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This fascinating study explores the multifarious erotic themes associated with the magic lantern shows, which proved the dominant visual medium of the West for 350 years, and analyses how the shows influenced the portrayals of sexuality in major works of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880572557Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880598823Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 245g

This volume offers an open, transdisciplinary living space (also green) through which to explore the different connections between Basilicata and Southern Italy, cinema, and ecology, and thus to reflect on the different forms through which the...

This book deals with the ways Netflix influenced the contemporary television landscape and built the infrastructures of streaming. It focusses on various ways Netflix reconceptualises television as part of the process of TV IV. As television continues to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218232498Author Brian BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Brian BeckerPublisher Brian BeckerWeight(grams) 240g

In Choreographing Agonism, author Goran Petrovic Lotina offers new insight into the connections between politics and performance. Exploring the political and philosophical roots of a number of recent leftist civil movements, Petrovic Lotina forcefully...

This book locates the philosophy of Ubuntu as the undergirding framework for indigenous dance pedagogies in local communities in Uganda. Through critical examination of the reflections and practices of selected local dance teachers, the volume reveals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781388778965Author Erin CoughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 7mm

In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman. Da Silva shows the need to incorporate diverse ethnic groups and male homosexuals into the range of "femmes" fatales and examines how the Brazilian...

This book offers a much-needed focus on Palestine solidarity films, supplying a critical theoretical framework whose intellectual thrust is rooted in the challenges facing scholars censored for attempting to rectify and reverse the silencing of a subject...

The most popular film genre during the golden years of Italian cinema, the Comedy Italian Style emerged after the fall of the Facist regime, narrating the identity crisis of many Italian men. Exploring the birth, growth, and decline of this genre, Bini...

Violence and the Limits of Representation explores the representation of violence in literature, film, drama, music and art in order to demonstrate the ways in which the work done by researchers in the Arts and Humanities can offer fresh perspectives on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646623457Author Constance AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Finishing Line PressPublisher Finishing Line PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788172238599Author Bhawana SomaayaFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm)...

This book presents new insights into the production and reception of Irish drama, its internationalisation and political influences, within a pivotal period of Irish cultural and social change. From the 1950s onwards, Irish theatre engaged audiences...

This book outlines how the protagonists in The Nibelung's Ring, The Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones attempt to construct identities and expand their consciousness manifestations. As the characters in the three works face the ends of their...

This book examines the proliferation of surrogacy storylines on TV, exploring themes of infertility, motherhood, parenting and family. It investigates how, despite reproductive technologies' ability to flex contours of family, the shows' narratives work...

This book charts the changing frontiers of activism in the Americas. Travelling Canada, the US, the US-Mexico border, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, and Indigenous territories on Turtle Island, it invites readers to identify networks,...

This book brings together nine original chapters to examine genre agency in East Asian cinema within the transnational context. It addresses several urgent and pertinent issues such as the distribution and exhibition practices of East Asian genre films,...

The book examines the war of images between France and Algeria. Discussing the role of the United States during the war, it covers topics such the presence of American reporters in Algeria, John F. Kennedy's support for Algerian independence while a...

This book investigates the aesthetics and politics of Post/Taiwan-New-Cinema by examining fifteen movies by six directors and frequent award winners in international film festivals. The book considers the works of such prominent directors as Edward Yang,...

This book explores questions of gender, desire, embodiment, and language in Barker's oeuvre. With The Castle as a focal point, the scope extends considerably beyond this play to incorporate analysis and exploration of the Theatre of Catastrophe;...

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the fascinating and strikingly diverse history of imagination in the context of theatre and drama. Key questions that the book explores are: How do spectators engage with the drama in performance, and how...

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A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach. Sisto shifts the sensory paradigm of film history and analysis from the optical to the sonic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916247703Author Robert FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Lulu PressPublisher Lulu PressWeight(grams) 866g

The BBC TV series Doctor Who celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2013; this book analyses how promotion, commemorative merchandise and 3D cinema screenings worked paratextually to construct a 'popular media event' while sometimes uneasily integrating...

Hybrid Heritage on Screen provides a long overdue thorough analysis of the 1980s 'Raj Revival'. It examines imperial nostalgia and troubled ethnic, gender and class relations during the Thatcher Era as represented in cinema and television.About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912416127Author Beatrice HollowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Tsl DramaPublisher Tsl DramaWeight(grams) 82g

A trend that has emerged in recent years within the modern panorama of American horror film and television is the concurrent-and often overwhelming-use of multiple stock characters, themes and tropes taken from classics of the genre. American Horror...

This book develops a new approach for the study of films adapted from canonical 'originals' such as Shakespeare's plays. Departing from the current consensus that adaptation is a heightened example of how all texts inform and are informed by other texts,...

A far-reaching examination of exoticism, cultural internationalism and modernism's encounters with Indonesian tradition, Performing Otherness examines how Indonesia entered world stages through imperialism as an antimodern phantasm and through...

This book asks that we consider the practices that facilitate audience participation on equal terms with other elements of the theatre maker's art; it offers a theoretical basis for this new approach, illustrated by examples from diverse participatory...

This book delves into humanity's compulsive need to valorize criminals. The criminal hero is a seductive figure, and audiences get a rather scopophilic pleasure in watching people behave badly. This book offers an analysis of the varied and vexing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880572533Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955351324Author SeabrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 399g

Hybrid Heritage on Screen provides a long overdue thorough analysis of the 1980s 'Raj Revival'. It examines imperial nostalgia and troubled ethnic, gender and class relations during the Thatcher Era as represented in cinema and television.About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783030705893Author Rasmus GreinerFormat HardbackImprint Palgrave MacMillanPublisher Palgrave MacMillanWeight(grams) 148g

This book conducts an in-depth analysis into the recent trend for creating re-performances, interrogating the relationship between re-performance and issues of death, loss, memorial, and adaptation. Drawing on work by performance studies scholars such as...