Pop culture in Europe by Tzvetkova, Juliana

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The Western, from silents to the seventies by Fenin, George N., Everson, William K.

Table of Contents: “…Western history and the Hollywood version -- Contents and moral influence of the western -- The primitives: Edwin S Porter and Broncho Billy Anderson -- David W Griffith and Thomas H Ince (1909-1913) -- William Surrey Hart and realism -- Hell's hinges -- Tom Mix and showmanship -- Douglas Fairbanks and John Ford: 1913-1920 -- James Cruze's The covered wagon and John Ford's The iron horse -- The twenties -- The western costume -- The thirties -- The western serial: its birth and demise -- The forties -- Trends in the postwar western -- The stuntman and the second unit director -- Exeunt the "b"s, enter television -- The western's international audience and the international western -- Into the sixties -- The spaghetti western and the western "made in Japan" -- After maturity: a projection into the future.…”


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A history of film music by Cooke, Mervyn

Table of Contents: “…Early sound films in the Soviet Union: Dmitri Shostakovich, Vsevolod Pudovkin and Yuri Shaporin, Sergei Eisenstein and Sergei Prokofiev ; India : Bollywood and beyond: Early Indian cinema, Successes abroad : Ravi Shankar and Satyajit Ray, Modern commercial cinema ; From Italy to Little Italy: Federico Fellini, Nino Rota and the circus of life, Ennio Morricone and the spaghetti western : eccentricity and populism, Italians abroad ; Japan: Traditional elements in silent and early sound films, Films of Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa, Tōru Takemitsu, Modern composers, modern genres -- 10: Popular music in the cinema. …”


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