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Als serielle Figur der Fortsetzung und Variation prägt die Dynamik der Überbietung seit jeher die Produkte und Praktiken der Medienkultur. In den Diskursen der Spätmoderne hat Überbietung – als Logik einer vermeintlich bloß quantitativen Steigerung ohne qualitativen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-08-24
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Pedro Almodóvar is an internationally acclaimed Spanish director. The national and international fascination over Almodóvar’s cinema lies in his ability to reflect the problems of contemporary society, his lucidity in combining the urban and the rural, his ability to...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-08-11
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In Literatur und Medien sind Bahnhöfe, Flughäfen, Häfen, Parkplätze (und die damit assoziierten Verkehrsmittel) allgegenwärtig. Das gilt auch für Flüchtlingslager und deren Umgebungen. Angesichts transnationaler Mobilität als Alltagserfahrung sind «Transiträume»...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-08-04
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In Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, African American character Mookie throws a rubbish bin through the window of the pizzeria he works for, which is owned by an Italian American family. Translators often find themselves in a position of moral ambiguity similar to that of...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-26
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This book approaches Ulster Protestantism through its theatrical and cultural intersection with politics, re-establishing a forgotten history and engaging with contemporary debates. Anchored by the perspectives of ten writers - some of whom have been notably active in...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-07-25
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Dieser Sammelband ist als Festschrift für den großen Lusitanisten Henry Thorau zu seinem 65. Geburtstag entstanden. Er bietet vielfältige Gedanken und originelle Analysen zu angolanischen, brasilianischen, kapverdischen, lateinamerikanischen, portugiesischen und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-07-21
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This book approaches Ulster Protestantism through its theatrical and cultural intersection with politics, re-establishing a forgotten history and engaging with contemporary debates. Anchored by the perspectives of ten writers - some of whom have been notably active in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-07-21
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Focusing on some of the best-known and most visible stage plays and dance performances of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, Penny Farfan's interdisciplinary study demonstrates that queer performance was integral to and productive of modernism, that...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-07-12
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Die theaterwissenschaftliche Studie reflektiert die Aufgabenstellung, Funktion und Problematik der Dramaturgen im Spannungsfeld von Theaterkunst und Kulturpolitik in der DDR. In der konzeptuellen «Denkfigur» des «Autor-Dramaturgen» beleuchtet sie zugleich zentrale...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-29
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The Time Lords are an immensely civilised, and immensely powerful, race. Yet we know very little about them, save that they can live forever (barring accidents) and possess the secrets of space and time travel. Their history has been shrouded in myth and mystery. Until...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2017-05-18
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With season 2 now released, don't miss out on getting the perfect gift for any Stranger Things fan in your life. Grab your Eggos and prepare to enter Hawkins, Indiana – just don't forget your fairy lightsIf you devoured Stranger Things and you're looking to fill the...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2017-04-20
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This handbook is the first to provide a systematic investigation of the various roles of producers in commercial and not-for-profit musical theatre. Featuring fifty-one essays written by international specialists in the field, it offers new insights into the world of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-25
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Der Herausgeber dokumentiert, kommentiert und analysiert erstmals den Hamburger Theaterskandal von 1801. Damals kam es zu einer offenen Rebellion des Publikums gegen die fünf Direktoren der Bühne. Lautstark forderten die Zuschauer ein Mitspracherecht bei künstlerischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-06
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Witty, comedic and engrossing, this second collection showcases the range of W. Somerset Maugham’s talent as a playwright. The delightful satires of marriage Lady Frederick and Home and Beauty are included here alongside the insightful war drama For Services Rendered,...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-02-23
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In his day, W. Somerset Maugham was most celebrated as a playwright, and the breadth of his ability is manifested in this collection of his most popular plays. Included here are the noirish mystery The Sacred Flame, the hilarious satires The Circle, The Constant Wife,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-02-23
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Every great scholar begins as a student. But what does it take to get there? And what is the journey like? This book explores the lifespan development of some of the best-known communication scholars in the United States. Grounded in 30 in-depth interviews, personal...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-01
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This is the first exploration of the performative and theatrical force of Austen’s work and its afterlife, from the nineteenth century to the present. It unearths new and little-known Austen materials: from suffragette novels and pageants to school and amateur...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-22
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This book reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway’s most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies.As the first biography to use the recently opened Fields Papers at the Motion Picture Academy, the book explores how Fields years as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-16
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This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema’s first years. The book takes up the familiar notion of cinema as a “ghostly,” “spectral” or “haunted” medium and asks what made such association possible. Examining the history of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-10
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Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy is the first collection of essays in English focusing on how fantasy draws deeply on ancient Greek and Roman mythology, philosophy, literature, history, art, and cult practice. Presenting fifteen all-new essays intended for both...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-12-26
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