Films, cinema
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Films, cinema
Hardcover. Here, essays use the latest theories in postcolonialism, globalization, and post-nationalism to explore how world cinema and theater respond to Bollywood's representation of Shakespeare. In this collection, Shakespeare is both part of an elite Western tradition and a window into a vibrant post-national identity founded by a global consumer culture. Editor(s): Dionne, Craig; Kapadia, Parmita. Series: Reproducing Shakespeare. Num Pages: 219 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; APFA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386120
- ISBN
- 9781137386120
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€ 127.24
€ 127.24
Hardcover. The Internet is the most terrifying and most beautifully innovative invention of the twentieth century. Using film theory and close textual analysis, Tucker offers an explanation of the Internet and a brief history of its portrayal on film in order examine how it has shaped contemporary versions of self-identity, memory, and the human body. Num Pages: 265 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386687
- ISBN
- 9781137386687
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€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach. Sisto shifts the sensory paradigm of film history and analysis from the optical to the sonic, demonstrating how this translates into a shift of canonical narratives and interpretations. Num Pages: 236 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137387707
- ISBN
- 9781137387707
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Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Hardcover. The Highway Horror Film argues that 'Highway Horror' is a hither-to overlooked sub-genre of the American horror movie. In these films, the American landscape is by its very accessibility rendered terrifyingly hostile, and encounters with other travellers almost always have sinister outcomes. Num Pages: 120 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 292.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137391193
- ISBN
- 9781137391193
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Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSY; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2018
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137395405
- ISBN
- 9781137395405
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Condition: New
€ 139.17
€ 139.17
Hardcover. This book introduces the diverse practices of three non-canonical practitioners: David MacDougall, Desire Machine Collective and Kumar Shahani. It offers analysis of their documentary methods and aesthetics, exploring how their oeuvres constitute a critical and self-reflexive approach to documentary-making in India. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; APFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137395436
- ISBN
- 9781137395436
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Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, identification and doubling in the cinema. It contains analyses of a wide variety of films, including Citizen Kane, The Double Life of Veronique, The Great Gatsby, Gilda, Vertigo and Wings of Desire. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137396709
- ISBN
- 9781137396709
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Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman. Da Silva shows the need to incorporate diverse ethnic groups and male homosexuals into the range of "femmes" fatales and examines how the Brazilian representations cross gender, race, and class and offer alternatives to the dominant Hollywood model. Num Pages: 222 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399205
- ISBN
- 9781137399205
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Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. Using silent cinema as a critical lens enables us to reassess Katherine Mansfield's entire literary career. Starting from the awareness that innovation in literature is often the outcome of hybridisation, this book discusses not only a single case study, but also the intermedia exchanges in which literary modernism at large is rooted. Num Pages: 120 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; APFA; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137400352
- ISBN
- 9781137400352
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Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Hardcover. Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival audiences, and the filmmakers), Dovey reveals what turns something called a "festival" into a "festival experience" for these groups. Series: Framing Film Festivals. Num Pages: 270 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 578.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137404138
- ISBN
- 9781137404138
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Condition: New
€ 139.38
€ 139.38
Hardcover. Using the four tissue types (connective, epithelial, nervous, and muscular), Dudenhoeffer expands and complicates the subgenre of "body horror." Changing the emphasis from the contents of the film to the "organicity" of its visual and affective registers, he addresses the application of psychoanalysis, phenomenology, object-ontology, and cyborgism. Num Pages: 302 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137404954
- ISBN
- 9781137404954
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Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox explores the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze using the framework of Hollywood's current obsession with remaking and rebooting classic and foreign films. Through an analysis of cinematic repetition and difference, the book approaches remakes from a range of philosophical perspectives. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137408594
- ISBN
- 9781137408594
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. The Sounds of Silent Films is a unique collection of investigatory and theoretical essays that, for the first time, unite up-to-date research on the complex historical performance practices of silent film accompaniment with in-depth analyses of relevant case studies. Series: Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137410719
- ISBN
- 9781137410719
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Condition: New
€ 150.11
€ 150.11
Hardcover. Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in recent years. This book analyzes the politics, ethics, and affects at play in the filmic construction of rape and its responses. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137414168
- ISBN
- 9781137414168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardcover. The magazine Photoplay pioneered the construction of both female stars as social types and fans as aspiring consumers in the first mass consumption society. The construction of female identity based on goods and performance in a consumer society resulted in multiple, fragmented, and unstable selves - a legacy evident in postmodern culture today. Num Pages: 310 pages, 32 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; APF; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433992
- ISBN
- 9781137433992
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Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that constitutes a landmark of cyberpunk narrative and establishes a link between tradition and the (post)modern. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439727
- ISBN
- 9781137439727
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn Stockett's The Help. Editor(s): Garcia, Claire Oberon; Young, Vershawn Ashanti; Pimentel, Charise. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 538.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137446251
- ISBN
- 9781137446251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.36
€ 128.36
hardcover. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 270 pages, 10 colour illustrations, 10 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137450500
- ISBN
- 9781137450500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.89
€ 139.89
Hardcover. Human rights film festivals have been steadily growing in number in recent years. They are all bound by a common thread, human rights, and yet show distinctly different films. What leads them to be so different, and how is the universalism of human rights made sense by each? Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137454232
- ISBN
- 9781137454232
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book, Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment from which these images have arisen, how the images relate to (and sometimes contradict) the narratives they help to constitute, and the cultural work that dead women perform in visual texts. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APT; JFSJ1; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457684
- ISBN
- 9781137457684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Hardcover. Japanese animation has been given fulsome academic commentary in recent years. However, there is arguably a need for a more philosophically consistent and theoretically integrated engagement. While this book covers the key thinkers of contemporary aesthetic theory, it aims to reground reflection on anime within the aesthetics of R.G. Collingwood. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; APFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137463340
- ISBN
- 9781137463340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.95
€ 115.95
Hardcover. Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five continents. The book's innovative approach and approachable style should transform the way that we think of film and its social effects. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137465115
- ISBN
- 9781137465115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings identifies recurrent themes and techniques of the con film, suggests precedents in literature and discusses the perennial appeal of the con man for readers and viewers alike. Num Pages: 98 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFD; APFN; APTD; FFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 15. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137466884
- ISBN
- 9781137466884
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.90
€ 76.90
Hardcover. An exploration of how educational institutions have been portrayed in horror film, this book examines the way that scary movies have dealt with the issue of school violence, focusing on movies set in high schools, colleges, and summer camps. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; JFD; JNKS; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137469199
- ISBN
- 9781137469199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.80
€ 53.37
€ 46.80