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This provocative collection elaborates a trans-cultural definition of being a woman in struggle. Looking at the films of women directors in countries in the Mediterranean rim, this book spurs a contemporary discussion of women s human, civil, and social rights while...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-02-01
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The Fantasy Film provides a clear and compelling overview of this revitalized and explosively popular film genre. Includes analyses of a wide range of films, from early classics such asThe Wizard of Oz and Harvey to Spiderman and Shrek, and blockbuster series such as...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-01-26
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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Perhaps the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson created a new kind of cinema through meticulous refinement of the form's grammatical and expressive possibilities. In thirteen features over a forty-year career, he held to an...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-01-19
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Miami Vice captures the glitter and glamour embodied by Crockett and Tubbs and offers students an anatomy of a ground-breaking work in the police procedural genre. ExploresMiami Vice's combination of disparate influences (MTV, film noir, soap opera, 'high concept'...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-12-15
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Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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Belinda Smaill proposes an original approach to documentary studies, examining how emotions such as pleasure, hope, pain, empathy, nostalgia or disgust are integral both to the representation of selfhood in documentary, and to the way documentaries circulate in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-30
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It was made like a television movie, and completed in less than three months.It killed off its star in forty minutes. There was no happy ending. And it offered the most violent scene to date in American film, punctuated by shrieking strings that seared the national...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2009-11-24
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Racial Stigma on the Hollywood Screen from WWII to the Present charts how the dominant white and black binary of American racial discourse influences Hollywood s representation of the Asian. The Orientalist buddy film draws a scenario in which two buddies, one white and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-23
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In the context of nineteenth-century Victorinoir and close readings of original-cycle film noir, Julie Grossman argues that the presence of the "femme fatale" figure, as she is understood in film criticism and popular culture, is drastically over-emphasized...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-10-21
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Taking as its point of departure the three recurrent themes of nostalgia, memory and local histories, this book is an attempt to map out a new poetics - the 'post-nostalgic imagination' - in Hong Kong cinema in the first decade of Chinese rule.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-09-29
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Many studies of fictions of city life take the flâneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth , this book shows that mass housing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-09-29
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A movie that swept the 1934 Academy Awards and captivated Depression-era America, It Happened One Night challenged the ways Americans imagined marriage, romance, gender, and class difference. This book examines key scenes and formal features of It Happened One Night,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-09-08
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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One of the most popular, respected and controversial writers of the twentieth century, Greene's work has still attracted relatively little scholarly comment. Thomson charts the intricate dance between his novels and screenplays, his many audiences, and an intellectual...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-08-26
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The Hollywood War Film offers readers a lively introduction to the theory, history, stars, and major films constituting this vital genre, from Hollywood's earliest days to the current moment Combines broad historical and theoretical coverage of the genre with in-depth...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-08-25
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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The first sustained examination of the depiction of American suburbia in gothic and horror films, television and literature from 1948 to the present day. Beginning with Shirley Jackson'sThe Road Through the Wall , Murphy discusses representative texts from each decade,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-08-21
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This collection brings together leading international scholars and filmmakers focusing on Latin American cinema. Themes discussed include subjectivity, history, memory, representations of reality, cinema's relation to the public sphere, and issues of production,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-06-08
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Martin Flanagan uses Bakhtin's notions of dialogism, chronotope and polyphony to address fundamental questions about film form and reception, focussing particularly on the way cinematic narrative utilises time and space in its very construction.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-05-29
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“Grace has theorized the religious film as elegantly as she has written it history. And what a history! From early, simple stories to Mel Gibson’s grily Passion of the Crist.” KRIN GABBARD, AUTHOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND THE CINEMA Lush, vaguely liturgical music floods the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-05-11
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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Since its famed introduction of the “boiled bunny,” Fatal Attraction (1987) established itself as one of American cinema’s most controversial films. This insightful new book surveys the film's formal features and its ideological impact, paying special attention to the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-29
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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Since its famed introduction of the “boiled bunny,” Fatal Attraction (1987) established itself as one of American cinema’s most controversial films. This insightful new book surveys the film's formal features and its ideological impact, paying special attention to the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-29
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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This dazzling little book explores the role of US media in foreign policy, not only at the present moment, but with an eye to the future. Written by a veteran Hollywood film executive and an internationally known columnist in foreign affairs Explains how American...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-27
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