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This book redefines the landscape of horror cinema by exploring the intersection of microbiology and film. Microbiology and Horror Cinema delves into the chilling world of pathogens—funguses, bacteria, parasites, and viruses—and their influence on the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-28
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This collection of essays covers a range of issues related to the intangible cultural heritage prevalent in South and Southeast Asia. The book thus furnishes a comprehensive account of the oral traditions, beliefs, cultural practices, language and literature, folklore,...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-25
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This book explores the evolving landscape of European film and television co-productions, from traditional models supported by Eurimages to new collaborations shaped by global streaming platforms like Netflix. It examines how European co-production policies have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-25
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A new Ramayan for a new age. In the early twentieth century, the poet and singer-storyteller Pandit Radheshyam Kathavachak reimagined and published the classic story of the Ramayan with stunning success. Guided by Tulsidas's sixteenth-century Ramcaritmanasin Avadhi,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-23
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From New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix and film historian Chris Poggiali comes the full story of how kung fu movies came to—and conquered—America in this revised and expanded edition. When a Hollywood studio released Five Fingers...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2025-07-08
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It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to avant-garde practice....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-04
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A fever-dream journal documenting the making of cinema’s most infamous production, from the world's most infamously visionary director: Werner Herzog. In 1982, the visionary film director, Werner Herzog, released Fitzcarraldo, a lavish film about a would-be rubber baron...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2025-07-03
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Master the ideas that have shaped the world of film today.In a series of 50 accessible essays, Helen O'Hara introduces and explains the central ideas, eras and genres of film, beginning with the invention of cinema to the theories and genres that have emerged and...
Editeur :
Greenfinch
Parution :
2025-07-03
Collection :
50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
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Writing in 1829, a Russian critic referred to the art of ballet as an "impossible project"--impossible because it strives "to give an expressive language to body movements," while completely avoiding spoken dialogue. This impossibility generated an anxiety that, no less...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-07-02
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A Philosophical History of Documentary, 1960–1990 is the second book in a three-volume set. It offers a systematic hermeneutical reading of thirty definitions of Documentary from 1960 to 1990—by then a familiar, already used, and “abused”...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-02
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Most scholars and critics deny agency to the tourist in their engagement with the Disney theme park experience. The vast body of research and journalism on the Disney “Imagineers”—the designers and storytellers who construct the park...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-02
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Wagner und Russland? Dieser Fragestellung, die in der deutschsprachigen Wagnerliteratur bislang als peripher angesehen wurde, geht Eckart Kröplin in seiner ausführlichen Kulturgeschichte nach, die auch so manche überraschende, bislang nicht bekannte Tatsachen vorstellt....
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-07-01
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Rattled by two world wars, ongoing discrimination, and economic calamity, a group of critics in 1940s New York sought to promote art that would do nothing less than heal the world. The primary obstacle to this project, they believed, was that American culture had...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-30
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Staging the Ghost Story is the first book to offer a critical appraisal of the centuries-long relationship between the ghost story and the English stage. The book balances a critical consideration of the ghost story in performance, its history, its cultural...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-29
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This volume presents one of the first systematic inquiries into Italian experimental and avant-garde cinema in English language, thanks to contributions which deepen the history of experimental audio-visual works in Italy. Frameworks of film production, distribution...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-24
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This open access book investigates how flows of knowledge that arise from the African continent travel and are transformed through new contexts of presentation and engagement in new locations. Through case studies on Africa-themed film festivals in Africa, Europe and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-23
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This book tracks dramaturgical affinities between some of Bernard Shaw’s late “extravagant” plays and those of Noël Coward, in particular their recasting of one another’s style and the tradition of manners comedy. While Coward’s first...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-16
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K-Pop: The Ultimate Fan Book is your essential guide to all the bands, songs and styles behind the most diverse and exciting genre in pop music today. 2018 was a breakout year for K-Pop (Korean Pop) on the global stage, with boy-band BTS reaching number 1 in the UK...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2025-06-12
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Hollywood Dance-ins and the Reproduction of Bodies proposes that a figure who barely registers in film studies or dance studies offers valuable insight into ideas about "the body" and the reproductive labor that gives rise to images of bodies. The book is the first...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-09
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“This original study will no doubt draw attention to St. John Hankin’s work, which may in turn receive further scrutiny from scholars, students, and theatre practitioners.”
Michel Pharand, Queen's University
This book proposes a vibrant...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-06
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