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In Off Key, Kay Dickinson offers a compelling study of how certain alliances of music and film are judged aesthetic failures. Based on a fascinating and wide-ranging body of film-music mismatches, and using contemporary reviews and histories of the turn to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
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2008-03-27
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What is the nature of desire? This book gives an accessible introduction to the concept, and a coherent critique of the competing theories of desire within contemporary theory. Through analysis of representations of desire in television and film, it considers ways in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-03-13
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When collective memory is a source of national debate, the public representation of history quickly becomes a locus of controversy and ideological struggle. This work shows how French film has allowed for a public airing of current concerns through the lens of memory's...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-02-18
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Since the 1950s Eric Rohmer has been one of the major presences in French cinema as critic and director. This book is a sophisticated engagement with his work in which Keith Tester argues that Rohmer is not the naIve realist he is often claimed to be. Instead, his films...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-02-15
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This title examines the representation of the body in Irish theatre alongside the specific circumstances within which Irish theatre is performed, incorporating issues of gender and embodiment, and the performance of Irishness and tradition. The author contextualizes the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-02-14
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The Films of Stephen King is the first collection of essays assembled on the cinematic adaptations of Stephen King.The individual chapters, written by cinema, television, and cultural studies scholars, examine the most important films from the King canon, from Carrie to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-02-04
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If directing dramatic productions interests you, this book is a basic guide to show you know to apply the principles of directing to any dramatic medium - stage, television, or film. The authors, who have worked in all three media, illustrated how the principles of one...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-12-25
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The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-12-17
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Peter Jennings was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from cancer in 2005. For many Americans, he was the voice and face that gave shape and meaning to every day's news. But who wasPeter Jennings really? In this absorbing biography,...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
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2007-12-10
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The book examines cinema in post-1989 Europe by looking at how the new post-Cold War cinematographic co-productions articulate the political and cultural objectives of a new Europe as they redefine a European identity.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-12-09
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Road Movies engages with two foundational twentieth century technologies: cinematic and automotive. It is a book about road movies, a genre burdened by its own seductiveness. It is also, however, a book about images of human mobility more generally and the social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-12-09
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The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-12-03
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Films and television dramas about the Second World War have always been popular. Written by acknowledged experts in the field, this collection offers challenging, sometimes controversial, insights into how the popular memory of the Second World War has been...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-11-21
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This new collection of essays explores questions of subjectification, selfhood and identity in the contemporary Asia Pacific, examining the way that migrant lives express the complex interplay of local and global processes in the post-Cold War era, and collectively...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-11-06
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Join the digital revolution. With the availability and affordability of digital movie-making equipment, it's now easier than ever for aspiring filmmakers to create the great movie they've always wanted to make. From information on creating mini-films on a PDA to making...
Editeur :
Dk
Parution :
2007-11-06
ePub
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New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism.While considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and politics than its celebrated Weimar and Soviet cousins, it nonetheless proved to be highly effective in asserting...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-10-29
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This book brings together theatre historians to identify and exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century. Their inquiries range from stage...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-10-24
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In this new study, David Pattie examines the apparent contradiction between authenticity and theatricality in the live performance of rock music, and looks at the way in which various performers have dealt with this paradox from rock music's early development in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-10-23
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This book is about creativity in business, management and many professions. The authors have interviewed well known creative people to identify how creative methods work. Their analysis shows that while there are common themes, creativity will also solve problems with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-10-11
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This study provides new insights into the link between masculinity and jealousy through a study of representations of male jealousy in modern Hollywood cinema. It argues, through examples of films and their reception in the press, that male jealousy has played a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-09-12
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