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In this book, Shannon Rose Riley provides a critically rich investigation of representations of Cuba and Haiti in US culture in order to analyze their significance not only to the emergence of empire but especially to the reconfiguration of US racial structures along...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-22
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This book explores the multiple portrayals of the actor and theatre manager Colley Cibber, king of the dunces, professional fop, defacer of Shakespeare and the cruel and unforgiving father of Charlotte Charke. But these portraits of Cibber are doubly partial,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-22
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Examining the ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the ‘War on Terror’, this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respond to the post-9/11 military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. The plays are written by some of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-17
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Within this landmark collection, original voices from the field of drama provide rich analysis of a selection of the most exciting and remarkable plays and productions of the twenty-first century. But what makes the drama of the new millenium so distinctive?...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-17
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During the late 1920s and the 1930s, the Italian government sought various commercial and politically oriented solutions to cope with the advent of new sound technologies in cinema. The translation of foreign-language films became a recurrent topic of ongoing debates...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-16
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This book is about the British film-maker Lindsay Anderson. Anderson was a highly influential personality within British cinema, mostly famous for landmark films likeThis Sporting Life (1963) and If….(1968). Lindsay Anderson Revisited deals primarily with hitherto...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-14
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The New Hollywood of the late 1960s and 1970s is among the most exciting and influential periods in the history of film. This book explores how the new wave of historical films were profoundly shaped by the controversies and concerns of the present.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-13
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This book explores the formal and thematic conventions of crime film, the contexts in which these have flourished and their links with the social issues of a globalized world. The crime film has traditionally been identified with suspense, a heterogeneous aesthetic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-10
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Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema is a transdisciplinary volume that addresses the cinematic mediation of a wide range of conflicts. From World War II and its aftermath to the exploration of colonial and post-colonial experiences and more recent forms of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-10
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Lasting Stars examines the issue of stardom and longevity and investigates the many reasons for the persistence or disappearance of different star personas. Through a selection of chapters that look at issues such as inappropriate ageing, national identity and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-28
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This book explores the ways in which films of Johannesburg assist residents of the city to bridge the divisions and inequalities of contemporary urban space through the four lenses of materiality, identity, mobility, and crime. Films influence the everyday practices of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-28
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This book looks closely at some of the most significant films within the field of queer Sinophone cinema. Examining queerness in films produced in the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the book merges the Sinophone with the queer, theorising both concepts as local and global,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-20
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Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Horror Cinema explores the different mechanisms and strategies through which horror films attempt to reinforce or contest gender relations and issues of sexual identity in the continent. The book explores issues of machismo,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-20
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Immersive theatre currently enjoys ubiquity, popularity and recognition in theatre journalism and scholarship. However, the politics of immersive theatre aesthetics still lacks a substantial critique. Does immersive theatre model a particular kind of politics, or a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-18
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A Companion to Russian Cinema provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-05-17
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
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Die Beiträge untersuchen Landschaften wie Wüste, Steppe, Puszta, Nordpol oder Walachei, die den disanthropischen Topos vom «Ende der Welt» aufnehmen. Neuere Erzählungen, Reiseberichte und Filme zeigen die ambivalente Faszinationskraft der Unwirtlichkeit vornehmlich...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-13
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Hitchcock, Welles e Lang; Huston, Kubrick e Laughton. L’espressionismo, il noir e il western; Leni Riefenstahl, Germi e Altman. Il neorealismo e il poliziottesco italiani; Bellocchio, Haneke e Sokurov. Il cinema hollywoodiano dei nostri anni e i giochi di prestigio di...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2016-05-12
Collection :
La critica sociale
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This is the first-ever, full-length study of Badal Sircar's Third Theatre. Sircar was a very prominent playwright of modern Bengali Theatre. It challenges some of the well-established notions of the Third Theatre. It brings to the fore the lost voices of some members of...
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OUP India
Parution :
2016-05-12
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Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure combines the author's two main biographical paths: her professional commitment to the fields of both theatre and philosophy. The art of acting on stage is analysed here not only from the theoretical perspective of a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-12
Collection :
Performance Philosophy
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This book analyses the success and adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel War Horse to stage, radio, live events, and feature film, in different cultures, on tours, and in translation. In under a decade, War Horse has gone from obscure...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-09
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