This page features a small selection of e-books related to Cinema and Media Studies. They are from the Penn Libraries' larger e-book collection, which spans many publishers and platforms.
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Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio by 
An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928 by 
Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939 by 
Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 by 
A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989 by 
Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American by 
Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television by 
Understanding Cinema: A Psychological Theory of Moving Imagery by 
Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique by 
Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice, and Spectatorship by 
Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema by 
The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan by 
Reinventing Cinema: Movies in the Age of Media Convergence by 
Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film by 
The End of Cinema?: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age by 
Screen Distribution and the New King Kongs of the Online World by 
Laughing Out Loud: Writing the Comedy-Centered Screenplay by 
Aristotle in Hollywood: The Anatomy of Successful Storytelling by 
Love, Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life: The Films of Woody Allen by 
Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema by 
