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The Sounds of Silent Films: New Perspectives on History, Theory and Pr...
Tieber, Claus; Windisch, Anna Katharina
paperback. 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: AB; APF; AV; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349489053
- ISBN
- 9781349489053
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€ 139.75
€ 139.75
The Politics of Adaptation: Media Convergence and Ideology
. Ed(S): Hassler-Forest, Dan; Nicklas, Pascal
paperback. In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their underlying ideologies that are reshaping our global media landscape, including questions of audience participation and transmedia storytelling. Editor(s): Hassler-Forest, Dan; Nicklas, Pascal. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSA; JFC; JFD; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349495429
- ISBN
- 9781349495429
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€ 109.28
€ 109.28
paperback. An examination of how screen texts embrace, refute, and reinvent the cultural heritage of antiquity, this volume looks at specific story-patterns and archetypes from Greco-Roman culture. The contributors offer a variety of perspectives, highlighting key cultural relay points at which a myth is received and reformulated for a particular audience. Editor(s): Cyrino, Monica S.; Safran, Meredith E. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APFN; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349504800
- ISBN
- 9781349504800
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€ 108.64
€ 108.64
Hardcover. The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with the Holocaust? Scholars address these and other questions in this collection. Editor(s): Eaglestone, Robert; Langford, Barry. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBH; HBJD; HBTZ1; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019362
- ISBN
- 9780230019362
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Condition: New
€ 62.03
€ 62.03
Paperback. The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with the Holocaust? Scholars address these and other questions in this collection. Editor(s): Eaglestone, Robert; Langford, Barry. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBH; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 158 x 10. Weight in Grams: 236.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019379
- ISBN
- 9780230019379
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Condition: New
€ 61.44
€ 61.44
Hardcover. An introduction by leading experts in the field to the fascinating subject of translating audiovisual programmes for the television, the cinema, the Internet and the stage and the problems the differences between cultures can cause. Editor(s): Diaz-Cintas, Jorge; Anderman, Professor Gunilla M. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; CFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 134 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019966
- ISBN
- 9780230019966
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Condition: New
€ 129.67
€ 129.67
Hardcover. This book analyzes the music that young portenas/os (the inhabitants of Buenos Aires, Argentina) actually listen to nowadays, which, contrary to well-entrenched stereotypes, is not tango but rock nacional, cumbiaand romantic music. Chapters examine the music and what the Argentinean youth use it to say about themselves. Editor(s): Vila, Pablo; Seman, Pablo. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVG; JFC; JFSL4; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104631
- ISBN
- 9780230104631
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€ 62.08
€ 62.08
Hardcover. Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experience breathes life into contemporary cinema. Engaging with the subject of time and temporality, the essays examine the politics of adaptation and our contemporary entanglement with the medieval. Editor(s): Rouse, Margitta; Johnston, Andrew James; Hinz, Philipp. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 252 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; APFN; APT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112506
- ISBN
- 9780230112506
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Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardcover. Editor(s): Morgan, Iwan W. Series: The Evolving American Presidency. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 258 x 252 x 21. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113282
- ISBN
- 9780230113282
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€ 129.05
€ 129.05
Hardcover. An exploration of the social significance of Shrek from a variety of theoretical perspectives, this book pursues two different, yet intertwined objectives Editor(s): Lacassagne, Aurelie; Nieguth, Tim; Depelteau, Francois. Num Pages: 190 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114159
- ISBN
- 9780230114159
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Condition: New
€ 62.59
€ 62.59
Hardcover. A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this collection interrogate how and why certain formulations of feminism and femininity are currently prevalent in mainstream cinema and television, offering new insights into postfeminist media phenomena. Editor(s): Waters, Melanie. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFCA; JFDT; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229655
- ISBN
- 9780230229655
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€ 119.10
€ 119.10
Hardcover. This volume gets to the heart of what films mean to people on personal, political and commercial levels. Exploring value judgements that underpin social, academic and institutional practices, it examines the diverse forms of worth attributed to a range of international films in relation to taste, passion, morality and aesthetics. Editor(s): Hubner, Laura. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229686
- ISBN
- 9780230229686
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€ 62.43
€ 62.43
Hardcover. The first book-length study to critically examine the recent wave of Hitler biopics in German cinema and television. A group of international experts discuss films like Downfall in the context of earlier portrayals of Hitler and draw out their implications for the changing place of the Third Reich in the national historical imagination. Editor(s): Machtans, Karolin; Ruehl, Dr. Martin A. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; APFN; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229907
- ISBN
- 9780230229907
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Condition: New
€ 62.90
€ 62.90
Paperback. This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically, politically and culturally - the film industries of 20 countries and regions either occupied by, friendly with or neutral towards Nazi Germany. Editor(s): Winkel, Roel Vande; Welch, David. Num Pages: 359 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; APF; JPFQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230238572
- ISBN
- 9780230238572
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Condition: New
€ 119.64
€ 119.64
Hardcover. This is the first book of its kind to look across disciplines at this vital aspect of British art, literature and culture. It brings the various intertwined histories of social realism into historical perspective, and argues that this sometimes marginalized genre is still an important reference point for creativity in Britain. Editor(s): Tucker, David. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JJP; AB; APFA; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230242456
- ISBN
- 9780230242456
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Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of examples, this book -- the first devoted to the phenomenon of the film trilogy-- provides a dynamic investigation of the ways in which the trilogy form engages key issues in contemporary discussions of film remaking, adaptation, sequelization and serialization. Editor(s): Perkins, Claire; Verevis, Constantine. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230250314
- ISBN
- 9780230250314
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Condition: New
€ 62.68
€ 62.68
Hardcover. Genre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in academic writing. It combines historical overviews of developments within national contexts with detailed case studies on the use of generic conventions and genre hybridity in contemporary films and television programmes. Editor(s): Chan, Felicia; Karpovich, Angelina; Zhang, Xin. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; APFA; APFN; APT; JFCA; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 309 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272170
- ISBN
- 9780230272170
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Condition: New
€ 63.10
€ 63.10
Hardcover. An anthology of essays exploring the relationship between film and art, within and across the domains of theory and practice, from the late nineteenth century to the present. Editor(s): Dalle Vacche, Angela. Num Pages: 358 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACX; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272927
- ISBN
- 9780230272927
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Condition: New
€ 120.02
€ 120.02
Hardcover. Over the last century, many 16th- and 17th-century events and personalities have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences. This collection examines these representations, looking at recent television series, documentaries, pageantry, theatre and popular culture in various cultural and linguistic guises. Editor(s): Burnett, Mark Thornton; Streete, Adrian. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8, 8 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; APF; APT; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230273436
- ISBN
- 9780230273436
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Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Hardcover. This book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and important contribution to existing scholarship in the field. Editor(s): Lee, Vivian P. Y. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; APFA; APFN; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230277670
- ISBN
- 9780230277670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.10
€ 63.10