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This collection of essays illuminates the intersection of queer and adaptation. Both adaptation and queerness suffer from the stereotype of being secondary: to identify something as an adaptation is to recognize it in relation to something else that seems more original,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-15
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This book focuses on a representative group of contemporary Chinese female celebrities including actors, directors, writers and reporters, notably personalities such as Liu Xiaoqing, Hong Huang, Chai Jing and the most sought after young generation actors, Yang Mi and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-15
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Andy Räder untersucht erstmals alle Regiearbeiten des beliebten DEFA-Schauspielers Ulrich Thein (1930-1995) für das Fernsehen der DDR. Er weist nach, dass Thein mit seinen acht Fernsehfilmen und Mehrteilern als einer der bedeutendsten Protagonisten der DDR-Television...
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Springer VS
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2019-02-13
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This book offers the first comprehensive study of recent, popular Italian television. Building on work in American television studies, audience and reception theory, and masculinity studies, Sympathetic Perpetrators and their Audiences on Italian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-11
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With a Foreword by Dan Rebellato, this book offers up a detailed exploration of Scottish playwright David Greig’s work with particular attention to globalization, ethics, and the spectator. It makes the argument that Greig’s theatre works by undoing, cracking, or...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-09
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The brilliantly tense play that became Hitchcock's masterpiece, starring James Stewart.Believing themselves to be intellectually superior to their contemporaries, flatmates Brandon and Philip murder their friend David Kentley purely to see if they can get away with it....
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2019-02-07
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In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon argues that 21st-century mainstream filmmaking is increasingly and troublingly dominated by "synthetic cinema." He details how movies over the last two decades have fundamentally abandoned traditional filmmaking values through the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-02-05
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This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-05
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This book examines three metafunction meanings in subtitle translation with three research foci, i.e., the main types of cross-modal interrelation, the primary function of semiotic interplay, and the key linguistic components influencing the subtitles. It goes beyond...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-02-01
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Best remembered for his role as the Scarecrow in the 1939 MGM musical The Wizard of Oz, Ray Bolger led a rich and extraordinary career in the decade before and more than four decades after the creation of the film. Ray Bolger: More Than a Scarecrow is the first...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-01
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Master composer Ennio Morricone's scores go hand-in-hand with the idea of the Western film. Often considered the world's greatest living film composer, and most widely known for his innovative scores to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and the other Sergio Leone's...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-01
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James Phillips's Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle reappraises the cinematic collaboration between the Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) and the German-American actor Marlene Dietrich (1901-92). Considered by his...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-01
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Betty Comden and Adolph Green were the writers behind such classic stage musicals as On the Town, Wonderful Town, and Bells Are Ringing, and they provided lyrics for such standards as "New York, New York," "Just in Time," "The Party's Over," and "Make Someone Happy," to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-01
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Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-01
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This anthology explores how theatre and performance use home as the prism through which we reconcile shifts in national, cultural, and personal identity. Whether examining parlor dramas and kitchen sink realism, site-specific theatre, travelling tent shows, domestic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-22
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Der Wuxia-Film ist eines der ältesten und populärsten chinesischen Filmgenres. Über historische Brüche und Verlagerungen der Produktion vom chinesischen Festland nach Hongkong und Taiwan und zurück hat er meist das Bild eines homogenen, idealisierten China gezeichnet....
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-01-18
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This collection of essays addresses emergent trends in the meeting of the disciplines of phenomenology and performance. It brings together major scholars in the field, dealing with phenomenological approaches to dance, theatre, performance, embodiment, audience, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-16
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This book looks at the uses of popular music in the newly-redefined category of the nostalgia game, exploring the relationship between video games, popular music, nostalgia, and socio-cultural contexts. History, gender, race, and media all make significant appearances...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-11
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This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of horseracing in British cinema. Through comprehensive contextual histories of film production and reception, together with detailed textual analysis, this book explores the aesthetic and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-01-05
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This edited collection offers an interdisciplinary study of Twin Peaks: The Return, the third season of a TV program that has attracted the attention (and appreciation) of spectators, fans, and critics for over two decades. The book takes readers into several distinct...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-04
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