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Product Description: Tim Burton is one of the most inventive filmmakers in the world. From his early work as an animator for Disney studios to his distinctive takes on iconic characters like Batman and Alice in Wonderland, Burtonâs skewed vision of the world has informed all of his films...read more
Hardcover:
9780810892002 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, September 28, 2015, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Tim Burton is one of the most inventive filmmakers in the world.
Miscellaneous:
9780822070344 | Cliff Notes, March 17, 1999, cover price $5.99
Miscellaneous:
9780822070597 | Cliff Notes, March 17, 1999, cover price $5.99
Product Description: This is the first book to examine the various uses of the Arthurian legend in Hollywood film, covering films from the 1920s to the present. The authors use five representational categories: intertextual collage (or cult film); melodrama, which focuses on the love triangle; conservative propaganda, pervasive during the Cold War; the Hollywood epic; and the postmodern quest, which commonly employs the grail portion of the legend...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780313297984 | Praeger Pub Text, November 1, 1996, cover price $122.00 | About this edition: This is the first book to examine the various uses of the Arthurian legend in Hollywood film, covering films from the 1920s to the present.
Product Description: This book contains 11 essays and a comprehensive bibliography. The essays reveal the extent to which Philip K. Dick's personal obsessions pre-figured postmodernist concerns with humanity's self-alienation, cultural and personal paranoia, and the politics of simulation, deceit, and self-deception...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780313292958 | Praeger Pub Text, January 30, 1995, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This book contains 11 essays and a comprehensive bibliography.
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9780822004172 | Reissue edition (Cliff Notes, August 1, 1988), cover price $7.49
Product Description: The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.CliffsNotes on Call of the Wild & White Fang covers not one, but two of Jack Londonâs best known adventures...read more
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9780822002796 | Reissue edition (Cliff Notes, July 1, 1985), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.
Product Description: Jump-start your understanding of Mary Shelley's famous story of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his monstrous creation by opening the pages of CliffsNotes on Frankenstein, the study guide that can raise your insight as well as your test scores! Here, you'll explore the relationship between the monster and his creator, but with CliffsNotes on Frankenstein you'll also get in-depth character analysis, critical essays, and insight into the novel's literary devices...read more
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9780822004981 | Reissue edition (Cliff Notes, June 1, 1984), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Jump-start your understanding of Mary Shelley's famous story of Dr.
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