Beyond the Stars: Locales in American popular filmPaul Loukides, Linda K. Fuller Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1990 - 254 pages In this volume of the Beyond the Stars series, the subject of the various individual essays are discrete conventions of movie locales, but the subject of the volume as a whole--as with the other books in the series--is the viability of film convention studies as a tool for the study of film and American culture. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Arab World as Place | 72 |
The Southern Landscape in Contemporary Films | 103 |
Copyright | |
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