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The most comprehensive volume ever published on Alfred Hitchcock, covering his career and legacy as well as the broader cultural and intellectual contexts of his work. Contains thirty chapters by the leading Hitchcock scholars Covers his long career, from his earliest...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-01
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The most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the twenty-first century, this book examines the history and conventions of the genre and surveys the controversies arising from the critical responses to these films. ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-01
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By reconsidering assumptions about mainstream popular culture and its revolutionary possibilities, author Dana Heller reveals that John Waters' popular 1988 film Hairspray is the director's most subversive movie. Represents the first scholarly work on any of film...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-01
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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There are certain films and shows that resonate with audiences everywhere—they generate discussion and debate about everything from gender, class, citizenship and race, to consumerism and social identity. This new 'teachable canon' of film and television introduces...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-01
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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Explorations in New Cinema History brings together cutting-edge research by the leading scholars in the field to identify new approaches to writing and understanding the social and cultural history of cinema, focusing on cinema’s audiences, the experience of cinema, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-25
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There are certain films and shows that resonate with audiences everywhere—they generate discussion and debate about everything from gender, class, citizenship and race, to consumerism and social identity. This new ‘teachable canon’ of film and television introduces...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-25
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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69,95€
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PHILOSOPHY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS “David Davies’s Philosophy of the Performing Arts is long-awaited. Not since Paul Thom’s For an Audience has a book in the Anglo-American philosophical tradition focused so clearly, exclusively, informatively, and fairly on all the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-23
Collection :
Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts
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79,95€
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Hollywood 1963-1976 chronicles the upheaval and innovation that took place in the American film industry during an era of pervasive cultural tumult. Exploring the many ideologies embraced by an increasingly diverse Hollywood, Casper offers a comprehensive canon,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-23
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The currency is fame, and it's bigger than money, more desired than power. Each season American Idol delivers on a promise whose epic scope is unparalleled in the annals of competition: to take an unknown dreamer from the middle of America and turn him or her into a...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2011-01-18
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This collection of essays arises from the 2005 Cambridge French Graduate Conference on the theme of threat. From the baleful and ubiquitous eyes of surveillance cameras to the ever-present possibility of total nuclear annihilation, threat is everywhere around us. Yet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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Takahata Isao, einer der berühmtesten und einflussreichsten Anime-Regisseure, zu dessen Anime-Werken solche Blockbuster wie Heidi – ein Mädchen aus den Alpen und Das Grab der Glühwürmchen zählen, ist Thema dieser weltweit erstmaligen Biografie.Takahata Isao ist der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-12-21
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Enjoy a unique glimpse into the intelligent and quirky inner workings of the comedic mind! This special e-version of Show Me the Funny! presents 28 top comedy screenwriters--including three bonus interviews not in the original print book--from the revered figures of...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2010-12-14
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The finest TV critic of our time talks about Sport, Sitcoms, News, the Weather, Children's programmes and 'Reality Television'.A.A. Gill has been the must-read television critic in the SUNDAY TIMES 'Culture' section for more than ten years. This collection of some of...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-11-25
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This book is both more and less than history, a work of imagination in its own right, a piece of movie literature that turns fact into romance.' Gavin Lambert was reviewing the first edition of David Thomson's monumental work in 1975. In the eight years since the third...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2010-11-04
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Selon la perspective suivie dans cet ouvrage, le spectateur est actuellement en train d’acquérir de nouvelles capacités de suivi et d’absorption de l’image en mouvement. Depuis une quinzaine d’années, les créateurs de l’iconosphère avancent sur le chemin de la...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2010-10-19
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In the scores of posthumous tributes paid to Frank Sinatra after his death in 1998, most focused on his extraordinary reign as "The Voice" of twentieth-century pop music. But Sinatra was much more than a music icon. He was also one of the most popular movie stars of the...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2010-10-12
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Ingmar Bergman und Woody Allen, zwei auf den ersten Blick so grundverschiedene Filmemacher, erweisen sich in dieser vergleichenden Analyse ihrer filmischen Gesamtwerke überraschend als geistige Verwandte. Die Berührungspunkte sind neben ihrer Profession vor allem ihre...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-10-05
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The real story behind Dame Edna, the international superstar!Written by the legendary Barry Humphries himself.'I'm suing!!' Dame Edna Everage'Humphries is Australia's John Betjeman' Mail on Sunday'Full of the hilarious innuendo that we love' Woman's WeeklyIn this...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-09-16
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This is a comprehensive, jargon-free guide for all budding screenwriters. Its aim is not just to guide you through the techniques and skills you need to write for the screen (film and television), but also to give you guidance on how to approach the industry as a whole....
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2010-08-27
ePub
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Top Hat is the first volume to spotlight this classic Hollywood film, probing the musical genre, notions of romance and subjectivity, as well as the contested relations between the sexes. Offers a detailed analysis of one of Hollywood's greatest musicals, including a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-07-20
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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75,95€
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