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A Companion to Spanish Cinema is a bold collection of newly commissioned essays written by top international scholars that thoroughly interrogates Spanish cinema from a variety of thematic, theoretical and historic perspectives. Presents an insightful and provocative collection of newly commissioned essays and original research by top international scholars from a variety of theoretical, disciplinary and geographical perspectives Offers a systematic historical, thematic, and theoretical approach...
| Автор | Pavlovic Tatjana |
A Companion to Luis Buñuel presents a collection of critical readings by many of the foremost film scholars that examines and reassesses myriad facets of world-renowned filmmaker Luis Buñuel’s life, works, and cinematic themes. A collection of critical readings that examine and reassess the controversial filmmaker’s life, works, and cinematic themes Features readings from several of the most highly-regarded experts on the cinema of Buñuel Includes a multidisciplinary range of approaches from...
| Автор | Stone Rob |
A complete introduction to analyzing and enjoying a wide variety of movies, for film students and movie lovers alike Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying, Fourth Edition is a thorough overview of movie analysis designed to enlighten both students and enthusiasts, and heighten their enjoyment of films. Readers will delve into the process of thinking about movies critically and analytically, and find how doing so can greatly enhance the pleasure of watching movies. Divided...
| Автор | Peter Lehman |
The most comprehensive volume on one of the most controversial directors in American film history A Companion to D.W. Griffith offers an exhaustive look at the first acknowledged auteur of the cinema and provides an authoritative account of the director’s life, work, and lasting filmic legacy. The text explores how Griffith’s style and status advanced along with cinema’s own development during the years when narrative became the dominant mode, when the short gave way to the feature, and when...
| Автор | Charles Keil |
An authoritative guide to African cinema with contributions from a team of experts on the topic A Companion to African Cinema offers an overview of critical approaches to African cinema. With contributions from an international panel of experts, the Companion approaches the topic through the lens of cultural studies, contemporary transformations in the world order, the rise of globalization, film production, distribution, and exhibition. This volume represents a new approach to African cinema...
| Автор | Carmela Garritano |
Presented in a single volume, this engaging review reflects on the scholarship and the historical development of American broadcasting A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting comprehensively evaluates the vibrant history of American radio and television and reveals broadcasting’s influence on American history in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With contributions from leading scholars on the topic, this wide-ranging anthology explores the impact of broadcasting on American...
| Автор | Aniko Bodroghkozy |
In Act 1, Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimer’s ward, intimately tending to his silent, vacant father’s bodily needs while hopelessly trying to reach him with monologues and settle misunderstandings. In Act 2, in an eerie reversal of roles, Alex visits Claude in the same ward, similarly finding disconsolate irony where he had looked for forgiveness.
| Автор | Michel Tremblay |
Arguably the first North American play, this edition includes the original French script of Marc Lescarbot’s Theatre of Neptune in New France, two twentieth-century English translations, Ben Jonson’s Masque of Blackness, and an extensive historical and critical introduction by Jerry Wasserman.
| Автор | Jerry Wasserman |
Originally published in 1997 and now available as an ebook. The inspiring story of the men and women who dared to go where no TV series had gone before!BEAM UP FOR:• The operation that almost cost Spock his ears• The woman who wouldn’t stay green• The fortune-teller who predicted McCoy’s success• The Leonard “Nimsy” Christmas parade• Harlan Ellison’s letter writing campaign• Attack of the Nielsens!• The spacecraft design the US Navy stole… and much, much more!Here are the stories behind the...
| Автор | James Hise van |
Your complete guide to STAR TREK’s most popular progeny – both spectacular series guidebooks complete in one volume!Originally published in 1997, this edition covers all seven seasons of The Next Generation and seasons one and two of Deep Space Nine.• Episodes detailed – plot setting, action, writers, directors, stars and special guests• Biographies of all major characters• Exclusive profiles of actors and actresses• Alien spacecraft and planet reports• Wormhole and Warp-speed travel tips•...
| Автор | James Hise van |
The complete guide to everyone’s favourite films… saucy!This book presents a detailed journey through Britain's best-loved comedies. It contains information on each of the feature films, including moments to watch out for, little-known facts, dialogue gems (Infamy! Infamy! They've All Got It In For Me!), full cast lists, production details and an informed critique on each of the films.There will be over 250 colour and b/w stills integrated in the book, including rare behind-the-scenes shots....
| Автор | Richard Webber |
Explorations in New Cinema History brings together cutting-edge research by the leading scholars in the field to identify new approaches to writing and understanding the social and cultural history of cinema, focusing on cinema’s audiences, the experience of cinema, and the cinema as a site of social and cultural exchange. Includes contributions from Robert Allen, Annette Kuhn, John Sedwick, Mark Jancovich, Peter Sanfield, and Kathryn Fuller-Seeley among others Develops the original argument...
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Lowell is no average teenager—and his grandfather, Hardy, is no conventional role model. Hardy may once have owned the abandoned orchard at the heart of town where they spend time trespassing and discussing ethics as if it were nothing more than a game. When inspector Milton shows up to investigate a murder, Lowell’s truths are put to the ultimate test.
| Автор | Morris Panych |
The editor of this lively assortment of reviews, interviews and other critical deliberations on contemporary Canadian drama has gathered material from books, theatre and scholarly journals; from major daily newspapers in Canada and abroad; from critics, academics, journalists and playwrights. This new edition includes commentary on forty-three English-language plays written during the last fifty years, and a comprehensive index.
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Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students and scholars a comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date and accessible overview of key areas and debates. Combines overviews of core ideas with new case study materials and the best of contemporary...
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100 Years of Spanish Cinema provides an in-depth look at the most important movements, films, and directors of twentieth-century Spain from the silent era to the present day. A glossary of film terms provides definitions of essential technical, aesthetic, and historical terms Features a visual portfolio illustrating key points of many of the films analyzed Includes a clear, concise timeline to help students quickly place films and genres in Spain’s political, economical, and historical contexts...
| Автор | Tatjana Pavlovic |
This book provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the emerging Arab media industries in the context of globalization and its impacts, with a focus on publishing, press, broadcasting, cinema and new media. Through detailed discussions of the regulation and economics of these industries, the authors argue that the political, technological and cultural changes on the global media scene have resulted in the reorganization of the Arab media field. They provide striking examples of this...
| Автор | Noha Mellor |
An authoritative and much-needed overview of the main issues in the field of early cinema from over 30 leading international scholars in the field First collection of its kind to offer in one reference: original theory, new research, and reviews of existing studies in the field Features over 30 original essays from some of the leading scholars in early cinema and Film Studies, including Tom Gunning, Jane Gaines, Richard Abel, Thomas Elsaesser, and André Gaudreault Caters to renewed interest in...
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