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This collection explores the post-2000 film Western. With examples ranging from major American films, through acclaimed international productions, to works such as experimental films and television commercials, the contributors seek to account for the appeal and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-10
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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood studios and record companies churned out films, albums, music videos and promotional materials that sought to recapture, revise, and re-imagine the 1950s.
Breaking from dominant wisdom that casts the trend as wholly defined by...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-06-10
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A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema provides the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema. By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary film and cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debates while charting a new...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-06-08
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
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This book introduces the diverse practices of three non-canonical practitioners: David MacDougall, Desire Machine Collective and Kumar Shahani. It offers analysis of their documentary methods and aesthetics, exploring how their oeuvres constitute a critical and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-26
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This unique book investigates the tug-of-war between the free market economy and authoritative state regulation in Chinese culture after 1989. Contextualizing close textual readings of cinematic and television texts, both officially sanctioned and independently made,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-20
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Shakespearean Echoes assembles a global cast of established and emerging scholars to explore new connections between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, reflecting the complexities and conflicts of Shakespeare's current international afterlife.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-07
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Using an interdisciplinary approach, Film, History and Memory broadens the focus from 'history', the study of past events, to 'memory', the processes – individual, generational, collective or state-driven – by which meanings are attached to the past.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-21
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This book discusses British cinema's representation of the Great War during the 1920s. It argues that popular cinematic representations of the war offered surviving audiences a language through which to interpret their recent experience, and traces the ways in which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-20
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In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their underlying ideologies that are reshaping our global media landscape,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-14
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The Musicality of Narrative Film is the first book to examine in depth the film/music analogy. Using comparative analysis, Kulezic-Wilson explores film's musical potential, arguing that film's musicality can be achieved through various cinematic devices, with or without...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-14
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The Fascination of Film Violence is a study of why fictional violence is such an integral part of fiction film. How can something dreadful be a source of art and entertainment? Explanations are sought from the way social and cultural norms and practices have shaped...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-07
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Devices of Curiosity excavates a largely unknown genre of early cinema, the popular-science film. Primarily a work of cinema history, it also draws on the insights of the history of science. Beginning around 1903, a variety of producers made films about scientific...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-04-02
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A Companion to Robert Altman presents myriad aspects of Altman’s life, career, influence and historical context. This book features 23 essays from a range of experts in the field, providing extensive coverage of these aspects and dimensions of Altman’s work. The most...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-31
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
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This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, identification and doubling in the cinema. It contains analyses of a wide variety of films, including Citizen Kane, The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-31
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The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of the history, myriad themes, and critical approaches to the action and adventure genre in American cinema. Draws on a wide range of examples, spanning the silent spectacles of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-24
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of the history, myriad themes, and critical approaches to the action and adventure genre in American cinema. Draws on a wide range of examples, spanning the silent spectacles of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-24
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences questions the common frameworks used for discussing3D cinema, realism and spectacle, in order to fully understand the embodied and sensory dimensions of3D cinema's unique visuality....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-24
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This comprehensive historical account demonstrates the rich diversity in 1970s British experimental filmmaking, acting as a form of reclamation for films and filmmakers marginalized within established histories. An indispensable book for practitioners, historians and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-17
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Surviving Images explores the prominent role of cinema in the development of cultural memory around war and conflict in colonial and postcolonial contexts. It does so through a study of three historical eras: the colonial period, the national-independence struggle, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-03-13
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Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival audiences, and the filmmakers), Dovey reveals what turns something called...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-11
Collection :
Framing Film Festivals
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