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Here at last is a study that treats music video as a distinct multimedia artistic genre, different from film, television, and indeed from songs themselves. Carol Vernallis describes how musical, visual and verbal codes work together in music video and reveals modes of representing race, class, gender, and sexuality that characterize the music video form. Num Pages: 480 pages, 3 figs.; 62 halftones. BIC Classification: AVG; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 862.
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231117982
ISBN
9780231117982
Condition: New

€ 155.01

A renowned film scholar reveals the surprisingly frequent instances of cross-dressing, transvestism, and every kind of gender-bending in more than 250 films from Sylvia Scarlett to The Crying Game. Num Pages: 345 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
345
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231058346
ISBN
9780231058346
Condition: New

€ 152.86

Offers a detailed look at the day-to-day life of the Russian composer, and describes his opinions on his work, his colleagues, and other composers and conductors. Editor(s): Jonas, Florence. Num Pages: 578 pages, music,1port. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; AVH; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1044.
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
578
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231052603
ISBN
9780231052603
Condition: New

€ 149.84

Hardcover. 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: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JMC; APFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230618824
ISBN
9780230618824
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Hardcover. This book examines US foreign policy toward the so-called 'rogue states' and the products of the Hollywood film industry in relation to these states, which promises to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the 'soft power' that is popular culture. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFCA; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230618695
ISBN
9780230618695
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Hardcover. The first scholarly collection devoted to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies, genre studies, and film studies. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APB; APFA; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230612327
ISBN
9780230612327
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Hardcover. An extended study of the writings of Lil' Kim, the multi-platinum selling Hip Hop artist. Examines Lil' Kim's anti-sexist, gender-defiant and ultra-erotic verse alongside issues of race and the politics of imprisonment. This is the first study to apply the tools of literary criticism to Hip Hop's lyrical writings. Num Pages: 231 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APB; AVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230611801
ISBN
9780230611801
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.57
€ 73.53

Hardcover. Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the 'new Argentine cinema' phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly relevant films, including those by Lucrecia Martel and Sergio Rejtman. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230606593
ISBN
9780230606593
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.36

Paperback. This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years. Editor(s): Brown, Steven T. Num Pages: 256 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; APFV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230606210
ISBN
9780230606210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Hardcover. Based on more than five years of anthropological fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book highlights race, class, gender and territory to argue that Brazillian hip hoppers are subjects rather than objects of history and everyday life. This is the first ethnography in English to analyze Brazilian hip hop. Num Pages: 222 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; AVGR; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230604650
ISBN
9780230604650
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Hardcover. This collection examines a wide range of films and offers a dialogical model of film that preconceives the past and present as the remediation of old media by newer media. Editor(s): Burt, Richard. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; HBLC1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230601253
ISBN
9780230601253
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.93

Paperback. Now available in paperback, this first major overview of the field of film history in twenty years offers a wide-ranging account of the methods, sources and approaches used by modern film historians. Key areas of research are analyzed, alongside detailed case studies of well-known American, Australian, British and European films. Editor(s): Chapman, James; Glancy, Mark; Harper, Sue. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 347.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230594487
ISBN
9780230594487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.28

Hardcover. Many studies of fictions of city life take the flaneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth, this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; DNF; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230579767
ISBN
9780230579767
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Hardcover. Lisa Hopkins analyzes eight film adaptations which have taken either Shakespeare or Jane Austen - icons of Englishness - out of their original geographical or cultural context and transposed them to a new location, allowing for a powerful interrogation both of what these texts mean in the modern world, and of Englishness itself. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; DSBF; DSGS; DSK; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230579552
ISBN
9780230579552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Hardcover. This book offers an up-to-date approach to the question of representing history through film, exploring how films represent crucial events in twentieth-century European history. This includes the Second World War, Armenian Genocide, anti-Semitic attacks in Poland, European terrorism of the 1970s, and the end of communism. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230579545
ISBN
9780230579545
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.77

Hardback. Small children are regularly captivated by programmes made especially for them -- ranging from classics like Sesame Street to more recent arrivals such as Blues Clues and Teletubbies. This book examines the industry interests behind preschool television, and how commercial, creative and curricular priorities shape and inform what is produced. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; APT; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2010th Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230574403
ISBN
9780230574403
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardcover. This book is a timely reassessment of Byron's legacy, focusing on the ever-present figure of the Byronic hero in the fiction of Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, together with screen versions of their novels. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; APT; DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230574397
ISBN
9780230574397
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

Hardcover. A ground-breaking study of the roles played by foreign languages in film and television and their relationship to translation. The book covers areas such as subtitling and the homogenising use of English, and asks what are the devices used to represent foreign languages on screen? Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; CFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230573918
ISBN
9780230573918
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.39

Hardcover. Offers an analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. This study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates by focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film. Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; APFA; DNF; JFC; JWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 495.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230554054
ISBN
9780230554054
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.21

Hardcover. This timely book provides new insights into debates around the relationship between women and film by drawing on the work of philosopher Luce Irigaray. Arguing that female-directed cinema provides new ways to explore ideas of representation and spectatorship, it also examines the importance of contexts of production, direction and reception. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230553484
ISBN
9780230553484
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

Hardcover. What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference? Can cinematic fiction be more Real than reality? Fabio Vighi looks at Jacques Lacan's theory of sexuality alongside some of the best-known works of European cinema, including films by Fellini, Truffaut, Antonioni and Bergman. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; APFA; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 279 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230549258
ISBN
9780230549258
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.03

Hardcover. Investigating the leading drama genres of different television eras in both Britain and the US, this book traces the evolution of television drama from the 'high culture' aspirations and technical limitations of its early days to the intense commercial competition that informs the creation of television drama today. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230545519
ISBN
9780230545519
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.43

Hardcover. Music and the Making of the Middle Class explores the making of middle-class culture by analyzing and comparing the ethos and organization of Leipzig's Gewandhaus and Birmingham's Triennial Festival. It employs a multidisciplinary approach to identify the social processes which formed the cultural configurations and meanings of art. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DFG; 3JH; AVGC4; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230545137
ISBN
9780230545137
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.76

Hardcover. A longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir suggests that the post-war French thriller and film noir were a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book challenges this misconception, examining the complexity of this trans-Atlantic exchange and refocusing debate to include a Franco-French lineage. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230536906
ISBN
9780230536906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

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