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In this edited volume, Kasi Lemmons, the first African-American woman auteur to solidly and steadily produce a full body of work in cinema—an oeuvre of quality, of note, of international recognition—will get the full film-studies treatment. This...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-02-09
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In 1991, Boyz N the Hood made history as an important film text and the impetus for a critical national conversation about American urban life in African American communities, especially for young urban black males. Boyz N the Hood: Shifting Hollywood Terrain is an...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-02-07
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Broadway has body issues.
What is aBroadway Body?Broadway has long preserved the ideology of the "Broadway Body": the hyper-fit, exceptionally able, triple-threat performer who represents howBroadway musicals favor certain kinds of bodies. Casting is always a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-02-03
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This book analyzes the rise of socially and politically engaged Algerian documentaries, created in the period immediately following the end of the Algerian civil war (1991-1999). It uses case studies to highlight the works of four Algerian filmmakers, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-31
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In den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten haben Fernsehserien, oftmals unter dem Begriff des „Quality TV“ firmierend, eine merkliche kulturelle Aufwertung erfahren. Während der Großteil der Studien den – auch transnational zu verzeichnenden – Erfolg dieser Formate vor allem...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2023-01-31
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This edited collection is the first book-length critical study of the Showtime-Sky Atlantic television series Penny Dreadful (2014-2016), which also includes an analysis of Showtime’s 2020 spin-off City of Angels. Chapters examine the status of the series as a work of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-30
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'Thoughtful, witty, occasionally comic, often effortlessly profound - not a conventional journalistic memoir.' Sunday Times'If you value the perspective and judgment of one who has covered, often from the frontline, the major events of the past four decades, then snap...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2023-01-26
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Discover what goes on behind the curtains of your favorite musical Do you want to know more about the fascinating history of Broadway musicals, the stars of yesterday and today, and what goes on behind the curtain of a musical production? In Musical Theatre For Dummies,...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2023-01-25
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Adaptation Before Cinema highlights a range of pre-cinematic media forms, including theater, novelization, painting and illustration, transmedia art, children’s media, and other literary and visual culture. The book expands the primary scholarly audience of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-19
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This edited book brings together new perspectives on fashion, the body, and politics. The intention of this collection is to explore the cultural intersection between bodies, fashion, and transgression, often in the most unlikely of locations. Bodies are...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-11
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This is an open access book.This edited collection aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider what happens when festivals...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-04
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Radio today remains the most accessible and widely available communication medium worldwide, despite technological shifts and a host of upstart challengers. Since its origins in the 1920s, radio has innovated a new world of sound culture - now expanded into the digital...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-12-19
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Comedy has been a constant presence in the history of Catalan theatre, but it is rarely recognized as a separate generic identity, worthy of academic study as a whole. This volume is the first concentrated attempt to analyse Catalan theatre under the comic lens, with...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-12-19
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Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that explore the relation betweenSamuel Beckett and catastrophe in terms of war, the Holocaust, nuclear disasters and ecological crisis. Responding to the post-catastrophic situations...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-16
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This book is a phenomenological approach to film sound and film as a whole, bringing all sensory impressions together within the body as a sense of movement.This includes embodied listening, felt sound and the audiovisual chord as a dynamic knot of visual and auditory...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-13
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Das Buch widmet sich in wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Perspektive den Anfängen der Theaterwissenschaft in Köln. Es untersucht die Wissenschaftspraktiken des Kölner Institutsgründers Carl Niessen (1890–1969), der das Fach als Forscher, Dozent, Sammler und Kurator über...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-12-12
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This book argues for a durational cinema that is distinct from slow cinema, and outlines the history of its three main waves: the New York avant-garde of the 1960s, the European art cinema in the years after 1968, and the international cinema of gallery spaces as well...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-08
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Atmosphere, Cinema, Architecture: Thematic Reflections on Ambiance and Place explores cinema and architecture as ambient and affective settings or circumstances that can enable the emergence of atmosphere. This book is an interdisciplinary reading of cinematographic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-05
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