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Eric Rohmer
ISBN: 9781349545469 / Angielski / Miękka / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1950s Eric Rohmer has been one of the major presences in French cinema as critic and director. This book is a sophisticated engagement with his work in which Keith Tester argues that Rohmer is not the naIve realist he is often claimed to be. Instead, his films are revealed as a sustained exercise in Catholic theology."
Since the 1950s Eric Rohmer has been one of the major presences in French cinema as critic and director. This book is a sophisticated engagement with ...
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World Cinema's 'Dialogues' with Hollywood
ISBN: 9781349547432 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Cookelooks at Hollywood's interaction with national and transnational cinemas, from German Expressionism to Bollywood and Chinese film. While Hollywood has had a huge impact on the medium - doing all the talking in the 'dialogue' - world cinema's economic, aesthetic and political relationship with Hollywood is of profound importance."
Paul Cookelooks at Hollywood's interaction with national and transnational cinemas, from German Expressionism to Bollywood and Chinese film. While Hol...
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201,24 |
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Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches
ISBN: 9781349321209 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on a wide range of examples, this book the first devoted to the phenomenon of the film trilogy provides a dynamic investigation of the ways in which the trilogy form engages key issues in contemporary discussions of film remaking, adaptation, sequelization and serialization."
Drawing on a wide range of examples, this book the first devoted to the phenomenon of the film trilogy provides a dynamic investigation of the ways in...
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Italian Cinema: Gender and Genre
ISBN: 9781349412297 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maggie Gunsberg examines popular genre cinema in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s, focussing on melodrama, commedia all'italiana, peplum, horror and the spaghetti western. These genres are explored from a gender standpoint which takes into account the historical and socio-economic context of cinematic production and consumption. An interdisciplinary feminist approach informed by current film theory and other perspectives (psychoanalytic, materialist, deconstructive), leads to the analysis of genre-specific representations of femininity and masculinity as constructed by the formal properties...
Maggie Gunsberg examines popular genre cinema in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s, focussing on melodrama, commedia all'italiana, peplum, horror and t...
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201,24 |
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Hollywood and Intimacy: Style, Moments, Magnificence
ISBN: 9781349346493 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acritical appreciation of close relationships in the modern American movie, looking in detail at contemporary Hollywood filmswhich explore intimacy andthe connections of characters, their surroundings, and points of film style.Peacock'sclose readings provide a fresh approachto understanding the big American film."
Acritical appreciation of close relationships in the modern American movie, looking in detail at contemporary Hollywood filmswhich explore intimacy an...
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201,24 |
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Television and British Cinema: Convergence and Divergence Since 1990
ISBN: 9781349456857 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Undertaking a thorough and timely investigation of the relationship between television and cinema in Britain since 1990, Hannah Andrews explores the convergence between the two forms, at industrial, cultural and intermedial levels, and the ways in which the media have also been distinguished from one another through discourse and presentation.
Undertaking a thorough and timely investigation of the relationship between television and cinema in Britain since 1990, Hannah Andrews explores the c...
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201,24 |
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Cultural Specificity in Indonesian Film: Diversity in Unity
ISBN: 9783319408736 / Angielski / Twarda / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nevertheless, the book is not concerned only with past traditions, but explores ways in which Indonesian filmmakers have addressed, critically, distinctive aspects of their traditional societies in their feature films (including at times the social position of women), linking past to the present, where relevant, in dynamic ways.
Nevertheless, the book is not concerned only with past traditions, but explores ways in which Indonesian filmmakers have addressed, critically, distin...
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On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age
ISBN: 9781349324996 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of Media Memory and brings Media and Mediation to the forefront of Collective Memory research. The essays explore a diversity of media technologies (television, radio, film and new media), genres (news, fiction, documentaries) and contexts (US, UK, Spain, Nigeria, Germany and the Middle East).
This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of Media Memory and brings Media and Mediation to the forefront of Collective Memory research. The essay...
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The Simpsons, Satire, and American Culture
ISBN: 9781349439768 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How is The Simpsons a satirical artwork engaged with important social, political, and cultural issues? In time for the twenty-fifth anniversary, Henry offers the first comprehensive understanding of the show as a satire and explores the ways in which The Simpsons participates in the so-called "culture war" debates taking place in American society.
How is The Simpsons a satirical artwork engaged with important social, political, and cultural issues? In time for the twenty-fifth anniversary, Henry...
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Editing the Soul: Science and Fiction in the Genome Age
ISBN: 9780271079325 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Personal genome testing, gene editing for life-threatening diseases, synthetic life: once the stuff of science fiction, twentieth- and twenty-first-century advancements blur the lines between scientific narrative and scientific fact. This examination of bioengineering in popular and literary culture shows that the influence of science on science fiction is more reciprocal than we might expect. Looking closely at the work of Margaret Atwood, Richard Powers, and other authors, as well as at film, comics, and serial television such as Orphan Black, Everett Hamner shows how the... Personal genome testing, gene editing for life-threatening diseases, synthetic life: once the stuff of science fiction, twentieth- and twenty-first... |
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407,17 |
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The Silent Appalachian: Wordless Mountaineers in Fiction, Film and Television
ISBN: 9781476667683 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Appalachian literature is filled with silent or non-discursive characters. The reasons for their wordlessness vary. Some are mute or pretend to be, some choose not to speak or are silenced by grief, trauma or fear. Others mutter monosyllables, stutter, grunt and point, speak in tongues or idiosyncratic language. They capture the reader's attention by what they don't say.
Appalachian literature is filled with silent or non-discursive characters. The reasons for their wordlessness vary. Some are mute or pretend to be, so...
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166,12 |
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Australian Film Festivals: Audience, Place, and Exhibition Culture
ISBN: 9781137586377 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history, operation, and growth of film festivals as a cultural phenomenon within Australia. Tracing the birth of film festivals in Australia in the 1950s through to their present abundance, it asks why film festivals have prospered as audience-driven spectacles throughout Australia, while never developing the same industry and market foci of their international fellows. Drawing on over sixty-years of archival records, festival commentary, interviews with festival insiders and ephemera, this book opens up a largely... This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history, operation, and growth of film festivals as a cultural phenomenon wit... |
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362,27 |
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Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays
ISBN: 9780786470105 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joss Whedon's work critiques racial stereotypes, sometimes repudiating them, sometimes reinvesting in them (sometimes both at once). This collection of new essays explores his representations of racial power dynamics between individuals and institutions and how the Whedonverse constructs race, ethnicity and nationality relationships.
Joss Whedon's work critiques racial stereotypes, sometimes repudiating them, sometimes reinvesting in them (sometimes both at once). This collection o...
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Representing ethnicity in contemporary French visual culture
ISBN: 9780719079559 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The issue of ethnicity in France, and how ethnicities are represented there visually, remain one of the most important and polemical aspects of French post-colonial politics and society. Representing ethnicity in contemporary French visual culture is the first book to analyse how a range of different ethnicities have been represented across contemporary French visual culture. Via a wide series of case studies - ranging from the worldwide hit film Amelie to France's popular TV series Plus belle la vie - it explores how ethnicities have been represented in contemporary France across a wide...
The issue of ethnicity in France, and how ethnicities are represented there visually, remain one of the most important and polemical aspects of French...
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433,76 |
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Smart Chicks on Screen: Representing Women's Intellect in Film and Television
ISBN: 9781442275621 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While women have long been featured in leading roles in film and television, the intellectual depictions of female characters in these mediums are out of line with reality. Women continue to be marginalized for their choices, overshadowed by men, and judged by their bodies. In fact, the intelligence of women is rarely the focus of television or film narratives, and on the rare occasion when smart women are showcased, their portrayals are undermined by socially awkward behavior or their intimate relationships are doomed to perpetual failure. While Hollywood claims to offer a different, more...
While women have long been featured in leading roles in film and television, the intellectual depictions of female characters in these mediums are out...
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169,68 |
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Contemporary Chinese Literature: From the Cultural Revolution to the Future
ISBN: 9781349538409 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a case study of four of the most influential contemporary Chinese writers and "cultural bastards"--Duoduo, an underground "misty" poet; Wang Shuo, a "hooligan" writer; Zhang Chengzhi, an old "Red Guard" and new "cultural heretic;" and Wang Xiaobo, a chronicler of Rabelaisian modern history.
This book offers a case study of four of the most influential contemporary Chinese writers and "cultural bastards"--Duoduo, an underground "misty" poe...
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201,24 |
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Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema
ISBN: 9781349479627 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculinity in Italy. Uniting star analysis with a detailed consideration of the masculinities that are dominating current Italian cinema, the study addresses the supposed crisis of masculinity.
Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculinity...
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201,24 |
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Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation
ISBN: 9781137554802 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first anthology of research devoted to the booming world of Chinese film festivals, covering both mainstream and independent films.
This book is the first anthology of research devoted to the booming world of Chinese film festivals, covering both mainstream and independent films.
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402,53 |
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Reading Rocky Horror: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781349377138 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first scholarly collection devoted to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show, " dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies, genre studies, and film studies.
The first scholarly collection devoted to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show, " dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer s...
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229,58 |
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Davenport's WOC AM-FM-TV
ISBN: 9781531651442 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,93 |