Genre and Cinema : Ireland and Transnationalism
ISBN: 9780415770897 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This impressive volume takes a broad critical look at Irish and Irish-related cinema through the lens of genre theory and criticism. Secondary and related objectives of the book are to cover key genres and sub-genres and account for their popularity. The result offers new ways of looking at Irish Cinema. This impressive volume takes a broad critical look at Irish and Irish-related cinema through the lens of genre theory and criticism. Secondary and ... |
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860,79 zł |
Film, History and Cultural Citizenship: Sites of Production
ISBN: 9780415771177 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new book investigates the relationship of film to history, power, memory, and cultural citizenship. The book is concerned with two central issues: firstly, the participation of film and filmmakers in articulating and challenging projects of modernity; and, secondly, the role of film in shaping particular understandings of self and other to evoke collective notions of belonging. These issues call for interdisciplinary and multi-layered analyses that are ideally met through dialogue across place, time, identities and genres. The contributors to this volume enable this dialogue by... This new book investigates the relationship of film to history, power, memory, and cultural citizenship. The book is concerned with two central iss... |
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860,79 zł |
Psychoanalysis and Cinema
ISBN: 9780415900294 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These fifteen carefully chosen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the crucial role feminist theory has played in its development. Among the films discussed are Duel in the Sun, The Best Years of Our Lives, Three Faces of Eve, Tender is the Night, Pandora's Box, Secrets of the Soul, and the works of Jacques Tourneur (director of The Cat People and other features).
These fifteen carefully chosen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the cru...
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192,97 zł |
Feminism and Film Theory
ISBN: 9780415901086 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No online description is currently available. If you would like to receive information about this title, please email Routledge at info@routledge-ny.com
No online description is currently available. If you would like to receive information about this title, please email Routledge at info@routledge-ny.c...
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187,76 zł |
When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics
ISBN: 9780415904315 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, she examines topics such as Asian and African texts, the theories of Barthes, questions of spectatorship, the enigmas of art, and the perils of anthropology.
When the Moon Waxes Red is an extended argument against reductive analyses, even those that appear politically adroit. The multiply-hyphenated peoples of color are... In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. ...
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182,54 zł |
White Screens/Black Images: Hollywood from the Dark Side
ISBN: 9780415905749 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In these essays, completed shortly before his death in 1989, James Snead offers a thoughtful inquiry into the intricate modes of racial coding in Hollywood cinema from 1915 to 1985.
In these essays, completed shortly before his death in 1989, James Snead offers a thoughtful inquiry into the intricate modes of racial coding in Holl...
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203,41 zł |
Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video
ISBN: 9780415907422 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Queer Looks is a collection of writing by video artists, filmmakers and critics which explores the recent explosion of lesbian and gay independent media culture. A compelling compilation of artists' statements and critical theory, producer interviews and image-text works, this anthology demonstrates the vitality of queer artists under attack and fighting back. Each maker and writer deploys a surprising array of techniques and tactics, negotiating the difficult terrain between street pragmatism and theoretical inquiry. From guerilla Super-8 in Manila to AIDS video activism in New York; from...
Queer Looks is a collection of writing by video artists, filmmakers and critics which explores the recent explosion of lesbian and gay independent med...
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192,97 zł |
Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze
ISBN: 9780415910170 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned? Looking for the Other responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of issues to do with race. It focuses attention on the male gaze across cultures, as illustrated by women filmmakers of color whose films deal with travel. Looking relations are determined by history, tradition, myth; by national identity, power hierarchies, politics, economics, geographical and other environment. Travel implicitly...
What happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned? Looking for the Other
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Cinema-Interval
ISBN: 9780415922005 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An image is powerful not necessarily because of anything specific it offers the viewer, but because of everything it apparently also takes away from the viewer." "An image is powerful not necessarily because of anything specific it offers the viewer, but because of everything it apparen... |
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678,21 zł |
Cinema-Interval
ISBN: 9780415922012 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Filmaker and feminist thinker Trinh T. Minh-ha is a powerful and articulate voice in independent filmmaking. In her writings and interviews, as well as in her filmscripts, Trinh explores what she describes as the infinite relation of word to image. This book brings together her recent conversations on film and art, music and language, life and theory, with Homi Bhabha, Deb Verhoeven, Annamaria Morelli and other critics. Together these interviews offer a presentation of this artist's ideas and visions. Extensively illustrated in colour and black and white, this text covers a range of issues,...
Filmaker and feminist thinker Trinh T. Minh-ha is a powerful and articulate voice in independent filmmaking. In her writings and interviews, as well a...
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192,97 zł |
Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture
ISBN: 9780415923248 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study brings together work on masculinity in film by established film scholars, academics, performance artists, and cultural critics. The essays analyze: the role of gay men in saving heterosexuality; the emergence of the new queer cinema; the resurgence of white masculinity; the exploration of masculinity in World War II films; and the relationship between nationhood and the male body in 1990s Canadian cinema.
This study brings together work on masculinity in film by established film scholars, academics, performance artists, and cultural critics. The essays ...
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192,97 zł |
Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall
ISBN: 9780415923286 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies. A fresh and revelatory look at sexuality in the Great Age of movie making, Screened Out shows how much gay and lesbian lives have shaped the Big Screen. Spanning popular American cinema from the 1900s until today, distinguished film historian Richard Barrios presents a rich, compulsively readable analysis of how Hollywood has used and depicted gays and the mixed signals it has given us: Marlene...
Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew ab...
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505,98 zł |
Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall
ISBN: 9780415923293 / Angielski / Miękka / 417 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies. A fresh and revelatory look at sexuality in the Great Age of movie making, Screened Out shows how much gay and lesbian lives have shaped the Big Screen. Spanning popular American cinema from the 1900s until today, distinguished film historian Richard Barrios presents a rich, compulsively readable analysis of how Hollywood has used and depicted gays and the mixed signals it has given us: Marlene...
Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew ab...
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182,54 zł |
Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon
ISBN: 9780415923446 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his readings of film favourites, Alexander Doty takes the reader to the queer side of criticism, offering fresh and controversial views of the stars, the plots, and the directors of our best loved and most iconic films. Arguing against the assumption that only explicitly gay films are subject to gay readings, he looks at six classics and reads them for their queer potential. With both affection and scholarly rigor, he teases out the lesbian fantasy inherent in The Wizard of Oz, the gay nightmare narrative of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the bisexual erotics of Gentleman Prefer Blondes, the...
In his readings of film favourites, Alexander Doty takes the reader to the queer side of criticism, offering fresh and controversial views of the star...
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704,29 zł |
Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon
ISBN: 9780415923453 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This lively, opinionated, and playful look at the movies is a must-read for film buffs, and for anyone interested in gender, sexuality, and popular culture. One thing's for sure. After reading Flaming Classics you'll know you're definitely not in Kansas anymore.
This lively, opinionated, and playful look at the movies is a must-read for film buffs, and for anyone interested in gender, sexuality, and popular cu...
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Westerns: Films Through History
ISBN: 9780415924245 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Violence and American Cinema
ISBN: 9780415928090 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American cinema has always been violent, and never more than now: exploding heads, buses that blow up if they stop, leaking ocean liners, racial attacks, and general mayhem. From slapstick's comic violence to film noir, from the silents to Tarantino, violence has been part of America on screen. Yet violence is traditionally a secondary concern of film criticism. This volume in the AFI Film Readers series analyzes violence, examining its nature, its effects, and its cinematic and social meaning. Thirteen contributions are organized in three parts: Theorizing and Historicizing Hollywood...
American cinema has always been violent, and never more than now: exploding heads, buses that blow up if they stop, leaking ocean liners, racial attac...
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704,29 zł |
Violence and American Cinema
ISBN: 9780415928106 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American cinema has always been violent, and never more han now: exploding heads, buses that blow up if they stop, leaking ocean liners, racial attacks, and general mayhem. From slapstick's comic violence to film noir, from the silents to Tarantino, violence has been part of America on screen. Yet violence is traditionally a secondary concern of film criticism. This volume in the AFI Film Readers series analyzes violence, examining its nature, its effects, and its cinematic and social meaning. 13 contributions are organized in three parts: Theorizing and Historicizing Hollywood Violen ce,...
American cinema has always been violent, and never more han now: exploding heads, buses that blow up if they stop, leaking ocean liners, racial attack...
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187,76 zł |
Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire
ISBN: 9780415930147 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. India is home to Bollywood - the largest film industry in the world. Movie theatres are said to be the temples of modern India, with Bombay producing nearly 800 films per year that are viewed by roughly 11 million people per day. In Bollywood Cinema, Vijay Mishra argues that Indian film production and reception is shaped by the desire for national community and a pan-Indian culture. Seeking to understand Bollywood according to its own narrative and aesthetic principles and in relation to a global film industry, he views Indian cinema through the dual methodologies of postcolonial studies and...
India is home to Bollywood - the largest film industry in the world. Movie theatres are said to be the temples of modern India, with Bombay producing ...
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782,54 zł |
Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire
ISBN: 9780415930154 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. India is home to Bollywood - the largest film industry in the world. Movie theaters are said to be the "temples of modern India," with Bombay producing nearly 800 films per year that are viewed by roughly 11 million people per day. In Bollywood Cinema, Vijay Mishra argues that Indian film production and reception is shaped by the desire for national community and a pan-Indian popular culture. Seeking to understand Bollywood according to its own narrative and aesthetic principles and in relation to a global film industry, he views Indian cinema through the dual methodologies of...
India is home to Bollywood - the largest film industry in the world. Movie theaters are said to be the "temples of modern India," with Bombay producin...
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192,97 zł |