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The «Western» embodies many of the stereotypes of masculinity: rugged, independent men in cowboy hats roam the barren landscapes of the American West, resolving conflicts with guns and tough talk. Where did these cowboys come from? What historical trends led to their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-08-31
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This book presents a new reading of film noir through psychoanalytic theory. In a field now dominated by Deleuzian and phenomenological approaches to film-philosophy, this book argues that, far from having passed, the time for Lacan in Film Studies is only just...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-17
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How does the experience of travel transform culture over time? This question is at the heart of this book, which brings together two main areas of scholarship: the cultural analysis of German literature and film and the emerging field of mobilities studies, which places...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-08-05
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This book explores the ways films made by Latin American directors and/ or co-produced in Latin American countries have employed the road movie genre to address the reconfiguration of the geographical, sociopolitical, economic, and cultural landscape of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-28
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I heard the rustle again, too close and too real to ignore. I clutched the flashlight, stuck my head out of the mosquito net... and found myself face-to-face with a jaguar. Four travellers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest to find a...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2016-07-14
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The long-awaited follow-up to the perennially bestselling writers' guide Story, from the most sought-after expert in the art of storytelling.Robert McKee's popular writing workshops have earned him an international reputation.The list of alumni with Oscars runs off the...
Editeur :
Twelve
Parution :
2016-07-12
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Projections of Memory is an exploration of a body of innovative cinematic works that utilize their extraordinary scope to construct monuments to the imagination that promise profound transformations of vision, selfhood, and experience. This form of cinema acts as a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-30
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This book analyzes how contemporary popular films with fantastic themes, including Candyman, Frozen, The Cabin in the Woods, and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, cultivate neoliberal subjectivities. These films promise dramatic change, but they too...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-29
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During the late 1920s and the 1930s, the Italian government sought various commercial and politically oriented solutions to cope with the advent of new sound technologies in cinema. The translation of foreign-language films became a recurrent topic of ongoing debates...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-16
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This book is about the British film-maker Lindsay Anderson. Anderson was a highly influential personality within British cinema, mostly famous for landmark films likeThis Sporting Life (1963) and If….(1968). Lindsay Anderson Revisited deals primarily with hitherto...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-14
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Lasting Stars examines the issue of stardom and longevity and investigates the many reasons for the persistence or disappearance of different star personas. Through a selection of chapters that look at issues such as inappropriate ageing, national identity and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-28
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This book explores the ways in which films of Johannesburg assist residents of the city to bridge the divisions and inequalities of contemporary urban space through the four lenses of materiality, identity, mobility, and crime. Films influence the everyday practices of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-28
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A Companion to Russian Cinema provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-05-17
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
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Die Beiträge untersuchen Landschaften wie Wüste, Steppe, Puszta, Nordpol oder Walachei, die den disanthropischen Topos vom «Ende der Welt» aufnehmen. Neuere Erzählungen, Reiseberichte und Filme zeigen die ambivalente Faszinationskraft der Unwirtlichkeit vornehmlich...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-13
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Engaging some of the most canonical and thought-provoking anime, manga, and science fiction films, Tokyo Cyberpunk offers insightful analysis of Japanese visual culture. Steven T. Brown draws new conclusions about the cultural flow of art, as well as important...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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What does it mean to say Indian movies are melodramatic? How do film audiences engage with socio-political issues?What role has cinema played in the emergence of new economic forms, consumer cultures and digital technologies in a globalizing India? Ravi Vasudevan...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well as comparisons with the melodrama film, Arnold investigates the polarized images of monstrous and sacrificing mother.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a new generation took over the leading roles in Hollywood films. These untraditional-looking young men were promoted and understood as alienated and ironic everymen, and exerted a powerful, and until now unexplored, influence over a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Die Untertitelung erfreut sich zunehmender Beliebtheit in der Forschung. Der Hauptgrund liegt in ihrer multidimensionalen Natur, da Untertitelung (als Prozess) und Untertitel (als Endprodukt) als interlingual, intralingual und intersemiotisch zu betrachten sind.Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-22
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This book offers comparative studies of the production, content, distribution and reception of film and television drama in Europe. The collection brings together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to focus on how new developments are shaped by national...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-19
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