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Cowboy Metaphysics: Ethics and Death in Westerns
ISBN: 9780847686711 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peter French examines the world of the western, one in which death is annihilation, the culmination of life, and there is nothing else. In that world he finds alternatives to Judeo-Christian traditions that dominate our ethical theories, alternatives that also attack the views of the most prominent ethicists of the past three centuries.
Peter French examines the world of the western, one in which death is annihilation, the culmination of life, and there is nothing else. In that world ...
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225,30 |
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The Art of the Actor: The Essential History of Acting from Classical Times to the Present Day
ISBN: 9780878302031 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did acting begin? What is its history, and what have the great thinkers on acting said about the art and craft of performance? In this single-volume survey of the history of acting, Jean Benedetti traces the evolution of the theories of the actor's craft drawing extensively on extracts from key texts, many of which are unavailable for the student today. Beginning with the classical conceptions of acting as rhetoric and oratory, as exemplified in the writing of Aristotle, Cicero and others, The Art of the Actor progresses to examine ideas of acting in Shakespeare's time right through to...
How did acting begin? What is its history, and what have the great thinkers on acting said about the art and craft of performance? In this single-volu...
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922,53 |
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Stranger Than Paradise: Maverick Film-Makers in Recent American Cinema
ISBN: 9780879102777 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A ground-breaking critical survey of the talented, audacious, and influential directors - Hal Hartley, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, John Sayles, Quentin Tarantino, among others - who, dominating the independent scene, have revitalized American film. Illustrated throughout, index.
A ground-breaking critical survey of the talented, audacious, and influential directors - Hal Hartley, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, John Sayles, Quentin T...
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146,94 |
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Gangster Film Reader
ISBN: 9780879103323 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1930s the gangster film in the United States coincided with a very real and very sensational gangsterism at large in American society. Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932) borrowed liberally from the newspapers and books of the era. With the release of just these three motion pictures in barely more than a year's time, Hollywood quintessentially defined the genre. The characters, the situations, and the icons-from fast cars and tommy-guns to fancy fedoras and fancier molls-established the audience expectations associated with the gangster film that remain...
In the 1930s the gangster film in the United States coincided with a very real and very sensational gangsterism at large in American society. Little C...
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73,42 |
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Jazz on Film: The Complete Story of the Musicians & Music Onscreen
ISBN: 9780879307837 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Yanow reviews and rates over 1,300 Hollywood movies, DVDs and films, that include at least a brief appearance on screen of a jazz musician or singer. This comprehensive volume also includes an essay on the history of jazz.
Yanow reviews and rates over 1,300 Hollywood movies, DVDs and films, that include at least a brief appearance on screen of a jazz musician or singer. ...
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93,01 |
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Flickering Shadows: Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe
ISBN: 9780896802247 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every European power in Africa made motion pictures for its subjects, but no state invested as heavily in these films, and expected as much from them, as the British colony of Southern Rhodesia. "Flickering Shadows" is the first book to explore this little-known world of colonial cinema. Every European power in Africa made motion pictures for its subjects, but no state invested as heavily in these films, and expected as much from th... |
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137,09 |
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Stepin Fetchit: The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry
ISBN: 9781400096763 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era s most popular comic stereotype the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perry was hailed by critic Robert Benchley as the best actor that the talking movies have produced, and Mel Watkins s meticulously researched and sensitive biography reveals the paradoxes of this pioneering actor s life, from Perry s tremendous popularity to his money troubles and rowdy offscreen antics. As later generations come to recognize Perry s prodigious talent and achievements, in Stepin...
In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era s most popular ...
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73,22 |
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Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon
ISBN: 9781403915979 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive and discriminating account of Tolkien's work has been revised and expanded to take account both of recent developments in scholarship, and of the recent films directed by Peter Jackson. Tracing the development of Tolkien's creative technique over several decades, it explores the bewildering profusion of shorter works, as well as devoting an extended analysis to The Lord of the Rings. Chapters consider Tolkien's contribution to the history of ideas, and review the critical reception of the Lord of the Rings film adaptations and other popular adaptations of his work.
This comprehensive and discriminating account of Tolkien's work has been revised and expanded to take account both of recent developments in scholarsh...
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201,24 |
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Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film 1850-1950
ISBN: 9781403921635 / Angielski / Twarda / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A must-read for scholars of visuality, gender and sexuality. Denisoff's study explores the ways in which gothic, sensation and noir literature and cinema manipulated common notions of the visual in order to challenge sex- and gender-based assumptions that marginalized certain people and desires. Addressing authors and directors such as Mary Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Virigina Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang, this study shows that what a society gets is often what it tries hardest not to see.
A must-read for scholars of visuality, gender and sexuality. Denisoff's study explores the ways in which gothic, sensation and noir literature and cin...
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201,24 |
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American Television on British Screens: A Story of Cultural Interaction
ISBN: 9781403941206 / Angielski / Twarda / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work explores how American programmes have become an important part of British television culture since the 1950's, moving from schedule fillers to cornerstones and 'must see' attractions. The book analyses popular and industrial discourses, the changing roles of such programmes on British screens and interviews with key British broadcasters.
This work explores how American programmes have become an important part of British television culture since the 1950's, moving from schedule fillers ...
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201,24 |
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Suburbianation: Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth Century American Film and Fiction
ISBN: 9781403963406 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Green lawns, swimming pools, backyard barbecues: welcome to suburbia, the promised land of the American middle class. Or is it? To judge by the depiction of suburbia in prominent works of American fiction and film, the suburbs are also home to dysfunctional families, broken communities, and widespread misery. Clearly, despite the continued popularity of the suburbs as a place to live, the prevailing image of suburbia has changed markedly since the days of Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best. In this book, Robert Beuka argues that in order to begin to understand our conflicted...
Green lawns, swimming pools, backyard barbecues: welcome to suburbia, the promised land of the American middle class. Or is it? To judge by the depict...
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201,24 |
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Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia
ISBN: 9781403977519 / Angielski / Twarda / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the intersections of film, justice, and the state in comparative perspective across a range of major Asian countries, including India, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam. The contributing authors cross the conventional border between the analysis of on-screen and off-screen intersections of law and cinema.
This book explores the intersections of film, justice, and the state in comparative perspective across a range of major Asian countries, including Ind...
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201,24 |
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Public Television in the Digital Era: Technological Challenges and New Strategies for Europe
ISBN: 9781403989611 / Angielski / Twarda / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By looking at a range of different European Public Television (PTV) broadcasters, this bookinvestigates the challenges that these broadcasters encounter in a competitive digital broadcasting environment and reveals the different policies and strategies that they are adopting in order to remain accountable, competitive and efficient."
By looking at a range of different European Public Television (PTV) broadcasters, this bookinvestigates the challenges that these broadcasters encount...
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201,24 |
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Better Living Through Television
ISBN: 9781405134415 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining cutting-edge theories of culture and government with programming examples--including Todd TV, Survivor, and American Idol--Better Living through Reality TV moves beyond the established concerns of political economy and cultural studies to conceptualize television's evolving role in the contemporary period.
Combining cutting-edge theories of culture and government with programming examples--including Todd TV, Survivor, and American Idol
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169,87 |
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Television in the Multichannel Age: A Brief History of Cable Television
ISBN: 9781405149693 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Television in the Multichannel Age is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to the history of multichannel television in all its forms - from cable to direct-to-home satellite and beyond. Chapter by chapter, the book traces the evolution of cable television from its pre-historical origins in the late 1940s to the communications satellites and DBS distribution systems of the modern digital age, both in the U.S. and internationally.
Television in the Multichannel Age is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to the history of multichannel television in all its forms - ...
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437,96 |
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Hollywood: Warts 'N' All!
ISBN: 9781412084192 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hollywood Warts 'N' All is an anthology of scandal, trivia and anecdotes about the first one hundred years of American cinema. For more than a decade the author has gleaned thousands of items from hundreds of films, biographies and movie publications in general, focusing on the bizarre, the scandalous and the controversial aspects of Tinseltown and, in particular, the private and public lives of the stars themselves. As the title implies, it is a no-holds-barred portrait of an industry notorious for its promiscuity, eccentricities and outrageous behaviour.
In these pages the reader will... Hollywood Warts 'N' All is an anthology of scandal, trivia and anecdotes about the first one hundred years of American cinema. For more than a decade ...
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103,31 |
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Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film
ISBN: 9781556128639 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Baugh traces the development of the Jesus-film and through critical film and theological analysis show us the limitations of this genre. Baugh analyzes several important and often prize-winning films showing how each film-maker has created a valid and often complex and challenging metaphor of the Christ-event. He questions many of the traditional approaches to religious film, and offers a new approach and new criteria for the appreciation and judgment of these films.
Baugh traces the development of the Jesus-film and through critical film and theological analysis show us the limitations of this genre. Baugh analyze...
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195,91 |
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Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists
ISBN: 9781557043740 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heaven's Gate is probably the most discussed, least seen film in modern movie history. Its notoriety is so great that its title has become a generic term for disaster, for ego run rampant, for epic mismanagement, for wanton extravagance. It was also the film that brought down one of Hollywood's major studios--United Artists, the company founded in 1919 by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, D. W. Griffith, and Charlie Chaplin. Steven Bach was senior vice president and head of worldwide production for United Artists at the time of the filming of Heaven's Gate, and apart from... Heaven's Gate is probably the most discussed, least seen film in modern movie history. Its notoriety is so great that its title has become... |
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84,74 |
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Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste
ISBN: 9781560256984 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation."
Thus begins John Waters's autobiography. And what a story it is. Opening with his upbringing in Baltimore ("Charm City" as dubbed by the tourist board; the "hairdo capital of the world" as dubbed by Waters), it covers his friendship with his muse and leading lady, Divine, detailed accounts of how Waters made his first movies, stories of the circle of friends/actors he used in these films, and finally the "sort-of fame" he achieves in America.... "To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation."
Thus begi... |
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77,07 |
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Screening Scripture
ISBN: 9781563383540 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Screening Scripture offers a unique new perspective on religion and film. The book proposes that there is no natural connection between scripture and film-even for those movies that seem to have an obvious relationship to religious text. It is only the viewer that makes this connection. From this perspective, Screening Scripture opens up new possibilities for viewing these movies and reading these texts with each other.
The contributors to this volume serve as creative viewers who make these connections for some of today's most popular and provocative films. The scriptures discussed... Screening Scripture offers a unique new perspective on religion and film. The book proposes that there is no natural connection between scripture and ...
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329,72 |
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