The Postmillennial Vampire: Power, Sacrifice and Simulation in True Blood, Twilight and Other Contemporary Narratives
ISBN: 9783319483719 / Angielski / Twarda / 113 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically shifting formations of the sacred in contemporary culture. The figure of the vampire has captured the popular imagination to an unprecedented extent since the turn of the millennium. The philosopher Rene Girard associates the sacred with a communal violence that sacred ritual controls and contains. As traditional formations of the...
This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acqui...
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212,02 zł |
Reassessing the Hitchcock Touch: Industry, Collaboration, and Filmmaking
ISBN: 9783319600079 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is dedicated to the elusive category of the Hitchcock Touch, the qualities and techniques which had manifested in Alfred Hitchcock's own films yet which cannot be limited to the realm of Hitchcockian cinema alone.
This volume is dedicated to the elusive category of the Hitchcock Touch, the qualities and techniques which had manifested in Alfred Hitchcock's own f...
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424,07 zł |
Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature: The Body in Parts
ISBN: 9781137303578 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and literary texts and across the body--from the brain, hair and teeth, to hands, skin and the stomach--this book engages in unique readings by foregrounding a diversity of global representations. Building on scholarly work on the 'Gothic body' and 'body horror', Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature dissects the individual features that comprise the physical human corporeal form in its different functions. This...
This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction....
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539,74 zł |
Age of the Geek: Depictions of Nerds and Geeks in Popular Media
ISBN: 9783319657431 / Angielski / Twarda / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection examines the nerd and/or geek stereotype in popular culture today. Utilizing the media--film, TV, YouTube, Twitter, fiction--that often defines daily lives, the contributors interrogate what it means to be labeled a "nerd" or "geek." While the nerd/geek that is so easily recognized now is assuredly a twenty-first century construct, an examination of the terms' history brings a greater understanding of their evolution. From sports to slasher films, Age of the Geek establish a dialogue with texts as varied as the depictions of "nerd" or "geek" stereotypes. This collection examines the nerd and/or geek stereotype in popular culture today. Utilizing the media--film, TV, YouTube, Twitter, fiction--that o... |
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424,07 zł |
Fairytale and Gothic Horror: Uncanny Transformations in Film
ISBN: 9781137393463 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the idiosyncratic effects generated as fairytale and gothic horror join, clash or merge in cinema. It moves on to investigate films close up, locating fairytale horror, motifs and themes and a distinctively cinematic gothic horror.
This book explores the idiosyncratic effects generated as fairytale and gothic horror join, clash or merge in cinema. It moves on to investigate films...
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501,19 zł |
The Shawshank Experience: Tracking the History of the World’s Favorite Movie
ISBN: 9781349953509 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book features an in-depth analysis of the world's most popular movie, The Shawshank Redemption, delving into issues such as: the significance of race in the film, its cinematic debt to earlier genres, the gothic influences at work in the movie, and the representation of Andy's poster art as cross-gendered signifiers.
This book features an in-depth analysis of the world's most popular movie, The Shawshank Redemption, delving into issues such as: the significance of ...
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142,84 zł |
Religion and Identity in the Post-9/11 Vampire: God Is (Un)Dead
ISBN: 9783319771489 / Angielski / Twarda / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a unique argument for the emergence of a post-9/11 vampire that showcases changing perspectives on identity and religion in American culture, offering a look at how cultural narratives can be used to work through trauma.
This book offers a unique argument for the emergence of a post-9/11 vampire that showcases changing perspectives on identity and religion in American ...
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346,96 zł |
All Too Human: Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
ISBN: 9783319913308 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as philosophical topics in the 19th Century. It traces the introduction of humor as a new aesthetic category inspired by Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" and shows Sterne's deep influence on German aesthetic theorists of this period.
This book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as philosophical topics in the 19th Century. It traces the introduction of humor as a new ...
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385,52 zł |
Alien Covenant: David’s Drawings
ISBN: 9781785659249 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Delve into this exclusive Alien Covenant collection, containing two books, to gain an insight into David's descent into madness. Packed over two hundred illustrations and an interview with Dane Hallett and Matt Hatton, the artists from the set.
Delve into this exclusive Alien Covenant collection, containing two books, to gain an insight into David's descent into madness. Packed over two hundr...
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178,56 zł |
In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema
ISBN: 9780190496838 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Person looks at the ways that documentary film is affected when people are cast to reenact their own stories on screen.
In Person looks at the ways that documentary film is affected when people are cast to reenact their own stories on screen.
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153,38 zł |
In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema
ISBN: 9780190496821 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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570,33 zł |
The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema: 1990-2003
ISBN: 9783319972107 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema: 1990-2003 examines the development of Chinese art film in the People's Republic of China from 1990, when the first Sixth Generation film Mama was released, to 2003, when authorities acknowledged the legitimacy of underground filmmakers.
The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema: 1990-2003 examines the development of Chinese art film in the People's Republic of China from 1990, when the firs...
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308,41 zł |
You Won't Believe Your Eyes! (Revised and Expanded Monster Kids Edition): A Front Row Look at the Science Fiction and Horror Films of the 1950s (hardb
ISBN: 9781629333137 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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177,39 zł |
A Brief History of Comic Book Movies
ISBN: 9783319836720 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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212,02 zł |
You Won't Believe Your Eyes! (Revised and Expanded Monster Kids Edition): A Front Row Look at the Science Fiction and Horror Films of the 1950s
ISBN: 9781629333120 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,87 zł |
Humor Und Erfolgreiche Kinderfilme: Strukturen Und Relevanz Eines Filmischen Mittels
ISBN: 9783658233280 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 553 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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252,20 zł |
The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity
ISBN: 9783030104139 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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501,19 zł |
Read the Book! See the Movie! from Novel to Film Via 20th Century-Fox
ISBN: 9781629333823 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,94 zł |
Read the Book! See the Movie! from Novel to Film Via 20th Century-Fox (Hardback)
ISBN: 9781629333830 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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172,21 zł |
Persuasion in Self-Improvement Books
ISBN: 9783030121488 / Angielski / Twarda / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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192,74 zł |