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This comprehensive biography uses extensive theater and film archives to reveal Mamet's ideas on writing, acting, and directing, covering his beginnings in Chicago, his relationship to Judaism and reputation for machismo, as well as discussions of and excerpts from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-30
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Philosophy and Blade Runner explores philosophical issues in the film Blade Runner , including human nature, personhood, identity, consciousness, free will, morality, God, death, and the meaning of life. The result is a novel analysis of the greatest science fiction...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-30
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This collection of essays dissects American plays, movies and other performance types that examine America and its history and culture. From Amerindian stage performances to AIDS and post-9/11 America, it displays the various and important ways theatre and performance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-30
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Engaging some of the most canonical and thought-provoking anime, manga, and science fiction films, Tokyo Cyberpunk offers insightful analysis of Japanese visual culture. Steven T. Brown draws new conclusions about the cultural flow of art, as well as important...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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What does it mean to say Indian movies are melodramatic? How do film audiences engage with socio-political issues?What role has cinema played in the emergence of new economic forms, consumer cultures and digital technologies in a globalizing India? Ravi Vasudevan...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-30
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Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well as comparisons with the melodrama film, Arnold investigates the polarized images of monstrous and sacrificing mother.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-30
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a new generation took over the leading roles in Hollywood films. These untraditional-looking young men were promoted and understood as alienated and ironic everymen, and exerted a powerful, and until now unexplored, influence over a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-30
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This ground-breaking collection focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values. Top scholars explore how familiar and new works of performance can help us recognize our reciprocal relationship with the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-30
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Staging Stigma is a captivating excursion into the bizarre world of the American freak show. Chemers critically examines several key moments of a performance tradition in which the truth is often stranger than the fiction. Grounded in meticulous historical research and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-29
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-29
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Die Untertitelung erfreut sich zunehmender Beliebtheit in der Forschung. Der Hauptgrund liegt in ihrer multidimensionalen Natur, da Untertitelung (als Prozess) und Untertitel (als Endprodukt) als interlingual, intralingual und intersemiotisch zu betrachten sind.Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-22
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Tracing the evolution of Mexican literary and cultural production following the Tlatelolco massacre, this book shows its progression from a homogeneous construct set on establishing the “true” history of Tlatelolco against the version of the State, to a more nuanced and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-21
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This book offers comparative studies of the production, content, distribution and reception of film and television drama in Europe. The collection brings together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to focus on how new developments are shaped by national...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-19
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A Companion to the War Film contains 27 original essays that examine all aspects of the genre, from the traditional war film, to the new global nature of conflicts, and the diverse formats that war stories assume in today’s digital culture. Includes new works from...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-04-15
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Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness uses musicology and queer theory to uncover meaning and message in canonical American cinema. This study considers how queer readings are reinforced or nuanced through analysis of musical score. Taking a broad approach to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-08
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The most famous name in French literary circles from the late 1950s till his death in 1981, Roland Barthes maintained a contradictory rapport with the cinema. As a cultural critic, he warned of its surreptitious ability to lead the enthralled spectator toward an...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-04-01
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From The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eighteen plays that can be called 'comedies': a far higher number than that for any other genre in which he wrote. So what is a...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-03-24
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From The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eighteen plays that can be called 'comedies': a far higher number than that for any other genre in which he wrote. So what is a...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-03-24
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A Companion to Nordic Cinema presents a collection of original essays that explore one of the world’s oldest regional cinemas from its origins to the present day. Offers a comprehensive, transnational and regional account of Nordic cinema from its origins to the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-03-24
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
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Die Kunstfigur Dr. Mabuse war immer schon ein vortreffliches Spiegelbild soziopolitischer Entwicklungen. In diesem Essay werden Ursprung und Figurenkonzeption von Norbert Jacques’ literarischer Schöpfung intensiv untersucht. Was in der Vorlage nur angedeutet war, wird...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-11
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