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Universal Cult Horror Collection (DVD) - AVAILABLE NOW!

Universal Cult Horror Collection (DVD) - AVAILABLE NOW!
A 5-disc collection of mad doctors and murderous fiends that includes such rarely seen thrillers as the Pre-Code shocker Murders in the Zoo (1933), House of Horrors (1946) and The Mad Ghoul (1943).
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Law of Desire (DVD)

Law of Desire (DVD)
This bizarre and beguiling gender-flipping tale from director Pedro Almodovar starring Antonio Banderas and Carmen Maura details the quest for happiness and love by two siblings. A 1987 art house hit.
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We'll Always Have the Movies

During the highly charged years of World War II, movies perhaps best communicated to Americans who they were and why they were fighting. These films were more than just an explanation of historical events: they asked audiences to consider the Nazi threat, they put a face on both our enemies and allies, and they explored changing wartime gender roles. We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema During World War II (University Press of Kentucky) by Robert L. McLaughlin and Sally E. Parry shows how film after film repeated the narratives, character types, and rhetoric that made the war and each American's role in it comprehensible.

Robert L. McLaughlin and Sally E. Parry have watched more than six-hundred films made between 1937 and 1946 - including many never before discussed in this context - and have analyzed the cultural and historical importance of these films in explaining the war to moviegoers. This extensive study shows how filmmakers made the chaotic elements of wartime familiar, while actual events became film history, and film history became myth.

Casablanca is one film that sought to explain to American moviegoers why the war was being fought and how it concerned Americans. McLaughlin and Parry argue that Rick's Cafe Americain serves as a United Nations, sheltering characters that represent countries oppressed by Germany. At Rick's, these characters learn that they share a common love of freedom that is embodied in patriotism; from this commonality, they can overcome their differences and work together to solve a conflict affecting them all.

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