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Dana Polan
Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is a film very much of its cinematic moment, combining the gritty realism of entrapment in the everyday with furtive dreams…
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Dana Polan sets out to unlock the style and technique of Pulp Fiction . He shows how broad Tarantino’s points of reference are, and analyzes the narrative accomplishment and complexity…
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In this concise analysis of the television show The Sopranos, a leading film and TV scholar explains the importance of the series in both its cultural and media-industry contexts.
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In this first book on The LEGO Movie, renowned film and TV scholar Dana Polan shows how, through irony, savvy self-awareness, and knowingness about the culture industry, the blockbuster animated…
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Dana Polan considers what made Julia Childs TV show, The French Chef, so popular during its original broadcast and such enduring influences on American cooking, American television, and American culture…
The first full-length study of the iconic 1960s film The Great Escape and its place in Hollywood and American history.
Caught on film, the iconic jump of escaped POW Virgil…
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Chronicles the first classes on the art and industry of cinema and the colorful pioneers who taught, wrote, and advocated on behalf of the art form. This book looks at…
With the success of The Piano (1993), Jane Campion became revered by many as the leading female film director of the 1990s. In this book, Dana Polan examines the phenomenon…
Christian Metz
The late work of an avant-garde theorist adds clarity to the phenomenology of new media.
Brings together a diverse range of film scholars who trace how the arts of editing and effects have evolved in tandem. Collectively, the contributors demonstrate how these two crafts have…
