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Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd , which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major playwrights of the 1950s to provide a timely reassessment of one of the most...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-25
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The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level, transformation allows female protagonists to negotiate their own complex...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-25
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A handy and engaging chronicle, this book is the most detailed production history to date of the original Broadway version of Cabaret, showing how the show evolved from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories, into John van Druten's stage play, a British film adaptation,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-04-20
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This book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and important contribution to existing scholarship in the field.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-12
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Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty , and The Elephant Man , Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up psychic/social spaces that transfer bodily drives to language.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-11
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Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the "new Argentine cinema" phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly relevant films,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-11
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At 1.28 a.m. on Wednesday, 23 March 2011, just three weeks after celebrating her 79th birthday, the biggest star Hollywood has ever known died. The tributes and eulogies to Elizabeth Taylor were legion. A weeping Elton John said, 'We have just lost a Hollywood giant....
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-04-07
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This volume gets to the heart of what films mean to people on personal, political and commercial levels. Exploring value judgements that underpin social, academic and institutional practices, it examines the diverse forms of worth attributed to a range of international...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-05
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Of all the myriad stars and celebrities Hollywood has produced, only a handful have achieved the fame - and, some would say, infamy - of Orson Welles, the creator and star of what is arguably the greatest film ever, Citizen Kane. Many books have been written about him,...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-04-01
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With the full range of his voluminous writings finally viewable, André Bazin seems more deserving than ever to be considered the most influential of all writers on film. His brief career, 1943-58, helped bring about the leap from classical cinema to the modern art of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-04-01
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In August 1958, the opening scenes of a low-budget black and white film flickered onto cinema screens up and down the country. No one could have foreseen what impact Carry on Sergeant would have then and in the future. Not only did it become one of the top three...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-03-31
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Norman Wisdom's early years could easily have come straight from the pages of a Dickens novel. Left by their frightened mother, ill-treated by a brutal father,Norman and his brother were forced to fend for themselves, sleeping rough in London and stealing food to...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-03-31
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Street Scenes offers a theory of late medieval acting and performance through a fresh and original reading of the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge. The performance theory perspective employed here, along with the examination of actor/character dialectics, paves the way to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-03-28
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French Animation History is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of animation, illuminating the exceptional place France holds within that history. Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 The first book dedicated exclusively to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-08
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Situated at the confluence of history, media and cultural studies, this book reconstructs the often deeply discordant and highly selective memories of the Holocaust in Italy in the postwar era. The author’s core method is one of reception analysis, centred on the public...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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This collection of essays examines current trends in scholarly research on Spanish author Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000). It concentrates on the least explored areas of Martín Gaite’s oeuvre, such as her collage artwork, the relationship between image and text in her...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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In German-speaking Europe, as in other parts of the western world, questions of religious identity have been discussed with sudden urgency since the attacks of ‘9/11’. Nowhere was this clearer than in the heated controversy over the building of a mosque in the city of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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In the 1990s, Irish society was changing and becoming increasingly international due to the rise of the ‘Celtic Tiger’. At the same time, the ongoing peace process in Northern Ireland also fuelled debates on the definition of Irishness, which in turn seemed to call for...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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Through the lens of TV news anchors, this book examines the impact that television news has had on traditional journalistic standards and practices. While TV news anchors boost the power, adulation, and authority of journalism in general, internally, the journalistic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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PHILOSOPHY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS “David Davies’s Philosophy of the Performing Arts is long-awaited. Not since Paul Thom’s For an Audience has a book in the Anglo-American philosophical tradition focused so clearly, exclusively, informatively, and fairly on all the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-01
Collection :
Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts
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