Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television – serie
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28 produkter
Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film
Av E. Gallafent
Inbunden, 2013
634 kr
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We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are offered to us on screen.
Texture In Film
Inbunden, 2014
1163 kr
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Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives of art, literature and music, Donaldson develops a stimulating understanding of a concept that has received little detailed attention in relation to film. Based in close analysis, Texture in Film brings discussion of style and affect together in a selection …
Style in British Television Drama
Av L. Cooke
Inbunden, 2013
585 kr
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This pioneering book provides detailed analysis of scenes from nine British television dramas produced between 1954 and 2001. Taking dinner table scenes as a recurring motif, the study analyses changes in televisual style with reference to production practices, technology, aesthetic preferences, …
Mise en Scène and Film Style
From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art
Av A. Martin
Inbunden, 2014
1394 kr
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Styles of filmmaking have changed greatly from classical Hollywood through to our digital era. So, too, have the ways in which film critics and scholars have analysed these transformations in film style. This book explores two central style concepts, mise en scène and dispositif, to illuminate a …
Adultery and the Female Star
Inbunden, 2018
1095 kr
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This book provides an in-depth study of Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, Kim Novak and Meryl Streep, and the treatment of adultery in their films. It avoids the near-impossible challenge of writing about the sheer volume of adultery in film by focusing on specific periods in the work of these four major …
Breaking Bad and Dignity
Unity and Fragmentation in the Serial Television Drama
Inbunden, 2015
585 kr
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An ambitious interpretation of the critically celebrated and widely popular crime drama Breaking Bad , this book argues that not only should the series be understood as a show that revolves around the dramatic stakes of dignity, but that to do so reveals - in new ways - central aspects of serial …
Long Take
Critical Approaches
Inbunden, 2017
2087 kr
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This is the first book in English exclusively devoted to the long take, one of the key elements of film style. Increasingly visible in contemporary international media, the long take currently attracts a good deal of attention in criticism and commentary. There are also significant strands of film …
Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film
Av E. Gallafent
Häftad, 2013
634 kr
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We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are offered to us on screen.
Texture In Film
Häftad, 2014
568 kr
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Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives of art, literature and music, Donaldson develops a stimulating understanding of a concept that has received little detailed attention in relation to film. Based in close analysis, Texture in Film brings discussion of style and affect together in a selection …
Style in British Television Drama
Av L. Cooke
Häftad, 2013
568 kr
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This pioneering book provides detailed analysis of scenes from nine British television dramas produced between 1954 and 2001. Taking dinner table scenes as a recurring motif, the study analyses changes in televisual style with reference to production practices, technology, aesthetic preferences, …
Mise en Scène and Film Style
From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art
Av A. Martin
Häftad, 2014
686 kr
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Styles of filmmaking have changed greatly from classical Hollywood through to our digital era. So, too, have the ways in which film critics and scholars have analysed these transformations in film style. This book explores two central style concepts, mise en scène and dispositif, to illuminate a …
Breaking Bad and Dignity
Unity and Fragmentation in the Serial Television Drama
Häftad, 2018
568 kr
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An ambitious interpretation of the critically celebrated and widely popular crime drama Breaking Bad , this book argues that not only should the series be understood as a show that revolves around the dramatic stakes of dignity, but that to do so reveals - in new ways - central aspects of serial …
Irony in Film
Häftad, 2018
279 kr
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Irony in Film is the first book about ironic expression in this medium. We often feel the need to call films or aspects of them ironic; but what exactly does this mean? How do films create irony? Might certain features of the medium help or hinder its ironic potential? How can we know we are …
Expressive Spaces in Digital 3D Cinema
Av Owen Weetch
Häftad, 2018
273 kr
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This book puts forward a more considered perspective on 3D, which is often seen as a distracting gimmick at odds with artful cinematic storytelling. Owen Weetch looks at how stereography brings added significance and expressivity to individual films that all showcase remarkable uses of the format. …
Displacements
Reading Space and Time in Moving Image Installations
Inbunden, 2019
850 kr
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This book is about the aesthetics and politics of contemporary artists’ moving image installations, and the ways that they use temporal and spatial relationships in the gallery to connect with geopolitical issues. Displaced from the cinema, moving images increasingly address themes of movement and …
Displacements
Reading Space and Time in Moving Image Installations
Häftad, 2020
850 kr
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This book is about the aesthetics and politics of contemporary artists’ moving image installations, and the ways that they use temporal and spatial relationships in the gallery to connect with geopolitical issues. Displaced from the cinema, moving images increasingly address themes of movement and …
Film Noir and the Possibilities of Hollywood
Inbunden, 2020
989 kr
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Built around close readings of 11 noir films, this book seeks to refresh our understanding of “film noir” by returning to the films themselves. Pushing against totalizing or generalizing approaches, which may have the unintended effect of flattening out significant distinctions and differences …
Film Noir and the Possibilities of Hollywood
Häftad, 2021
992 kr
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Built around close readings of 11 noir films, this book seeks to refresh our understanding of “film noir” by returning to the films themselves. Pushing against totalizing or generalizing approaches, which may have the unintended effect of flattening out significant distinctions and differences …
Structure of Complex Images
Inbunden, 2020
992 kr
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After over a century of existence, the cinema still has its mysteries. Why, for example, is the job we call movie stardom unlike any other in the world? How do films provide so much unconcealed information that we fail to notice? What makes it hard to define what counts as “acting”? How do movies …
Structure of Complex Images
Häftad, 2021
992 kr
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After over a century of existence, the cinema still has its mysteries. Why, for example, is the job we call movie stardom unlike any other in the world? How do films provide so much unconcealed information that we fail to notice? What makes it hard to define what counts as “acting”? How do movies …
Ambiguity and Film Criticism
Reasonable Doubt
Av Hoi Lun Law
Inbunden, 2021
1165 kr
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This book defends an account of ambiguity which illuminates the aesthetic possibilities of film and the nature of film criticism. Ambiguity typically describes the condition of multiple meanings. But we can find multiple meanings in what appears unambiguous to us. So, what makes ambiguity …
Ambiguity and Film Criticism
Reasonable Doubt
Av Hoi Lun Law
Häftad, 2022
967 kr
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This book defends an account of ambiguity which illuminates the aesthetic possibilities of film and the nature of film criticism. Ambiguity typically describes the condition of multiple meanings. But we can find multiple meanings in what appears unambiguous to us. So, what makes ambiguity …
Nonprofessional Film Performance
Inbunden, 2023
1467 kr
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This book offers a critical account of film performances by nonprofessional actors. Nonprofessional actors — actors without previous acting training or experience — have performed in films since the days of the Lumière brothers. Generally associated with currents such as Early Soviet Cinema, …
Nonprofessional Film Performance
Häftad, 2024
1513 kr
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This book offers a critical account of film performances by nonprofessional actors. Nonprofessional actors — actors without previous acting training or experience — have performed in films since the days of the Lumière brothers. Generally associated with currents such as Early Soviet Cinema, …
Women and Home in Cinema
Form, Feeling, Practice
Inbunden, 2024
1583 kr
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This book explores visions of home in cinema and the ways in which women inhabit the onscreen realm. Looking closely at a range of films made between 1936 and 2013, it examines how filmmakers reconfigure studio sets and real locations through the filmmaking process into mutable onscreen domains …
Women and Home in Cinema
Form, Feeling, Practice
Häftad, 2025
934 kr
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This book explores visions of home in cinema and the ways in which women inhabit the onscreen realm. Looking closely at a range of films made between 1936 and 2013, it examines how filmmakers reconfigure studio sets and real locations through the filmmaking process into mutable onscreen domains …
Testing Coherence in Narrative Film
Inbunden, 2017
1163 kr
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This book examines the concept of coherence in film studies. It asks if there are ways to appreciate the achievement of coherence in narrative films that are characterised by an eccentric or difficult style, as well as by an apparently confusing intelligibility. In order to answer this critical …
Testing Coherence in Narrative Film
Häftad, 2018
816 kr
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This book examines the concept of coherence in film studies. It asks if there are ways to appreciate the achievement of coherence in narrative films that are characterised by an eccentric or difficult style, as well as by an apparently confusing intelligibility. In order to answer this critical …
