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This collection displays a range of approaches and contemporary developments in the expanding field of film-philosophy. The essays explore central issues surrounding the conjunction of film and philosophy, presenting a varied yet coherent reflection on the nature of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-02-02
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The importance of media preservation has in recent years achieved much broader public recognition. From the vaults of Hollywood and the halls of Congress to the cash-strapped museums of developing nations, people are working to safeguard film from physical harm. But the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-01-21
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The editors of Ethics at the Cinema invited a diverse group of moral philosophers and philosophers of film to engage with ethical issues raised within, or within the process of viewing, a single film of each contributor's choice.The result is a unique collection of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-01-07
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A collection of original essays from leading scholars in the field exploring the contemporary debates, concerns and controversies ongoing in Spanish film industry, culture and scholarship. The essays reveal the far-reaching shifts that have occurred in the Spanish film...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-05
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A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-13
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This book is about the emigration, film careers and socio-cultural influence of British filmmakers moving to Hollywood in the studio era. It deals with some of the unknown and neglected émigrés, as well as the leading lights who founded, initiated and ensured that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-08-18
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This collection brings together international experts on the cinema of migration and diaspora in postcolonial and postnational Europe. It offers a comprehensive theoretical and analytical discussion of a highly productive creative sector and documents the spectrum of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-08-10
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This study seeks to understand the form of cinematic space referred to as 'the landscape of the mind,' in which natural, outdoor settings serve as outward manifestations of characters' inner subjective states.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-07-19
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Cinema After Fascism considers how postwar European films glance ambivalently backward from the postwar period to the fascist era and delves into issues of gender certainties and spectatorship. In this period of film, familiar structures of epistemology and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-07-19
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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.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-06-21
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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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-19
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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,...
Editeur :
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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Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-03-11
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Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-03-11
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Women, Desire, and Power in Italian Cinema offers, for the first time in Italian Cinema criticism, a contextual study of the representation of women in twentieth-century Italian films. Marga Cottino-Jones argues that the ways women are depicted on screen reflects a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-02-15
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A Companion to Michael Haneke With a new preface addressing the Academy award-winning film, Amour, this new-in-paper edition has established itself as the definitive collection on Michael Haneke—from his early work in television and theater, through his prodigious...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-04
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
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In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode takes us into the weird world of a life lived in widescreen. Join him as he gets lost in Russia on the trail of a low-budget horror flick, gasp as he's shot at in Hollywood while interviewing Bavarian director Werner...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2010-02-04
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Chromatic Cinema Color permeates film and its history, but study of its contribution to film has so far been fragmentary.Chromatic Cinema provides the first wide-ranging historical overview of screen color, exploring the changing uses and meanings of color in moving...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-02
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