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16 produkter
From Printing to Streaming
Cultural Production under Capitalism
Häftad, 2022
233 kr
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**Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023**For mainstream economics, cultural production raises no special questions: creative expression is to be harvested for wealth creation like any other form of labour. As Karl Marx saw it, however, capital is hostile to the arts because it cannot …
Dream That Kicks
The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain
Häftad, 1995
672 kr
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The Dream the Kicks is a classic account of the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain. In this new paperback edition, which has been thoroughly revised to take into account recent scholarship of early cinema, Michael Chanan provides a fasciniating account of the rich and hitherto hidden …
From Printing to Streaming
Cultural Production under Capitalism
Inbunden, 2022
972 kr
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**Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023**For mainstream economics, cultural production raises no special questions: creative expression is to be harvested for wealth creation like any other form of labour. As Karl Marx saw it, however, capital is hostile to the arts because it cannot …
Memories of Underdevelopment
Häftad, 1990
466 kr
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Memories of Underdevelopment was the first great international success of Cuban cinema. The film provides a complex portrait of Sergio, a disaffected bourgeois intellectual who remains in Havana after the Revolution, suspended between two worlds. He can no longer accept the values of his family's …
Cuban Cinema
Häftad, 2004
304 kr
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The earliest films made in Cuba—newsreel footage of the Cuban-Spanish-American War—date from the end of the nineteenth century, but Cuba cannot be said to have had an indigenous film industry before the revolution of 1959. The melodramas, musicals, and comedies made until then reflected …
Dream That Kicks
The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain
E-bok, 2003
745 kr
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The Dream the Kicks is a classic account of the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain. In this new paperback edition, which has been thoroughly revised to take into account recent scholarship of early cinema, Michael Chanan provides a fasciniating account of the rich and hitherto hidden …
Dream That Kicks
The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain
E-bok, 2003
729 kr
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The Dream the Kicks is a classic account of the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain. In this new paperback edition, which has been thoroughly revised to take into account recent scholarship of early cinema, Michael Chanan provides a fasciniating account of the rich and hitherto hidden …
Dream That Kicks
The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain
Inbunden, 2017
3063 kr
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The Dream the Kicks is a classic account of the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain. In this new paperback edition, which has been thoroughly revised to take into account recent scholarship of early cinema, Michael Chanan provides a fasciniating account of the rich and hitherto hidden …
Dementia on Screen
Global Perspectives
Häftad, 2026
332 kr
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This is a book about the stories that films tell about dementia and the varied ways it’s depicted in films from around the world. Dementia is a progressive disease linked to ageing which ranks among the leading causes of death worldwide, for which the cause remains unknown and there is no cure. …
Dementia on Screen
Global Perspectives
Inbunden, 2026
981 kr
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This is a book about the stories that films tell about dementia and the varied ways it’s depicted in films from around the world. Dementia is a progressive disease linked to ageing which ranks among the leading causes of death worldwide, for which the cause remains unknown and there is no cure. …
Repeated Takes
A Short History of Recording and its Effects on Music
E-bok, 2020
179 kr
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Repeated Takes is the first general book on the history of the recording industry, covering the entire field from Edison''s talking tin foil of 1877 to the age of the compact disc. Michael Chanan considers the record as a radically new type of commodity which turned the intangible performance of …
Politics of Documentary
E-bok, 2019
561 kr
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This wide-ranging study traces the history of the documentary from the first Lumiere films to Michael Moore''s ''Fahrenheit 9/11''. Chanan argues that documentary makes a vital contribution to the public sphere - where ideas are debated, opinion formed and those in authority are held to account.
Politics of Documentary
E-bok, 2019
567 kr
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This wide-ranging study traces the history of the documentary from the first Lumiere films to Michael Moore''s ''Fahrenheit 9/11''. Chanan argues that documentary makes a vital contribution to the public sphere - where ideas are debated, opinion formed and those in authority are held to account.
Politics of Documentary
Häftad, 2007
532 kr
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This wide-ranging study traces the history of the documentary from the first Lumiere films to Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11'. Chanan argues that documentary makes a vital contribution to the public sphere - where ideas are debated, opinion formed and those in authority are held to account.
Musica Practica
The Social Practice of Western Music from Gregorian Chant to Postmodernism
Häftad, 1994
335 kr
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Musica Practica is a historical investigation into the social practice of Western music which advances an alternative approach to that of established musicology. Citing evidence from Barthes, Nietzsche, Bakhtin, Max Weber and Schoenberg, Michael Chanan explores the communal roots of the musical …
From Handel to Hendrix
The Composer in the Public Sphere
Inbunden, 1999
325 kr
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In this book, a continuation of Michael Chanan's investigation of the relation between music and society, the author examines the composer in the light of Jurgen Habermas's study of the public sphere. Taking his cue from the German philosopher's remarks about the bourgeois concert audience, the …
