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Bernard Shaw on the American Stage is the first comprehensive study of the production ofBernard Shaw’s plays in America. During his lifetime (1856-1950), Shaw was America’s most popular living playwright; productions of his plays were outnumbered only by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-24
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Unions, Strikes, Shaw: ‘The Capitalism of the Proletariat’ is the first book to treat Bernard Shaw—socialist, dramatist, public speaker and union member—in relation to unions and strikes. For over half a century he urged workers to join unions, which he called,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-17
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The phenomenon that is Ted Lasso is not going away any time soon. This super-funny show about an American coach who comes to England to run a Premier League football team has captured the hearts of television watchers around the world – as well as caught the eye of...
Editeur :
OH
Parution :
2022-05-12
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This book explores, through a multidisciplinary approach, the immense influence exerted by Bernard Shaw on the Spanish-speaking world on both sides of the Atlantic.This collection of essays encompasses the reception and dissemination of his ideas; the translation of his...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-10
Collection :
Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Die Moderne neigt zur Produktion immer neuer Einsamkeitserfahrungen, die jedoch in der Alltagserfahrung abstrakt, unsichtbar und damit unverhandelbar bleiben. Fernsehserien hingegen finden durch ihre spezifischen Ästhetiken, Narrative, Figurenkonstellationen,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-04-04
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Explore the history and cultural impact of a groundbreaking television show adored by old and new fans alike: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead,...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2022-03-15
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This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw’s Major Barbara and Pygmalion that have received little attention from critics: language and metadrama. If we look beyond the social, political, and economic issues that Shaw explored in these two plays, we discover that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-28
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The book by Monika Talarczyk is devoted to the life and work of Wanda Jakubowska (1907–1998), author ofThe Last Stage (1948), an icon of women’s cinema, said to be the Mother of All Holocaust Films.The author discovers previously unknown facts in Jakubowska’s biography...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-02-16
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Shakespeare's plays are fascinated by the problems of speed and flight. They are repeatedly interested in humans, spirits, and objects that move very fast; become airborne; and in some cases even travel into space. In Speed and Flight in Shakespeare, the first...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-21
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This book explores adaptation in its various forms in contemporary television drama. It considers the mechanics of adaptation as an ever-more prevalent form of production, most notably in the reworking of literary sources for television. It also explores the broader...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Die Studie bearbeitet ein Kapitel der Dokumentarfilmgeschichte der ehemaligen DDR. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei das noch weitgehend unbekannte dokumentarische Werk des Regisseurs Eduard Schreiber vor und nach 1989. Anhand der beiden Dokumentarfilme Abhängig (1983) und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-12-29
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Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Beckett’s rich influences over American writing. Through in-depth readings of postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-30
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In Rotten Tomatoes' first TV-focused book, discover the best shows ever made.For the completist, The Ultimate Binge Guide is a challenge: a bingeable bucket list of all the shows you need to see before you die (or just to be super-informed at your next dinner...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2021-11-30
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How do filmmakers guide viewer attention through the frame using the movement of bodies on screen? What do they seek to communicate with their cinematic choreography, and how were those choices shaped by the industrial conditions available to them?
Storytelling in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-17
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An intimate and engrossing celebration of the first ten years of the beloved TV series Call the Midwife.Learn the up-close and personal story of Call the Midwife as told by the cast and crew. Call the Midwife: A Labour of Love is a moving journey through the iconic...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2021-11-11
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FOREWORD BY SIR DAVID JASONAs Macbeth said to Hamlet in Midsummer Night's Dream, 'we've been done up like a couple of kippers - DelIn this pukka 42-carat gold-plated bargain, you have the wit and wisdom of Del Boy, Rodney, Albert, Boycie and Trigger at your disposal....
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2021-11-04
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I'll Be Home for Christmas Movies is the unofficial fan guide to Hallmark holiday movies, from the creators of the wildly popular Deck the Hallmark podcast. Hosts and best friends Brandon Gray, Daniel "Panda" Pandolph, and Dan Thompson share...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2021-10-26
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** The No. 11 Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller **Long Live Hookey Street ...Ménage et trois! It's been 40 years since John Sullivan's Only Fools and Horses first graced our television screens. In this new official guide, packed full of rare and never-before-seen...
Editeur :
Bbc Digital
Parution :
2021-09-30
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This book explores a range of lesser-known documentaries and short films from the transnational Øresund region released in the period 2000–2009, focusing on how this Scandinavian region’s urban and maritime spaces, iconic architecture, and peripheral communities across...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-28
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Many recent studies of racial passing have emphasized the continuing, almost haunting power of racial segregation even in the post-segregation period in the US, or in the post-apartheid period in South Africa. This "present-ness" of racial passing, the fact that it has...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2021-09-15
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