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This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of how the ancient past has shaped screen stardom in Hollywood since the silent era. It engages with debates on historical reception, gender and sexuality, nostalgia, authenticity and the uses of the past. Michael...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-13
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‘A wonderfully candid and insightful account of a writer’s life’ William BoydLuck, good or bad, plays an important part in a writer’s career. In 1976 Lodge was pursuing a ‘twin-track career’ as novelist and academic but the balancing act was increasingly difficult, and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2018-01-11
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This book presents an incisive analysis of how fundamental issues in education are portrayed in film. Focusing on recent films, the author draws on a wide range of educational thinkers and fields of research to examine issues not discussed before. Resnick challenges our...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-08
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Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’ presents the story of three remarkable individuals—Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Anglican missionary Charles Freer Andrews. Brought together for the first time, the letters in this volume not only bear witness to...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2018-01-04
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This edited collection examines the synergistic relationship between gender and urban space in post-millennium Spain. Despite the social progress Spain has made extending equal rights to all citizens, particularly in the wake of the Franco regime and radically...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-03
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Florian Kumb provides a comprehensive review of the current state of the international literature on the motion picture industry and then applies a mix of appropriate quantitative and qualitative research methods in three empirical studies. He enters uncharted research...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-12-27
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Aimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and looks like—and by doing so celebrates creative practice as an important pursuit in the contemporary academic landscape. Drawing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-19
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This book investigates the relationship between musical Modernism and German cinema. It paves the way for anunorthodox path of research, one which has been little explored up until now. The main figures of musical Modernism, from Alban Berg to Paul Hindemith, and from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-16
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'The life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full' The Times Smiling in Slow Motion is Derek Jarman's last journal, stretching from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994. Jarman writes with his trademark humour and candour...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-12-14
Collection :
The Journals of Derek Jarman
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This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War. It begins by asking what exactly was so "Great" about it, before turning to individual studies of various aspects of the war. These fall broadly into two categories. Firstly personal,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-12-14
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?This book investigates the global hub airport as an exemplar of cosmopolitan culture and space. A machine made for movement, itself perched at the crossroads of the world’s incessant mobility, the airport is both a symbol of and stage for the ways in which we construct...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-12-12
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This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager. Primarily responsible for the popularity of “blood and thunder” melodramas with working class audiences in New York City, Hamblin...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-11
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This edited collection brings together academics and practitioners to explore the uses of Digital Storytelling, which places the greatest possible emphasis on the voice of the storyteller. Case studies are used as a platform to investigate questions of concept, theory...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-07
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This book gathers together essays written by leading scholars of adaptation studies to explore the full range of practices and issues currently of concern in the field. The chapters demonstrate how content and messaging are shared across an increasing number of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-06
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The most comprehensive volume on one of the most controversial directors in American film history A Companion to D.W. Griffith offers an exhaustive look at the first acknowledged auteur of the cinema and provides an authoritative account of the director’s life, work,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-12-05
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
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Negentien jaar geleden redden Harry Potter, Ron Wemel en Hermelien Griffel de tovenaarswereld. Nu vertrekken ze wederom op een buitengewoon avontuur, samen met een nieuwe generatie dappere leerlingen die nog maar net aangekomen is op Zweinsteins Hogeschool voor Hekserij...
Editeur :
Pottermore Publishing
Parution :
2017-12-04
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This book studies how the increase of visual representation of mixed-race Koreans formulates a particular racial project in contemporary South Korean media. It explores the moments of ruptures and disjuncture that biracial bodies bring to the formation of neoliberal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-01
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This book works to 'make change strange' from and for the field of theatre and performance studies. Growing from the idea that change is an under-interrogated category that over-determines theatre and performance as an artistic, social, educational, and material...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-01
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This book addresses the need for critical scholarship about contemporary dance practices in Ireland. Bringing together key voices from a new wave of scholarship to examine recent practice and research in the field of contemporary dance, it examines the excitingly...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-29
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In contrast to the main body of current Victorian detective criticism, which tends to concentrate on Conan Doyle’s creation and only uses other detectives as a backdrop, the texts gathered in this volume examine various contemporary ways of (re)presenting real and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-11-28
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