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Programming Reality
Perspectives on English-Canadian Television
Av Zoë Druick, Aspa Kotsopoulos
Häftad, 2008
534 kr
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Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television, the first anthology dedicated to analyses of Canadian television content, is a collection of original, interdisciplinary articles, combining textual analysis and political economy of communications. It explores the television that …
He Was Some Kind of a Man
Masculinities in the B Western
Häftad, 2009
432 kr
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He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained some of the mid-twentieth-century's most familiar names, especially for youngsters: …
Gendered Screen
Canadian Women Filmmakers
Av Brenda Austin-Smith, George Melnyk
Häftad, 2010
459 kr
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This book is the first major study of Canadian women filmmakers since the groundbreaking Gendering the Nation (1999). The Gendered Screen updates the subject with discussions of important filmmakers such as Deepa Mehta, Anne Wheeler, Mina Shum, Lynne Stopkewich, Léa Pool, and Patricia Rozema, whose …
Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria
Av Gabriele Mueller, James M. Skidmore
Inbunden, 2012
1028 kr
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During the last decade, contemporary German and Austrian cinema has grappled with new social and economic realities. The ""cinema of consensus,"" a term coined to describe the popular and commercially oriented filmmaking of the 1990s, has given way to a more heterogeneous and critical cinema …
Feeling Canadian
Television, Nationalism, and Affect
Häftad, 2011
432 kr
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""My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian!"" How did a beer ad featuring an unassuming guy in a plaid shirt become a national anthem? This book about Canadian TV examines how affect and consumption work together, producing national practices framed by the television screen. Drawing on the new field of …
Beyond Bylines
Media Workers and Women's Rights in Canada
Häftad, 2015
485 kr
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Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women's Rights in Canada explores the ways in which several of Canada's women journalists, broadcasters, and other media workers reached well beyond the glory of their personal bylines to advocate for the most controversial women's rights of their eras. To do so, …
Reverse Shots
Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context
Av Wendy Gay Pearson, Susan Knabe
Häftad, 2014
546 kr
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From the dawn of cinema, images of Indigenous peoples have been dominated by Hollywood stereotypes and often negative depictions from elsewhere around the world. With the advent of digital technologies, however, many Indigenous peoples are working to redress the imbalance in numbers and counter the …
Canadian Television
Text and Context
Av Marian Bredin, Scott Henderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
489 kr
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Canadian Television: Text and Context explores the creation and circulation of entertainment television in Canada from the interdisciplinary perspective of television studies. Each chapter connects arguments about particular texts of Canadian television to critical analysis of the wider cultural, …
Image and Identity
Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture
Häftad, 2006
534 kr
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What do images of the body, which recent poets and filmmakers have given us, tell us about ourselves, about the way we think and about the culture in which we live? In his new book A Body of Vision, R. Bruce Elder situates contemporary poetic and cinematic body images in their cultural context. …
DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect
Inbunden, 2013
1031 kr
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This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. While the idea persists that early writers on film were troubled …
Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard
Av Douglas Morrey, Christina Stojanova m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
654 kr
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The artistic impact of Jean-Luc Godard, whose career in cinema has spanned over fifty years and yielded a hundred or more discrete works in different media cannot be overestimated, not only on French and other world cinemas, but on fields as diverse as television, video art, gallery installation, …
Detecting Canada
Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film
Av Jeannette Sloniowski, Marilyn Rose
Häftad, 2014
579 kr
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The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada contains thirteen essays on many of Canada's most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka. Genres examined range from …
Two Bicycles
The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville
Av Jerry White
Häftad, 2013
503 kr
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Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville are among the most important postwar filmmakers; they have worked across forms, across media, and across countries. This book, the first to be devoted specifically to the work they did together, examines the way they expanded the possibilities of cinema by …
Dziga Vertov
Life and Work (Volume 1: 1896–1921)
Av John MacKay
Inbunden, 2018
1849 kr
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Largely forgotten during the last 20 years of his life, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) has occupied a singular and often controversial position over the past sixty years as a founding figure of documentary, avant-garde, and political-propaganda film practice. Creator of Man with a …
Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader
2005-2016
Inbunden, 2019
1573 kr
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The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the global stage. During these years four generations, from the late Soviet directors through …
Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader
2005-2016
Häftad, 2019
396 kr
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The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the global stage. During these years four generations, from the late Soviet directors through …
Dziga Vertov
Life and Work (Volume 1: 1896–1921)
Av John MacKay
Häftad, 2019
556 kr
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Largely forgotten during the last 20 years of his life, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) has occupied a singular and often controversial position over the past sixty years as a founding figure of documentary, avant-garde, and political-propaganda film practice. Creator of Man with a …
She Animates
Soviet Female Subjectivity in Russian Animation
Av Lora Mjolsness, Michele Leigh
Inbunden, 2020
1199 kr
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She Animates examines the work of twelve female animation directors in the Soviet Union and Russia, who have long been overlooked by film scholars and historians. Our approach examines these directors within history, culture, and industrial practice in animation. In addition to making a case for …
She Animates
Soviet Female Subjectivity in Russian Animation
Av Lora Mjolsness, Michele Leigh
Häftad, 2020
302 kr
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She Animates examines the work of twelve female animation directors in the Soviet Union and Russia, who have long been overlooked by film scholars and historians. Our approach examines these directors within history, culture, and industrial practice in animation. In addition to making a case for …
Cinemasaurus
Russian Film in Contemporary Context
Av Nancy Condee, Alexander Prokhorov m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1318 kr
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Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debates and films exhibited at Russian and US public festivals where the films have premiered, the volume’s contributors—the new generation of US scholars …
Cinemasaurus
Russian Film in Contemporary Context
Av Nancy Condee, Alexander Prokhorov m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
338 kr
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Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debates and films exhibited at Russian and US public festivals where the films have premiered, the volume’s contributors—the new generation of US scholars …
Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition
Genres, Technologies, Identities
Av Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1276 kr
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Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition examines contemporary Russian television genres in the age of transition from broadcast to post-broadcast television. Focusing on critical debates and the most significant TV series of the past two decades, the volume’s contributors—the leading US and …
Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition
Genres, Technologies, Identities
Av Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
331 kr
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Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition examines contemporary Russian television genres in the age of transition from broadcast to post-broadcast television. Focusing on critical debates and the most significant TV series of the past two decades, the volume’s contributors—the leading US and …
Making Feminist Media
Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age
Häftad, 2016
461 kr
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Making Feminist Media provides new ways of thinking about the vibrant media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism's third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications - including BUST, Bitch, HUES, Venus Zine, and Rockrgrl - that began as zines in the 1990s. By tracking …
Music in Range
The Culture of Canadian Campus Radio
Häftad, 2015
390 kr
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Music in Range explores the history of Canadian campus radio, highlighting the factors that have shaped its close relationship with local music and culture. The book traces how campus radio practitioners have expanded stations from campus borders to sur-rounding musical and cultural communities by …
Dada, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect
Häftad, 2015
564 kr
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This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. While the idea persists that early writers on film were troubled …
Cubism and Futurism
Spiritual Machines and the Cinematic Effect
Inbunden, 2018
1153 kr
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Cubism and futurism were related movements that vied with each other in the economy of renown. Perception, dynamism, and the dynamism of perception - these issues passed back and forth between the two. Cubism and Futurism shows how movement became, in the traditional visual arts, a central factor …
Stan Brakhage in Rolling Stock, 1980-1990
Av Jerry White
Inbunden, 2018
916 kr
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This is a collection of writings by the giant of experimental cinema, Stan Brakhage, that shows him in a completely new light, as part of world cinema. For the duration of the 1980s, Brakhage contributed to the Boulder literary magazine Rolling Stock, mostly publishing reports from the Telluride …
Hollywood Story to Know About the American Movie Business but
Av Joel Finler
Häftad, 2003
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
291 kr
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