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The Essential Jack Nicholson

Reel Rebels: the London Film-Makers' Co-Operative 1966 to 1996

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A Critical Guide to Horror Film Series

Shooting Stars of the Small Screen

Years of Terror (2019)

Australian Genre Film

Star Wars Complete Locations New Edition

The Vincent Calvino Reader's Guide

Todos los Estrenos de 2002

A Van Beuren Production

Engaging with Reality

The Last Decade of Cinema

Les Tontons flingueurs décryptés

Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema

Keeping Quiet

Posthumanism, Cognition, and Cyborg Spectatorship

Darker than the Sun

The Dollar Baby (2020)

Lights, Camera, Hired!

O que é o cinema?

Roger Moore's James Bond - The Retrospective