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The links between cinema and war machines have long been established. This book explores the range, form, and valences of trauma narratives that permeate the most notable narrative films about the breakup of Yugoslavia.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-01-26
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How do we define the globalized cinema and media cultures of Bollywood in an age when it has become part of the cultural diplomacy of an emerging superpower? Bollywood and Its Other(s) explores the aesthetic-philosophical questions of the other through, for example,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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Examining a range of fantasy films released in the past decade, Pheasant-Kelly looks at why these films are meaningful to current audiences. The imagery and themes reflecting 9/11, millennial anxieties, and environmental disasters have furthered fantasy's rise to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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This collection offers an overview of British TV comedies, ranging from the beginnings of sitcoms in the 1950s to the current boom of 'Britcoms'. It provides in-depth analyses of major comedies, systematically addressing their generic properties, filmic history, humour...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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An ambitious interpretation of the critically celebrated and widely popular crime drama Breaking Bad , this book argues that not only should the series be understood as a show that revolves around the dramatic stakes of dignity, but that to do so reveals - in new ways -...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-01-26
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Focusing on aesthetic figuration diverse home spaces, modes of domestic life, and family histories, this book argues that depicting democracy as it unfolds literally at home presents a compelling portrait of the intimate and everyday aspects of change that can be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-01-26
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Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies describes, analyses and evaluates the phenomenon of private television in Europe, clustered around the themes of European and national experiences, content and markets, and policies.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-23
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Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, The Visual Music Film explores the concept and expression of musicality in the visual music film, in which visual presentations are given musical attributes such as rhythmical form, structure and harmony.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-23
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture
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Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the 'new Argentine cinema' phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly relevant films,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-23
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Returning to questions about ideology and subjectivity, Flisfeder argues that Slavoj Žižek's theory of film aims to re-politicize film studies and film theory, bringing cinema into the fold of twenty-first century politics.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-20
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What does popular culture's relationship with cyborgs, robots, vampires and zombies tell us about being human? Insightful scholarly perspectives shine a light on how film and television evince and portray the philosophical roots, the social ramifications and the future...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-13
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American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision as derivative, Malburne-Wade uses Victor Turner's concept of the social drama and the concept of the liminal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-12
Collection :
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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As the first collection of essays about Oscar Wilde's comedies, the contributors re-evaluate Oscar Wilde's society plays as 'comedies of manners" to see whether this is actually an apt way to read Wilde's most emblematic plays. Focusing on both the context and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-01-12
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Deleuze and Beckett is a collection of essays on specific aspects of theDeleuze and Beckett interface. Some of the world's leading Beckett andDeleuze specialists apply different concepts of Deleuzian philosophy to a wide range of Beckett's oeuvre, including his novels,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-12
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Upon its US release in the mid 1990s, Ghost in the Shell , directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the most popular Japanese animated films in the country. Despite this, Oshii is known as a maverick within anime: a self-proclaimed 'stray dog'. This is the first...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-08
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This volume gathers contributions from a range of international scholars and geopolitical contexts to explore why people organise themselves into performance communities in sites of crisis and how performance – social and aesthetic, sanctioned and underground – is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-05
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A journey through Johannesburg via three art projects raises intriguing notions about the constitutive relationship between the city, imagination and the public sphere- through walking, gaming and performance art. Amid prevailing economic validations, the trilogy posits...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-05
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Exploring films made in Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria from 1985 to 2009, Suzanne Gauch illustrates how late post-independence and early twenty-first century North African cinema prefigured many of the transformations in perception and relation that stunned both...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-04
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Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger's Tales is an interdisciplinary collection of essays by established and emerging scholars, analysing the shifting representations of Irish men across a range of popular culture forms in the period of the Celtic Tiger and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-30
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This edited collection explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to film and moving image practices, the book explores the recent developments in research on film and urban landscapes,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-30
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