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British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 calls attention to the shifting grounds of cultural expression by highlighting Hollywood as a site that unsettled definitions and narratives of colonialism and national identity for prominentBritish novelists such as Christopher...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-12-10
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The reality of transnational innovation and dissemination of new technologies, including digital media, has yet to make a dent in the deep-seated culturalism that insists on reinscribing a divide between the West and Japan.The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema aims to...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-09
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Repetition and seriality are inherent in pornography and is constitutive for its functionality as a film genre, an industry, and an area of gender studies. By linking the styles of the genre to processes of serial production, consumption, and discussion, Schaschek...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-12-05
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Rethinking the Romance Genre examines why the romance genre has proven such an irresistible form for contemporary writers and filmmakers as they approach global issues. In contemporary texts ranging from literary works, to films, to social media, romance facilitates a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-12-05
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The book presents cinematic case studies in political realism versus political idealism, demonstrating methods of viewing popular cinema as political theory.The book appreciates political myth-making in popular genres as especially practical and accessible theorizing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-12-05
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NOW A MAJOR FILM BY RALPH FIENNES, THE WHITE CROW'A gripping account of an extraordinary life' Daily Telegraph Born on a train in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement - both on and...
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Penguin
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2013-12-05
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The Hispanic Image in Hollywood: A Postcolonial Approach offers an in-depth analysis of how Hispanics are represented in American cinema. Film production is a reflection of American historical processes that have defined Hispanics and American mainstream identity as...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-12-04
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Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-12-04
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Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre provides both rigorous readings of dramatic works as well as a historical overview of Chinese theatre from the 1980s to the present.Expressionism becomes a discursive locus to be incorporated and even...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-12-04
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Offering unique insights into the writing and production of television drama series such as The Killing and Borgen, produced by DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Novrup Redvall explores the creative collaborations in writers' rooms and 'production hotels' through...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-11-27
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The screenplay is currently the focus of extensive critical re-evaluation, however, as yet there has been no comprehensive study of its historical development. International in scope and placing emphasis on the development and variety of screenplay texts themselves,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-11-26
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In 1956, at the age of 22, Alan Bates was cast in John Osborne's controversial play, Look Back in Anger. The play changed the course of British theatre - and of Alan's life. With a sudden rush of fame, he became a member of a new circle of actors at the Royal Court: the...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2013-11-22
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This biography draws on a series of unpublished interviews and offers a startling and intitmate portrait of one of the most glamourous icons of the 20th century.In just seven years (from 1950 through 1956), Grace Kelly made eleven feature films. They established her as...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2013-11-22
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If the city is the theatre of urban life, how does architecture act in its many performances? This book reconstructs the spatial experiments of Art et Action, a theatre troupe active in 1920s Paris, and how their designs for theater buildings show how the performance...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2013-11-21
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A rigorous ethnography of three international theatre festivals spanning the Portuguese-speaking world, this book examines the potential for African theatre artists to generate meaningful cultural and postcolonial dialogues in festival venues despite the challenges...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-11-19
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This new study of one of Britain's greatest modern playwrights represents the first major, extended discussion of Edward Bond's work in over twenty years. The book combines rigorous and stimulating analysis and discussion of Bond's plays and ideas about drama and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-11-19
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World Cinema through Global Genres introduces the complex forces of global filmmaking using the popular concept of film genre. The cluster-based organization allows students to acquire a clear understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world. ...
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Wiley
Parution :
2013-11-18
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In the 1950s, science fiction invasion films played a complicated part in supporting and criticizing Cold War ideologies. By reading these invasion narratives as performances of middle-class, white Americans' excitement and anxiety about social and political issues,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-11-18
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The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media surveys the contemporary landscape of audiovisual media. Contributors to the volume look not only to changes brought by digital innovations, but to the complex social and technological past that informs, and is...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-15
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Seit langem überfällig sind Neulektüren des Werkes von Carl Sternheim, die sowohl seine klassischen Texte unter veränderten Rezeptionsbedingungen neu erschließen als auch jenseits der ausgetretenen Pfade Werke in den Blick nehmen, die bislang kaum beachtet wurden....
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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