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For nearly ninety years, Hollywood's brightest stars have favoured the Chateau Marmont as a home away from home. Filled with deep secrets but hidden in plain sight, its evolution parallels the growth of Hollywood itself. Perched above the Sunset Strip like a fairy-tale...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2019-05-23
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This book develops a new approach for the study of films adapted from canonical ‘originals’ such as Shakespeare’s plays. Departing from the current consensus that adaptation is a heightened example of how all texts inform and are informed by other texts, this book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-21
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The ultimate TV companion book to Good Omens, a massive new television launch on Amazon Prime Video and the BBC, written and show-run by Neil Gaiman and adapted from the internationally beloved novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. '[It was] absurdly good...
Editeur :
Headline
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2019-05-21
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This book explores how Edwardian art writing shaped and narrated embodied, performative forms of aesthetic spectatorship. It argues that we need to expand the range of texts we think of as art writing, and features a diverse array of critical and fictional works, often...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-05-16
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Misun Kim blickt im Rahmen einer fernsehhistorischen Analyse auf das zur Zeit der Wende produzierte und gesendete Kinderprogramm des Deutschen Fernsehfunks (DFF) zurück. Die Autorin fasst verstreut vorliegende Erkenntnisse aus unterschiedlichen Publikationen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-05-13
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In this expansive historical synthesis, Richard Butsch integrates social, economic, and political history to offer a comprehensive and cohesive examination of screen media and screen culture globally – from film and television to computers and smart phones – as they...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-05-10
Collection :
New Directions in Media History
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Reading Westworld is the first volume to explore the cultural, textual and theoretical significance of the hugely successful HBO TV series Westworld. The essays engage in a series of original enquiries into the central themes of the series including conceptions of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-09
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Once the province of film and media scholars, today the moving image is of broad concern to historians of art and architecture and designers of everything from websites to cities. As museums and galleries devote increasing space to video installations which no longer...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-05-09
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Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some 50 years before he finally put it into production. Using the Stanley...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-05-08
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A stimulating overview of the intellectual arguments and critical debates involved in the study of British and Irish cinemas British and Irish film studies have expanded in scope and depth in recent years, prompting a growing number of critical debates on how these...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-05-07
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
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The book that inspired the MGM+ docuseries, Hollywood Black is a sweeping overview of the Black experience in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle. Filled with...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2019-05-07
Collection :
Turner Classic Movies
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*THE SIDE-SPLITTING NEW COMIC SHORT FROM ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED WRITERS, NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES*______________________________ Each week, Tom and Louise meet for a quick drink in the pub before they go to meet their marriage counsellor. Married for years and...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-05-07
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Wild—untamed, hostile, remote. Yet, wild can be gentle, welcoming, and inspiring, too. This is the wild that preoccupies biologist Shankar Raman as he writes about trees and bamboos, hornbills and elephants, leopards and myriad other species. Species found not just out...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2019-05-06
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One of the most important ballet choreographers of all time, Marius Petipa (1818 - 1910) created works that are now mainstays of the ballet repertoire. Every day, in cities around the world, performances of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty draw large audiences to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-05-01
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This book offers an examination of the political dimensions of a number of Jean-Luc Godard’s films from the 1960s to the present. The author seeks to dispel the myth that Godard’s work abandoned political questions after the 1970s and was limited to merely formal ones....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-26
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This book examines queer visibility in reality television, which is arguably the most prolific space of gay, lesbian, transgender and otherwise queer media representation. It explores almost two decades of reality programming, from Big Brother to I Am Cait, American...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-24
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This study explores the representation of international migration on screen and how it has gained prominence and salience in European filmmaking over the past 100 years. Using Polish migration as a key example due to its long-standing cultural resonance across the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-23
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A celebration of the most groundbreaking women in comedy who used humor to shake up the status quo and change perceptions of gender and comedy forever.The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women celebrates the outstanding contributions of fifty women in comedy past and...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2019-04-16
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The first comprehensive volume of original essays on Australian screen culture in the twenty-first century. A Companion to Australian Cinema is an anthology of original essays by new and established authors on the contemporary state and future directions of a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-04-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
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This book explores the growing trend of intermediality in cinematic representations of the Holocaust. It turns to the in-betweens that characterise the cinematic experience to discover how the different elements involved in film and its viewing collaborate to produce...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-11
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