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This volume brings fresh perspectives to the study of James Bond. With a strong emphasis on the process of Bond’s incarnation on screen and his transit across media forms, chapters examine Bond in terms of adaptation, television, computer games, and the original novels....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-29
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This book uses the long and profitable career of Cecil B. DeMille to track the evolution of Classical Hollywood and its influence on emerging mass commercial culture in the US. DeMille’s success rested on how well his films presumed a broad consensus in the American...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-26
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Studying the case of Latin American cinema, this book analyzes one of the most public - and most exportable- forms of postcolonial national culture to argue that millennial era globalization demands entirely new frameworks for thinking about the relationship between...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-25
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This book provides an in-depth study of Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, Kim Novak and Meryl Streep, and the treatment of adultery in their films. It avoids the near-impossible challenge of writing about the sheer volume of adultery in film by focusing on specific periods in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-24
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This book examines the interconnections between punk and alternative comedy (altcom). It explores how punk’s tendency towards humour and parody influenced the trajectory taken by altcom in the UK, and the punk strategies introduced when altcom sought self-definition...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-24
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This book is about the history of character in modern Irish drama. It traces the changing fortunes of the human self in a variety of major Irish plays across the twentieth century and the beginning of the new millennium. Through the analysis of dramatic protagonists...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-23
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This unique study opens up a new dimension of Terrence Malick’s cinema – its expressions of unseeing and hearing. ‘Unseeing’ is Malick’s means of transcending the moment in order to enter the life that unfolds; to treat cinema as a real experience for those who live its...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-23
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In diesem Kompendium werden Filmemacher/innen, historische Stationen und aktuelle Entwicklungen des Märchenfilms vorgestellt. Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit dem Beginn des Märchenfilms in Frankreich, stellen expressionistische Filmproduktionen vor wie Lotte...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-05-23
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This book examines the performance of ‘Britishness’ on the musical stage. Covering a tumultuous period in British history, it offers a fresh look at the vitality and centrality of the musical stage, as a global phenomenon in late-Victorian popular culture and beyond....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-15
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Wenn Parodien auf eine Person und ihre Werke trotz allen Spotts Wertschätzung bezeugen, so hat Richard Wagner Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts in Frankreich die höchsten Weihen erfahren. Schon dessen erste Pariser Auftritte als Dirigent 1860 inspirierten Offenbach, darauf...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-05-12
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Musikwissenschaft
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This pivot offers an innovative, trans-local perspective on performance studies in the era of digital technology, considering a range of content from theater to opera, film, dance, and musical theatre. It examines theatre performing arts and film in terms of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-05-10
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“A fresh study that confirms the existence of multiple peripheries (and its others) in Turkish society and how dominant centrist media represented these differences in film and television discourse. The use of Mardin’s center-periphery concept for the analyses of films,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-05-08
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A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of ballet As much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2018-05-08
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Discover the truths, the history, the myths and the magic behind the first three novels in the spellbinding All Souls series. Fall under the spell once more with this all-encompassing insider's guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life.The...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2018-05-08
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This book examines the structuring of space in Romanian and Hungarian cinema, and particularly how space is used to express the deep imprint of a socialist past on a post-socialist present. It considers this legacy of the Eastern European socialist regimes by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-07
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This book is the first history of British animated cartoons, from the earliest period of cinema in the 1890s up to the late 1920s. In this period cartoonists and performers from earlier traditions of print and stage entertainment came to film to expand their artistic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-04
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This volume frames the concept of a national play. By analysing a number of European case studies, it addresses the following question: Which play could be regarded as a country's national play, and how does it represent its national identity? The chapters...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-04
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Dance in TV advertisements has long been familiar to Americans as a silhouette dancing against a colored screen, exhibiting moves from air guitar to breakdance tricks, all in service of selling the latest Apple product. But as author Colleen T. Dunagan shows in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-05-04
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This collective book offers new insight on the genres of biography and autobiography by examining the singular path of those deemed to be ‘outsiders’, such as Winnie Mandela, Ida B. Wells, Malcolm X and Harvey Milk. Its specific focus on these female leaders and civil...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-03
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This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of British football as depicted on film. From early single-camera silents to its current multi-screen mediations, the repeated treatment of football in British cinema points to the game’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-03
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