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65 produkter
Many More Lives of the Batman
Av Roberta Pearson, William Uricchio m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
425 kr
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The Many Lives of the Batman (1991) was a pioneer within cultural and comic book scholarship. This fresh new sequel retains the best of the original chapters but also includes images, new chapters and new contributions from the Batman writers and editors. Spanning 75 years and multiple …
Sixties British Cinema
Häftad, 1992
532 kr
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British films of the 1960s are undervalued. Their search for realism has often been dismissed as drabness and their more frivolous efforts can now appear just empty-headed. Robert Murphy's Sixties British Cinema is the first study to challenge this view. He shows that the realist tradition of the …
Eloquence of the Vulgar
Language, Cinema and the Politics of Culture
Inbunden, 1999
1560 kr
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In The Eloquence of the Vulgar, the distinguished academic Colin MacCabe reflects on cultural change from Shakespeare to Derek Jarman, on the institutional forms of knowledge, on the links between popular and elite art, and on the role of the intellectual in contemporary life. A radical argument …
BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema
Av Richard Taylor, Nancy Wood m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
527 kr
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This work maps the rich, varied cinema of Eastern Europe, Russia and the former USSR. Over 200 entries cover a variety of topics spanning a century of endeavour and turbulent history from Czech animation to Soviet montage, from the silent cinemas dating back to World War I through to the varied …
British Cinema of the 90s
Av Robert Murphy, Robert Murphy
Häftad, 1999
527 kr
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This work examines major box office hits like 'The Full Monty' as well as critically acclaimed films like 'Under the Skin'. It explores the role of distribution and exhibition, the Americanisation of British film culture, Hollywood and Europe, changing representations of sexuality and ethnicity.
Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema
Audiences, Theory and the Moving Image
Häftad, 2001
572 kr
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In the conference Africa and the History of Cinematic Ideas held in London in 1995, film-makers, cultural theorists and critics gathered to debate a range of issues. Views were exchanged on such topics as imperialism, and the problems of distribution.
New Screen Media
Cinema/Art/Narrative
Häftad, 2002
642 kr
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This text presents the work of cultural theorists and philosophers of new media, together with the perspectives of artists experimenting with different interactive models critically examining their own practice. The book proposes the use of new critical tools for discussing new media forms.
Body Trauma TV
The New Hospital Dramas
Av Jason Jacobs
Inbunden, 2003
1560 kr
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An exploration of the stylistic, aesthetic and thematic impact of hospital drama. This book argues that 'new' medical dramas offer a different landscape from their predecessors, and they tend to disturb rather than reassure. The medical profession are often depicted as being forced to confront new …
New Media Book
Av Dan Harries
Häftad, 2002
496 kr
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What will prove to be the lasting impact of New Media on film and television? What kinds of transformations of moving image media are really already under way? The term 'new media' has become an effective catch word both as a description of the digital delivery of media via the Internet, DVD, and …
Quality Popular Television
Cult TV, the Industry and Fans
Av Mark Jancovich, James Lyons
Häftad, 2008
496 kr
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Why are some contemporary television shows so compelling? The Sopranos, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends and ER are examples among many of a new era of the 'must-see' programme. These shows and others like The X-Files and Ally McBeal, have a compulsiveness, a depth of characterisation and …
Film Art Phenomena
Av Nicky Hamlyn
Häftad, 2003
577 kr
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Alongside the commercial cinema of narrative and spectacle there has always been another practice - call it avant-garde, experimental or artists' film (as opposed to art cinema). It is this work that Nicky Hamlyn, himself an acclaimed film-maker in the alternative tradition, investigates in Film …
Metropolitan Police and the British Film Industry, 1919-1956
Public Relations, Collaboration and Control
Av Alex Rock
Häftad, 2025
429 kr
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This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the British film industry, shedding new light on police-media relations. Beginning with the culture of suppression during the interwar period, when retired police inspectors were threatened …
Film Sound Modernism
Inbunden, 2025
1232 kr
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Despite the key contribution of sound to the development of cinema as a modern (and modernist) art form, analyses of the relationship between film and modernism often overlook the key role played by sound in film.Film Sound Modernism addresses this critical neglect by exploring how speech, music …
Shah Rukh Khan
Masculinity, Religion and Global Stardom
Inbunden, 2027
916 kr
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Shah Rukh Khan’s gradual ascent from industry outsider to one of the world’s most influential film stars has unfolded against the changing social and political landscape of contemporary India.Through close readings of key films including Darr (1993), Swades (2004), Om Shanti Om (2007), My Name Is …
Shah Rukh Khan
Masculinity, Religion and Global Stardom
Häftad, 2027
306 kr
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Shah Rukh Khan’s gradual ascent from industry outsider to one of the world’s most influential film stars has unfolded against the changing social and political landscape of contemporary India.Through close readings of key films including Darr (1993), Swades (2004), Om Shanti Om (2007), My Name Is …
100 Apocalypse Films
Inbunden, 2027
851 kr
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100 Apocalypse Films explores one of cinema’s most enduring and revealing narrative genres through 100 key movies from around the world. From killer viruses and alien invasions to zombie plagues, nuclear war, and even mutant plants, apocalypse films imagine the end of the world in terrifying and …
Television Genre Book
Av Glen Creeber
Inbunden, 2023
1336 kr
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In this new edition of The Television Genre Book, leading international scholars have come together to offer an accessible and comprehensive update to the debates, issues and concerns of the field. As television continues to evolve rapidly, this new edition reflects the ways in which TV has …
Action Cinema Since 2000
Av Chris Holmlund, Lisa Purse m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
393 kr
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Action Cinema Since 2000 addresses an increasingly lively and evolving field of scholarship, probing the definition and testing the potential of action cinema to reframe the mode for the 21st century.Contributors examine a broad range of content, from blockbusters to smaller independent films, …
Richard Dyer Reader
Inbunden, 2023
1336 kr
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Richard Dyer is a foundational figure for the critical study of cinema and popular culture. Across a career spanning five decades, he has made path breaking contributions to our understanding of stardom and celebrity, gay and queer politics and cultural history, film music, race and whiteness and …
On Kubrick
Revised Edition
Häftad, 2023
423 kr
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In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, from his earliest feature, Fear and Desire (1953), to the posthumously-produced A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001). Naremore offers …
Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity
Film, Fame, and Personal Worth
Av Mandy Merck
Häftad, 2022
427 kr
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Challenging the study of both celebrity and the cinema, Mandy Merck argues that modern fame and film melodrama are part of the same worldview, one that cannot resolve the relation of personal worth to social esteem. Tracing the history of this conundrum back to the philosophy of the 17th century …
Anime
A History
Häftad, 2023
453 kr
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Japanese animation is at the nexus of an international multimedia industry worth over $23.6 billion a year, linked to everything from manga to computer games, Pokémon and plushies. In this comprehensive guide, Jonathan Clements chronicles the production and reception history of the entire medium, …
Cinema Memories
A People's History of Cinema-going in 1960s Britain
Av Melvyn Stokes, Matthew Jones m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
413 kr
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Cinema Memories brings together and analyses the memories of almost a thousand people of going to the cinema in Britain during the 1960s. It offers a fresh perspective on the social, cultural and film history of what has come to be seen as an iconic decade, with the release of films such as A Taste …
Re-viewing Hitchcock
New Critical Perspectives
Häftad, 2026
453 kr
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Re-viewing Hitchcock approaches Alfred Hitchcock's prolific career in film and television from a reception focus, charting the changing fortunes of the master auteur's work from 1926's silent The Lodger to his penultimate film, the controversial Frenzy of 1972.Each of the chapters, written by …
Re-viewing Hitchcock
New Critical Perspectives
Inbunden, 2026
1418 kr
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Re-viewing Hitchcock approaches Alfred Hitchcock's prolific career in film and television from a reception focus, charting the changing fortunes of the master auteur's work from 1926's silent The Lodger to his penultimate film, the controversial Frenzy of 1972.Each of the chapters, written by …
Experimental Cinema
Structures, Systems and Strategies
Av Simon Payne
Häftad, 2026
425 kr
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Experimental Cinema examines a range of structures, systems and strategies that film and video artists have developed from the late 1960s to the present. Over the decades, artists have responded to the ever-changing medium of cinema and its technological advances, as well as taking inspiration from …
Stephen Dwoskin Is...
A Reappraisal
Av Rachel Garfield, Jenny Chamarette
Inbunden, 2027
951 kr
Kommande
This open access book presents the first critical analysis of the work of Stephen Dwoskin, groundbreaking filmmaker, artist, graphic designer and writer.Stephen Dwoskin (1939-2012) was a groundbreaking filmmaker, artist, graphic designer and writer, most renowned for his key role in establishing …
Wyrd TV
Folklore, Folk Horror and British Television
Häftad, 2026
408 kr
Kommande
Why did British television in the ‘long 1970s’ prove such a fertile ground for programming that explored the occult, the supernatural and the darkness that threads its way through British folk culture? Diane Rodgers’ innovative and broad-ranging study traces the pre-history, flourishing and after …
Wyrd TV
Folklore, Folk Horror and British Television
Inbunden, 2026
1195 kr
Kommande
Why did British television in the ‘long 1970s’ prove such a fertile ground for programming that explored the occult, the supernatural and the darkness that threads its way through British folk culture? Diane Rodgers’ innovative and broad-ranging study traces the pre-history, flourishing and after …
Play for Today
A History of a Democratic Television Drama
Av Tom May
Häftad, 2027
349 kr
Kommande
Play for Today was the BBC's groundbreaking television anthology drama series, epitomising entertainment, social commitment and artistic and intellectual ambition. More than three hundred original television plays and adaptations of stage plays and novels were transmitted to the British public …
