Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood
ISBN: 9780520267244 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom s earliest days through the twentieth century. Written by a who s who of animation authorities, Funny Pictures offers a stimulating range of views on why animation became associated with comedy so early and so indelibly, and illustrates how animation and humor came together at a pivotal stage in the development of the motion picture industry. To examine some of the central assumptions about comedy and cartoons and to explore the key factors that promoted their fusion, the book...
This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom s earliest days through the twentieth ce...
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163,80 zł |
Riddle Me This, Batman!: Essays on the Universe of the Dark Knight
ISBN: 9780786446292 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From his first comic-book appearance in 1939 through his many incarnations on the big screen, the archetypal superhero known as The Batman has never been far from the American consciousness. The character shaped the way we read comics and graphic novels, view motion pictures, and analyze the motifs of the Hero, the Anti-Hero and the Villain. He has also captured the scholarly imagination, telling us much about our society and ourselves. These essays examine how Batman is both the canvas on which our cultural identity is painted, and the Eternal Other that informs our own journeys of...
From his first comic-book appearance in 1939 through his many incarnations on the big screen, the archetypal superhero known as The Batman has never b...
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185,49 zł |
It's Better to Laugh...Life, Good Luck, Bad Hair D
ISBN: 9781451661910 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. She's the undisputed queen of televised shopping. Now everyone's favorite TV girlfriend tells the story of her life in an engaging and candid autobiography that holds nothing back. Here's Kathy as her fans have always wanted to know her. Find out all about QVC--on and off camera, the celebrities she's met and what they're really like, Kathy's romantic ups and downs, and much more.
She's the undisputed queen of televised shopping. Now everyone's favorite TV girlfriend tells the story of her life in an engaging and candid autobiog...
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89,70 zł |
Up the Doon
ISBN: 9780957049703 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Up the Doon is A hilarious and heart-warming new comedy written for television and set on Burns "banks an braes o bonnie Doon". It features Alec Gourlay, a retired coal miner, who was abandoned on Smilers mothers doorstep when he was four, clutching a tin of condensed milk and a note which read, "Look after my wee boy, whoever you are, for I cannot afford to, and a new world bekkons. Yours truly, anonymous. P.S. Excuse spelling." Sixty years later the unexpected arrival of a long-lost sibling turns Alecs [and Smilers] world upside down.
Up the Doon is A hilarious and heart-warming new comedy written for television and set on Burns "banks an braes o bonnie Doon". It features Alec Gourl...
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59,78 zł |
Deconstructing South Park: Critical Examinations of Animated Transgression
ISBN: 9780739167465 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deconstructing South Park: Critical Examinations of Animated Transgression is an edited collection by Brian Cogan that looks at the long and controversial run of one of the most subversive programs on television. South Park, while denounced by many as simply scatological, is actually one of the most nuanced and thoughtful programs on television. The contributors to South Park reveal that, through the lens of four foul-mouthed nine year olds, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have created one of the most astute forms of social and political commentary in television history. Deconstructing South Park,...
Deconstructing South Park: Critical Examinations of Animated Transgression is an edited collection by Brian Cogan that looks at the long and controver...
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229,32 zł |
Text & Presentation
ISBN: 9780786469956 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. d104 & Presentation is an annual anthology of essays devoted to all aspects of theatre and performance scholarship. This new volume represents a selection of the best research presented at the 35th international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference in Los Angeles. The essays include innovative detective work on Aristophanes's and Aeschylus's plays and discussions of topics including Joe Orton's plays as social protest against the power of psychiatry and the asylum, George Eliot's controversial description of the burlesque spirit as "fodder for degraded appetites," and...
d104 & Presentation is an annual anthology of essays devoted to all aspects of theatre and performance scholarship. This new volume represents ...
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395,19 zł |
Gender, Violence and Popular Culture: Telling Stories
ISBN: 9780415517959 / Angielski / Twarda / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the intersection of gender and violence in popular culture. Drawing on the latest thinking in critical international relations, media and cultural studies and gender studies, it focuses in particular on a number of popular TV shows including Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Generation Kill, The Corner and The West Wing. The book makes a unique theoretical contribution to the 'narrative turn' in International Relations by illustrating the ways in which popular culture and global politics are intertwined and how we make sense of our worlds through these two frames....
This book examines the intersection of gender and violence in popular culture. Drawing on the latest thinking in critical international relations, med...
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700,25 zł |
The Politics of Hbo's the Wire: Everything Is Connected
ISBN: 9780415791168 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Companion Cookbook
ISBN: 9780345534491 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever wonder what it s like to attend a feast at Winterfell? Wish you could split a lemon cake with Sansa Stark, scarf down a pork pie with the Night s Watch, or indulge in honeyfingers with Daenerys Targaryen? George R. R. Martin s bestselling saga A Song of Ice and Fire and the runaway hit HBO series Game of Thrones are renowned for bringing Westeros s sights and sounds to vivid life. But one important ingredient has always been missing: the mouthwatering dishes that form the backdrop of this extraordinary world. Now, fresh out of the series that redefined fantasy, comes the cookbook...
Ever wonder what it s like to attend a feast at Winterfell? Wish you could split a lemon cake with Sansa Stark, scarf down a pork pie with the Night s...
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149,57 zł |
Theater Careers: A Realistic Guide
ISBN: 9781611170818 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theater Careers is designed to empower aspiring theater professionals to make savvy, informed decisions through a concise overview of how to prepare for and find work in the theater business. Tim Donahue and Jim Patterson offer well-researched information on various professions, salary ranges, educational and experience requirements, and other facets certain to enlighten students contemplating a theater career, as well as inform counselors, teachers, and parents of available opportunities and the demands of each path.
Theater Careers is designed to empower aspiring theater professionals to make savvy, informed decisions through a concise overview of how to prepare f...
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115,34 zł |
The Politics of Love: Sexuality, Gender, and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama
ISBN: 9780739184295 / Angielski / Twarda / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dramatic miniseries are the primary arena for the expression of postcolonial Syrian culture and artistic talent, an arena that unites diverse aspects of artisanship in a struggle over visions of the past, present, and future of the nation. As the tour de force of the television medium, blossoming amidst persisting authoritarianism, these miniseries serve as a crucial and complex artistic avenue through which political and social opposition manifests. Scholars have tried to come to terms with a highly critical culture produced within attempted state co-optation, and argue that politically...
Dramatic miniseries are the primary arena for the expression of postcolonial Syrian culture and artistic talent, an arena that unites diverse aspects ...
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764,40 zł |
Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia: Shocking Chic
ISBN: 9780415625432 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of glamour & celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, this study ranges across media forms, disciplinary boundaries & modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality. The book demonstrates how the process of 'celebrification' in Russia coincides with social change & economic transformation.
An exploration of glamour & celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, this study ranges across media forms, disciplinary boundaries & modes of inquir...
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228,18 zł |
Reality TV
ISBN: 9780415741989 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From early first-wave programs such as Candid Camera, An American Family, and The Real World to the shows on our television screens and portable devices today, reality television consistently takes us to cities--such as New York, Los Angeles, and Boston--to imagine the place of urbanity in American culture and society. Jon Kraszewski offers the first extended account of this phenomenon, as he makes the politics of urban space the center of his history and theory of reality television. Kraszewski situates reality television in a larger economic transformation... From early first-wave programs such as Candid Camera, An American Family, and The Real World to the shows on our television sc... |
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150,37 zł |
Reality TV
ISBN: 9780415741972 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From early first-wave programs such as Candid Camera, An American Family, and The Real World to the shows on our television screens and portable devices today, reality television consistently takes us to cities--such as New York, Los Angeles, and Boston--to imagine the place of urbanity in American culture and society. Jon Kraszewski offers the first extended account of this phenomenon, as he makes the politics of urban space the center of his history and theory of reality television. Kraszewski situates reality television in a larger economic transformation... From early first-wave programs such as Candid Camera, An American Family, and The Real World to the shows on our television sc... |
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700,25 zł |
Echoes of the Holocaust on the American Musical Stage
ISBN: 9780786466023 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With chapters on 'The Sound of Music', 'Milk and Honey', 'Fiddler on the Roof', 'Cabaret', 'The Rothschilds', 'Rags', 'Ragtime', and 'The Producers', this book examines both direct and indirect references to, or resonances of, the Holocaust, tracing changing American attitudes through the chronological progression of these musical productions and their subsequent revivals.
With chapters on 'The Sound of Music', 'Milk and Honey', 'Fiddler on the Roof', 'Cabaret', 'The Rothschilds', 'Rags', 'Ragtime', and 'The Producers', ...
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305,15 zł |
Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
ISBN: 9781414480800 / Angielski / Twarda / 533 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1246,47 zł |
European Media Governance
ISBN: 9781841506647 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. European governments are gradually ceding control of national media to international organizations such as the EU. In light of this trend, " European Media Governance" investigates how the print, broadcast, film, and advertising industries lobby in Brussels. Contributors examine the work of the European Commission and the European Consumers Association as well as the roles played in media governance by such organizations as the Federation of European Film Directors. Offering a detailed analysis of media-related debates that will affect Europeans for decades to come, this volume is an...
European governments are gradually ceding control of national media to international organizations such as the EU. In light of this trend, " European ...
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130,77 zł |
The Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success
ISBN: 9780739176009 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Media competes with public schools in terms of student engagement and time. However, the two needn't be mutually exclusive. The Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success discusses a variety of strategies and approaches for using social and mass media as tools through which teachers might improve schooling. While there is a vast body of literature in this field, editors Edward A. Janak and Denise Blum have created a text which differs in two substantive ways: scope and sequence. In terms of scope, this work is unique in two facets: first, it presents both theory and...
Media competes with public schools in terms of student engagement and time. However, the two needn't be mutually exclusive. The Pedagogy of Pop: Theor...
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529,62 zł |
Teaching the Video Production Class: Beyond the Morning Newscast
ISBN: 9781610693745 / Angielski / Miękka / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teaching a television production class is a real challenge, especially when working with the typical budget and time limitations of most elementary, middle, or high school curricula. Beyond the technical aspects of teaching this subject, what is the best way to keep students engaged and challenged while teaching them skills that will help make them college and career ready? Spanning lesson plans, video production activities, assessment, and more, this book supplies a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to teaching a television production class, using whatever equipment is readily available.... Teaching a television production class is a real challenge, especially when working with the typical budget and time limitations of most elementary... |
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329,37 zł |
James Arness: An Autobiography
ISBN: 9780786475889 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James Arness was born May 26, 1923, in Minneapolis. He entered college just as World War II began and dreamed of being a naval aviator. It seemed as if every night his fraternity was having a party to send off a brother to the service. Young Arness got his interview with a naval flight program officer, but his hopes vanished as he was informed that his six foot seven inch height disqualified him automatically. He wrote his draft board asking that they call him up as soon as possible and so he ended up as a private in the famed Third Infantry Division where he earned a Bronze Star and the...
James Arness was born May 26, 1923, in Minneapolis. He entered college just as World War II began and dreamed of being a naval aviator. It seemed as i...
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185,49 zł |