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To Seek Out New Worlds: Science Fiction and World Politics
ISBN: 9781403960580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume explores the science fiction/world politics intertext. Through detailed analyses of such texts as Blade Runner, Stalker, Star Trek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the chapters in this volume examine the complex and sometimes contradictory relations between world politics, both as discipline and as practice, and discourses of science fiction. Offering a novel combination of popular culture analysis with major theoretical and empirical issues concerning world politics, Science Fiction and World Politics provides insights into the discursive constitution of both science fiction and...
This volume explores the science fiction/world politics intertext. Through detailed analyses of such texts as Blade Runner, Stalker, Star Trek, and Bu...
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203,61 |
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American Protestants and TV in the 1950s: Responses to a New Medium
ISBN: 9781403965738 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Americans in the 1950s faced the challenge of negotiating the new medium's place in the home and in American culture in general. Using the American Protestant experience of the introduction of television, Rosenthal illustrates the importance of the interplay between a new medium and its users.
Americans in the 1950s faced the challenge of negotiating the new medium's place in the home and in American culture in general. Using the American Pr...
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203,61 |
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Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity
ISBN: 9781403967886 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is the first in-depth cultural history of cinema's polyvalent and often contradictory appropriations of Shakespearean drama and performance traditions. The author argues that these adapatations have helped shape multiple aspects of film, from cinematic style to genre and narrative construction.
This book is the first in-depth cultural history of cinema's polyvalent and often contradictory appropriations of Shakespearean drama and performance ...
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447,98 |
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Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Literature
ISBN: 9781403972040 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study traces how medieval audiences judge bodies from Doomsday visions to beauty contests. Employing cultural and formalist approaches, this study breaks new ground on the historical obsession about ends and changes, reflected in different genres spanning several hundred years.
This study traces how medieval audiences judge bodies from Doomsday visions to beauty contests. Employing cultural and formalist approaches, this stud...
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203,61 |
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Britain Colonized: Hollywood's Appropriation of British Literature
ISBN: 9781403972767 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Britain Colonized analyzes how and why filmmakers use cliched Hollywood formulas and American cultural standards when adapting British literature. The films discussed in this book are evidence of the way one nation remakes another, often in the image of itself or what it needs the Other to be (as the British Empire once did). Reterritorialization on the part of Hollywood manifests American cultural and capitalist hegemony over the English speaking world. Britain Colonized identifies the phenomena portending the future of British and Anglophone literary and...
Britain Colonized analyzes how and why filmmakers use cliched Hollywood formulas and American cultural standards when adapting British l...
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203,61 |
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Make Believe in Film and Fiction: Visual vs. Verbal Storytelling
ISBN: 9781403972798 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study provides the first detailed contrast between the experiences of reading a novel and watching a movie. Kroeber shows how fiction evokes morally inflected imagining, and how movies reveal through magnification of human movements and expression subjective effects of complex social changes.
This study provides the first detailed contrast between the experiences of reading a novel and watching a movie. Kroeber shows how fiction evokes mora...
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203,61 |
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A New Guide to Italian Cinema
ISBN: 9781403975607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993) . This guide retains earlier editions' interest in renowned films and directors but is also attentive to the popular films which achieved box office success among the public.
This book is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993) . This guide retains earli...
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203,61 |
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Samuel Beckett's Plays on Film and Television
ISBN: 9781403977953 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is the first book devoted Beckett's innovative work for the big- and small-screens. Herren examines each of Beckett's film and television plays in depth, emphasizing the central role that memory plays in these haunting works.
This is the first book devoted Beckett's innovative work for the big- and small-screens. Herren examines each of Beckett's film and television plays i...
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203,61 |
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Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema
ISBN: 9781403986214 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This studyprovides new insights into the link between masculinity and jealousy through a study of representations of male jealousy in modern Hollywood cinema. It argues, through examples of films and their reception in the press, that male jealousy has played a key role in the psychocultural shaping of Western masculinities and male fantasy."
This studyprovides new insights into the link between masculinity and jealousy through a study of representations of male jealousy in modern Hollywood...
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203,61 |
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Theorizing Desire: From Freud to Feminism to Film
ISBN: 9781403989604 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What is the nature of desire? This book gives an accessible introduction to the concept, and a coherent critique of the competing theories of desire within contemporary theory. Through analysis of representations of desire in television and film, it considers ways in which the conceptis theorized and presented on screen."
What is the nature of desire? This book gives an accessible introduction to the concept, and a coherent critique of the competing theories of desire w...
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203,61 |
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Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace
ISBN: 9781403992154 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This exciting new title investigates the explosion of Shakespeare films during the 1990s and beyond. Linking fluctuating 'Shakespeares' with the growth of a global marketplace, the dissolution of national borders and technological advances, this book produces a fresh awareness of our contemporary cultural moment.
This exciting new title investigates the explosion of Shakespeare films during the 1990s and beyond. Linking fluctuating 'Shakespeares' with the growt...
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203,61 |
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Narrative Strategies in Television Series
ISBN: 9781403996053 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the context of a systematic overview of the possibilities of applying narratological concepts to a study of TV series, ten case studies are explored in depth, demonstrating how series such as 24, Buffy, Twin Peaks, Star Trek, Blackadder, and Sex and the City make use of innovative audiovisual means of storytelling. Transgressing the traditional confines of narrative theory, the chapter authors address the question of how form, content, and function intersect in these series.
In the context of a systematic overview of the possibilities of applying narratological concepts to a study of TV series, ten case studies are explore...
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407,25 |
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British Film Music and Film Musicals
ISBN: 9781403996732 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the first book-length consideration of the topic for sixty years, Kevin Donnelly examines the importance of music in British film, concentrating both on musical scores, such as William Walton's score for Henry V (1944) and Malcolm Arnold's music for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and on the phenomenon of the British film musical.
In the first book-length consideration of the topic for sixty years, Kevin Donnelly examines the importance of music in British film, concentrating bo...
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203,61 |
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World Cinema's 'Dialogues' with Hollywood
ISBN: 9781403998958 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Paul Cookelooks at Hollywood's interaction with national and transnational cinemas, from German Expressionism to Bollywood and Chinese film. While Hollywood has had a huge impact on the medium - doing all the talking in the 'dialogue' - world cinema's economic, aesthetic and political relationship with Hollywood is of profound importance."
Paul Cookelooks at Hollywood's interaction with national and transnational cinemas, from German Expressionism to Bollywood and Chinese film. While Hol...
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203,61 |
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The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry
ISBN: 9781405133876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry is a collection of essays by leading scholars that examines the state of the U.S. film industry, from the l980s to present day.
The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry is a collection of essays by leading scholars that examines the state of the U.S. film industry, from ...
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493,24 |
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Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature
ISBN: 9781405139243 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This anthology offers a fresh approach to the philosophical aspects of photography. The essays, written by contemporary philosophers in a thorough and engaging manner, explore the far-reaching ethical dimensions of photography as it is used today.
This anthology offers a fresh approach to the philosophical aspects of photography. The essays, written by contemporary philosophers in a thorough and...
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435,49 |
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The Hollywood Historical Film
ISBN: 9781405146029 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A comprehensive analysis of the historical film--a popular and controversial genre that's been with us since the early days of cinema--and Hollywood's unique ability to reshape our viewpoints while it sensually recreates the past.
A comprehensive analysis of the historical film--a popular and controversial genre that's been with us since the early days of cinema--and Hollywood's...
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445,99 |
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The Hollywood Historical Film
ISBN: 9781405146036 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A comprehensive analysis of the historical film--a popular and controversial genre that's been with us since the early days of cinema--and Hollywood's unique ability to reshape our viewpoints while it sensually recreates the past.
A comprehensive analysis of the historical film--a popular and controversial genre that's been with us since the early days of cinema--and Hollywood's...
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157,24 |
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Postwar Hollywood: 1946-1962
ISBN: 9781405150743 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Postwar Hollywood is a comprehensive history of the American film industry, from 1946-1962.
Postwar Hollywood is a comprehensive history of the American film industry, from 1946-1962.
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493,24 |
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Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong
ISBN: 9781405163705 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This fascinating book begins with a new definition of the gangster film and a challenging exploration of the Hong Kong and Hollywood screen traditions.
This fascinating book begins with a new definition of the gangster film and a challenging exploration of the Hong Kong and Hollywood screen traditions...
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676,76 |