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Films, cinema
Hardcover. Many South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. Pinazza performs a careful cultural analysis of the films and investigates how road movies deal with narratives on nationhood whilst simultaneously inserting themselves in a transnational dialogue. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 1KLSB; 3JJPR; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336033
- ISBN
- 9781137336033
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Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardcover. Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding of Shakespeare, it highlights issues such as media technology, mourning, loss, the voice, narrative territories and flows, sexuality and gender. Num Pages: 272 pages, 38 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332059
- ISBN
- 9781137332059
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Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardback. East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, produced a films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, musicals, and children's films, among others. This book equips scholars with the historical background to understand East German cinema and guides the readers through the DEFA archive via examinations of twelve films. Num Pages: 196 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJP; APF; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322302
- ISBN
- 9781137322302
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Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Hardcover. In the 1950s, science fiction invasion films played a complicated part in supporting and criticizing Cold War ideologies. By reading these invasion narratives as performances of middle-class, white Americans' excitement and anxiety about social and political issues, George shows how they often played out as another round in the battle of the sexes. Num Pages: 206 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 219 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137321572
- ISBN
- 9781137321572
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Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and queer relations; the family and psychic identities; the national and emerging public cultures; and morality and ethics. Editor(s): Stewart, Michael. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137319845
- ISBN
- 9781137319845
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. How are issues of authorship engaged by and dynamized within the films of Alfred Hitchcock? Abramson interrogates his oeuvre as an extended, ever shifting meditation on the authorial conflicts endemic to the conditions and processes of cinema production, exhibition, and reception. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137309693
- ISBN
- 9781137309693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Hardcover. Contemporary culture is packed with fantasy and science fiction storyworlds extending across multiple media platforms. This book explores the myriad ways in which imaginary worlds use media like films, novels, videogames, comic books, toys and increasingly user-generated content to captivate and energise contemporary audiences. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306036
- ISBN
- 9781137306036
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Hardcover. Using insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, and the history of sexuality, Holmberg explores the ambiguity that drives male bonding. Personal interviews with Mamet and with the actors who have interpreted his major roles shed light on how and why men bond with each other and complement close analysis of Mamet's texts. Num Pages: 276 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; APF; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137305183
- ISBN
- 9781137305183
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Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger's Tales is an interdisciplinary collection of essays by established and emerging scholars, analysing the shifting representations of Irish men across a range of popular culture forms in the period of the Celtic Tiger and beyond. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJPR; 3JM; APFA; DSBH; JFCA; JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137300232
- ISBN
- 9781137300232
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. Contemporary Asylum Narratives marks a transition from traditional modes of diasporic belonging to the need for identifications that encompass the statelessness of refugees and asylum seekers. This book explores representations of asylum seekers and refugees in twenty-first century literature, film and theatre. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299055
- ISBN
- 9781137299055
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film as a means to thinking about the locations of thought in literature and literature's location in the world. It includes readings of works by James Joyce, Henry James, and Samuel Beckett, whose Film (1965) forms a concluding focus. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137295446
- ISBN
- 9781137295446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. This book analyses the romantic drama and the way that passionate love is presented as the central storyline in popular cinema, drawing upon genre studies and sociology. Exploring the passionate love story as a cinematic form, it also contributes, through comparison, to research on the romantic comedy. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFCA; JFD; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137295378
- ISBN
- 9781137295378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. Examining the vast breadth and diversity of contemporary documentary production, while also situating nonfiction film and video within the cultural, political, and socio-economic history of the region, this book addresses topics such as documentary aesthetics, indigenous media, and transnational filmmaking, among others. Series: Global Cinema. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; APFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137291332
- ISBN
- 9781137291332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. This book presents a new approach to film analysis. It provides methods for analysing meaning making in film through tracking concrete details of film images such as characters, objects, settings and character action. It also represents new ground for investigating empirical issues in film. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; APFR; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137290335
- ISBN
- 9781137290335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Class, Crime and International Film Noir argues that, in its postwar, classical phase, this dark variant of the crime film was not just an American phenomenon. Rather, these seedy tales with their doomed heroes and heroines were popular all over the world including France, Britain, Italy and Japan. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137290137
- ISBN
- 9781137290137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Paperback. Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader, the widely read 'Selb' detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work. Num Pages: 268 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; APF; DSBH; DSK; HBTZ1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137277633
- ISBN
- 9781137277633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 115.99
€ 115.99
Hardcover. There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of human suffering. Intensive Media explores the discomfort and fascination initiated by instances of pain and suffering, their 'aversive affects', as they trouble but also vitalise contemporary media environments. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; JFCA; JFD; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137273505
- ISBN
- 9781137273505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. This book contributes to the growing literature on the biopic genre by outlining and exploring the conventions of the postfeminist biopic. It does so by analyzing recent films about the lives of famous women including Sylvia Plath, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APB; APFA; APFN; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137273475
- ISBN
- 9781137273475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardcover. Styles of filmmaking have changed greatly from classical Hollywood through to our digital era. So, too, have the ways in which film critics and scholars have analysed these transformations in film style. This book explores two central style concepts, mise en scene and dispositif, to illuminate a wide range of film and new media examples. Series: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137269942
- ISBN
- 9781137269942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.67
€ 149.67
Hardcover. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives of art, literature and music, Donaldson develops a stimulating understanding of a concept that has received little detailed attention in relation to film. Based in close analysis, Texture in Film brings discussion of style and affect together in a selection of case studies drawn from American cinema. Series: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137034786
- ISBN
- 9781137034786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.42
€ 127.42
Hardcover. Many stars from China, Japan and Korea are the most popular and instantly recognizable in the world. East Asian Film Stars brings together some of the world's leading cinema scholars to offer their insights into the work of regional and transnational screen legends, contemporary superstars and mysterious cult personas. Editor(s): Willis, Andy; Wing-Fai, Leung. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; APB; APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137029188
- ISBN
- 9781137029188
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Sue Short examines how fairy tale tropes have been reworked in contemporary film, identifying familiar themes in a range of genres - including rom coms, crime films and horror - and noting key similarities and differences between the source narratives and their offspring. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137020161
- ISBN
- 9781137020161
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. A Critique of Judgment in Film and Television is a response to a significant increase of judgment and judgmentalism in contemporary television, film, and social media by investigating the changing relations between the aesthetics and ethics of judgment. Editor(s): Panse, Silke; Rothermel, Dennis. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APT; JFCA; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137014177
- ISBN
- 9781137014177
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.63
€ 67.63
Hardback. In the twentieth century, glamour has often been associated with the cinema and its stars, though fashion, 'high society', popular music, shopping, glossy magazines and advertising have all sought to harness its allure. The authors explore the origins and uses of the aura of glamour and trace its history and power as a language of visual seduction. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HBTB; JFCA; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333733806
- ISBN
- 9780333733806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64