
ilość książek w kategorii: 75823
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Discographies: Dance, Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound
ISBN: 9780415170338 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Experiencing disco, hip hop, house, techno, drum 'n' bass and garage, Discographies plots a course through the transatlantic dance scene of the last last twenty-five years. It discusses the problems posed by contemporary dance culture of both academic and cultural study and finds these origins in the history of opposition to music as a source of sensory pleasure.
Discussing such issues as technology, club space. drugs, the musical body, gender, sexuality and pleasure, Discographies explores the ecstatic experiences at the heart of contemporary dance culture. It suggests... Experiencing disco, hip hop, house, techno, drum 'n' bass and garage, Discographies plots a course through the transatlantic dance scene of t...
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202,40 |
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Screening the Past : Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema
ISBN: 9780415183741 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This lively and accessible collection explores film culture's obsession with the past, offering searching and provocative analyses of a wide range of titles from" Mildred Pierce" and "Brief Encounter "to "Raging Bull "and "In the Mood for Love," It engages with current debates about the role of cinema in mediating history through memory and nostalgia, suggesting that many films use strategies of memory to produce diverse forms of knowledge which challenge established ideas of history, and the traditional role of historians. The work of contemporary directors such as Martin Scorsese, Kathryn...
This lively and accessible collection explores film culture's obsession with the past, offering searching and provocative analyses of a wide range of ...
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765,33 |
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Screening the Past : Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema
ISBN: 9780415183758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This lively and accessible collection explores film culture's obsession with the past, offering searching and provocative analyses of a wide range of titles from ldred Pierce and ief Encounter to ging Bull and the Mood for Love . reening the Past engages with current debates about the role of cinema in mediating history through memory and nostalgia, suggesting that many films use strategies of memory to produce diverse forms of knowledge which challenge established ideas of history, and the traditional role of historians. The work of contemporary directors such as Martin Scorsese, Kathryn...
This lively and accessible collection explores film culture's obsession with the past, offering searching and provocative analyses of a wide range of ...
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202,40 |
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Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity and Subjectivity
ISBN: 9780415211895 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Women and Popular Music explores the changing role of women musicians and the ways in which their songs resonate in popular culture. Sheila Whiteley begins by examining the counter-culture's reactionary attitudes to women through the lyrics of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. She explores the ways in which artists like Joplin and Joni Mitchell confronted issues of sexuality and freedom, redefining women's participation in the industry, and assesses the personal cost of their achievements. She considers how stars such as Annie Lennox, Madonna and k.d. lang have confronted issues of...
Women and Popular Music explores the changing role of women musicians and the ways in which their songs resonate in popular culture. Sheila W...
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765,33 |
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South African National Cinema
ISBN: 9780415216807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 14 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. South African National Cinema examines how cinema in South Africa represents national identities, particularly with regard to race. This significant and unique contribution establishes interrelationships between South African cinema and key points in South Africa's history, showing how cinema figures in the making, entrenching and undoing of apartheid. This study spans the twentieth century and beyond through detailed analyses of selected films, beginning with De Voortrekkers (1916) through to Mapantsula (1988) and films produced post apartheid, including... South African National Cinema examines how cinema in South Africa represents national identities, particularly with regard to race. This s... |
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202,40 |
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The Philosophy of Music
ISBN: 9780415225625 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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987,53 |
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Action and Adventure Cinema
ISBN: 9780415235075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This reader of key writing on action cinema from the silent period to the 21st centuryy is divided into thematic sections addressing major areas such as defining the genre, film history and style, action and spectacle, genres and meaning, stars and bodies, action auteurs and the film industry. The reader covers both Hollywood actions movies such as Terminator 1 and 2 and Die Hard and also European and Asian action cinema. It also includes a full bibliography and guide to other resources both in print and online.
This reader of key writing on action cinema from the silent period to the 21st centuryy is divided into thematic sections addressing major areas such ...
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197,45 |
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Music in Ancient Greece and Rome
ISBN: 9780415248433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Music in Ancient Greece and Rome provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Hadrian, presented in a concise and user-friendly way. Chapters include:
* contexts in which music played a role * a detailed discussion of instruments * an analysis of scales, intervals and tuning * the principal types of rhythm used * and an exploration of Greek theories of harmony and acoustics. Music in Ancient Greece and Rome also contains numerous musical examples, with illustrations of ancient instruments and... Music in Ancient Greece and Rome provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Hadria...
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236,95 |
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Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream
ISBN: 9780415254861 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This anthology addresses the salient aesthetic, ideological and economic determinants of independent American cinema over the past three decades
This anthology addresses the salient aesthetic, ideological and economic determinants of independent American cinema over the past three decades
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765,33 |
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Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream
ISBN: 9780415254878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From Easy Rider to The Blair Witch Project, this book is a comprehensive examination of the independent film scene. Exploring the uneasy relationship between independent films and the major studios, the contributors trace the changing ideas and definitions of independent cinema, and the diversity of independent film practices. They consider the ways in which indie films are marketed and distributed, and how new technologies such as video, cable and the internet, offered new opportunities for filmmakers to produce and market independent films. Turning to the... From Easy Rider to The Blair Witch Project, this book is a comprehensive examination of the independent film scene. Exploring th... |
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202,40 |
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Karaoke Around the World : Global Technology, Local Singing
ISBN: 9780415258548 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume explores what underlies those karaoke experiences which involve people as singers, co-singers and listeners. The contributors consider the subject's technological, musical, ethnic, communicative, national, political and gender aspects.
This volume explores what underlies those karaoke experiences which involve people as singers, co-singers and listeners. The contributors consider the...
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202,40 |
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The Operatic State: Cultural Policy and the Opera House
ISBN: 9780415278515 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Operatic State examines the cultural, financial, and political investments that have gone into the maintenance of opera and opera houses in Europe, the USA and Australia. It analyses opera's nearly immutable form throughout wars, revolutions, and vast social changes throughout the world. Bereson argues that by legitimising the power of the state through universally recognised ceremonial ritual, opera enjoys a privileged status across three continents, often to the detriment of popular and indigenous art forms.
The Operatic State examines the cultural, financial, and political investments that have gone into the maintenance of opera and opera houses ...
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765,33 |
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Movie Music, the Film Reader
ISBN: 9780415281591 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bringing together material from the areas of documentary, fandom and animation, Movie Music, the Film Reader comprises an important first collection of writings about film music. It is divided into four sections, each with an introduction by the editor. Essays in The Meanings of the Score look at instrumental scores, their production and reception, and questions the onscreen power of the nineteenth century classical genre. The Place of the Song turns to popular music, asking how the pop score supports the film narrative. Formal Politics of Music on Film...
Bringing together material from the areas of documentary, fandom and animation, Movie Music, the Film Reader comprises an important first col...
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765,33 |
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Movie Music, The Film Reader
ISBN: 9780415281607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From silent film accompaniment and classical film scores to jazz, rock'n' roll movies and pop soundtracks, this volume argues for a broader understanding of the role of music in film, looking beyond the soundtrack and into the production and replication of a set of values which music and musicians carry with them into the narrative and formal aspects of film. Bringing together material from the areas of documentary, fandom and animation, the Reader comprises an collection of writings about film music.
From silent film accompaniment and classical film scores to jazz, rock'n' roll movies and pop soundtracks, this volume argues for a broader understand...
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197,45 |
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Virtual Theatres: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780415283793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Virtual Theatres presents the theatre of the twenty-first century in which everything - even the viewer - can be simulated. In this fascinating volume, Gabriella Giannachi analyses the aesthetic concerns of current computer-arts practices through discussion of a variety of artists and performers including Blast Theory Merce Cunningham Eduardo Kac Forced Entertainment Lynn Hershman Jodi Orlan Guillermo Gomez-Pena Marcel-la Ant.nez Roca Jeffrey Shaw Stelarc. This is the first full-length book of its kind to offer an investigation of the interface between theatre, performance and digital arts....
Virtual Theatres presents the theatre of the twenty-first century in which everything - even the viewer - can be simulated. In this fascinating volume...
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202,40 |
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Adorno and the Political
ISBN: 9780415289139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Theodor Adorno was one of the foremost radical thinkers of the Twentieth century. Critic of the Enlightenment, liberalism and modernity, he was the architect behind the famous Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and his work ranged over philosophy, social and cultural theory, art and music. In this lucid book, Espen Hammer critically considers and defends Adorno's most important contribution: his political thought and it contemporary relevance.
Espen Hammer examines the background to Adorno's thought in the work of Kierkegaard, Marx, Weber and Walter Benjamin and assesses Adorno's... Theodor Adorno was one of the foremost radical thinkers of the Twentieth century. Critic of the Enlightenment, liberalism and modernity, he was the ar...
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207,33 |
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Popular Music : Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies
ISBN: 9780415299053 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 1752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Popular music studies is a rapidly expanding field with changing emphases and agenda. This is a multi-volume resource for this area of study.
Popular music studies is a rapidly expanding field with changing emphases and agenda. This is a multi-volume resource for this area of study.
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6418,91 |
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The Popular Music Studies Reader
ISBN: 9780415307093 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Popular Music Studies Reader maps the changing nature of popular music over the last decade and considers how popular music studies has expanded and developed to deal with these changes. A wide range of international contributors featuring some of the biggest names in popular music and cultural studies including Philip Auslander, Paul Gilroy and Kodwo Eshun and discuss: * the increasing participation of women in the industry The Popular Music Studies Reader maps the changing nature of popular music over the last decade and considers how popular music studies has expande... |
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765,33 |
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British Queer Cinema
ISBN: 9780415307789 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. British Queer Cinema draws together a diverse range of innovative new essays that explore, for the first time, the provocative history of lesbian, gay and queer representation in British cinema.
From the early years of 'Pre-Gay' film, through to the social upheaval of post-war 'permissiveness', Gay Liberation and the 'post-AIDS' queer generation, contributors examine the shifting and complex nature of queer identity, desire and spectatorship across a number of classical and contemporary British popular film genres and traditions. Through case studies of key works such as... British Queer Cinema draws together a diverse range of innovative new essays that explore, for the first time, the provocative history of les...
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765,33 |
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British Queer Cinema
ISBN: 9780415307796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "British Queer Cinema "draws together a diverse range of innovative new essays that explore, for the first time, the provocative history of lesbian, gay and queer representation in British cinema.
From the early years of "Pre-Gay" film, through to the social upheaval of post-war "permissiveness," Gay Liberation and the "post-AIDS" queer generation, contributors examine the shifting and complex nature of queer identity, desire and spectatorship across a number of classical and contemporary British popular film genres and traditions. Through case studies of key works such as The Killing... "British Queer Cinema "draws together a diverse range of innovative new essays that explore, for the first time, the provocative history of lesbian, g...
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202,40 |