wyszukanych pozycji: 21
Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale
ISBN: 9781906660192 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Revisioning 007 is a lively collection of new essays on the reinvention of James Bond in the 2006 film Casino Royale, starring Daniel Craig in his first appearance as Agent 007. Treating Casino Royale as a case study in popular film culture and as a significant turning point in the 007 series, the book offers innovative readings of the film and its interrelations with the Bond franchise, the culture industry, and recent developments in cinema, society, and world politics. Essay topics range from the analysis of 007's masochism, voyeurism, and hyper-mobility, to the...
Revisioning 007 is a lively collection of new essays on the reinvention of James Bond in the 2006 film Casino Royale, starring Daniel Cr...
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121,74 zł |
The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader (Second Edition)
ISBN: 9780719080951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sean Connery's tuxedo, Ursula Andress' bikini, Oddjob's bowler hat, and Q's gadgets are just a few defining features of the 007 world examined in The James Bond phenomenon. Drawn from the fields of literary, film, music, and cultural studies, the essays in this collection range from revitalised readings of Ian Fleming's original spy novels to the analysis of Pussy Galore's lesbianism, Miss Moneypenny's filmic feminism, and Pierce Brosnan's techno-fetishism. Together, the essays not only consider the James Bond novels and films in relation to their historical, political, and social contexts...
Sean Connery's tuxedo, Ursula Andress' bikini, Oddjob's bowler hat, and Q's gadgets are just a few defining features of the 007 world examined in The ...
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110,62 zł |
Urban Space and Cityscapes : Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Culture
ISBN: 9780415366533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the verticals of New York, Hong Kong and Australia's Gold Coast to the sprawls of London, Paris and Jakarta, this cross-disciplinary volume of new writing examines constructions, representations, imaginations and theorizations of urban space and cityscapes in modern and contemporary culture. Linked by a shared concern for issues of spatiality, the essay topics are organized around three interrelated themes - image, text, and form - and range from the examination of cyberpunk skylines, postcolonial urbanism, and the cinema of urban disaster, to the analysis of iconic city landmarks such...
From the verticals of New York, Hong Kong and Australia's Gold Coast to the sprawls of London, Paris and Jakarta, this cross-disciplinary volume of ne...
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241,76 zł |
Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940
ISBN: 9780195375152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940. In particular, Imagining New York City considers how and why certain city spaces-such as the skyline, the sidewalk, the slum, and the subway-have come to emblematize key aspects of the modern urban condition. In so doing, Christoph Lindner also considers the ways in which cultural developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries set the stage for more recent responses to a variety of...
Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the significance of New York City in the urba...
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188,02 zł |
Urban Space and Cityscapes : Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Culture
ISBN: 9780415366526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the verticals of New York, Hong Kong and Australia's Gold Coast to the sprawls of London, Paris and Jakarta, this cross-disciplinary volume of new writing examines constructions, representations, imaginations and theorizations of urban space and cityscapes in modern and contemporary culture. Linked by a shared concern for issues of spatiality, the essay topics are organized around three interrelated themes - image, text, and form - and range from the examination of cyberpunk skylines, postcolonial urbanism, and the cinema of urban disaster, to the analysis of iconic city landmarks such...
From the verticals of New York, Hong Kong and Australia's Gold Coast to the sprawls of London, Paris and Jakarta, this cross-disciplinary volume of ne...
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919,95 zł |
Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940
ISBN: 9780195375145 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940. In particular, Imagining New York City considers how and why certain city spaces-such as the skyline, the sidewalk, the slum, and the subway-have come to emblematize key aspects of the modern urban condition. In so doing, Christoph Lindner also considers the ways in which cultural developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries set the stage for more recent responses to a variety of...
Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the significance of New York City in the urba...
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628,82 zł |
Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale
ISBN: 9781906660208 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Revisioning 007 is a lively collection of new essays on the reinvention of James Bond in the 2006 film Casino Royale, starring Daniel Craig in his first appearance as Agent 007. Treating Casino Royale as a case study in popular film culture and as a significant turning point in the 007 series, the book offers innovative readings of the film and its interrelations with the Bond franchise, the culture industry, and recent developments in cinema, society, and world politics. Essay topics range from the analysis of 007's masochism, voyeurism, and hyper-mobility, to the...
Revisioning 007 is a lively collection of new essays on the reinvention of James Bond in the 2006 film Casino Royale, starring Daniel Cr...
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442,68 zł |
Resisting James Bond: Power and Privilege in the Daniel Craig Era
ISBN: 9781501388309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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115,59 zł |
Resisting James Bond: Power and Privilege in the Daniel Craig Era
ISBN: 9781501388262 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Beginning with Casino Royale (2006) and ending with No Time to Die (2021), the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films coincides with the rise of various justice movements challenging deeply entrenched systems of inequality and oppression, ranging from sexism, racism, and immigration to 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive justice and climate change. While focus is often placed on individual actions and institutional policies and practices, it is important to recognize the role that culture plays within these systems. Mainstream film is not simply 'mindless' entertainment but a key part of a global...
Beginning with Casino Royale (2006) and ending with No Time to Die (2021), the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films coincides with the rise of various...
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341,69 zł |
Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities
ISBN: 9781138975293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What connects garbage dumps in New York, bomb sites in Baghdad, and skyscrapers in Sao Paulo? How is contemporary visual culture - extending from art and architecture to film and digital media - responding to new forms of violence associated with global and globalizing cities? Addressing such questions, this book is the first interdisciplinary volume to examine the complex relationship between globalization, violence, and the visual culture of cities. Violence - in both material and cultural forms - has been a prominent and endemic feature of urban life in the global metropolitan era....
What connects garbage dumps in New York, bomb sites in Baghdad, and skyscrapers in Sao Paulo? How is contemporary visual culture - extending from art ...
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231,25 zł |
Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities
ISBN: 9780415482141 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What connects garbage dumps in New York, bomb sites in Baghdad, and skyscrapers in Sao Paulo? How is contemporary visual culture - extending from art and architecture to film and digital media - responding to new forms of violence associated with global and globalizing cities? Addressing such questions, this book is the first interdisciplinary volume to examine the complex relationship between globalization, violence, and the visual culture of cities. Violence - in both material and cultural forms - has been a prominent and endemic feature of urban life in the global... What connects garbage dumps in New York, bomb sites in Baghdad, and skyscrapers in Sao Paulo? How is contemporary visual culture - extending from a... |
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762,24 zł |
Global Garbage: Urban Imaginaries of Waste, Excess, and Abandonment
ISBN: 9781138841390 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices. The book explores the increasingly complex relationship between globalization and garbage in locations such as Beirut, Detroit, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Naples, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Tehran. In particular, the book examines how, and under what conditions, contemporary imaginaries of excess, waste, and... Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, co... |
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683,39 zł |
The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries
ISBN: 9780367733049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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231,25 zł |
Global Garbage: Urban Imaginaries of Waste, Excess, and Abandonment
ISBN: 9781138546455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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241,76 zł |
Cities Interrupted: Visual Culture and Urban Space
ISBN: 9781474224413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture - in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media - to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces. Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, Beijing, Doha, London, New York, and Paris, the book brings together original essays to reveal how the concept of 'interruption' in global cities enables new understanding of the forms of space, experience, and community that are emerging in today's rapidly transforming urban environments. The idea... Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture - in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and... |
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136,63 zł |
The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries
ISBN: 9781138058880 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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1130,22 zł |
Inert Cities : Globalization, Mobility and Suspension in Visual Culture
ISBN: 9781780769738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed. But what about those instances when the forms of mobility associated with globalized cities - the flow of capital, people, labor and information - freeze, or decelerate? How can we assess the value of interruption in a city? What does valuing stillness mean in regards to the forward march of globalization? When does inertia presage decay - and when does it promise immanence and rebirth?
Bringing together original contributions by international specialists from the fields of architecture, photography, film, sociology and... We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed. But what about those instances when the forms of mobility associated with global...
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131,37 zł |
Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City
ISBN: 9789463722032 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Gentrification is reshaping cities worldwide, resulting in seductive spaces and exclusive communities that aspire to innovation, creativity, sustainability, and technological sophistication. Gentrification is also contributing to growing social-spatial division and urban inequality and precarity. In a time of escalating housing crisis, unaffordable cities, and racial tension, scholars speak of eco-gentrification, techno-gentrification, super-gentrification, and planetary-gentrification to describe the different forms and scales of involuntary displacement occurring in vulnerable communities...
Gentrification is reshaping cities worldwide, resulting in seductive spaces and exclusive communities that aspire to innovation, creativity, sustainab...
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615,05 zł |
Deconstructing the High Line: Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park
ISBN: 9780813576466 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world's most iconic new urban landmarks. Since the opening of its first section in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded all expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and property development to Manhattan's West Side. Frequently celebrated as a monument to community-led activism, adaptive re-use of urban infrastructure, and innovative ecological design, the High Line is being used as a model for numerous urban redevelopment plans proliferating worldwide. The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world's most iconic new urban landmarks. Sinc...
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651,85 zł |
Deconstructing the High Line: Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park
ISBN: 9780813576459 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world's most iconic new urban landmarks. Since the opening of its first section in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded all expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and property development to Manhattan's West Side. Frequently celebrated as a monument to community-led activism, adaptive re-use of urban infrastructure, and innovative ecological design, the High Line is being used as a model for numerous urban redevelopment plans proliferating worldwide....
The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world's most iconic new urban landmarks. Sinc...
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160,42 zł |