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What impact did walking tours and scenic films have on leisure activities? In what ways did working class travel disrupt normative narratives concerning nature and identity? The appreciation of nature and leisure travel have a complex and interrelated history in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
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2020-04-29
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A Dictionary of Film Studies covers all aspects of its discipline as it is currently taught at undergraduate level. Offering exhaustive and authoritative coverage, this A-Z is written by experts in the field, and covers terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-28
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Cinema, whether it is understood as entertainment, business, criticism, or art, is always a reflection of the society in which it is born. Men on the Screen is a review of masculinity in cinema made in Spain by Spanish directors from 1939 to the present. The objective...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-08
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In the late 19th century, modern psychology emerged as a discipline, shaking off metaphysical notions of the soul in favor of a more scientific, neurophysiological concept of the mind. Laboratories began to introduce instruments and procedures which examined bodily...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-04-01
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Heute kann jeder einen Film drehen, nur eine gute Idee braucht es dazu. Der Regisseur und Drehbuchautor Brian Michael Stoller erklärt Ihnen in diesem Buch, wie Sie ein Drehbuch schreiben und ein Storyboard entwickeln, den richtigen Drehort aussuchen, die passende Crew...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2020-03-27
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Für Dummies
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The book examines the war of images between France and Algeria. Discussing the role of the United States during the war, it covers topics such the presence of American reporters in Algeria, John F. Kennedy’s support for Algerian independence while a senator, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-25
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A groundbreaking academic treatment of Fellini, provides new, expansive, and diverse perspectives on his films and influence The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini presents new methodologies and fresh insights for encountering, appreciating, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-03-20
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
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In a now-famous interview with François Truffaut in 1962, Alfred Hitchcock described his masterpiece Rear Window (1954) as "the purest expression of a cinematic idea." But what, precisely, did Hitchcock mean by pure cinema? Was pure cinema a function of mise en scène,...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-03-13
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Can films philosophize rather than simply represent philosophical ideas developed outside of the cinematic medium? Taking up this crucial question for the emergent field of film philosophy, American Avant-Garde Cinema's Philosophy of the In-Between argues that the films...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-09
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This volume engages new films and modes of scholarly research in Arab cinema, and older, often neglected films and critical topics, while theorizing their structural relationship to contemporary developments in the Arab world. The volume considers the relationship of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-03
Collection :
Global Cinema
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When the World Laughs is a book about the intersection of humor, history, and culture. It explores how film comedy, one of the world's most popular movie genres, reflects the values and beliefs of those who enjoy its many forms, its most enduring characters and stories,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-02-22
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This book covers Mai Masri’s three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her films, unique for giving agency to her subjects, tell much about the untold, unseen people, namely women and children, who lived these experiences of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-02-14
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Die medienkulturgeschichtliche Arbeit ist eine deutsche Kino- und Filmgeschichte von den 1890er Jahren bis 1945 mit Fokus auf queere Männlichkeit. Mit medienwissenschaftlichen Ansätzen zeigt die Studie, wie sich das ‚neue Medium’ Film durch performative...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-02-14
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To many, the technological aspects of projection often go unnoticed, only brought to attention during moments of crisis or malfunction. For example, when a movie theater projector falters, the audience suddenly looks toward the back of the theater to see a sign of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-02-05
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Spectacle, myth, fable - these words instantly leap to mind when considering director Sergio Leone's celebrated films. His popularization of the Spaghetti Western genre, through works like A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), continues to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-01-10
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Ecocritique is a practice of radical questioning, as essential to the critical armoury as feminism and postcolonialism have become. Like them, it extends beyond judgements about texts with clear ecological themes, demonstrating the significance of ecocriticism for any...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-01-10
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The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema draws readers into the first 13 feature films and 5 of the documentaries of award-winning Japanese film director Kore-eda Hirokazu. With his recent top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for Shoplifters, Kore-eda is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-30
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The most comprehensive reference text of theoretical and historical discourse on the biopic filmThe biopic, often viewed as the most reviled of all film genres, traces its origins to the early silent era over a century ago. Receiving little critical attention, biopics...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-12-10
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Through metaphors and allusions to art, science, and religion, André Bazin's writings on the cinema explore a simple yet profound question: what is a human? For the famous French film critic, a human is simultaneously a rational animal and an irrational being. Bazin's...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-28
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This book reveals and explores the thriving animation culture in midtown Manhattan, the World’s Fair, art galleries and cinemas during a vibrant period of artistic, commercial and industrial activity in New York City. Alongside a detailed investigation of animated film...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-21
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