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"It's 2007, and independent video stores are dying. Waring Wax is usually too drunk to worry about his declining business at Star Video, let alone his extinction in popular culture. But everything changes in his small college town when bright and shiny Blockbuster Video opens nearby: Clearly, this means war. The Last Days of Video is a hilarious elegy for a bygone era, a quirky and charming story of redemption for a group of loveable cinema freaks,...
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2022.
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"A pop-science look at fear, how and why horror films get under our skin, and why we keep coming back for more. . . Nesseth explores the strange and often unexpected science of fear through the lenses of psychology and physiology. How do horror films get under our skin? What about them keeps us up at night, even days later? And why do we keep coming back for more? Horror films promise an experience: fear. From monsters that hide in plain sight to...
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Harvard University Press
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2014.
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English
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Viewing turn-of-the century African American history through the lens of cinema, Envisioning Freedom examines the forgotten history of early black film exhibition during the era of mass migration and Jim Crow. By embracing the new medium of moving pictures at the turn of the twentieth century, black Americans forged a collective--if fraught--culture of freedom. In this study, African Americans emerge as pioneers of cinema from the 1890s to the 1920s....
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