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Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood 2
Häftad, 2015
828 kr
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Hollywood continues to reign supreme; from award-winning dramas to multimillion-dollar, special-effects-laden blockbusters, Tinseltown produces the films that audiences around the world go to the cinema to see. While the film industry has dramatically changed over the years – stars have come and …
Directory of World Cinema: Argentina
Av Gary M. Kramer, Beatriz Urraca
Häftad, 2014
802 kr
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Argentina boasts one of the most popular, diverse and successful film industries in Latin America. From early films about gauchos and the tango to human rights dramas and groundbreaking experimental documentaries, Argentina’s cinematic output has achieved both global influence and international …
Directory of World Cinema: Russia 2
Häftad, 2015
802 kr
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Soviet and Russian filmmakers have traditionally had uneasy relationships to the concept of genre. This volume rewrites that history by spotlighting some genres not commonly associated with cinema in the region, including Cold War spy movies and science-fiction films; blockbusters and horror films; …
Directory of World Cinema: Africa
Av Sheila Petty, Blandine Stefanson
Häftad, 2015
810 kr
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Eschewing the postcolonial hubris that suggests Africa could only define itself in relation to its colonizers, a problem plaguing many studies published in the West on African cinema, this entry in the Directory of World Cinema series instead looks at African film as representing Africa for its own …
Directory of World Cinema: Scotland
Av Bob Nowlan, Zach Finch
Häftad, 2015
802 kr
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Scotland, its people and its history have long been a source of considerable fascination and inspiration for filmmakers, film scholars and film audiences worldwide. A significant number of critically acclaimed films made in the last twenty-five years have ignited passionate conversations and …
Directory of World Cinema: Britain 2
Häftad, 2015
810 kr
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The first volume of the Directory of World Cinema: Britain provided an overview of British cinema from its earliest days to the present. In this, the second volume, the contributors focus on specific periods and trace the evolutions of individual genres and directors.A complementary edition rather …
Directory of World Cinema: China 2
Häftad, 2015
810 kr
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Since the publication of the first volume of Directory of World Cinema: China, the Chinese film industry has intensified its efforts to make inroads into the American market. The 2012 acquisition of US theatre chain AMC and visual effects house Digital Domain by Chinese firms testifies to the …
Directory of World Cinema: Japan 3
Av John Berra
Häftad, 2015
802 kr
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Like its predecessors, Directory of World Cinema: Japan 3 endeavours to move scholarly criticism of Japanese film out of the academy and into the hands of cinephiles the world over. This volume will be warmly welcomed by those with an interest in Japanese cinema that extends beyond its established …
Directory of World Cinema: Iran 2
Av Parviz Jahed
Häftad, 2017
716 kr
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Working at the intersection of religion and ever-shifting political, economic and social environments, Iranian cinema has produced some of the most critically lauded films in the world today. The first volume in the Directory of World Cinema: Iran turned the spotlight on the award-winning cinema of …
Directory of World Cinema: American Independent 3
Av John Berra
Häftad, 2016
810 kr
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This third volume of the successful Directory of World Cinema series to focus on American independent filmmaking presents in-depth essays on forty-four filmmakers who have primarily worked outside the mainstream or on its industrial margins. Contributors offer close analyses of the work of both …
Directory of World Cinema: Argentina 2
Av Gary M. Kramer, Beatriz Urraca
Häftad, 2016
828 kr
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This volume continues the exploration of contemporary Argentine cinema that began in the first book. It provides a close analysis of exciting new directors, including Marco Berger and Matías Piñeiro, transnational stars like Ricardo Darín, and trends such as films made in the provinces. …
Directory of World Cinema: Central Asia
Häftad, 2026
433 kr
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This is the first English-language handbook of the cinema of Central Asia, covering the key films from the Soviet era and independence. The volume contains ca. 150 entries on individual films, as well as introductions to the film histories of the five republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, …
Directory of World Cinema: American Independent
Av John Berra
Häftad, 2010
828 kr
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With high-profile Academy Award nominations and an increasing number of big-name actors eager to sign on to promising projects, independent films have been at the forefront in recent years like never before. But the roots of such critical and commercial successes as The Hurt Locker and Precious can …
Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand
Av Ben Goldsmith, Geoff Lealand
Häftad, 2010
810 kr
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This addition to Intellect's Directory of World Cinema series turns the spotlight on Australia and New Zealand and offers an in-depth and exciting look at the cinema produced in these two countries since the turn of the twentieth century. Though the two nations share considerable cultural and …
Directory of World Cinema: Iran
Av Parviz Jahed
Häftad, 2012
802 kr
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Iranian cinema has an extraordinary history that has been marked by religion and ever-shifting political, economic, and social environments. This addition to Intellect’s Directory of World Cinema series turns the spotlight on the award-winning cinema of that nation, with particular attention to the …
Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood
Häftad, 2011
810 kr
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With its sprawling celebrity homes, the Walk of Fame and the iconic sign on the hill, Hollywood is truly the land of stars. Glamorous and larger-than-life, many of the most memorable motion pictures of all time have emanated from its multimillion-dollar film industry, which exports more films per …
Directory of World Cinema: Spain
Av Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano
Häftad, 2011
810 kr
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Though loved by moviegoers worldwide, Spanish cinema has thus far suffered from a relative lack of critical attention. Focusing on the vast corpus of films that have left their marks on generations of spectators, Directory of World Cinema: Spain returns the national cinema of Spain rightfully to …
Directory of World Cinema: East Europe
Av Adam Bingham
Häftad, 2012
828 kr
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Part of the Directory of World Cinema series, this title includes contributions from some of the leading academics in the field. It features film recommendations from a range of genres for those interested in watching more cinema from these regions. It also features comprehensive filmography as an …
Directory of World Cinema: Germany
Häftad, 2012
828 kr
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From bleak Expressionist works to the edgy political cinema of the New German Cinema and the feel-good Heimat films of the postwar era, Directory of World Cinema: Germany aims to offer a wider film and cultural context for the films that have emerged from Germany – including some of the East German …
Directory of World Cinema: Britain
Häftad, 2012
810 kr
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Bringing to mind rockers and royals, Buckingham Palace and the Scottish Highlands, Britain holds a special interest for international audiences who have flocked in recent years to quality exports like Fish Tank, Trainspotting and The King's Speech. A series of essays and articles exploring the …
Directory of World Cinema: France
Av Tim Palmer, Charlie Michael
Häftad, 2013
828 kr
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Artistic, intellectual and appreciably avant-garde, the French film industry has, perhaps more than any other national cinema, been perennially at the centre of international filmmaking. With its vigorous business and wide-ranging film culture, France has also been home historically to some of the …
Directory of World Cinema: American Independent 2
Av John Berra
Häftad, 2013
810 kr
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From Andy Warhol’s Factory films to Roger Corman’s exploitation productions to contemporary features backed by Hollywood studio subdivisions, American independent cinema has undergone several incarnations since its emergence as a politically charged underground movement in the 1960s. Today, with …
Directory of World Cinema: Finland
Häftad, 2012
828 kr
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An important addition to Intellect’s popular series, Directory of World Cinema: Finland provides historical and cultural overviews of the country’s cinema. Over the course of their contributions to this volume, scholars from a variety of disciplines construct a collective argument that complicates …
Directory of World Cinema: Turkey
Av Eylem Atakav
Häftad, 2013
828 kr
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Since the 1990s, filmmakers in Turkey have increasingly explored notions of gender, genre, cultural memory, and national and transnational identity. Taking these themes as its starting point, this book – the first English-language directory of Turkish films – provides an extensive historical …
Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2
Av Ben Goldsmith, Mark David Ryan m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
828 kr
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Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first instalment of Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand, this volume continues the exploration of the cinema produced in Australia and New Zealand since the beginning of the twentieth century. Among the additions to …
Directory of World Cinema: Belgium
Av Jeremi Szaniawski, Marcelline Block
Häftad, 2014
602 kr
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Is there such a thing as a single Belgian cinema? A country that is culturally and linguistically divided between the Dutch-speaking Flanders and the francophone Brussels and Wallonia, Belgium is a contested site, and its fragile unity continues to be challenged by separatists. Nevertheless, the …
Directory of World Cinema: Brazil
Av Louis Bayman, Natalia Pinazza
Häftad, 2014
602 kr
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Best known to international audiences for its carnivalesque irreverence and recent gangster blockbusters, Brazilian cinema is gaining prominence with critics, at global film festivals and on DVD shelves. This volume seeks to introduce newcomers to Brazilian cinema and to offer valuable insights to …
Directory of World Cinema: Japan
Av John Berra
Häftad, 2010
602 kr
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From the revered classics of Akira Kurosawa to the modern marvels of Takeshi Kitano, the films that have emerged from Japan represent a national cinema that has gained worldwide admiration and appreciation. Directory of World Cinema: Japan provides an insight into the cinema of Japan through …
Directory of World Cinema: Russia
Häftad, 2011
602 kr
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Be they musicals or melodramas, war movies or animation, Russian films have a long and fascinating history of addressing the major social and political events of their time. From Sergei Eisenstein’s anti-tsarist drama, The Battleship Potemkin, to socialist realism, to the post-glasnost thematic …
Directory of World Cinema: Italy
Av Louis Bayman
Häftad, 2011
602 kr
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Italian cinema has proved very popular with international audiences, and yet a surprising unfamiliarity remains regarding the rich traditions from which its most fascinating moments arose. Directory of World Cinema: Italy aims to offer a wide film and cultural study in which to situate some of …
