Darkness in the bliss-out : a reconsideration of the films of Steven Spielberg / James Kendrick. by Kendrick, James, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…., and Poltergeist -- Americans fighting Americans: incoherence and animal comedy in 1941 -- What exactly are we applauding? Indiana Jones and the ideologies of heroism and American exceptionalism -- Lost and done for: the rejection of war fantasies in Empire of the sun and War horse -- For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand: humanity and inhumanity in A.I Artificial Intelligence.…”

Aconcagua : the invention of mountaineering on America's highest peak / Joy Logan. by Logan, Joy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Recuperating bodies, recovering texts -- "They all want to be Indiana Jones": travel literature and modernity -- No longer the lettered city: San Martín and the touristic imagination -- Indigenous identities: the mummy, the mountaineer, and re-ethnification -- Fashioning adventure: creating mountaineering in the 1980s -- Local heroics: militarisms and democratizations -- Matters of life and death: mountain guides, nation, and memorialization -- The dream weaver: performing gender, adventure, and mountaineering -- Plaza de Mulas: memory, musealization, and the global -- Conclusion: Final debriefs.…”
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Courting the media contemporary perspectives on media and law / Geoffrey Sykes, editor.

Table of Contents: “…Mediated forensics : from classroom to courtroom / Shaeda Isani and Geoffrey Sykes -- The man in the gallery with the writing on his face : depictions of the audience at the Diana Inquest / Graham White -- The fate of the iconic sign : taser video / Christina Speisel -- The mechanical eye : looking, seeing, photographing, publishing / David Rolph -- Your words against mine : states of exception in popular legal culture / Per-Anders Forstorp -- Media as mathematics : calculating justice / Geoffrey Sykes -- Indiana Jones and the illicit trafficking and repatriation of cultural objects / Shea Esterling.…”
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Global Education Inc. : New Policy Networks and the Neoliberal Imaginary. by Ball, Stephen J. J.

Table of Contents: “…New policy networks and the neo-liberal imaginary; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and boxes; Acknowledgements; Foreword: (not) reading this book; 1 Networks, neo-liberalism and policy mobilities; 2 Doing neo-liberalism -- markets and states, and friends with money; 3 Transnational advocacy networks and policy entrepreneurship: Indiana Jones, business and schooling of the poor; 4 'New' philanthropy, social capitalism and education policy; 5 Policy as profit: selling and exporting policy; 6 Education as big business; 7 Money, meaning and policy connections; References.…”
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Homemade Hollywood : fans behind the camera / Clive Young. by Young, Clive

Table of Contents: “…Where no fan has gone before / Chris Gore -- Amateur auteurs -- From con men to the apeman: the birth of fan films -- Monster kid mania (1937-1969) -- Sci-fi, superheroes, and Cinemagic (1970-1977) -- Take it easy, kid - it's only a movie (Hardwar wars, 1977) -- Video killed the film star (1977-1990) -- Indiana Jones and the lost fan film of Mississippi -- Swing time (1990-1997) -- Send in the Troops -- Good times, fad times -- From chaos to cliche -- Comic con-troversy -- Witty in pink -- Women on the verge of a hubris takedown -- The future of fan films.…”

Jungian reflections within the cinema : a psychological analysis of sci-fi and fantasy archetypes / James F. Iaccino. by Iaccino, James F.

Table of Contents: “…A Jungian analysis of fantasy films -- Back to the future again and again: archetypal exploits of alchemic travelers -- From Superman to Batman: divided superhero archetypes -- The Indiana Jones and Highlander chronicles: quests for the holy grail archetype -- The Omen trilogy: the growth of the demon child archetype -- Pt. 3. …”

Freedom on the offensive : human rights, democracy promotion, and US interventionism in the late Cold War / William Michael Schmidli. by Schmidli, William Michael, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…: Nicaragua and the United States, 1979-1984 -- "Global revolution": the ascendance of democracy promotion in US foreign policy, 1982-1986 -- Tracking "the Indiana Jones of the right": right-wing transnational activism, public diplomacy, and the Reagan doctrine, 1981-1990 -- "The grindstone on which we sharpen ourselves": solidarity activism and the US war on Nicaragua, 1981-1990 -- From the Cold War to the end of history: US democracy promotion, interventionism, and unipolarity, 1987-1990…”
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Fantasy film post 9/11 / Frances Pheasant-Kelly. by Pheasant-Kelly, Frances, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Settings, spectacle, and the other: picturing disgust in Jackson's The lord of the rings trilogy -- Bewitching, abject, uncanny: magical spectacle in the Harry Potter films -- Pirate politics and the spectacle of the Other: Pirates of the Caribbean -- Resurrection, anthropomorphism, and Cold War echoes in Adamson's The chronicles of Narnia: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe -- The aesthetics of trauma: temporality, and multidirectional memory in Pan's labyrinth -- Reframing the Cold War in the twenty-first century: action, nostalgia and nuclear holocaust in Indiana Jones and The kingdom of the crystal skull -- The ecstasy of chaos: mediating 9/11, terrorism and trauma in The dark knight -- Wounding, morality and torture: reflections of the War on Terror in Iron man and Iron man 2 -- Shock and awe: terror, technology, and the sublime nature of Cameron's Avatar -- Conclusion.…”

Cartographic cinema / Tom Conley. by Conley, Tom

Table of Contents: “…Theory and cartography -- Cinematic taxonomy and cartography -- Archive and diagram -- Dislocation, distance, discretion -- Mental mapping and mobile topography -- A map in a movie -- Icarian cinema: Paris qui dort -- A site of immaculate origin -- A film in flux -- Two spatial stories -- Points of comparison -- Liberty: a vanishing point -- Jean Renoir: cartographies in deep focus -- Boudu cartographe -- Tracking a revolution -- La grande illusion: terrae incognitae -- Globes in and out of perspective -- Maps and theaters of torture: Roma, citta aperta -- A map room -- Italy wallpapered: a map in an apartment -- A theater of torture -- Wiped surfaces -- A desperate journey: from Casablanca to Indiana Jones -- Crashing in and crashing out -- A map in a montage -- Desperate journey -- Camouflage -- A map-dissolve: Casablanca -- From historical geography to melodrama -- A place named -- Indiana Jones -- Juvenile geographies: Les mistons -- A story plotted into film -- Correspondence and rewriting -- Scenes of writing -- As the crow flies -- Old films and new worlds: an allegory -- Michelin tendre: Les amants -- A book and a movie -- Attention au depart -- The Gleaner and the grease monkey -- Pleats and folds -- The Michelin map after La carte du tendre -- Paris underground: Les 400 coups -- The quarrel -- Credits -- Class room and map room -- Mother and Mother France -- A child's map -- A roadmap for a road movie: Thelma and Louise -- Geography and gentility -- Cinematic diagrams -- A map room and a baroque motel -- Reflectors and benders -- Orpheus rewritten -- The map in the picture -- Women plotted -- Cronos, cosmos, and Polis: La haine -- Children of France -- Events crosscut -- The lower depths -- The world is ours -- Graffiti and glossolalia -- Ptolemy, Gladiator, and empire -- A correspondence: Empire and Gladiator -- Ptolemy's Italia -- Map effects and special effects -- Super bowls -- Aftereffects.…”

The use of Arthurian legend in Hollywood film : from Connecticut Yankees to fisher kings / Rebecca A. Umland and Samuel J. Umland. by Umland, Rebecca A.

Table of Contents: “…The mythopoeic nature of the Arthurian legend and its methods of transmission -- The Arthurian legend as intertextual collage -- A Connecticut Yankee (1931) -- A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court (1949) -- Unidentified flying oddball (1979) -- A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court (1989) -- A kid in King Arthur's court (1995) -- Monty Python and the holy grail (1975) -- The Arthurian legend as Hollywood melodrama -- Knights of the round table ( 1954) -- Sword of Lancelot (1963) -- Camelot (1967) -- First knight (1995) -- The Arthurian legend as forms of propaganda -- The black knight (1954) -- Siege of the Saxons (1963) -- The sword in the stone (1963) -- The Arthurian legend as Hollywood epic -- Excalibur (1981) -- The Arthurian legend as postmodern quest -- Knightriders (1981) -- The natural (1984) -- Indiana Jones and the last crusade (1989) -- The fisher king (1991).…”

Rhinoceros giants : the paleobiology of Indricotheres / Donald R. Prothero. by Prothero, Donald R.

Table of Contents: “…"The New Conquest of Central Asia" ; The Real "Indiana Jones"? ; Osborn and Granger ; Into the Gobi Desert -- Giant Hunters. …”
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The music of fantasy cinema / edited by Janet K. Halfyard.

Table of Contents: “…Binns -- The tritone within: interpreting harmony in Elliot Goldenthal's score for Final fantasy: the spirits within / Scott Murphy -- Scoring fantasy girls: music and female agency in Indiana Jones and The mummy films / Janet K. Halfyard and Victoria Hancock -- Creating magic with music: the changing dramatic relationship between music and magic in Harry Potter films / Jamie L. …”

Rosebud sleds and horses' heads : 50 of film's most evocative objects / written by Scott Jordan Harris ; with illustrations by Charlie Marshall, David McMillan and Jayde Perkin. by Harris, Scott Jordan

How vertebrates left the water / Michel Laurin. by Laurin, Michel

Table of Contents: “…-- Modern paleontology and the "Indiana Jones" stereotype.…”
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Inside the Egyptian Museum / by Paul Kilback.

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Movie love : complete reviews 1988-1991 / Pauline Kael. by Kael, Pauline

Table of Contents: “…Bird -- Gorillas in the Mist -- Patty Hearst -- Another Woman -- Punchline -- Madame Sousatzka -- Womeon on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown -- Things Change -- A Cry in the Dark -- The Good Mother -- Scrooged -- High Spirits -- The Dressmaker -- Tequila Sunrise -- Mississippi Burning -- Dangerous Liaisons -- Working Girl -- The Accidental Tourist -- Beaches -- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels -- Rain Man -- True Believer -- High Hopes -- Three Fugitives -- Out Cold -- Parents -- Cousins -- New York Stories -- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen -- The Dream Team -- Crusoe -- Heathers -- Let's Get Lost -- Field of Dreams -- Scandal -- Say Anything -- The Rainbow -- Miss Firecracker -- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade -- Vampire's Kiss -- Dead Poets Society -- Batman -- Ghostbusters II -- Casualties of War -- My Left Foot -- Penn & Teller Get Killed -- A Dry White Season -- The Fabulous Baker Boys -- Breaking In -- Johnny Handsome -- Drugstore Cowboy -- Crimes and Misdemeanors -- Dad -- Fat Man and Little Boy -- The Bear -- Henry V -- Valmont -- Blaze -- Back to the Future Part II -- The Little Mermaid -- Enemies, A Love Story -- Driving Miss Daisy -- Music Box -- Roger & Me -- Always -- Born on the Fourth of July -- Glory -- Internal Affairs -- Goodfellas -- The Tall Guy -- Postcards from the Edge -- Pacific Heights -- Avalon -- The Grifters -- Reversal of Fortune -- Vincent & Theo -- Dances with Wolves -- Edward Scissorhands -- The Sheltering Sky -- Everybody Wins -- The Godfather Part III -- The Bonfire of the Vanities -- Awakenings -- Sleeping with the Enemy -- L.A. …”

Any Resemblance to Actual Persons : the Real People Behind 400+ Fictional Movie Characters. by Erickson, Hal

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The Hollywood family film : a history, from Shirley Temple to Harry Potter / Noel Brown. by Brown, Noel

Any Resemblance to Actual Persons : the Real People Behind 400+ Fictional Movie Characters. by Erickson, Hal

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