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The best books on Shakespeare’s Reception
Emma Smith, Literary Scholar
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The Genius of the System
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An Empire of Their Own – How the Jews Invented Hollywood
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Hitchcock
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Sergei Eisenstein
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The Immediate Experience
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Plots and Characters
by Millard Kaufman