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From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved on screens. But why do they captivate us so? What is the drive to be...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-09-29
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This book offers a glimpse of new perspectives on how philosophy performs in the gaps between thinking and acting. Bringing together perspectives from world-renowned contemporary philosophers and theorists – including Judith Butler, Alphonso Lingis, Catherine Malabou,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-20
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Tim Trausch erarbeitet in diesem Buch ein Paradigma des ästhetischen Wandels im Hongkonger Martial-Arts-Film. Er zeigt, dass sich dieser im Übergang zur postkinematographischen Medienkultur des Informations- und Netzwerkzeitalters von seiner ehemals sinnstiftenden ...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-09-20
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This book investigates the formations of masculinity in Hungarian cinema after the fall of communism and explores some of the cultural phenomena of the years following the 1989 regime change. The films explored offer a unique perspective encompassing two entirely...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-18
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With a foreword from Rustom Bharucha, this book is a timely anthology which aims to unsettle our habituated modes of thinking about the place of the secular in cultural productions. The last decade alone has witnessed many religious protests against cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-14
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'Dear Mr. Adam, I am writing on behalf of the Central Watch and Social Problems Committee of the Mothers' Union to ask whether you have a programme in mind on the moral issue of venereal disease.''Sir, Where are the B.B.C's censors? We do not care for the language that...
Editeur :
Bbc Digital
Parution :
2017-09-07
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'A gloriously enjoyable read from start to finish' - Daily Express'Here's a book to savour' - Mail on SundayMiles Jupp (News Quiz presenter, star of Rev, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and The Thick Of It) delves into the mind of his comedy creation Damien Trench - urbane...
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Headline
Parution :
2017-09-07
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This book explores the intersection between adaptation studies and what James F. English has called the “economy of prestige,” which includes formal prize culture as well as less tangible expressions such as canon formation, fandom, authorship, and performance. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-07
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Mapping Cinematic Norths presents an international range of research and enquiry into the significance, representation and manipulation of depictions of the ‘North’ in cinema and television. Northern landscapes, soundscapes, characters and narratives are defined and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-09-06
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This book places a focus on the regimes of in/visibility and representation in Europe and offers an innovative perspective on the topic of global capitalism in relation to questions of race, class, gender and migration, as well as historicization of biopolitics and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-04
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This book brings together recent Spanish fictions and films that point to individualism as the root problem driving diverse circumstances of social, economic, and psychological suffering in the present and recent past. The works privilege sensation, movement, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-24
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This book investigates the development of Sherlock Holmes adaptations in British theatre since the turn of the millennium. Sherlock Holmes has become a cultural phenomenon all over again in the twenty-first century, as a result of the television series Sherlock and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-24
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Als serielle Figur der Fortsetzung und Variation prägt die Dynamik der Überbietung seit jeher die Produkte und Praktiken der Medienkultur. In den Diskursen der Spätmoderne hat Überbietung – als Logik einer vermeintlich bloß quantitativen Steigerung ohne qualitativen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-08-24
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This book explores repetition in contemporary performance and spectatorship. It offers an impassioned account of the ways in which speech, movement and structures repeat in performances by Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Lone Twin Theatre, Haranczak/Navarre and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-23
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Thomas Schick entwickelt ein Analysemodell, mit dem die Bedeutung stilistischer Mittel für die affektive Wirkung von Spielfilmen erfasst werden kann. Im Rahmen der Arbeit werden vor allem Autorenfilme untersucht, die durch ihre spezifischen Gestaltungsweisen von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-08-21
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This book explores the textured process of rewriting and revising theatrical works in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean as both a material and metaphorical practice. Deftly tracing these themes through community theater groups, ancient Greek theater, religious traditions,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-18
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This book addresses what a superhero body can do by developing several “x-rays” of the superbody’s sensoria, anatomic structures, internal systems, cellular organizations, and orthotic, chemical, or technological enhancements. In short, these x-rays offer what we might...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-16
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This book explores how Bakhtin’s ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema. With a wide variety of tones, languages, cultural orientations, and thematic concerns, film directors have updated, translated, transposed, fragmented,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-16
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Pedro Almodóvar is an internationally acclaimed Spanish director. The national and international fascination over Almodóvar’s cinema lies in his ability to reflect the problems of contemporary society, his lucidity in combining the urban and the rural, his ability to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-08-11
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This collection of essays examines representations of the English countryside and its mutations, and what they reveal about a nation’s, communities’ or individuals’ search for identity – and fear of losing it. Based on a pluridisciplinary approach and a variety of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-09
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