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This book examines the convergent paths of the Internet and the American military, interweaving a history of the militarized Internet with analysis of a number of popular Hollywood movies in order to track how the introduction of the Internet into the...

This book explores connections between the diverse ideas of Melanie Klein, Jean-Paul Sartre and Ingmar Bergman. These ideas are explored in relation to their shared focus on imagination and through detailed readings of a number of Bergman's key films...

Jean Renoir (1894-1979) is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished directors in the history of world cinema. In the 1930s he directed a string of films which stretched the formal, intellectual, political and aesthetic boundaries of the art form,...

Taking a transnational approach to the study of film culture, this book draws on ethnographic fieldwork in a South Korean university film club to explore a cosmopolitan cinephile subculture that thrived in an ironic unevenness between the highly...

This book renews thinking about the moving body by drawing on dance practice and performance from across the world. Eighteen internationally recognised scholars show how dance can challenge our thoughts and feelings about our own and other cultures, our...

This book will be the first systematic and comprehensive text to analyze the many and contrasting appearances of the Church of England on television. It covers a range of genres and programs including crime drama, science fiction, comedy, including the...

This book brings film adaptation of literature to bear on the question of how nineteenth-century imperial ideologies of progress continue to inform power inequalities in a global capitalist age. Not simply the promotion of general betterment for all,...

Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from established film scholars David Sterritt, Murray...

This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn Stockett's Th e Hel p .Springer Book ArchivesAbout the...

Written from a practice-based perspective, this book focuses on the political character of 'cyberformance': the genre of digital performance that uses the Internet as a performance space. The Etheatre Project comprises a series of experimental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629336954Author Scott Allen NollenFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Chapter 12 of this book is open access under a CC BY license. Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences - use the social construction of death and dying...

Intermedial Shakespeares argues that intermediality has refashioned performances of Shakespeare's plays over the last two decades in Europe. It describes ways in which text and author, time and space, actor and audience have been redefined in...

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...

This book explores the complex interplay of culture and economics in the context of Philippine cinema. It delves into the tension, interaction, and shifting movements between mainstream and independent filmmaking, examines the film distribution and...

This book charts new territory both theoretically and methodologically. Drawing on MacDougall's notion of social aesthetics, it explores the sensory dimensions of privilege through a global ethnography of elite schools. The various contributors to the...

Offering a multifaceted approach to the Mexican-born director Guillermo del Toro, this volume examines his wide-ranging oeuvre and traces the connections between his Spanish language and English language commercial and art film projects.About the...

Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox explores the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze using the framework of Hollywood's current obsession with remaking and rebooting classic and foreign films. Through an analysis of cinematic repetition and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912416271Author Melville LovattFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Tsl DramaPublisher Tsl DramaWeight(grams) 59g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798211795488Author Stephanie AdamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 159g

This book is about how the representations of romantic love in television reflect the change and the dilemma of the dominant values in post-socialist Chinese mainstream culture. These values mainly center on the impact of individualism, consumerism,...

Performing Cities is an edited volume of contributions by a range of internationally renowned academics and performance makers from across the globe, each one covering a particular city and examining it from the dynamic perspectives of performances...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999742980Author Justine CopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Beercott BooksPublisher Beercott Books

Marlowe's Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime is the first attempt to situate Marlowe's well-known iconoclastic dissidence within the historical context of Elizabethan republican thought, revealing Marlowe to be the literary pioneer of...

This book focuses on Romeo Castellucci's theatrical project, exploring the ethical and aesthetic framework determined by his reflection on the nature of the image. But why does a director whose fundamental artistic tool is the image deny this key...

This book examines recent cinematic representations of the traumatic legacies of national and international events and processes. Whilst not ignoring European and Hollywood cinema, it includes studies of films about countries which have been less...

This book explores ways in which diverse regional cultures in Indonesia and their histories have been expressed in film since the early 1950s. It also explores underlying cultural dominants within the new nation, established at the end of 1949 with the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880569342Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880656103Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 113g

American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision as derivative, Malburne-Wade uses Victor Turner's concept of the social drama and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880543984Author Paul Jeffrey DavidsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880581511Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880664603Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880620302Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880656080Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 150g

This book examines how filmmakers, curators, and critics created a category of transnational, Korean-in-Japan (Zainichi) Cinema, focussing on the period from the 1960s onwards. An enormously diverse swathe of films have been claimed for this cinema of...

The Dancer's World 1920-1945 focuses on modern dancers as they saw themselves. Five chapters describe a narrative arc that encompasses Europe and the USA with a focus between 1920 and 1945. A final chapter considers contemporary relevance for dancers,...

This book examines how film articulates countercultural flows in the context of the Egyptian Revolution. The book interrogates the gap between radical politics and radical aesthetics by analyzing counterculture as a form, drawing upon Egyptian films...

This erudite volume examines the moral universe of the hit Netflix show Black Mirror. It brings together scholars in media studies, cultural studies, anthropology, literature, philosophy, psychology, theatre and game studies to analyse the significance...