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By reconsidering assumptions about mainstream popular culture and its revolutionary possibilities, author Dana Heller reveals that John Waters' popular 1988 film Hairspray is the director's most subversive movie. Represents the first scholarly work on any of film...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-23
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Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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Hollywood 1963-1976 chronicles the upheaval and innovation that took place in the American film industry during an era of pervasive cultural tumult. Exploring the many ideologies embraced by an increasingly diverse Hollywood, Casper offers a comprehensive canon,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-23
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There are certain films and shows that resonate with audiences everywhere—they generate discussion and debate about everything from gender, class, citizenship and race, to consumerism and social identity. This new 'teachable canon' of film and television introduces...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-23
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this collection interrogate how and why certain formulations of feminism and femininity are currently prevalent in mainstream...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-02-08
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This collection displays a range of approaches and contemporary developments in the expanding field of film-philosophy. The essays explore central issues surrounding the conjunction of film and philosophy, presenting a varied yet coherent reflection on the nature of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-02-02
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The importance of media preservation has in recent years achieved much broader public recognition. From the vaults of Hollywood and the halls of Congress to the cash-strapped museums of developing nations, people are working to safeguard film from physical harm. But the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-01-21
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This collection of essays arises from the 2005 Cambridge French Graduate Conference on the theme of threat. From the baleful and ubiquitous eyes of surveillance cameras to the ever-present possibility of total nuclear annihilation, threat is everywhere around us. Yet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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The editors of Ethics at the Cinema invited a diverse group of moral philosophers and philosophers of film to engage with ethical issues raised within, or within the process of viewing, a single film of each contributor's choice.The result is a unique collection of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-01-07
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A collection of original essays from leading scholars in the field exploring the contemporary debates, concerns and controversies ongoing in Spanish film industry, culture and scholarship. The essays reveal the far-reaching shifts that have occurred in the Spanish film...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-05
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Takahata Isao, einer der berühmtesten und einflussreichsten Anime-Regisseure, zu dessen Anime-Werken solche Blockbuster wie Heidi – ein Mädchen aus den Alpen und Das Grab der Glühwürmchen zählen, ist Thema dieser weltweit erstmaligen Biografie.Takahata Isao ist der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-12-21
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Enjoy a unique glimpse into the intelligent and quirky inner workings of the comedic mind! This special e-version of Show Me the Funny! presents 28 top comedy screenwriters--including three bonus interviews not in the original print book--from the revered figures of...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2010-12-14
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This book is both more and less than history, a work of imagination in its own right, a piece of movie literature that turns fact into romance.' Gavin Lambert was reviewing the first edition of David Thomson's monumental work in 1975. In the eight years since the third...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2010-11-04
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Selon la perspective suivie dans cet ouvrage, le spectateur est actuellement en train d’acquérir de nouvelles capacités de suivi et d’absorption de l’image en mouvement. Depuis une quinzaine d’années, les créateurs de l’iconosphère avancent sur le chemin de la...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2010-10-19
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A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-13
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In the scores of posthumous tributes paid to Frank Sinatra after his death in 1998, most focused on his extraordinary reign as "The Voice" of twentieth-century pop music. But Sinatra was much more than a music icon. He was also one of the most popular movie stars of the...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2010-10-12
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Ingmar Bergman und Woody Allen, zwei auf den ersten Blick so grundverschiedene Filmemacher, erweisen sich in dieser vergleichenden Analyse ihrer filmischen Gesamtwerke überraschend als geistige Verwandte. Die Berührungspunkte sind neben ihrer Profession vor allem ihre...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-10-05
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Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, unmistakeable with his pipe, brolly and striped socks, was a creation of sheer slapstick genius that made audiences around the world laugh at the sheer absurdity of life. This biography charts Tati's rise and fall, from his earliest...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-09-30
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This book is about the emigration, film careers and socio-cultural influence of British filmmakers moving to Hollywood in the studio era. It deals with some of the unknown and neglected émigrés, as well as the leading lights who founded, initiated and ensured that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-08-18
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This collection brings together international experts on the cinema of migration and diaspora in postcolonial and postnational Europe. It offers a comprehensive theoretical and analytical discussion of a highly productive creative sector and documents the spectrum of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-08-10
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This study seeks to understand the form of cinematic space referred to as 'the landscape of the mind,' in which natural, outdoor settings serve as outward manifestations of characters' inner subjective states.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-07-19
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