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Three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone is one of the most controversial and well-known contemporary American directors. He began his professional life as a screen writer and was responsible for the scripts of Midnight Express and Scarface. As a director he made one of the...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
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2011-11-30
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A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the first of its kind to engage with this important figure. Twenty-eight essays by an international group of scholars consider this controversial director's contribution to German cinema, German history, gender studies, and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-11-28
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
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A Companion to German CinemaA Companion to German Cinema regards the shifting terrain of German filmmaking and film studies against their larger social contexts with twenty-two newly commissioned essays by well-established and younger scholars in the field. While...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-11-28
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
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This is a comprehensive, jargon-free guide for all budding screenwriters. Its aim is not just to guide you through the techniques and skills you need to write for the screen (film and television), but also to give you guidance on how to approach the industry as a whole....
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
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2011-11-25
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Acclaimed writer of This is Uncool and Popcorn turns his attention to the (first ever) look at the teen movieEveryone undergoes some kind of teenage trauma, and a fundamental way of coping, or rite of passage, is the teen movie. Yet until now there has been no book that...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2011-11-24
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Why is it that in going to see plays we are also touched or moved by them, and is there more than metaphor involved in such claims? Considering these and other questions, this book examines a range of contemporary performance works in which performers and their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-22
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Why is folly essential to the functioning of a healthy society?Why is theatre a natural home for madness? The answers take the reader on a journey embracing Shakespeare and Jonson, Brecht and Beckett, Büchner and Boal. From Falstaff to Fo via Figaro, this study examines...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-22
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Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché, Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and reframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-20
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A critical appreciation of close relationships in the modern American movie, looking in detail at contemporary Hollywood films which explore intimacy and the connections of characters, their surroundings, and points of film style. Peacock's close readings provide a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-17
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A historical, theoretical, and comparative study of the emergence of the director-as-author phenomenon, posing questions of authorship and redefining the relationship between 'playwright' and the director-playwright.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-16
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Elephants, lions, tigers and leopards evoke fascination and awe, fear and excitement. This book analyzes trained acts in twentieth-century live circus and cinema, reveals how humans anthropomorphize animals with their emotions, and interrogates the notion that animals...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-16
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The stage portrayal of the Victorians in recent times is a key reference point in understanding notions of Britishness, and the profound politicisation of that debate over the last four decades. This book throws new light on works by canonical playwrights like Bond,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-15
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The music we hear is always inhabited by voices of previous performances. Because listening is now so often accompanied by moving images, this process is more complex than ever. Music videos, television and film music, interactive video games, and social media are now...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-11-14
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This book explores the nexus between gender, ageing and culture in dancers practicing a variety of genres. It challenges existing cultural norms which equate ageing with bodily decline and draws on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to explore alternatives for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-08
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Kristi McKim offers close-analyses of films in which attachment and detachment, intimacy and distance, ephemera and endurance become more visible and meaningful. Films discussed include Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire , Agnès Varda's Jacquot de Nantes , Doris Dörrie's...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-08
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"I have, by the way, seen 943 of the 1001 movies, and am carefully rationing the remaining titles to prolong my life." - Roger Ebert"1001 ways to give cinema new scope." - The HeraldExpert critics in each genre of film, from romance to horror and sci-fi, have once again...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2011-11-05
Collection :
1001
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Die Möglichkeit des Theaters als Raum für kritische Erfahrungen geht über die Erweiterung des Theaters als musikalischen Erfahrungsraum, d.h. als ein musikalisch gedachtes und strukturiertes Theater, hinaus. Damit vereint sich in diesem Buch die Frage nach Kritik und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-11-01
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Modern international studies of world theatre and drama have begun to acknowledge the Arab world only after the contributions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Within the Arab world, the contributions of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco to modern drama and to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-01
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Leni Riefenstahl will always be remembered for her brilliant film of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin - still rated as one of the best documentaries ever made. Before that she was acclaimed for her roles in silent feature films, when German cinema was in its artistic...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-10-31
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Michael Mann's films receive a detailed analysis as existential dramas, including Heat, Collateral , The Last of the Mohicans and Public Enemies. The book demonstrates that Mann's films perform critical engagement with existentialism, illustrating the problems and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-27
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