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What are the political and aesthetic dimensions of video art, documentary, and global cinema in contemporary image culture? Lynes makes visible how sites of political struggle, exploitation, and armed conflict can be interpreted through a feminist politics of location,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-01-07
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This collection of ground-breaking articles examines problems romance presents in the American Western. Looking a range of films, this book offers readers important and challenging insights into the complicated nature of love and the versatile frontier narrative that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-28
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This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-28
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Despite incredible political upheavals and a minimal national history of film production, movies such as Come Back, Africa (1959), uDeliwe (1975), and Fools (1998) have taken on an iconic status within South African culture. In this much-needed study, author Litheko...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-28
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Oprah Winfrey has long promoted black issues by being involved as a producer or actor in the adaptation of works by African American writers for film. This volume evaluates Winfrey's involvement in the visual interpretation of African American literary texts using film,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-28
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There is a complex relationship between performance, youth, and the shifting material circumstances (social, cultural, economic, ideological, and political) under which theatre for children and youth is generated and perceived. This book explores different aspect of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-23
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The inspiration behind BBC2'sThe Girl starring Toby Jones and Sienna Miller, Spellbound by Beauty examines Hitchcock's relationship with his leading ladies including Tippi Hendren and Grace Kelly. Hitchcock is also the subject of an upcoming film, Hitchcock, starring...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2012-12-21
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In ricordo di Claudio Sensi, Professore di Letteratura Italiana all’Università di Torino, il volume raccoglie contributi di ricercatori attivi in Europa, in particolare nelle Università di Caen e di Cagliari, legati da rapporti professionali e di amicizia tra loro e con...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-12-21
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In Kinesthetic City, author SanSan Kwan explores the contentious nature of Chineseness in diaspora through the lens of moving bodies as they relate to place, time, and identity. She locates her study in five Chinese urban sites--Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, New York's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-12-19
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Make a career out of your voice? Easy. Voice acting is like acting, but just using your voice! It's a unique career where the actor's voice can be heard worldwide-in commercials, on audiobooks, in animated movies, documentaries, online videos, telephone systems and...
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For Dummies
Parution :
2012-12-17
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This book presents the texts of five plays, collectively written and performed during the years 1973 to 1976 by the Newfoundland theatre troupe CODCO. CODCO's satiric plays expose universal perversity, ignorance, prejudice and abuse with the ironic wit of the people of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-12-14
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For many, the middle ages depicted in Walt Disney movies have come to figure as the middle ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary Western (and increasingly Eastern) imagination. The essayists of The Disney Middle Ages...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-10
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On 19 June 1992 Austria and Italy declared the official resolution of the South Tyrol question – the dispute that had dominated relations between the two countries since the end of the First World War. While this bilingual province is today held up as a triumph of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-12-07
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Broad in scope, this interdisciplinary collection of original scholarship on historical film features essays that explore the many facets of this expanding field and provide a platform for promising avenues of research. Offers a unique collection of cutting edge...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-12-06
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As theatres expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Nuss explores the ways in which theatre helped authors imagine connecting with a new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-05
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Vampires are back - and this time they want to be us, not drain us. This collection considers the recent phenomena of Twilight and True Blood, as well as authors such as Kim Newman and Matt Haig, films such as The Breed and Interview with the Vampire, and television...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-05
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Using film as a lens though which we can witness the global transformations in politics, economy, culture, and communication, this book analyzes Hollywood's shift in its depictions of China and Tibet.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-05
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Dance theatre has become a site of transformation in the Irish performance landscape. This book conducts a socio-political and cultural reading of dance theatre practice in Ireland from Yeats' dance plays at the start of the 20th century to Celtic-Tiger-era works of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-03
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Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic images of Irish manhood to a much more diverse and gender-politically...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-03
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Moving across the boundaries of mainstream and experimental circuits, from the affective pleasures of commercially successful shows such as Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia! to the feminist possibilities of new burlesque and stand-up, this book offers a lucid and accessible...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-11-29
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