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Why has Taiwanese film been so appealing to film directors, critics, and audiences across the world? This book argues that because Taiwan is a nation without hard political and economic power, cinema becomes a form of soft power tool that Taiwan uses to attract global...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-12-03
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This book places long overdue focus on the Palestine solidarity films of two important Arab women directors whose cinematic works have never received due attention within the scholarly literature or the cultural public sphere. Through an analysis that situates...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2021-11-15
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From the Turner Classic Movies Library: Film and history buffs alike will enjoy this engrossing story of Hollywood's involvement in World War II, as it's never before been told.Remember a time when all of Hollywood—with the expressed encouragement and...
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Running Press Adult
Parution :
2021-11-02
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Turner Classic Movies
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In A Modernist Cinema, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the interrelationships among modernism, cinema, and modernity. Focusing on several culturally influential films from Europe, America, and Asia produced between 1914...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-10-01
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In Totally Truffaut, author Anne Gillain answers two complex riddles: How is experience imprinted into films? What draws audiences to theaters? François Truffaut, like Fellini, Bergman or Scorsese, worked with an autobiographical material and Totally Truffaut follows...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-09-22
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From generation to generation, three outstanding American Jewish directors—William Wyler, Sidney Lumet, and Steven Spielberg--advance a tradition of Jewish writers, artists, and leaders who propagate the ethical basis of the American Idea and Creed. They strive to renew...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-11
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Anhand paradigmatischer sowjetischer, ost- und westdeutscher Kriegsfilme über den Zweiten Weltkrieg, die die kollektive Gewalterfahrung und vor allem die zentralen Ereignisse der Erinnerungs- und somit Identitätspolitik jeweiliger Staaten verarbeiten, erfasst die Studie...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-08-05
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Neue Perspektiven der Medienästhetik
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When a work of art shows an interest in its own status as a work of art—either by reference to itself or to other works—we have become accustomed to calling this move "meta." While scholars and critics have, for decades, acknowledged reflexivity in films, it is only in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-07-27
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This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive, highly illustrated volume.Dark Cityexpands with new chapters and a fresh collection...
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Running Press Adult
Parution :
2021-07-20
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Turner Classic Movies
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Cognitive Film and Media Ethics provides a grounding in the use of cognitive science to address key questions in film, television and screen media ethics. This book extends past works in cognitive media studies to answer normative and ethically prescriptive questions:...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-05-28
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Film has always been a key technology for producing and disseminating attachments to 'the social.' Making Audiences explores the century-old relationships between Japanese media and social subjects, analyzing the connections between cinema audiences and five significant...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-05-18
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This volume offers a new and expanded history of the documentary form across a range of times and contexts, featuring original essays by leading historians in the field In a contemporary media culture suffused with competing truth claims, documentary media have become...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-04-28
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Rediscover all the reasons you love The Matrix with this unique guide to the cult 90s sci-fi classic, filled with trivia, essays, and behind the scenes looks at characters, production, and so much more. Whether you saw the movie in theaters in 1999 or watched it for the...
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Running Press Adult
Parution :
2021-04-06
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A comprehensive and insightful examination of the representation of diverse viewpoints and perspectives in American cinema throughout the 20th and 21st centuries America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies, now in its third edition, is...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-04-06
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Fernsehserien erfreuen sich einer ungebrochenen - populären wie wissenschaftlichen - Aufmerksamkeit. Dabei erstaunt, dass in medien- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Arbeiten zur Serialität fernsehwissenschaftliche und -geschichtliche Ansätze noch immer eine eher kleine...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-03-16
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Engineering Hollywood tells the story of the formation of the Hollywood studio system not as the product of a genius producer, but as an industry that brought together creative practices and myriad cutting-edge technologies in ways that had never been seen before. Using...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-03-01
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Jean Renoir (1894-1979) is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished directors in the history of world cinema. In the 1930s he directed a string of films which stretched the formal, intellectual, political and aesthetic boundaries of the art form, including works...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-17
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Reframing Vivien Leigh takes a new look at the laboring life one of the twentieth century's most iconic stars. Author Lisa Stead reframes the dominant narratives that have surrounded Leigh's life and career, offering a new perspective on Vivien Leigh as a distinctly...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-16
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Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical accounts of the filmmaker. This re-examination of his seminal work during the "Hollywood Renaissance" or "New Hollywood" period of the early 1970s...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-22
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Brilliantly introduced by Nezar Andary, this book is a work of creative nonfiction that approaches writing on film in a fresh and provocative way. It draws on academic, literary, and personal material to start a dialogue with the Egyptian filmmaker Shadi Abdel...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-12-16
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