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Street theatre invades a public space, shakes it up and disappears, but the memory of the disruption haunts the site for audiences who experience it. This book looks at how the dynamic interrelationship of performance, participant and place creates a politicized...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-28
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Niebisch retraces how the early Avant-Garde movements started out as parasites inhabiting and irritating the emerging mass media circuits of the press, cinema, and wired and wireless communication and how they aimed at creating a media ecology based on and inspired by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-28
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Die Untersuchung der Figur der Schweigsamen zeigt, dass diese in ausgewählten Texten der (Post-)Moderne dem Prozess einer Umwertung unterliegt: Schweigen erscheint hier als besondere Gabe.Die Umcodierung der traditionell negativ konnotierten Frauenfigur beruht auf einer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-28
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By integrating star studies and film industry studies, Hollywood Stardom reveals the inextricable bonds between culture and commerce in contemporary notions of film stardom. Integrates the traditions of star studies and industry studies to establish an original and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-11-27
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Die Beiträge dieses Buches widmen sich den Prozessen, die Um- und Neugestaltung von literarischen Texten durch Bildende Künstler, Musiker, Dichter, Übersetzer und Regisseure sowie durch die Adaption für den Unterricht bestimmen.Die Frage nach der Natur dieser Prozesse...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-26
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With this study the author «opened up a previously locked door of Beethoven research» (Martin Geck). The book presents conclusive answers to questions that had occupied critics for more than a century. It makes clear what exactly Beethoven and his contemporaries meant...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-23
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Einschnitte, Wunden und ausgerissene Körperglieder, hinkende, stolpernde und stürzende Körper - motorische Devianzen, physische Defekte und Deformationen haben im Werk des Dramatikers, Lyrikers, Essayisten und Regisseurs Heiner Müller einen zentralen Stellenwert....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-19
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Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hollywood to divinise stars as Apollos and Venuses for the modern age, and defined a model of stardom that is still with us...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-16
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A comprehensive study of cannibalism in literature and film, spanning colonial fiction, Gothic texts and contemporary American horror. Amidst the sharp teeth and horrific appetite of the cannibal, this book examines real fears of over-consumerism and consumption that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-14
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Uniquely placed to explore the worldwide phenomenon of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy beginning with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the book offers the first full-length study of Larsson's work in both its written and filmed forms.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-11-13
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Over 20 years after the war in Yugoslavia, this book looks back at its two most iconic cities and the phenomenon of exile emerging as a consequence of living in them in the 1990s. It uses examples ranging from street interventions to theatre performances to explore the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-13
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No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduces the reader to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-12
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This anthology provides an insight into Latin American sociocultural life and history as expressed by the medium of film. After an overview about the Socio-political Cinema in Latin America, the subsequent articles spotlight socio-historical and cinematic topics such as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-08
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Since being crowned the Northern Businessman of the Year 1993, Keith Lemon has been going from strength to strength and now is regularly seen sandwiched between two bang tidy lasses on the funniest show on telly, CELEBRITY JUICE.In BEING KEITH, Keith Lemon -...
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Orion
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2012-11-08
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THE HEART-WARMING AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY BARBARA WINDSOR CHRONICLING HER EARLY CHILDHOOD IN LONDON'S EAST END TO RECEIVING A DBE IN 2000'A whopping, no-holds-barred rollercoaster of a book' Mail on Sunday`Barbara Windsor emerges from these pages as a personality both strong...
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Headline
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2012-11-08
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The term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, but what makes cult stars distinct from other film stars has rarely been addressed. This collection explores the processes through which film stars/actors become...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-06
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The first hilarious volume of comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker's memoir, and now the inspiration for the major BBC series CRADLE TO GRAVE, starring Peter Kay.'And what was our life like in this noisy, dangerous and polluted industrial...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-11-06
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The Sounds of the Silents in Britain explores the sonic dimension of film exhibition in Britain from the emergence of cinema to the introduction of synchronized sound. Written by experts on British silent film and film music, the chapters provide an introduction to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-11-01
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The story of the music that accompanies the cinematic adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007 is one of surprising real-life drama. InThe Music of James Bond, author Jon Burlingame throws open studio and courtroom doors alike to reveal the full and extraordinary...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-11-01
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The superheroes are back! Since the 1970s, the film world has found inspiration in comic books and graphic novels. These days no summer is complete without a major blockbuster movie based on a comic: Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, X-Men, Men in Black, Daredevil, andThe...
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Virgin Digital
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2012-10-31
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