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This book brings together the author's interviews with many prominent figures in fantasy, horror, and science fiction to examine the traditions and extensions of the gothic mode of storytelling over the last 200 years and its contemporary influence on film and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-10
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Film is a communal dream in which our fears and fantasies are revealed. It has influenced our behaviour, intertwined with our politics, helped to forge national identity, galvanise communities against a wartime enemy or warn of social upheaval. It has burrowed deep into...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-10-06
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This innovative book presents for the first time detailed histories of the impact of the Great War on British cinema in the silent period, from actual war footage to fiction filmmaking. In doing so it explores how cinema helped to shape the public memory of the war...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-04
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From a screenwriting perspective, Batty explores the idea that the protagonist's journey is comprised of two individual yet interwoven threads: the physical journey and the emotional journey. His analysis includes detailed case studies of the films Muriel's...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-03
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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...
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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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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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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
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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 ,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-26
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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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Top Hat is the first volume to spotlight this classic Hollywood film, probing the musical genre, notions of romance and subjectivity, as well as the contested relations between the sexes. Offers a detailed analysis of one of Hollywood's greatest musicals, including a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-02
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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Why have certain kinds of documentary and non-narrative films emerged as the most interesting, exciting, and provocative movies made in the last twenty years? Ranging from the films of Ross McElwee (Bright Leaves) and Agnès Varda (The Gleaners and I) to those of Abbas...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-08-01
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Film and Female Consciousness analyses three contemporary films that offer complex and original representations of women's thoughtfulness and individuality: In the Cut (2003), Lost in Translation (2003) and Morvern Callar (2002). Lucy Bolton compares these recent works...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-07-28
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A lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing on well-known male actors in American film and popular culture in the 1990s and 2000s. Peberdy examines specific social, cultural, historical and political contexts that have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-07-19
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This book offers an up-to-date approach to the question of representing history through film, exploring how films represent crucial events in twentieth-century European history.This includes the Second World War, Armenian Genocide, anti-Semitic attacks in Poland,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-07-12
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The Multi-Protagonist Film is an insightful and provocative introduction to this important new genre. Explores the origins and history of one of the most exciting new developments in contemporary film worldwide Guides readers through the genre’s central...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-11
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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In May 1999, after a 40-year career including 100 films, Oliver Reed died, as he had invariably lived, drinking with friends while making a film - his well-reviewed performance in the blockbuster Gladiator. Having risen through Hammer Horror films to international...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2011-06-30
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