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Animated Documentary, the first book to be published on this fascinating topic, considers how animation is used as a representational strategy in nonfiction film and television and explores the ways animation expands the range and depth of what documentary can show us...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-11
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Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage, exploring how Victorian theatre's melodramatic and Gothic productions influenced his writing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-11
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Examining films about writers and acts of writing, The Writer on Film brilliantly refreshes some of the well-worn 'adaptation' debates by inviting film and literature to engage with each other trenchantly and anew – through acts of explicit configuration not adaptation.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-03
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Olympe de Gouges has been called illiterate, immoral, and insane while being mentioned solely for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and [the female] Citizen. This book uncovers her radical views of the self, the family, and the state and accounts for her vision of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-05-31
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With just thirteen feature films in half a century, Stanley Kubrick established himself as one of the most accomplished directors in motion picture history. Kubrick created a landmark and a benchmark with every film; working in almost every genre imaginable, including...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2013-05-31
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With an Introduction byP.J. O'RourkeTHE WORLD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME ONCEYOU'VE SEEN IT THROUGHTHE EYES OF FORREST GUMPAmerica's most lovable new hero is winning smiles and hearts everywhere these days - in the Paramount motion picture, Forrest Gump, starring Tom Hanks,...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2013-05-31
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In this innovative book, Sarah Cooper revisits the history of film theory in order to bring to the fore the neglected concept of the soul and to trace its changing fortunes. The Soul of Film Theory charts the legacy of this multi-faceted, contested term, from the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-30
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From neorealism's resolve to Berlusconian revisionist melodramas, this book examines cinema's role in constructing memories of Fascist Italy. Italian cinema has both reflected and shaped popular perceptions of Fascism, reinforcing or challenging stereotypes, remembering...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-29
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Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was one of the most formative influences of the romantic movement, inspiring such major figures as Novalis and Hoffmann. Not only did his tales and novels shape the course of German romantic fiction; as a translator he helped to...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2013-05-29
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The first full biography of Britain's leading actress of her time.Whether it is her sunny temperament, her gift of laughter, her wide-ranging abilities, or all three, Judi Dench is without doubt a star. Shortlisted for a 1998 Oscar for her performance as Queen Victoria...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-05-23
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Using Martin Esslin's "invention" - the Theatre of the Absurd - to examine Pinter's works, Wong brings the complexities and intricacies of the plays to the forefront, provoking readers and audiences to reconsider and problematize more conventional studies of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-05-21
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This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a form of collective anxiety dream, their fantastical images and illogical gags expressing the unconscious wishes and fears of the modern age, in a way...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-14
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For over four decades, Martin Scorsese has been the chronicler of an obsessive society, where material possessions and physical comfort are valued, where the pursuit of individual improvement is rewarded and where male prerogative is respected and preserved. Scorsese...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-08
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The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in an economic, social and aesthetic context through case studies ranging from Cliff Richard toThe Rolling Stones, and from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-07
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Dance on its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies anthologizes a wide range of subjects examined from dance-centered methodologies: modes of research that are emergent, based in relevant systems of movement analysis, use primary sources, and rely on critical, informed...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-05-06
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Steven Spielberg is known as the most powerful man in New Hollywood and a pioneer of the contemporary blockbuster, America’s most successful export. His career began a new chapter in mass culture. At the same time, American post war liberalism was breaking down. This...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-03
Collection :
America Through the Lens
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Gerade Goethes Faust eignet sich als Vorlage für Hollywoodfilme. Allerdings handelt es sich dabei um Adaptionen und Transformationen der Thematik, nicht um direkte Übernahmen. Gründe dafür liegen u. a. in den unterschiedlichen politischen, kulturellen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Die neueren Zeiten kennen den Chor kaum mehr als Bestandteil der Festkultur, deswegen ist seine Umsetzung im Theater ein großes Problem. Für Regisseure und Schauspieler wie auch für die Zuschauer war der Chor der fremdartigste Teil. Allerdings haben seit der deutschen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Die jüngst einsetzende wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk des Komponisten Wilfried Hiller, geboren 1941, wird hier dokumentiert mit dem Blick auf die Werke der späten Schaffensjahre:Die Analysen reichen vom biografisch-historischen Kontext des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Untersuchungsgegenstand dieses Bandes sind zentrale Wertungstendenzen in norwegischen und deutschsprachigen Artikeln zu den frühen Theatertexten des norwegischen Schriftstellers und Dramatikers Jon Fosse. Die Studie versteht sich als Beitrag zur Rezeptionsforschung, in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-01
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