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This book examines the structuring of space in Romanian and Hungarian cinema, and particularly how space is used to express the deep imprint of a socialist past on a post-socialist present. It considers this legacy of the Eastern European socialist...

This book discusses the collapse and transformation of the Hollywood movie machine in the twenty-first century, and the concomitant social collapse being felt in nearly every aspect of society. Wheeler Winston Dixon examines key works in cinema from the...

This collection presents a number of films and television programmes set in the North of England in an investigation of how northern identity imbricates with class, race, gender, rural and urban identities. Heading North considers famous screen images of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985079371Author Jennifer L GibaldiFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint EMS Publishing LLCPublisher EMS Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm)...

Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Cache, Asbjorn Gronstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and reframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms...

This pivot offers an innovative, trans-local perspective on performance studies in the era of digital technology, considering a range of content from theater to opera, film, dance, and musical theatre. It examines theatre performing arts and film in...

This book explores the rich complexity of Japan's film history by tracing how cinema has been continually reshaped through its dynamic engagement within a shifting media ecology. Focusing on techniques that draw attention to the interval between frames...

Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen is a scholarly collection that provides expansive exploration of the auteur's use of intertexuality, referentiality, and fusion of media forms. Its scope is framed by Allen's intermedial phase beginning in 1983...

This book provides an in-depth study of pinboards in contemporary television series and develops the interdisciplinary and innovative concept of Serial Pinboarding. Pinboards are character attributes; they visualize thought processes; are used for...

This book examines the theoretical affiliations between the most notable proponent of literary realism, Honore de Balzac, and two understated but key representatives of the French New Wave, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette. It argues that their film...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880663941Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 186g

This book broadens the scope of inquiry of neo-Victorian studies by focusing primarily on screen adaptations and appropriations of Victorian literature and culture. More specifically, this monograph spotlights the overlapping yet often conflicting drives...

This edited collection explores the narrative, genre, nostalgia and fandoms of the phenomenally successful Netflix original series, Stranger Things. The book brings together scholars in the fields of media, humanities, communications and cultural studies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760629168Author Nicholas ParsonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty Ltd

An exploration of the many faces of televangelism in our world today, including Christian, Islamic and Hindu. The collection analyses the correspondences and major differences between global and local televangelism, focusing on the main individuals...

This book explores how the digital multiplatform delivery of television is affecting the role performed by cultural intermediaries responsible for talent identification and development. Drawing on original research from key stakeholders across the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912416424Author Stephen BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Tsl DramaPublisher Tsl DramaWeight(grams) 100g

Why do screen narratives remain so different in an age of convergence and globalisation that many think is blurring distinctions? This collection attempts to answer this question using examples drawn from a range of media, from Hollywood franchises to...

Offering unique insights into the writing and production of television drama series such as The Killing and Borgen, produced by DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Novrup Redvall explores the creative collaborations in writers' rooms and 'production...

This book looks closely at some of the most significant films within the field of queer Sinophone cinema. Examining queerness in films produced in the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the book merges the Sinophone with the queer, theorising both concepts as...

This book charts the history of how biological evolution has been depicted on British television and radio, from the first radio broadcast on evolution in 1925 through to the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species in 2009. Going...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783843369480Author Ricardo BarrosFormat PaperbackImprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams) 454g

Many South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. Pinazza performs a careful cultural analysis of the films and investigates how road movies deal with...

Choreographic Dwellings: Practising Place offers new readings of the kinaesthetic experiences of site-specific and nomadic performance, parkour, installation and walking practices. It extends the remit of the choreographic by reframing the kinaesthetic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604242287Author Charles Dudley WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Book JunglePublisher Book JungleWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798210712233Author Melissa ClemonsFormat HardbackPage Count 52Imprint Blurb IncPublisher Blurb IncWeight(grams) 395g

This book examines the figure of the sleeper agent as part of post-9/11 political, journalistic and fictional discourse. There is a tendency to discuss the terroristic threat after 9/11 as either a faraway enemy to be hunted down by military force or, on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781483488387Author Matt DaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Lulu Publishing ServicesPublisher Lulu Publishing ServicesWeight(grams) 413g

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorDavid Williams Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, UK. , Ric Allsopp Founder of Writing Research Associates and Research Fellow, Dartington College...

From the early days of minstrelsy to Black Broadway, this book is the story of African American entertainment as seen through the eyes of some of its most famous as well as others of its practitioners. The book moves from the beginning of African...

This project offers a critical overview of how online activities and platforms are becoming an important source for the production and promotion of women's films. Inspired by a transnational feminist framework, Maule examines blogs, websites, online...

Examining post-1990s Indie cinema alongside more mainstream films, Brereton explores the emergence of smart independent sensibility and how films break the classic linear narratives that have defined Hollywood and its alternative 'art' cinema. The work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880620449Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 141g

This book contends that Hollywood films help illuminate the incongruities of various periods in American diplomacy. From the war film Bataan to the Revisionist Western The Wild Bunch, cinema has long reflected US foreign policy's divisiveness both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639194517Author Mohammed Inuwa Umar-BurataiFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 553g

This book is about the performance theatrical Mind Reading and Mentalism. It is written by a professional performer for professional performers. Whilst it contains what could be considered as 'effects' or 'routines' the core of this book is about the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942782780Author Adrian MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Sticking Place BooksPublisher Sticking Place BooksWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896090182Author Jim KorkisFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Theme Park PressPublisher Theme Park PressWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896090809Author Jim KorkisFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Theme Park PressPublisher Theme Park PressWeight(grams) 281g

This edition of A Postmodern Belch has been discredited. Pending article 9.6 of the Creative Commons Licence, portions of this work contain improperly brushed syllables taken from a 1978 edition of A Postmodern Belch and inelegantly buffered clauses...