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10 things you don't know about. Season 3. Episode 1, The flag
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10 things you don't know about. Season 2. Episode 2, The White House
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10 things you don't know about. Season 3, Episode 3, Civil rights
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Out of the red my life of gangs, prison, and redemption
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10 things you don't know about. Season 3. Episode 7, Marijuana
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10 things you don't know about. Season 3. Episode 8, Las Vegas
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10 things you don't know about. Season 2. Episode 1, Presidential assassinations
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In the Godfather Garden : The Long Life and Times of Richie "The Boot" Boiardo
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Directory of world cinema. Vol. 11, Japan 2
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…ReviewsJ-Horror / Japanese Horror; Essay; Reviews; Jidai-geki / Period Drama; Essay; Reviews; Nuberu bagu/ The Japanese New Wave; Essay; Reviews; Seishun eiga / Japanese Youth Cinema; Essay; Reviews; Shomin-geki / Lower Class Life; Essay; Reviews; Yakuza / Gangster; Essay; Reviews; Recommended Reading; Japanese Cinema Online; Test Your Knowledge; Notes on Contributors; Filmography; BackCover.…”
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Betrayal of the spirit : my life behind the headlines of the Hare Krishna movement
Published 2001Table of Contents: “…Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Foreword; Preface; People in This Volume; 1 ISKCON: The Krishnas'International Society; 2 Unexpected Requirements; 3 Going Solo into ISKCON; 4 My Zonal Guru; 5 Jonestown Fallout; 6 A Spiritual Disneyland; 7 Drug Busts, Guns, and Gangsters; 8 Who's Watching the Children?; 9 The Gurus Start World War III; 10 The Storm Within: The Guru Issue; 11 P.R. …”
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The last laugh : strange humors of cinema
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the great corrective / Murray Pomerance -- Laughing silently / Matthew Solomon -- Wellesian laughter / James Morrison -- Jerry made his day / Jean-Michel Frodon -- Noir at play / Thomas Leitch -- "So bad it's good" : critical humor in science fiction cinema / Christine Cornea -- Wrenching departures : mortality and absurdity in avant-garde film / David Sterritt -- Time's timing and the threat of laughter in Nicolas Roeg's Don't look now / George Toles -- The gangster giggles / Murray Pomerance -- If only they had meant to make a comedy : laughing at Black swan / Adrienne L. …”
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God the Politician.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Particulars of a State of Emergency; 8. Patriots and Gangsters; 9. Recollections of a Faked Coup Plot; 10. …”
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Gangland New York : the places and faces of mob history
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Introduction; chapter one the rise and fall of the five points (1800 to 1895); chapter two the sicilian avengers; chapter three the eastmans versus the five pointers; chapter four tales of bloody angle; chapter five the rise of the jewish gangster; chapter six "mio figlio!"; chapter seven the war of the bosses; chapter eight the rise of "the combination"; chapter nine "this is for you, frank"; chapter ten "blood on the street"; chapter eleven paddy whackers and black caesars; chapter twelve bugs for fat tony-bullets for dai lo; chapter thirteen gotti's gamble.…”
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The Musketeers. Season 3, episode 4, The queen's diamonds
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The Musketeers. Season 3, episode 10, We are the garrison
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The Musketeers. Season 3, episode 2, The hunger
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The Musketeers. Season 3, episode 5, To play the king
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The Musketeers. Season 3, episode 3, Brothers in arms
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The Musketeers. Season 3, episode 6, Death of a hero
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The Musketeers. Season 3, episode 1, Spoils of war
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The Musketeers. Season 3, episode 7, Fool's gold
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The Musketeers. Season 3, episode 9, The prize
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Beyond wiseguys : Italian Americans & the movies
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The Musketeers. Season 3, episode 8, Prisoners of war
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Excess and masculinity in Asian cultural productions
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Cinema, law and the state in Asia
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…PART I: INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA -- Islamic Terrorism, Secularism, and Visions of Justice in India: Khalid Mohamed's Fiza / Priya Kumar -- Cinematic Citizenship and the Illegal City / Lawrence Liang -- Bombay Bhai: The Gangster in and behind Hindi Popular Cinema / Corey K. …”
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Transparency in postwar France : a critical history of the present
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…: a second short history -- Between state and society, I : the police, the black market, and 'the gangster' after the libération -- Between state and society, II : psychology, public health, and the rebellion of the inadaptés -- Alienation, utopia, and Marxism after 1956 -- Mask, face, and other as avatars of selfhood : a third short history -- The norm and the same -- The third order, or the structural 'symbolic' as epistemological interface -- Lévi-Strauss' world out of sync -- The ethnographer, cinéma-vérité, and the disruption of the natural order : chronicle of a summer -- Return to Rousseau : Lévi-Strauss, Starobinski, Derrida -- Return to Descartes : 'the last tribunal of the cogito' -- "Speak not of darkness, but of a somewhat blurred light" : Michel Foucault, modernity, and the distortion of knowledge -- Cybernetic complexity : prehistory, biology, and Derrida's program for liberation -- The present time and the agent of history before and after May 1968 -- The myth of the self-transparency of society : Claude Lefort and his circle -- Nineteen eighty-four : information, the scrambled signs of the ideal, and the postmodern condition.…”
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Werner Herzog : ecstatic truth and other useless conquests
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Scorsese and Religion
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Intro; Scorsese and Religion; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part 1: Scorsese and Catholicism; 1 The Catholic Scorsese -- or How a Seminarian Turned to the Movies; 2 No Way Out: Martin Scorsese and the Ecclesial Imagination; Part 2: Religious Influences and Themes in Scorsese's Cinema; 3 Dostoevskian Elements in Scorsese's Cinema; 4 The Problem of Violence in Scorsese's Films: The Catholic Gangster as Tragic Hero; 5 Violence and Redemption in Scorsese's Films: A Girardian Reading…”
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The closed hand : images of the Japanese in modern Peruvian literature
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One A Socio-historical Overview of the Japanese Presence in Peru; Chapter Two Images of the Orient/Japan in Spanish American Literature from the Modernistas and Beyond; Chapter Three A Japanese Swashbuckler in La casa verde and a Japanese Gangster in Travesuras de la niña mala; Chapter Four Images of the Japanese in Peruvian Short Fiction: "Matavilela" and "Muerte de Sevilla en Madrid"; Chapter Five Las dos caras del deseo: A Female Nikkei Character in a Pivotal Role.…”
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Everyday languaging : collaborative research on the language use of children and youth
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Everyday languaging: collaborative research on the language use of children and youth / Martha Sif Karrebæk, Lian Malai Madsen, Janus Spindler Møller -- Arabs, arabic and urban languaging: polycentricity and incipient enregisterment among primary school children in Copenhagen / Martha Sif Karrebæk -- Gangster talk on the phone: analyses of a mass media parody of a contemporary urban vernacular in Copenhagen and its reception / Liva Hyttel-Sørensen -- Normativity as a social resource in social media practices / Andreas Stær -- Rights and wrongs: authority in family interactions / Astrid Ag -- Becoming a "smart student": the emergence and unexpected implications of one child's social identification / Ulla Lundqvist -- "Well, because we are the One Direction girls": popular culture, friendship, and social status in a peer group / Lamies Nassri -- 'The diva in the room': rap music, education and discourses on integration / Lian Malai Madsen -- Ethnic identifications in late modern Copenhagen / Thomas Rørbeck Nørreby -- Discursive reactions to nationalism among adolescents in Copenhagen / Janus Spindler Møller -- Growing up bilingual in Copenhagen / Asif Agha.…”
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Deleuze, cinema and national identity : narrative time in national contexts
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La véritable histoire des héros du Far West : Ils ont vraiment existé.
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Voici les vrais frères Dalton; Butch Cassidy, le gangster qui refusait de tuer; Zorro n'a pas eu besoin d'exister pour devenir éternel; Sioux contre Visages pâles : quand l'herbe devient rouge; L'agonie des Sioux et des Cheyennes sur " la piste des larmes "; Avec dix-huit guerriers, Géronimo ridiculise les 5 000 soldats lancés à ses trousses; Et les cow-boys sont arrivés ... ; Les armes qui ont conquis l'Ouest; Dieu créa les hommes différents, mais Colt les fit égaux ...…”
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The New Henry Giroux Reader : the Role of the Public Intellectual in a Time of Tyranny.
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Charlottesville, Neo-Nazis and the Challenge to Higher Education; 18. Gangster Capitalism and Nostalgic Authoritarianism in Trump's America; Index; About the Author, Editors, and Contributors…”
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The cinematography of Roger Corman : exploitation filmaker or auteur?
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Teen film (juvenile delinquency)2.3. The gangster film; 2.4 Summary; 3. "Deep" exploitation; 3.1. …”
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An anthropologist in Japan : glimpses of life in the field
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The mysterious romance of murder : crime, detection, and the spirit of noir
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Bentley) -- Dashiell Hammett's Priceless patter -- Paperclip (Raymond Chandler) -- Grim grin (Graham Greene) -- Rex Stout: the emperor of Couronne de Canard -- Ida Lupino: the First Lady of noir -- Black Friday (David Goodis) -- Orange noir (Charles Willeford) -- Ed McBain: the man from Isola -- Hitchcock's America -- Straight down the line: Billy Wilder's Double indemnity (1944) -- Strangers and mirrors: Orson Welles's The stranger (1946) and The -- lady from Shanghai (1947) -- An exchange of bullets in Belfast: Carol Reed's Odd man out (1947) -- Blind accidents: John Huston's The asphalt jungle (1950) -- Epitaph for a genre: Stanley Kubrick's The killing (1956) -- Shadow of evil: Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear (1962) -- A reluctant spy's conversion: William Holden in The counterfeit traitor (1962) -- Gangsters in love: Sergio Leone's Once upon a time in America (1984) -- Rogue's gallery -- Why not New York? …”
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