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What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference? Can cinematic fiction be more Real than reality? Fabio Vighi looks at Jacques Lacan's theory of sexuality alongside some of the best-known works of European cinema, including films by Fellini, Truffaut,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2009-01-29
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Genre – or 'type' – is a core concept in both film production and the history of film. Genres play a key role in how moviegoers perceive and rate films, and is likely to determine a film's production values and costs. Written in a clear, engaging, jargon-free style,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-01-26
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Against a backdrop of great change in technology and the economics of broadcasting and new media, this timely survey of contemporary attitudes to accountability and the public interest in broadcasting is based on over fifty interviews conducted in four democracies:...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2009-01-15
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He spent his earliest years in post-World War Two refugee camps.He came to America and grew up in Cleveland - stealing cars, rolling drinks, battling priests, nearly going to jail.He became the screenwriter of the world-wide hits Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge and...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2008-12-16
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Now in its tenth edition, Who's Who in the Archers has become a perennial favourite among the show's listeners. It's the first point of reference when those niggling questions arise, such as:How old is David Archer?What does Jessica do at Lower Loxley?Where does Derek...
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Bbc Digital
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2008-12-16
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In recent years, the editors of Variety have posed the same question to hundreds of famous personalities: “What is the movie that changed your life?” Gathered here for the first time are the responses of movie stars and comedians, politicians and war...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2008-12-11
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This is the first book to explore all central issues surrounding the relationship between the film-image and philosophy. It tackles the work of particular philosophers of film (Žižek, Deleuze and Cavell) as well as general philosophical positions (Cognitivist and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-12-11
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This innovative study examines the role of memory in the history of theatre and drama. Favorini analyzes issues of memory in self-construction, collective memory, the clash of memory and history and even explores what the work of cognitive scientists can teach us about...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-12-08
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From the most popular routines and the most ingenious physical shtick to the snappiest wisecracks and the most biting satire of the last century, Make 'Em Laugh illuminates who we are as a nation by exploring what makes us laugh, and why. Authors Laurence Maslon and...
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Twelve
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2008-12-02
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The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-11-24
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The first scholarly collection devoted to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies, genre studies, and film studies....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-11-24
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This volume offers a cultural, aesthetic, and critical reappraisal of German 'rubble films' produced in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and constructs their meaning in a historical context.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-11-24
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The much-loved TV star Fern Britten tells her story for the first time in her Sunday Times bestselling memoir.For years now, Fern Britton has been widely loved as the presenter ofReady Steady Cook, and, more recently, co-presenter of This Morning with Philip Schofield....
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Penguin
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2008-11-06
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This timely book provides new insights into debates around the relationship between women and film by drawing on the work of philosopher Luce Irigaray. Arguing that female-directed cinema provides new ways to explore ideas of representation and spectatorship, it also...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-11-04
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From the acclaimed author of Joan Crawford comes a riveting and uncensored biography of Clark Gable. The archetypal male of his era, Gable was named “King of Hollywood” in 1938. But as David Bret reveals, the star was not quite who he seemed. One of...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2008-10-22
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The Grand Ole Opry has been home to the greatest legends of country music for over eighty years, and in that time it has seen some of conutry music's most dramatic stories unfold. We'll hear of the great love stories ranging from Johnny Cash and June Carter in the 1960s...
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Center Street
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2008-10-08
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The book explores European artists' critical engagement with the images and stories that politicians and the media use to advocate globalization.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-09-29
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This is possibly the most entertaining, surprising and enjoyable film book ever written. Thomson set himself the near-foolhardy task of writing one page each on 1000 of the films that he has particularly liked – or in some cases, abhorred. Some half-million words of...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2008-09-25
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The candid and highly entertaining autobiography of one of the UK's most popular TV presentersEamonn Holmes is one of the most popular TV presenters in the UK. For twelve years he was the main anchor at GMTV drawing daily audiences of six million viewers. His humour,...
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Orion
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2008-09-18
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Jesse didn't want to go to school anymore. After much deliberation, his father offers him an unconventional deal: he can drop out, sleep all day, not work, not pay rent, but on one condition - that he watches three films a week, of his father's choosing.What follows is...
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Ebury Digital
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2008-09-04
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