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This book offers a collection of essays in literary and cultural studies. The articles explore a wide range of distinct problems and texts with the aim to question the already known and to interrogate the realms of ethics, literature, history and cultural identities....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-13
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This volume explores how to engage audiences both beyond and within the academy more deeply in environmental research through arts-based forms. It builds on a multi-pronged case study of scripts for documentary film, audio-visual and stage formats, focusing on how the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-08
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This book explores how minds at the movies understand minds in the movies and introduces readers to some fundamental principles of Cognitive Studies—namely conceptual blending, Theory of Mind, and empathy/perspective-taking—through their application to film analysis. A...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-07
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This book maps the aesthetic experience of late socialism through Cuban film and media practice. It shows how economic and material scarcity as well as political uncertainty is expressed aesthetically in films from the period following the collapse of the Soviet ...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-07
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George Lucas by Brian Jay Jones is the first comprehensive telling of the story of the iconic filmmaker and the building of his film empire, as well as of his enormous impact on cinema. At once a biography, a business manual, and a film history,George Lucas will, for...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2016-12-06
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Russell Brand is one of the most high profile and controversial celebrities of our time. A divisive figure, his ability to bounce back from adversity is remarkable. This book traces his various career stages through which he has done this, moving from comedy, to TV...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-12-05
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Upholding literature and film together as academically interwoven, Perpetual Carnival underscores the everlasting coexistence of realism and modernism, eschewing the popularly accepted view that the latter is itself a rejection of the former. Mining examples from both...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-12-01
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This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish Literature and the Irish cinema, with twelve chapters written by experts in the field that deal with principal films, authors, and directors.This survey outlines the influence...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-01
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This book approaches the topic of the state of post-cinema from a new direction. The authors explore how film has left the cinema as a fixed site and institution and now appears ubiquitous - in the museum and on the street, on planes and cars and new digital...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-30
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The essays in this collection explore taboo and controversial humour in traditional scripted (sitcoms and other comedy series, animated series) and non-scripted forms (stand-up comedy, factual and reality shows, and advertising) both on cable and network television....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-26
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This book questions the de facto dominance of narrative when watching films. Using the film musical as a case study, this book explores whether an alternative spatial understanding of film can offer alternative readings to narrative. For instance, how do film aesthetics...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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Ethics in Screenwriting: New Perspectives is a book that breaks new ground by forging a link between screenwriting research and a burgeoning interest in film, media, and narrative ethics. Going beyond the orthodox discussion of morality of film and television, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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This book sets out strategies of analysis of the award-winning tetralogy of performances (2010-14) by ANU Productions known as ‘The Monto Cycle’. Set within a quarter square mile of Dublin’s north inner city, colloquially known as The Monto, these performances featured...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-11-25
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Where is the place of the voice in film?
Where others have focused on Hollywood film, this volume aims to extend the field to other cinemas from around the world, encompassing Latin America, Asia and Africa amongst others. Traditional theoretical accounts, based on...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-25
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This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the turn to ethics in literature, film, and visual culture. It discusses the concept of a biovisual ethics, offering a new theory of the relation between film and ethics based on the premise that images are...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-24
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Have you ever prepared a speech until you knew it by heart and then found out that, when the moment arrives, the surprise and uniqueness of hic et nunc are inevitable? No matter how much you prepare a text, it will need improvisation to be used on a stage or in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-11-24
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This volume considers the numerous philosophical ideas and arguments found in and inspired by the critically acclaimed series Breaking Bad.This show garnered both critical and popular attention for its portrayal of a cancer-stricken, middle-aged, middle-class, high...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This book examines a key question through the lens of popular culture: Why did the Egyptian people opt to elect in June 2014 a new president (Abdel Fattah al-Sisi), who hails from the military establishment, after toppling a previous military dictator (Hosni Mubarak)...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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The complete, uncensored history of the award-winningThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by its correspondents, writers, and host. For almost seventeen years,The Daily Show with Jon Stewart brilliantly redefined the borders between television comedy, political...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2016-11-22
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This book offers insightful analysis of cultural representation in Japanese cinema of the early 21st century. The impact of transnational production practices on films such as Dolls (2002), Sukiyaki Western Django (2007), Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009), and 13...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-22
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