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UK and Irish Television Comedy: Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity
ISBN: 9783031236280 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at television comedy, drawn from across the UK and Ireland, and ranging chronologically from the 1980s to the 2020s. It explores depictions of distinctive geographical, historical and cultural communities presented from the insiders’ perspective, simultaneously interrogating the particularity of the lived experience of time, and place, embedded within the wide variety of depictions of contrasting lives, experiences and sensibilities, which the collected individual chapters offer. Comedies considered include Victoria Wood’s work on ‘the north’,...
This book looks at television comedy, drawn from across the UK and Ireland, and ranging chronologically from the 1980s to the 2020s. It explores depic...
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605,23 |
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Moments in Indonesian Film History: Film and Popular Culture in a Developing Society 1950–2020
ISBN: 9783030726157 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores Indonesian cinema, focusing on moments of unique creativity by Indonesian film artists who illuminate important but less-widely-known aspects of their multi-dimensional society. It begins by exploring early 1950s ‘Indonesian neorealist films’ of the Perfini group, which depict the ethos and emerging moral issues of the period of struggle for independence (1945–49). It continues by discussing four audacious political allegories produced in four discrete political eras—including the Sukarno, Suharto and Reformasi periods. It also surveys the main approaches to Islam...
This book explores Indonesian cinema, focusing on moments of unique creativity by Indonesian film artists who illuminate important but less-widely-kno...
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484,18 |
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From Outlaw to Rebel: Oppositional Documentaries in Contemporary Algeria
ISBN: 9783031191565 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the rise of socially and politically engaged Algerian documentaries, created in the period immediately following the end of the Algerian civil war (1991-1999). It uses case studies to highlight the works of four Algerian filmmakers, and devotes a chapter to each: Malek Bensmaïl, Hassen Ferhani, Djamel Kerkar, and Karim Sayad. The book makes visible productions that have been overlooked not only in distribution circuits but also within academia, and examines the political significance and the esthetic power of some of the most influential Algerian documentaries produced...
This book analyzes the rise of socially and politically engaged Algerian documentaries, created in the period immediately following the end of the Al...
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161,36 |
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Materiality of Cooperation
ISBN: 9783658394677 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume investigates the socio-material dimension and media practices of cooperation – before, during and beyond situations. Cooperation is understood as reciprocal interplay operating with or without consensus, in co-presence or absence of the involved actors in distributed situations. Artefacts, bodies, texts and infrastructures are the media that make cooperation possible. They enable and configure reciprocal accomplishments – and are themselves created through media practices in cooperative situations.
The volume investigates the socio-material dimension and media practices of cooperation – before, during and beyond situations. Cooperation is under...
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403,47 |
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Supernatural: The Official Cocktail Book
ISBN: 9781803366005 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspired by the iconic heroes, monsters, and small-town locales of the beloved television series Supernatural, this collection of diabolically delicious cocktails takes readers on a road trip alongside Sam and Dean Winchester. Featuring a collection of hunter-approved libations, this official book includes seventy recipes for delicious, handcrafted cocktails and a curated selection of tasteful bar bites to pair with the beverages. With drinks inspired by everyone from the Winchester Brothers and Castiel to Bobby Singer, Jack, Lucifer, and more, Supernatural: The Official Cocktail Book...
Inspired by the iconic heroes, monsters, and small-town locales of the beloved television series Supernatural, this collection of diabolically delicio...
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115,97 |
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Women, Science and Fiction Revisited
ISBN: 9783031251702 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women, Science and Fiction Revisitedis an analysis of selected science fiction novels and short stories written by women over the past hundred years from the point of view of their engagement with how science writes the world. Beginning with Charlotte Perkins Gilman'sHerland(1918) and ending with N K Jemisin'sThe City We Became(2020), Debra Benita Shaw explores the re-imagination of gender and race that characterises women's literary crafting of new worlds. Along the way, she introduces new readings of classics like Ursula Le Guin'sThe Left Hand of Darknessand Margaret Atwood'sThe Handmaid's...
Women, Science and Fiction Revisitedis an analysis of selected science fiction novels and short stories written by women over the past hundred years f...
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484,18 |
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Remaking Red Classics in Post-Mao China: TV Drama as Popular Media
ISBN: 9781538153277 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reveals how the story of revolution was reinvented to appeal and entertain a new generation and provides important clues to the understanding of transformation of class, gender and locality in contemporary China.
This book reveals how the story of revolution was reinvented to appeal and entertain a new generation and provides important clues to the understandin...
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146,34 |
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The New Cinematic Weird: Atmospheres and Worldings
ISBN: 9781793612762 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New Cinematic Weird analyzes the role that creepy, unsettling, ominous, uneasy, and eerie atmospheres play in recent films of this genre. The author shows how the new cinematic weird elicits joy by creating weird atmospheres as affective intensities that are to be experienced rather than understood.
The New Cinematic Weird analyzes the role that creepy, unsettling, ominous, uneasy, and eerie atmospheres play in recent films of this genre. The auth...
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146,34 |
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Feel-Bad Postfeminism: Impasse, Resilience and Female Subjectivity in Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781350326712 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Feel-Bad Postfeminism, Catherine McDermott provides crucial insight into what growing up during empowerment postfeminism feels like, and outlines the continuing postfeminist legacy of resilience in girlhood coming-of-age narratives. McDermott's analysis of Gone Girl (2012), Girls (2012–2017) and Appropriate Behaviour (2012) illuminates a major cultural turn in which the pleasures of postfeminist empowerment curdle into a profound sense of rage and resentment. By contrast, close examination of The Hunger Games (2008–2010), Girlhood (2014) and Catch Me Daddy (2014) reveals that...
In Feel-Bad Postfeminism, Catherine McDermott provides crucial insight into what growing up during empowerment postfeminism feels like, and outlines t...
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141,40 |
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A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine
ISBN: 9781496227997 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial planet still reeling from a genocidal occupation. The crew was led by a reluctant Black American commander and an extraterrestrial first officer who had until recently been an anticolonial revolutionary. DS9 extended Star Trek’s tradition of critical social commentary but did so by transgressing many of Star Trek’s previous taboos, including religion, money, eugenics, and interpersonal conflict. DS9 imagined a twenty-fourth century that was...
A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial pla...
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399,98 |
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A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine
ISBN: 9781496235428 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By analyzing the rich ethical and political world-building of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, David K. Seitz argues that race and geography are central to appreciating the series' profound critiques of neoliberal multiculturalism and U.S. empire.
By analyzing the rich ethical and political world-building of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, David K. Seitz argues that race and geography are central to...
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117,02 |
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I’m Sure I Speak For Many Others…: Unpublished letters to the BBC
ISBN: 9781785948527 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,53 |
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Fate and Freedom in Korean Historical Films
ISBN: 9783031272677 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the depiction of Korean history in recent South Korean historical films. Released over theHallyu(“Korean Wave”) period starting in the mid-1990s, these films have reflected, shaped, and extended the thriving public discourse over national history. In these works, the balance between fate and freedom—the negotiation between societal constraints and individual will, as well as cyclical and linear history—functions as a central theme, subtext, or plot device for illuminating a rich variety of historical events, figures, and issues. In sum, these highly accomplished...
This book examines the depiction of Korean history in recent South Korean historical films. Released over theHallyu(“Korean Wave”) period starting...
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484,18 |
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You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything
ISBN: 9781523515899 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Virtually anyone who has ever watched a profound movie, a powerful TV show, or read a moving novel understands that entertainment can and does affect us in surprising and significant ways. But did you know that our most popular forms of entertainment can have a direct physical effect on us, a measurable impact on society, geopolitics, the economy, and even the future itself? In You Are What You Watch, Walter Hickey, Pulitzer Prize winner and former chief culture writer at acclaimed data site FiveThirtyEight.com, proves how exactly how what we watch (and read and listen to) has a far greater...
Virtually anyone who has ever watched a profound movie, a powerful TV show, or read a moving novel understands that entertainment can and does affect ...
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114,66 |
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From Hollywood to Wrexham
ISBN: 9781912631452 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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62,72 |
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Angewandte Filmtheorie
ISBN: 9783658410889 / Niemiecki Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Welche Filmtheorie ist hilfreich, um eine Erkenntnisfrage zu klären? Wie wirkt sich die theoretische Perspektive auf die Filmanalyse aus? Diese Fragen bestimmen grundlegend jede Untersuchung. Um den besonderen Fokus einer Theorie offenzulegen, stellt dieses Lehrbuch einen Spielfilm ins Zentrum:Blow Up(GB, I, USA 1966) von Michelangelo Antonioni.Blow Upwird wechselweise beleuchtet aus dem Blickwinkel der Narratologie, Bildtheorie und Musiktheorie, der Stil- und Genretheorie, des Neoformalismus und der quantitativen Filmanalyse, der Psychoanalyse und Gender Studies, der Realismustheorie und...
Welche Filmtheorie ist hilfreich, um eine Erkenntnisfrage zu klären? Wie wirkt sich die theoretische Perspektive auf die Filmanalyse aus? Diese Frage...
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169,68 |
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The DeCavalcante Mafia Crime Family: The Complete History of a New Jersey Criminal Organization
ISBN: 9781739258528 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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171,18 |
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Urban Landscapes and National Visions in Post-Millennial South Korean Cinema: From Seoul to Soul
ISBN: 9783031297380 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores South Korean cinema’s inimitable relationship with the urban landscape and identifies the ways in which Seoul is utilised as a celluloid canvas, national artefact and, above all else, a distinctive cultural backdrop. Using five different approaches to urban space, from five distinctive and contrasting theoretical perspectives, Urban Landscapes in Post-Millennial South Korean Cinema investigates and seeks to understand why the cinematic representation, identity and presence of Seoul have been central to the preservation and recognition of the South Korean film industry as...
This book explores South Korean cinema’s inimitable relationship with the urban landscape and identifies the ways in which Seoul is utilised as a ce...
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443,82 |
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The Sentimental in Chinese Cinema
ISBN: 9783030883324 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores manifestations and perpetuations of the sentimental in Mainland Chinese cinema from the 1990s to the 2000s. A sentimental Chinese cinema – one that articulates notions of homecoming and belonging – emerged in the 1990s with its distinctive styles. The representations and configurations of this evolving style of Chinese cinematic expression are not only thought provoking in their own right, but also in the way they contrast with past forms of Chinese sentimental cinema and with sentimental aesthetics elsewhere in the world. These new representations have transformed...
This book explores manifestations and perpetuations of the sentimental in Mainland Chinese cinema from the 1990s to the 2000s. A sentimental Chinese c...
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443,82 |
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Space Race Television: Bildfahrzeuge als Agenten (trans-)globaler Medialisierung Ost/West
ISBN: 9783658413996 / Niemiecki Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Band bietet eine medientheoretisch ausgerichtete Perspektive auf das Space Race. Analysiert werden Spielfilme, Dokumentationen, Live-Berichterstattung im Fernsehen, Magazine, Briefmarken, Plakate, Konfettiparaden, die das Space Race in je spezifischer Weise ins Bild setzten und von ‚Ost‘ nach ‚West‘ und von ‚West‘ nach ‚Ost‘ transnational über den ‚Eisernen Vorhang‘ hinweg in Umlauf brachten. Gezeigt wird, wie sich die Berichterstattung über das Space Race dabei zwischen 1955 und 1975 als globalisierende Bilder-Verflechtungsgeschichte während des Kalten Krieges...
Der Band bietet eine medientheoretisch ausgerichtete Perspektive auf das Space Race. Analysiert werden Spielfilme, Dokumentationen, Live-Berichterstat...
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282,79 |