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Structured around modes in which one might encounter Asian-themed performances and adaptations, Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes that distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theatres from works in other parts of the world: Japanese formalistic...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-01-26
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Within the work of both Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin there is a buried theatricality, a theatre to-come. And in the last fifteen years there has been a growing awareness of this theatricality. To date, though, there has not been a published stage play about...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-25
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This book examines contemporary English drama and its relation to the neoliberal consensus that has dominated British policy since 1979. The London stage has emerged as a key site in Britain’s reckoning with neoliberalism. On one hand, many playwrights have denounced...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Cinema Derrida charts Jacques Derrida's collaborations and appearances in film, video, and television beginning with 1983's Ghost Dance (dir. Ken McMullen, West Germany/UK) and ending with 2002's biographical documentary Derrida (dir. Dick and Ziering, USA). In the last...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Die derzeit üblichen territorialen Lizenzierungspraktiken der Filmindustrie führen im Online-Bereich zur Zersplitterung des europäischen Binnenmarktes, indem sie die grenzüberschreitende Nutzung von Video-on-Demand-Diensten einschränken. Der Autor zeigt auf, wie dieses...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-01-21
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This book is the first comprehensive research conducted on the pan-Arab TV station al-Mayadeen – an important representative of the post-2011 generation of Arab satellite news media. Likewise, it is an investigation of a growing political trend and ideological discourse...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-01-21
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During the 1950s and 1960s, the Cold War and the potential for nuclear attack were on everyone’s mind. It should therefore come as no surprise that despite an initial reluctance, several television shows that aired during this period focused on the atomic and hydrogen...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Viennese-born actor Adolf Wohlbrück enjoyed huge success on both stage and screen in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, becoming one of the first truly international stars. After leaving Nazi Germany for Hollywood in 1936, he changed his name to Anton Walbrook and then...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Der Band ist ein erstes Übersichtswerk zu vorzeitig abgesetzten oder längerfristig unterbrochenen Fernsehserien. Er analysiert diese im Hinblick auf ihren Fragmentstatus und erprobt Ansätze, wie mit diesem umgegangen werden kann: Das Spektrum reicht von essayistischen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-01-13
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This book examines the interface between Polish popular music and screen media against the background of Polish history, cinema, and popular culture and situates that interface in a local as well as global context. It looks at Polish musicals, biographical films about...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-05
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Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century. This book, only the second so far to have been written on him, argues that the power of his most acclaimed work...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-29
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This book investigates anxieties over the role of white masculinity in American society after World War Two articulated in post-apocalyptic film. Using an interdisciplinary approach that employs methods of cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race theory, it...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-12-23
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What is the role of costume in Shakespeare production? Shakespeare and Costume in Practice argues that costume design choices are central not only to the creation of period setting and the actor’s work on character, but to the cultural, political, and psychological...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-23
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Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical accounts of the filmmaker. This re-examination of his seminal work during the "Hollywood Renaissance" or "New Hollywood" period of the early 1970s...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-22
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Through popular movies starring Bruce Lee and songs like the disco hit "Kung Fu Fighting," martial arts have found a central place in the Western cultural imagination. But what would 'martial arts' be without the explosion of media texts and images that brought it to a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-17
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The Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1905 largely on the basis of his historical novel Quo vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero.The novel's vivid and moving reconstruction of religious persecution and struggle against...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-16
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The Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1905 largely on the basis of his historical novel Quo vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero.The novel's vivid and moving reconstruction of religious persecution and struggle against...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-16
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Brilliantly introduced by Nezar Andary, this book is a work of creative nonfiction that approaches writing on film in a fresh and provocative way. It draws on academic, literary, and personal material to start a dialogue with the Egyptian filmmaker Shadi Abdel...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-12-16
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Andrea Kloß geht vor dem Hintergrund der zunehmenden gesellschaftlichen Polarisierung der Frage nach, welchen Beitrag fiktionale Unterhaltungsmedien leisten können, um bei ihrem Publikum Empathie und deliberative Offenheit im Diskurs mit Andersdenkenden zu fördern.In...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-12-05
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This book dives into the mise-en-scène of contemporary China to explore the “becoming cinema” of Chinese cities, societies, and subjectivities. Set in the wake of China’s radical and rapid period of urbanization and infrastructural transformation, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-30
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