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Explore the history and cultural impact of a groundbreaking television show adored by old and new fans alike: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead,...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2022-03-15
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The New York Times bestseller - a sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. In 1934, a friend brought fledgling actress Vivien Leigh to see Theatre Royal, where she would first lay eyes...
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Sphere
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2022-03-10
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Celebrate the first decade of James Cameron's Avatar and the beginnings of an epic cinematic journey. Delve into the majestic world of Pandora and discover the incredible wealth of creativity that led this story to become the highest-grossing film of all time and the...
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Dk
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2022-03-10
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This edited collection delves into the industrial music genre, exploring the importance of music in (sub)cultural identity formation, and the impact of technology on the production of music.
With its roots as early as the 1970s, industrial music emerged as a harsh,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-09
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This book explores the representation of London’s nightlife in popular films and newspapers of the interwar period. Through a series of case-studies, it analyses how British popular media in the 1920s and 1930s displayed the capital after dark. It argues that newspapers...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-04
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In Ruth Page: The Woman in the Work, the Chicago ballerina emerges as a highly original choreographer who, in her art, sought the iconoclastic as she transgressed boundaries of genre, gender, race, class, and sexuality. Author Joellen A. Meglin shows how her works were...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-03-04
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*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'A real gem of a book for comedy fans... honest, irreverent and fascinating' Matt Lucas'Bob Odenkirk is not only a brilliant comedy writer and performer, he is also a comedy fan. This book is a love letter to all his...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2022-03-01
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This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw’s Major Barbara and Pygmalion that have received little attention from critics: language and metadrama. If we look beyond the social, political, and economic issues that Shaw explored in these two plays, we discover that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-28
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Jane Campion onJane Campion offers a unique perspective on the creative process of one of the greatest contemporary film directors, through a series of interviews from the early days of Campion’s career to her most recent projects, conducted by Michel Ciment. Each...
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Cahiers du cinéma
Parution :
2022-02-18
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'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me'MARILYN MONROEIn July 1956, Marilyn Monroe arrived in London, on honeymoon with her husband Arthur Miller, to make The Sleeping Prince (later released as The Prince and the Showgirl) with Laurence...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2022-02-17
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The book by Monika Talarczyk is devoted to the life and work of Wanda Jakubowska (1907–1998), author ofThe Last Stage (1948), an icon of women’s cinema, said to be the Mother of All Holocaust Films.The author discovers previously unknown facts in Jakubowska’s biography...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-02-16
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Quotations are a standard way that the humanities make meaning; the pull-quote, epigraph, and quotation are standard for citing evidence and invoking and interrogating authority in both literary and scholarly writing. However, film studies has yet to seriously examine...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-02-11
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Over the last twenty years Deirdre Kinahan has emerged as a significant and original female voice in Irish theatre, with her plays produced in Ireland, the UK, the USA and across mainland Europe. Her work explores issues of personal and communal identity, bringing...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-02-11
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This book critically examines matters of age and aging in relation to dance. As a novel collection of diverse authors’ voices, this edited book traverses the human lifespan from early childhood to death as it negotiates a breadth of dance experiences and contexts. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-04
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This unparalleled collection, international and innovative in scope, analyzes the dynamic tensions between masculinity and dance. Introducing a lens of intersectionality, the book’s content examines why, despite burgeoning popular and contemporary representations of a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-03
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A singular collection of original essays exploring the varied intersections of motion pictures and public valueA Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value presents a cross-disciplinary investigation of the past, present, and possible future contributions of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-02-03
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Explore two dozen of the most glamorous, scandalous, and history-making Oscar looks in Beyond the Best Dressed, film and culture critic Esther Zuckerman's personality-filled romp through red carpet fashion, complete with original fashion drawings from...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2022-02-01
ePub
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How can the afterlives of anticapitalist and antidictatorship resistance enliven contemporary imaginaries of social justice? Where can the legacies of authoritarianism be spatially located and challenged? And what roles can film play in reckoning with these spectral...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-02-01
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Karol Berger setzt Wagners Musikdramen in Beziehung zu den philosophischen und kulturellen Ideen seiner Zeit und konzentriert sich dabei in einer ausführlichen und gut verständlichen Analyse auf die vier Werke, die dieser in der zweiten Hälfte seiner Karriere schuf:...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-01-28
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