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Hardcover. A study of commercialized opera culture in Russia, exploring the 'melodramatic imagination' Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 273 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; AVGC9; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137023445
- ISBN
- 9781137023445
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. A study of South African cinema with a critical eye to its complexity not only as a signifying system, but also as a cultural product with a public life. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027023
- ISBN
- 9781137027023
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. How is The Simpsons a satirical artwork engaged with important social, political, and cultural issues? Henry offers the first comprehensive understanding of the show as a satire and explores the ways in which The Simpsons participates in the so-called "culture war" debates taking place in American society. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027788
- ISBN
- 9781137027788
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Paperback. This book charts the evolution, from the World War II period to the present day, of racial relationships and their repercussions in Hollywood films and examines a neglected sub-genre. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137029348
- ISBN
- 9781137029348
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Condition: New
€ 61.53
€ 61.53
Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America: Ch...
Rocha, Carolina, Seminet, Georgia
Hardcover. This anthology explores the role of children and teenagers in Latin American and Spanish Film as protagonists, victims and witnesses of societies polarized by and still grappling with the consequences of political divisions. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KL; APFA; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030863
- ISBN
- 9781137030863
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.11
€ 54.99
€ 44.11
Hardcover. Focusing primarily on film and televisual texts from the ten years before and after the millennium, the contributors ask how recent films and television programs play with, imitate, subvert, mock, critique, and queer the romantic narrative conventions so common in Western culture. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APT; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 561.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Critical
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137272966
- ISBN
- 9781137272966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.20
€ 63.20
Hardcover. Niebisch retraces how the early Avant-Garde movements started out as parasites inhabiting and irritating the emerging mass media circuits of the press, cinema, and wired and wireless communication and how they aimed at creating a media ecology based on and inspired by technologies such as the radio and the photo cell. Series: Avant-Gardes in Performance. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; AP; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137276858
- ISBN
- 9781137276858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.06
€ 54.99
€ 44.06
Hardcover. This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 3H; AS; AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137277701
- ISBN
- 9781137277701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.56
€ 108.56
American War Cinema and Media since Vietnam: Politics, Ideology, and C...
Keeton, Patricia, Scheckner, Peter
Hardcover. No other cinematic genre more sharply illustrates the contradictions of American society - notions about social class, politics, and socio-economic ideology - than the war film. This book examines the latest cycle of war films to reveal how they mediate and negotiate the complexities of war, class, and a military-political mission largely gone bad. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137277886
- ISBN
- 9781137277886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.99
€ 118.99
Paperback. Offering a groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, this book is the first study in English to cover its entire history. Guo-Juin Hong provides helpful insight into how Taiwan cinema is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137290090
- ISBN
- 9781137290090
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hollywood's Representations of the Sino-Tibetan Conflict: Politics, Cu...
Daccache, Jenny George, Valeriano, Brandon
Hardcover. Using film as a lens though which we can witness the global transformations in politics, economy, culture, and communication, this book analyzes Hollywood's shift in its depictions of China and Tibet. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFD; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137290472
- ISBN
- 9781137290472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.48
€ 62.48
Hardcover. Addressing cultural representations of women's participation in the political violence and terrorism of the Italian anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83), this book conceptualizes Italy's experience of political violence during those years as a form of cultural and collective trauma. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; APFA; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294067
- ISBN
- 9781137294067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Hardcover. This dynamic collection of essays by international film scholars and classicists addresses the provocative representation of sexuality in the ancient world on screen. A critical reader on approaches used to examine sexuality in classical settings, contributors use case studies from films and television series spanning from the 1920s to the present. Editor(s): Cyrino, Monica S. Num Pages: 290 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; APFA; APFN; JFC; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 221 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2013 ed.
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299598
- ISBN
- 9781137299598
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Hardcover. What is the fundamental nature of the filmic object: is it a commodity or is it, can it be, art? What would that mean - can it still matter? This book introduces the thought of Theodor Adorno into film studies to repair the schism that characterizes the field, as historical and cultural modes of analysis displace theoretical and philosophical ones. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 219 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306135
- ISBN
- 9781137306135
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.84
€ 61.84
Paperback. Realism and the Audiovisual Media constitutes a major original contribution to contemporary scholarship on realism, one of the most fundamental concepts in audiovisual studies. Editor(s): Nagib, Lucia; Mello, Cecilia. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APT; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306739
- ISBN
- 9781137306739
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.08
€ 62.08
Hardcover. The Lola film is a distinct subgenre of the woman's film in which woman's claim to pleasure is entertained without recourse to the figure of the femme fatale. This book examines Lola as a specific and enduring aspect of the "new woman": woman's forthright claim to pleasure on her own terms, liberated from the usual constraints of sex and gender. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137309723
- ISBN
- 9781137309723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.00
€ 129.00
Hardcover. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a new generation took over the leading roles in Hollywood films. These untraditional-looking young men were promoted and understood as alienated and ironic everymen, and exerted a powerful, and until now unexplored, influence over a movement often considered the richest in Hollywood's history. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APB; APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137310385
- ISBN
- 9781137310385
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Paperback. 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: 233 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322319
- ISBN
- 9781137322319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.59
€ 61.59
Screen Distribution and the New King Kongs of the Online World (Palgra...
Cunningham, Stuart, Silver, Jon
Hardcover. Drawing on comparisons with historical shake-ups in the film industry, Screen Distribution Post-Hollywood offers a timely account of the changes brought about in global online distribution of film and television by major new players such as Google/YouTube, Apple, Amazon, Yahoo!, Facebook, Netflix and Hulu. Num Pages: 142 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326447
- ISBN
- 9781137326447
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.77
€ 61.77
Paperback. A lively and engaging study of screen performances of masculinity, focusing on the performance of 'angst' by male actors in the 1990s and 2000s, Masculinity and Screen Performance establishes a framework for studying the relationship between masculinity and performance on and off screen. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APB; APFA; APFN; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137337726
- ISBN
- 9781137337726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.59
€ 61.59