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Monthly film bulletin.
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ISSN: 00270407 Publisher: London : British film institute,


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Shoah
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ISBN: 9781844573257 Year: 2011 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Palgrave Macmillan


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Buster Keaton
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ISBN: 0436098806 0436098814 Year: 1969 Publisher: London Secker and Warburg


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Rouben Mamoulian
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ISBN: 0500480125 050047012X Year: 1969 Publisher: London Thames and Hudson


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Far from heaven
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ISBN: 9781844572878 1844572870 Year: 2011 Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK New York Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute

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"Cathy is the perfect '50s housewife, living the perfect '50s life: with healthy kids, a successful husband, and social prominence. Then one night she surprises her husband Frank, as he is kissing another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond--a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew it. Despite Cathy and Frank's struggle to keep their marriage afloat, the reality of his homosexuality and her feelings for Raymond open a painful, if more honest, chapter in their lives."--Publisher's website. Todd Haynes's 2002 film Far From Heaven has been hailed as a homage to 1950s Hollywood melodrama, although anyone tempted to take the film at face value should be warned that it aims to subvert as much as celebrate that genre. Impeccably constructed, with a care for detail unknown in films from the era, it sets out to make key themes from the genre – romance across racial barriers and class lines, and perhaps the period's greatest taboo, romance between members of the same sex – utterly explicit, when half a century ago those themes had to be encoded in allusion and metaphor. Haynes took as his main source Douglas Sirk's 1955 classic, All That Heaven Allows, although Far From Heaven also references Rainer Werner Fassbinder's bleak portrayal of inter-racial love, Fear Eats the Soul (1974). In the context of Haynes's background in the New Queer Cinema movement, with films such as Superstar, Poison and [safe], this admixture makes Far From Heaven a rather more complex film than just another well-dressed period pastiche.John Gill provides a revealing insight into how Haynes confronts issues of race, sexuality and class in a suburban 1950s American neighbourhood. Haynes has been evasive when pressed for a definitive explanation of his film, although as Gill contends, he has left enough evidence lying around on screen for the keen viewer to pick up on numerous disturbing strands at work beneath the glossy surface of this sumptuously presented weepie. While it may affect to pass as a classic of the genre, Haynes's ultimate aim, Gill contends, is to undermine the nature and notion of cinema and storytelling.(provided by publisher)

Citizen Kane
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ISBN: 0851703399 Year: 1992 Publisher: London : BFI Publishing,


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Queer as folk
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ISBN: 9781844571994 1844571998 Year: 2007 Publisher: London : BFI,

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Although hailed as 'revolutionary' & 'ground-breaking', & used as a cultural touchstone regarding the representation of gay lives on television, there has been little written about Queer As Folk. This book explores the strategies the programme used in order to function as a politicised intervention in the media landscape in the UK.


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Hollywood cameramen : sources of light.
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ISBN: 0500480141 0500470146 Year: 1970 Publisher: London Thames and Hudson


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Pasolini on Pasolini
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ISBN: 0500480117 Year: 1969 Publisher: London Thames and Hudson


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Alain Resnais, or the theme of time
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ISBN: 043609858X 0436098679 Year: 1968 Publisher: London Secker and Warburg

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