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This book is the first monographic study on subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing from a multidisciplinary perspective, from engineering to philology. The book departs from studies, analyses, tests, validations, resulting data, and their application from the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-04-28
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There are thousands of pantomimes staged throughout the world every year, most of them in Britain. Most groups, whether they be amateur drama societies, schools, Women's Institutes or Village Hall committees are constantly on the lookout for something fresh and...
Editeur :
Headline Accent
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2010-04-15
Collection :
Secrets to Success
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What drives a musician to write extraordinary songs? How do writers create their worlds? How does an actor achieve greatness?For over thirty years of The South Bank Show, Melvyn Bragg has interviewed many of the greatest cultural icons of our age. These interviews offer...
Editeur :
Sceptre
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2010-04-01
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This unique tie-in to the major motion picture Oceans -- coming this April from Disney & National Geographic -- explores the health of our oceans, and what we can do to improve it. More than 75 percent of the globe is covered by the oceans. It is sometimes difficult to...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2010-03-23
ePub
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9,99€
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He was the acclaimed director of such cinematic classics as Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris, and Gigi, and equally well known for his tumultuous marriage to the legendary Judy Garland. But to say that Vincente Minnelli's conflicted personal life informed his...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2010-03-09
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What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin's famous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweeping look back at the near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy. Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time Establishes cinema's...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-12
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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“Beautifully told. Maria Finn relays her adventures in the world of tango with excitement, wit, and insight.” —Robert Farris Thompson, author of Tango: The Art History of Love Maria Finn's husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then...
Editeur :
Algonquin Books
Parution :
2010-02-09
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Combining an exciting methodology alongside high-interest case studies, Television in Transition offers students of television a guide to a medium that has weathered the challenges of first-run syndication, a multi-channel universe, netlets, major media conglomerates,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-05
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A Companion to Michael Haneke is a definitive collection of newly-commissioned work that covers Haneke's body of work in its entirety, catering to students and scholars of Haneke at a time when interest in the director and his work is soaring. Introduces one of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-04
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Chromatic Cinema Color permeates film and its history, but study of its contribution to film has so far been fragmentary.Chromatic Cinema provides the first wide-ranging historical overview of screen color, exploring the changing uses and meanings of color in moving...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-02
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The Fantasy Film provides a clear and compelling overview of this revitalized and explosively popular film genre. Includes analyses of a wide range of films, from early classics such asThe Wizard of Oz and Harvey to Spiderman and Shrek, and blockbuster series such as...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-01-26
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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Cinema Wars explores the intersection of film, politics, and US culture and society through a bold critical analysis of the films, TV shows, and documentaries produced in the early 2000s Offers a thought-provoking depiction of Hollywood film as a contested terrain...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-12-15
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Miami Vice captures the glitter and glamour embodied by Crockett and Tubbs and offers students an anatomy of a ground-breaking work in the police procedural genre. ExploresMiami Vice's combination of disparate influences (MTV, film noir, soap opera, 'high concept'...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-12-15
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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It was made like a television movie, and completed in less than three months.It killed off its star in forty minutes. There was no happy ending. And it offered the most violent scene to date in American film, punctuated by shrieking strings that seared the national...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-11-24
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Brimming with advice and techniques, this essential reference for book- and songwriters clearly explains the fundamentals of the three crafts of a musical—book, music, and lyrics. Using copious examples from classic shows, Frankel has created the quintessential...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-09-09
ePub
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11,99€
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A movie that swept the 1934 Academy Awards and captivated Depression-era America, It Happened One Night challenged the ways Americans imagined marriage, romance, gender, and class difference. This book examines key scenes and formal features of It Happened One Night,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-09-08
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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In the mid-1970s, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, Tom Dreesen, and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from all across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles, the new home of...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-08-25
ePub
Offre spéciale
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10,99€
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The Hollywood War Film offers readers a lively introduction to the theory, history, stars, and major films constituting this vital genre, from Hollywood's earliest days to the current moment Combines broad historical and theoretical coverage of the genre with in-depth...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-08-25
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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From The Gospel According to Matthew to Jesus Christ Superstar, from The Passion of Joan of Arc to The Last Temptation of Christ and Jesus of Montreal, The Religious Film captures the glory, gore, and centrality of this important genre. A short, accessible...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-05-11
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "more than a terrific movie -- it's an important movie." Aided by expert...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-05-05
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