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This book explores 'civic engagement' as a politically active encounter between institutions, individuals and art practices that addresses the public sphere on a civic level across physical and virtual spaces. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it...

This book breaks new ground in providing an in-depth critical assessment of cyborg cinema, arguing that it remains one of the most intriguing and provocative cycles to have emerged in contemporary screen culture. Tracing the cinematic cyborg's transition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939235299Author MemodooFormat PaperbackImprint Confetti PublishingPublisher Confetti PublishingWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798331200787Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 581g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911070566Author Melville LovattFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint TSL PublicationsPublisher TSL Publications

A comparative analysis of the evolution ofUK and German broadcasting policies, adding to the developing area of comparative research on media and communications policy. The book focuses on processes of marketization and liberalization as they have...

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.Springer Book...

Reading Westworld is the first volume to explore the cultural, textual and theoretical significance of the hugely successful HBO TV series Westworld. The essays engage in a series of original enquiries into the central themes of the series including...

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals, looking at its contemporary and future challenges. Contributors from across the globe reflect on how documentary has positioned itself within both...

This book offers the first broad-based survey of the way artists, audiences and society at large are making use of social media, and how the emergence of social media platforms that allow two-way interaction between these groups has been held up as a...

This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures and their invasive nature. It focuses on thrillers, horror cinema, sexual art and photography, erotic literature, female and male body...

Screenwriters and Screenwriting is an innovative, fresh and lively book that is useful for both screenwriting practice and academic study. It is international in scope, with case studies and analyses from the US, the UK, Australia, Japan, Ireland and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789350295458Author M. K. RaghavendraFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 309g

From generation to generation, three outstanding American Jewish directors-William Wyler, Sidney Lumet, and Steven Spielberg--advance a tradition of Jewish writers, artists, and leaders who propagate the ethical basis of the American Idea and Creed. They...

Kevin Francis is an outsider. He simply does not fit in anywhere. However, that does not stop him from trying to have a Big Adventure Day. But when everything starts to take a turn for the worse, he finds he has the Biggest Adventure Day of all. He also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880581412Author 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 9798880581436Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 122g

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880620234Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880581467Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880637584Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 295g

This book offers a descriptive and practical analysis of prosody in dubbed speech, examining the most distinctive traits that typify dubbed dialogue at the prosodic level. The author's unique perspective - as both a translation studies researcher and a...

This book explores Maori indigenous and non-indigenous scholarship corresponding with the term 'animism'. In addressing visual, media and performance art, it explores the dualisms of people and things, as well as 'who' or 'what' is credited with...

This study explores the representation of international migration on screen and how it has gained prominence and salience in European filmmaking over the past 100 years. Using Polish migration as a key example due to its long-standing cultural resonance...

This book is the first anthology of research devoted to the booming world of Chinese film festivals, covering both mainstream and independent films. It also explores festivals in the Chinese-speaking world and festivals of Chinese films in the rest of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791259913623Author Gianluca SpositoFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Intra S.R.L.S.Publisher Intra S.R.L.S.Weight(grams) 145g

Through explorations of six cases taken from various Latino ethnic groups, this book advances our understanding about meanings of Latino manhood and masculinities. The studies range from theatre and literature to men's activism and sports, showing how...

This book explores how television series can be understood as a form of literature, bridging the gap between literary and television studies. It goes beyond existing adaptation studies and narratological approaches to television series in both its scope...

Many of the most celebrated British films of the immediate post-war period (1945-55) seem to be occupied with "getting on" with life and offering distraction for postwar audiences. It is the time of the celebrated Ealing comedies, Hue and Cry (1946) and...

This book examines 3D cinema across the early 1950s, the early 1980s, and from 2009 to 2014, providing for the first time not only a connection between 3D cinema and historical trauma but also a consideration of 3D aesthetics from a cultural perspective...

Over 20 years after the war in Yugoslavia, this book looks back at its two most iconic cities and the phenomenon of exile emerging as a consequence of living in them in the 1990s. It uses examples ranging from street interventions to theatre performances...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896092094Author Alexander BundeyFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Theme Park PressPublisher Theme Park PressWeight(grams) 268g

This edited collection is the first book-length critical study of the Showtime-Sky Atlantic television series Penny Dreadful (2014-2016), which also includes an analysis of Showtime's 2020 spin-off City of Angels. Chapters examine the status of the...

Commedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change. This book, utilizing comedies produced in Italy from 1958-70, examines the genre's representation of gender in the everyday spaces of beaches and...

This book explores the impact of the body on the mediation of character in adaptations. Specifically, it thinks about how identity is shaped by the body and how this alters meanings of adaptations. With an increasingly digital world, the importance of...

This book examines the appropriation of theatre and theatrical performance by ideologies of humanism, in terms that continue to echo across the related disciplines of literary, drama, theatre, and performance history today. From Aristotle onward, theatre...

This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy. Exploring how Beckett fabricates encounters with the impossible...

Although it has only been in the last decade that the planet's population balance tipped from a predominantly rural makeup towards an urban one, the field of cinema history has demonstrated a disproportionate skew toward the urban. Within audience...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912416172Author Melville LovattFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint TSL PublicationsPublisher TSL PublicationsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426900853Author Brigitte RoickFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 152g