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Through a shrewd analysis of the historical experience of imperialism and settler colonialism, Limbrick draws new conclusions about their effect on cinematic production, distribution, reception and filmic discourse.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-06-21
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Saturday Night Live, Hollywood Comedy, and American Culture sheds new light on the ways in whichSaturday Night Live s confrontational, boundary-pushing approach spilled over into film production, contributing to some of the biggest hits in Hollywood history, such as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-06-21
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From oral culture, through the advent of literacy, to the introduction of printing, to the development of electronic media, communication structures have radically altered culture in profound ways. As the first book to take a critical realist approach to culture,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-06-21
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In Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture, Jill Stevenson uses cognitive theory to explore the layperson s physical encounter with live religious performances, and to argue that laypeople s interactions with other devotional media - such as books and art...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-24
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This volume brings together scholars from across Europe to critically examine TV history programming in a period of political, economic and cultural change. They look at links between programming and national identity, consider the representation of minorities, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-19
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The art of "bellyspeaking" isn't for dummies.The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Ventriloquism teaches everyone to speak from their bellies, create and substitute sounds, use all the registers of their voice, and create diversions to attract the listener's ear - whether they...
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Dk
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2010-05-04
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Write a Play - and Get It Performed is designed for would-be writers of every level and for all types of motivation by two prize-winning professionals. Whether writing for the specific needs of an amateur drama group, community event, political campaign or simply for...
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Teach Yourself
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2010-04-30
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This book is the first monographic study on subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing from a multidisciplinary perspective, from engineering to philology. The book departs from studies, analyses, tests, validations, resulting data, and their application from the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-04-28
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This book considers popular culture's confrontations with the history, thought, and major figures of the English Renaissance through an analysis of 'period films,' television productions, popular literature, and punk music.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-04-26
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Each chapter of this book presents a different marginalized community and explores how it appropriates theatre for its own needs, which are often at odds with those of the powerful sponsoring organisations. This fresh approach to the topic provides the reader with an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-04-21
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There are thousands of pantomimes staged throughout the world every year, most of them in Britain. Most groups, whether they be amateur drama societies, schools, Women's Institutes or Village Hall committees are constantly on the lookout for something fresh and...
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Headline Accent
Parution :
2010-04-15
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Secrets to Success
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"Art cinema" has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to the concept since the 1970s. And yet in the last thirty years art cinema has flourished worldwide. The...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-04-14
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"Art cinema" has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to the concept since the 1970s. And yet in the last thirty years art cinema has flourished worldwide. The...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-04-14
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Some Like it Hot is one of the most famous films of all time and is also the most profitable comedy in the history of film, not to mention one of the most beloved. It was voted number one funniest movie ever by the American Film Institute and as well as starring...
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Virgin Digital
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2010-04-13
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Citizen Kane is arguably the most admired and significant film since the advent of talking pictures. No other film is quite so interesting from both artistic and political points of view. To study it even briefly is to learn a great deal about American history,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-04-10
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Boaz Hagin carries out a philosophical examination of the issue of death as it is represented and problematized in Hollywood cinema of the classical era (1920s-1950s) and in later mainstream films, looking at four major genres: the Western, the gangster film, melodrama...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-04-09
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When we watch and listen to actors speaking lines that have been written by someone else-a common experience if we watch any television at all-the illusion of “people talking” is strong. These characters are people like us, but they are also different, products of a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-04-07
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What drives a musician to write extraordinary songs? How do writers create their worlds? How does an actor achieve greatness?For over thirty years of The South Bank Show, Melvyn Bragg has interviewed many of the greatest cultural icons of our age. These interviews offer...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2010-04-01
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This unique tie-in to the major motion picture Oceans -- coming this April from Disney & National Geographic -- explores the health of our oceans, and what we can do to improve it. More than 75 percent of the globe is covered by the oceans. It is sometimes difficult to...
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PublicAffairs
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2010-03-23
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Youth and Theatre of the Oppressed investigates a performance strategy which aims to develop possible alternatives to oppressive forces in individual s lives. Eminent contributors offer diverse perspectives on the theories and practices within Theatre of the Oppressed,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-03-15
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