Frederick J. Augustyn

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The Composer Embalmed: Relic Culture from Piety to Kitsch

Based on gems such as old museum guest books and German and Austrian archival holdings, this is a worthwhile, scholarly, and challenging intellectual and cultural history.
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Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home

Good for general and scholarly readers interested in 20th-century English popular culture.
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The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI

This analytical, historical review should interest readers of pop culture analysis.

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Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis: Vichy, Algeria, the Aftermath

Best for serious students of theater or colonialism and violence studies, but may be challenging for general audiences.
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Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman

Practitioners in women’s and cinema history and general readers will appreciate information about this trailblazing pioneer.

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Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Inclusion at the Oscars

Arogundade charges that changes such as expanding the number of films nominated and internationalizing the Academy’s voting membership have gradually increased the cultural makeup in the still largely white AMPAS, with more improvements expected.

‘The Wire’: A Cultural History

This timely retrospective on inner city reality as a cultural phenomenon will appeal to media scholars and crime show fans.
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Hollywood’s Unofficial Film Corps: American Jewish Moviemakers and the War Effort

Like physical combat veterans, many on the front lines in Hollywood subsequently seldom talked about their efforts, which makes this book valuable.
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New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art Cinema

The editors of this comprehensive tome laud the late Thomas Elsaesser’s New German Cinema as the only other complete treatment of this topic.
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