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Why Evil Dead Burn Doesn’t Work
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Chaos, Camp, and the Internet Brain: Rewatching Fred: The Movie
Chaos, Camp, and the Internet Brain: Rewatching Fred: The Movie
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Watching the Frame Think: Explicit and Implicit Narratives in Les Vampires
Watching the Frame Think: Explicit and Implicit Narratives in Les Vampires
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Walking Between Worlds in Pan’s Labyrinth
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Performing Cool: The Final Shot of Breathless
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Close-Ups and Comic Precision in Back to the Future
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Getting Started with Film Theory: 20 Films That Built the Language of Cinema
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Before Philadelphia: How American Screens Learned to Represent AIDS
Before Philadelphia: How American Screens Learned to Represent AIDS
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When Kids’ Movies Are Written for Adults Too
When Kids’ Movies Are Written for Adults Too
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From Edward Cullen to Everywhere: Robert Pattinson’s Remarkable Second Act
From Edward Cullen to Everywhere: Robert Pattinson’s Remarkable Second Act
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The Five Functions of Film Style
The Five Functions of Film Style
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The Invisible Structure of Movies
The Invisible Structure of Movies
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On the “So Bad It’s Good” Trope
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How A Knight’s Tale Makes the Middle Ages Feel Alive
How A Knight’s Tale Makes the Middle Ages Feel Alive
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Iranian Cinema and the Politics of Realism
Iranian Cinema and the Politics of Realism
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The French New Wave and the Invention of the Modern Film Director
The French New Wave and the Invention of the Modern Film Director
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Ruins, Reality, and the Birth of Italian Neorealism
Ruins, Reality, and the Birth of Italian Neorealism
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