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International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-16
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The Hispanic Image in Hollywood: A Postcolonial Approach offers an in-depth analysis of how Hispanics are represented in American cinema. Film production is a reflection of American historical processes that have defined Hispanics and American mainstream identity as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre provides both rigorous readings of dramatic works as well as a historical overview of Chinese theatre from the 1980s to the present.Expressionism becomes a discursive locus to be incorporated and even...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-12-04
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World Cinema through Global Genres introduces the complex forces of global filmmaking using the popular concept of film genre. The cluster-based organization allows students to acquire a clear understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world. ...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2013-11-18
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Seit langem überfällig sind Neulektüren des Werkes von Carl Sternheim, die sowohl seine klassischen Texte unter veränderten Rezeptionsbedingungen neu erschließen als auch jenseits der ausgetretenen Pfade Werke in den Blick nehmen, die bislang kaum beachtet wurden....
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-15
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What if Dorothy Gale wasn't the only person who went to see the Wizard of Oz? MGM's landmark 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, did not mark the beginning of adventures in Oz. Both before and since, dozens of tales have been told of the Marvellous Land...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2013-11-07
Collection :
Brief Histories
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The story behind the nation's new darling - the former EMMERDALE and STRICTLY COME DANCING star, Lisa Riley.Lisa Riley won the hearts of the nation as she danced for her life, now it's time to read her life...NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER is the inspirational and...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2013-11-07
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Rob Delaney is a father, a husband, a comedian, a writer. He is the author of an endless stream of beautiful, insane jokes on Twitter. He is sober. He is sometimes brave. He speaks French. He has bungee-jumped off the Manhattan Bridge. He enjoys antagonizing political...
Editeur :
Blackfriars
Parution :
2013-11-05
ePub
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«Tod im Fernsehen» und«Tod in der Realität» haben auf den ersten Blick nicht viel miteinander zu tun, auf den zweiten Blick jedoch ist auch der fiktive Tod in Film- und Fernsehsendungen immer ein Produkt des Umgangs mit dem Tod in der Gesellschaft und umgekehrt. Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-05
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The 29 prose poems in Cinematic Reveries: Gestures, Stillness, Water provide distinctive points of entry into a select group of films through attention to evocative gestures, a sense of stillness, and images of water. These original writings offer film criticism in a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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'Open your mind to extreme possibilities'Scully's desire to be recognised as 'a medical doctor', ooze, mouthfuls of difficult dialogue and the tendency for characters not to make it through the pre-titles sequence were just a few of the tragically underexamined elements...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-10-31
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More than any other series, THE AVENGERS typified the Swinging Sixties - beginning in 1961 with Patrick Macnee starring with Ian Hendry in a grainy, realistic spy thriller, and ending in 1969 with Macnee and the glamorous Linda Thorson blasting off into space in a...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-10-31
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STAR TREK is one of the world's most popular and enduring science fiction franchises, spanning decades' worth of TV, film, comics, books and more. This book - originally published just as DEEP SPACE NINE was first being produced - analyses the rebirth and renaissance of...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-10-31
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When it was originally published, the Discontinuity Guide was the first attempt to bring together all of the various fictional information seen in BBC TV's DOCTOR WHO, and then present it in a coherent narrative. Often copied but never matched, this is the perfect guide...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-10-31
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
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This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. By exploring key film and television productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author uncovers and interrogates concepts of Irish identity, history and nation. In 2009,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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Funny, fearless and absolutely filthy-nearly 3,000 more uncensored, dirty, sick, and deeply politically incorrect jokes, covering just about every topic imaginable, from adultery to (sex in) Zoos, including an assortment of bad taste lists. A worthy, all-new follow-on...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2013-09-19
Collection :
Mammoth Books
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Is a common European Holocaust memory possible? The author approaches this question by analyzing Polish and German cinema after 1989, and the public debates on the past that have surrounded the filmic narratives. Of all media, cinema has exerted the broadest impact in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-16
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Hollywood superstar; Oscar-winning director; greatest stage actor of the twentieth century. The era abounded in great actors - Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness, Burton, O'Toole - but none could challenge Laurence Olivier's range and power. By the 1940s he had achieved...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2013-09-12
ePub
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Suffering from «manopause» and «Low T», underemployed and unwilling to grow up, «the other guy» has emerged as an important figure in modern media masculinity. From the films of Judd Apatow to sitcoms and popular music, this new breed of man is desperately attempting to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-09-01
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A celebration of Britain's favourite actress, Judi DenchThe very name Judi Dench encourages a warm and admiring response from the public and fellow actors alike. Her wide-ranging career includes numerous Shakespearean performances (most recently in ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-08-22
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