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This book examines the Western genre in the period since Westerns ceased to be a regular feature of Hollywood filmmaking. For most of the 20th Century, the Western was a major American genre. The production of Westerns decreased in the 1960s and 1970s; by the 1980s, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-05
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In 1959, the Bolshoi Ballet arrived in New York for its first ever performances in the United States. The tour was part of the Soviet-American cultural exchange, arranged by the governments of the US and USSR as part of their Cold War strategies. This book explores the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-01
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In the late 19th century, modern psychology emerged as a discipline, shaking off metaphysical notions of the soul in favor of a more scientific, neurophysiological concept of the mind. Laboratories began to introduce instruments and procedures which examined bodily...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-01
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When Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey opened at the Barrymore on Christmas day, 1940, it flew in the face of musical comedy convention. The characters and situation were depraved. The setting was caustically realistic. Its female lead was frankly sexual and yet not purely...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-01
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Die Studie über das Stuttgarter Hoftheater denkt Theater und Stadt zur Zeit der Elektrifizierung um 1900 zusammen. Welchen Einfluss hatte die Theatertechnik auf die werdende Großstadt? Wie wurde umgekehrt das Theater durch die Urbanisierung und Technisierung der Stadt...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-03-31
Collection :
Szene & Horizont. Theaterwissenschaftliche Studien
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In this open access book, seventeen scholars discuss how contemporary Scandinavian art and media have become important arenas to articulate and stage various forms of vulnerability in the Scandinavian welfare states. How do discourses of privilege and vulnerability...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-30
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This book is the first to consider contemporary African dance theatre aesthetics in the context of phenomenology, whiteness, and the gaze. Rather than a discussion of African dance per se, the author challenges hegemonic perceptions of contemporary African dance theatre...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-30
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Heute kann jeder einen Film drehen, nur eine gute Idee braucht es dazu. Der Regisseur und Drehbuchautor Brian Michael Stoller erklärt Ihnen in diesem Buch, wie Sie ein Drehbuch schreiben und ein Storyboard entwickeln, den richtigen Drehort aussuchen, die passende Crew...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2020-03-27
Collection :
Für Dummies
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The book examines the war of images between France and Algeria. Discussing the role of the United States during the war, it covers topics such the presence of American reporters in Algeria, John F. Kennedy’s support for Algerian independence while a senator, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-25
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Since the 1990s, Palestinian theatrical activities in the West Bank have expanded exponentially. As well as local productions, Palestinian theatre-makers have presented their work to international audiences on a scale unprecedented in Palestinian history. This book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-21
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A groundbreaking academic treatment of Fellini, provides new, expansive, and diverse perspectives on his films and influence The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini presents new methodologies and fresh insights for encountering, appreciating, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-03-20
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
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In a now-famous interview with François Truffaut in 1962, Alfred Hitchcock described his masterpiece Rear Window (1954) as "the purest expression of a cinematic idea." But what, precisely, did Hitchcock mean by pure cinema? Was pure cinema a function of mise en scène,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-13
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This book offers a new way of thinking about film endings. Whereas existing works on the subject concentrate on narrative resolution, this book explores the way film endings blend together a complex of motifs, tropes and other elements to create the sense of an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-13
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Bewegte Bilder begegnen uns heute jederzeit und überall – umso wichtiger ist es, die filmwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse auf dem Gebiet der Filmanalyse zu sammeln, zu systematisieren und kritisch zu evaluieren. Dieses Handbuch erschließt das Feld in ca. 30 Beiträgen auf...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-03-11
Collection :
Springer Reference Geisteswissenschaften
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The emergence of modern dance and the early history of cinema ran concurrent with the European avant-garde's development of pictorial abstraction in the first decades of the 20th century. However, many assume that modernist abstraction resulted from a century of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-11
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Mediating the Windrush Children analyses three plays by St. Kitts-born British playwright Caryl Phillips: Strange Fruit (1981), Where There is Darkness (1982), The Shelter (1984), and a film by Trinidadian-British filmmaker Horace Ové, Pressure (1975), as artistic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-10
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Just once in a while, actors and performers change the whole way in which they approach the words in their scripts. Such a change happened in the early-to-middle years of the twentieth century; and the person behind it was "Dadie" Rylands. He was a man with an ear...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-10
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Can films philosophize rather than simply represent philosophical ideas developed outside of the cinematic medium? Taking up this crucial question for the emergent field of film philosophy, American Avant-Garde Cinema's Philosophy of the In-Between argues that the films...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-09
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This book delves into humanity’s compulsive need to valorize criminals. The criminal hero is a seductive figure, and audiences get a rather scopophilic pleasure in watching people behave badly.This book offers an analysis of the varied and vexing definitions of hero,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-03-07
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This volume engages new films and modes of scholarly research in Arab cinema, and older, often neglected films and critical topics, while theorizing their structural relationship to contemporary developments in the Arab world. The volume considers the relationship of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-03
Collection :
Global Cinema
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