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The Musicality of Narrative Film is the first book to examine in depth the film/music analogy. Using comparative analysis, Kulezic-Wilson explores film's musical potential, arguing that film's musicality can be achieved through various cinematic devices, with or without...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-04-14
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The Fascination of Film Violence is a study of why fictional violence is such an integral part of fiction film. How can something dreadful be a source of art and entertainment? Explanations are sought from the way social and cultural norms and practices have shaped...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-04-07
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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
Parution :
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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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...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-24
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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 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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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
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Framing Film Festivals
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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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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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Sex and Film is a frank, comprehensive analysis of the cinema's love affair with the erotic. Forshaw's lively study moves from the sexual abandon of the 1930s to filmmakers' circumvention of censorship, the demolition of taboos by arthouse directors and pornographic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-27
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Research shows that, while people around the world consistently nominate television as their most important news source, much of the content of news bulletins is lost to viewers within moments. In response, Barrie Gunter argues that this can be explained by the way in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-17
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Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational texts within film theory to film sound tracks. Walker includes sustained analyses of particular films according to a range of theoretical approaches:...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-02-03
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Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940. In particular, Imagining New York City considers how and why certain city spaces-such...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-02-02
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Film Studies From Hollywood to Bollywood, explore the fantastic world of film Whether you’re preparing to study film at university or you simply have a passion for cinema, you’re bound to enjoy this book. Here’s where you’ll learn how people communicate ideas in films,...
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For Dummies
Parution :
2015-01-23
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New media technologies impact cinema well beyond the screen. This volume speculates about the changes in modes of accessing, distributing, storing and promoting moving images and how they might affect cinematographic experience, economy and historiography.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-16
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Human rights film festivals have been steadily growing in number in recent years. They are all bound by a common thread, human rights, and yet show distinctly different films. What leads them to be so different, and how is the universalism of human rights made sense by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-08
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