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OMG. It's Chuck Bass and Nate Archibald from Gossip Girl in one book. We're all mad about the boys, but is it Ed Westwick's bad-guy allure that ticks your box, or Chace Crawford's pretty-boy looks? Or - naughty - both? Well, to help you decide, Gossip Boys, the...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2011-09-29
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This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare's theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-09-26
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This uniquely engaging and lively textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to international film, from the golden age of European cinema to the contemporary blockbusters of India and Asia, and the post World War II emergence of global film culture. Offers an...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-23
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Unraveling French Cinema provides a much needed introduction to the complexities of French film for students, cineastes, and the movie-loving public. Looks at the differences between French and American national cinema Explores how French directors shape their films...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-22
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Cinema Wars explores the intersection of film, politics, and US culture and society through a bold critical analysis of the films, TV shows, and documentaries produced in the early 2000s Offers a thought-provoking depiction of Hollywood film as a contested terrain...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-13
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Cinema Wars explores the intersection of film, politics, and US culture and society through a bold critical analysis of the films, TV shows, and documentaries produced in the early 2000s Offers a thought-provoking depiction of Hollywood film as a contested terrain...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-13
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What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin's famous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweeping look back at the near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy. Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time Establishes cinema's...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-09
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration for a generation of modernists. Drawing on examples from literature, dance, photography, and film, Modernism's Mythic Pose argues that a strain of antimodern-classicism permeates modernist celebrations...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-09-02
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If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change?How can 3-D be the future of cinema when it's been giving audiences a headache for over a hundred years? Why pay to watch films in cinemas that don't have a projectionist...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-09-01
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The reason for the decline of Orson Welles's career is a hotly debated issue, but decline it certainly did. When Citizen Kane, his first film, opened in 1941, Welles was universally acclaimed as the most audacious filmmaker alive. But instead of marking the beginning of...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-08-31
ePub
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Terry Wogan was one of Britain's best-loved radio and television celebrities witty, charming and relaxed and undoubtedly captured the nation's heart. Here,Terry tells his life story from his beginnings as a young Limerick boy to his incredible success as an...
Editeur :
Bbc Digital
Parution :
2011-08-31
ePub
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When Sean Astin, veteran Hollywood actor of over 30 movies including The Goonies, and Rudy, landed the part of Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings, he knew it was going to be different to anything he'd ever worked on before. Here he shares his heartfelt opinions on...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2011-08-31
ePub
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Long Day's Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neill's death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, 'a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood', a harrowing attempt to understand...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-08-31
ePub
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Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates how a variety of Russian theatrical styles were introduced and incorporated into American theatre and dance during the beginning of the twentieth century.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-29
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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An innovative and original new study, Television, Memory and Nostalgia re-imagines the relationship between the medium and its forms of memory and remembrance through a series of case studies of British and North American programmes and practices. These include ER ,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-26
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The automaton, known today as the robot, can be seen as a metaphor for the historical period in which it is explored. Chapters include examinations of Iconoclasm's fear that art might surpass nature, the Cartesian mind/body divide, automata as objects of courtly desire,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-26
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Der vorliegende Band versammelt Forschungsbeiträge und Diskussionsergebnisse der Internationalen Konferenz Exil – Glaube und Kultur: 1933-1945. «Der Tag wird kommen» (Lion Feuchtwanger), die im Frühling 2009 an der Universität Wien von der International Feuchtwanger...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-18
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An exploration of the social significance of Shrek from a variety of theoretical perspectives, this book pursues two different, yet intertwined objectives. The first is to present Shrek as pedagogical tool that could be usefully employed in a number of different...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-14
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Questo libro affronta per la prima volta in maniera complessiva l’attività teatrale di Italo Calvino, dagli anni della produzione giovanile fino alla tormentata riscrittura di Un re in ascolto che accompagnerà l’autore fino alla morte nel 1985. La ricostruzione...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-12
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Since the early 1980s, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of international gay/lesbian-themed visual productions, ranging from pornographic images and television programmes to advertising and graphic novels. Often originating from countries with a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-12
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