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This book offers an up-to-date approach to the question of representing history through film, exploring how films represent crucial events in twentieth-century European history.This includes the Second World War, Armenian Genocide, anti-Semitic attacks in Poland,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-07-12
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The Multi-Protagonist Film is an insightful and provocative introduction to this important new genre. Explores the origins and history of one of the most exciting new developments in contemporary film worldwide Guides readers through the genre’s central...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-11
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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An updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film, the new edition of A Cinema of Loneliness reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade, incorporating discussions of directors like Judd Apatow and David Fincher...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-06-08
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Drawing on interviews with producers, directors, and scholars, and examining the DVD's supplementary features, this book explores how the format, at its best, combines the enthusiasm of a fan, cinematic nostalgia, and scholarly insight.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-05-23
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Cinematic depictions of real U.S. presidents from Abraham Lincoln to George W. Bush explore how Hollywood movies represent American history and politics on screen. Morgan and his contributors show how films blend myth and reality to present a positive message about...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-05-09
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The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level, transformation allows female protagonists to negotiate their own complex...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-25
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This book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and important contribution to existing scholarship in the field.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-12
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Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty , and The Elephant Man , Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up psychic/social spaces that transfer bodily drives to language.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-11
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Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the "new Argentine cinema" phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly relevant films,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-11
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This volume gets to the heart of what films mean to people on personal, political and commercial levels. Exploring value judgements that underpin social, academic and institutional practices, it examines the diverse forms of worth attributed to a range of international...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-05
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With the full range of his voluminous writings finally viewable, André Bazin seems more deserving than ever to be considered the most influential of all writers on film. His brief career, 1943-58, helped bring about the leap from classical cinema to the modern art of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-04-01
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French Animation History is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of animation, illuminating the exceptional place France holds within that history. Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 The first book dedicated exclusively to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-08
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The most comprehensive volume ever published on Alfred Hitchcock, covering his career and legacy as well as the broader cultural and intellectual contexts of his work. Contains thirty chapters by the leading Hitchcock scholars Covers his long career, from his earliest...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-01
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The most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the twenty-first century, this book examines the history and conventions of the genre and surveys the controversies arising from the critical responses to these films. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-01
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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Explorations in New Cinema History brings together cutting-edge research by the leading scholars in the field to identify new approaches to writing and understanding the social and cultural history of cinema, focusing on cinema’s audiences, the experience of cinema, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-25
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A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s. The book is essential for students...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-02-25
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By reconsidering assumptions about mainstream popular culture and its revolutionary possibilities, author Dana Heller reveals that John Waters' popular 1988 film Hairspray is the director's most subversive movie. Represents the first scholarly work on any of film...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-23
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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Hollywood 1963-1976 chronicles the upheaval and innovation that took place in the American film industry during an era of pervasive cultural tumult. Exploring the many ideologies embraced by an increasingly diverse Hollywood, Casper offers a comprehensive canon,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-23
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There are certain films and shows that resonate with audiences everywhere—they generate discussion and debate about everything from gender, class, citizenship and race, to consumerism and social identity. This new 'teachable canon' of film and television introduces...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-23
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this collection interrogate how and why certain formulations of feminism and femininity are currently prevalent in mainstream...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-02-08
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