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This is the first exploration of the performative and theatrical force of Austen’s work and its afterlife, from the nineteenth century to the present. It unearths new and little-known Austen materials: from suffragette novels and pageants to school and amateur...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-22
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This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day. It offers innovative readings of such canonical plays as J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-19
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Il Magizoologo Newt Scamander arriva a New York con l’intenzione di rimanerci soltanto per una breve sosta. Ma quando la sua valigia magica finisce nelle mani sbagliate e alcuni dei suoi animali fantastici scappano, sono guai per tutti…
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Pottermore from J.K. Rowling
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2017-01-16
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This book reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway’s most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies.As the first biography to use the recently opened Fields Papers at the Motion Picture Academy, the book explores how Fields years as a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-16
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Der Magizoologe Newt Scamander will in New York nur einen kurzen Zwischenstopp einlegen. Doch als sein magischer Koffer verloren geht und ein Teil seiner phantastischen Tierwesen entkommt, steckt Newt in der Klemme – und nicht nur er.Phantastische Tierwesen und wo sie...
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Pottermore Publishing
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2017-01-14
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This book offers an exploration of the intersection of Korean theatre practice with Western literary theatre. Gangnam Style, K-Pop, the Korean Wave : who hasn't heard of these recent Korean phenomena? Having spent two years in Korea as a theatrical and cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-12
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This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema’s first years. The book takes up the familiar notion of cinema as a “ghostly,” “spectral” or “haunted” medium and asks what made such association possible. Examining the history of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-10
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A Brief History of Comic Book Movies traces the meteoric rise of the hybrid art form of the comic book film. These films trace their origins back to the early 1940s, when the first Batman and Superman serials were made. The serials, and later television shows in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-05
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This book examines the queer film festival and opens the discussion on social enterprises and sustainable lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) organisations. With over 220 events worldwide and some of the bigger budgets exceeding $1 million, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-05
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Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller's War Movies is the first book to focus on the genre that best defined the American director's career: the war film. It draws on previously unexplored archival materials, such as Fuller's Federal Bureau of Investigation files and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-01-04
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Das Buch bietet mit einer mehr als 40 Jahre Migrationskino thematisierenden Bandbreite an Aufsätzen, Interviews und Filmographien ein umfassendes Nachschlagewerk zum deutsch-türkischen Kino an. Mit diesem erhalten Lehrende, Forschende und Studierende der Film-, Medien-...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-01-03
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The human face was said to be rediscovered with the advent of motion pictures, in which it is often viewed as expressive locus, as figure, and even as essence of the cinema. But how has the modern, technological, mass-circulating art revealed the face in ways that are...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-01-03
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In this book, educator-actor-playwright-director Elizabeth Hess offers systematic and original explorations in performance technique. This hybrid approach is a fusion of physical theater modalities culled from Western practices (Psycho-physical actions, Viewpoints)...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-28
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This volume examines the blending of fact and fiction in a series of cultural artefacts by post-dictatorship writers and artists in Argentina, many of them children of disappeared or persecuted parents. Jordana Blejmar argues that these works, which emerged after the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-28
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This book presents a historical overview of the Indonesian ?lm industry, the relationship between censorship and representation, and the rise of Islamic popular culture. It considers scholarship on gender in Indonesian cinema through the lens of power relations. With...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-28
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This book discusses the representational geographies of the Bond film franchise and how they inform our reading of 007 as a hero. Offering a new and interdisciplinary lens through which the franchise can be analyzed, Funnell and Dodds explore a range of topics that have...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-27
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Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy is the first collection of essays in English focusing on how fantasy draws deeply on ancient Greek and Roman mythology, philosophy, literature, history, art, and cult practice. Presenting fifteen all-new essays intended for both...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-12-26
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This volume explains how Star Trek allows viewers to comprehend significant aspects of Georg Hegel’s concept the absolute, the driving force behind history.Gonzalez, with wit and wisdom, explains how Star Trek exhibits central elements of the absolute. He describes how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-23
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This collection explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life, voicing anxieties about our relationship to other life forms with which we share the earth. From medieval manuscript illustrations to modern works of science fiction and horror,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-21
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Über 550 Filme von der Stummfilmzeit bis heute. Die Artikel informieren über Produktionsbedingungen, Form, Inhalt und Wirkung. Jedem Eintrag folgen Filmografien und Literaturangaben. Viele Abbildungen, verschiedene Register und ein ausführliches Glossar verleiten zum...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-12-17
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