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An intimate

study of the Indian director,
Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye by Andrew

Robinson discusses the 34 films that
marked Ray's development as an artist.
Production diaries, perceptive critiques
and background sketches reveal the

of Ray's cinematic commitment to
human values (U. of California Press,

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Berkeley $29.92)
An intriguing biography of the
German director Fritz Lang written as a
novel, Howard A. Rodman's Destiny Ex¬
press recreates Lang's dramatic last
days in Nazi Germany before fleeing for
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wood (Atheneum, NYC, $17.95).
Greenwood Publishers' schol¬

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in the Performing Arts," adds five new
volumes to its distinguished list: Orson
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Sothern by Margie Schultz ($37.95).
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complete credits, annotated bibliography
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(Greenwood, Westport, CT).
Focusing on optically created
special effects in independent film pro¬
duction, Bastian Cleve's The Art of
Personal Filmmaking considers the
role of the Bolex camera and J-K Optical
Printer in image manipulation and inno¬
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A broad overview initiated

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In The American West from
Fiction (1823-1976) into Film (1909-

1986), Jim Hitt probes skilfully the rela¬
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dealing with this uniquely native lore. His
literate evaluation notes the adaptabil¬
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whose popularity soon overtook that of
the original work (McFarland, Jefferson,
NC, $29.95).
An expanded edition of Peter
Bondarella's Italian Cinema documents
in lively detail its post-war achievements,
from its neo-realist period on. This move¬
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Italy's historic, cultural
is viewed as the turn¬
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earth approach to human emotions
(Continuum, NYC, $17.95).
In The Great Science Fic¬
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and Michael R. Pitts carry on the Vol. 1

inventory of the sci-fi film field. This indepth analysis of some 400 movies, to¬
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provides an invaluable source of informa¬
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Metuchen, NJ, $49.50).
Amateurs of gore in all its cine¬
matic guises will find in John McCarty's
The Official Splatter Movie Guide a
knowledgeable catalog of some 400
films, all available on cassette, reviewed
with

a dash of humor to mitigate their
sanguinary substance (St Martin's, NYC.
$10.95).
The making of The Bear, the
remarkable animal film directed by JeanJacques Annaud (of Quest for Fire fame)
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