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Carlo Gozzi: A Life in the 18th Century Venetian Theater, an Afterlife in Opera
ISBN: 9780786493784 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806) is best known for his plays that have famously been adapted into opera librettos. Puccini's final opera, Turandot, was based on a play by Gozzi. Prokofiev's The Love of Three Oranges is also based on a Gozzi play. Richard Wagner's first opera, Die Feen, is based on Gozzi's La Donna Serpente . Mozart's The Magic Flute contains many elements that are similar to Gozzi's plays. Gozzi was the most successful playwright in 18th century Venice.
This is the first full biography in English of this major figure in the history of world theatre. He is well... Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806) is best known for his plays that have famously been adapted into opera librettos. Puccini's final opera, Tu...
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167,87 |
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Fashion on Television: Identity and Celebrity Culture
ISBN: 9780857854414 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fashion on Television provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion, television and celebrity culture. The book brings together theoretical approaches to the symbolic force of television and fashion-forward programming on a global scale. Examining case studies such as Sex and the City, Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty and Mad Men, the book examines how TV has made style icons out of leading actresses and fashion-conscious consumers out of audiences. Using a varied methodology, including textual and contextual analysis, this study explores the... Fashion on Television provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion, television and celebrity culture. T... |
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144,30 |
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The Carry on Films
ISBN: 9781137520043 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Saucy, rude and vulgar-the 31 Carry On films remain an important part of the history of British cinematic and low brow comedy. The Carry On Films is an essential read for Carry On fans the country through.
Saucy, rude and vulgar-the 31 Carry On films remain an important part of the history of British cinematic and low brow comedy. The Carry On Films is a...
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483,04 |
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Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing: Ordinary Audience
ISBN: 9781349348688 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most people have, at some point, experienced powerful, often strange and disconcerting, responses to films and television programmes of which they cannot always make sense. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, this book argues that the seemingly mundane and everyday activity of film and television viewing in the home is in fact extraordinary.
Most people have, at some point, experienced powerful, often strange and disconcerting, responses to films and television programmes of which they can...
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201,24 |
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The Reality Television Quiz Book
ISBN: 9781785384875 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are you addicted to reality TV? Do you watch all the shows from Britains Got Talent to The Apprentice? Can you name every contestant ever to walk through the doors of the Big Brother house? Then The Reality Television Quiz Book is definitely for you. Who can forget Jade Goody, Peter Andre and Jordan, Leona Lewis or Paul Potts? They are all inside in this book alongside the many memorable characters who have become household names by appearing live on our television screens. The 1,000 brain-teasing questions in this quiz book cover every aspect of reality TV, from the celebrities and wannabes...
Are you addicted to reality TV? Do you watch all the shows from Britains Got Talent to The Apprentice? Can you name every contestant ever to walk thro...
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52,56 |
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Little House in the Hollywood Hills: A Bad Girl's Guide to Becoming Miss Beadle, Mary X, and Me (Hardback)
ISBN: 9781593939076 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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176,96 |
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Little House in the Hollywood Hills: A Bad Girl's Guide to Becoming Miss Beadle, Mary X, and Me
ISBN: 9781593939069 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,48 |
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Cognitive Approaches to German Historical Film: Seeing Is Not Believing
ISBN: 9783319393179 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores how minds at the movies understand minds in the movies and introduces readers to some fundamental principles of Cognitive Studies-namely conceptual blending, Theory of Mind, and empathy/perspective-taking-through their application to film analysis.
This book explores how minds at the movies understand minds in the movies and introduces readers to some fundamental principles of Cognitive Studies-n...
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402,53 |
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That's Me, Groucho!: The Solo Career of Groucho Marx
ISBN: 9781476663739 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Groucho Marx's career as a solo performer began long before the Marx Brothers and lasted almost until the end of his life, with a series of controversial sold-out concerts in his eighties. In between came several films, numerous television and radio appearances, theater performances, dramatic acting and writing and his smash hit radio and TV quiz show You Bet Your Life (1947-1961).
This first ever comprehensive study of his work without his famous brothers reveals a Groucho perhaps unfamiliar to the public. Driven to prove he was much more than just a comedian with a greasepaint (later...
Groucho Marx's career as a solo performer began long before the Marx Brothers and lasted almost until the end of his life, with a series of controvers...
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167,87 |
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Voice-Over Translation: An Overview- Second Edition
ISBN: 9783034313490 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the first study of voice-over from a wide approach, including not only academic issues but also a description of the practice of voice-over around the globe. The authors define the concept of voice-over in Film Studies and Translation Studies and clarify the relationship between voice-over and other audiovisual transfer modes. They also describe the translation process in voice-over both for production and postproduction, for fiction and non-fiction.
The book also features course models on voice-over which can be used as a source of inspiration by trainers willing to... This book presents the first study of voice-over from a wide approach, including not only academic issues but also a description of the practice of vo...
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478,58 |
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The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television
ISBN: 9783034308397 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. By exploring key film and television productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author uncovers and interrogates concepts of Irish identity, history and nation.
In 2009, Ireland had the highest birth rate in Europe, with almost 24 per cent of births attributed to the new Irish . By 2013, 17 per cent of the nation was foreign-born. Ireland has always been a culturally diverse space and has produced a series of high-profile mixed-race stars, including Phil Lynott, Ruth Negga and Simon Zebo,... This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. By exploring key film and television productions from the 19...
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229,94 |
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There's More to Life Than This: Healing Messages, Remarkable Stories, and Insight About the Other Side from the Long Island Medium
ISBN: 9781476727080 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For fans of TLC's Long Island Medium and anyone interested in the big questions of life, death, and finding out what's important in between, New York Times bestselling author and medium Theresa Caputo shares how she discovered her gift and her many encounters with Spirit. Beloved medium Theresa Caputo, star of the hit television show Long Island Medium, opens the door to her world and invites you to experience her exceptional gift of communicating with those who've crossed over to the Other Side. The always funny, frank, and down-to-earth medium--whether she's talking...
For fans of TLC's Long Island Medium and anyone interested in the big questions of life, death, and finding out what's important in between, |
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73,17 |
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Fashion on Television: Identity and Celebrity Culture
ISBN: 9780857854407 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fashion on Television provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion, television and celebrity culture. The book brings together theoretical approaches to the symbolic force of television and fashion-forward programming on a global scale. Examining case studies such as Sex and the City, Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty and Mad Men, the book examines how TV has made style icons out of leading actresses and fashion-conscious consumers out of audiences. Using a varied methodology, including textual and contextual analysis, this study explores the... Fashion on Television provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion, television and celebrity culture. T... |
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515,55 |
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Re-Forming the Nation in Literature and Film - Entwuerfe Zur Nation in Literatur Und Film: The Patriotic Idea in Contemporary German-Language Culture-
ISBN: 9783034317306 / Angielski / Miękka / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the year that Europe commemorates the centenary of the outbreak of World War I and the European Union faces a crisis of legitimacy, the national question is once again being posed across the Continent. This volume assesses how contemporary German-language writers and filmmakers have approached this troubled question over the last decade. It addresses whether the collective entity known as Germany should more properly be conflated with the Federal Republic, with its successful sixty-five-year history ( the best Germany we have ever had ), rather than the nation with all its tainted...
In the year that Europe commemorates the centenary of the outbreak of World War I and the European Union faces a crisis of legitimacy, the national qu...
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464,37 |
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Kind Und Fernsehen
ISBN: 9783531029542 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Einer der ersten offentlichen Auftritte des neu gegrundeten For schungsschwerpunktes 'Massenmedien und Kommunikation' an der GH Siegen war im Mai 1976 eine Vortrags- und Diskussionsveranstal tung, bei der der Kommunikationstheoretiker Horst Holzer (Munchen) und der Kinderfilmautor Sven Severin (Wiesbaden) sprachen. Severin zeigte einen Film, den das ZDF als dritten Teil der Rappelkistensendung 'Kinder machen nicht alles kaputt' sonntags zuvor gesendet hatte. Die Meinungen prallten hart aufeinander, die Urteile uber den Film schwankten von "vollig unzureichend" bis "grossartig." Viele...
Einer der ersten offentlichen Auftritte des neu gegrundeten For schungsschwerpunktes 'Massenmedien und Kommunikation' an der GH Siegen war im Mai 1976...
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206,88 |
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Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers
ISBN: 9780739193044 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the communication discipline to their analyses of how television, film, news coverage, and the Internet shape our expectations of the performance of women's identities. This collection includes studies of Bridezillas, Jon & Kate Plus 8, Sex and the City, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, The Devil Wears...
Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously...
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225,30 |
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Mad Men and Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance, and Otherness
ISBN: 9781433124198 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book was featured as one of thirty-four Epic Feminist Books in Teen Vogue magazine. This book offers interpretive and contextual tools to read the AMC television series Mad Men, providing a much-needed historical explanation and exposition regarding the status of women in an era that has been painted as pre- or non-feminist. In chapters aimed at helping readers understand women's lives in the 1960s, Mad Men is used as a springboard to explore and discover alternative ways of seeing women. Offering more than a discussion of the show itself, the book offers...
This book was featured as one of thirty-four Epic Feminist Books in Teen Vogue magazine. This book offers interpretive and contextual tool...
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477,56 |
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Foreign News on Television: Where in the World Is the Global Village?
ISBN: 9781433116896 / Angielski / Miękka / 391 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanning several years of research, this book compares and contrasts how public and commercial TV stations present foreign, domestic, and hybrid news from a number of different countries. It examines what viewers of television news think about foreign news, their interest in it, and what sense they make of it. The book also assesses what the gatekeepers of foreign news journalists, producers, and editors think about what they produce, and about their viewers.
This book shows that while globalization is a dominant force in society, and though news can be instantaneously broadcast... Spanning several years of research, this book compares and contrasts how public and commercial TV stations present foreign, domestic, and hybrid news ...
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232,06 |
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Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind the Scenes at Sherlock, Downton Abbey, Prime Suspect, Cranford, Upstairs Downstairs, and Other Great S
ISBN: 9780143126041 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " An] anecdote-filled memoir . . . Rebecca Eaton looks back on 25 fascinating years at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery " --USA Today
When Rebecca Eaton became the producer of Masterpiece Theatre in 1985, she hadn't actually seen many of the episodes. Nor did she even like mystery novels, though she would be required to choose stories for Mystery But the lifelong Anglophile seized her chance to make a mark in the budding public television system. Twenty-eight years later, Masterpiece is one of television's hottest shows, and Eaton is responsible for its... " An] anecdote-filled memoir . . . Rebecca Eaton looks back on 25 fascinating years at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery " --USA Today |
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92,48 |
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Battlestar Galactica and International Relations
ISBN: 9781138796393 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributors in this book explore in depth the argument that one of the most important aspects of popular culture is to naturalize or normalise a certain social order by further entrenching the expectations of social behaviour upon which our mentalities of rule are founded.
The contributors in this book explore in depth the argument that one of the most important aspects of popular culture is to naturalize or normalise a ...
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254,64 |