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Hardcover. This history of British and American television drama since 1970 charts the increased transnationalisation of the two production systems. From The Forsyte Saga to Roots to Episodes, it highlights the close relationship that drives innovation and quality on both sides of the Atlantic. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 2. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230297753
- ISBN
- 9780230297753
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.36
€ 62.36
Hardcover. Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZ; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468. Find a Strange and Twisted Shape. 296 pages, 25 black & white halftones. Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ASZ; JFFG. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298279
- ISBN
- 9780230298279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.28
€ 63.28
Hardcover. The rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape. This book is a sustained examination of Chinese independent documentary in relation to one of its central principles: xianchang, or being 'on the scene'. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298293
- ISBN
- 9780230298293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardcover. Coates presents the face in film as a place where transformations begin, reflecting both the experience of modernity and such influential myths as that of Medusa. This is exemplified by a wide range of European and American films, including Ingmar Bergman's Persona. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298477
- ISBN
- 9780230298477
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardcover. This book examines feminist art of the 1970s through contemporary art made by women. In a series of readings of artworks by, amongst others, Tracey Emin, Vanessa Beecroft, Hannah Wilke and Carolee Schneemann the reader is taken on a journey through maternal desire, fantasies of escape and failed femininity. Num Pages: 184 pages, 10 figures. BIC Classification: ABA; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298484
- ISBN
- 9780230298484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.41
€ 108.41
Hardcover. Exploring research into mobile phone use as props to subjective identity, Norman Taylor employs concepts from Michelle Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and actor network theory to discuss the affect of mechanisms of make-believe, from celebrity culture to avatar-obsessed game players, and digital culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 21 black & white halftones, 3 diagrames. BIC Classification: APFA; APFB; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298927
- ISBN
- 9780230298927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Using hybrid phenomenological approaches to film, this book focuses on how moving images are 'experienced' and 'encountered' as well as 'read' and 'viewed'. Its close engagements with films and installations by four contemporary French filmmakers explore the limits and possibilities of 'cinematic' subjectivity. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; APFA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230299535
- ISBN
- 9780230299535
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.74
€ 62.74
Paperback. Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? This book, now in paperback, queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma. Editor(s): Hopkins, D. J.; Orr, Shelley; Solga, Kim. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASZ; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300491
- ISBN
- 9780230300491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.98
€ 61.98
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300958
- ISBN
- 9780230300958
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Hardcover. A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema - the holiday film - including historical information about the British holiday and analyses of key films from the 1900s to the recent past. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230301047
- ISBN
- 9780230301047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.98
€ 62.98
Hardcover. Michael Mann's films receive a detailed analysis as existential dramas, including Heat, Collateral, The Last of the Mohicans and Public Enemies. The book demonstrates that Mann's films perform critical engagement with existentialism, illustrating the problems and opportunities of living according to this philosophy. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230301054
- ISBN
- 9780230301054
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Hardcover. Kristi McKim offers close-analyses of films in which attachment and detachment, intimacy and distance, ephemera and endurance become more visible and meaningful. Films discussed include Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, Agnes Varda's Jacquot de Nantes, Doris Dorrie's Cherry Blossoms and Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230301368
- ISBN
- 9780230301368
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.64
€ 62.64
Political Communication in Britain: The Leader's Debates, the Campaign...
Mortimore, Roger, Atkinson, Simon
Hardcover. The 2010 General Election represented a pathbreaking contest in Political Communication. The TV debates changed forever the feel of the campaign. This book brings together key commentators, analysts and polling experts to present readers with a unique and valuable insight into the development of political communication in British Politics. Num Pages: 364 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; APT; GTC; JFD; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230301450
- ISBN
- 9780230301450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.38
€ 63.38
Paperback. The 2010 General Election represented a pathbreaking contest in Political Communication. The TV debates changed forever the feel of the campaign. This book brings together key commentators, analysts and polling experts to present readers with a unique and valuable insight into the development of political communication in British Politics. Num Pages: 364 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; APT; GTC; JFD; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230301467
- ISBN
- 9780230301467
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.62
€ 62.62
Paperback. A critical assessment of cyborg cinema. Tracing the cinematic cyborg's transition over the last three decades and evaluating its theoretical significance, the book questions the relevance of the cyborg in terms of understanding human identity and technology. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422. 264 pages, 0. A critical assessment of cyborg cinema. Tracing the cinematic cyborg's transition over the last three decades and evaluating its theoretical significance, the book questions the relevance of the cyborg in terms of understanding human identity and technology. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APFA. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 17. Weight: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302198
- ISBN
- 9780230302198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.34
€ 62.34
Paperback. Dancers create 'civic culture' as performances for public consumption and vernaculars connecting individuals with little in common. Examining performance and the construction of culturally diverse communities, this book, now in paperback with a new preface, suggests that amateur and concert dance can teach us how to live and work together. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASDT; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302334
- ISBN
- 9780230302334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Presenting a social history of British crime film, this book focuses on the strategies used in order to address more radical notions surrounding class, politics, sex, delinquency, violence and censorship. Spanning post-war crime cinema to present-day "Mockney" productions, it contextualizes the films and identifies important and neglected works. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230303706
- ISBN
- 9780230303706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Hardcover. This book examines queer performance in Britain since the early 1990s, arguing for the significance of emerging collaborative modes of practice. Using queer theory and the history of early lesbian and gay theatre to examine claims to representation among other things, it interrogates the relationships through which recent works have been presented. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AN; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230304420
- ISBN
- 9780230304420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.96
€ 149.96
Hardcover. This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic, but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The range of issues addressed includes the contest between philosophy and poetry, the moral status of music, the love of beauty, censorship, motivated emotions. Editor(s): Denham, Alison. Series: Philosophers in Depth. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 tables. BIC Classification: ACG; DSBB; HPCA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 221 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230314405
- ISBN
- 9780230314405
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.73
€ 139.73
Hardcover. From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight subjection, endurance and willed-acquiescence, it probes the confluence of pain, pleasure and consent to analyse the implications of the change. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230319387
- ISBN
- 9780230319387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to popular horror and analyses key torture porn films, mapping out the broader conceptual and contextual concerns that shape the meanings of both 'torture' and 'porn'. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230319417
- ISBN
- 9780230319417
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.72
€ 149.72
Hardcover. Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of Performance is the first monograph to provide an in-depth study of the implications of Deleuze's philosophy for theatre and performance. Drawing from Goat Island, Butoh, Artaud and Kaprow, as well from Deleuze, Bergson and Laruelle, the book conceives performance as a way of thinking immanence. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 220 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230319523
- ISBN
- 9780230319523
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.87
€ 62.87
Hardcover. What are the political and aesthetic dimensions of video art, documentary, and global cinema in contemporary image culture? Lynes makes visible how sites of political struggle, exploitation, and armed conflict can be interpreted through a feminist politics of location, attentive to the frictions and flows within transnational circuits of exchange. Series: Global Cinema. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337541
- ISBN
- 9780230337541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardcover. Examines contemporary cinematic representations of Argentine masculinities, the social construction of gender, and the financing of domestic film production following Argentina's 1990 change to a neo-liberal economic model. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; APFA; JFCA; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338180
- ISBN
- 9780230338180
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.43
€ 62.43