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Free Download Virginia Lyman Lucas, "World War II at the Movies: Volume II"
English | ISBN: 164628030X | 2019 | 146 pages | EPUB | 417 KB
As rich in history as World War II at the Movies, which commemorates in chronological order World War II major battles and pivotal events and captures the spirit of frontline heroes and strategist leaders, World War II at the Movies, Volume II, is as different in content and format. These compelling major motion picture films, blockbuster thrillers, and fascinating supplemental data elucidate and elaborate on top secret commando missions, challenges that wounded veterans faced adapting to civilian life with life-changing disabilities, and innovation, development, and advances in war weaponry technology, which led to the Allied victory over tyranny. You will find out: whose naval career was depicted and portrayed by Cliff Robertson at the time he was a sitting president of the United States who was the youngest World War II veteran (who enlisted in the Navy at the age of twelve) who was the oldest World War II veteran (who died in December of 2018 at the age of 112) which "lady" came to England’s financial aid when they couldn’t fund the spitfire’s entry in the Schneider race (the winner of which would be awarded funds to further advance airplane design) who invented Germany’s enigma code machine

Free Download Mary K. Leigh, "Marxism and the Movies: Critical Essays on Class Struggle in the Cinema"
English | ISBN: 0786471239 | 2013 | 196 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The work of Karl Marx is revered in social philosophy, political science and literary criticism, but there is an area where Marxism seems not to have penetrated. That area is the study of popular culture, especially the cinema, where Marxism provides a useful lens through which seemingly disparate films can be explored.

Free Download William D. Crump, "How the Movies Saved Christmas: 228 Rescues from Clausnappers, Sleigh Crashes, Lost Presents and Holiday Disasters"
English | ISBN: 1476664889 | 2017 | 356 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
Santa Claus is in trouble! Who will save Christmas? This A-to-Z guide to holiday films, television movies and series specials provides cast, credits, production information and commentary for 228 cinema Christmases that were almost ruined by villains, monsters, spirits, secularism, greed, misanthropy or elf error-but were saved by helpful animals, magic snowmen, selfless children or compassionate understanding. Reviews and references are included.

Free Download John McElwee, "Showmen, Sell It Hot!: Movies as Merchandise in Golden Era Hollywood"
English | ISBN: 0971168598 | 2013 | 286 pages | PDF | 21 MB
A noted Hollywood historian takes a first-ever marketing look at the selling of classic motion pictures generated by Hollywood’s fabled movie factories in this lush coffee-table retrospective. Movie buffs will enjoy seeing the effects of the Depression, censorship, world war, the Cold War, television, and the counter-culture movement on the changing tastes of moviegoers, and the way showmen responded with creative and sometimes zany ad campaigns. Chapters include the sexy and salacious pre-Code pictures; the launch of the new dance team of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Flying Down to Rio; MGM’s gamble on the Marx Brothers with A Night at the Opera; lavish campaigns for The Wizard of Oz in original release and reissue; creation of a new star, John Wayne, in John Ford’s Stagecoach; Orson Welles’ failed Citizen Kane campaign; Billy Wilder’s unusual and dark Hollywood statement picture,

Free Download Vincent Terrace, "Television Movies of the 21st Century"
English | ISBN: 147668412X | 2021 | 404 pages | PDF | 73 MB
For the major broadcast networks, the heyday of made-for-TV movies was 20th Century programming like The ABC Movie of the Week and NBC Sunday Night at the Movies. But with changing economic times and the race for ratings, the networks gradually dropped made-for-TV movies while basic cable embraced the format, especially the Hallmark Channel (with its numerous Christmas-themed movies) and the Syfy Channel (with its array of shark attack movies and other things that go bump in the night). From the waning days of the broadcast networks to the influx of basic cable TV movies, this encyclopedia covers 1,370 films produced during the period 2000-2020. For each film entry, the reader is presented with an informative storyline, cast and character lists, technical credits (producer, director, writer), air dates, and networks. It covers the networks (ABC, CBS, Fox, Ion, and NBC) and such basic cable channels as ABC Family, Disney, Fox Family, Freeform, Hallmark, INSP, Lifetime, Nickelodeon, Syfy, TBS and TNT. There is also an appendix of "Announced but Never Produced" TV movies and a performer’s index.

Free Download Walt Hickey, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), "You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything"
English | ASIN: B0D849BD1H | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:19:00 | 256 MB
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and data expert Walt Hickey explains the power of entertainment to change our biology, our beliefs, how we see ourselves, and how nations gain power.
Virtually anyone who has ever watched a profound movie, a powerful TV show, or read a moving novel understands that entertainment can and does affect us in surprising and significant ways. But did you know that our most popular forms of entertainment can have a direct physical effect on us, a measurable impact on society, geopolitics, the economy, and even the future itself? In You Are What You Watch, Walter Hickey-Pulitzer Prize winner and former chief culture writer at acclaimed data site FiveThirtyEight.com-proves how exactly how what we watch (and read and listen to) has a far greater effect on us and the world at large than we imagine.

Free Download Something Wicked: Witchcraft in Movies, Television, and Popular Culture
by Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka
English | 2025 | ASIN: B0CXGFC1RZ | 324 Pages | True PDF | 5.3 MB

Free Download Nazi Movies as Propaganda Machine: How Goebbels Changed the German Film Industry Into an Ideological Weapon (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798882326165 | 2024 | 1 hour and 29 minutes | M4B@320 kbps | 204 MB
Author: Davis Truman
Narrator: James Clearence
The German film industry transformed from a collection of independent studios into a division of the Nazi Party between 1933 and 1945. German film became a crucial component of the Nazi campaign to ideologically indoctrinate the German populace as part of the Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, led by Joseph Goebbels. However, the business kept up its prior commercial practices and made movies aimed at paying German consumers. Even though Goebbels worked hard to turn German cinema into an ideological weapon, the theater served as a popular consumer marketplace, and the various film tastes of German moviegoers continued to affect the kinds of films made. Therefore, filmmaking in Nazi Germany was influenced by popular taste and Goebbels’ ideological objectives. This book will look at several movies that demonstrate Goebbel’s evolving propaganda objectives and the changing preferences of the German audience for movies during the Nazi era. Box office statistics from the years before and after the start of World War II offer unique insight into German film consumption and serve to highlight the extent to which the general public supported the war in Germany.

Free Download Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism by Jonathan Rosenbaum
English | May 10, 1995 | ISBN: 0520086325, 0520086333 | True EPUB | 348 pages | 4.8 MB
Jonathan Rosenbaum, longtime contributor to such publications as Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, and The Village Voice, is arguably the most eloquent, insightful film critic writing in America today. Placing Movies, the first collection of his work, gathers together thirty of his most distinctive and illuminating pieces. Written over a span of twenty-one years, these essays cover an extraordinarily broad range of films—from Hollywood blockbusters to foreign art movies to experimental cinema. They include not just reviews but perceptive commentary on directors, actors, and trends; and thoughtful analysis of the practice of film criticism.

Free Download Movies as Politics by Jonathan Rosenbaum
English | June 30, 1997 | ISBN: 0520206142, 0520206150 | True EPUB | 350 pages | 4.5 MB
In this new collection of reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene. Rosenbaum, widely regarded as the most gifted contemporary American commentator on the cinema, explores the many links between film and our ideological identities as individuals and as a society.