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The Highway Horror Film argues that 'Highway Horror' is a hither-to overlooked sub-genre of the American horror movie. In these films, the American landscape is by its very accessibility rendered terrifyingly hostile, and encounters with other travellers almost always...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-03-12
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Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture is a fascinating study of queer nostalgia in films, animation and music videos as means of empowerment, re-evaluating and recreating lost gay youth, coming to terms with one's sexual otherness and homoerotic desires, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-29
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Contemporary Asylum Narratives marks a transition from traditional modes of diasporic belonging to the need for identifications that encompass the statelessness of refugees and asylum seekers. This book explores representations of asylum seekers and refugees in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-28
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Mexican cinema is booming today, a decade after the international successes of Amores perros and Y tu mamá también.Mexican films now display a wider range than any comparable country, from art films to popular genre movies, and boasting internationally renowned...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-01-27
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Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainland China. It showcases new screen cultures from Britain, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-22
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Using silent cinema as a critical lens enables us to reassess Katherine Mansfield's entire literary career. Starting from the awareness that innovation in literature is often the outcome of hybridisation, this book discusses not only a single case study, but also the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-01-10
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Cinema frequently depicts various types of work, but this representation is never straightforward. It depends on and reflects many factors, especially the place and time the film is made and the type of audience it addresses. Here, the contributors employ transnational...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-18
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Featuring essays by top scholars and interviews with acclaimed directors, this book examines Italian women's authorship in film and their visions of reality. The contributors use feminist film criticism in the analysis of their works and give direct voices to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-17
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Not all original works invoke the encore impulse in their audiences. Those that do generally spawn replications - sequels, spin-offs, or re-makes. This book presents a theory of why some replications succeed and others fail across genres and media.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-11
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Conceptualizing production studies from a European perspective, the book evaluates the history of European thought on production: theories of practice, the languages, grammars, and poetics of film, practical theories of production systems such as film dramaturgy, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-10
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British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 calls attention to the shifting grounds of cultural expression by highlighting Hollywood as a site that unsettled definitions and narratives of colonialism and national identity for prominentBritish novelists such as Christopher...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-10
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The reality of transnational innovation and dissemination of new technologies, including digital media, has yet to make a dent in the deep-seated culturalism that insists on reinscribing a divide between the West and Japan.The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema aims to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-09
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Repetition and seriality are inherent in pornography and is constitutive for its functionality as a film genre, an industry, and an area of gender studies. By linking the styles of the genre to processes of serial production, consumption, and discussion, Schaschek...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-05
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Rethinking the Romance Genre examines why the romance genre has proven such an irresistible form for contemporary writers and filmmakers as they approach global issues. In contemporary texts ranging from literary works, to films, to social media, romance facilitates a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-05
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The book presents cinematic case studies in political realism versus political idealism, demonstrating methods of viewing popular cinema as political theory.The book appreciates political myth-making in popular genres as especially practical and accessible theorizing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-05
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Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-04
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World Cinema through Global Genres introduces the complex forces of global filmmaking using the popular concept of film genre. The cluster-based organization allows students to acquire a clear understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world. ...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2013-11-18
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In the 1950s, science fiction invasion films played a complicated part in supporting and criticizing Cold War ideologies. By reading these invasion narratives as performances of middle-class, white Americans' excitement and anxiety about social and political issues,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-18
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This book contributes to the growing literature on the biopic genre by outlining and exploring the conventions of the postfeminist biopic. It does so by analyzing recent films about the lives of famous women including Sylvia Plath, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf and Jane...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-13
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This is the first monograph-length work intended to enable readers with a humanities background and the general public to understand what the processes and techniques of film restoration do and do not involve, attempting to integrate systematically a discussion about...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-13
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