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This book explores the depiction of suicide in American youth films from 1900 to 2019. Anchored in Sociology, this multidisciplinary study investigates the causes and consequences of suicide and uncovers the socio-cultural context for the development of youth, film, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-27
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Explore the magical world of anime through 30 classic films in this new book from the authors of Ghibliotheque.From box office hits such as Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Your Name to a host of deeper cuts, hidden gems and future classics, this revealing guide lifts the...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2022-10-27
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'The finest writing in the land. Limitless, joyous and terrifying' - RUSSELL T. DAVIESSteve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's darkly comedic creations are an endlessly dazzling masterclass in storytelling. Inside No. 9: The Scripts features every episode from Series 4-6...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2022-10-27
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In time for Scorsese’s 80th birthday and the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, a new edition of the seminal oral history tracing Scorsese’s journey from young filmmaker to legend, featuring a foreword by Steven Spielberg Few filmmakers, if any, make the...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2022-10-25
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Based on the Turner Classic Movies series, TCM Underground is the movie-lover's guide to 50 of the most campy, kitschy, shocking, and weirdly wonderful cult films you need to see.In the pages of this book, you'll explore this unique order of...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2022-10-25
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This book is the first one focusing on Chinese mainstream films from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Based on case studies, it discusses three subgenres of mainland Chinese commercial mainstream films and offers an approach to studying the transformation of Chinese...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-25
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The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell’Arte traces the steps by which Commedia has been transformed by cultural contact outside Italy into popular forms which bear little resemblance to the original.The book follows the Masks of Arlecchino, Pedrolino and Pulcinella as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-24
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This book focuses on the re-evaluation of four Maxwell Anderson plays within the context of the emergence of the New Woman and the perception of a marriage crisis in the United States during the 1920s. The four plays under consideration are White...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-23
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Kenyan Cinema provides one of the most striking case studies in the growth and development of film in Eastern Africa. The film industry has grown tremendously at the turn of the 21st century. Notably, there has been a significant increase in the number of domestic film...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-10-20
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This book examines the many reincarnations of Carroll’s texts, illuminating how the meaning of the original books has been re-negotiated through adaptations, appropriations, and transmediality. The volume is an edited collection of eighteen essays and is divided into...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-19
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Der bisherige Fokus der TV-Serienforschung auf US-amerikanische Produktionen hat gemeinsam mit dem steten Aufstieg innovativer Serienformate aus der Romania zu einer großen Forschungslücke geführt.Der Sammelband versucht diese Leerstellen durch ausgewählte...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-10-19
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Shakespeare and Digital Performance in Practice explores the impact of digital technologies on the theatrical performance ofShakespeare in the twenty-first century, both in terms of widening cultural access and developing new forms of artistry. Through close analysis of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-18
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This book is an interdisciplinary collection exploring the impact of emergent technologies on the production, distribution and reception of media content in the Asia-Pacific region. Exploring case studies from China, Japan, South Korea, India, Thailand and Australia, as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-15
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This book examines trauma in late twentieth- and twenty-first century American popular culture. Trauma has become a central paradigm for reading contemporary American culture. Since the early 1980s, an extensive range of genres increasingly feature traumatised...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-13
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Since Chevy Chase first uttered the phrase 'Live from New York, it's Saturday night,' Saturday Night Live has grown from the vision of Canadian comedian Lorne Michaels to be a cultural institution.And while the early days of cocaine-fuelled all-night writing sessions...
Editeur :
OH
Parution :
2022-10-13
Collection :
The Little Books of Film & TV
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The stunning new Buckingham novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Anton Du Beke.September 1940. As the skies split apart and bombs rain down on London, it's all the staff at the famed Buckingham Hotel can do to keep their guests in the luxury they're accustomed to,...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2022-10-13
Collection :
Buckingham
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The definitive, behind-the-scenes look at the most popular sitcom of the last decade,The Big Bang Theory, packed with all-new, exclusive interviews with the producers and the entire cast - from journalist and the host of The Official Big Bang Theory Podcast,...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2022-10-11
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Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial - often derided as a whole, but also vigorously celebrated, especially in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-06
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This book analyses the uses of Arnold Schwarzenegger as a foreign star in Hollywood through a film philosophical, de-westernizing and sonic critical framework. It offers very close readings of the film texts, of the roles Schwarzenegger performs, and the rhetorical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-05
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Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and continues to influence contemporary stand-up comedy. The collection...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-05
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