt
University of Texas Press
This pioneering study explores the development and dominance of the high concept movie within commercial Hollywood filmmaking since the late 1970s.
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