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This book explores the ways in which the British official film was used in Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong from 1945 to the 1970s. Aitken uncovers how the British official film, and British official information agencies, adapted to the epochal contexts of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-22
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This book features an in-depth analysis of the world’s most popular movie, The Shawshank Redemption, delving into issues such as: the significance of race in the film, its cinematic debt to earlier genres, the gothic influences at work in the movie, and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-11
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This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history, operation, and growth of film festivals as a cultural phenomenon within Australia. Tracing the birth of film festivals in Australia in the 1950s through to their present abundance, it asks why film...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-10
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This book focuses on the re-invigoration of Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp persona in America from the point at which Chaplin reached the acme of his disfavor in the States, promoted by the media, through his departure from America forever in 1952, and ending with his...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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When films like The Jazz Singer started to integrate synchronized music, in the late 1920s many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great White Way - George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart, among many others - were enticed westward by...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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This book examines the aesthetic qualities of particular Chinese-language films and the rich artistic traditions from which they spring. It brings together leading experts in the field, and encompasses detailed and wide-ranging case studies of films such as Hero,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-05
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This book presents an expert analysis of the transnational aspects of Finnish cinema throughout its history. As a small nation cinema, Finnish film culture has, even at its most nationalistic, always been attached to developments in other film producing nations in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-01
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This book is the first critical anthology to examine the controversial history of the zoo by focusing on its close relationship with screen media histories and technologies. Individual chapters address the representation of zoological spaces in classical and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-24
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The «Western» embodies many of the stereotypes of masculinity: rugged, independent men in cowboy hats roam the barren landscapes of the American West, resolving conflicts with guns and tough talk. Where did these cowboys come from? What historical trends led to their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-08-31
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This book presents a new reading of film noir through psychoanalytic theory. In a field now dominated by Deleuzian and phenomenological approaches to film-philosophy, this book argues that, far from having passed, the time for Lacan in Film Studies is only just...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-17
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How does the experience of travel transform culture over time? This question is at the heart of this book, which brings together two main areas of scholarship: the cultural analysis of German literature and film and the emerging field of mobilities studies, which places...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-08-05
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This book explores the ways films made by Latin American directors and/ or co-produced in Latin American countries have employed the road movie genre to address the reconfiguration of the geographical, sociopolitical, economic, and cultural landscape of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-28
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Projections of Memory is an exploration of a body of innovative cinematic works that utilize their extraordinary scope to construct monuments to the imagination that promise profound transformations of vision, selfhood, and experience. This form of cinema acts as a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-30
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This book analyzes how contemporary popular films with fantastic themes, including Candyman, Frozen, The Cabin in the Woods, and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, cultivate neoliberal subjectivities. These films promise dramatic change, but they too...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-29
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This book is about the British film-maker Lindsay Anderson. Anderson was a highly influential personality within British cinema, mostly famous for landmark films likeThis Sporting Life (1963) and If….(1968). Lindsay Anderson Revisited deals primarily with hitherto...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-14
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Lasting Stars examines the issue of stardom and longevity and investigates the many reasons for the persistence or disappearance of different star personas. Through a selection of chapters that look at issues such as inappropriate ageing, national identity and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-28
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This book explores the ways in which films of Johannesburg assist residents of the city to bridge the divisions and inequalities of contemporary urban space through the four lenses of materiality, identity, mobility, and crime. Films influence the everyday practices of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-28
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A Companion to Russian Cinema provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-05-17
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
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Engaging some of the most canonical and thought-provoking anime, manga, and science fiction films, Tokyo Cyberpunk offers insightful analysis of Japanese visual culture. Steven T. Brown draws new conclusions about the cultural flow of art, as well as important...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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What does it mean to say Indian movies are melodramatic? How do film audiences engage with socio-political issues?What role has cinema played in the emergence of new economic forms, consumer cultures and digital technologies in a globalizing India? Ravi Vasudevan...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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