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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...
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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.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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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...
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-05-19
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This book is the first monographic study on subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing from a multidisciplinary perspective, from engineering to philology. The book departs from studies, analyses, tests, validations, resulting data, and their application from the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-04-28
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"Art cinema" has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to the concept since the 1970s. And yet in the last thirty years art cinema has flourished worldwide. The...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-04-14
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"Art cinema" has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to the concept since the 1970s. And yet in the last thirty years art cinema has flourished worldwide. The...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-04-14
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-04-09
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This unique tie-in to the major motion picture Oceans -- coming this April from Disney & National Geographic -- explores the health of our oceans, and what we can do to improve it. More than 75 percent of the globe is covered by the oceans. It is sometimes difficult to...
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PublicAffairs
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2010-03-23
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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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Maya Lowe is one of the world's most beautiful film starsShe still thinks she can lead a normal life, despite the fame that has made her a celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic. The twists and turns of her public and private life are observed by Steve Watkins, her...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2010-02-04
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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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This provocative collection elaborates a trans-cultural definition of being a woman in struggle. Looking at the films of women directors in countries in the Mediterranean rim, this book spurs a contemporary discussion of women s human, civil, and social rights while...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-02-01
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On the surface it may seem slightly surprising that a master of verbal humour should also be a devotee of silent comedy, but Paul Merton is completely passionate about the early days of Hollywood comedy and the comic geniuses who dominated it. His knowledge is awesome -...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2010-01-26
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The Fantasy Film provides a clear and compelling overview of this revitalized and explosively popular film genre. Includes analyses of a wide range of films, from early classics such asThe Wizard of Oz and Harvey to Spiderman and Shrek, and blockbuster series such as...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-01-26
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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