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Fans of Channel 4's ground-breaking drama Shameless know and love Tina Malone for her portrayal of the loud-mouthed, larger-than-life Mimi Maguire. But what they may not know is that Tina's own life has been more dramatic, more outrageous and frequently more out of...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2014-02-27
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This book explores the cinematic representation of the city in British film from 1895 to 1914, featuring depictions of London, Glasgow, Dublin, Delhi and other British colonial cities. The author argues that the films are not only an invaluable record of the economic,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-11
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From Brigitte Bardot in her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival, to François Ozon’s intimate portrayals of grief and loss, some of the most iconic and challenging moments in French cinema are associated with the beach. Cinema at the Shore argues that the Parisian...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-30
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Mexican cinema is booming today, a decade after the international successes of Amores perros and Y tu mamá también.Mexican films now display a wider range than any comparable country, from art films to popular genre movies, and boasting internationally renowned...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-01-27
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Global News explores how media representation is conceived and enacted in a world of diversity and transborder flows. Among the ‘new media’ crowding the global mediascape are influential television outlets that promise viewers alternative vantage points to those of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-01-01
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In the year that Europe commemorates the centenary of the outbreak of World War I and the European Union faces a crisis of legitimacy, the national question is once again being posed across the Continent. This volume assesses how contemporary German-language writers and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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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 :
2013-12-02
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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
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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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