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The 1979 film Alien has left an indelible mark on popular culture. Directed by Ridley Scott, at the time known primarily for making advertisements, and starring then-unknown actor Sigourney Weaver in the lead role, it transcended its humble origins to shock and disturb...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-03-17
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When Words are Inadequate is a transnational history of modern dance written from and beyond the perspective of China. Author Nan Ma extends the horizon of China studies by rewriting the cultural history of modern China from a bodily movement-based perspective through...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-03-17
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This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for granted in a field of study for which history has been marginal. It disputes the conventional genealogical view that humour theory dates from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-17
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This collection brings together many of the world’s leading scholars on race and film to re-consider the legacy and impact of D.W. Griffith’s deeply racist 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation. While this film is often cited, there is a considerable dearth of substantial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-14
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Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage revises the anthropocentric narrative of early globalization from the perspective of the non-human world in order to demonstrate Nature's agency in determining ecological, economic, and colonial outcomes. It welcomes...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-07
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For film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 52 cinema classics and the literary works that served as their inspiration. “I love that movie!” “But have you read the book?”...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2023-03-07
Collection :
Turner Classic Movies
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This book offers a truly interdisciplinary discussion on the relationship between the vocal and the instrumental in music and other arts and in everyday communication alike. Presenting an in-depth systematical and historical analysis of the evolution of word and gesture...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-03-06
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This collection reads the science fiction genre and television medium as examples of heterotopia (and television as science fiction technology), in which forms, processes, and productions of space and time collide – a multiplicity of spaces produced and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-05
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Rassismus zeigt sich auf unterschiedlichste Art und Weise: verbal, in physischer Gewalt, ungleicher Repräsentation, sozialer Segregation oder institutionellem Ausschluss. Diese vielfältigen Erscheinungsformen zeigen, dass es verkürzt wäre,Rassismus auf individuelle...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-03-04
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This book presents extensive research into the cinematic representation of the British-identifying Protestant, unionist and loyalist community in Northern Ireland and is the first time such comprehensive analysis has been produced. Gallagher’s research traces the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-03
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Audrey Hepburn was one of the most admired and emulated women of the twentieth century, an Oscar-winning actress, a model and humanitarian. But Hepburn also had huge sadness in her life: two failed marriages, a broken engagement, and the crushing disappointment that...
Editeur :
OH
Parution :
2023-03-02
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Studio Ghibli: An Industrial History takes us deep into the production world of the animation studio co-founded by Oscar-winning director Hayao Miyazaki. It investigates the production culture atStudio Ghibli and considers how the studio has become one of the world’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-21
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Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage revises the anthropocentric narrative of early globalization from the perspective of the non-human world in order to demonstrate Nature's agency in determining ecological, economic, and colonial outcomes. It welcomes...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-20
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Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the heightened experience of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-02-17
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Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical, following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the heightened experience...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-02-17
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Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical, following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the heightened experience...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-02-17
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This book makes the case for Bertolt Brecht’s continued importance at a time when events of the 21st century cry out for a studied means of producing theatre for social change. Here is a unique step-by-step process for realizing Brecht’s ways of working onstage using...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-14
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This book uses popular films to understand the convergence of crime control and the ideology of repression in contemporary capitalism. It focuses on the cinematic figure of the fallen guardian, a protagonist who, in the course of a narrative, falls from grace and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-11
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This book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba's...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-10
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Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft brings together essays on the theory and practice of adapting H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction and the Lovecraftian. It draws on recent adaptation theory as well as broader discourses around media affordances to give an overview over the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-09
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