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This edited collection charts the first four seasons of Black Mirror and beyond, providing a rich social, historical and political context for the show. Across the diverse tapestry of its episodes, Black Mirror has both dramatized and deconstructed the shifting cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-26
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This book charts the development of the multiplex cinema as the pre-eminent form of film exhibition across the world. Going from its origins in the USA in the 1960s to its expansion overseas from the mid-1980s across Europe, Australia and other parts of Asia-Pacific,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-26
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This interdisciplinary study examines how state surveillance has preoccupied British and American television series in the twenty years since 9/11. Surveillance and Terror in Post-9/11 British and American Television illuminates how the U.S. and U.K., bound by an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-18
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The book presents a theory of relationships between the forms of devotion and early drama genres.The historical background is the circumstances of the Church becoming independent of the Empire. A theological and philosophical aspect of the transformation of piety at the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-07-18
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This study is devoted to the work of two early British filmmakers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the films that they made around 1900. Internationally, they are known collectively as the ‘Brighton School’ and are positioned as being at the forefront of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-16
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What impact did the new art of film have on the development of another new art, the emerging science fiction genre, during the pre- and early post-World War II era? Focusing on such popular pulp magazines as Amazing Stories, Astounding Stories, and Wonder Stories, this...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-11
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A lifestyle guide and tribute to the style, glamour, and showmanship of Hollywood's most iconic star, with Marilyn-inspired lessons and inspiration for today's woman.While the 1950s was in many ways an era of repression for women, Marilyn Monroe broke barriers and...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2019-07-09
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Celebrate 50 of the most empowering and unforgettable female characters ever to grace the screen, as well as the artists who brought them to vibrant life!From Scarlett O'Hara to Thelma and Louise to Wonder Woman, strong women have not only lit up the screen, they've...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2019-07-02
Collection :
Turner Classic Movies
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The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama is a collection of in-depth, substantive interviews with moving-image artists working "avant-doc, that is, making films that explore the territory between documentary and experimental cinema.
The book uses the early history...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-01
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This volume reads the global urban environment through mediated sonic practices to put a contemporary spin on acoustic ecology’s investigations at the intersection of space, cultures, technology, and the senses. Acoustic ecology is an interdisciplinary framework from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-27
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Sunday Times BestsellerWith a brand new introduction for 2020.How Do You Want Me? is critically acclaimed as brutally honest, vivid and gripping. Ruby Wax's unflinching revelation of a childhood poisoned, and a youth spoiled, culminates in a moving account of her...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2019-06-20
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Sex and Sexuality in Modern Screen Remakes examines how sexiness, sexuality and revisited sexual politics are used to modernize film and TV remakes. This exploration provides insight into the ever-evolving—and ever-contested—role of sex in society, and scrutinizes...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-19
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What haunts the city? Why is there so much pessimism in our urban lives? And how does this physical and psychological insecurity of relentless competition and a desire to succeed against all odds proliferate into cinema?
Dark Fear, Eerie Cities analyses a wide array of...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2019-06-18
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Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical, following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the heightened experience...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-06-14
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This book presents a compelling case for a paradigmatic shift in the analysis of television drama production that recentres questions of power, control and sustainability. Television drama production has become an increasingly lucrative global export business as drama...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-04
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This book provides a new approach to the intersections between music and philosophy. It features articles that rethink the concepts of musical work and performance from ontological and epistemological perspectives and discuss issues of performing practices that involve...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-01
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This book examines the complex ways in which television articulates ideas about DNA in the early 21st century. Considering television’s distinct aesthetic and narrative forms, as well as its specific cultural roles, it identifies TV as a key site for the genetic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-30
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
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This book analyzes six key narratives of Hurricane Katrina across literature, film and television from the literary fiction of Jesmyn Ward to the cinema of Spike Lee. It argues that these texts engage with the human tragedy and political fallout of the Katrina crisis...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-05-29
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This volume explores film and television for children and youth. While children’s film and television vary in form and content from country to country, their youth audience, ranging from infants to “screenagers”, is the defining feature of the genre and is written into...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-28
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This book examines the proliferation of surrogacy storylines on TV, exploring themes of infertility, motherhood, parenting and family. It investigates how, despite reproductive technologies’ ability to flex contours of family, the shows’ narratives work to uphold the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-23
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