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Rethinking the Romance Genre examines why the romance genre has proven such an irresistible form for contemporary writers and filmmakers as they approach global issues. In contemporary texts ranging from literary works, to films, to social media, romance facilitates a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-05
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The book presents cinematic case studies in political realism versus political idealism, demonstrating methods of viewing popular cinema as political theory.The book appreciates political myth-making in popular genres as especially practical and accessible theorizing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-05
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The Hispanic Image in Hollywood: A Postcolonial Approach offers an in-depth analysis of how Hispanics are represented in American cinema. Film production is a reflection of American historical processes that have defined Hispanics and American mainstream identity as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Offering unique insights into the writing and production of television drama series such as The Killing and Borgen, produced by DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Novrup Redvall explores the creative collaborations in writers' rooms and 'production hotels' through...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-27
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The screenplay is currently the focus of extensive critical re-evaluation, however, as yet there has been no comprehensive study of its historical development. International in scope and placing emphasis on the development and variety of screenplay texts themselves,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-26
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This biography draws on a series of unpublished interviews and offers a startling and intitmate portrait of one of the most glamourous icons of the 20th century.In just seven years (from 1950 through 1956), Grace Kelly made eleven feature films. They established her as...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-11-22
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World Cinema through Global Genres introduces the complex forces of global filmmaking using the popular concept of film genre. The cluster-based organization allows students to acquire a clear understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world. ...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2013-11-18
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In the 1950s, science fiction invasion films played a complicated part in supporting and criticizing Cold War ideologies. By reading these invasion narratives as performances of middle-class, white Americans' excitement and anxiety about social and political issues,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-18
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This book contributes to the growing literature on the biopic genre by outlining and exploring the conventions of the postfeminist biopic. It does so by analyzing recent films about the lives of famous women including Sylvia Plath, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf and Jane...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-13
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This is the first monograph-length work intended to enable readers with a humanities background and the general public to understand what the processes and techniques of film restoration do and do not involve, attempting to integrate systematically a discussion about...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-13
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In film, Men are good and Monsters are bad.In this book, Combe and Boyle consider the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body and regard gendered behavior as a matter of performativity. Taken together, these two identity positions, manliness and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-11
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What if Dorothy Gale wasn't the only person who went to see the Wizard of Oz? MGM's landmark 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, did not mark the beginning of adventures in Oz. Both before and since, dozens of tales have been told of the Marvellous Land...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2013-11-07
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Brief Histories
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From Mean Girl to BFF, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood explores female sociality in postfeminist popular culture. Focusing on a range of media forms, Alison Winch reveals how women are increasingly encouraged to strategically bond by controlling each other's...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-06
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Tim Burton has had a massive impact on twentieth and twenty-first century culture through his films, art, and writings. This book examines how his aesthetics, influences, and themes reflect the shifting social expectations in American culture by tracing his Burton's...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-06
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The 29 prose poems in Cinematic Reveries: Gestures, Stillness, Water provide distinctive points of entry into a select group of films through attention to evocative gestures, a sense of stillness, and images of water. These original writings offer film criticism in a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Music has been an integral part of film exhibition from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century. With the arrival of sound film in the late 1920s, music became part of a complex multimedia text. Although industry, fan-oriented, and scholarly literatures on film...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-11-04
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The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this day.The book undertakes a detailed analysis of key literary and filmic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-31
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This book presents a new approach to film analysis. It provides methods for analysing meaning making in film through tracking concrete details of film images such as characters, objects, settings and character action. It also represents new ground for investigating...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-30
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MTV utterly changed the movies. Since music television arrived some 30 years ago, music videos have introduced filmmakers to a new creative vocabulary: speeds of events changed, and performance and mood came to dominate over traditional narrative storytelling. Popular...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-30
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