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Selected Books and eBooks
The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914PN1993.5.F7 A63 1994
French Film Theory and Criticism: A History/Anthology, 1907- 1939
Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European CinemaPN1995.9.S4 B47 2007
This title is available in print and as an eBook.
A History of Italian CinemaPN1993.5.I88 B5655 2009
To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese CinemaPN1993.5.J3 B8 1979
African Cinema: Politics & CulturePN1993.5.A35 D5 1992
The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max ReinhardtPN1993.5.G3 E513 2008
Film Form: Essays in Film TheoryPN1995 .E5
French National CinemaPN1993.5.F7 H39 1993
Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America PN1993.5.L3 K45 2000
A Social History of Iranian CinemaPN1993.5.I846 N34 2012
4 volumes
The Oxford History of World CinemaPN1993.5.A1 O96 1995
This title is available in print and as an eBook.
"Film Europe" and "Film America": Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1920-1939PN1993.5.E8 F545 1999
Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, TheoryPN1995.2 .R66 2001
Empire and FilmPN1993.5.G7 E47 2011
Film and the End of EmpirePN1993.5.G7 F485 2011
A Second Life: German Cinema's First DecadesClick on the title for access to this eBook.
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Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
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CineFiles
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Interlibrary Loan
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