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Devices of Curiosity excavates a largely unknown genre of early cinema, the popular-science film. Primarily a work of cinema history, it also draws on the insights of the history of science. Beginning around 1903, a variety of producers made films about scientific...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-04-02
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A Companion to Robert Altman presents myriad aspects of Altman’s life, career, influence and historical context. This book features 23 essays from a range of experts in the field, providing extensive coverage of these aspects and dimensions of Altman’s work. The most...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-31
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
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This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, identification and doubling in the cinema. It contains analyses of a wide variety of films, including Citizen Kane, The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-31
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This book illustrates how local awareness of Western cultural hegemonic entities such as Broadway and Shakespeare have been implemented within South Korean theatre in the global era. With a focus on performances that targeted global audiences, Lee explores the ways in...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-03-24
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The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of the history, myriad themes, and critical approaches to the action and adventure genre in American cinema. Draws on a wide range of examples, spanning the silent spectacles of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-24
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of the history, myriad themes, and critical approaches to the action and adventure genre in American cinema. Draws on a wide range of examples, spanning the silent spectacles of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-24
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New Approaches to Film Genre
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3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences questions the common frameworks used for discussing3D cinema, realism and spectacle, in order to fully understand the embodied and sensory dimensions of3D cinema's unique visuality....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-24
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This book explores the co-creative practice of contemporary dancers solely from the point of view of the dancer. It reveals multiple dancing perspectives, drawn from interviews, current writing and evocative accounts from inside the choreographic process, illuminating...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-22
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This comprehensive historical account demonstrates the rich diversity in 1970s British experimental filmmaking, acting as a form of reclamation for films and filmmakers marginalized within established histories. An indispensable book for practitioners, historians and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-17
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In New Labour's empathetic regime, how did diverse voices scrutinize its etiquettes of articulation and audibility? Using the voice as cultural evidence, Voice and New Writing explores what it means to 'have' a voice in mainstream theatre and for newly included voices...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-14
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Surviving Images explores the prominent role of cinema in the development of cultural memory around war and conflict in colonial and postcolonial contexts. It does so through a study of three historical eras: the colonial period, the national-independence struggle, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-03-13
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Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival audiences, and the filmmakers), Dovey reveals what turns something called...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-11
Collection :
Framing Film Festivals
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When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature and drama in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-03-11
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A New History of British Documentary is the first comprehensive overview of documentary production in Britain from early film to the present day. It covers both the film and television industries and demonstrates how documentary practice has adapted to changing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-11
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Thema des Buches ist Kundry, die weibliche Hauptfigur in Richard Wagners Spätwerk Parsifal (1882) und eine singuläre Gestalt der Operngeschichte. Als Grenzgängerin und in sich Zerrissene findet sie – zwischen Schrei, Lachen und Verstummen – zu verstörend neuen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-09
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Generally taking place in front of closed curtains during set changes between acts, the entr'acte delivers a fleeting new purpose and event to the otherwise sometimes inert space between stage and pit. This collection employs the entr'acte as a model for conceptualizing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-05
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Commedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change. This book, utilizing comedies produced in Italy from 1958-70, examines the genre's representation of gender in the everyday spaces of beaches and nightclubs, offices, cars,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-05
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Motion Capture in Performance explores the historical origins, properties and implications ofMotion Capture. It introduces a new mode of performance for the commercial film, animation, and console gaming industries - 'Performance Capture', a distinct interdisciplinary...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-03-04
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Transatlantic Broadway traces the infrastructural networks and technological advances that supported the globalization of popular entertainment in the pre-World War I period, with a specific focus on the production and performance of Broadway as physical space, dream...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-03
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A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film presents a collection of original essays that explore major issues surrounding the state of current documentary films and their capacity to inspire and effect change. Presents a comprehensive collection of essays relating...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-03
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