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Michael Landon: The Career and Artistry of a Television Genius
ISBN: 9781593937850 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MICHAEL LANDON: Actor, Writer, Director, Producer For over three decades, Michael Landon's creative gifts touched millions of viewers around the world on Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven and in several other productions. This is the first detailed examination of his work both in front of and behind the camera, including information about every Landon script. Among the illustrations are some rarely seen photographs. "I am grateful that one of Michael's greatest admirers has devoted an entire book to a serious study of his productions, and I hope readers will appreciate...
MICHAEL LANDON: Actor, Writer, Director, Producer For over three decades, Michael Landon's creative gifts touched millions of viewers around the world...
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Michael Landon: THE CAREER AND ARTISTRY OF A TELEVISION GENIUS (hardback)
ISBN: 9781593937867 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the hardback version. MICHAEL LANDON: Actor, Writer, Director, Producer For over three decades, Michael Landon's creative gifts touched millions of viewers around the world on Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven and in several other productions. This is the first detailed examination of his work both in front of and behind the camera, including information about every Landon script. Among the illustrations are some rarely seen photographs. "I am grateful that one of Michael's greatest admirers has devoted an entire book to a serious study of his productions, and I...
This is the hardback version. MICHAEL LANDON: Actor, Writer, Director, Producer For over three decades, Michael Landon's creative gifts touched millio...
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The Adulteress on the Spanish Stage: Gender and Modernity in 19th Century Romantic Drama
ISBN: 9780786496921 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As early as 1760 and as late as 1920, Romantic drama dominated Spanish peninsular theatre. The love affair with Romanticism influenced the formation of a modern national identity, an identity that depended heavily on re(defining) women's place in nineteenth-century society. Those women who defied traditional roles became a font of modern anxiety--both in society and on stage. The adulteress embodied the fear of rebellious women, modern growing pains, and the political instability of war and invasion. It is the conflicted portrayal of women that creates a compelling performance of Spanish...
As early as 1760 and as late as 1920, Romantic drama dominated Spanish peninsular theatre. The love affair with Romanticism influenced the formation o...
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275,77 |
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The Paramilitary Hero on Turkish Television: A Case Study on Valley of the Wolves
ISBN: 9781443870825 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Paramilitary Hero on Turkish Television: A Case Study on Valley of the Wolves explores the representation and reception of nationalism and masculinity in Turkey through an examination of the popular television serial, Valley of the Wolves which has been aired on Turkish television since 2003. This detailed examination of the show demonstrates a particular discourse of nationalism, namely the Turkish Islam synthesis embedded in a gender-specific regime in which the paramilitary hero is placed at the centre. The study draws on thirty-seven in-depth interviews with viewers of the programme...
The Paramilitary Hero on Turkish Television: A Case Study on Valley of the Wolves explores the representation and reception of nationalism and masculi...
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216,48 |
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Orange Is the New Black and Philosophy: Last Exit from Litchfield
ISBN: 9780812698992 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of 18 chapters by talented philosophical minds probes some of the many lessons to be learned from Orange Is the New Black. The show and the book that inspired it both dramatically highlight the troubling, stressful situation of millions of incarcerated Americans. How do the show's shower scenes shed light on the classical mind-body problem? How can we make our lives meaningful when our options are curtailed by authority? What does it mean to manipulate someone, and why is it bad? What can we learn about human beliefs from Pennsatucky's notion of the gay agenda? Is...
This collection of 18 chapters by talented philosophical minds probes some of the many lessons to be learned from Orange Is the New Black. The ...
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103,86 |
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More Doctor Who and Philosophy: Regeneration Time
ISBN: 9780812699005 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More Doctor Who and Philosophy is a completely new collection of chapters, additional to Doctor Who and Philosophy (2010), by the same editors. Since that first Doctor Who and Philosophy, much has happened in the Whoniverse: a new and controversial regeneration of the Doctor, multiple new companions, a few creepy new enemies of both the Doctor and planet Earth. New questions have been raised and new questioners have come along, so there are plenty of new topics for philosophical scrutiny. Is the "impossible" girl really impossible? Is there anything wrong with an...
More Doctor Who and Philosophy is a completely new collection of chapters, additional to Doctor Who and Philosophy (2010), by the same e...
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How to Be a SuperHero
ISBN: 9781593937898 / Angielski / Miękka / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How to Be a Superhero takes the reader behind the scenes of the most popular superhero movies and television shows of the past seventy years. The book includes 35 penetrating interviews with actors and actresses who have played the world's greatest superheroes, supervillains, antiheroes and sidekicks, as well as 70 photographs. "To be, as Chris Reeve put it, 'a temporary custodian' of these stories (myths really) is a very subjective experience. To be taken into the minds and thought processes of others who have had that experience is a fascinating journey. How to Be a Superhero really takes...
How to Be a Superhero takes the reader behind the scenes of the most popular superhero movies and television shows of the past seventy years. The book...
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142,21 |
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Glee and New Directions for Social Change
ISBN: 9789462099036 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the fall of 2009, the Fox network took a bold step in their primetime television lineup. Borrowing from the success of reality music performance shows like its own American Idol, the network introduced us to the students at McKinley High School, a fictional high school in Lima, OH, and home to the glee club known as the New Directions. The group is made up of freaks and geeks who feel the wrath of being "different." The cool kids are hell bent on making life difficult for the students in glee club. Yet, because of the determination of Mr. Will Schuester, the club's advisor, along with a...
In the fall of 2009, the Fox network took a bold step in their primetime television lineup. Borrowing from the success of reality music performance sh...
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Glee and New Directions for Social Change
ISBN: 9789462099043 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the fall of 2009, the Fox network took a bold step in their primetime television lineup. Borrowing from the success of reality music performance shows like its own American Idol, the network introduced us to the students at McKinley High School, a fictional high school in Lima, OH, and home to the glee club known as the New Directions. The group is made up of freaks and geeks who feel the wrath of being "different." The cool kids are hell bent on making life difficult for the students in glee club. Yet, because of the determination of Mr. Will Schuester, the club's advisor, along with a...
In the fall of 2009, the Fox network took a bold step in their primetime television lineup. Borrowing from the success of reality music performance sh...
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441,93 |
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Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life
ISBN: 9781783350575 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is every film or tv programme a sequel or a remake? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it ok? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them? These and many other questions trouble David Mitchell. Join him on a tour of the absurdities of modern life - from Ryanair to Richard III, "Downton Abbey" to phone etiquette. Funny, provocative and shot through with refreshing amounts of common sense, "Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse" celebrates and commiserates on the state...
Why is every film or tv programme a sequel or a remake? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make i...
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Das Fernsehen als Sinnproduzent
ISBN: 9783110367584 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the impact of television and the practices related to it on social reality? With its diverse programs and formats, what does television tell us about the organization of social reality? The case studies in this volume use specific examples to show how television generates heterogeneous meaning. They also illuminate the perspectives television offers audiences about the conditions of life. What is the impact of television and the practices related to it on social reality? With its diverse programs and formats, what does television tel... |
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Curious : True Stories and Everyday Absurdities
ISBN: 9781780226118 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shortlisted for Non-fiction Book of the Year at the National Book Awards
Read on BBC Radio 4 Sometimes things are more ordinary than you think. And sometimes they're a whole lot odder than you can possibly imagine . . . By turns poignant, comic and uplifting, CURIOUS is a book of stories from Rebecca Front's life, all of them true, though sometimes perhaps a little bent out of shape in the telling. It is a beguiling celebration of the curiosities of everyday life, and of what it is to be curious - in every sense of the word. Shortlisted for Non-fiction Book of the Year at the National Book Awards
Read on BBC Radio 4 Sometimes things are m... |
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Masters of the Shoot-'Em-Up: Conversations with Directors, Actors and Writers of Vintage Action Movies and Television Shows
ISBN: 9780786494064 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of interviews features American, British and Australian writers, directors and actors recounting their notable work in the action genre and the fun of blowing things up. Action movies and television series from 1950s to the mid-1980s are covered, with the main focus on the 1960s and 1970s. Twenty-five interviewees discuss their career highlights.
This collection of interviews features American, British and Australian writers, directors and actors recounting their notable work in the action genr...
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Tweenhood: Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781780768427 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tweenhood offers a timely examination of mainstream pre-adolescent girls' films, television programmes, celebrities and extra-texts from 2004 onwards, including "princess" narratives The Prince & Me (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010) and A Cinderella Story (2004, 2008, 2011), and Disney Channel programming and films, Hannah Montana (2006-2011) and Camp Rock (2008, 2010). The book forges a dialogue between postfeminism, film and television, celebrity, and the figure of the tween, in order to examine how the tween is both constructed and addressed by these media texts, highlighting the centrality of...
Tweenhood offers a timely examination of mainstream pre-adolescent girls' films, television programmes, celebrities and extra-texts from 2004 onwards,...
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Global News: Reporting Conflicts and Cosmopolitanism
ISBN: 9781433124242 / Angielski / Miękka / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global News explores how media representation is conceived and enacted in a world of diversity and transborder flows. Among the new media crowding the global mediascape are influential television outlets that promise viewers alternative vantage points to those of established Western broadcasters. The different worlds depicted by Al Jazeera English and Russia Today are compared with those of CNN International and BBC World. At a time when media organizations are slashing their budgets for international reporting, these channels represent a spectrum of financing solutions and relations...
Global News explores how media representation is conceived and enacted in a world of diversity and transborder flows. Among the new media crowd...
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218,62 |
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Global News: Reporting Conflicts and Cosmopolitanism
ISBN: 9781433124259 / Angielski / Twarda / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global News explores how media representation is conceived and enacted in a world of diversity and transborder flows. Among the new media crowding the global mediascape are influential television outlets that promise viewers alternative vantage points to those of established Western broadcasters. The different worlds depicted by Al Jazeera English and Russia Today are compared with those of CNN International and BBC World. At a time when media organizations are slashing their budgets for international reporting, these channels represent a spectrum of financing solutions and relations...
Global News explores how media representation is conceived and enacted in a world of diversity and transborder flows. Among the new media crowd...
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Filming John Fowles: Critical Essays on Motion Picture and Television Adaptations
ISBN: 9780786497645 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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221,82 |
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Genius on Television: Essays on Small Screen Depictions of Big Minds
ISBN: 9780786497737 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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221,82 |
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On Susan Glaspell's Trifles and a Jury of Her Peers: Centennial Essays, Interviews and Adaptations
ISBN: 9781476662114 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Greenwich Village bohemians gathered in the summer of 1916, Susan Glaspell was inspired by a sensational murder trial to write Trifles, a play about two women who hide a Midwestern farm wife's motive for murdering her abusive husband. Following successful productions of the play, Glaspell became the "mother of American drama." Her short story version of Trifles, "A Jury of Her Peers," reached an unprecedented one million readers in 1917. The play and the story have since been taught in classrooms across America and Trifles is regularly revived...
On a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Greenwich Village bohemians gathered in the summer of 1916, Susan Glaspell was inspired by a sensatio...
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Richard Anderson: At Last... a Memoir from the Golden Years of M-G-M to the Six Million Dollar Man to Today (Hardback)
ISBN: 9781593938048 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the hardback version. Richard Anderson is perhaps best-known in recent years for his roles as the Narrator, Captain Stiles, in the television series Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993-1997) with David Carradine and Chris Potter, as well as his role as Buck Fallmont in Dynasty (1986-1987). Finally, the full story of his life and incredible career are revealed in his sensational autobiography. From humble beginnings as a young actor to his first contract with MGM, Richard's first big impressions on moviegoers were as Chief Quinn in Forbidden Planet (1956) with Walter Pidgeon and Anne...
This is the hardback version. Richard Anderson is perhaps best-known in recent years for his roles as the Narrator, Captain Stiles, in the television ...
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129,27 |