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List of plates | |
Notes on contributors | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Family diversions: French popular cinema and the music hall | p. 15 |
La ley del deseo: a gay seduction | p. 31 |
Immigrant Cinema: national cinema - the case of beur film | p. 47 |
Images of 'Provence': ethnotypes and stereotypes of the south in French cinema | p. 58 |
Author, actor, showman: Reinhold Schunzel and Hallo Caesar! | p. 72 |
'We were born to turn a fairy-tale into reality': Svetlyi put and the Soviet musical of the 1930s and 1940s | p. 87 |
Studying popular taste: British historical films in the 1930s | p. 101 |
Was the cinema fairground entertainment? The birth and role of Popular cinema in the Polish territories up to 1908 | p. 112 |
The Finn-between: Uuno Turhapuro, Finland's greatest star | p. 126 |
The inexportable: the case of French cinema and radio in the 1950s | p. 141 |
The other face of death: Barbara Steele and La maschera del demonio | p. 149 |
Popular taste: the peplum | p. 163 |
National romanticism and Norwegian silent cinema | p. 181 |
The Atlantic divide | p. 194 |
Early German cinema - melodrama: social drama | p. 206 |
'Film stars do not shine in the sky over Poland': the absence of popular cinema in Poland | p. 220 |
Valborgsmassoafton: melodrama and gender politics in Swedish cinema | p. 232 |
A forkful of westerns: industry audiences and the Italian western | p. 245 |
Index | p. 263 |
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