| Description |
215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Politics and cinema -- The candidate -- The man -- The godfather -- Dog day afternoon -- The conversation -- The front -- Lenny -- The assassination of Trotsky -- Sacco and Vanzetti -- The case of the Naves brothers -- State of siege -- The Mattei affair -- The sorrow and the pity -- The nasty nazis: history or mythology -- Slaughterhouse-five -- Promised lands -- Hearts and minds -- Fascinating fascism meets leering leftism -- The politics of pornography -- Cock-tale parties on the East Side -- Porn versus Puritanism -- Semiotics and cinema -- My Uncle Antoine -- Marilyn by Norman Mailer -- His picture in the parers: a speculation on celebrity in America, based on the life of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. -- Your show of shows revisited -- Sixties cinema: zoomshots, jumpcuts, freeze frames, and girls, girls, girls! -- Avant-garde films are more boring than ever. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Political aspects.
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Motion pictures -- Reviews.
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| ISBN |
0231040342 |
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