Domestic Violence in Hollywood Film: Gaslighting
ISBN: 9783319650630 / Angielski / Twarda / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to critically examine Hollywood films that focus on male partner violence against women.
This is the first book to critically examine Hollywood films that focus on male partner violence against women.
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350,18 zł |
Perturbatory Narration in Film: Narratological Studies on Deception, Paradox and Empuzzlement
ISBN: 9783110560824 / Angielski / Twarda / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perturbatory narration is a heuristic concept, applicable both quantitatively and qualitatively to a specific type of complex narratives for which narratology has not yet found an appropriate classification. This new term refers to complex narrative strategies that produce intentionally disturbing effects such as surprise, confusion, doubt or disappointment ‒ effects that interrupt or suspend immersion in the aesthetic reception process. The initial task, however, is to indicate what narrative conventions are, in fact, questioned, transgressed, or given new life by perturbatory... Perturbatory narration is a heuristic concept, applicable both quantitatively and qualitatively to a specific type of complex narratives for which ... |
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434,69 zł |
Rerouting Galician Studies: Multidisciplinary Interventions
ISBN: 9783319657288 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book--aimed at both the general reader and the specialist--offers a transatlantic, transnational, and multidisciplinary cartography of the rapidly expanding intellectual field of Galician Studies. In the twenty-one essays that comprise the volume, leading scholars based in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand engage with this field from the perspectives of queer theory, Atlantic and diasporic thought, political ecology, hydropoetics, theories of space, trauma and memory studies, exile, national/postnational approaches, linguistic ideologies, ethnographic... This book--aimed at both the general reader and the specialist--offers a transatlantic, transnational, and multidisciplinary cartography of the rap... |
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350,18 zł |
Heroin, Acting, and Comedy in New York City
ISBN: 9781137599711 / Angielski / Twarda / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on New York City-based actors and comedians who are self-acknowledged heroin users. Barry Spunt examines a number of hypotheses about the reasons why actors and comedians use heroin as well as the impact of heroin on performance, creativity, and career trajectory.
This book focuses on New York City-based actors and comedians who are self-acknowledged heroin users. Barry Spunt examines a number of hypotheses abou...
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466,91 zł |
Visual Communication for Social Work Practice: Power, Culture, Analysis
ISBN: 9780815374534 / Angielski / Twarda / 14 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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654,86 zł |
Casting Masculinity in Spanish Film: Negotiating Identity in a Consumer Age
ISBN: 9781498537117 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores representations of masculinity in Spanish film from the early Franco dictatorship through the present. It describes the rise of consumerism in Spain and, through an analysis of over 60 films, and shows how the hegemonic masculine models presented reflect and promote particular social, political, and economic exigencies.
This book explores representations of masculinity in Spanish film from the early Franco dictatorship through the present. It describes the rise of con...
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450,71 zł |
An Inappropriate Comparison: The Coup d'état and Ken Loach's Contribution to the 9/11 Film by Alain Brigand: Ken Loach and His Part in the 9/11 Fil
ISBN: 9783668496668 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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171,32 zł |
Post-Feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television: The Persephone Complex
ISBN: 9781349569441 / Angielski / Miękka / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual difference - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', where this question has been otherwise foreclosed.
Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television...
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213,98 zł |
The Horse in Literature and Film: Uncovering a Transcultural Paradigm
ISBN: 9781498534918 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the balancing function that horses play when they become central characters in literature and film. Through close readings of texts from the Middle Ages until the present, covering works from Eastern and Western cultures, the book examines the deep symbolic meaning, cultural significance, and projective power of these animals.
This book explores the balancing function that horses play when they become central characters in literature and film. Through close readings of texts...
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498,44 zł |
Good vs Evil. Binary oppositions in pure form or categories with flowing borders? A deconstructive analysis of the Harry Potter movies
ISBN: 9783668508903 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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171,32 zł |
Lessons in Perception: The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist
ISBN: 9781785336416 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lessons in Perception brings together film theory and psychological research by exploring how experimental filmmakers expand the viewer's range of aesthetic sensitivities, and the creative possibilities uncharted by commercial cinema.
Lessons in Perception brings together film theory and psychological research by exploring how experimental filmmakers expand the viewer's range of aes...
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498,70 zł |
Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture
ISBN: 9781349953264 / Angielski / Twarda / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative work examines new and emerging forms of gender hybridisation in relation to complex socialisation and immigration contexts including the role of EU institutions in ascertaining asylum seekers' sexual orientation, and the European laws on gender policy.
This innovative work examines new and emerging forms of gender hybridisation in relation to complex socialisation and immigration contexts including t...
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505,83 zł |
Argentine Cinema: From Noir to Neo-Noir
ISBN: 9781498511865 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a history of the development of film noir and neo-noir in Argentina, as well as a technical, aesthetic, and socio-historical analysis of recent Argentine neo-noir films. It also considers the question of neo-noir inscription of classic Hollywood noirs.
This book presents a history of the development of film noir and neo-noir in Argentina, as well as a technical, aesthetic, and socio-historical analys...
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429,50 zł |
Politics, Hollywood Style: American Politics in Film from Mr. Smith to Selma
ISBN: 9781498551922 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes major films about the American political process since the 1930s. It considers the films' major themes about politics, ideology, and representation of race and gender over the past several decades.
This book analyzes major films about the American political process since the 1930s. It considers the films' major themes about politics, ideology, an...
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429,50 zł |
Dialectics of the Goddess in Japanese Audiovisual Culture
ISBN: 9781498570145 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays analyzes the audiovisual representation of goddesses in Japanese popular culture. It proposes a dialectics of the different conceptions of the feminine as taken up in Japanese film, television, and video games.
This collection of essays analyzes the audiovisual representation of goddesses in Japanese popular culture. It proposes a dialectics of the different ...
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429,50 zł |
Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr
ISBN: 9781504048439 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A son's funny, frank, and "endlessly fascinating" memoir of his father, Wizard of Oz star Bert Lahr (Harper's Magazine).
Bert Lahr, best known for his role as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, made audiences laugh from burlesque stages to vaudeville to Broadway--and impressed them as Estragon in the American theater debut of Waiting for Godot. But reality wasn't always funny for the legendary actor and comedian, or his family. Drawing on personal recollections and the memories of his father's colleagues, a veteran... A son's funny, frank, and "endlessly fascinating" memoir of his father, Wizard of Oz star Bert Lahr (Harper's Magazine).<...
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94,67 zł |
Multilingual Films in Translation: A Sociolinguistic and Intercultural Study of Diasporic Films
ISBN: 9781787071599 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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502,03 zł |
More Than Meets the Eye: Special Effects and the Fantastic Transmedia Franchise
ISBN: 9781479813155 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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402,99 zł |
More Than Meets the Eye: Special Effects and the Fantastic Transmedia Franchise
ISBN: 9781479856701 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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130,92 zł |
Gale Storm: A Biography and Career Record
ISBN: 9781476671772 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This extensively researched survey of Gale Storm's life and career, featuring interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, offers previously unpublished details of her upbringing, personal joys and challenges, and later years out of the Hollywood spotlight. This is a well-rounded portrait of a woman whose charisma and talent won the hearts of audiences from the 1940s to the present.
This extensively researched survey of Gale Storm's life and career, featuring interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, offers previously unpub...
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247,08 zł |