Companion to British and Irish Cinema (Film studies)

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Script Culture and the American Screenplay (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)

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Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist (Screen Classics)

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Whatever It Takes: Life Lessons from Degrassi and Elsewhere in the World of Music and Television

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WWE 50: Paperback

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Voices of Labor: Creativity, Craft, and Conflict in Global Hollywood

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The Gospel According to Star Trek: The Original Crew

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Entertaining Entrepreneurs: Reality TV’s Shark Tank and the American Dream in Uncertain Times

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Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor

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The Documentary Moviemaking Course: The Starter Guide to Documentary Filmmaking

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