Karloff & Lugosi horror classics.

The Mystic Navajo / A&E Television Networks, LLC.

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Horror films / R. H. W. Dillard. by Dillard, R. H. W. (Richard H. W.), 1937-2023

Cult films : taboo and transgression : a select survey over 9 decades / Allan Havis. by Havis, Allan

Table of Contents: “…Films from the 1920s: Phantom of the Opera, Metropolis and Un Chien Andalou -- Films from the 1930s: Freaks, King Kong and Reefer Madness -- Films from the 1940s: I Walked with a Zombie, Dead of Night and Beauty and the Beast -- Films from the 1950s: Glen or Glenda, Invaders from Mars and The Incredible Shrinking Man -- Films from the 1960s: Psycho, Faster, Pussycat! …”

Movies into film ; film criticism, 1967-1970 / [by] John Simon. by Simon, John Ivan

Table of Contents: “…-- Z -- The activist -- Patton -- Woodstock -- Watermelon man -- The revolutionary -- Joe -- Pt. 3. The youth film -- The graduate -- Romeo and Juliet -- Yellow submarine -- If... -- Greetings -- Changes -- Three in the attic -- Last summer -- Easy rider -- More -- Alice's restaurant -- The sterile cuckoo -- Paddy -- Hi, Mom! …”

Classics of the horror film / by William K. Everson. by Everson, William K.

Horror and the horror film / Bruce F. Kawin. by Kawin, Bruce F., 1945-

100 Cult Films. by Mathijs, Ernest

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Morality and the Movies : Reading Ethics Through Film. by Shaw, Dan

Table of Contents: “…6 Moral virtue and the limits of friendship in Nichomachean Ethics and The Third ManStudy questions; Additional films on this topic; 7 Freedom and determinism in A Clockwork Orange; Study questions; Additional films on the topic; 8 Kinsey and sexual morality; Study questions; Additional films on the topic; 9 Active euthanasia and The Sea Inside; Study questions; Additional films on the topic; 10 Capital punishment and compassion in Dead Man Walking; Study questions; Additional films on the topic; 11 The morality and meaning of war in Full Metal Jacket; Study questions.…”
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Noir, now and then : film noir originals and remakes, (1944-1999) / Ronald Schwartz. by Schwartz, Ronald, 1937-

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Noir, now and then : film noir originals and remakes, (1944-1999) / by Ronald Schwartz. by Schwartz, Ronald, 1937-

Morality and the movies : reading ethics through film / Dan Shaw. by Shaw, Daniel, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Submission to God's will in A man for all seasons -- Egoism and utilitarianism in Casablanca -- Social contract theory in The man who shot Liberty Valence -- Kant: morality as rational consistency -- Relativism, perspectivism, and Citizen Kane -- Moral virtue and the limits of friendship in Nichomachean ethics and The third man -- Freedom and determinism in A clockwork orange -- Kinsey and sexual morality -- Active euthanasia and The sea inside -- Capital punishment and compassion in Dead man walking -- The morality and meaning of war in Full metal jacket -- Individual autonomy and abortion rights in The cider house rules -- Bowling for Columbine and gun control -- Terrorism and counterterrorism in Munich -- The ethics of business in Wall Street -- Affirmative action and diversity in Remember the Titans -- Conclusion: how films can be philosophical and how philosophy can light up the screen.…”

Poverty row horrors! : Monogram, PRC, and Republic horror films of the forties / by Tom Weaver ; research associates, Michael Brunas and John Brunas. by Weaver, Tom, 1958-

Olof Palme : Murder In Stockholm / Film Ideas.

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Imaging the divine : Jesus and Christ-figures in film / Lloyd Baugh. by Baugh, Lloyd, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The Christ-figure -- A film of transition: Jesus of Montreal -- The woman as Christ-figure: La strada, Nights of Cabiria, Babette's feast, Out of Rosenheim (Bagdad cafe) and Dead man walking -- The hero of the western as Christ-figure: Shane -- A Christ-figure in two films of Kieslowski -- An exceptional Christ-figure: Au hasard Balthazar -- Essential dimensions and guises of the Christ-figure -- Christ-figures in Bresson and Tarkovsky.…”

Golden horrors : an illustrated critical filmography of terror cinema, 1931-1939 / Bryan Senn. by Senn, Bryan, 1962-

Beautiful light : religious meaning in film / Roy M. Anker. by Anker, Roy M.

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Veiled desires : intimate portrayals of nuns in postwar Anglo-American film / Maureen Sabine. by Sabine, Maureen

Veiled desires : intimate portrayals of nuns in postwar Anglo-American film / Maureen Sabine. by Sabine, Maureen

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The Philosophy of TV Noir. by Sanders, Steven

Table of Contents: “…Carnivale Knowledge: Give Me That Old-time Noir ReligionCarnivale and Religious Film Noir; Graham Greene's Whiskey Priest; Brother Justin's ""Fear and Trembling""; Notes; The Sopranos, Film Noir, and Nihilism; Nihilism and Film Noir; God and Gary Cooper Are Dead; ""It's All a Big Nothing""; Animals and Animosity; The Sad Clown; Notes; Part 3: Crime Scene Investigation and the Logic of Detection; CSI and the Art of Forensic Detection; The Corrupt City and CSI Storylines; CSI as Procedural Noir; The Investigative Team; Case Studies; Notes; Detection and the Logic of Abduction in The X-Files.…”
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