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The most comprehensive volume ever published on Alfred Hitchcock, covering his career and legacy as well as the broader cultural and intellectual contexts of his work. Contains thirty chapters by the leading Hitchcock scholars Covers his long career, from his earliest...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-01
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The most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the twenty-first century, this book examines the history and conventions of the genre and surveys the controversies arising from the critical responses to these films. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-01
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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Explorations in New Cinema History brings together cutting-edge research by the leading scholars in the field to identify new approaches to writing and understanding the social and cultural history of cinema, focusing on cinema’s audiences, the experience of cinema, and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-25
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A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s. The book is essential for students...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-02-25
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There are certain films and shows that resonate with audiences everywhere—they generate discussion and debate about everything from gender, class, citizenship and race, to consumerism and social identity. This new ‘teachable canon’ of film and television introduces...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-25
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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By reconsidering assumptions about mainstream popular culture and its revolutionary possibilities, author Dana Heller reveals that John Waters' popular 1988 film Hairspray is the director's most subversive movie. Represents the first scholarly work on any of film...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-23
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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Hollywood 1963-1976 chronicles the upheaval and innovation that took place in the American film industry during an era of pervasive cultural tumult. Exploring the many ideologies embraced by an increasingly diverse Hollywood, Casper offers a comprehensive canon,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-23
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There are certain films and shows that resonate with audiences everywhere—they generate discussion and debate about everything from gender, class, citizenship and race, to consumerism and social identity. This new 'teachable canon' of film and television introduces...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-23
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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Born Natasha Zakharenko, Natalie Wood continues to haunt us 20 years after her tragic and mysterious death. Her dark hypnotic beauty and passionate performances made her a movie star legend, appearing in over fifty films including West Side Story and Rebel Without a...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-02-15
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Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image examines the choreographic in cinema - the way choreographic elements inform cinematic operations in dancefilm. It traces the history of the form from some of its earliest manifestations in the silent film era, through the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-02-09
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Exploring the themes of the event, ephemerality and democracy that mark the encounter between performance and philosophy, this original study elaborates fresh perspectives on the experiences of undoing, fiasco and disaster that shadow both the both stage and everyday...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-02-08
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Bringing the study of Chinese theatre into the 21st-century, Lei discusses ways in which traditional art can survive and thrive in the age of modernization and globalization. Building on her previous work, this new book focuses on various forms of Chinese 'opera' in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-02-08
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A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this collection interrogate how and why certain formulations of feminism and femininity are currently prevalent in mainstream...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-02-08
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Over the last century, many 16th- and 17th-century events and personalities have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences. This collection examines these representations, looking at recent television series, documentaries,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-02-08
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'I've been protected by studio publicity men most of my life, so in some ways I'm a goddam image, not a person. I was a commodity, a piece of property... I felt an overwhelming obligation to my career, and so I was an actress first, a wife second. I worked almost...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-02-03
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This collection displays a range of approaches and contemporary developments in the expanding field of film-philosophy. The essays explore central issues surrounding the conjunction of film and philosophy, presenting a varied yet coherent reflection on the nature of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-02-02
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The importance of media preservation has in recent years achieved much broader public recognition. From the vaults of Hollywood and the halls of Congress to the cash-strapped museums of developing nations, people are working to safeguard film from physical harm. But the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-01-21
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Applying research into assessments of community theatre, epidemiology, and young people's shared and private stories using a wide range of methodologies, this book explores the potential efficacy of community theatre to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-19
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The currency is fame, and it's bigger than money, more desired than power. Each season American Idol delivers on a promise whose epic scope is unparalleled in the annals of competition: to take an unknown dreamer from the middle of America and turn him or her into a...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2011-01-18
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This collection of essays arises from the 2005 Cambridge French Graduate Conference on the theme of threat. From the baleful and ubiquitous eyes of surveillance cameras to the ever-present possibility of total nuclear annihilation, threat is everywhere around us. Yet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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