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The Films of Stephen King is the first collection of essays assembled on the cinematic adaptations of Stephen King.The individual chapters, written by cinema, television, and cultural studies scholars, examine the most important films from the King canon, from Carrie to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-02-04
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If directing dramatic productions interests you, this book is a basic guide to show you know to apply the principles of directing to any dramatic medium - stage, television, or film. The authors, who have worked in all three media, illustrated how the principles of one...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-12-25
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The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-12-17
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The book examines cinema in post-1989 Europe by looking at how the new post-Cold War cinematographic co-productions articulate the political and cultural objectives of a new Europe as they redefine a European identity.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-12-09
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Road Movies engages with two foundational twentieth century technologies: cinematic and automotive. It is a book about road movies, a genre burdened by its own seductiveness. It is also, however, a book about images of human mobility more generally and the social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-12-09
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The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-12-03
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Films and television dramas about the Second World War have always been popular. Written by acknowledged experts in the field, this collection offers challenging, sometimes controversial, insights into how the popular memory of the Second World War has been...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-11-21
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Join the digital revolution. With the availability and affordability of digital movie-making equipment, it's now easier than ever for aspiring filmmakers to create the great movie they've always wanted to make. From information on creating mini-films on a PDA to making...
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Dk
Parution :
2007-11-06
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This study provides new insights into the link between masculinity and jealousy through a study of representations of male jealousy in modern Hollywood cinema. It argues, through examples of films and their reception in the press, that male jealousy has played a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-09-12
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Paul Cooke looks at Hollywood's interaction with national and transnational cinemas, from German Expressionism to Bollywood and Chinese film. While Hollywood has had a huge impact on the medium - doing all the talking in the 'dialogue' - world cinema's economic,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-07-30
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By looking at a range of different European Public Television (PTV) broadcasters, this book investigates the challenges that these broadcasters encounter in a competitive digital broadcasting environment and reveals the different policies and strategies that they are...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-07-12
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The first major overview of the field of film history in twenty years, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the methods, sources and approaches used by modern film historians. The key areas of research are analysed, alongside detailed case studies centred on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-04-25
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In this extensive analysis of the renewed popularity of the 'woman's film' in the 1990s, Roberta Garrett examines melodrama, romantic comedy, costume drama and female-led noirs , revealing the way they blend classical and contemporary themes and formal devices.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-04-12
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The medieval film genre is not, in general, concerned with constructing a historically accurate past, but much analysis nonetheless centers on highlighting anachronisms. This book aims to help scholars and aficionados of medieval film think about how the re-creation of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-02-19
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Laura Hubner is one of the first critics to analyse the elements of 'illusion' in key films by Bergman and relate these to cultural and artistic influences on his creative output, the phenomenon of Bergman as 'art film' director, and debates about modernism,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-02-07
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This exciting new title investigates the explosion of Shakespeare films during the 1990s and beyond. Linking fluctuating 'Shakespeares' with the growth of a global marketplace, the dissolution of national borders and technological advances, this book produces a fresh...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-01-31
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This book is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993) .This guide retains earlier editions' interest in renowned films and directors but is also attentive to the popular films which achieved box...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-01-08
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The book is an exploration of the creative crossings between the liberative stream of the eschatology of Edward Schillebeeckx and the stylistic strategies of 'Third Cinema', political cinema dedicated to the representation of Third World liberation.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-11-13
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This timely study breaks new ground in exploring how recent film and television horror texts articulate a female rite of passage, updating the cautionary concerns found in fairy tales of the past, particularly in warning against predatory men, treacherous females and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-10-31
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This is an exploration of the cultural representations of transvestism and transsexuality in modern screen media against a historical background. Focussing on a dozen mainstream films and on shemale Internet pornography, this fascinating study demonstrates the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-07-10
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