Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections – serie
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26 produkter
American History/American Film
Interpreting the Hollywood Image
Av John E. O'Connor, Martin A. Jackson
Inbunden, 2016
1801 kr
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In this pioneering work, sixteen historians analyse individual films for deeper insight into US institutions, values and lifestyles. Linking all of the essays is the belief that film holds much of value for the historian seeking to understand and interpret American history and culture. This title …
American History/American Film
Interpreting the Hollywood Image
Av John E. O'Connor, Martin A. Jackson
E-bok, 2016
1926 kr
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In this pioneering work, sixteen historians analyse individual films for deeper insight into US institutions, values and lifestyles. Linking all of the essays is the belief that film holds much of value for the historian seeking to understand and interpret American history and culture. This title …
Heroines without Heroes
Reconstructing Female and National Identities in European Cinema, 1945-51
Inbunden, 2016
1697 kr
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This anthology explores a little-examined period of European film history (1945-1951) and places gender at the centre of struggles around national identity. Ulrike Sieglohr compares and contrasts the post-war cinemas of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain in order to examine how …
Heroines without Heroes
Reconstructing Female and National Identities in European Cinema, 1945-51
E-bok, 2016
1985 kr
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This anthology explores a little-examined period of European film history (1945-1951) and places gender at the centre of struggles around national identity. Ulrike Sieglohr compares and contrasts the post-war cinemas of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain in order to examine how …
Screening of America
Movies and Values from Rocky to Rain Man
Av Tom O'Brien
Inbunden, 2016
1801 kr
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This is an original investigation of how movies have reflected and helped to shape the values of a generation. From All the President’s Men to Wall Street, US films of the 1970s and 80s were a kaleidoscope of shifting values and contrasting moral viewpoints. Knowing that movies mirror the way we …
Screening of America
Movies and Values from Rocky to Rain Man
Av Tom O'Brien
E-bok, 2016
1928 kr
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This is an original investigation of how movies have reflected and helped to shape the values of a generation. From All the President''s Men to Wall Street , US films of the 1970s and 80s were a kaleidoscope of shifting values and contrasting moral viewpoints. Knowing that movies mirror the way we …
Straight Acting
Popular Gay Drama from Wilde to Rattigan
Inbunden, 2016
1748 kr
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Between the trials of Oscar Wilde in the 1890s and the beginnings of legal reforms in the 1960s, the West End stage was dominated by the work of gay playwrights. Many of their plays, such as Private Lives, Blithe Spirit and The Deep Blue Sea are established classics and continue to inform our …
Straight Acting
Popular Gay Drama from Wilde to Rattigan
E-bok, 2016
1865 kr
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Between the trials of Oscar Wilde in the 1890s and the beginnings of legal reforms in the 1960s, the West End stage was dominated by the work of gay playwrights. Many of their plays, such as Private Lives , Blithe Spirit and The Deep Blue Sea are established classics and continue to inform our …
Gaslight Melodrama
From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood
Av Guy Barefoot
Inbunden, 2016
1801 kr
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In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out on to the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and New York, one reviewer noted the emergence of a 'cycle of mystery and horror pictures placed in the gaslight era of the turn of the century.' For another critic, it seemed that for …
Gaslight Melodrama
From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood
Av Guy Barefoot
E-bok, 2016
1985 kr
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In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out on to the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and New York, one reviewer noted the emergence of a ''cycle of mystery and horror pictures placed in the gaslight era of the turn of the century.'' For another critic, it seemed that …
Daughters of Desire
Lesbian Representations in Film
Inbunden, 2016
1697 kr
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This book explores lesbians in film from early representations to contemporary ones, spanning sixty years and over twenty films. Concentrating on lesbian desire and subtext, Kabir draws on films such as Queen Christina, The Killing of Sister George, Rebecca, Desperately Seeking Susan and The Color …
Daughters of Desire
Lesbian Representations in Film
E-bok, 2016
1870 kr
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This book explores lesbians in film from early representations to contemporary ones, spanning sixty years and over twenty films. Concentrating on lesbian desire and subtext, Kabir draws on films such as Queen Christina , The Killing of Sister George , Rebecca, Desperately Seeking Susan and The …
Dissolving Views
Key Writings on British Cinema
Inbunden, 2016
1801 kr
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British cinema has been far richer and more diverse than is generally recognized, as this collection of key writings on British film culture – from the conversion to sound in the late 1920s to the 1990s – testifies. Dissolving Views brings together a number of important and influential essays and …
Dissolving Views
Key Writings on British Cinema
E-bok, 2016
1985 kr
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British cinema has been far richer and more diverse than is generally recognized, as this collection of key writings on British film culture – from the conversion to sound in the late 1920s to the 1990s – testifies. Dissolving Views brings together a number of important and influential essays and …
Transatlantic Crossings
British Feature Films in the United States
Av Sarah Street
Inbunden, 2016
1801 kr
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Transatlantic Crossings is a major study of the distribution and exhibition of British films in the USA. Charting the cross-cultural reception of many British films, Sarah Street draws on a wide range of sources including studio records, film posters, press books and statistics. While the power of …
Transatlantic Crossings
British Feature Films in the United States
Av Sarah Street
E-bok, 2016
1942 kr
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Transatlantic Crossings is a major study of the distribution and exhibition of British films in the USA. Charting the cross-cultural reception of many British films, Sarah Street draws on a wide range of sources including studio records, film posters, press books and statistics. While the power of …
State of European Cinema
A New Dose of Reality
Av Angus Finney
Inbunden, 2016
1801 kr
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The State of European Cinema offers a critical review of the state of the industry at the close of the twentieth century. Finney spent two years researching and carrying out interviews with more than a hundred top film professionals. His findings offer dynamic and fresh perspectives on Europe’s …
State of European Cinema
A New Dose of Reality
Av Angus Finney
E-bok, 2016
1942 kr
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The State of European Cinema offers a critical review of the state of the industry at the close of the twentieth century. Finney spent two years researching and carrying out interviews with more than a hundred top film professionals. His findings offer dynamic and fresh perspectives on Europe''s …
Cinema and the Second Sex
Women's Filmmaking in France in the 1980s and 1990s
Av Carrie Tarr, Brigitte Rollet
Inbunden, 2016
1801 kr
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Women's filmmaking in France has been a source of both delight and despair. On the one hand, the numbers are impressive – over 250 feature-length films were made by over 100 women directors in France in the 1980s and 1990s. On the other hand, despite the heritage of French feminism, French women …
Cinema and the Second Sex
Women'S Filmmaking in France in the 1980s and 1990s
Av Carrie Tarr, Brigitte Rollet
E-bok, 2016
1985 kr
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Women''s filmmaking in France has been a source of both delight and despair. On the one hand, the numbers are impressive – over 250 feature-length films were made by over 100 women directors in France in the 1980s and 1990s. On the other hand, despite the heritage of French feminism, French women …
Brief Encounters
Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930 - 1971
Inbunden, 2016
1697 kr
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For many years, lesbian and gay representation in British cinema escaped the attention of critics and historians. Informative and entertaining, Brief Encounters examines performers, directors and a wide range of films to reveal a cinema more varied, vital and sensuous than we could have imagined. …
Brief Encounters
Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930 - 1971
E-bok, 2016
1714 kr
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For many years, lesbian and gay representation in British cinema escaped the attention of critics and historians. Informative and entertaining, Brief Encounters examines performers, directors and a wide range of films to reveal a cinema more varied, vital and sensuous than we could have imagined. …
Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure
The Operatic Impulse in Film
E-bok, 2016
1830 kr
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The invention of cinema was ingenious, so much so that virtually no-one quite knew what to do with it. In its earliest stages, especially with the advent of the feature film, it needed models, and opera proved to be especially useful in that regard. The allure of opera to cinema early in the …
Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure
The Operatic Impulse in Film
Inbunden, 2016
1748 kr
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The invention of cinema was ingenious, so much so that virtually no-one quite knew what to do with it. In its earliest stages, especially with the advent of the feature film, it needed models, and opera proved to be especially useful in that regard. The allure of opera to cinema early in the …
Screening the Novel
Rediscovered American Fiction in Film
Inbunden, 2016
1952 kr
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Some of the most memorable movies of Hollywood’s Golden Age were based on novels that never received the acclaim they deserved. No-one who saw Rod Steiger in The Pawnbroker could forget the actor’s wrenching performance but does anyone remember the author of the book on which the film was based? …
Screening the Novel
Rediscovered American Fiction in Film
E-bok, 2016
2151 kr
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Some of the most memorable movies of Hollywood''s Golden Age were based on novels that never received the acclaim they deserved. No-one who saw Rod Steiger in The Pawnbroker could forget the actor''s wrenching performance but does anyone remember the author of the book on which the film was based? …
