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A New History of British Documentary is the first comprehensive overview of documentary production in Britain from early film to the present day. It covers both the film and television industries and demonstrates how documentary practice has adapted to changing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-11
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Commedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change. This book, utilizing comedies produced in Italy from 1958-70, examines the genre's representation of gender in the everyday spaces of beaches and nightclubs, offices, cars,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-05
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A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film presents a collection of original essays that explore major issues surrounding the state of current documentary films and their capacity to inspire and effect change. Presents a comprehensive collection of essays relating...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-03
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Figuraciones del deseo y coyunturas generacionales en la literatura y el cine podictatorial analiza discursos narrativos sobre el legado de la dictadura militar en Chile. El argumento inicial del libro indica que los «discursos apocalípticos» que representan el legado...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-03-02
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Sex and Film is a frank, comprehensive analysis of the cinema's love affair with the erotic. Forshaw's lively study moves from the sexual abandon of the 1930s to filmmakers' circumvention of censorship, the demolition of taboos by arthouse directors and pornographic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-27
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In March 1965 the film of The Sound of Music was released - and the love affair between moviegoers and the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical began.Rarely has a film so captured the love and imagination of the public, blending history, music, Austrian location...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2015-02-26
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Research shows that, while people around the world consistently nominate television as their most important news source, much of the content of news bulletins is lost to viewers within moments. In response, Barrie Gunter argues that this can be explained by the way in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-17
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Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational texts within film theory to film sound tracks. Walker includes sustained analyses of particular films according to a range of theoretical approaches:...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-02-03
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Since coming to public notice through major museum catalogues and the work of Carl Schorske around 1980, fin de siècle Vienna has been cast as the final bloom of a dying culture. Yet this assessment is itself a historical construct, deriving from the politics of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-02-02
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Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940. In particular, Imagining New York City considers how and why certain city spaces-such...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-02-02
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Jamie Dornan is becoming a megastar. His announcement as lead role Christian Grey in the upcoming film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey caused a media frenzy and he has been hitting the headlines ever since. After Charlie Hunnam drastically stepped away from the role,...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2015-01-29
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Film Studies From Hollywood to Bollywood, explore the fantastic world of film Whether you’re preparing to study film at university or you simply have a passion for cinema, you’re bound to enjoy this book. Here’s where you’ll learn how people communicate ideas in films,...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2015-01-23
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New media technologies impact cinema well beyond the screen. This volume speculates about the changes in modes of accessing, distributing, storing and promoting moving images and how they might affect cinematographic experience, economy and historiography.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-16
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Human rights film festivals have been steadily growing in number in recent years. They are all bound by a common thread, human rights, and yet show distinctly different films. What leads them to be so different, and how is the universalism of human rights made sense by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-08
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Sue Short examines how fairy tale tropes have been reworked in contemporary film, identifying familiar themes in a range of genres – including rom coms, crime films and horror – and noting key similarities and differences between the source narratives and their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-23
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Why do screen narratives remain so different in an age of convergence and globalisation that many think is blurring distinctions? This collection attempts to answer this question using examples drawn from a range of media, from Hollywood franchises to digital comics,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-18
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As the leading fan magazine in the postwar era, Photoplay constructed female stars as social types who embodied a romantic and leisured California lifestyle. Addressing working- and lower-middle-class readers who were prospering in the first mass consumption society,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-17
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Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and philosophically - offers a unique opportunity to illuminate and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-17
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Victorians on Screen investigates the representation of the Victorian age on British television from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. Structured around key areas of enquiry specific to British television, it avoids a narrow focus on genre by instead taking a thematic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-09
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A Companion to Fritz Lang “Fritz Lang’s movie-making spans a major part of the history of cinema, across genres, styles, and national contexts. With smartness and sharpness, the essays in this essential volume come from many angles to capture the richness of Lang’s...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-12-04
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
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